skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you wrote your opinion on some blog... doesn't make it any more relevant than any other opinion, here, there, anywhere. This is a public forum.

Death is an interesting topic, plenty of people are scared shitless of it, regardless of their beliefs. Many wish that they would be that special spark that will live almost forever, ideally young, but god forbids that everybody else with them gets the same chance (simple math indicates that would be a bit of catastrophe for whole ecosystem and ultimately mankind too these days).

Research should be definitely done, results might help in places like space travel and probably some diseases, but I don't see it as something super important currently. Maybe because I am at peace with my inevitable death, so other things are considered as higher priority (say pollution, global climate change, inequality, f@cking wars).
So You Wanted to Be a Product Manager
VAIO name/logo was genius, when I learned the VA form a wave represeting the analogical world and IO part is the digital world, I was like ...wow!
> it terrifies me (esp everything going wrong already in our world) that we're not being more critical and cautionary toward life-extension....

Don't worry bro, you'll die and all your fears will go away :). From a personal point of view biological immortality would be great, but I think you're right that there are risks - I can imagine a world where a tiny fraction of wealthy/powerful people make themselves into immortal super-tyrants.
Maximizing the Impact of Technology in Retail
How does it manage to direct the photons away from the observer?

I mean, it obviously doesn't know where they stand.
Queer has always first and foremost meant “strange” or “odd” - “How queer!” was a common refrain in all the literature I’ve read dating back more than a couple of decades.
> Until such time as its had a full suite of codebase reviews, including multiple independent security audits, I refuse to touch it for production.

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2018/project/He-Xu-Xu-Wi...

https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard-formal-verificati...

https://www.wireguard.com/papers/dowling-paterson-computatio...

https://www.wireguard.com/papers/lipp-computational-2018.pdf

https://www.wireguard.com/papers/kobeissi-bhargavan-noise-ex...

Additionally: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-December/00...

If you use Linux 5.6 when it comes out, you have WireGuard available.

The code that's still under "heavy" development? Mostly the clients for other platforms (i.e. Windows).
كلمات اغنية البيت قيس هشام
On Mac OS, Enter invokes Xcode. How to get it to use vim for text files.
You do have to have some income to offset - the IRS might let you take a loss on paper for a year or two, but they tend to look at small businesses that never show profits but keep going year after year...
Does your release process include publishing to brew? I ask because brew only has 0.10.3, whereas crates and github show something a few versions ahead (0.11.3). Looks awesome!
Can I match directories and file names at the same time?

"frontendaction" will match "frontendaction.txt" but not "frontend/action.txt"

"frontend/action" will turn the search into a regular expression and complain
I was just about to start an ask hn on this topic. I’m surprised big tech or anyone allows the use of logo and names in this manner but obviously it’s very common to do this. It seems highly unethical to use the name of a company and imply endorsement of that company when all that’s happened is someone from that domain has registered. As many of you have, I have been through the formal PR battles with big tech to do press releases — and even simple things like including their logo in a PowerPoint. I’d be surprised all of these logos agreed to a de facto endorsement with a company that doesn’t even have an about us on its website. So I guess the question is - what are the rules here? Do these companies actually endorse this product, did these developers actually get permission?

Ps - separate topic but I have a hard time signing up for anything without knowing who the underlying owners or the company are and who the company is - legal entity, investors, headquarters location... never mind I could use a throwaway email address and password to register, what’s the point of putting my working documents on a service that can’t establish basic trust. Talk about rogue IT... what does it say about the organizations on their website that individuals used their company email address and possibly the same credentials that they use to login to their IT department? Never mind placing of potentially confidential information on an unknown SaaS?
I agree with this. I did rails for a long time and honestly became pretty disenchanted on Ruby as a web services platform. But now that I interact with data analyses in Python fairly regularly (because they are everywhere) I really miss Ruby. I wish Ruby had landed on a different killer app!
There should be a way to prevent it by default in browsers.
I'm tempted to suggest Babbage's Analytical Engine, on the basis of shear audacity alone. Babbage was just amazingly ahead of his time.
Holy fuck, the opencomedy website took over 12 seconds for me to load.
> use cheats in a specific server where everyone has the same cheats

I would call this a mod, not a cheat.
Yes, this is ridiculous especially considering that a patent gives the holder a monopoly, stifling further innovation, which is exactly the opposite of the purpose of academia.
Things You Need to Know About Japan
Apparently my comment upset some people, I want to reiterate I was not insinuating anything about the President's current cognitive state, just stating it's something to look at. Both Sanders and Biden are tiptoeing on octogenarian status, making this concern as much of a consideration for them, or any other future president of an advanced age.

Anyway, to answer your question, I'm just a layperson, so I can't speak to exactly what is happening 'under the covers' when someone in the early stages of dementia experiences an acute episode. Trying specifically to recall my experiences as a caregiver, I'd say there is just a general confusion. They would seemingly not be aware of things like time (i.e. what year), no idea where they were or why (my experience was working in homes and in a hospital as a pca), no idea who I was, no idea who family members were, etc. Asking for deceased loved-ones was pretty common, they might even try to call them on the phone. It's all pretty variable. The point is, it's not hard to reason that having anybody in such a state being in charge of military power is a bad idea.
We're missing a socioeconomic model that isn't communism or capitalism. Socialism seems like an economic patch, but it's not a satisfactory solution. Socialism is sort of like how free range chickens seems nice but only when compared to how horrid the caged ones have it.

A lot of brainpower in the last century went into technological progress, but we have enough computing power, internet, cloud, data to work on this thing.
I'm not sure our brains are capable of continuously learning for 1000 years without becoming useless. Also, there is a dystopian version of immortality - a tiny fraction of elites becoming immortal super-tyrants.
We've built an end-to-end encrypted file transfer service. It is different than other file transfer services: you send a person a request to deliver files. When you for example need privacy sensitive documents from your clients, you can provide them with a secure solution. This way you are sure your documents end up at the right person.
We would love to hear your feedback!
Don't leave us hanging! What laptop do you have?
> so it can't gracefully scale layouts down from desktop to mobile sizes (when you have a 3-column layout you have lots of control over column widths, but no way of turning them into 3 rows instead).

On Apple platforms (UIKit on iOS) handling such layout changes is done with another mechanism on top of auto layout. Something they call "Size Classes". You get a callback saying eg. "view has changed to Regular width, Compact height" and you switch to a another set of auto-layout constraints + animate as desired.
This size class system is used for stuff like handling rotation on the iPhone and transitioning to split-screen mode on iPad.
From what I've seen, they have 2 demo displays that are locked in cabinets under controlled lighting conditions. They might have a viable product but they're still in the R&D stage from what I can tell.
> Having functionality splattered all through

I haven't found functionality to be "splattered" at all. In general, you have a menu on the left for top-level functions, and a button-bar at the top for other things - the layout feels really consistent to me, with the only exception I've noticed being Function Apps.

> inexplicably horizontally-scrolling

At least from a culture with left-right written language, it makes perfect sense to me. Alternatives would be several layers of dialog boxes, or expanding vertically, but I like the Azure portal's way

> AWS might look “dated”, but I can’t imagine the mindset that cares about that

It just feels ugly to work with it. But the bigger issue is the inconsistency - some parts have small variations, others are completely different; it feels very fragmented.

> If a console is how you’re evaluating your cloud provider you are several steps behind where you need to be

Again I'm afraid I disagree. You can work with Azure from a console using cross-platform Powershell Core, or the cross-platform Azure CLI (my preference). There are a host of REST APIs too. I've worked with numerous different Azure services, and I really haven't had any issues here.

> Microsoft support is barely English-literate even when you’re paying for it

On the (free) Microsoft forums, yes, they are complete and utter shit, and I don't know why Microsoft even still hosts them. But I've found the paid-for support at Azure to be very good, and there certainly haven't been any English language issues.
It directs them into a more specific spot from which the material appears bright. This is why wet things can look "shiny".
Works for me. The "Installation" page includes the phrase " (supported shells today are bash, zsh and fish)," for it in the section on the shell function.
Plus theres a ton of starter kits for newbies on Github to get rolling without having to figure out the details. They are like mini-frameworks. Plenty for react, vue, etc, every combination.
Help Your Team Become Grown-Ups: Not Everything Is Fun
For the individual, yes.

For a society, I think the culture of making as much as possible has left everyone slightly worse off, instead of slightly better off as we were promised.
Wow, is this the same reason why you're more prone to sunburn if you have water on you or are in a swimming pool? Does the light refracted under the surface of the water bounce around and hit your skin multiple times?
I don't care so much about the story, it was the level of detail you doled out about your patient, where it was, what year, etc.
It’s a 15” MacBook Pro.
A great example involves marsupials. I read once that marsupial evolution is restricted by their need to be able to crawl/climb into their mother's pouch. So, it's highly unlikely that there will ever be a hoofed marsupial.
Real estate investor here. You can't claim "lost rent" as an expense. The deduction you're referring to allows you to deduct up to $25k per year of actual rental losses against your other income, but only if your income is below $150k / year. In no way is this an incentive to leave your property vacant.
So... yes, I've experimented with that on the Mac too (I think it was "Shady" or something?), so you certainly can.

But that doesn't reduce contrast beyond what's inherent in reducing brightness -- the blacks when the backlight is at minimum power in a dark room are black. You seriously don't get blacker than that in any practical sense that is relevant to the human eye, certainly not on the high-quality displays MacBooks have.

I don't know what you are trying to say with the word "contrast", but a utility like Shady does exactly what you're asking for -- reduces brightness below the minimum -- with zero negative optical side effects. It seems that whatever you're expecting it to do (dimmer but better contrast) is literally a physical impossibility.
Ask HN: Quality old school niche blogs
I really like HN. It is all text so it loads super fast, the quality of discourse is high, and it is an excellent aggregator of quality links. What other sources do people use in other niches that are similar?
Does anyone know of similar products for organizing notes/text snippets in a visual board?
I don't think interactive tools such as broot are meant to replace standard shell commands. Interactive tools are more user-friendly, but classical shell commands are easier to script and pipe together.
Nature/evolution seems much better at long term goals than us seeing how much damage we've done since we discovered coal/gas.

> Species reliant on one prey or one plant can and do over-consume their food into extinction and then go extinct themselves.

Well, of course, I didn't say nature was immutable, just self balancing. I doubt you can deny that life as we know it is heavily reliant on plants and that doubling or halving plant photosynthesis efficiency would have consequences we simply cannot predict. When simple things such as reintroducing wolves in a park can unexpectedly change the course of rivers [0] I'm really wary of people wanting to "improve" the world by shaping it in such extreme ways and promising the results to be 100% beneficial.

[0] https://wilderness-society.org/wolves-change-flow-of-rivers/
It's completely false. You can't deduct "lost rent" for income you wish you had received but didn't.
well, then apparently the homeless problem isn't materially affecting those homeowners' well-being enough for them to care?

I mean, you have to step over homeless encampments to walk down the street, but at least you don't have to pay more taxes!
Poor little small businesses will always get crushed and it's just a matter of who by. I often see this kind of what-about argument trotted out against regulation (if we ban polluting cars, what about the poor folks who can't afford to get their old car serviced?).
But if we're so worried about the pizza joint, are we going to protect them if a chain restaurant offers cheaper pizza? What if the neighborhood changes and now people don't like pizza as much?
I think the answers to all these questions are the same.
> Once you spill water on the shirt, that part of the shirt is now covered with a thin film of water. So, any light which has to reflect off that part of the shirt has to go through water.

> Before water is spilt, 100% of the light travelling towards that part of the shirt will hit the surface. But now only a fraction of the light moving towards it will hit its surface. This is because the light now has a layer of water to go through. And due to the reflectance of water, not all light at the air-liquid-interface (border between air and water) goes through the water. Some of it is reflected.

This is not clear, or at least needs another step. It is saying that part of the reason the shirt looks darker is because some of the light never had a chance to reflect off the shirt, because it reflected off the water first. But the observer only cares whether light is reflected at all, not whether it reflected off the shirt or the water.

I assume the unwritten part is that this specular reflection is only reflecting light in one direction, instead of diffusely, so if the observer is not in that line of reflection, they won't see the light. But this explanation seems wrong to me, as it implies that a wet shirt will have some brighter highlights at some angles, and yet I have never seen this.
Gentrifying neighborhoods tend to have more of this behavior from renters because the big corps are new to the neighborhood and expect to have a long future presence there as neighborhood property values and incomes only increase. Whereas an existing competitive market like downtown Toronto with lots of big corporate chains should have renters with less optimism their space will be particularly desirable.

Another somewhat related problem that I know happens in NYC is a building is owned by a parent who dies and leaves the property into split ownership amongst the children. Then the children cannot agree on a strategy to rent the building. And the fight results in an empty property.
> Why do you assume that demand would remain constant despite a large increase in density?

Sure - induced demand is a thing. But induced demand is a secondary effect: people move to a place because the cost of living is now lower; it can slow the decrease in rent, but it can't stop it

More importantly, it's completely possible to just out-build induced demand. There are simply a limited number of people who want to live in SF (although admittedly, that number is quite a bit larger than the number who are currently living there).

So the more nuanced relation is: when supply dramatically outpaces demand, price will go down.

Just to make sure we're both on the same page, I'm advocating increasing the number of bedrooms in the city by a minimum of 1-2 orders of magnitude.
The Tools of Generative Art, from Flash to Neural Networks
Yes, the water drops on the surface of the skin act as mini lens.
8088 was the second cpu i coded assembler/machinecode on, and mode 13 was naturally my favorite mode until fatter graphic adapters came around, but let's not forget that this was actually achieved in mode 4, if my memory serves me well. Mind blown.
Not sure but there may be two bugs in the code. The use of notify on the condition outside of the mutex lock.

I know this would cause problems with boost, not sure about std::.
> A trustworthy source where I could check what's certain and what's still up in the air when it comes to CRISPR, which variants of string theory have we managed to disprove using colliders, which are still being considered, what do the currently best climate models look like and how certain are we of their accuracy?

The Particle Data Group does this for high energy physics quite effectively. It's just not knowledge that laymen can absorb in a useful way.
I think yes, it might. But most policies have positives and negatives.

For example, because property taxes are essentially capped, CA needs to rely more on sales taxes, which are notoriously regressive.
I used both Python and Ruby extensively for a while, love both, but Ruby was just nicer to code in. The problem for me was the much smaller ecosystem, especially for anything numerical/data related. Numpy was, pre Pandas days, the killer library for the type of work I do.
Left you a thank you video. :-)

https://www.loom.com/share/4a5ca0429da04955b0cde8217aebce12
>There is no more quintessential image of Wisconsin than a red barn with a herd of cows grazing in a green field against a blue sky.

This traditional farm cannot compete with modern operations of 30,000 cows or more. It's too bad, because dairying fit in well on farms with land that was not good for plowing and cropping. Marshy or sandy land was used for pasture and hay meadows. Now you rarely see small herds of cows in pastures along the highway. Marshes are either drained or left unused.
Ehhhh. I agree in general but there are so many exceptions to that. Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, et al are all regularly dissected but frankly just read for pleasure.
Blaming prop 13 for high housing costs ignores the real reasons - restrictive zoning codes, too many environmental reviews, and too many regulations in general. These combined make it nigh impossible to build enough housing around the Bay Area for rent to come down. Rent control makes things worse by reducing the amount of profit on each building. Then add “affordable housing requirements” which mean each new complex has to essentially lose money on 20% or so of the units to give them to low income people... and no wonder the rent is too $&@! high.

I mean look at NYC - property taxes are really high there and the rent is almost as high as SF, and higher than LA.
Ask HN: How many of you are rolling your own auth?
There's several auth-as-a-service providers on the market right now (Auth0,Firebase,etc). (By auth I mean, all the systems that facilitate password hashing and user authentication, along with SSO integrations.) Their common marketing argument, don't reinvent the wheel, and if you try, you'll probably get it wrong. This is pretty compelling as getting auth "perfect" seems to require some decent research and understanding. However, when viewing the customer pages of some of these providers, I don't see a ton of companies that I'm familiar with. Out of all the sites and tech tools I use, are they rolling their own auth, all of them? Once a site gets big, does it just get too hard to scale or adapt to the third-party provider?
India’s Water Doctor (2015)
Does Julia scratch that itch now?
Brown, sticky, sugary, water is not a good product for a health conscious future. A future where people learn from an early age the perils of too much sugar. A future where governments limit the sale of such goods.

Coca Cola needs to diversify.

Then again, dairy seems like an awfully bad segment to get into given the issues it faces.

Who am I to judge the brass over there though? I'm sure they paid some consultants eight figures to tell them that this was a good idea.
Internet, social media shutdowns cost world over US$8B in 2019
> Anyone who makes a language that is not like a popular language (ex C or C#) should have to do a lot of justification for it

Of course; but that's expected. My point is that this always applies, but sometimes "C does it, so I'm doing it as well" is treated as a good reason for things when it really isn't.

Javascript, for example, treats 0 as false in if conditions. This made sense in C, which had no dedicated Nil-value and used the Nullpointer for that purpose, so 0 meant both the numerical zero and nil.

Javascript, however, has a dedicated nil-value, so 0 really only stands for the number zero, which isn't any less a value than any other number, and thus has way less reason to be treated as falsey.

So, in this example, while C had a good reason to do a thing, that reason just doesn't apply to JS. Maybe there are other good reasons that do apply to JS, maybe they just did what C did without thinking, maybe a bit of both.

But it does underline a opint: There should be a reasoning behind every language decision; one that specifically applies to the language in question. And I do believe this isn't the case with many C features.
You definitely could
This looks like consolidation of small (family owned) farms into larger (corporate, maybe multinational) operations.
You're being disingenuous now. It feels like arguing about aviation being the safest means of transportation and having someone answer "but it's scary and deadly when it happens!" This will be my last answer.

It's obviously not a swimming pool of plutonium ! Plutonium is less than 1% of the waste in the first place, and it's removed and recycled.

In any case, nuclear waste is vitrified into glass with an estimated 10.000 years lifespan.

Fukushima casualties : 1 confirmed from radiation, 2202 from evacuation, over 15000 from the tsunami itself.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa... :

"These numbers are very low compared to the estimated 20,000 casualties caused by the tsunami itself, and it has been estimated that if Japan had never adopted nuclear power, accidents and pollution from coal or gas plants would have caused more lost years of life"

Again, coal causes 35.000 deaths per year across Europe. Every, year. Right now. Coal or gas are currently mandatory in the renewables + nuclear-free mix that Germany has chosen as the future.

Why aren't you out protesting already ?