skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You ask a valid question.

Not wanting to die is fine, I think more importantly, not wanting to age and gradually become a burden towards end of life is also natural. Not wanting to be lost and missed (nevertheless hoping that you've done well enough to be missed). The idea of being bedridden and helpless is more scary to me than death.

But not wanting to die __ever__ can be driven by narcissism. If no one dies or gets old then we never make way for the next generation. If the cure is widespread you get overpopulation, if it is limited you get a class divide, never aging fantastically rich immortals and a semi-permanent underclass. Neither seems fantastic. What are the rules? Do you give something up to be in your 20s forever?

Generational change seems like a strong force for good in a lot of ways, to me at least. It can be harder to rewire a neural network than it is to start fresh.

Note that any non-magical intervention will likely be 'increasing longevity' not granting immortality. And even if that were the case, there's always the heat death of the universe. There's no escape from reality closing, you'd probably have a difficult time sustaining biological life-forms long before the universe is dark and cold. I doubt it would be pleasant. What is the storage limit for a brain anyway?

Personally I find some cold comfort that everything I do is meaningless and will be forgotten. I will once rest and be gone. So will everything.
I find the trackpad actively bad. Though this is, apparently, due to the proprietary trackpad firmware not behaving correctly. There is some effort to reverse engineer it, mostly by this guy (as far as I know)
https://github.com/akirakyle/pinebook-pro-keyboard-updater/t...

(and there's also a bounty apparently! https://www.bountysource.com/issues/88375235-reverse-enginee...)

I'm surprised you don't like the keyboard though, I found it to be shockingly good. I often write on it instead of some of my other keyboards. I'll add the disclaimer though: I like apple scissor switch keyboards, and dislike mechanical keyboards. So that colors my opinion.

This is very much a laptop that has not allowed perfect to be the enemy of good, and I'm glad it exists. And I'm glad I got one!
great point. i don't generally buy the argument that coding is drastically different from writing, insofar as it's laying out symbols in a way that can be understood (and followed) by another actor. that's a technical skill that's fairly transferable between the two.

but it is drastically different in how it's interpreted by that other actor: computers are (designed to be) fairly rigid in interpretation (the frontier of that not being so is fascinating but in its infancy), so that there's little-to-no variance in the output. people are completely flexible in comparison. inputs can generate a wide range of outputs, and there's little control over that range within the writing itself. that seems to frustrate many coders.

even the purpose can vary. coding is generally imperative in nature: do what i tell you to do. writing is generally persuasive (here's what i think, why i think it, and why you should think it too), since it's hard to force the imperative.

writing is necessarily harder than coding, because the target has so much greater complexity.
Peculiar is an understatement. The development tools were also a nightmare
It is not like ssh at all. It is a problem that secrets are kept in the flash and it is also a problem that those secrets are sent over the untrusted channel.
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It's "universal cure for aging", which, since aging causes death, is even better than "universal cure for cancer"...

... at least, that's what it says. Whether it works at all, and whether it works indefinitely, are still TBD. But again, the same would be true of a claimed universal cure for cancer.
Could this be used to hypothesize about the existence or characteristics of new elements?
dammit, it's still pre launch, plz don't hug it to death too much! oh well, here we go!

the link above disables Google Analytics on that page, which would otherwise add an extra 50ms of js time (and would account for the majority of the js on the page).

(it uses domvm w/SSR, not Mithril)
Does anyone have any stories of how they used Prolog in production to solve an interesting business problem ?
I would buy a cooking book with recipes explained like this one. With real world tricks and explaining "why" you do it in that way. A raw list of ingredients is, in my opinion, almost useless.
have you gotten many positive replies? curious about the response rate...
that name rings a bell now that I see it. thanks!

edit: Found it on the wikipedia page you linked. I was thinking about Enoch, Methuselah's father, who lived to be 365 years old according to the bible.
Absolutely agreed. Reich is featured quite a bit in mixes on musicforprogramming.net[1], which is a frequent go-to of mine. Definitely recommend it!

[1] http://musicforprogramming.net/
Interestingly, Methuselah died the same year that the Flood happened, so you might assume he would have lived longer had his grandson not been instructed to build a party boat that he wasn't invited to...
Cool site! Heads up, username appears to be case sensitive.
Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple
I agree that participating is always better than not, but I think you're making an inappropriate comparison. The question I was trying to talk about is the connection of the market to the wealth of most americans. I'm saying that it's fully possible for everyone to "participate" in the market without significantly benefiting from it (though, as you say, it's better than nothing). If the market were to double in value, mostly wealthy people would get wealthier and, I think, few middle and working class people would have their lives changed significantly.

The reason I don't think the voting metaphor holds up is that everyone who's elected does so by "getting" the most votes. Obviously there are forces at work here (turnout, voter suppression, get out the vote efforts, etc), but there's no official alternative way to be elected. The voting comparison would make sense if the stock market was the only possible way to gain money - in which case I would agree! But it's not. There are lots of other ways we can ensure people gain wealth.
That isn't entirely accurate. The ability to clone a given device state gives access to any system which has authorized that cloned device. A borrowed thunderbolt device which is not the target machine may also be used to bypass security levels as a result. No need to open the laptop in that case. See section 3.1.1 and 3.1.3 in the report.
Remote work, as a percent of office workers, has been growing for years.

I live in a small mountain town where the majority of people bring their jobs with them when they moved here.

After working from home (and on workations) for seven years, I finally joined a coworking space. Coworking truly is the best of both worlds. And the ski resort if only a few minutes away.

Now, with the shutdowns, I have to work out of my beautiful affordable house. Dang.

If you have a job that can be remote, you should.
Cities and offices suck!
I think this depends on a lot of factors.

First off, I work for a large tech company, and I experience the excited-to-do-work-on-Monday effect you mention sometimes. Prior to working at this large tech company, I had worked for several startups, and came into work on Monday prepared for tedium sometimes. I don't think it's as easy as startup-vs-big-corp.

Second, it depends a lot on what excites you. One way I've heard it expressed is "Starters" vs. "Finishers." Some people love turning an idea into reality, but lack the patience to polish the experience. Some people prefer the polish work to starting with a blank slate. It helps to know if you are one or the other (or neither). In start-ups, you spend a lot more time in zero-to-reality rather than reality-to-polish mode. In big companies, it depends on what team/project you're on.

Sometimes, excitement levels increase by spending some time away from a task. If, for example, you schedule all your meetings on Wednesday, it will mean you've been away from any project work for 24 hours by the time you look at it on Thursday, potentially with a fresh set of eyes.

There's probably a lot of other factors at play in what makes someone excited for work. I think it involves knowing yourself (or having someone you work with who knows you well and willing to advise) in order to come up wtih a plan.
There's no evidence for this to be the case. If we are going to go into "It is common sense to do X" then why stop at "it is a common sense, wear a mask" and not include "It is common sense, if you have co-morbidity then it is you job to self-isolate and let the others to continue to function"
The Teensy line just keeps getting better and better with each release.
>I don't have any real evidence of this but my intuition is that Sony allowed their American arm more latitude and gave them more credibility with regard to designing the market strategy.

In reality, the exact opposite happened. Ken Kutaragi (creator of the PlayStation) and Norio Ohga (then-president of Sony) were outraged that the Sony executives in America were not following their instructions, and they fired the vast majority of them. This is discussed at length in the book Revolutions at Sony by Reiji Asakura. The American side wanted to make all kinds of changes - they hated the name PlayStation, they hated the grey color (they wanted it to be black), and they hated that Kutaragi would not let them include a pack-in title for free with each console. The Japanese side quickly responded, fired most of them, and took direct control.
I used to have an elaborate system, but I converged on a simple solution: I stash everything in a single Google Docs document.

I made the conscious decision to optimize for ease of use, so that the friction/effort to write something down is minimized.

At the same time, I also made a decision to not to adopt any organization system -- anything that increases the friction of use is eschewed. Search was all I needed. I've been using this system for the past 5 years or so, and it's been very productive.

To extract ideas from it, I routinely re-read stuff (it's in log format, so it's very easy to read) and use the Fieldstone approach (Weinberg) to coalesce similar and interesting thoughts and rewrite into larger thoughts. I've gotten a lot of actionable ideas this way (that I actually go on to execute on).

So it's a system optimized for postprocessing rather than pre-processing. I find that pre-processing systems are unsustainable over the long term unless you're exceptionally disciplined. I try to build systems that don't rely on sustained human discipline.
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I'm not trying to convince you. I'm just saying that the data you quoted does not contradict the model I linked to. New cases in Iowa are essentially flat for a while now, which is consistent with Rt close to 1. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/iowa
Not to argue with your point because it is certainly valid, but the N64 had that expansion module for DK 64 and a few other games, yet managed to survive that.
Not that it is physically secure, but if your disk is encrypted using a key in the TPM chip you can’t just put it in another computer, it won’t boot.

If you have that kind of access it doesn’t really matter though because you can copy the drive, then add a device that monitors the keyboard so you get the key when the user enters it and then you can just clear or disable the TPM chip.
I have been using JS since the mid 90s, but I don't recall needing arrays or objects back then. Frankly we weren't trying to build applications and any real programming work was done on the back end (remember that xmlHttpRequest wouldn't exist for years to come, so any changes to the page were made by going to a new page which would require a round trip to the server, so the server could do anything it needed to do to the page before returning it). The only things I can recall using JS for back in the early days was displaying the date and time at the bottom of the page (why we felt like that was useful is beyond me).
Yes, XHP, also by Facebook
At that point you are getting into some of the same reward dynamics that you see with honesty in intra-species signaling. Particularly that an organism in a population may wish to signal honestly even if it knows it is unfit so that the overall population health can improve. From what I recall, many evolutionary biologists disliked the hypothesis, instead preferring the costly signaling theory as an explanation of why signals remain honest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory
Just out of curiosity, what could be a use case for this thingy?
Nice discussion on Reddit.

So I loaded up this Next hello world: https://hello-world-app-eight.now.sh/

I can see it downloaded 65kB of compressed JavaScript which is _a lot_.

I worked on a small Mithril SPA and the compressed JS bundle (which includes the CSS) is 41kB. Granted it's not a complex app, but it's certainly not a hello world.

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From the latest test:

"We found five safety issues in version 1.1.1—some known to Dgraph already—including reads observing transient null values, logical state corruption, and the loss of large windows of acknowledged inserts."

Loss of large windows of acknowledged inserts. Durability is hard.
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Dual-intent does not mean what you think it does. It means the visa beneficiary can be admitted on a non-immigrant visa even while having an immigration intent. If this has not been a non-immigrant visa then there would not be the need to designate it as a dual-intent ( there are no dual-intent immigrant visas) so, ironically, people who spam "dual-intent" as a refutal to the statement that it's a non-immigrant visa, in fact, just reaffirm the non-immigrant category of this visa.
I've been waiting for aliases to come out canary!
The parent comment started the distraction it was complaining about. This is common enough on the internet that there's a name for it: concern trolling. Of course I don't mean that the GP was trolling in the classical sense of trying to ruin the thread, but we have to judge these things by effects (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), not intent, and the effects were clear.

If you care about threads not becoming distracted, the primary thing to cultivate is restraint. There's also downvoting and flagging. And anyone who notices a major distraction in a thread is very welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. That doesn't have to be a political flamewar—it could be just a generic tangent sitting as the top subthread.
I would be very careful about trusting research on supercentenarians. There is a substantial amount of evidence (https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/08/06/are-superc...) that a significant number of "supercentenarians" are simply pension/tax frauds taking up the names of dead people to keep collecting pensions.
Temporary Lodging Allowance?
Probably confounded by the social dynamics of human groups. There also isn't any evidence that it would extend reproductive lifespan either.
> restarts with a relaxed fsync policy

I can't think of a single database that's solved the fsync/O_DIRECT issue on Linux completely. Postgres had to patch it _again_ last year.
This one?
To be fair, this photo is back from when she was a youthful 102.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-107-this-artist-just...

But yeah, wow.

I once met a 102 year old man who lived alone in a big patch of private forest in BC that he bought in the '20s. He was still driving a car and doing jumping jacks.
Many people are quite talented and intelligent. Yes, even as intelligent as any of the billionaire household names. There are people that could, in theory, do what those billionaires did to achieve their success.

But ultimately, some people will become billionaires and others of equal qualification and skill will not. This is because of luck and circumstance.

Not "anyone" can do what the billionaires did, but some people, somewhere, certainly could if not for poor circumstances or sheer bad luck.
We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology
Their arcade boards used quadrangles too, not that that really answers the question
Awesome! This is how we use Next.js at Vercel.

For those interested, I recently put together these slides https://jamstack-toronto.now.sh/ for Jamstack Toronto that goes more in-depth into this.

tl;DR: static pages for landing pages, static site generation for content like our blog, static dashboard with SWR against our REST API.

Video should be out soon!
Amateur spy tools, DIY IoT devices, etc :)
> I'd love to experiment with hiring someone whose primary accountability is answering everyone else's questions, not generating output

It's an interesting idea, but I think the problem is that someone who can do this role (the intersection of technical competence and desire) is going to be exceedingly difficult to find or may not exist at all.

Someone that's going to be capable of providing useful answers to developer questions is likely to be a developer themselves, and almost certainly they're not going to stick around in that position for long. Part of being an effective "librarian" in this way is going to be knowing where to go to get a specific answer -- the existence of specific documentation, which group/team/person is responsible for which component, the levels of expertise of people on teams so you can immediately contact the lowest level person capable of answering, and eventually just knowing answers yourself. All of that comes with time, and if you have high turnover this isn't going to happen.

Also, someone that does the role poorly is going to be worse than nothing: unnecessarily bothering others for (maybe the wrong) information, providing incorrect answers, and/or making incomprehensible documentation. My guess is it's probably hard to judge someone's performance at this until they've been doing it for at least a couple weeks. If you also have high turnover, you will end up with people not suited for this role.
Most Japanese companies are not run like American companies. There is a deep culture of compromise and consensus over top-down leadership. One of the results of this is the need for every stakeholder in the company to have a hand in every decision, and to get a piece of every new product.

For the Saturn, this resulted in the console packed with little goodies that were created by different departments. Things like off to the side audio chips that did barely anything. Dual CPUs. Strange 3D tech that used quads instead of triangles.

A few years later, we did work with Sony, and they seemed for some reason to work more like an American company, in the sense that they say they need more able to make rational decisions and move quickly when they needed to.

No one who has worked for a Japanese company would ever use the word agile to describe them. Sony may be the exception, at least at that time.
>They reported 500 dead today, and 600 yesterday.

Brazil normally has 3800 deaths per day [0] so, as Bolsonaro says, so what. Some of the sick and elderly dying a few months earlier does not warrant removing the livelihoods of everyone else.

>Let's see where they are in a week or two (it'll be with 3x these death numbers and likely entering a lockdown de facto due to popular support for it).

Popular support is a function of media manipulation. And we know what types gravitate to that kind of work.

[0]:https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/brazil-populatio...
How would someone build a physical filter that only works in one direction? I'm having some trouble finding good sources on air filter design, I did see some mentions of differing porosity on different sides looking at HVAC filters but unfortunately no details on the mechanisms/principles behind it. Most of the information I have seen regarding lack of mask effectiveness comes from mask type, improper use, and conservation of supply for those most in need, not the actual mask itself, implying that masks are in fact effective if they are used properly, with effectiveness depending on mask design - your comment appears to be referring to use in general.

I would think however that placing any physical barrier in the path of an airflow is going to have an effect regardless of direction, as some non zero portion of particles are always going to impact the barrier.

Edit: It appears from other comments you may in fact be referring to improper use of masks that are also not specifically designed to maximize filtration ability. I would still submit that some degree of mitigation is better than none, but I can see how a false sense of safety could outweigh the benefits of the mask.
The devs really need to nerf it in the next patch.
tbh, yarn deploy.
Yes, websites are starting to look more similar
So... is the conclusion here that Rust compiles at about the same speed as webpack? Because that doesn't quite support the claim in the title...
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>It looks like you are just cherrypicking examples and wildly speculating.

Hardly. Those are the two countries that have resisted shutdown of their economies and are showing negligible percentage of deaths.

And the World Food Programme has stated that the coronovirus shutdown is putting ~265 million at risk of famine and "as our Executive Director told the UN Security Council on Tuesday, we could be looking at 300,000 people dying every day for three months" [0]

>Brazil is early into this and seeing a high rate of transmission (R0 2.8). We really don't know enough in this country's case what the end result will be in terms of mortality.

Yeah. Perhaps it will bump up from .005% of their population dying to .03%. Mostly the already sick and elderly.

[0]:https://www.dw.com/en/world-food-program-act-now-to-prevent-...
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and this is extremely off topic no matter how right you are.
Nice one! One could also cite Electron apps.
But I don't think people are entirely happy w/containers or Electron apps for similar reasons of their monolithic nature, image size, versioning, patching, etc.
At least w/Docker you have a DockerFile that specifies the composition semantics -- in ST you tend to just save an image in a magic state that was the result of user interactions.
Hey, are we emulsion floating on the surface tension of a still, multi-dimensional pond in which we all eventually sink? asking for a friend
Has anyone reported doing the sampling to determine the prevalence?
> I understand the principles behind it, even find it cool, but the whole inscrutable nature of it is problematic to me.

Spot on.

On top of that we have 'AI' models getting fooled over adversarial attacks which just involve a single pixel change. As long as these issues are not tackled or not researched well enough, then we'll be pretty much be heading into another AI Winter and the hype cycle will go through its trough of disillusionment phase. Being unable to inspect the black-box nature of such deep-learning systems is why highly regulated industries involving danger to life such as healthcare or other safety critical industries label deep-learning solutions as unsafe for them.

Sure, all you see right now are other students and startups 'applying' deep learning everywhere, but they are hardly advancing the field unlike DeepMind and OpenAI are. In terms of learning, it's something good to learn as a student at college, but creating a AI startup now requires using Google, Amazon or Microsofts data center's for training which is clearly not sustainable anyway.

Security related projects and research are always where it's at.
1ms is usually considered inaudible. 5ms is bearable. 10ms will start to annoy some people. 25ms is actually pretty bad.