skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you know that though vitrification, state of the art cryogenics researched have achieved to preserve 100% of the structure of a pig brain?
The science for preserving with 100% accuracy your brain is already here.
Those scientists use this technology to preserve organs and the cryogenic property is just a side effect. We simply need an enterprise that reproduce their results on human brains (shouldn't be different than a pig brain) and that commercialize it.

The process replace blood and other brain fluids with a chemically toxic fluid.
Which means that while the structure is preserved, any attempt at resurrecting the brain would need an advanced technique that would gradually replace the toxic fluid with fresh blood/Cerebrospinal fluid and the replacement should be 1) total 2) the replacement process should not destroy structure.
Intermediary new kinds of fluids in the process might make the transition easier/safer.
Once your brain is filled with the right amount of blood and of cerebrospinal fluid and has no toxic fluid left in order for the brain to function, a minimal level of hormones / molecules will need to be dispatched in the brain.

Once all of this is achieved remains the problem of interfacing your brain with a new body.

Happily once cryogenized (technically doable today) resolving all the others necessary steps will take time and you will have time.
With not so much money you could be kept vitrified (not frozen) for a millennium or two.
It seems unlikely but still is a possibility that an advanced civilization could not by design uncryogenize you without affecting your structure. But the structure being preserved they could make a copy of you (numeric or not), while this has its lot of metaphysical issues It's still a path far more hopeful than eternal death.
As a reminder our normal life is mostly as metaphysically weird as most of our cells are replaced every 5 years? What's define YOU is totally unclear and continuous
This story provided the perfect opportunity for HN's seedy MAGA crowd to pour out of the dirt to tell us how terrible reporters are, the "MSM", etc. What a delightful set of ridiculous anecdotes and tales of personal awakening.

"The day I stopped listening to the lyin' MSM and started getting all of my bullshit from blogs, infowars and Joe Rogan." - HN

Because of a story that we know close to nothing about. By one side giving their very biased take. Because an investigative reporter literally did their job.

Note that they didn't get him to reveal his identity and then break his trust. They literally simply did what anyone could do and did a small amount of investigation, which surely anyone plying such "death threats" would do.

And of course the death threat thing is farce. No, he isn't worried about death threats. He's worried about professional and personal embarrassment.

LOL.
You can look at https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics for database migrations :)
Putting in nonsensical extreme values is mot how you evaluate a claim like this. I dont think negative value is in the domain of that optimization function for any rational argumentation. Let's say it costs something to save a life, then the domain would be ]0, infinity[.

He's saying that valuing 2 lives that are the same to 2 different values will not be optimal, because if one is valued more than the other, then another identical life could have been saved for the price of the lower valued one, therefore saving 2 lives for less than the inconsistently priced option.

EDIT: to prove that negative values are non-sensical, assume you gain money by saving a life, then the only possible optimization is to save every life.
Follow-up post: https://jet-start.sh/blog/2020/06/23/jdk-gc-benchmarks-remat...
Unfortunately I could only find this old chart [0] showing how power draw scales with frequency on Intel. However for the sake of demonstration it should be more than enough.

The chip needs around 25W at 2.5GHz and 200W at 4.7GHz. 8x more power for
1.88 times the performance. In other words Intel chips running at 2.5GHz are 4.25 times more efficient than Intel chips running at 4.7Ghz. No magic. Once Apple has chips that go this far they will suffer from the same problems.

Here is a slightly newer chart [1] that demonstrates a 57% increase in power consumption for a 500Mhz frequency gain (12% performance gain).

[0] https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Clock...

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/power...
There is a profound lack of developers to start. I was in a German startup and it was awesome. Product didn't pan out for the mass market (medical devices) but the few devices we build by hand are now used for studies in clinics. So it wasn't at all wasted. Software sucks though because I wrote it shortly after finishing my studies with negligible experience. But it works at least. I got support from another developer at some point into the project, but finding qualified people was basically impossible.

Still, developers are probably mostly active in traditional industries. Manufacturing needs software experts for example, the product isn't necessarily software itself. There are advantages and disadvantages to that. Overall I don't think Germany/EU is friendly for startups. There are grants for some business ideas, but it is mostly older established folk that know the details of successfully getting capital.

In general, I think there is a huge fear of being "left behind digitally". Not so much in the industry itself than in politics or on a personal social level. The demographics responsible for implementing digital innovations often speak english and just use international solutions. There is little "local patriotism" in software. Perhaps there is also a strong idealism which lets people get involved in open source instead of creating business models and market digital services. Again, advantages and disadvantages.

edit: To the question about the kind of medical devices perhaps in reaction to the "shitty" software I mentioned: medical devices that cannot kill you and were mostly for diagnostic support. It was safe, the software "architecture" was all over the place though.
I consider Media Bias/Fact Check fairly objective and they rate NPR as having left-center bias.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/npr/
Pulitzers have lost a lot of credibility because of Hannah Jones/1619.
Do you mean viral load after being infected, or viral load in a hypothetical asymptomatic person who is showing no symptoms, not quarantined, and the primary threat vector being mitigated by masks? Are there studies on viral load in pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic individuals with Covid-19 or other viruses?
My company uses WebEx not Zoom, but I have found meetings far more tolerable since I started disabling inbound video. I've always turned off my own video, but turning off everyone else's has been a game changer. The important parts of a remote meeting are the audio and screenshare; video is a net-negative. I get no value from watching people type, fidget around with a phone, have random family members and pets walk by, etc. and actually find it quite distracting.
Someone has to write the OS…
Ok great, thank you!
Anything that has to work on mobile is pretty much never going to have much in the way of "analyze and understand" when it comes to maps. There's just not enough space.
Think of CERN more as a cultural endeavor. It's the big, permanent, multigenerational physicists jamboree. The big colliders are not the goal, they are merely the foundation. The meat is in the detectors and experiments that are attached and that would not be possible elsewhere. Sure, the flagship experiments are also important in their own right, but their function as a rallying point, as a halo product for everything else that is happening there is a big reason why they should be funded.

A reactor project is a much less colorful affair, focused on a single deliverable. More contractors, less postgrads. There should be money for both.
Most news is worthless. What's important will have more perspective available six months from now (or, better, six years from now); what's not important is just parlor room gossip.

Reading e.g. the politics section of the NYT religiously for the past couple years, your biggest takeaway would be that Trump is an idiot who doesn't belong in office. Which, as far as it goes, is true, but there's no need to pick up a bad habit like reading the NYT in order to know that.

It's probably necessary to know enough about this week's going-ons for social reasons, to the same extent that it's necessary to know who's playing in the Super Bowl, but there are more useful ways to spend your energies.
Windows on arm supports both 32 and 64 bit arm software. x86-64 emulation is missing because Intel threatened to sue (https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/x86-approaching-40-sti...)
Seems like energy efficiency is the same as the previous Top-1 (performance scaled linearly with the increase in power consumption), which is frankly not a great ad for the system.
If you can, get another job. Don’t work for that kind of company. If you can’t leave or demand better working conditions then you’re virtually a slave.
> NYT is a reputable journal

The people who lied us into Iraq?
The father of one of my neighbours recently died in a house fire. It was a tragic accident, nothing sinister. The whole family could be described as boringly average with nothing of note about them. The family refused all requests for interviews from the media.

That didn't stop the Irish Independent (big national paper here) from publishing gory headlines about the families pain. They also managed to source family photos (both old and more recent ones) and published pictures of the whole family. The family could deal with the headlines, but that someone leaked family photos to the paper really hit them hard.

The story was so sensationalised and gory and completely off the scale. A few column inches would have sufficed, instead it was double page spread implying the family was in turmoil. The paper turned an already painful family situation in to an absolute nightmare.
You're not going to want to hear this but I think deep down a lot of these scientists who are so desperate for physics beyond the standard model, theoretical and experimental particle physicists don't view fusion or plasma science as a hard science as is their search for new physics.
Come on, it can be fun! I'm waiting for the article titled:

Factorio is a colonialist narrative about the genocide of the native population, poisoning their land and denying them the means of production.
For any given skill, there’s a huge difference between being able to attempt it, which most people can do, and mastering it, which requires a large commitment of effort. Though most people can master most skills, the high cost means there’s a reasonably hard limit on the total number of skills anyone can truly learn.

That said, it’s important to give yourself permission to do things you know you’ll be bad at, at least when the stakes are low: The biggest impediment most people have to learning is a fear of failure, which is almost inevitable when attempting something new.
What does an Amazon Prime subscription get you on Twitch?
Growth Mindset is a cognitive technique. Many techniques that fall under the umbrealla of congnitive and behaviorial technique is rife with overhyping, overgeneralized claims and false promises. Here is an article about the growth mindset controversy: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debate-arises-ove.... Life and success is hard. Be careful when someone tries to sell you some easy techniques to be successful in life.
lol, I don't think there will be a 20-hour laptop. Just a credit-card thin one that claims 8 hours. But delivers 2.5 (like my 2016 macbook pro).
Apple's Most Significant WWDC Announcement.Why Its Bad News for Google, Facebook
Surely you know that's a strawman. You can do better.
With climate change on the horizon, focusing on another collider is search of validation for SUSY is abjectly irresponsible.
NYT Is Threatening My Safety by Revealing My Real Name,So I Am Deleting the Blog
This is a blatantly rude and insulting thing to say. (It's kind of sad how these xenophobic comments are common here.)

> they get servitude

Never has this been true about me, or the people I know. I've left jobs I disliked, and taken up new jobs. Also, in case you were unaware: yes, we can change jobs. And, yes, there's paperwork to be filed to do so, but the majority of tech companies are willing to do it.

The solution to even a hypothetical "servitude" situation would be stop issuing such restrictive covenant visas, and instead give people green cards / permanent residency (like Canada does). However, people who despise immigrants will stop at the former, and vehemently oppose the latter.

> foreign hires

Also, most of these people aren't "foreign hires" as you say. They're often people who've studied here, are often people who've been in the US for over decade (like myself). The fact that the US makes it nearly impossible to get green cards (and therefore citizenship) is what forces people to be on visa for a long time (and sometimes even forever). If you have the time, please take a look at the comments I link to in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612304
ITER is just a demonstration system, it will hopefully produce a modest energy surplus. As just one step towards an actual useful fusion energy source, Its a proof of concept and it's cost need to be considered in the context of the whole endeavour.

The new collider will be a fully functional 'production' system that we fully expect to probe new physics, and test specific scenarios that will require it's particular capabilities. It's an end product and the latest in a highly successful, proven series of systems. By itself that doesn't make it worthwhile, but I think a high cost for a final system is a different beast from a high cost from a test project.
Murica! Best 3rd world country in the world!
Depending on measures taken a small kitchen fire can be a minor annoyance or burn up the family home and the family dog with it. I don't think there is any doubt that there have been elements that had there been no negative reaction would have pushed for much more oem control of user machines nor is there any doubt we are in fact moving progressively towards more locked down machines.

Finding parties that would benefit is a trivial exercise one has only to look towards app store revenue, Intels idea of selling "upgrades" to your cpu via software unlocks, or Verizons ability to rent you access to your gps for $10 a month.

Others have been pouring water on a fire that would have already filled your kitchen with smoke by now otherwise and you have merely failed to attend to this fact.
Hint, they are not the same scientists. You're making a category error.
People, myself included, can often focus too much on the planning / organisational type of things rather than just getting things done, I.e. Just do it TM. You can end up procrastinating by reading up on stuff meant to help you stop procrastinating.
It is not a journalist's job to be an expert in the subject they are covering. That's why journalists interview experts, and why journalists don't use themselves as sources.

If you are writing from your own knowledge rather than attributing your information to others, I would argue that you aren't really practicing journalism. (There's nothing wrong with that, I just think it's something else.)
Raspbian was renamed to "Raspberry Pi OS" on the 27th of May, 2020. That's so recent you can assume that there'll be a whole bunch of naming conflicts and/or confusion.
Sry but how those 3D games made if not WebGL? All in Webassembly? Are there any good reasons you want to make a WebGL 3D engine? Is it a trendy thing?
Apple would lose their edge over Intel because most of the efficiency gains come from the lower frequency.
I don't think the media has been weakened. I think that the media has always been this bad. Perhaps even worse. The public just didn't know about it, because it was a lot harder to verify the facts through other means.
Yep, who wants to guess Intel made some key hires of transpilation experts to develop a nice patent arsenal just for this purpose?
No, that's not what it does on macOS. It simply makes the window larger and has done that ever since it was introduced, I believe. (I think for many document-based apps this just means to make the window taller, for example.)
Would you mind sharing which country are you talking about? I'm from another country in central Europe and the situation is same as in the USA or western Europe.
How would you find it respectable that the BaFin leader basically describes it as if he's a spectator, even after?

The arrest is one thing, it would be interesting to see if there's jail time. The other executives responsible haven't even been fired and just shuffled around Wirecard.
IMHO it's usually better to write a WebExtension instead of using Selenium, since you have more control over the browser, can intercept and modify network requests, can access the DOM from JavaScript while being protected from the page altering the environment, and can ship the code as a browser add-on, while still being able to communicate with native apps.

Only downside is that you can't drive old IE and mobile browsers except for Firefox for Android.
How about the 500 other tracking/analytics companies?

Even Adobe is now in analytics business.
In an ideal world, both happens at the same time. Applied physics require fundamental research.
It's impossible to say what will come out of it, but most of today's technologies comes from research that allowed us to understand our environment.
Fundamental research takes time, maybe this project will allow future generations to solve problems they are facing.
The nature of news, gossip, and propaganda predates 19th century France. The Roman god Fama, attendant to Jupiter, trumpeting his words, heedless of truth or falsity:

"At the world's centre lies a place between the lands and seas and regions of the sky, the limits of the threefold universe, whence all things everywhere, however far, are scanned and watched, and every voice and word reaches its listening ears. Here Fama (Rumour) dwells her chosen home set on the highest peak constructed with a thousand apertures and countless entrances and never a door. It's open night and day and built throughout of echoing bronze; it all reverberates, repeating voices, doubling what it hears. Inside, no peace, no silence anywhere, and yet no noise, but muted murmurings like waves one hears of some far-distant sea, or like a last late rumbling thunder-roll, when Juppiter [Zeus] has made the rain-clouds crash. Crowds throng its halls, a lightweight populace that comes and goes, and rumours everywhere, thousands, false mixed with true, roam to and fro, and words flit by phrases all confused. Some pour their tattle into idle ears, some pass on what they've gathered, and as each gossip adds something new the story grows. Here is Credulitas (Credulity), here reckless Error (Error), groundless Laetitia (Delight), Susurri (Whispers) of unknown source, sudden Seditio (Sedition), overwhelming Timores (Fears). All that goes on in heaven or sea or land Fama (Rumour) observes and scours the whole wide world. Now she had brought the news [to Troy] that ships from Greece were on their way with valiant warriors: not unforeseen the hostile force appears."

-- Ovid, Metamorphoses 12. 39 ff
Video: Deploying GUI for Toradex Colibri with NXP iMX6ULL (No GPU)
That's precisely what unbiased and factual means. You're actually arguing that the media should be opinionated, which is a perfectly reasonable viewpoint, but please don't try to destroy the meaning of words to make disputing your preference impossible.

Edit: I should clarify that I meant "unbiased and factual" together. Of course it's entirely possible to be both biased and factual, by choosing which facts to include.
But living in a bubble doesn't sound that great either. I prefer the Economist - they clearly have a very strong bias in some political & economical stories, but that bias is predictable and consistent. At least their factual reporting seems on the point.
All About Maps – Episode 1: Showing Routes from GPX Files on Maps
Thanks, but I don't really grok the analogy - does anyone have as their special place a fictional place created on a film lot by landscapers and set designers.

It all makes people happy, and I'm definitely for that, but it's a lie built on a lie - living vicariously through celebrities, and constructing lies in which we choose to rest our notions of self-worth .. I don't know about that.

Now, excuse me whilst I go tell my children that Jedberg responded to me online ;o)
> Many people need the social chitchat to feel OK. It is not a negative side of video conferencing, it is added value.

I think this aspect really needs more attention. Personally, I have never felt much need for much of social bonding at work but I am fully aware that many people have stronger desires in this area.

We ignore human psychology at our own peril. Even very technical people with low social requirements remain human and, more importantly, work with other humans that may have different needs.
The lowest common denominator dictates everything if you do interop.

And then you add a committee and the lowest common denominator doesn't change very fast.
That doesn't actually create real directories; it's just symbolic links. For certain use cases (nix) this isn't enough.
This is CERN. They approved a study into building one.

They exist to study these things. Take away the toys and the institution has a hard time justifying itself. This is mostly self preservation.

In my opinion we should give the Lhc a 25 year leash and then give the whole super-high energy colliders thing a rest.

Put the funding into other research areas in physics; the reductionists have had their turn :)
Starbucks Adds Impossible Sausage to U.S. Menu in Blow to Beyond Meat
Wirecard’s Former CEO Markus Braun Is Arrested
One underrated option is to just not read the news:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

Getting the news from "both sides" is just getting two bullshit spins on the same topic, but the truth isn't in the middle.

You can get "just the facts" from outlets like Reuters. You may find that this isn't really entertaining and that really you do consume news for other reasons than getting informed. You may recognize that you actually want "the spin", you want the emotional turmoil, the sensation.

From that perspective, consuming news is more like a consuming a drug: A guilty pleasure that should not be overindulged in.
What will people think about the new laptops?

Personally this kind of vertical integration from a company that isn't shy about imposing it's opinion would be a worry.

I doubt I will want such a device unless it is very open and can run alternate OSs etc, even if I never will.
This is an extremely rude, blatantly false, offensive, degrading, and insulting comment to make about the 1 million+ high-skilled workers in the US. Plenty of people own homes, start families, etc. But, I'm not too disturbed/bothered anymore -- as I've come to expect these sort of low-effort low-quality dishonest, hateful/insulting comments due to xenophobia.

Here are comments from just one user on HN (who was sadly banned), but who is/was on the H-1B, who owns a $1.15 home, has an American kid, has lived in the US for 17 years, and makes $650K a year:

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20473537

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19993373

3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19944062

4) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19525820

5) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19222618

The laws of U.S. that were written by Congress, make it practically impossible for India-born to ever become citizens or even permanent residents through the EB2 or EB routes. This is large topic, I've covered in some of my previous comments like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19857687 (short comment) or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19857878 (long comment).