skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the US appears to be experiencing a kind of “die off” whose only analogue I can think of is post-Soviet Russia.

Not even close. Russia's 1990s "die off" was so severe that the current russian population is lower than it was in 1990. 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia still has less people. In the same period, the US population grew from 240 million to 330 million. In 2010, the US population was 308 million. So even in this "die off" decade, our population grew.

To show how devastating the soviet collapse was for russia just compare that to the devastation of ww2. After ww2, russia's population recovered after 10 years. They still haven't recovered in 30 years after the soviet collapse. This is also true for the economy as well.

The soviet collapse was far worse for russia than ww2 by any measure. It is by any objective measure, the worst thing to happen to any country in the 20th century. Were it not for russia's nukes, they'd be a source of pity. They've fallen so far and haven't gotten back up. And it's been 30 years. 1.5 generations.
Well at 133rd there are plenty of 3rd world countries above them. There's only 185 countries on the planet. It certainly shows that meat consumption doesn't hurt.
There is a fortunate coincidence here. There are wealthy vegetarian castes in India, and India tracks demographics by caste, so it's likely that the data is out there for us to figure this part out.

An alternative is to do something like follow second-generation Western people of Indian origin. I know at least one study of Tuberculosis in the UK tested the effect of vegetarianism there and used the British Asian sub-population to do so, so there's probably some info there too.

I don't know of any other large vegetarian groups.
Are people also dying less of other things prematurely?
Must be my suburb. The demographic at my local CostCo is obviously not the 1% demographic, not even close.
The documentary HyperNormalisation[1] argues that this deluge of low quality information is intentional.

> "In Russia, Vladimir Putin and his cabinet of political technologists create mass confusion. Vladislav Surkov uses ideas from art to turn Russian politics into a bewildering piece of theatre. Donald Trump used the same techniques in his presidential campaign by using language from Occupy Wall Street and the extreme racist right-wing. Curtis asserts that Trump "defeated journalism" by rendering its fact-checking abilities irrelevant."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
Wow this is the dumb shit that made everyone think salt led to high blood pressure because Asians ate salty stuff and had high blood pressure... How can someone be in science and yet be so stupid? Learn to evidence and causation.
Longevity is a interesting one because there are so many studies out there that have looked into calorie restriction as having a large positive influence on healthy aging...
This is a place that famously had a motto "move fast and break things." In other words, fail early and fail often. For that culture to succeed you need people willing to admit (and tolerate) mistakes. Sounds like that's pretty well gone.
That's the values file. The actual manifest templates are just as horrifyingly impressive :).

https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/prometheus...
I actually love this blog layout. Anyone know anything more about it? Or is this bespoke made by the author.

As for the content, I enjoyed it. It is, however, highly personal and full of self-satire. I'd urge people to read it less as the author thumbing their nose at us 9-5ers and more of a conscious examination of a narcissistic view they hold deep down that they ultimately know at a higher level is absurd.
Of course, frequently what this kind of headline actually means is, "We changed the definition of 'alcohol-related death' to encompass causes of deaths that were happening all along."
At gun safety events, 40% of gun owners reported not locking all household guns
Their life expectancy keeps increasing right along with their meat consumption:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/HKG/hong-kong/life-exp...
For many years, CNN was my default for checking news. Then one day I came across someone who mentioned they follow sites which lean right just to see the difference in how the stories are presented. I then started following Breitbart and now I can see how far to the left that CNN leans. I got the sense that CNN hates Trump. Now that I'm more aware of this, it seems that most mainstream media leans left, so you have to actively seek out a site to find something which leans right.

Reading through Reddit, someone asked what sites you can go to which are like Breitbart but to the left. One answer I thought was interesting was something like "all other news sites."

There are a small number of sites which seem to get pretty close to middle. I would still want to follow a mainstream and right left leaning site to get my bearings though.
I'm one of those who would fly it. It's about figuring probabilities rather than gut feel. The odds of me dying riding a motorcycle which I do sometimes are like 10,000x those of dying in any airliner crash.
This is the kind of whitewashing bullshit proliferating in the west that drives me mad.

Hitler wasn’t the fruit of Great Depression suffering. Most of the world was suffering the consequences of the Great Depression. Hell, many countries had autocrat leaders at the same time. None have committed anywhere near the level of atrocity that Hitler has.

Because Hitler was a product of German people’s fanatical antisemitism and anti-slavism. The roots of which reach back long before World War I.

Bismarck was famous for and boastful of his antipolonism and often called Poles “animals”, “wolves” etc. And he’s thought of as that “progressive” father of modern Germany.

With a dad like that it’s hardly a wonder that the kid turned out to be shitty.
In my view if you hate modern poetry, you could well change your mind reading Eliot, the earlier the better. For me he is nearly ideal because he manages to be easy to understand, yet with depths that continually reveal themselves to you on repeated visits.
Sleep Like The Dead[0] is a fantastic, independent site for mattress reviews that relies more on quantitative data[1] than commentary.

[0]: https://www.sleeplikethedead.com

[1]: https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/mattress-reviews-casper.htm...
The source and year of the quote I took from the guardian article I referenced.

I’ve got no idea what you mean by ‘long before’, unless you somehow Switched what I was talking about - my point is exactly that the employees were discussing that they wouldn’t fly on it the year following the start of service. QED?
Not everyone goes from casual drinking to full-on life destroying alcoholism. Just as not everyone who gambles loses their house to the casino, or even does a line of cocaine and starts turning tricks for their next fix.

We tried prohibition during an extremely prude moment in the USA. It failed so miserably that we passed a constitutional amendment to revert a previous amendment, which is pretty incredible.

The stories of people who let any vice ruin their lives are powerful and important to know. But don’t let stories restrict the freedom of everyone. If alcohol was so bad then we never would have legalized it after prohibition. Everything is a trade off, and it’s better to let people make their own decisions than to throw people in jail.
I’m not surprised at all. Why cause yourself trouble by airing dirty laundry? Zero upside for him to do so, and really no reason to. Knowing he is X person doesn’t add anything to the message, it would almost certainly have blowback for him.
A more appropriate title, and actually from the article, may be: "Weird and Innovative Chips".

Loved this post, anyways. I think it's important to look at radical and strange computing paradigms from the past, even if their DNA is not obviously in today's mainstream architectures.
I am surprised no one has mentioned it yet. The mostly likely reason for doing so is insurance.

By modelling it after some very good "Zoom Zoom" Mazda driving characteristic, there is a higher probability it might fall into similar profile for insurance.

One of the problem with Tesla is its fast acceleration dramatically increases its rate of accident. To the point where some insurance company are no longer accepting it and Tesla had to insure it on their own.
Have quantum computers managed to break any sort of cryptography at this point? Even schemes that have been broken by classical computers? I have heard so much speculation on this, for over a decade now, but I haven't seen anything close to application. Can anyone provide insight on this?
Rosetta was not a naive emulator. It was a dynamic, optimizing re-compiler.

There's two reasons to think that an ARM transition would be easier:

1. The endianness is the same. The PPC/Intel transition required processes to share memory while disagreeing on byte order.

2. Apple controls their ARM CPU designs. They can add whatever they like.
I got a lot of great answers to my similar question a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18898523

I also love awk, I use it most days for something, soo many different uses. And The AWK Programming Language is such an admirable book.

Others I use often: sips is great for image resizing, conversion. flex & bison for writing DSLs. curl and ffmpeg for image/video downloading, conversion, processing. And my own tools, it's very easy to write super-useful scripts for yourself.

uh.. like I wrote dlm to download mp4 video with curl, which I use every day (another script, dl, downloads any kind of file). Copy the video URL to the clipboard, then "dlm fname" downloads video as fname.mp4, and doesn't give up trying until complete (occasionally resume won't be supported, but doesn't happen often) :

#! your bash shebang here....
#dlm - download mp4
#with resume after 10 secs until finish.
#y and Y mean: if download goes slower than 30 bytes per
# second for 30 secs (average), quit and resume download..
#so can't get stuck on 0 bps indefinitely.
fname=$(pbpaste)
echo "Download $fname as $1.mp4 : "
until curl -C - -y 30 -Y 30 -kLo $1.mp4 "$fname"
do
sleep 10
done
From what I gather, Facebook did have a compliance program in place to ensure that data was only shared with those that met its usage policies. Aleksandr Kogan was working at the University of Cambridge at the time, so the claim that he was using this data for academic purposes would seem credible to Facebook. Here are a couple sources that state that Kogan told Facebook that the data was to be used for academic purposes [1] [2].

Certainly, with the benefit of hindsight we can see that the potential for abuse for this kind of data sharing - even with the requirement that it's only used for academic purposes - is significant. But it seems to me that the primary culprit here is Kogan, who lied to Facebook about the use of the collected data, rather than Facebook whose fault was being too trusting of academics.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/technology/aleksandr-koga...

2. https://www.businessinsider.com/aleksandr-kogan-facebook-def...
Dude. If somebody wants into your account specifically, they’ll get into it. 2FA, specifically SMS based 2FA, is really about the provider getting mass compromised because people recycle their password across all their sites.

It great for keeping people using scripted attacks against a huge list of accounts. It isn’t really to keep people specifically after your account out.

If somebody wants your shit and specifically your shit.... they’ll get it...
Not all windows are doors. Don’t worry about it, I’m terrible at analogies that make sense to anyone (including programmers, sadly). And if I clarified I’d just be attacked further for not endorsing the OSI party line when it comes to these things. It’s not you, it’s me, etc.
I'm 2.5 months sober and this has been my experience as well. I'm now much more wary of getting myself into situations where I might be bored. I'm naturally extraverted so I still enjoy the social aspect of parties but I've cut back on the amount of dates that I go on since the risk of being bored is too high.

I've started meditating to try and raise my "boredom tolerance". It's too early to say if it has made any difference but I've met people who swear by it. I'm also trying to get more curious about other people and essentially rely on my extraversion to deal with boring situations.

In terms of substances to fill the niche I don't think there's anything that exists. Coffee is nice during the day but drinking it past a certain time leads to insomnia. I've mostly just taken to drinking a wide variety of non-alcoholic beverages LaCroix and non-alcoholic beer.

Pharmacologically speaking the closest drugs would be GABA receptor agonists (e.g. phenibut, benzos, GHB) but those can be quite nasty and even more addictive than alcohol. I have not personally tried them and don't plan on it.
The key insight is that most games are released largely once, and then only minor work is done after that. If it's really successful it may get additional ports or content expansions. It does not make sense to pour so much time into making code reusable and clean if it is not going to be built on continuously for long periods of time. Additionally, games do not have to deal with security issues as much; most code is running on trusted data sans networking features. Bad code is 100% counter to security - it's those edge cases where assumptions fail and you lose big time.

As a counterpoint for example, code running on servers should totally be built for the long haul: it's gotta evolve continuously with requirements, it has to cope with edge conditions and especially it has to be secure. You can't get away with the same type of spaghetti in your ACL checking that you can in the code that handles player physics in a platformer.

That does not mean video game devs are bad coders. They are just optimizing for different scenarios.
> At the end of the discussion, there was a consensus, reached by Morgan, Ruiz, and
Newton, to keep Epstein’s $100,000 donation to the Media Lab and to accept further donations
from him so long as: (1) each donation would be recorded as anonymous, and Epstein could not publicize it; (2) the donations would be relatively small; and (3) the donations would be unrestricted.

Right, they thought really hard about it and their moral compass told them to sweep it under the carpet.

Then the emails from Ito to Newton and the others at Resource Development are interesting. Here is one, Ito tries hard convince others to let him keep the money.

> I’m actively developing the relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and I’d like to know your thinking on this. More important than this $100K is what happens if he is interested in a much larger gift. My previous understanding was that if it was not accounted or named—or if the gift might be given anonymously—it was likely to be OK.

He is dangling future bags of money in front of them. "Just think of all the funding we could be getting. And look, we've already hid it as anonymous before, surely we can do it again".

That's some very effective tactics. Epstein did that too, he started giving smaller amounts of money first to see how it goes. Those processed, people made excuses. Once that happened they were hooked into the scheme and ready to be roped in even more. Ito was using the same tactics.
Yes, if you really need to get from A > B, your "willingness to pay" can afford the price hike. Sure, you'd rather pay less money for what you buy, but that goes for everything in life. Point is you still buy it.

If you didn't really need that uber, you get back to walking, biking, or busing. Or decide not to take the trip.
China-made UOS completes adaptation with another office software
Oh... Win32s. For a moment, I was wondering how he got the C# compiler to generate 16-bit code.
Chisel: A Fast TCP Tunnel over HTTP
That sounds good but put them in Authy. That lets you have multiple devices whereas Google limits you to one device.

It's great that people use can use one app for both factors but it seems less secure than two apps.

For example, use Authy for TOTP and LastPass for long passwords. That's two things that have to be compromised. And both of them allow you to have multiple devices (for example iPhone and iPad).
I know a decent number of people who have That One Program that they've been using for 20 years and can't/won't leave. It probably varies by population group.
>I read the article twice

Sorry, I would not normally have suggested otherwise - I misunderstood your previous comment where you made reference to being 'reasonably confident' to the content of the article due to its title, I see now this was more rhetorical than actual.

>Please provide the exact quote.

"NSW police statistics show 24 individuals have been arrested for deliberately lighting bushfires during the current fire season."

>What evidence do you require beyond the official police statement describing how many arrests they made.

That they actually link the arson to the bushfire they have charged someone with lighting? I mean, if they charged them they have evidence right? Surely at least one of those 24 people have been charged with one of the current fires? Their comment that they are still investigating the cause of current fires suggests perhaps none of these are linked. All other reports I have seen of charges are from September through November. Why did you and everyone else reciting these stats leave the qualifying comment out?

And why conflate the figures from the pre-fire season with the current fires? Why not just say that historically, nearly half of bushfires are suspected to be deliberately lit. Or better yet, 13% of bushfires have been proven historically to be deliberately lit.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-11-20/bushfire-igni...

Do the numbers show the rate of arson this fire season worse than previous ones? If it is not, then why is it being used to suggest otherwise?

This is why I said this is a very good example of misinformation. It is objectively true on the face of what is reported, it produces a compelling narrative which is difficult to question if you are just skimming the news, while leaving out pertinent information that may complicate that narrative.
My guess is a developer-focused supercar of a Macbook. 16 cores, FaceID, maybe OLED?

Jet black, announced for preorder at WWDC. They wouldn’t be able to make enough, and now a boring, disruptive CPU transition is sexy.

There have been some weird rumors out of Asia about a Mac “gaming laptop” that could easily be misinterpreting a product like this.

Also, I think folks ITT are overestimating the difficulty of acceptable performance binary translation (not direct emulation) of x64->AArch64, especially when Apple controls and has experts at every level of the stack. 32-bit apps weren’t de-supported this year just to save some memory.
You have to give people something to live for. High taxes and starvation wages aren't it.
Oh no. You have to talk to your friends and give them personal accounts of your experiences! What a travesty.

/S
That sounds about right - but the bits of the media with a vested interest in portraying this as an unusual arson wave have been saying 180+ people arrested for lighting bushfires.
Watch a Genetic Algorithm Draws a Mushroom from Mario Bros
I really don't see the fucking problem. Useless people drink themselves to death, beats having to kill them off in a war. Individually, these are tragedies, I guess. Not my former brother-in-law who drank himself to death, his death was a liberation for my sister and her kids.
Leadfoot is people who go fast.

Digital driver is (speed limit 50): go 49-51, brake back to 49, accelerate back to 51, brake back to 49

Not exactly like that, but approximately. Little ‘letting off the gas’.
Raining shit would be opaque, tho
Alleged Member of Neo-Nazi Swatting Group Charged
If I append a single new vector, will it show up in search results without me needing to ask for the index to be rebuilt? Can i update an existing vector without having to ask for the index to be rebuilt?

EDIT: from reading the linked article, it seems like newly inserted vectors will be queried using brute force. Very interesting idea!
US government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware
Audiophiles won't use onboard audio. An unshielded DAC in the electrically noisy environment of a motherboard (or worse, SOC) is bad juju.

It's measurably worse than a cheap but isolated and shielded external DAC.

Measurable with an oscilloscope though. Not your ears. pfft. Audiophiles.
Highlighting the difference between rocks and nuclear weapons makes a good analogy, but my favourite example is from the "harmless supernova fallacy":

https://arbital.com/p/harmless_supernova/

in particular the "Precedented, therefore harmless" variant.
Details pls!
They say there are 361 sites pulled from TwoFactorAuth.org's list of sites, and they were able to access 145 of them.

In describing the set they initially drew from, it seems like they've described the 17 redacted sites simply by describing their complementary set (the 128 sites that are secure).
My kid sleeps on one, while I sleep on a Casper, so I can compare side by side. They're more or less the same thing for all intents and purposes, except Zinus is 1/4th the price.
My Brazilian in-laws maintain that the site of Brasilia was chosen because it's exactly in the middle of the country and not close to the established power cities of Rio and Sao Paulo. True?

They don't have many nice things to say about it.
> Microprocessors reached that high MOS transistor count less than 10 years ago.

Note however that quantum computers can potentially benefit from existing lithography processes, so it may not take as long to scale up as we have already developed processes for very small highly integrated circuits.
A New Kind of Baseline Reset CSS
Agreed. His message is a gesture enough.
> My father died in July of 2015 from alcohol, at the very young age of 60.

Condolences, but come on. Since when is 60 "a very young age"? You could start collecting social security retirement benefits at 62.

> Despite him committing slow suicide by alcohol

We are all committing slow suicide. That's life. You think are you going to live forever? I'm assuming he drank all his life, so a 42 year "suicide"?

> we were advised by lawyers that we had no legal recourse and would just end up burning money in a court battle we could not win.

What were you hoping to do? Force someone who doesn't want rehab to go to rehab? How would that even work? Wouldn't that drive him to drink even more?

Listen, if I was dictator, I'd ban alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, drugs, soccer, 99% news/media, etc. I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, gamble, feel soccer is a waste of time and most news/media is a toxic waste of time. But we live in a free society and grown adults are allowed to waste their time and partake in harmful activities as long as it doesn't directly harm others.

And I'm sure others have their own list of things they don't like or feel is harmful or a waste which I disagree with. I don't want them dictating how I live and in return I don't dictate how they live.

There are obvious exceptions where someone is physically/neurologically debilitated, but a functional adult human being deprived of liberty is not anything I will ever support.
Exactly. You should only have to enter the second factor on a given device once, at least optionally.
Thankfully the founders of the US knew the difference between judging what is in the grass and judging a person’s actions.
Thank you for posting. I’ve read this before, but I feel like this deserves an annual reading.
Most standard PC floppy controllers, the kind on the motherboard of a typical x86 machine made right into the early 21st century, can drive a standard Shugart-style 8" disk drive. Though some controllers don't handle single-density disks.
I have several documents, but nothing coherent yet. On the bright side, I'm about to finish implementing hearts in my own language, so that's exciting.