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> enough space, enough resources

Have you looked at the universe lately? There are enough resources out there that every human being currently alive could easily have thousands of civilizations of their own, even making very conservative extrapolations regarding the true energy use of a human mind.
How I Became a China Sceptic
Personally it scares me that this can affect people so young. Heart problems are no joke - if people just take care of themselves and remember to take their pills a lot of lives could be saved.
Yeah, I'm trying to imagine that, but then I remember that we live in the real world here, with finite resources, and thousands of years of history, not in some utopia where everyone sings kumbaya and dances merrily around a campfire.
The only thing is that we have the crawl US airlines and support an additional currency(USD). So yes, there is no reason why this shouldn't work for North and South America. Do you think there is a market for this in America?
On iOS, for those of us addicted to convenience, the Oldio app provides free Audible-style listening to Librivox

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oldio-audiobook-classics/id135...
Grab dominated SE Asia and that exit for Uber made sense as they got a very good equity stake in a dominant player. They still haven't exited all parts of Asia. I really doubt that Uber is going to be a US only business. They still are growing in markets outside US as well. They had 30% YOY revenue growth last quarter in APAC compared to 38% in NA. I couldn't find the EBITDA numbers broken by geography though.
I don’t think you can realistically detect predator - satellite comms
For an actual recommendation I have “Revolutions” by Mike Duncan.
If you are in Bio the SPARQL usecase is just so nice. I work on the sparql.uniprot.org and others at SIB. Being able to federate without a hassle is such a powerful thing for research.
To expand further: you can use anything you've ever learned in gamedev. All of it can be useful. From physics, chemistry, biology to languages, trivia, culture etc. But what I find even more fascinating is what players of games can do with just a simple system.
I'm adopted. Can I find out if I'm at risk from a DNA mapping service like 23andme?
Those are all good points.

1) By the time we would live that long, we'd arguably be mostly virtual, and spread throughout the universe. So space wouldn't be an issue.

2) Yes, we might be stuck in old ways. But we could tweak ourselves however we wanted. With backups, of course.

3) I'm sure that there'd be lots of biological reproduction, somewhere anyway, so evolution wouldn't stop.

4) Most of the SF that I've read posits that people will spend most of their time in stasis. Or in bobbles.

5) Yeah, it'd be a tough decision to make. But if we got to the point of living that long, one hopes that we'd be doing it in good health. And if felt like you needed a break, you could just sleep for a billion years :)
If I show you a machine that people step into and are then brought out the other side on a single Sol-powered matrioshka brain then I suppose you would take that offer, however there is a leap between the two states that cannot be conclusively proven. How do we know that the consciousness is in the matrioshka is the person who went in.
Why shouldn’t we ask that without eternal life?

>

Seeing how I change with years, I’d like to live to 200-500-1000 years old. Not because I want to live so bad, but because this is a frightening distance that is a completely wild territory for us to imagine. I’ll watch that movie (if not yet), thanks for the reference. Everything I watched before was pretty “same person tired and/or mindless”-centric, like interview with a vampire, highlander, etc. But it was more entertainment, what humans like to see at cinema, than a really deep analysis of thousands of years old beings.

Thinking that you’ll be the same after an amount of time is naive.
For an OS that doesn't get any love it sure does show up here bi-weekly and is used as the backbone of all the biggest video streaming platforms...

I think there is this idea that Linux can't or won't achieve what BSD has but after being a sysadmin for years in Linux systems running behind pfSense I can say that this is all a rose colored vision of a time gone by from people who had the misfortune to learn Unix before linux. They are both full of silly paradigms and pitfalls, inconsistency and sometimes even order but in equal parts if you actually understand them and how they are built.
The only difference I see at 20 years at it is one of them has hardware, software, and documentation for any contingency even if it's lackluster and the other is freeBSD. I admire the nostalgia but its gotten old...I would go so far as to say for pure practicality that I can do anything on Linux I can do on BSD but Im not nieve enough to claim the opposite.
He also studied at 42, which is most likely why he got picked for the internship to begin with. I don't get this self-congratulating BS, guy says he toured the world (good luck doing that with a shitty passport) and was named king of a village in Ghana (right..). I guess people who get lucky have to always go to great lengths to justify and spin that.

They're free to do so of course, but they should not give advice based on it.

Regardless of that, I suppose the bar for being a "researcher" has been stooped so low. According to this guy publishing an ML paper is equivalent to writing a blog post or making a video about "AI".
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Liability insurance is going to go through the roof.
EUV: Lasers, plasma, and the sci-fi tech that will make chips faster [video]
> society would probably view dying of natural causes as killing yourself.

Not much differently than we do anti-vax or people who deny themselves lifesaving treatments today.
Not enough, since his entire gimmick appears to be 'selling himself' and it's gotten him gainful employment at somewhere that you think would know better
Hmm, I checked that one out and it is indeed pretty nice but I don't think I can log in to my account with it. Just lets me view the public interfaces.
There's also the interesting case of Paramahansa Yogananda:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda#Death
In Russia, after seeing the nuclear weapon the Party realized that the Marxism-Leninism alone is not going to produce such a weapon and had allowed and forced real sciences to be taught in schools. Likewise, the "Sputnik moment" in the US resulted in massive education improvements, e.g. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/10/how-sputnik-c...
A speech designed for reconciliation and nation-building
I maintain that there still exist things that you can only learn via osmosis. Sometimes, books and MOOCs just will not do.

Also,

> It's not as if the alternative to 4 years of undergrad and $100-250k in tuition + living costs is just teaching yourself the same arbitrary curriculum alone in your room for 4 years getting a degree in some random field learning things you never actually use in the real world. One could instead intern or work, and not only potentially learn significantly more relevant and lucrative real-world skills for free, but actually get paid to do it.

I mean, sure you can not go to school and do different things, and it might even be a good idea, but that's a far cry from the original claim, which was

> Absolutely nothing you learn in a college education you can't learn yourself for free on the internet.
Lush is the one I had looked at long ago,

http://lush.sourceforge.net/
To be fair to the poster, virtually anyone you meet in real life will be far less interesting than chatting with someone in a specialized forum like hacker news.
Part of it is trivial. i.e. is "9606" used to identify a species or a pubmed paper. (While trivial it's a huge source of errors, a bit like manually managing memory trivial but still a huge source of CVEs)

The other is for logical data quality inference.
E.g. data is coded by super sub class, while query asks for middle class the right data is still retrieved.
This goes beyond that into ever more complicated scenarios which are not double by connect by queries.

Which get's into questions is the hind leg of an ant similar enough to a human leg to have an argument about the function of a protein transfer. (Uberon)
Swiggy is a scam! They stole 200 bucks from me (as food wastage charges) because I didn't look at my phone for 15 minutes after I placed an order with a full address that I had already fully paid for.
Before there was Airbnb, some people actually borrowed out their basement or spare room for free. It was called CouchSurfing and popular with students. At first, Airbnb was pretty similar and actually felt like sharing plus a small food donation. At one of my first Airbnb locations, I took turns with my hosts at cleaning and cooking...

Nowadays, all that good will and belief in helping out others has been replaced by an impersonal financial transaction. Surely, that has changed how the "guest" and the "host" interact with each other, and not in a good way. The "guest" is now a customer of paid services and gets treated accordingly.

I believe short term rentals should be organized by a government agency. That way, all the profits can be reinvested into the housing market instead of being siphoned into a tax haven by Airbnb.
"At DeathTech, we don't make the missles that kill people, we make them deader."

[From BASF the chemical company's "We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better"]
Why getting enough vitamin D in wintertime is so important
Another new virus 2019-nCoV
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> colorizing b&w photos

You will have unlimited training data. But its very difficult task even for humans. Its like trying to reverse a hash. Also a lot of information is lost when you store a color digitally.
I also have been having the problem in a browser since last Friday.
Fortunately, lpass command line tool kept working without issues, so I never bothered to report.
The problem is fixed now. Maybe it was related to the MFA as I have been prompted for it today.
FWIW, this was with Firefox and FreeBSD.
Schluss mit Made in Germany? China kauft den Mittelstand in Deutschland
Epic is ruthless and takes competition out by any means necessary. They are a dinosaur that avoided competition for decades, and Google is a massive thread. This is good news because they are scared, and Google has an infinite runaway to take them out. Epic should have worked tirelessly to innovate and improve US healthcare, but instead chose to stay still and to profit. They won’t be for long.
There is an interesting discussion about the effects of hypersonic nuclear capable missiles and glide vehicles here [0]. In summary, this doesn't change much. But what the larger players are afraid of is proliferation of hypersonic missile technology [1].

[0] https://thebulletin.org/2020/01/hypersonic-missiles-new-arms...

[1] https://www.rand.org/blog/2018/03/hypersonic-missiles-a-new-...
The trick is to do in gradually, ship of Theseus style.
While in theory this sounds reasonable, practice has shown time and time again that just for that crucial moment the cams were down, or for some technical reason the recordings have been erased. What do you propose against that? Complete audit proof via Blockchain and recorded on [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC and stored in the
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center ?

What else are you dreaming of?

As it is, and always has been, all this stuff is to the disadvantage of the individual, not lessenig the burden of proof. Anything else is PROPAGANDA!
Absurd. When does it end? Or are we just caught in this dangerous resource drain ad infinitum?
I assumed this was simply relating what is happening from a users perspective.
Building badass shit like that is pretty damn cool.
I think calling her mom was ok, but saying things like "how are you" vs "how is the mom doing", "is mom feeling any pain" etc felt less personal.
The OP didn’t ask for legal or procedural advice. The question was a rather straight forward technical one.

However, it came with context, which was a mistake because it drew focus away from the actual question.
You haven't spoken to many doctors then. I don't mean to be a jerk or snarky. It really is an awful piece of software. Among its worst flaws is that in most implementations, neither Cerner not Epic encourage structured data recording except for billing codes. This means that if a patient comes through the medical system frequently, doctors have to read pages and pages of unstructured text to get a sense of what's going on for the patient. The shittiness of the software (and I'm normally sorry to curse) is unquestionably leading to worse outcomes for patients.
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> How do we know that the consciousness is in the matrioshka is the person who went in.

If we could solve this today we would already be well on the way immortality! But there are some theories, the most prominent of which is a Moravec Transfer[1]:

> A neuron-sized robot swims up to a neuron and scans it into memory. A computer starts simulating the neuron. The robot waits until the neuron perfectly matches its simulation inside the computer, and then replaces the neuron with itself as smoothly as possible, sending inputs to the computer and transmitting outputs from the simulation of a neuron inside the computer.

> This entire procedure has had no effect on the flow of information in the brain, except that one neuron's worth of processing is now being done inside a computer instead of a neuron. Repeat, neuron by neuron, until the entire brain is composed of robot neurons whose guts are inside the computer.

[1]: https://everything2.com/title/Moravec+Transfer
As a quantum physicist who has drifted into other fields, I keep returning to bra-ket [0] notation when I have to do any linear algebra calculations. Find it to be the most ergonomic notation for linear algebra, especially in product spaces.

In my experience, the key to avoiding snickers from math-types when using bra-kets is to say "dual space" [1] a couple of times.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_space
1) Privacy in Public is impossible

This is a tautology not inherently, but because of how you're defining it. Privacy is not so simple as whether you can be surveilled in public or not. Technology opens the door to many complex ethical and legal nuances.

You offer a caricature of the future to start off this point, & then point out your own absurdity as a victory. Your examples of China are apt only to oppose your point. The technology in China is the best example we have of how surveillance tech enables specific uses and specific abuses. It is not the presence of the tech, but rather the state's monopoly over control over how the technology is used and abused, where the problem firmly lies.

2) Privacy in Public is economic sabotage

Your use of extreme theories and insulting language in this point doesn't deserve a response.

3) Privacy in private is overrated

Fortunately wiser and more experienced people than you wrote the US Constitution. They had found the elimination of privacy did not eliminate crime, but rather created more of it, concentrated in the hands of power. The elimination of privacy doesn't work how it ideally would in your fantasy.

3) Privacy is going to be lost.

The war is waging right now, and in the USA we're going to win. Laws, good people, and oversight do stop government abuses. Having multiple layers of competing governments does wonders for breaking monopolies of control, like what our friends in China have.
what if Uber becomes an international holding company for ride sharing businesses?

Is that a better or worse future?
May be or may not be. The unpredictability makes everyone curious to understand . I believe there must be a beginning but i'm not to sure about the end.
Or the billions using iOS.
Technology can increase our lifespans and it can also reduce the risk of whatever we’re most worried about. People already use technology to drastically reduce the risk of activities that are desirable for various reasons. Obvious examples include prophylactics for sexual activity and seat belts for automobiles.
This article is a garbage rewrite of the original blog[1]. It misses a boatload of detail and even gets some details wrong along the way (Like the fact .NET isn’t actually running on DOS)

[1] https://medium.com/@MStrehovsky/building-a-self-contained-ga...
Looking back, it seems to me that the maintainer was/is in dire need of a vacation. It's easy to become dismissive when you're stressed and burnt out. There even is an issue filed in August where he recognized that he needs help with the project.

The mistake seems to have been that no effective countermeasures were taken before things boiled over, but at least now the whole mess has ended on a positive note.
Discussion on cpp subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/erialk/the_hunt_for_th...
https://librivox.org/anna-karenina-by-leo-tolstoy-2/

Anna Karenina, as read by MaryAnn, English

https://librivox.org/anna-karenina-deutsch-by-leo-tolstoy/

As read by Eva K., German
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Uber lost some markets and won in others (e.g. LatAM, Australia). Also, it's not like Uber spent the money and got nothing for it - it's stake in DiDi is worth more than the amount of money Uber spent in China.
When I'm travelling overseas, I'll often use the hotel bill as a way to cash out my remaining local currency. I still get a receipt, just two lines under paid/reconciliation, one for cash and one for anything remaining on a card.

Your hotel bill is often the last large bill before you leave the country.

Same goes for splitting off the incidentals. It's not anything nefarious, I just would rather not have my food/drink on my corporate card. For one, it makes for cleaner accounting back at the office, which is always nice when doing lots of expense reports.
Robot Tanks Are Real
How China Is Buying Its Way into Europe (2018)
Also, here's how Uber Eats' India page on the web looks like: https://i.imgur.com/rkDQ7qN.jpg
I hear this all the time but see no proof.

Why are jails better and if so why did they lose to containers?

Why is OSS better when alsa could probably interface with one of those talking fish on the wall if you ask it nicely.

Why is ZFS any better than the Linux implementation if freeBSD is backporting the Linux version now.

Why is ifconfig better than network manager when there are no drivers for half the chipsets anyway.

Linux is practical, and I think hate for it comes from BSD users frustrated that they dont want to learn how another kernel works but I share none of the problems BSD users often claim. Your hangup is on a distro or a filesystem but never the actual Linux kernel which it seems to me nobody bothers to learn before trashing anyway.
Could you explain this in more detail? It seems that the network stack, VFS, etc. from BSD are still heavily used?

https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/tree/master/bsd

Also, more recently they imported pf from OpenBSD:

https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/master/bsd/net/pf.c

Or do you mean that they have recently taken more code from other BSDs than FreeBSD?
Is your rental property a house or a condo?

I'm asserting that buying a detached house that falls under an HOA is something that should generally be avoided. With a house, there are rarely shared resources that actually need to be managed so any potential benefit is minimal at best, and bad HOAs can be a nightmare, so the risk is high.

I'm also lamenting the fact that developers building new neighborhoods of detached houses (e.g. in places like Austin) are apparently putting almost all of them under HOAs, perhaps because of some legal meme that doing so somehow reduces risk for the developer, or increases sale prices. I think this is an unfortunate trend.
71 is not so young... it's about 10 years below average for men.
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I'm assuming you are talking about HN.

I'd be very happy if this was also the case for other networks. Feels like a competent moderation team (not necessarily paid; forums in the good old days had people competing to be voluntary moderators) would make mainstream social media a lot more enjoyable.
BeOnRope article linked in the post is the better article in this case: https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/20/zero.html
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Porting FreeBSD to GPL can promote its user base;
> When does it end?

I already answered that:

>> This particular madness will continue until all major powers come to some measure of political unity. A helpful first step would be for all of them to have elected officials.

Alternatively, the US and other democracies could be destroyed and their populations either exterminated or forcefully assimilated into some kind of authoritarian world superstate.
The problem is, especially with Office, that it has no alternatives.Google Suite is a toy and any open source solution feels like someone chopped your hands off and sent you back to 90's..
Ask HN: How has your career changed after switching to a FAANG company?
In my opinion the most interesting part - that does not even get addressed in the article - is this:

std::fill(p, p + n, 0) : 1.71732 GB/s
std::fill(p, p + n, '\0') : 30.3459 GB/s
memset(p,0,n) : 30.419 GB/s

Ok, memset ist fast, alright. But why the difference between simply setting 0 vs null char/byte? Is this because 0 is actually larger than a single byte?
Understanding the “Initial”, “Inherit” and “Unset” CSS Keywords
2 days ago, he merged a pull request that adds DOS support: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/SeeSharpSnake/pull/5

Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/MStrehovsky/status/1218966180104458240
Early versions of OS X had user lands which were more BSD-like than they are now

They still have a lot of userland BSD parts. Including the very broken grep from FreeBSD (which is fixed in FreeBSD now IIRC):

$ echo "abcdef" | /usr/bin/grep -o "^..."
abc
def

(I have to use the full path to grep, because I replace macOS grep by GNU grep.)
Google is absolutely doing the right thing. Anything that can be done to enhance the efficacy of EMR software will help lead to better patient outcomes. As far as I can tell, Google is approaching the problem foremost from the perspective of "how can we make people healthier by making software more effective." Epic and Cerner are simply not doing that. Somewhere in the comments here someone mentioned that most EMR software is a billing system with record keeping attached. Although implementations vary between hospitals, the software is always purchased by administrators, typically with little input from doctors.

In most implementations, neither Cerner not Epic encourage structured data recording except for billing codes. This means that if a patient comes through the medical system frequently, doctors have to read pages and pages of unstructured text to get a sense of what's going on for the patient. The software is designed to be sold to administrators and, as currently designed is unquestionably leading to worse outcomes for patients.

Google has made a lot of mistakes. If they build something doctors truly want to use and that helps properly organize information, however, and if Google doesn't misuse the data/people aren't unreasonably paranoid about data misuse, it will be a godsend for the industry and it will save lives.

We haven't even begun to talk about the potential for machine learning and statistics to understand what treatments are most effective if data are structured properly. This is unquestionably an interesting and unique case where collecting massive amounts of data and handing in to a trusted, competent, creative, research-oriented authority could have incredible benefit for mankind. I don't trust Cerner or Epic with this mission for a second.