skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this lend credence to the idea that blood transfusions from young people could make one healthier or extend one's life?
The funny thing is they advertised this as a feature when it was launched because it was supposed to be more aesthetically pleasing and not collect dust etc. I guess there's a reason Apple still uses rubber after all...
Reminds me a lot of the Parallax Propeller: many simple cores optimized for bit-banging I/O and programmable logic. Of course this is much lower power and has many more cores.

I think that many core architectures can actually be simpler to program in an embedded context than the traditional single core systems. It's akin to a hardware implementation of the actor model rather than an interrupt state machine or interrupt event loop. Being able to dedicate cores to single I/O tasks means you can bitbang almost anything. Here's HDMI running in a few lines of code on a Propeller 2 with no external components but the HDMI connector: https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1475075/#Comm...
Stated more charitably, it is targeted towards potential investors that see the potential in something that could improve the lives of millions and eventually billions of people.
1) It's only rat tissues and human tissues; any research published in only tissues only or in ratsonly , and not a large RCT in actual humans, needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt.

2) The research in the blog post is not fully summarized. You know it's a weak blog post when they post results WITHOUT SAMPLE SIZE. This is a GLARING omission and highly unscientific. The actual paper shows n=593 rat tissues and n=850 human tissues, which is fine but the blog post should report on these details.

3) It's not that new to suggest that younger individuals' blood plasma might have a rejuvenating effect.

4) They look at certain tissue types, which wouldn't result in changes to all tissue types, like skin, hair, brain, etc.

5) This is very early stages, again, we need actual trials in humans, and then those trials probably need to be followed up for years and years, since aging is a long-run phenomenon. This is more like a cohort study where we enroll a huge number into a cohort of aging-treatments and controls who have some other placebo-treatment.
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The implementation of such strategies in all of your business processes, as well as keeping an eye on new trends in the field of outsourcing can become a reliable support and incentive for your company to develop over the next few years.
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> I do think the lockdowns as implemented are likely to do more harm than good, especially as time goes on.

I completely disagree. Places are very likely to be shutdown regardless, whether due to government authority or the virus rampaging the workforce. One of those is more permanent than the other.

We could send people back to work, but doing so safely requires effective testing & equipment. The USA bungled their response to the crisis, and so it has neither of those things. Which means reopening the economy at this point is probably going to sacrifice a lot more lives.

The entire point of the lockdown was to buy enough time to put into place the stuff we need to safely reopen. And clearly that didn't happen.
Branson to sell Galactic stake to prop up Virgin
If you work at a job where you don't feel the agency of your decision making and output, if you're working for "the man", it can be relatively demotivating.

If you're working for yourself, and you know why you're doing something, and how you'll benefit from your labor, you'll have a more direct link to your motivation.

If you're working for an institution and you don't feel that agency, you might need a meta-objective. This is where people look to climb the ladder, or learn a skill that allows them to bounce to another institution for more pay and responsibility, etc. If you can't see any of those paths, it can be very difficult to feel the motivation, unless you're intrinsically motivated and all the work you have in front of you feeds your needs.
While your advice still applies, it seems you might've misread the thread: the asker already has Mondays nailed down, they're asking how to expand that elsewhere.
Has anyone used the greenarray technology for any real world applications? It seems to fit somewhere between an FPGA and a microcontroller, but it doesn't seem that obvious to me what the benefits are, maybe less power than a microcontroller but I can't find any clear cut evidence that is the case for a real world application.
I have done lot of work on cocktails (major brand) and they key is the structured mark-up we are trying some tests on longer form listings ie >200 words.

I think that food is much more dispersed apart from super stars like Nigella, Jamie and the BBC so its harder for the average food blogger.

Also don't discount the target audience for these pages might not be the average developer / nh reader.
Also don't discount the
Thanks for the suggestion. Do you use it just for work stuff or even personal ? Sorry, I have about kanban but not very familiar.
Now that is the answer I was hoping for. Thanks!
It's a pretty mentally unhealthy way to live, mostly.
I think you just need to realize that an index on <companyId, userId> is a single index
Absolutely. That's why folks say fruit juice is not great, because you get the sugar with little of the beneficial stuff.
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I had a quick look at Edinburgh - which has 7000+ Airbnb properties and I the number of properties for sale doesn't look unusually high and there are still a few ~£1million pound two/three bedroom flats which seems a bit optimistic even the best of times!

I don't think there will be any real pressure for 3 to 6 months until the economy actually restarts properly and property transactions actually start happening again.
As someone looking for such a home, I definitely haven’t seen the market soften nearly close to what the doomsayers are predicting. Speaking with some owners, I think many of them are instead turning it into a long term rental for a year or more.
I'm missing the "good news" part...?
The problem is there really isn't a sensible middle ground option.

It's like only spraying enough water on a fire to keep it from spreading out of control but not enough to put it out. When you're house is on fire there really is only two sensible options. Let it burn down your house or put it out.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to get the R down to ~1. This is a partial lockdown that last until the vaccine comes out and kills 1600 people a day.

It seems better to lock down and test and trace harder until r gets to .5 then wait for it to mostly extinguish then cautiously open up. Or let it rip through the populous until we have herd immunity.
This is what scares me the most--more so than the virus itself. Stupid Americans believing stupid conspiracy theories and rushing to war just to get an idiot re-elected.
I probably should have specific average american worker. Retirees aren't important in this context.
The problem being solved here is resource tuning. Which is a problem you will eventually encounter as your data org grows big. Specifically in our case the authors of our spark jobs understand the data modelling well but might not know how to tweak the spark parameters to optimize execution. As mentioned in the post, even if you do know what you're doing the process is long and time consuming. so i definitely see the value add here.

if you need ephemeral spark clusters dataproc in GCP will give that to you, theres probably a similar service in AWS and Azure.
"This state of affairs is a consequence of the usual culprit: advertising. Society/the media needs to develop a new business model, and fast."

Isn't this also the "business model" of Google, Facebook and hundreds of thousands of other "tech companies" and websites that aspire to generate revenue by catering to advertisers.
Oculus Quest and the VirtualDesktop application to play PC games via Wifi streaming (need a VR ready pc and a good ac router for that part).
I read that as four per rejuvenation with no word about how often a rejuvenation would be needed.
> human body doesn't control for oxygen levels, monitoring instead levels of CO2. So it leads to hypoxia which goes undetected for a some time.

I don't think that's quite correct. Hypercapnia (excess CO2) triggers a reflex to inhale, that's what you feel when you hold your breath for a long time. That reflex doesn't trigger when you're inhaling CO, for instance.

But the body does have sensors to detect oxygen levels in the carotid body (and maybe the aortic body?). These do impact breathing as well, but they do so via the parasympathetic nervous system so you're not as aware of it. IIRC the way this works is poorly understood, and its dysfunction been thought to play a role in sleep apnea.
Our Plan to Rebuild: The UK Government’s Covid-19 recovery strategy [pdf]
The Eternal Jukebox
Leadership has a price
See the Netflix series Altered Carbon to see how society could evolve when that happens.
Ultimately what is in the way of it being implemented now or in the near future? Is there anything?

I don't see why it couldn't just live beside the current Element API.
Was told by my wife years ago that there is a Hong Kong tycoon who has been doing this for years. Supposedly hires young people to do nothing but to stay healthy and then has transfusions of their blood.
Just checked and he is still alive at 91. But this echoes vampire.

This reminds me of plasma treatment for covid-19 which is actually proven. Perhaps someone will create a market for that.
This is really interesting, thank you for posting. :)
This ends up taking less than a minute or two.

For you to open 5 websites, dismiss the cookie permission request on each one, dismiss the notifications request, scroll down to find the ingredients list, dismiss the scrolling activated newsletter signup, read the ingredients list, and click the 'next page' button to see the instructions to work out what you can tweak, all in an average of 24s per site is very impressive.
The implication of the article is that the treatment may not be extremely costly. Idk why you immediately start talking about billionaires. The divide would likely be between the poor and the middle class.
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Emerging technologies that help fight Covid-19
It produces structured data (the `MarkupM` datatype from `blaze` to be precise [1]).

To check this, note that Hamlet produces `Html` [2], which (when following the link) is defined to be `Markup` [3], which is in turn `MarkupM` [4].

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/blaze-markup-0.8.2.3/doc...

[2]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shakespeare-2.0.24/docs/...

[3]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shakespeare-2.0.24/docs/...

[4]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/blaze-markup-0.8.2.3/doc...
All technologies become more accessible, optimized, and inexpensive over time. A world in which anyone can live forever very rapidly becomes a world in which everyone can.
>For recreation, therapy, socialization, experimentation, mysticism, or just because it's my own damn body.

Reasoning that equally applies to guns.

>That would be fine if gun violence wasn't a thing.

Drug violence is also a thing.

So in conclusion, it appears there is a double standard being applied here. I suggest getting to the root of that, as otherwise all arguments can easily be dismissed as coming from someone who is applying a double standard (which is a version of special pleasing, a logical fallacy, and thus invalidates any logical basis for their views).
Also I like to add, I've build number of applications using an API only to regret the time I spent on it later. When you rely on external API, its really not your product and you don't own it, API owns you and every move you make. Instead, I would rather rely on a strong community for support such as YouTube-DL, even though there are issues and its not perfect, still much better than API route, just my two cents.
> The inefficient pricing and the slowly updating pricing allows for the HIGHEST amount of leverage to work for people.

> In any other market, unsophisticated investors would have been margin called overnight. Instead they get to sit for years on slowly moving prices, and use those years to continue boosting their collateral as if nothing happened.

This is a really interesting point. I've never thought of it this way.
People publish recipes without mark-up well that's a waste of time
Also in terms of TDP and lack of a dedicated graphics card. And then with the Surface Book, not only is it more awkward as a laptop but because all but the GPU is in the screen the hardware has the same constraints as a tablet. Even with the excessive thinness of the 16" MacBook Pro, it can run circles around any of the Surface devices in terms of performance.
If the headline was "universal cure for cancer found!", would you also say "I'm missing the good news"?
Yes it was quite a reaction. Regardless, it all worked out, long since behind him.
You can do a zero sugar, zero carb fast for three days. Once the gut bacteria starve and die the cravings disappear. The first two days are a bit tough.
There's still no evidence that wearing masks reduces infection risk to the wearer. There is evidence that wearing masks reduces infection risk to those around the infectious wearer of the mask. It is, incidentally, the exact reasons surgeons wear masks -- not to protect themselves from a patient but to protect a patient from themselves.
In places like SF you might see more sales because people are afraid to rent these homes. They may never get any rent and it would be very hard to evict a tenant because of local laws and policy.
I've experienced the same feelings. I can remember feeling sad and frustrated when I first started to realise there wasn't enough time for me to learn all the things I wanted to learn. How was I supposed to choose? Every little choice seemed like it would have a monumental effect on the outcome of my life. Doors were closing around me with each passing moment.

I don't remember exactly when or how my mindset changed, but I know I eventually just started to accept it. When I die, there is no scoreboard. I don't take my skills with me. All my knowledge evaporates. I will likely not even be conscious enough to make a mental tally of my achievements.

There's something to be said for relinquishing a bit of control, learning to enjoy the process and seeing where it takes you from one moment to the next.
Age reduction.

Enammel reconstruction.

Batteries.

The three pillars of perpetual breakthroughs.
About a year ago, I saw a Hacker News comment by someone claiming to sleep on average 0-2 hours a day. There were 20 replies to that comment but (he) never responded to any questions, and continued posting replies to other threads in the coming days.

I pulled all of (his) comments and their post times via the Hacker News API and plotted it, which revealed an interesting lack of posts from midnight-6AM EST across ~150 comments. I'm calling BS on the 0-2 hours of sleep :)
Apple has curiously "periods" -- there are times in which they build reliable stuff and then there are times in which they just don't. E.g. 10 year old MacBooks which still work despite the fact that they are heavily dented, while the new keyboard breaks just by staring at it wrongly.
I know of a few shops that took VC money. The big problem isn't the market size so much as how slow the market moves. The product lifetime of a plugin is around a decade. And users hate subscriptions. And it's really hard to determine the value you add to your customers. And no one wants to pay you.

It's basically a terrible place to be a developer in it for the money. Really fun work otherwise. The cool gigs are the ones where you build custom plugins for someone's crazy idea.

In consumer applications, plugins are used all the time for prototyping before you go to hardware. MATLAB is way too slow for anything useful.
5. You can’t build a story / brand around it

Many articles focus on the idea of building your community etc, but few actually focus on how to do it amidst all the noise
This includes new advice about face coverings:

> If you can, wear a face covering in an enclosed space where social distancing isn’t possible and where you will come into contact with people you do not normally meet. This is most relevant for short periods indoors in crowded areas, for example on public transport or in some shops. The evidence suggests that wearing a face covering does not protect you, but it may protect others if you are infected but have not developed symptoms. If you have symptoms of COVID-19 (cough and/or high temperature) you and your household should isolate at home: wearing a face covering does not change this. A face covering is not the same as the surgical masks or respirators used as part of personal protective equipment by healthcare and other workers; these supplies should continue to be reserved for those who need them to protect against risks in their workplace, such as health and care workers and those in industrial settings like those exposed to dust hazards. Face coverings should not be used by children under the age of 2 or those who may find it difficult to manage them correctly, for example primary school age children unassisted, or those with respiratory conditions.It is important to use face coverings properly and wash your hands before putting them on and taking them off. You can make face coverings at home; the key thing is it should cover your mouth and nose. You can find guidance on how to do this on GOV.UK.

(Frustratingly the link to "guidance on how to do this" just links to the main gov.uk website, it doesn't link to any guidance on how to make or wear face coverings.)

They also don't link to any evidence they've used to come to this conclusion.
Economically, and historically, the more wealthy tend to try out the expensive, new technologies, then as market forces play out, such technologies become cheaper, to where most average workers can afford them (see genome sequencing costs decline over the past 15 years.)

We need wealthy people to try out the expensive new advances. Just because someone is wealthy doesn’t necessarily mean they’re apart of the “evil billionaire” archetype, which it seems to be what you’re alluding to. Obviously cases exist where this is true, but let’s not paint with such a wide brush.
The Nobel Disease: When intelligence fails to protect against irrationality
This is not true. On my Windows laptop with 4GB, there's 2GB free when running Chrome/Edge with a few tabs, and almost 1GB free when I open Teams in addition to the browser.
Thanks for the wishes! Indeed it's rarely worth it to build an automated tuning tool:
- Unless you operate at a massive scale (eg Dr Elephant + TuneIn projects, originally developed at LinkedIn)
- Or you operate a big data platform yourself.

If you're curious about our ML approach, we gave a tech talk about it at last year's Spark Summit: https://databricks.com/session_eu19/how-to-automate-performa...
The idea looks exciting, but the details are less so.

In particular, I have a hard time believing the CPU (4x1.5GHZ A53) and memory (4GB RAM, non-upgradeable) will be sufficient for a lot of the more interesting uses.
Ask HN: What do you struggle the most with when deploying personal projects?
Hi HN! I currently learning a lot about K8s and docker and I was curious about what are the main pain-points people experience when deploying personal projects.

I'm looking to start a new project that tries to address this problem and would like to know what people would find most useful.

Thanks!
The World is seemingly already approaching the upper limit on the number of humans it can support.
> It's something easy to manufacture outrage against

Perhaps for a good reason
There is (virtually?) no vitamin D in cheese. Milk is fortified with vitamin D in some places, maybe that's what you're referring to?
Now wait until the public discovers that there really is a relationship between smoking and low BMI. I really have to wonder whether, all-in-all, the campaign to disparage smoking may have been a net negative with the respect to public health
I feel like the whole 32x mess was an important part of this mistake.

"Hey let's release a weird upgrade pod for our successful last-gen console almost completely simultaneously with our next-gen console, I am sure developers will be happy to split their efforts across two machines! Especially if both of them have really weird architecture that's hard to program on."
Why not use enums and or bit wise operation to represent filters? Templates, categories and custom operators seem a bit too much to do simple bit logic.
I've never understood this complaint. I've had multiple Surface Pros and have never had problems with it in my lap, even on long train rides abroad.
WTF? That is really your takeaway from an article that suggests the fountain of youth is in reach? "Vaccines! Do you really want a world where billionaires do not get small pox???"
Thanks, I remembered GUE and was wondering if it is related.
No matter your feelings about billionaires, we can all hopefully agree that it's better than dying in a world where no one "lives forever", which is what we've had until now.
Hi HN, this is my first blog post (ever). I'm working on improving my writing so I've decided to write every now and then.

Feedback on the style, as well as the content, is very welcome!