skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The surprise comes from all the resources we put on solving deceases that are caused by aging. Why not solve the root cause? That's where I and many others are surprised.

> For example, if someone who is poor, disenfranchised, has no retirement, lives paycheck to paycheck, lives in heavy pollution both of air and water, etc., is living longer really on top of their list?

Maybe, maybe not. Most people don't want to die even if they don't live in the western world. Some of the things mentioned here (eg. no retirement, polluted air) wouldn't be as big of a problem if aging was solved since they would be healthier.

I would agree most people in developing countries wouldn't put longevity on top of their list (seems like people in the richer countries doesn't do that either) but the thing is we can work on multiple problems at the same time. People generally aren't suggesting we take money from aiding the poor to instead focus more on solving biological aging. It's rather using resources allocated to fighting age related deceases one by one, to instead fight aging (which seem to be the root cause) and/or adding _more_ resources to the pool of doing good in the world.
> Yes, it is based on /front, but it uses your local time to set the days, instead of UTC. The problem with /front is that the front page is always only 1 click away.
I also created it to use (in my opinion) a better UI and UX, to add a dark mode, and to make it a PWA.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25568695
If anything the obesity epidemic shows that a huge percentage of people really arnt that concerned about living longer to begin with
I hear you about those things being outdated quickly. I bought a Wallstreet Powerbook G3 back in '99 or so because it was a cool RISC laptop AND it was promised to run this amazing upcoming UNIX-based Mac OS X. When OS X came out, of course it ran...but it was an absolute dog on these machines. IIRC Apple never bothered to write optimized OS X video card drivers for these "old" machines, they just charged forward with the new stuff. The experience was definitely enough for me to swear off buying new Apple products for at least a decade (although OS X did eventually win me back).
Well, it was mostly about the underlying library, e.g., libpurple:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)
Apologies -- For now, yes, we are US specific. This requires a lot of individual connections and deals with newsrooms and reporters, so we had to start somewhere.

Hopefully we can expand in the near future
> There is a significant amount of empirical evidence that parents play a significant role in how children develop.

I would like to see this. As I understand, Judith Harris wrote The Nurture Assumption in 1998, and it still stands.
I find it hard not to come to the conclusion that similar mechanisms are at work when you see for instance the economic situation of Afro-Americans in the United States.
IMHO, partly for marketing bluster, but partly because hardware compression in the tape drive is a useful feature if you don’t want to handle 1000MB/sec of compression workload on the host during backups.
> Apple fans do love to think Apple is first at everything.

This is what Apple fanboy haters always say, but is really the fact Apple say "I'm the first at everything I do"?

;)

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I think if ever, Apple try to say "I'm the first that do this good", with some arrogance for sure. Is terrible that this arrogance is based on facts.

And in this case, I know that kind of compaq (and have at the time a much better clon), and G3 where a league above and beyond, not as much when iPhone get into the scene (where Apple could actually claim a true "First" as "the first real modern smartphone"), but certainly to be a class on its own.
> Is the ethernet port present because this machine has no capacity for expansion cards?

It was relatively common for Macs to have ethernet before that point, whether or not they had expansion slots. I remember the PowerMac 6100 from 1994 had ethernet, although it required a dongle since 10baseT hadn’t taken over the world yet. I think prior to the iMac, there were a couple models that you could buy without ethernet, on the budget end.

What I remember from this era was that networking was much easier to deal with on a Mac, until Windows XP (and 2000) addressed some of the issues.

The same was true of audio in the 1980s.
For me, Apple wasn't interesting until Mac OS X on the PowerPC G4 arrived on the scene in the early 2000s.

However, there definitely is a lot of validity to the statement that the iMac G3 saved Apple in the late 1990s. When asked about Apple Computer at the time, Michael Dell (founder of Dell) said "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."

Alongside the big cuts to their product lineup, the sales of the iMac G3 (which was being designed before Steve Jobs returned to Apple) was what kept them afloat until they could come out with the iPod and Mac OS X.

I do remember helping a friend buy an iMac G3 back then. It was painfully slow for certain things, and still ran ancient MacOS, but it was good enough computer for what they needed (Internet, word processing, listening to music).
Don't miss a followup https://tailscale.com/blog/two-internets-both-flakey/
Oh wow! Well I'd still do it to the one peeping in the daughter's bedroom, unless I could get its ID and track down the pervert first.
I think numpy is mostly great. Although I do agree - numpy should be in the stdlib, period. So many users come from the scientific/data/simulation communities. It’s just that there are no (or too few) core devs from that tradition. Python lacking numpy in the base language is as awful as Fortran lacking dict-like data structures in its runtime.
> Browser bookmarks are actually not the same as the bookmarks I keep in LinkAce

You are not alone, I currently use Diigo with the same needs; the Diigo bookmark list is massive, unwieldy, goes back decades - the in-browser bookmarks are slimmmed down to just what I use commonly. What we really need is a new RFC "LinkDav" which follows in the footsteps of CardDav, CalDav and WebDav to round out our data portability lives. Want to try your hand at writing a RFC? :-)

On the Import docs section it just says "...in the HTML format" - there's a Chrome, Firefox and IE version of HTML Export from Diigo, it would be helpful to understand which one would be the best for import to LinkAce: https://www.diigo.com/tools/export
Here's interesting observation by by Nobel prize-winners Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo:

"We have already seen, in the previous chapter, another example of people who had lucrative opportunities to save but did not use them: the fruit vendors from Chennai, who borrowed about 1,000 rupees ($45.75 USD PPP) each morning at the rate of 4.69 percent per day. Suppose that the vendors decided to drink two fewer cups of tea for three days. This would save them 5 rupees a day, which could be used to cut down on the amount they would have to borrow. After the first day with less tea, they would have to borrow 5 rupees less. This means that at the end of the second day, they would have to repay 5.23 rupees less (the 5 rupees they did not borrow, plus 23 paisas in interest), which, when added to the 5 rupees they saved that second day by again drinking less tea, would allow them to borrow 10.23 rupees less. By the same logic, by the fourth day, they would have 15.71 rupees that they could use for buying fruit instead of borrowing. Now, say they go back to drinking their two cups more tea but continue to plough the 15.71 rupees they had saved from three days of not drinking so much tea back into the business (that is, borrowing that much less). That accumulated amount continues to grow (just as the 10 rupees had turned into 10.71 after two days) and after exactly ninety days, they would be completely debt-free. They would save 40 rupees a day, which is the equivalent of about half a day’s wages. All just for the price of six cups of tea! The point is that these vendors are sitting under what appears to be as close to a money tree as we are likely to find anywhere. Why don’t they shake it a bit more?"

From "Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty"

https://www.amazon.com.au/Poor-Economics-Radical-Rethinking-...
Customers surely relish the irony of the misspelled sign on the large box of religious books.
On the contrary, I found this to be anything but a robo-investment column, and this article was the first time I’d seen a rational explanation of the origin and history of the term “petrodollar”, whereas I had only seen it used as a pejorative in the past.
Given the various issues with painkillers, a better understood placebo effect would be great even if it is pain only.
There are also five green wires running from the same board - it reminds me of an old console mod chip. It could be a patch job for a hardware bug, but it definitely looks odd.
N=1 as well, but we haven't seen a single case of it. In the area, I'm aware of one school that had a case of COVID a few months ago, and our local one - in which our child is nominally enrolled, but isn't attending physically - lasted with zero cases until two weeks ago.
Substack can work for reporters who already have a following -- but we are trying to help those in local markets and earlier in their careers.

From a user perspective, we're looking to give a holistic view of what's happening around you, regardless of which trusted journalist is posting.
Agree with everything you said on the surface. Sounds reasonable. Of course we want the surgeon to be prepared for his job. It's important.

But then there are those in this thread arguing that Elon Musk's reward should be unlimited because he's "arguably ensuring the long-term survivability of our species." Wow, that sounds very important. I guess he should have the most money then.

Nevermind the fact that the majority of his wealth is literally gained by "sitting in a chair and taking cash". That's the job of a capitalist after all - they don't work for their money, they sit in a chair and let the ownership of assets make them money. I mean, sure he's "doing things" but are the things he's doing worth $140 billion? What has he "done" in the last 9 months that made him $88 billion richer? Is the planet saved yet?
That's only because the ecosystem cooperated, because it's all run by govt-adjacent entities.

You and your DNS provider are free to ignore those seizures if you want. You could have a whole network of people who ignores those kinds of things. Maybe someone could call it the Dark Web, and it could be 20+ years old.
> excel can be used to read csv files and do basic analysis but in my experience it takes too many steps to import a csv file and it doesn't handle datetimes at all well ie. iso8061 format - 2020-12-29 13:29:10.

Guess, LibreOffice Spreadsheet & Gnumeric apps, fully free alternatives to MS Excel, could do that.
You linked to an opinion piece that doesn't cite anything.

It criticizes that there are broad staple food import tariffs, but does not discuss the purpose of these policies, which is national food security.

The US has not experienced a food shortage, despite the normal incidence of crop failures in over a hundred years.

The fact that Americans suffer from food oversupply is absolutely a first world problem.
Ask HN: What are some modern CMSes?
Most of the time i see PHP CMSes in Projects. Those are fine, i guess, but you can see those ~15 years of baggage.

Woorking with mostly go & JS i am interested in CMSes that fit better into a more modern world.

Except Ghost, can you guys recommend any?
Well, the lawyers usually work on contingency. If they don’t win, they worked for 10 years for free. So, the percentage of victory is compensation for their risk and fronting the money to work for a decade.

Further, as the parent post points out, the compensation to the individual is low. Even if the lawyers made nothing, what does the plaintiff care? $3 or $6? What does it matter? But the point isn’t compensating the plaintiff. The point is punishing the defendants and creating some kind of deterrent.
Not impressed by his unoriginality.
Bucatini better than tallarines?! haha
Complexity in just what I and doing right now is impossible to comprehend. Imagine a mobile app with dozens of dependencies taking on a "secret" project involving a dozen of those dependencies that are drifting far way from the rest, with a dependency manager unable to function in this circumstance requiring manual guessing of what goes with what. Now imagine trying to develop with this Frankenstein set of dependencies and have any hope of getting work done. Of course the problem is not technical, its institutional; yet it's an unreasonable well of complexity that belies the demands placed on its workers. Technological complexity is not the only kind to worry about, it's the difficulties of managing complexities that are not obvious and cannot be explained to non technology savvy executives leading to painful results.

Now add a wealth of server side complexities with webs of micro and not-so-micro services interdependent on each other made by teams further and further removed from each other leading to more instability and unpredictable behaviors.

Managing systemic complexity (or not doing it well) seems endemic to programming today much worse than when Brooks wrote his essay (and I actually predate).
Doesn't change the fact that if people valued consistency, those apps would be flops on all supported platforms.
You are correct about OSM. You can see them easily on https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/
Kubernetes on Top of Bhyve Hypervisor
the Kubernetes ecosystem is growing ;-)
Ask HN: JS++ ? Why not make a new, strongly typed JavaScript ?
Javascript has a nice syntax but needs to be faster and more reliable.

With strong typing JS++ would eliminate many runtime bugs. Without all the crazy implicit conversions, boxing, 'eval', etc... fantastic speeds could be achieved.

Lots of electricity and developper hair could be saved.

JS++ would break backward compatibility but this could be softened by retaining the old syntax as largely as possible. With implicit and explicit typing.

It should be easy/automated to convert js to js++.

Inb4 ActionScript 3 : yes, something like that.
I'm Italian, but I've never been that partial to bucatini, I'm more in the spaghetti or rigatoni camp myself. My niece would kill for them, but I think that her being seven and liking "strange pastas" like ruote and such has something to do with it.
Things I Wish Devs Understood About Communicating with Clients
> into a pedophile pizza place conspiracy theory

The Epstein incident where they used the code word "pizza" for sex turned out to be real. Imaginations running wild turned that into a false conspiracy about a literal pizza shop. Is it fair to criticize wikileaks for unrelated parties imaginations running wild?
It is really unfortunate that the very commonly used numerical/scientific packages Numpy and Scipy removed[1] Apple’s Accelerate framework compatibility this year due to ‘errors in the framework’. It looks like Python users won’t have access to this capability from the M1 based Macs for some time.

[1] https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/15947
> So I bit the bullet and figured out how to make (actually, adapt) a Dockerfile. Now, all of my CI builds will start with Hugo and lftp already installed.

I read that as the original reason for the reinstall everytime was not yet knowing how to build their own docker image. A reasonable place for a newbie to be. And a perfectly reasonable step to leave for future optimization.
Yeah, it seems like keeping the cond inside the dotfiles, rather than in a dotfiles manager is the way to go.
I also hugely disliked the style and tone of the article. I finished it thinking "well, I guess anyone can call themselves a journalist nowadays". The humor was out of place too, just coming across as snobbish most of the time, even though I can tell what the author is doing. It's just....too much.

But hey, other people like it so who am I too judge ;-)
how else would the author make money out of freely available data, once this gains traction?
Not to mention that thanks to the government, $1M is a one bedroom apartment in SF. So these people want to give them more power over our resources?! crazy.
> Why are we even bothering with the legacy voice network at this point?

Because the government helped to create it, so that it was easy to track and intercept, and there's a lot of infrastructure around those purposes, when they want to use them.
Quasi-static IP assignment, my favorite.
I've also found small local resources to be the best ones, in my case that's https://www.hikingupward.com/
I really prefer hosting applications on my own, instead of using any third-party service. Sure, the freedom comes at great costs (maintenance, updates,...), but I am willing to spend my time instead of taking the risk for my data and "critical personal infrastructure".
The only downside is, and maybe ever will be, that self hosting is nothing for the casual user.
>who is arguably ensuring the long-term survivability of our species

Do adult humans honestly believe that going to Mars is a reasonable way to "save our species"?
Semi related: there was a major shift in pasta market during 2004 EU extension. To comply with EU regulations, companies from newly joining countries had to invest large sums to switch to a different type of wheat to keep producing. Malma (biggest Polish pasta company) took a big credit for this, unfortunately they took it in a subsidiary of an Italian bank, whose CEO was also a chairman of Barilla. The bank soon demanded instant full repayment of the credit, which bankrupted Malma.

Big Pasta is as bad as any other big industry.

Edit: as the comment below says, there were other factors at play around same time (reduced demand from Russia and interest rates spike) contributing.
The point of class action is not to make the plaintiffs while with a check for $3.22. The point is punishing the defendants and creating some kind of deterrent. Yes, such lawsuits take too long and inflict too little pain on defendants, but sadly they are all we’ve got.
> numpy should be in the stdlib, period.

I disagree strongly with this. Numerical facilities should not be in the stdlib, they should be in the language itself, without need to "import" anything. I can create strings and dictionaries without any imports. I should be able to create a multidimensional array of floats, and perform natural operations with it (like matrix multiplication) without importing anything.

As per the dictionaries in Fortran, there are libraries for that. But I think that not having complex data structures in Fortran is a feature, not a bug. If you actually need these data structures, many Fortran programmers will tell you to just use a different language. You'll never hear such a plainly honest answer from Python programmers; they'll tell you instead to use bizarre libraries with unnatural interfaces, and you'll be forced to multiply matrices using a function "numpy.dot" or an ugly operator "@".
Yeah, good luck running modern games in 50 years. They certainly won't be running any guilds together in any of them.
Wallabag is closer to Pocket than LinkAce.

Wallabag also offers annotation, search on content and saving pay-walled content (with an account).

To me, content search is the killer feature and was the first thing I looked for when looking at LinkAce.
> if they are investing to improve their service

You’re hinting at the same thing here, but you ignored the key phrase ”at this pace” in the OP’s comment.

Even Usain Bolt won’t do an impressive 100 meters run if he’s walking.
The consultants are revolting!

I guess it's good that you are honest with yourself about it though, that's better than constructing some elaborate justification around some clearly insufficient core "principles".

Of course, the idea that taxation is theft and a fence isn't doesn't hold.
Yep. This. I use a couple of different services (primarily Apple Maps and HERE maps) interchangeably _when I know where I am going_. But when I don’t know where I am going (e.g. looking for a type of store or restaurant or whatever) I use Google Maps. Their places data is just still so much better.
> but its still a multi-billion dollar industry

There's 330 million people in the US. Everything the average person spends six dollars a year on is a multi- billion dollar industry.

>Each of the largest companies will have PR agencies, personal contacts within the FDA, revolving door of staff between the FDA and the corporate, positions on standards committees, board members who have spent a life time in food safety governance

Think about how many people someone will work with and befriend over a lifetime. You're pretending that's a high bar when it's a low bar.

>The same complaint from a small company will never get the same attention.

You should go to the NPA's website (linked in TFA, you have exolymph's comment to thank for prompting me to look it up), go to the membership directory and start looking up these pasta companies before you run your mouth. While many of the companies are wholly owned subsidiaries or larger more mainstream food brands but none of them seem to exceed the BLS definition of medium sized. If the FDA enforcement action unfolded the way we are all assuming it is then that would seem to indicate medium-smallish companies do have their legislator's ear (or they just tipped off the FDA directly and then just kept following up until the FDA was annoyed enough to do something).

Edit:

Here's Medallion Foods, Virginia Park foods which seem to be among the biggest (ballpark estimate based on facility sized and value of what's in the parking lot) and one in Montana that I thought was cool because they had the street named after them. All these companies seem to have their office location the same as their manufacturing location so it's kind of hard to get a sense of scale.

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.0889449,-122.3631175,3a,75y,...

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0173065,-117.3829804,3a,75y,...

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5168777,-111.2619547,3a,75y,...

> A competitor breached a pointless regulation[1] from the last century which has prevented their product from being sold for a year.

>[1] Many of these food regs are designed to enrich staple foods that were the main source of nutrients for low income families. That's just not an issue anymore and just prevents (high quality) imports.

The last century was 20yr ago. HN would be out for blood if someone was caught importing completely functional catalytic converters or bicycle helmets that didn't meet some irrelevant to performance nuance of the law. HN is sympathetic in this case because the product in question is an upscale-ish pasta. If regulations on some ingredient were being manipulated in a way that was only affecting production of cheap lite beer we'd be reading through several hundred snarky comments about how this is a good thing.