skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> will end with nothern russia looking like Florida, and Florida looking like what's 30km east of Florida now.

You say that like that’s inherently a bad thing.

IIRC (from some other commentor’s previous napkin math), such a change would actually be unlocking a lot more livable/arable land than would be desertified by it. Just counting the tundras in Northern Canada + Northern Russia + Antarctica + Greenland, that’s already more potential arable/livable landmass than the entirety of the US + Europe.

What you should probably highlight, if you want to make an argument like this, is the time scale. If that change occurred over ~100,000 years, it’d probably be a great thing for human civilization, and, though it’d kill off a fair number of animal species, there’d also be time for many new adaptations to occur, so overall biosphere diversity wouldn’t be greatly impacted. The Earth would be different, but not necessarily worse.

It’s the fact that said change has the potential to occur over only ~100 years, that screws the biosphere (including us) over.
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It may be helpful for sleep (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28349316)(https://www.nc.... However, it is not a sedative, like Ambian, so it won't make you tired during the day. The main way we think CBD is helping people sleep is either by reducing their chronic pain or by reducing their anxiety. Pain can keep people awake and so can an overactive and anxious mind.
I've been wasting a bit of time lately trying to get BeOS 5.0 Professional running on my PowerMac 8500/180.

Had to order a USB CD/DVD burner off of Amazon to write the ISO to a CD as I didn't actually own any hardware with a CD/DVD burner anymore :D
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Does it become heat?
Just to clarify the title a little "biological clock" in this circumstance isn't about lifespan, it is about your body's natural desire to eat (specifically when to eat).

They found, in mice, that high-calorie diets at meals resulted in eating more often between meals. From the article:

> Güler's team found that mice fed a diet comparable to a wild diet in calories and fats maintained normal eating and exercise schedules and proper weight. But mice fed high-calorie diets laden with fats and sugars began "snacking" at all hours and became obese.

I'd wonder though if they're re-measuring the gut bacteria phenomenon that has previously been observed. Essentially your gut bacteria can encourage you to eat certain foods, if you eat too much of one kind of food you over-bread that specific bacteria (and suppress others) resulting in a "waterfall" over desire for the food that bacteria need.

https://www.nature.com/articles/4441009a

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03698...
I think the two slit experiments indicate that a photon does exactly have a direction of travel?
The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe April Fool's Joke is hilarious [0]. Guy airdrops 70 kerosense-soaked tires to the crater of the volcano and sets them on fire, making everyone think the volcano was going to erupt.

Laughed pretty good at this bit in the PB & mayo story [1] too:
"And then there was the Great Banana Peel hoax. In 1967, a rumor had swept the nation alleging that bananas could be used to get high. The technique, it was said, was to scrape the inside of a banana peel, boil the residue, dry it out, and then roll it into a joint and smoke it."

[0]: http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_eruption_of_moun...

[1]: http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/peanut_butter_and_mayonnai...
Actually, you didn't get it because Jean-Louis asked too much when Apple inquired.
thanks for clarification!
Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day
DigitalOcean has some of the best APIs, documentation, and support I've ever encountered. I wish more companies were like them.
>I remember too many cases of people that tried to do dual licensing with code and ended up regretting it after ownership was transferred or they had a fall out with other partners.

Can somebody here elaborate on this?
I'm not, you can't do backup without replicating data, hence, if you do backup, you are doing replication.
This is a brief conversation on a mobile phone, I clearly sourced my backing for that statement.

Answer this - does vaccination have any major health risks?
Is this a response from the company or are you putting it forth as an example response for how to handle this incident better? It’s unclear from your post.
Big words for a company that's in trouble for not backing up data themselves.
for what it's worth, it's enabled by default to 10 minutes.
what can you recommend as an alternative?
Did you not compare how much faster & more usable their old platform is compared to the new one? The new one is painful to use.
Should? Previously you were expecting people to move.

It’s complicated and involves someone’s entire life circumstances. There’s no catch-all function which only takes the parameter `airQuality` that people adhere to like machines.

Families get entrenched. People have real estate. Culture melds with you. You get connected to the local politics. There are so many reasons that one would attempt to improve or accept their local situation instead of leaving.
Great read. The combination of metformin, revaratrol and NMN is quite something. Add fasting and an intense workouts and it’s amazing how much you can impact your wellness.

I recently unretired from the over 40 hockey league i’ve played in the past 8 years and rejoined the top A league playing against 20 year olds... anecdotal sure... but then again so are those sets of 30-40 pull-ups I do in my workout multiple times a week... incidentally in my 30s I could only do 15 pull-ups... been steadily increasing the last few years much to the surprise of my 20 year old teammates I workout with. I’m currently 52 and look mid 30s and have taken supplements for nearly 10 years to affect aging.
Seeing the thread I couldn't believe they are being serious. Feels like they are playing a tasteless prank. Such crass and careless attitude is downright repelling.
Thanks.

Native lambdas. Huh. It's like waking up to see people flying their cars to work. :)
So?

Intelligent people can argue all day about whether a snapshot should be considered a backup or not, but it won't change the fact that a snapshot doesn't provide any protection from a failure in the underlying storage and it's ridiculously foolish for the owner of data to solely rely on snapshots as their backup strategy.
FIDO is supported, which is cred phishing resistant - but Oauth permissions phishing obviously can't be prevented if it's all 'legitimate' traffic to a bad app.
There is no clickable link in the password reset email.
Call me an anarchist, but as long as it comes from a mammal I have no problem with it being labeled "milk".
"The Science Asylum" explains it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cep6eECGtw4
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I like to reframe the question. Can I divorce the person from the art? Of course. But should I?

I don't think so. There are so many books, movies, song, games, etc. that I could never consume them all so there is still a near infinite list of works for me to enjoy by creators who aren't known to be terrible people.
When you see an article on HN about how someone took some code, profiled it, and increased its speed by 10 times, I think it's tempting to credit virtue to the person who sped the code up. But I think you also have to remember that the only reason you could speed up the code by 10 times in the first place is that the original code left that much on the table. It isn't just that there is a person who was skilled enough to speed the code up, it is that somebody else left the opportunity behind in the first place.

For similar reasons, I find it quite likely to be engineering-meaningless [1] when someone takes a life form that lives for a 2-3 weeks and extends that by a factor of 5. We humans have the "live for fifteen weeks" problem solved. Optimization being what it is, it is very likely that whatever that improvement is already effectively exists in us. (Possibly not directly, possibly through some other mechanism that doesn't completely match, but it's probably done.) It is, unfortunately, much less impressive to "optimize" an organism that has left that much on the table.

Improve an elephant's lifespan by 50% with an intervention when they're already fully-grown and I'll really take notice. Unfortunately, there's all kinds of reasons why that's hard....

[1]: Contrast with meaningful to science. There's nothing wrong with studying this sort of thing as steps to both eventually treating aging, and just plain scientific understanding of the world, in the mean time. But something can be scientifically useful, and even perhaps someday eventually be useful to engineering through its contribution to a dozen other discoveries, while being "engineering-useless" today. Remember the context we're speaking in is in being excited about all the longevity news in the media and to hope that maybe it'll be ready by the time we personally need it.
This sounds more like a fishing expedition than a typical search warrant. I expect that Google fought or is fighting this request as stated as they have for others in the past.

"And if we believe a request is overly broad, we seek to narrow it -- like when we persuaded a court to drastically limit a U.S. government request for two months' of user search queries."[1]

If they refused to hand over 2 months of search queries, I guarantee they didn't just hand over a full year of all user data.

[1] - https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/7380434...
Here are the docs, if you're curious: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda
As with a lot of drugs, it depends. What do you want it to work for? CBD could potentially help with pain, anxiety, and more, but correct dosing can be an issue and we think that CBD works better with other cannabinoids than by itself. So a CBD isolate based gummy might not be as effective as a full-spectrum gummy.
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Except light is a wave and not a particle so reflection is explained when you consider that.
The fact that two acts that differ in severity can be considered under the same umbrella does not cheapen the term - everybody recognizes the matter of scale, concrete action and intention that is different in both figures. An unwelcome pinch on the butt isn't rape - but it could be sexual assault. I don't think anybody argued that it is rape.
Bottlenecks are only exclusive when the processes run serially.

All of water, CO2, and nitrogen (not an exclusive list) can stunt growth, and increasing the levels of any one of them can accelerate it.

Your own link points to this, referring as it does to the "most limiting condition", and the fact that addressing P and K deficiencies also increases yield, but not as much as also addressing deficiencies in N.
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The way I see it, the two are related-
Microsoft stopped it from having much of a chance as an independent OS.. This stopped us from getting it outside of a major vendor like Apple acquiring it.

Apple saw this, so didn't want to pay as much as they might have if it were selling well on it's own.

So Apple ended up going with NeXT "instead of plan Be" as it were.
All people don't have the same boundaries. This makes me think of a guy I went to high school with. He always stood way too close when talking to me (and everybody else). Close enough to smell his mouth and feel his warm breath against my face. When I moved away he moved after. This was certainly nothing sexual; he did it to everyone, males and females of any ages, teachers and fellow students. I tried to talk to him about it once, because no one wanted to hang out with him and I hoped I could help him. He had absolutely no idea that he did anything wrong. He never understood why no one liked him or that all the girls thought he was a creep.

Maybe people like Biden are the same. They just have a different sense of boundaries, and don't react themselves when other people touch or hug them. I don't know how asking them why they do something that feels perfectly natural to them would help.
Probably to prevent supply chain firmware changes for hacking, espionage, etc.
Is there anything similar to this but offline and open source?
When I started University in 2000, I had a quad-boot system: Win98, Win2000, BeOS 5 and Slackware Linux (using the BeOS bootload as my primary because it had the prettiest colors). I mostly used Slackware and Win98 (for games), but BeOS was really neat. It had support for the old Booktree video capture cards, could capture video without dropping frames like VirtualDub often did, and it even had support for disabling a CPU on multicpu systems (I only saw videos of this; never ran BeOS on a SMP system).

I wish we had more options today. On modern x86 hardware, you pretty much just have Windows, Linux and maybe FreeBSD/OpenBSD if you replace your Wi-Fi card with an older one (or MacOS if you're feeling Hackintoshy .. or just buy Apple hardware). I guess three is kinda the limit you're going to hit when it comes to broad support.
We still wouldn't have it; no way Apple w/o Steve Jobs but w/ BeOS survives.
Are there any similar open source projects that are offline? I had difficulty finding the right keywords to search this.
> By adopting such a simple function I would hope to be able to explore the tree a little more deeply than other engines.

I think you will explore the tree more widely, not more deeply. Many engines trim the tree very aggressively to make a mode depth analysis.
This is a "hello world" of C++11 threading.

I'm not sure what this is doing on HN.
>Surely a market involves some sort of comparative choice?

Market's don't require multiple sellers or even buys, see: monopolies and monopsonies.
Tyler Cowen is an academic economist at GMU, so yeah, he presents an economic view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen

>Nothing about increasing anyone's quality of life, solving environmental problems, advancing science

Tyler is all about those things, but his whole thesis is that they are directly linked to economic efficiency. That is not an unsupported idea.
One constant in quantum electrodynamics is that it doesn't look right to me, but it seems to work!

Richard Feynman's "QED" is a great read on this.
Yep. OEMs were not allowed to sell dual-boot systems if they wanted to keep buying cheap MS licenses. I think they lost that lawsuit, but it was long after BeOS closed up their commercial operations.
The computationally heavy part of a web browser is the rendering/video engine, which is standard super parallel graphics stuff. Web servers are dominantly I/O (or running wastefully slow scripting languages).

I know it's all a fantasy now, but I wonder what the world might have been like if there wasn't such a split between what you can only do on a CPU and what you can only do on a GPU. Maybe you like heterogeneous computing and gluing C++ to CUDA, but I think it's ugly. Stretch outside of the current box a little bit and imagine a hybrid somewhere in the middle ground of CPUs and GPUs. I think a variable sized VLIW could've gotten there if the market had any more imagination than it does. It's Ford's "faster horses" problem.
Did you READ the article?

> The damage he caused was inseparable from his power. In general, Asimov chose targets who were unlikely to protest directly, such as fans and secretaries, and spared women whom he saw as professionally useful. There were exceptions—he chased the editor Cele Goldsmith around her desk—but he preferred to focus on women who were more vulnerable, which inevitably raises the issue of mentorship.

> Yet many of these encounters were clearly nonconsensual. When the author Frederik Pohl questioned his tendency to touch women “in a fairly fondling way,” Asimov replied, “It’s like the old saying. You get slapped a lot, but you get laid a lot, too.”

He's deliberately finding vulnerable women -- who may be forced to laugh off or allow his unwanted advances in order to keep their jobs (keep in mind the time period also -- women even having some of these jobs was something special in itself), and he's doing it to, ultimately, get sex.

That may not quite be the definition of rape, but it certainly isn't "a[n] unwelcome pinch on the butt."

Sounds to me like Asimov wasn't that far off from Weinstein -- keep in mind for every accusation of rape Weinstein is facing, there were dozens if not hundreds of women who claim lesser degrees of inappropriate actions. It's more likely that the women who would today, in the #metoo era, have reported legal sexual assault or rape, were silenced back then -- I can't imagine we will ever know though; maybe he stopped at just "pinches on the butt," but I doubt it.
covered earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947924
Yeah, wow, that's egregious. And now the vague "system scaling" also keeps this Intel-definition of "Moore's Law" alive and well. Clearly Intel are setting up their own hoops to jump through.

> System scaling improvements are the gains that help us incorporate new types of heterogeneous processors via advances in chiplets, packaging, and high-bandwidth chip-to-chip interconnect technologies
> Coca Cola needs to diversify.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_brands
we're trying to have an intelligent discussion here and you bring religious garbage
Yeah, that's not a great way to win back the trust of your customers.

I'm going to look at moving my domain registrations away from them.
Kohl's uses the eink price tags, or at least used to a few years ago.
I feel the complete opposite. Ever since discovering this in Swift I wish more languages had the same documented separation
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Just a quick question, how do I transfer my site adress to another hosting company, is that too is lost? Sorry for being a philistine about this...
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yeah, I worked for several years at a hosting provider, and I can tell you for a fact that this wouldn't have happened there.

They're 100% virtualized and keep backups of all those machines. In addition, you can purchase a package so that YOUR backups are automatically backed up to 2 different datacenters. Between the two of those solutions, there would be a way forward.

I don't really know what Gandi is so I can't speak to them directly, but this is a solvable problem.
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You don't think CSS grid[0] is more usable than that? Templates are basically a ASCII-visible representation of the layout.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
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I was talking to a friend last night about just such a thing. It was a rural rather than urban property but same idea. Two siblings inherited a property and couldn't agree on what to do with it going forward--and I gather maybe didn't get along under the best of circumstances--and ended up selling it at a cheap price just to be done with it.
The out of sync part is rather important when something accidently get deleted from the live dataset.
I think you are spot on with your reasons for why these things actually do exist, but I think there is definitely an argument to be made for why they should actually protect privacy instead of merely inhibiting the government.

My version of the argument goes something like this: It's often said that drivers (in the US anyway) are constantly violating minor traffic laws, and that if the police want to pull someone over, all they have to do is follow them for long enough and they will find a legitimate reason to do so.

I believe that this extends far beyond the sphere of traffic. I think we all accidentally break minor laws way more often than we think we do. We all way overestimate how "good" we are.

If it was possible to automatically punish everyone for every violation of the law, we would quickly realize that many laws aren't actually that important, that they can be broken a little bit, constantly, by basically everyone, and society still functions just fine, and that privacy is more important than perfect enforcement of law.

Of course this might lead to a new equilibrium where we perfectly enforce a smaller set of laws.

All this is to say that I think people think they value law enforcement more than privacy, but if they had the full force of the law brought down on them for every minor violation, they would quickly change their mind. In that way, privacy (in the form of the government not having perfect information) is actually quite valuable.
Probably because “they” == some individual social media rep
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Index of refraction matching (or, effectively impedence matching). Snow is white because you have a bunch of air/ice/air/ice/air/ice interfaces. The amount reflected at each interface is determined by the Fresnel Equations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_equations

Replace the air gap with liquid water, and the slush will be much darker because the difference in index of refraction at each intereface (now liquid/ice/liquid/ice etc) will be much less.

Basically, in electrical terms, less impedance mismatch so less reflection.

Same thing works for other things besides snow.
Since he seems to be married (according to Wikipedia), this strikes me as a very uncharitable reading. (It would also be uncharitable if he wasn't married though)
DMCA might be the easiest to abuse law in history. It’s an embarrassment. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen stories like this.

I had a subreddit with 25k people that got shut down due to a single angry user barraging fake DMCA requests on every post. It got shut down for “repeat copyright infringement” even though he owned none of the content. We tried creating a new one and he did the same and it got shut down even faster since it was a small sub. Reddit admins didn’t give a shit despite our mods efforts.

Reddit apparently isn’t in the business of deciding whether or not a claim is legitimate. Same with Etsy, which is the whole problem. It’s impossible to scale for these sites.
I actually kind of like that characterization :-)
> When a water film is present, the surface becomes smooth, and the reflection will be specular, and only visible in one direction. So in most directions, the material will appear darker.

Yes, that's precisely the part I was addressing in my last paragraph. If it's specular reflection, then in "most directions" it will appear darker, as you say, but in one direction it should appear brighter, even shiny. But I've never seen a damp rag be shiny in any direction.

(...and it shouldn't be that hard to see, if that effect is really true. With any other shiny object (polished car, CD, balloon) you see the specular reflection frequently.)
I detect an anti-marsupial bias.
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One possible data point is to look at the half-hearted apologies of Robert Crumb. He lived through the 80's and treated women in a similar manner. Now, as an old man in a new era, he has issued some vague apologies. And yet, he also leaves so many transgressions out.

My guess is that Asimov might have done something similar if he were alive in the #MeToo era. Some vague apologies, but no true reckoning of everything.
If it's actually true that having plastic surgery is essential to a SV career, that's another incredibly strong reason to avoid SV.