skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"By the same token, there are animals who have the „live for 400 years“ problem solved so there must be sth left on the table yes?"

Note my claim wasn't that optimization isn't possible, just that the impressiveness of the optimization is inversely proportional to the amount of performance left on the table.

In terms of that being a promising avenue, I'd observe all the animals with long lifespans I'm aware of seem to achieve that with a quality of life that would in humans be considered very elderly behavior, due to low energy consumption. People generally want eternal youth, rather than eternal elderliness. I don't know of any 200-year-old animal leaping about from tree to tree or anything like that.

Body part regeneration seems a lot more like a solvable problem to me than generalized "fix aging". While we know we're lacking spontaneous body part regeneration, we also know the "programs" for growing parts are in there, since we used them once.

(As I've observed before on HN, "solving aging" would be a lot easier if we just had to produce organs with the same DNA or something. It's a bit body-horror-esque, but if we could just grow clone bodies and transplant things in we'd probably be pretty close. But there's that whole problem where we'd be happy with a new heart, we'd be happy with a new liver, we'd be happy with a new left arm, but we stubbornly want our old brain....)
Lack of demand (for BeOS at an extra cost; or for Windows by people who wanted BeOS)

Also, some of the time Microsoft simply forbade dual booting as a condition for OEM licensing.
I think Microsoft made quite a lot off Android.
> The computer operators (!) loaded them with special "green band" paper stock that came in boxes about the size of a 12-ream box of printer paper you'd buy at OfficeDepot today, but it was all one big continuous z-fold piece, with sprocket holes down each side for the printer to grab and power it through the paper path.

Loading paper onto those printers wasn't an easy or fun task; there were typically two tractor mechanisms, one below the printing area (usually inside the sound deadening enclosure), and one above it (still inside, but under the "lid" of the enclosure). You had to get things lined up just right, and then snap the feeds closed on the bottom (while kneeling and looking - sometimes with a flashlight - at an awkward angle under the printer, inside the enclosure, with a large box of paper in your way), then advance the paper past the print area, and align it properly with the second set of tractors, then close those - then run a test job. If all went well (which it usually did), you had things loaded and could continue with your other tasks.

Oh - and the cleaning of those printers - so much paper dust, plus the "chads" from the holes (not all were cleared on a run of paper, so the tractors would pop them out and they would get lost all over and inside the machine).

> Jobs were printed with special "separator pages" to help to operators find where to split the perforated printouts and deliver them to the right users' collection bins.

Fun times to find your "job" and split it off to take back to your cubicle; also fun to find someone else's job and deliver it to them on the way back. Sometimes they'd be thankful or surprised, but it was also fun to do it when they had gotten up to go to the printer - they'd get there, couldn't find their job (but could find the ones "around" it), go back to their desk in a huff, then sit down and find the printout on their desk...hehe.

I kinda miss those days (but I don't miss having to build and format reports - talk about a nightmare and thankless task).
Or ya know, since we’re all software developers and many of us need/want a tool like this we could collectively build a community version that we distribute freely and split the labor cost of development and maintenance among the people who use and contribute to it.
Is this comparison (homeless vs vacancy) a headline thing or is there actually a healthy metric to compare the two? Isn't the number much higher in places with less homeless, such as Oklahoma City?

"Healthy" vacancy rates (according to citylab) are approximately 7-8% (people moving in, people moving out, remodeling, etc). With SF's vacancy rate at 6%[2], shouldn't the vacancy rate be higher?

1. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/07/vacancy-americas-othe...
2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/430104/office-vacancy-ra...
Erwhi Hedgehog: A small SLAM robot using Intel RealSense
>So this is counting AirBnBs and other short-term rental spaces as vacant.

by definition tourist or transient, so correctly so. Unless you want to call every room at the hilton an apartment...
Ask HN: Privacy conscious macro-nutrient counter app – Android
Main concern is to control data sharing.

1 Set macro or caloric goal

2 Search for foods

3 Add breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner

4 Clear macro breakdown of every meal

5 Displays daily total and daily target (15g of fat out of 30g target)

6 No login and keeps all data on the device only

7 Easy interface that can be used by elderly people (large numbers)

8 Micro-nutrients counter huge plus but not necessary

If 6 doesn’t exist whatever is the best alternative.
In my generic question above, I wasn't referring to someone intentionally causing collisions, but about random collisions that could occur because of these data chunks coming from a large pool of data (say a system with tens or hundreds of millions of users with several hundred GB each of varied data among them). AFAIK, chunking methods usually do not use additional metadata (like a file timestamp or size or name) that could help do a more comprehensive comparison instead of relying on a hash alone. Are the chosen chunks very small (which means the number of hashes would be quite large, making deduplication take longer when looking for exact matches)? I'd be interested in writings from real systems online that explore the choices they have taken and how they pre-empt random collisions (as much as they can design it into the system).
> In 2000, that would be like seeing forum posts from 1980.

That's the premise of Jason Scott's project launched in 1998 :) http://textfiles.com/
Gsuite uses 'Apps Script'[1], not pure JS, so it is quite similar in function to VBA.

[1]https://developers.google.com/apps-script
Mostly because of the UNIX subsystem. Having all that horsepower under the hood has been awesome.

Also, NeXTStep became Cocoa, which knocked PowerPlant into a cocked hat. That may not be as compelling an argument. I heard that the BeOS framework was damn nice (never tried it, myself).
Where I live "wealthy homeowners" are the NIMBYs. They suddenly appear out of nowhere to argue in city council meetings against more housing, then leave their homes empty more than half the year (or all year). That most of them are also foreign is incidental: it'd be just as bad if it were Americans doing this.
“Security” is a bit of a misnomer in this context: I think what you actually meant was “multi-user architecture” which, as remarked elsewhere, undergirds the whole notion of keeping processes from promiscuously sharing any and all resources.
I believe nobody should count on backups provided by the product that stores your data.

There are different kinds of backups here:

* the ones that are part of the offer, where the provider gives you a convenient way to recover from your mistakes, this is a feature they provide when their services are operational (in this case, the snapshots feature).

* the ones they put in place to mitigate incidents and maintain their SLOs. If you accidentally delete a file, you don't have access to them, they are useless to you. These backups are a mean to reach their service level objectives. Nobody can offer you 100% guarantee that they won't lose your data in an SLO. If someones promises you this, just... don't believe it.

(edit: formatting, typo, mention snapshots in case 1)
There are antitrust actions that would beg to differ.

>What started as an antitrust lawsuit brought by states over just two drugs in 2016 has exploded into an investigation of alleged price-fixing involving at least 16 companies and 300 drugs, said Joseph Nielsen, an assistant attorney general and antitrust investigator in Connecticut who has been a leading force in the probe.

“This is most likely the largest cartel in the history of the United States,” Nielsen said.

In just one instance of extraordinary cost surges, the price of a decades-old drug to ease asthma symptoms — albuterol, sold by generic manufacturers Mylan and Sun — jumped more than 3,400%, from 13 cents a tablet to more than $4.70.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-generic-drugs-prices-...
Hi guys! I made this android app that allows you to tether or reverse tether your device via USB. It doesn't require root and also doesn't require you to enable USB debugging (except on Windows, I'll try to fix that on a future release). It uses USB accessory mode[1] which can make it faster than apps that uses ADB.

Maximum speed varies per device. I used iperf[2] on my computer and magic iperf[3] on my device to check it. I use the following commands:

tcp packet receiver: iperf -s -i1 -N

tcp packet sender: iperf -c [receiver's ip address] -i1 -N -P2

The default IP address of the host PC is 10.0.3.2. The device IP address is autogenerated but you can set it manually from the app's settings.

Here are the results for my Honor Play connected to a Mac:

tethering speed(pc download speed): 282 Mbits/sec

reverse tethering speed(device download speed): 177 Mbits/sec

[1]: https://source.android.com/devices/accessories/protocol

[2]: https://iperf.fr/download/windows/iperf-2.0.5b-win32.zip

[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextdoorde...
And here we are at the highest levels of inequality since the 1920s. For the last 100 years, efficiency has meant squeezing every spare penny of disposable income from the working class. These people don’t benefit from market gains.
Isn't like 90% of the homeless population people with a significant mental illness that they cannot provide for themselves? That's because the normal competent people don't remain homeless long and just need short term temporary assistant. Whereas the large portion of homeless actually are not competent enough to support themselves.
I've heard that this isn't actually the registrar's fault, it's the registry's fault. So your TLD is sharing the "is registered" query with other parties. That said, everything about the domain registration industry seems designed to appear sketchy as all hell, so who knows.
coughlinuxcough what? linux vs corporate is not the same as literally cloning every small piece of software out there for the sake of getting a job and glory.
He got a free commercial in major news outlets thanks to MTA
There are several condo buildings in Portland (OR, US) that do this as well. I don't think it's city or government regulated, but it's required by certain buildings. I don't know if SF has anything like this, but I imagine it's easy to get around it.
People complained about "Wintel" because the 32-bit x86 chips were so fast and cheap they destroyed the market for RISC designs and killed existing RISC workstation and server architectures, like SPARC and HPPA and MIPS.

By the time the Pentium came around, the future looked like a completely monotonous stretch of Windows NT on x86 for ever and ever, amen. No serious hardware competition, other than Intel being smart enough to not kill AMD outright for fear of antitrust litigation, and no software competition on the desktop, with OSS OSes being barely usable then (due to an infinite backlog of shitty hardware like Winmodems and consumer-grade printers) and Apple in a permanent funk.

We were perpetually a bit afraid that Microsoft/Intel would pull something like Palladium/Trustworthy Computing [1] and lock down PC hardware but good, finally killing the Rebel Alliance of Linux/BSD, but somehow the hammer never quite fell. It did in the cell phone world, though, albeit in an inconsistent fashion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...

Microsoft and Intel really seemed permanent back then. I wonder if that's how people felt about IBM back in the 1950s.
They've proven much larger lifespan increases even in primates. Issue is it looks like many of these interventions might alter your mental health as well, and no animal model will faithfully replicate that.
Julie Pelloille, responsible for comms, appears to be going a bit too far with this.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cathode/id499233976?mt=12
I think replacing parts is a good idea, but comes up against some harder limits... Surgery becomes harder to recover from as you get older. Cell division limits are a thing, build-up of scarring tissue, etc.

So if we can address cellular aging mechanisms, I think we'll have the latitude to address some of the more macroscopic aging problems (like joints, etc) through surgery.
That was exactly part of my point, with BeOS that wouldn't have happened anyway.

The only successful UNIX desktop is OS X.
Thinking nationalism is about borders and not about loving your own people. We have a limited amount of love and attention to spread. Focusing that energy externally rather than internally causes neglect on your own people, like the homeless in the US. It’s like choosing where to put your skill points at the beginning of an RPG.

Even acting like it’s morally superior when it’s just an inefficient form of welfare. It’s a bunch of feel good.

I say “national” but I don’t really care about Florida or NY way over here in California.
What? Do you think it's insane to say that billionaires should be put to death?
What kind of sensor would be useful for finding submarine internet cables?
Ask HN: For a Personal Blog in 2020, Medium, GitHub Pages or Dev.to?
To be clear, disk corruption can happen anywhere due to many reasons, in particular when VM disks map to local disks on an hypervisor, which gives you fast SSDs without network latency. Probably that the resize command had an issue and corrupted the image on disk. Then there's not much that can done aside from restoring from a backup. Having had backups enabled on the droplets, they would in all likelihood not have been corrupted since backups with DigitalOcean are stored offsite. In such case they could have been used to restore the droplet.

In some extreme cases, a concert of bad luck may coincides to ruin things despite multiple levels of redundancies. But that's extremely rare, especially nowadays. However DO is much larger now than it used to be, so the odds of hearing about extreme accidents increase.

disclaimer: I used to work there.
You're complaining about the very thing that allows OSS to exist.
Python may be faster than Ruby, but it's not "C" faster. It's the language extensions like NumPy that do the heavy lifting, and those are usually written in compiled languages like, say, C.
To be clear, it's not cities claiming copyright: it's private standards organizations, etc. that have written up a document (that can be covered by copyright law), and then it gets included or referenced in a city's law (that shouldn't be). They're just ignoring that transition.

I don't think the city should be able to automatically nullify someone's copyright claim by referencing it in law, and I don't think they should release laws that require citizens to pay fees (or anything else unreasonable) to read. It should be on the city to figure out a deal before it's the law.

That said, I think it's counter-productive for a standards organization to not make standards public domain in the first place if they're so widely applicable as to become a law, but maybe there's an angle here I'm missing.
The Concept Electronics Show
Funny you should mention Windows 95. The company that sold that ended up doing pretty well.
My neighbor, across the street, has a Ring camera aimed directly at my house, since that is where their front door faces. What is my recourse for preventing my private property from being recorded?
The article makes, in the discussion section, an hypothesis related to more time spent in thermally neutral areas as well as better heating and whatnot due to insulation and AC. Is it possible to formulate a similar thesis for overall higher ambient temperature linked to global warming?
As I said, Sentry doesn't owe new open source code to anyone. Deciding to make new releases closed is acceptable.

However, they have repeatedly made statements that they are committed to open source- some only months before this announcement. The 11 year old decision argument doesn't hold true.

They have a right to change their mind. But they shouldn't be lying to their customers and the community now that their mind has changed- https://sentry.io/_/open-source/ They continue to advertise that they are open source on their marketing website. That is a lie, and it marks Sentry as an unethical, dishonest company.

The wider debate on licensing terms and business models can move forward- it has existed since the beginning of the software industry and likely will persist for the foreseeable future. I prefer open source licenses. I think they are the best proposal for software licensing and distribution so far. If Sentry wants to do something different and use the BSL license, that is fine- but they shouldn't lie and claim to be open source.
yeah let's all split those 8$ it costs, because that's what will get us out of the grind. 8$ a month is less than two coffees, if you need to split such costs among peers then you're probably in the wrong job.
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I use the whois command line tool when searching and have yet to get squatted. My experience is only about 500 domains over 20 years.
They are not the same photons. They are emitted by the electron changing energy states after excitation of the incoming photon. But your intuition that there is some quantum weirdness is correct. Quantum Electrodynamics is the theory you're looking for. It unifies quantum mechanics and special relatively in the context of light/matter interaction. Given you seem to be familiar with Feynman. You're in for a treat! His book on QED is meant to be an accessible explanation.[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED:_The_Strange_Theory_of_L...
As many of us long time Plex users see new, unwanted features vs having issues fixed (like syncing or a method to run it as a service), Jellyfin has become my next step. I haven't set it up for external access yet but so far I'm enjoying the simplicity. I'm not limited by lack of certain apps/players as I do everything on PC but I'm excited to see where this crew can go.
Key question, is it guaranteed in your contract?

Also:

> Snapshots do not make a backup of your databases. If you would like to perform a backup of your databases, we recommend you perform an export, or launch a dump script via crontab.

For those plan prices if I was running anything mission critical there then I'd be making darned sure I was squirting copies of my site's dynamic data to somewhere else on a regular basis (and you should also be able to re-deploy your code from local). Even if there was a guarantee, I'd still have a backstop in place. Never underestimate the chance of a good cockup.
Thanks for your work! It's been a real help. I've been using it before Kong.
*Free and Open Source (MIT license)
Oceanography research supports a lot of different functions like navigation which requires maps of the seafloor and how they change, waste disposal so that toxic waste doesn't end up in civilian water ways and bays, maintenance which depends on the environmental conditions, and so on.
My experience finds that the in-place optimization can indeed speed up numpy code. Even if you're not memory constrained, fewer arrays in play means less memory bandwidth needed.

>> Many NumPy APIs include an out keyword argument, allowing you to write the results to an existing array, often including the original one.

I'd wager that saving memory or memory bandwidth is the impetus for expanding the API to include this option.
Not all, Android, IBM i (C++ has been slowly replacing PL/S), mbed, Windows, and OS X (IO Kit, now Driver Kit), are doing pretty alright.

There is no such thing as C ABI, it only happens to work on OS that are, surprise surprise, written in C.
It cant be that easy to get one of these jobs (facebook doesnt just hire anyone), so assuming they are educated and qualified, why dont they just go work somewhere where else?
Having everyone use iOS is an option.
Maybe Facebook should buy Squatty Potties and dietary fibre for their employees [0]? I have a Squatty Potty and I recommend it to everyone. At the very least, I find their infomercial-style ads entertaining.

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

Afterthought:

What is the dollar value benefit that these moderators offer Facebook such that their time has to be measured so precisely?

I would assume that a CEO’s time is even more valuable both in terms of cost and expected benefit/impact. Why doesn’t Facebook’s board get Mark Zuckerburg to account for every millisecond of his time right down to how much time he spends in the bathroom? If all this time adds up for these moderators, then why not for a CEO?
Appendixes have recently started to be regarded as something functional, a sort of incubator for healthy gut bacteria, but I'm sure there are other examples in nature that could support your point, too.
For a more full feature set product there is APIMolder:

https://codesolvent.com/api-molder/

You get a mock server OOTB.
Yeah, though I'm afraid I can't tell you what. I think it's really fundamental, something that will require a serious reconsideration of the entire social contract.
I don't think she wrote the article (to be clear, I also don't have any insider information on the situation). My conjecture (based on interactions with other journalists) was that the article was prepared for her by some Facebook PR firm as a draft for her to edit.

Maybe she'd decline and it would go up as sponsored/editorial content, maybe she'd soften it up a bit and write it as her own article, maybe (unlikely in this specific case, though it certainly happens in eg. trade journals) she'd sign off on the puff piece exactly as submitted. A representative from that PR firm would have called, met with, or wined and dined with her and offered it for any of the above options, perhaps with an incentive of an exclusive interview as a reward or just as a free piece of work for her to sell to TV.

I totally believe that Lauren didn't write it yet. She did write, for an example article, 'Kitsch X Justine Marjan Created a "Vote" Hair Clip' [1]. There's a significant chance that Kitsch or their PR firm contacted her and suggested that the clip might be something she's interested in writing about, perhaps including some sample copy. There's a chance she wrote that article entirely in a vaccuum, happening across an Instagram post, doing some research, making phone calls...but that's not the way most journalism happens today.
Recent thread on the subject of A/UX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21881271
I think the main idea is what's known as a vacancy tax. If people want to park their money in SF property but not use it, that's fine, they'll just have to pay more.
The constricted supply is very much related to the treatment of primary residences as an investment. Quintupling the supply would definitely cause prices to fall, but any homeowner in their right mind opposes that development because they might lose $500k+ of property value.
Postman has raised over $50M since they launched, they're not exactly two guys working out of a garage anymore. At what point do you classify them as "corporate"?
Who cares about virtue? All we should really measure is destructiveness. If following your heart isn't destructive, then go for it. Make your own virtues out of something else.
How about punishing malingering misuse of resources rather than offering a carrot.

Owners incentivized to utilize land, more real estate available, foreign investment squatting suffers.