skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it not be more feasible, more robust, and more effective to ensure diversity of thought for the future by building mechanisms into society to sustain them on their own (e.g., value and uphold communities that take both strongly positive and strongly negative views towards modernity) instead of relying on developing the technical ability to unfreeze people from the past and then promptly putting them to work in average jobs?

(It seems silly, leaving aside the ethics of it, that we may find ourselves in the position of wishing we had the "diversity of thought" of peoples that we had long since either wiped out or pushed to assimilate into what's rapidly becoming a single global dominant culture.)

I mean, it rather sounds like we have changed the pitch from "If you desire, you can avoid death" (and the specific form of "If you have a terminal disease at a young age, we can freeze you until the disease can be cured, so you can live out the rest of your life") to "It is good for society that we build mechanisms to clone large numbers of people from the past into the present to lead average lives," which at the very least is a whole different ethics ballgame.

For one, there's the question of what happens if turns out that we can clone people from the past, en masse, even without them having been prepared specially. (Perhaps certain types of embalming cause enough stability in brain structure. Perhaps we can revive people who froze to death, like the hundreds on Mount Everest or similar mountains.) Going back to the idea that we only need a partial restoration and that there's no magical "self," is it ethical to clone them, if it is helpful to present society? Is it ethical to clone parts of them, if that's a technology we develop and it's beneficial?

Also, it seems pretty unlikely that humankind is on its path to having a vastly lower population than we do today, and we have yet to be assured that we will be able to colonize other planets. Lives have value, but when we have reached the capacity of Earth, how do we weight the potential value of cloning millions of people rom the past?
>your phone is your castle, you decide what is on it
>systemd
When SAP rewrites their stack to something else other than Java, Amazon or Alibaba stop contributing to Java, then I start worrying.

Microsoft decided that Java death is so imminent that they are now an OpenJDK contributor, collaborate with Red-Hat on VSCode Java support, have bought jClarity and Java has first class support on Azure.
> Your security and privacy aren’t really protected inside these walls because the main point of these security measures is to enforce control, security against attackers and protecting your privacy is mostly marketing spin.

The author presents this as fact but does nothing to actually justify the claim. I'm not sure why we should assume it is true when two decades of history of malware on Windows (and to a lesser extent, Android) clearly demonstrate the problems with having no walls at all.

The irony of course being that this article itself is a marketing piece for this company's product.
> They eat all the nutrients in meat, just in pill form.

> Also they have tons of problems with insulin resistance and supplements have tons of flaws.

> Most vegan athletes don't last too long.

Sources?
First time? Congratulation! Sleep now, because the next 18 years are hard.

As other commentators said, you will get a very irregular sleep schedule. Essentially while the baby is sleeping. Luckily they sleep a lot, but while they are not sleeping they will require a lot of attention, and while they are sleeping you must do a lot of small task related to the baby or yous enjoy half an hour doing nothing.

You can try to learn something, it is not impossible, but it's hard.
How do I know that the cell tower I connect to is running the firmware I personally verified on github.gov?
The amount of mistakes that must have been due to the American date format would probably be a good research topic. I know I’ve myself done countless mistakes due to it.

As much as I can, I use the yyyy-mm-dd format which is always unambiguous.
Users: hold my beer.
What amazed me most is the relative short (recent) period in which the Himalayas formed. India split from Madagascar relavively recently, the speed with which it collided with asia must have been huge.
Every law has exceptions. (Although I'm not sure how much the secrecy helps here, see Snowden's leaks.)
My grandparents are theoretically all on these services as well, but just like getting stuff in the mail. I will be using the service.
Nintil.com author here. I'm no education researcher, but I think the post is relatively jargon free, other than the jargon I deliberately introduce after explaining what it is I think.
I apologize for the Google Cache link. It might be embargoed and link removed. BBC is expected to make a big announcement on Monday[1]. Other signs on Astro Twitter also point to this discovery[2,3]. Archive link[4]

[1] https://twitter.com/BBCStargazing/status/1304010713195839493...

[2] https://twitter.com/paulsanderson/status/1304909194701619202

[3] https://twitter.com/astroshrey/status/1304640981749436417?s=...

[4] http://archive.is/w6kL4
Golden blood [Rh-null]: the rarest blood in the world (2018)
A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)
>>Is it possible a previous space probe seeded the atmosphere though?

Even if this were the case, it would still be quite amazing.
Colleges Are Mailing Brains to Students to Dissect at Home
In my experience, very few founders of startups that are only at the seed stage give themselves significant salaries - in fact many don't pay themselves anything.

I don't have any statistics, I can only speak anecdotally.
Ammonia has been proposed as an alternative solvent for life.
Thanks for sharing those links!
This is so f*ed up that that's an industry. If all that money would have gone to preserving the wildlife we do still have left (but are losing rapidly)...
Yeah the seconds since must me shorter. You could've gone for 31.7 candles but it doesn't have the same splash.
Too bad disabled users don’t either.

Cross platform wasn’t even mentioned or implied in your original comment by the way, it was edited into the second one where you narrowed an “arthritic, farsighted Arabic speaking user” into “arthritic”.
> The author presents this as fact but does nothing to actually justify the claim.

Let me fill in the justification then:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/01/google-explicitly-b...

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/03/apple-bans-app-used-by-...

https://time.com/5497200/samsung-facebook-app-delete/

Edit as reply:

They justify the claim that phone vendors enforce control unrelated to security.

And the various linuxes and FOSS Android ROMs can serve as examples of reasonably secure systems without walled gardens. (Or more accurately, walled gardens, but where the user has the key to the garden gates, and can install alternative repositories/app stores).

With all that, it takes a downright reckless degree of trust in corporations that have already betrayed that trust many times, to believe their motives in locking down ever more computing platforms are to benefit the user, and that this continual retreat of user freedoms won't end badly.
>I try to "move around an element" in the panel? The whole layout breaks.

Just more evidence you are doing it really wrong. But, whatever makes you happy, I guess.
How long do you think a doubling time would be?
The algorithm is just a ranking of statistical probabilities—not some magic spell. Microsoft’s world class engineers could easily replicate that.

I’m not so sure if buying only TikTok’s U.S. user base is worth it, though. TikTok’s switching costs are much lower, and the network effects are weaker compared to something like Facebook/Instagram. Look at the amount of people uploading their watermarked TikTok videos to Reels. Build some decent video editing tools and they will come.
It's not entirely wrong. Secure boot is great technology, the issue is who controls the keys to the machine. If the user controls the keys, it is empowering technology. If the manufacturer controls the keys, the technology becomes merely a tool they use to maintain control over ther user's computer.
I got confused reading your comment because I didn't expect you to refer to dolly as recent, it's from before I was able to read (and I'm about to enter my thirties).

It's funny how time is perceived differently by different people!
You asked.

Minimally:

* module management that isn't in the code.

* lock files that are not an afterthought.

That all being said, even if it were true, I get the user experience of deno with ts-node, and the package.json and lock file support is free.
They are implying the great filter is actually the current step (advancing towards colonization explosion). The next step would be colonization explosion (aka colonizing space or other planets), but that could be cut short due to civilization eradicating itself. This is thought to happen either via climate change, nuclear war, or artificial intelligence wiping us out.

I personally am not a fan of the AI destruction theory because I'd expect AI to replace us and expand into the solar system. If it got to the point where it could kill all organic life, then I'd bet it's unlikely for AI to die off with us as well. Just my opinion though...
Tech Titans Cut Pay for Remote Employees
Link to the press release redirects to login page, probably set to private. Seems legit!! https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/hints-life-venus
Sweet! With all the junk mail we seemingly all get, something from a loved one is cherished for sure. Related, we're about to print 20,000 NanaGram envelopes (up until now it's been basic white envelopes) with a red foil liner to make "NanaGram day" even more exciting. We're printing them at one of the USA's last remaining envelope factories, run by a veteran and in business since 1921.
Extinction-level pandemic caused by the Venusian microbes they will soon bring to Earth.
This is an amazing talk, most of the Royal Tyrell lecture series talks are good, but this one stands out.

I'm not sure how much confirmation the theory this geologist expounds has, but it seems like a large volcanic episode burned up enormous coal deposits, running up the CO2 content of the atmosphere, causing rapid climate change. The coal and the vulcanism unleashed really large quantities of mercury, which is pretty toxic. Absolutely fascinating.
I think another underrated solution may be geographically restricted posting. Someone else was talking about massive amounts of trolls flooding local groups that try to inform people about the fire, so why not have a feature where communities are effectively GPS locked down to some radius.

Otherwise agreed with all the points.
So you can obtain it without microbes?
Averages are skewed by extremes which feeds into my point that the wealthy neighborhoods spend far more on public schools than in poorer communities.

Even with all that, it also means we’re spending nearly $500000 on a classroom in which a teacher makes 40-50k (let’s round that up to 60-80k for the payroll taxes). Where is the rest of the money going? We could have a hard cap on 20 kids and for teacher pay to be more competitive for less money than we spend today.
> Project Orion

Here is some declassified test footage of Project Orion. I don't believe any of the test crafts used nuclear explosions, but you'll get the idea from this footage (on why it's a terrible idea that could only exist in the 40s or 50s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM
Your point is valid of course, but it’s interesting that the US is in some ways less of a single market than the EU is…
We could all save a lot of time and trouble if we’d just normalize all cultures to a YYYY-MM-DD format. Sorts better as well as just being less ambiguous due to unfamiliarity meaning no assumptions will be applied by anybody. I only date things this way, at least digitally, but I should probably start doing it in writing as well.

Also this format prioritizes what is more important to you if you are an amnesiac or someone stuck time traveling at random.
I find the idea of blaring a TV or music in an office is so disrespectful. The people who need quiet to work _really_ need it...if you need noise put some headphones on to listen to music or a show. It shouldn’t be the other way around, it is much harder to block out the noise with headphones. Coworking spaces are terrible for this.
Doubtful. A microbe that thrives in an oxygenanated spacecraft hangar is probably not one that also thrives in sulfuric acid.
Swipes like that will get you banned on HN. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules?

Your comment would be fine with just the first sentence.
I also agree that adopting yyyy-mm-dd just reduces ambiguity.

However, it is an interesting linguistic observation that the way people say dates influences how they prefer to write them. And I know it's basically a religious argument, but I prefer the American way.

Saying "we'll schedule that for October 10th", or "let's meet on September 18th" you get an idea from the first words when roughly it's going to be (Oct, Sep), and then the specific.

The only time we seem to use the day number first is when we celebrate "the 4th of July".

The European way -- or at least British way -- they say "we'll schedule that for the 10th of October". If you had to cut that sentence off before you completed it, you would be left asking... which month in general are we talking about?

Anyway, the way people are used to saying the words definitely seems to translate into how they express it in writing.
You are mixing the internal representation of text with the change to make distinction between text and bytes.

The python incompatibility wasn't really the Unicode it was that older versions of python mixed text with bytes, and because of that a lot of python 2 code is actually broken. It might run fine, but as soon as input are Unicode characters then many python 2 applications crash.

Python 2 tried to implement Unicode and implemented an `unicode` type. But it actually made things worse due to them adding implicit casting.

The proper way to fix the issue was actually clearly making the distinction what is text and what are bytes, something that was in both Java, C# (both of them are younger than Python BTW, the Unicode was in works when Python was released).

he UTF-16 used by Java and C# as I said is just an internal representation of the text, and that's actually trivially changed since normally those things are not accessible for developers. The only way where it could somewhat leak is default encoding, and maybe names of the methods from stdlib. But those things are really easy to change without much breakage.

Side note, Python internally stores text in many different ways if the text is only out bytes it uses traditional C-string (for performance). Otherwise it also stores as UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 based on characters and requested conversion. So those conversion you said Java or C# did Python 3 does all the time (based on need) without breaking running code.
I just want a phone with full Windows 10 that is as customizable as desktop computers are. Phones are very powerful nowadays. There's no reason for them to have the same limitations as 10 or even 5 years ago.
A100s support MIG (multi instance GPUs), so you can carve each A100 up into 7 separate GPUs for inference of small models. If your inference workload is too small to feed this beast all at once, it can be pretty handy: https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/mig-user-guide/inde...
Brexit is less of a distraction for the EU than you seem to think.
1) Trunks with even panel gaps that are well aligned are very much a thing.

Your use of perfect seems to be a slight deflection, even "ok" would have been a fine goal.

But that photo is worse than anything I've ever seen on a car, period. I've seen overblown complaints about panel gaps on Teslas, but most manufacturers would not let that out into a dealership.

2) That's great for you, but it's hardly a defense against general complaints about a car. After all the Model 3 is not the best car others have driven. My most driven car these days is my new S4, a car with less interior noise despite an ICE, comparable performance (I'll trade the .7 second difference in the quarter mile for driving a car not put together with scraps)

3) None of my gaps are so horribly misaligned I ever had the inclination to!

There are two common complaints about panel gaps in general: too big, or misaligned.

I can forgive too big, I really don't care. But seriously misaligned like that picture? It looks like a bad body repair job, and it's right out if the realm of what can be ignored. Not for the sake of others, but for the sake of knowing I paid for a precision instrument and am getting a bodge job.
I can strongly recommend Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey.

Also

Land of Mountain and Flood: The Geology and Landforms of Scotland - mind you that is obviously just about Scotland but it is a gorgeous and fascinating book!
Python Lib3to6
In light of the recent Python 3.6 EOL discussion and the resulting comments about Python breaking backward compatibility, I wanted people to be aware of this option for maintaining support for older interpreters.

At the price of an extra compile step, you can write your code for Python 3.6+ and convert the syntax to be compatible both with newer and with older interpreters.
Python itself has a habit of contributing to this long history of extremely hostile messages.

If run in interactive mode, the Python interpreter takes its cues from vi and deliberately frustrates the obvious methods to quit. Ctrl-C results in Python whining KeyboardInterrupt but doing nothing helpful. Typing 'exit' or 'quit' both result in messages that make it clear that the interpreter knows what you want to do but won't comply out of spite.

More fun can be had with certain versions of Python 3 when running on Windows, where the Python print function would throw an exception if told to print Unicode characters. This made printing to the console non-portable because Unicode characters had to be stripped if running under Windows. This seems to have been fixed, however.

Still existing are the misleading warnings that Python produces if you forget to include the self parameter on a class method. Python emits an error that blames code that calls the method for passing one too many parameters instead of identifying the underlying problem. Python also gets similarly unhappy, and points fingers at the wrong code, if the brackets are omitted when instantiating a class.

Since Python is dynamically typed, these errors can't be identified until execution. Requiring all-paths testing to catch syntax errors is a special kind of user hostility in and of itself.

Python is an utterly horrible language and it's deeply unfortunate that it has become so popular when so many less error-prone, less obnoxious, alternatives exist.
Is it just me or does this feel to be written in a FUD marketing style? Very strong focus on fear in the writing and what seems like cherry picked examples.

Then again I have learned to have a defensive and negative reaction to anything that even smells like marketing so it's hard for me to tell anymore.
Oops: it was Wyse 55s I had (but they look just like the pictures of Wyse 60s I found on the web).
Firefox took tabs from Opera.
There's a chain of restaurants around here called Han dynasty

Everyone I know just calls it handy nasty
As an aside, who is this Brian Roemmele and what's his relation to the topic?
I don't need much from a phone, and just about any Android-capable phone would work for me, as far as OS and hardware capabilities go. The thing that's going to keep me tied to a Google-controlled phone for the indefinite future is Google Fi. I'm not aware of any other cell service plan that does what Fi does: $20/mo base, $10/gig after that (with everything from 6G-15G at no additional cost, after which you either get unlimited throttled data, or can start paying $10/gig for again). And the most important part of that (for me) is that it's the same price no matter where you are in the world. I haven't been traveling this year, but normally I would, and there's no other way I know of to use my phone internationally for so little (at least not without constantly swapping SIMs and changing the phone number).
My accounting firm has two accountants that handle my documents. One of them uses Australian/British date formatting, and the other uses American date formats. Does my head in. Particularly odd seems as these are being sent to Australian Government bodies.

To alleviate too many eye-brows being raised at the ATO regarding my time traveling prowess, I've recently started dating everything as "Mon DD, YYYY".
It is not a tactic employed by conservatives in the US.
Thank you for bringing HN community's awareness about SLA.

My mum has been struggling with SLA since January and now at an advanced stage. As a reminder, there is currently no treatment and patients are told there is no revert back and that what's gone will always be.

In addition to express a second time my gratitude to anyone working on the topic or just bringing public awareness about it, I wanted to mention a few things about the current situation for people suffering from that or any severe disease/rare disease potentially:

- Covid is making everything extremely challenging. Hospitals and doctors seem to be overwhelmed and communication/examination is very slow or difficult. I really hope that, despite the risks and consequences of the pandemic, we don't forget other diseases are still here and people are suffering from them.

- She lives in France and not in a metropolitan area (somewhat close to Paris). When the only hospital able to receive people affected with the disease is not responsive, there is no alternative. We wish some private, specialized hospitals or medical center could assist her when needed.

- We have very little to none information about the current research and trials about the disease. We would be very grateful from any good source of information (for patients and helpers) - thanks to this discussion, Jean-Pierre I have just bought your book which I think will help with this point.

- ALS is extremely distressing and devastating for both the people sick, but also helpers and family. It mentally affects in ways we couldn't imagine before and I wish psychological support wouldn't be opt-in.

- Admin work around the disease is mind boggling. Luckily my dad has been able to retire and exhaust himself between personal care, day and night, and admin non sense. It really shouldn't be.

We are very left alone when facing the disease and patients don't know where to look. It has been a reminder to be grateful for the moments we are able to live with our loved ones.

Additionally, I have a solid dev background and if there is any project on the topic I could join and help to improve the research or any of the pain points mentioned above, please contact me.
Right. If your job as a Phillip Morris or Nestle exec (both headquartered in Switzerland) makes people's lives a lot worse in some other part of the world but you don't leave your garbage bin out before 8pm the day before it's collected, then you're a model citizen.

Conversely if you need to do laundry in your apartment building on a holiday because you're a single parent, that's an outrage. The person leaving all the racist and xenophobic notes about respecting local traditions is a model citizen.
There's a BBC documentary on this that's now around 25 years old, called Earth Story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Story). It describes not only what we know, but how we know it. As documentaries go, it's rather in-depth but easily digestible.
My phone is not a home. It’s a filament in a fabric of affordances. I rely on others to support those affordances. I pay for some of them with money. I don’t want a castle. I want a society.
Boris Johnson's 'Operation Moonshot' plans weekly tests for everyone in Britain