skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photobiomodulation does not work cells/mitochondria harder, but on the contrary, it releases nitric oxide from cells which is a by-product of oxidate stress. The immediate positive effects are probably from vasodilation, which increases blood flow to tissue, and increased ATP production via the cytochrome C oxidase pathway. Longer term beneficial effects might stem from increased stem cell proliferation and suppression of inflammation (inflammation is highly suspected to be based on a lack of energy in cells, so it makes sense that increasing ATP production helps in that area).

Here is a study where near infrared light actually increased lifespan for fruit flies:

Ageing is an irreversible cellular decline partly driven by failing mitochondrial integrity. Mitochondria accumulate DNA mutations and reduce ATP production necessary for cellular metabolism. This is associated with inflammation. Near-infrared exposure increases retinal ATP in old mice via cytochrome c oxidase absorption and reduces inflammation. Here, we expose fruitflies daily to 670 nm radiation, revealing elevated ATP and reduced inflammation with age. Critically, there was a significant increase in average lifespan: 100–175% more flies survived into old age following 670 nm exposure and these had significantly improved mobility. This may be a simple route to extending lifespan and improving function in old age.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4387504/
The difference being that on apps like Infinity I might be entering info on third parties, like contact details of our clients/customers. On websites like HN I'm concerned only about _my_ privacy as I'm only processing _my_ personal data. On an app like Infinity, I would be processing personal data of third parties. So if Infinity has a data breach and the personal data of such third parties is exposed, I might be liable if I picked a platform with weak security. Before granting them access to the personal data that I process, it is my duty (under the GDPR) to make sure that they are actually reliable.
Thank you, I'll check it out!
And by last version you mean any Fortran since Fortran 90.
Money will find it's way
Just buy a cheap CCTV 850nm radiator, they cost about $25. No need to change jobs to get one.
Self-driving cars on the open road are likely an AI-complete problem.
Was that user on a therac-25?
The only Mac with a price announced has a Xeon W-3223 and to get a fair comparison price for the Dell, I selected the Xeon W-2145.

That means the Mac has 8 cores, 3.50 GHz, 16.5 MB cache, 2666 MHz memory [1] while the Dell has 8 cores, 3.70 GHz, 11 MB cache, 2666 MHz memory [2].

So the Mac has slightly more cache, while the Dell has a slightly higher clock speed.

I'm not sure I understand how the availability of accelerator cards that aren't fitted in either machine is relevant to a price comparison?

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/193739/...
[2] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/126707/...
As someone who writes the occasional Python script or service I was expecting to find a definitive answer in this thread, but God it's such a mess... Venv, virtualenvwrapper, pew, pyenv, poetry, pipenv, anaconda, conda... How are you expected to chose?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-moves-mac-pro-production-...

President Trump stopped these jobs from being shipped overseas to China.
30% reattempt suicide, which is much higher than the general population.
They cannot privatize by California law unless there is no current or prospective public use. Existing roads will remain. They can build new roads and keep them private. So be it. This is a trade-off I am willing to accept.

The navigation apps have no incentive to give you a worse experience by sending you down narrow roads.
No it's not. There's no in memory state. Your Django rails phoenix app has in memory state.
Julia discourages Linux distros to package it. They include modified and unmodified versions of all libraries they depend on within the Julia source repository.

I am not quite sure how they are planning to grow within the ecosystem that matters most for many developers.
At the time (mind you, this was 10 years ago) eHarmony had a "tell": paid-member profiles were rendered subtly differently than free ones. I got fed up with using the site and decided I was just going to game it and see what I could learn, so I started taking meticulous notes on what I saw. I took every match that was sent, I kept notes on how I replied, and eventually some patterns emerged. Eventually had it confirmed when a person I was matched with, and went on a date with, decided to let her membership lapse and suddenly her profile was rendered differently.

eHarmony's system only let you message people from a daily, "curated" list of matches. On any given day, you'd get 6 or 7 profiles on your email to review and decide to message or not. I'm sure you just did the math, 10% of 7 is less than one. Less than one viable connection a day.

Once I got past that "90% of these matches are dead ends" hurdle, it turned out about 50% of the people who were capable of replying actually did. I don't remember the exact breakdown, but basically there were a number of questionnaires you why through before getting through to love messages and asking people out. It was essentially a 50/50 filter at each step. IIRC, it was something like a half a percent chance that any profile eHarmony sent you would end up in an actual date.

I suppose dating sites figure, if someone finds their soul mate, they won't need to pay for a membership anymore, so don't actually match anyone, just strong them along for as long as possible.
How are SEC whistleblower protections relevant to the NSA?

As for the Pentagon, you'll note that part of what it covers is that the Pentagon Inspector General has struggled to substantiate allegations of retaliation in most cases, to the point where they ended up resorting to introduce a new system of mediation to resolve cases. Maybe that's because the allegations were bullshit, or maybe that's because the system is totally without teeth. In either case it does not illuminate the case of Snowden at all.
Samsung 45w Charger for the Note 10 Seems to Be a USB-If Compliant PD3.0 PPS
Nowadays that last sentence alone does not give away whether your post is about China, the US or Russia.
No, you are thinking of copyleft software. "Free software" means the same thing as "open-source software".

See for instance this GNU page where permissive licenses like the MIT license are also described as "free software licenses":

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Your property value isn't my problem. I have a right to that street that is no less than yours.
And they are succeeding and can't be stopped because American Jews are a strong part of the political establishment and have strong family and business ties with many other non-Jewish American elites. They whether whole heartedly or due to tribalism support AIPAC unconditionally and it's not going anywhere. And also you are not allowed to point out this fact for being labelled anti-Semitic but as far as I can tell it's more or less true.
You wouldn't be any less wrong if he did, I don't really see how that's relevant.

You can find other contemporary counter-examples too, for instance nuclear fusion. We know it's possible, it exists in nature, we managed to do it under very special conditions but it's still unclear whether it's actually possible to build a competitive, safe commercial nuclear fusion reactor.
I like mathematics that's about concepts and understanding.

But numbers are a big part of some mathematics too. And getting some help with them can be useful.

Lots of our past mathematical geniuses were great at calculating by hand. And some of them even invented some mechanical calculators (or electronic ones, too).
Should be given back to people.
The combo of mosh+tmux (and earlier, screen) really is something powerful that most non-command-line people can't ever begin to fathom. I've been mostly working through a terminal multiplexer for a couple of decades for work and pleasure and the benefits are enormous.

I of course use graphical applications for browsing, image editing, etc. but nearly everything else I do is from the command line and almost all of that happens over tmux, either locally or remotely. I prefer using a new Tmux window instead of a new graphical window for a temporary shell so I usually just end up having one terminal emulator running on my screen.

The value here is state: tmux keeps my state forever which gives me one less thing to worry about or remember. If I can't finish something right away, I know I'll just go back to the tmux window when I have time. Laptop running out of battery? No problems, I'll just reconnect when I find a charger and reboot my laptop.

For example, I have the exact cursor-to-cursor same view for what I do at work whether I'm at my desktop workstation in the office or using my laptop from the home couch. I can literally leave my cursor on a certain line, leave the office, go home, and continue exactly from where I was when I left, the same exact line. Especially using mosh makes it even more transparent: I just open my laptop at home and my work tmux session is already waiting there on my screen, and will update as soon as I reconnect the work vpn.

I'd much prefer to have something like this for browsing too. I'd like to run a browser muxer server that keeps all my tabs online with all the runtime state, making it available to me wherever I happen to connect from. Browsing something interesting on the train but then I had to hop off? No problem, I'd return to that session on the big screen as soon as I get home and open my laptop. Tab and bookmark syncing doesn't go far enough: I'd like to share one live browser process and access that from everywhere.

I could imagine I could rig up something like that using VNC and Xnest/Xephyr but a custom, hand-designed protocol for remote rendering natively in the browser might just work more seamlessly. I would like the browser in my phone to look like a mobile browser even if the content and state came from the browser server. And I definitely would not want to operate a desktop browser over VNC using my phone.
I'm sure not all are aware of his history of inappropriate behavior, but some of us are. I think those of us who are bothered by his ousting are bothered for two reasons:

1. The triggering event was someone misquoting him and the media running with that misquote

2. The timing and manner in which MIT handled the situations suggests that they were hypocritically trying to deflect from their own complicity in the Epstein scandal, rather than addressing Stallman's behavior in good faith.

3. While Stallman certainly benefited from some protection for his behavior, the organizations which supported him also greatly benefited from him. The FSF saying that Stallman does not speak for them is particularly rich, considering they exist to promote his ideas.

I'm not saying I care for his behavior, or that all of it should get a pass. There's also a lot that I just don't agree with him about. However:

1. I don't like seeing the media twist people's words

2. I don't like seeing organizations throw people under the bus during moral panics

Also, I fear that it's becoming harder to be a weird nerd in tech[1].

[1]https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c
"Slaves are raised to work the fields, there is no moral component, provided we make some effort to limit the suffering."

Is this equally true to you?
So, you want war, or you want war? Nice choice we have.
German court rules that hangovers are an 'illness'
I Took Food Trucks Corporate and Built a $18M Business
China made it personal ( for me) messing with democracy and the EU through the sham "16+1".

Which is not meant to break the EU's democracy and getting more votes. Nothing else.

I wish Hong Kong and Taiwan the very best, even this far away China is overreaching it's influence. They shouldn't be surprised that they have lost all sympathy from a lot of westerners.

Before I forget, if you try to loan halve of the world money ( there are no real investments from China), you are not a developing country and shouldn't abuse our help.

There is also no way that Alibaba would have gotten that big without being a developed country and the Postal Union financial assistance. We basically financed it.
India's policymakers seem to have no idea how the country actually works. Both Demonetization and GST are classic examples, as is the constant back and forth on taxes. The GST system is so draconian that most small businesses can't use it without seeking outside help. And this outside help is expensive - at least for a small trader making tiny profits.

The surcharge on FPIs is another example. Could the government not have foreseen that there will be a flight of capital because of the surcharge? They ended up retracting it anyway.
> As the president of an organization it’s not your job to make people uncomfortable about things that have nothing to do with that organization’s goals.

Did anyone claim it was his job?

> Debating what is and is not statutory rape is not a discussion that should take place in any professional or technical environment.

Why?

> This instance is actually even worse than just debating something in the inappropriate context. Epstein is a huge scandal. He raped dozens if not hundreds of girls. He loaned them out to other powerful people. It is within this context that RMS’ statements are most damning.

Why is that? Does the fact that someone commits a crime make it inappropriate to defend people associated with them against incorrect accusations? How do you square that with the rule of law?

> He’s wading in some very murky ethical waters and it should be no surprise he caught a backlash.

He also should not be surprised that he gets a lot of opposition for promoting free software ... so, supposedly, he should not promote free software either?
Maybe new C# stuff like default interfaces and some new async crap?
As a pointless counter-story, I almost ran over a dude laying in the middle of a highway. Another driver and me pulled off, drugged him to the sidewalk (he was heavy and strong, but not violent per-ce), and we sat on him until police came as he was obviously trying to run back into the cars.

[this story has no lesson, sorry]
Amazing how whenever someone does something controversial and gets forced out soon afterwards, it's never the thing they said, but "consistent creepy and inappropriate behavior" based on 10 year old anecdotes that suddenly appear out of nowhere... I'd think that if someone was "consistently" creepy and inappropriate, there would be a pretty good public record for that, but what do I know?

EDIT: Let me give a bit more of a nuanced position, because reading my post back, it looks like I'm saying that Stallman never did anything inappropriate before this.

Of course, I recognize that Stallman is fucking weird. I'm not saying that parrot-fucking, foot-fungus-eating St. IGNUcius never did anything inappropriate before; we'd be here for a long time if we were to make a list of all the times Stallman failed to read the mood.

However, I strongly believe that Stallman is not a creep. He holds some odd views and is pretty autistic, and so he occasionally makes inappropriate advances. Add to that that Stallman has been a very prolific person for decades and you won't relaly have trouble coming up with a list of anecdotes that, when framed a certain way, make him look bad.

I've read quite a few of these anecdotes by now. Some of them look fairly innocent to me. Some of them are clear social blunders. None of them look seriously harmful or in bad faith to me. Even taking all of them together, believing that all of them are remembered 100% correctly and played out as portrayed without any additional context, I don't think the appropirate reaction is to remove Stallman from his position(s).

What ticks me off so much about all this is the way the media deals with it. Stallman is portrayed as some kind of sexist, some kind of patriarch keeping women out of tech. It's ridiculous; Stallman is quite possibly the most inclusionary person I can think of. Stallman has had an immense, direct contribution to making tech more open for everyone.

I can understand the criticism of Stallman. I don't even think he necessarily makes for a good figurehead for Free Software; he has poor social skills, unhelpfully rigid and strong positions, and I feel like he often conflates free software issues with other social issues he cares about. He makes for a better philosopher than a political leader.

In this case, he's being thrown under the bus to score social points. People in tech are very itchy to do whatever they can to seem more inclusive, and condemning Epstein and his ilk is a noble goal (that also makes you look good). Stallman's statements that sparked this controversy were naive and he failed to read the mood, but they were not unacceptable things to believe or say. He did not deserve to have his words twisted, get kicked out of his own organisation based on the strawman, and then have people say that he was always bad, anyways.
> I believe free software will be recognised as one of the paradigmatic changes in how science itself is done.

I think we're already there. I'm an astronomer, and we (and many others) are already building platforms with software like Jupyter, dask, holoviews, etc.

While RMS may have started with a great idea, I'm not sure he's super influential in actually making progress and writing software. If anything, the idea that companies will sponsor open source software has (and I'm not sure many saw that one coming). For example, nVidia supporting dask, or Bloomberg supporting Jupyter.

It's the idea that was important, and less so the person IMHO. RMS had a lot of ideas, some good, and some bad. But like evolution, people take the good and run with them, and leave the bad. And we rarely remember who started the whole thing, since having the idea is generally such a small part of actually making it a reality.

"We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world."

- V for Vendetta
Really? Because I think it is part of the key philosophy of free software.

Consider #1: I think of an improvement to gcc. I get a copy of the gcc source, modify it, and prove to my satisfaction that it works.

I stop at that point, intellectually satiated, tell a few friends, and don't release any software (source or binary).

The principles of free software say that I am not forced to release any changes. I am not even obligated to send improvements upstream.

Am I wrong about this?

Consider #2: The same as above, but I know that Yoyodyne could save $1 million per year with my improvements. I don't tell them. The free software principles say that I have no obligation to tell them.

Am I wrong about this?

Consider #3: The same as above, but I go to Yoyodyne and say that I'll sell my gcc modification to them - under the GPL - for $250,000. They of course can then redistribute those changes, including back to mainline.

Is that contrary to any free software principle? I don't think so, according to my years of reading the history of the FSF and the free software movement.

But, suppose you are correct, and Stallman's essay only applies to "the service of duplicating and mailing tapes pre-Internet". If so, there's a simple workaround:

Consider #4: I have the idea, implement it, and distribute it to a single organization - a tape duplicating service - and it's that organization which sells the software to Yoyodyne, for $300,000, of which $250,000 comes back to me. (My brother just happens to run the tape service.)

Is that against the principles of free software, and if so, how?

I don't think Stallman's "selling free software" essay was meant to be so easy to work around.

Just because free software is generally distributed at no price or "reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source" (quoting GPLv3), doesn't make it the same as saying that there's an free software principle which obligates that.

While the open data movement in science does have the principle that the data should be free, or should only cover the "reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of" data.

How am I off base?
Thoughts on Nestjs?
This article states the symptoms without even remotely touching the root causes. When the current government took control in 2014, they moved swiftly and banned entirety of 1000 and 500 notes in circulation. This was a move called Demonetisation. This effectively killed the economy. This was originally hailed as an ace move by the government's supporters. Because it was originally thought untaxed money(also known as black money) is the root cause of India's illness. What happened in reality was a lot of capital intensive businesses suffered as an immediate aftermath. The most important of them being Real estate, which employees a huge section of people and drives a lot of business. Cement, Paint, Plumbing, Electrical, Logistics etc etc. Indian public is also very price sensitive. It's not considered wise to be spending money buying cars if you don't even have a home. This was the first blow.

Secondly, there was a tax policy called GST. This was the next big blunder made by the government. The Indian economy is a result of tons of hacks carefully evolved and put into place over decades. GST had a flawed execution and with equally screwed up tax rates. Revisions are painful to impossible. Quarterly filing is hard for small businesses and rates are just unworkable. Combined with a lot of extortion like activities from Tax authorities. Tons of start ups suffered too.

This is above and beyond the fact that the current government has possibly the worst possible social policy. India's diversity is at risk. Choice of food or religion can get you lynched. The government is planning a country wide citizenship register, on the same lines of Reich Citizenship Law, detention(concentration?) camps are already being built. This is a serious threat to India's future on the very longer run. These experiments have never worked anywhere in the world, and will be an even bigger disaster given how big and diverse India is.

For what its worth stating, economy isn't even in the top ten list of priorities this government has and its constituency doesn't care either.
I 100% guarantee an old-fashioned calculator beats a smartphone full of apps, games and social media for actual studying. And I further guarantee that everyone knows this.
> his misogynistic ideas.

I can find nothing that meets this criteria in the above links. Do you have an unusual definition of "misogynistic", were you being rhetorical or do you have another source?
I would really be interested in an explanation of why driver issues persist on linux, or at least why there were so many issues.

Do vendors have financial preference to work with microsoft to write and maintain those drivers? I'm talking about things like touchpads, wifi... I can understand that if there's no demand, it makes no point for them, but even after all this time?

Not to mention nvidia. What makes nvidia be so complacent towards linux? It has been almost 15 years now. Are there agreements between microsoft and nvidia?

The arguments of Stallman make sense, but to me they don't explain the state of linux drivers, which made the linux desktop so difficult.
... at the risk of the action being career-ending (or career progress ending).
No, unity3d does not have the engineering capability to do that fast.
Journal of Geek Studies
I'd argue it's something to do with decency, appearance, atmosphere, given that (at least in my culture) while T-shirts are fine, sleeveless shirts are seen as rather trashy.
Enjoy your dystopian surveillance democracy.