skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's drawing a lot of absolutes from a lot of very qualified facts.

Given the current state of technology, and the diversity of vendors at every level, there is no way any country could impinge on an individual's ability to access general purpose computing.

For example, that the US has the power to ban optical disk drives that don't scan for and prohibit certain contents? Ha!

Among the ridiculous points this is not reality, in no particular order. (A) General purpose computing would have to be banned. (B) This hasn't even broached the topic of content encryption. (C) The level of control over imports would have to be completely overhauled to something approaching North Korea. (D) Domestic manufacturers would have to be banned from producing programmable processors.

This is literally not the world we live in. Even in China.

It's not a game of qualified answers. If (1) I have a general purpose computer & (2) I have code that can accomplish the intended activity on that general purpose computer, then (3) no one can stop me from executing that code.

The closest example is metadata tracking artifacts in printer documents [0], and previous efforts to technically prohibit currency counterfeiting on then-new color printers.

But that's fundamentally different than what we're talking about here: there are a limited number of manufacturers, in a low margin business, that's highly specialized.

[0] https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
Reminds me of a neighborhood in Chicago called Pullman. Originally, it was a company town, founded by George Pullman of the Pullman Palace Car Company.

On the one hand, it was allegedly quite gorgeous and housing there had many amenities considered quite modern for the time. The town also had a very low mortality rate due to how clean it was.

On the other hand, George Pullman founded the town partly as a social enterprise, believing he could make his workers happy and productive through urban planning and strict rules. This partly meant eliminating businesses catering primarily to vice (the only establishment that served alcohol was the hotel, which workers rarely entered). He would also regularly inspect workers homes to ensure that they met certain standards of cleanliness.

It was also, first and foremost, a company town, and one that was expected to be profitable at that. As a consequence, you could only rent housing, not buy it, and the rent was expected to subsidize the town rather than the town subsidizing worker expenses. Additionally, public gatherings were prohibited unless sanctioned by the company, hence why visitors often remarked that the place looked empty.

In the end the company wound up cutting wages after the panic of 1893, but not cutting the already-high rents. This led to the Pullman Strike of 1894, which would go on for 2 months and would eventually end with the company being forced to sell its residential holdings, essentially ending the Pullman Company's reign over the town of Pullman. George Pullman would die 3 years later from a heart attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pullman
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/blood-on-the-tracks-in-pullm...

Oh, sure, these are tech companies, not railroad companies, but you have to remember that the Pullman Car Company was a tech company back in its era (a railroad car that functions as a hotel!), and George Pullman was regarded as a benign industrialist, much like how we might see Bill Gates today. The town of Pullman was considered bright and modern and "smart" for its time, much how we'd likely view a tech company town.

In the end, as much as we like to bemoan the inefficiencies of city government, we're probably better off. Nonetheless, I'm rather curious to see how this goes.
"Ask vs Guess" is one difference between people.

Roughly, "it should always be okay to ask, since they can always just say no" vs "saying no is a bit awkward, so only ask for things if the answer is going to be yes".

In terms of the above:

Sure, the person doesn't have to apply the suggestions. But the only reason you'd make a suggestion is if you think something's wrong or could be improved. And suggesting something is wrong if it isn't is awkward. etc.
Working in IT, the vast majority of engineers and IT adjacent people have little care or desire to learn about phone or communications systems. Especially nowadays when Teams and Zoom take care of your VoIP woes on the backend, and AWS or Azure are always doing something way cooler than a PBX can.

I was lucky to work alongside an enterprise PBX architect and not only learn about phone systems, but come to appreciate the history of them as well. One of the more interesting things to me has always been the amount of accessibility that gets designed into phone systems. TTY, translation services, different languages, etc. It's something that always reminds me we're designing and dealing with a wide variety of humans that I don't get when designing a network.
An Ada based platform for applications running on desktop, mobile or cloud.

Is Ada still mandated for govt. stuff? I haven't really heard anything about it in... 10 years ?
Let's not give the media such a pass as simply trusting Gov/LEO messaging. Their interest is in getting and retaining your attention, and creating fear and anxiety is a proven way to do that. They do it knowingly and with intent.
Funny that no other name other than Frank Calegari's appear in the Wikipedia page
I would assume you could just block the email addresses and/or the domains?

Unless they are genuine spam from those random spammy mail addresses, then I’m surprised they are passing through the spam filters
Nuke it from orbit, its the only way to be sure.
> Edit: In the end, at the end, I found the PDF. It seems a little light on content, but I guess I'm not the audience. Not sure who the audience would be, though.

Thanks for that. I suspected as much. I'll wait to read something more serious, less market-y.
How fast is the treadmill going? For walking desks it seems that it needs to be a pretty slow pace, and slower than the pace at which one would normally walk.
I feel like this is the sort of thing that actually makes less sense when you develop explicit reasoning skills. as a child, "righty tighty, lefty loosey" made perfect sense. it never occurred to me that right/left could be relative to the bottom (from my perspective) of a jar lid. only when I started learning about math and coordinate systems did I think "right/left relative to what?".
It isn't a jump. It's a deduction made from the second paragraph: dads primed to empathize with their daughters seem to be immune to this. I'd conjecture that dads without sisters, who had close (non-romantic) friendships with girls in their teens, are also less inclined to this friction.
I don't think fuzzing usually has a concept of automatic shrinking.
CopyPasteTaxes
Almost everything is over https now, and with it, the wifi network security doesn't matter much.
* This is so true it nearly qualifies as physics.

I am going to (over)use this phrase from now on. Thank you.
I am not German, but in North America, a Judge can rule you in contempt of court and held in custody until you comply with the terms of the judical order. There is no "oh, you ran out the clock, ok off you go you scamp!".
Another supporting data point is fast of random murder or random rape when walking through streetd. Those are the most rare of murder and rape respectively - both are most likely to be committed by someone you know.
... necessarily to the point of being able to wipe some memories/knowledge out to free up space.
> this isn't too different to what ex-gay/re-education that is happening in a lot of western countries

Both are illiberal as they punish behavior between consenting adults but extreme corporal punishment is a different level in the spectrum, in my opinion. Singapore is an advanced nation state that canes criminals [1]. One does not have to be for illegal drug trafficking, for instance, to be against caning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
> this isn't too different to what ex-gay/re-education that is happening in a lot of western countries is doing to children

It's significantly worse, and, besides, conversion "therapy" is not happening in a lot of western countries. Here in western Europe it's unheard of.
FWIW that blog is written by one of the top leading number theorists in the US today. Of course, his opinions are his and you’re free to form your own, but just wanted to clarify that the blog is very much legit.
It sounds lazy to me to say that one industry was able to push through its interests for 50 years running, as if a democracy has no way of defending itself. It is scary how effective Exxon and Koch are (the book Kochland is a good read), but I don't accept that this strips all consumers of responsibility for all eternity.

What oil companies have done is certainly damaging to society - but let's please not lose sight of the fact that it is ultimately consumers who are calling the shots.

To me the truth is that we love convenience, enjoy travel and just having lots of stuff - hundreds of millions of people are fully aware of the effects of climate change and still choose to consume unbelievable amounts of oil, directly and indirectly. The title of Al Gore's "an inconvenient truth" is really quite apt - people watch and understand to then go on an fly across the globe.

If our image of the average citizen is that they are helpless in the face of propaganda/advertising, cannot think for themselves and cannot be held accountable for their behavior/decisions, then I don't believe that's compatible with a democratic system.

Consumers/voters have responsibility and corporations stand and fall based on how we all choose to spend our money. The one-sided criticism of oil companies is boring and almost childish in the way it deflects responsibility.

The geopolitics of energy: What's easy to forget about subsidies is that enormous shock the western world has gone through in 1973 - suddenly the oil stopped flowing and leaders everywhere figured out how vulnerable industrial societies are to even slight disruptions in supply. We also have to consider the security and moral implications of relying on Saudi Arabia and Russia for most of our oil needs - claiming that politicians are supply corrupted by oil money just shows a lack of appreciation for the complexity of the situation.

Eating meat is bad for the climate (methane emissions - you know the drill) - if you consume meat again after reading this, please don't blame it on politics, McDonald's or a lack of knowledge.
> A better off thug is still a thug.

Citation needed.

> How rich or poor a country is doesn't really imply how safe.

Well, only because that's measured in a way that means Bill Gates could make Tuvalu the world's richest country simply by moving there. That has no bearing on whether rich people are safer – and whether extreme poverty makes people more of a risk to others.
> Staying together in a dysfunctional marriage

Who wants to have a dysfunctional marriage? That seems like a bad ending too

So we can add ‘dysfunctional marriage’ to divorce as undesirable outcomes of marriage
Boston Dynamics Bloodhound :(
Legally? Their neighbors, who are the ones calling.
There is a huge leap from curing aging and living forever, because you cannot cure being killed by a fatal, acute disease; poisoning; disaster or accident.
people exists in complete defiance of entropy. One could argue that life itself defies entropy. Yes, it’s a temporary defiance, the amazing complexity that we have evolved is mind bending if you go down to the atom level.
There is no reason, apart from not having a full understanding and the tech needed, to doubt that people will live forever at some point in the future (probably not within our lifetimes and probably at some point we will discard the biological part, but still)
Looking at his post, the main criticism is "that the program has not yet generated anything new", but the post does not refer to the actual results (like formulas for Catalan's and Apery's constants).
I have to admit I don't understand much of the fine details here, but I assume those rules exist mostly at the state/federal level? I would be surprised to learn that counties have a lot of leeway to allow environmentally damaging activities within their borders.
Inkscape traces images and converts them to SVG, right? Can this be scripted from the command line? I want to convert a line drawing into an SVG.
There is, google: "asdf programming". All the other projects named asdf pop up. The people who do not use google will not use a new common place either.
A friend of mine once enticed me to work at a place that had their own in house developed language written in XML that did databinding, ui, and event handling for their application.

Their main problem was that most of the people they hired took 6 months to become proficient in the language and then they quit because they hated it so much.

I actually managed to last a couple years without ever learning the language, by bouncing into a newly created research division and then getting put on a big deathmarch project that did not use the language to implement a governmental specification - but I did write a critique of some of the of the security issues / validation issues about the language in my first month there.

It was awful.
Their marketing is the sketchiest shit ever. Any VPN that advertises like that is dead as far as I'm concerned, particularly NordVPN. They are the worst offender; listening to a few different jackasses on youtube pitching their product and hearing each one repeat the same talking points, it's obvious the FUD comes from NordVPN themselves, telling people to say it.
What worked for me: Reload the page and hit the "Stop" button.

It's written by the author of this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Ageless-Science-Getting-Older-Without...
How do you 'seize' bitcoin? Couldn't anyone with the password move it all thru mixers and whatnot...
I can control the speed with a little potentiometer (that is basically the control that I stripped from the original upper part). So it can go quite slow, which really is necessary if you want to use a mouse or keyboard. For watching youtube, you can go pretty fast.
No, they don't. Whole nations just decide to repudiate debt.
Why do you want to change? If what works, works, then no need to spend extra effort and just concentrate on the content of your blog.

Us tech people get caught up into a trap of trying to over optimize our setups. My favourite quote, applying it in a slightly different context that when it was originally written, is “Premature optimization is the root of all evil”.

Spend most of your time on what matters most, and only update your tech stack if it’s necessary (eg a static site could help reduce server bills - that’s a worthwhile reason).
It's obviously desirable, but it's going to be a really funny joke when they realise you can still die incredibly easily by a fatal accident, robbing you of your promised 800 years of life. It doesn't help that these types of accidents are exacerbated by climate change, political instability, crime, etc. Problems we still haven't solved, yet somehow we will be able to solve ageing. Right.
On this site, at least, you will have fewer downvotes if you don't speculate about downvote motivation.
thanks for this. meow
> Every choice would become inconsequential

Except the choice of finally stepping in front of a train you've taken daily for the past 300 years.
if we’re going to live forever, do we have to do it in the same biological form?

also, ethics if all fun and games until you are confronted with your own mortality.
>Who wants to live for ever

For a possible answer to that question, I recommend reading Transmetropolitan [1]

TL;DR: It ain't necessarily going to be a bed of roses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan
I prefer "clockwise lockwise".
Any society that feels it needs to publicly torture its citizens as punishment is simply barbarism.
The increase in divorces as girls reaches the age of 13 is extremely noticeable, that isn't a rounding error:

https://www.economist.com/img/b/300/346/90/sites/default/fil...

If it was just dads refusing to understand girls etc you'd see at least some difference before then.

And since the reported incidence of sexual abuse by biological dads is larger than the total increase in divorces over the entire period I'd argue that is likely the main culprit, and that daughters aren't really a problem with non abusive dads.
With current battery tech, fast charging wears out the battery faster than slower charging. If you are fast charging every day, your battery won't last very long.
In theory, ABAC solves a lot of problems. In practice, there’s no mandate for AWS product teams to support ABAC in a consistent fashion.

Assuming it doesn’t cause networking issues, IMO the best approach is to finely scope AWS accounts. They’re free, and Amazon includes some reasonable tools for working with them. The major downside is the double charge on Transit Gateway traffic.
A lot of the developments around slowing down aging aren't just about doing so for the physical body - they also improve the longevity of the brain. Plus if you're living for a very long time, that's a lot of time for science to advance. Unless you believe that things like dementia are totally incurable, it's pretty reasonable to believe that sometime in the next few decades we'll make big advances in curing or at least dealing with them.
Wifi isn't only browsing the web..
It's a hotel right? I would respond by closing my laptop, then my eyelids, then checking out the next morning.
would it be possible for this to be hooked up to existing serverless frameworks? it would be great if something could scan the code and generate an IAM policy.
Yea I was expecting an argument that their cans stand out on the shelves and lead to higher sales.
Imagine if Trump was the last President to pick a Supreme Court justice.
For the people suggesting reading the pdf or disabling JS, you're missing the point of this submission.

90% of the value is in playing with their interactive demos. (though all of them seem to be from https://www.complexity-explorables.org/ so it might be better to go there directly instead)
it depends. who gets to live forever and what is the cost of living forever?

i can totally see this being unrealistic/unpractical for the majority of people which bring in another can of worms
Hackers briefly took over the Google.lk domain
Reminder: a lot of us in this community are autistic and have problems when it comes to expressing ourselves.
> the tendancy of technical people to tell other people technical people how to do their job better

"why don't you just" is a question, and if they had not asked said question they (as well as the readers of their book) would not know the (right) answer to it.
The work of curing aging should greatly reduce the pain and suffering of our later years. Reducing age related diseases and struggles. So not only will you live longer, those years will be better , for longer, and remain good closer to the end
thanks 4 the correction!
would you still drive a car if you could live forever?
Kaggle Winning Solution: Lyft Motion Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles
Every choice would become inconsequential since every possible outcome and situation would be relived an infinite number of times.

Depends on the society in place.

If there are still criminal records, social memories, credit scores, etc. then if you commit various types of financial or bodily crime then you could become a pariah for, well, ever. I think such a thing would ultimately push more people to either being particularly virtuous, to completely change their identity, or terminate their lives.
>In the US all land is in a county

Not 100% true - there are independent cities in some states. But this is just a nitpick.
> Develop a sense for clarity

Ah, I thought this would define "readable code", but it's "how to write" it. The title, literally.

missing step: understand WTF you are doing.

Many small functions also create complexity, though hadn't considered stacktrace documentation:

> [small functions] It’s easier to tell what the program was “thinking” when you look at a stack trace or run a debugger.

[don't mix levels of abstraction] also explodes the number of functions. I've seen this reasoning before, it makes sense, but I'm not convinced yet. I think if there's some substantial, genuine work done at each level, it's helpful. But just a sequence of calls doesn't help.

Nice bit on incidental duplication:

> The point of DRY isn’t to run a manual compression process on the codebase, it’s to avoid a dependency where two parts of the code need to be manually kept in sync.

In writing, clarity and simplicity go together. Of course, it takes longer to write a short letter. And, code is not writing.
> Divorce can be a positive outcome

This doesn’t pass the universality test - would it be positive if all marriages ended in divorce?

Lots of “bad” outcomes become good given circumstances, but they are still not universally good:

“Amputation can be a positive outcome, especially if gangrene has started”
I've been in lots of companies where drug testing was required for the employees in manufacturing, shipping, trucking, etc. Insurance and liability reasons, quality control, lots of reasons.

But then it gets pointed out that this isn't enforced on the office workers and is discrimination. So now everyone gets tested.
You'll probably find that Germany has extradition treaties with most countries worth living in though.
No, this would still be natural selection, I think; it's selection by survival in the environment. Just because the environment's artificial, that doesn't make https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution artificial selection.
hah. telomeres and cancer are a drop in the bucket.

google “the hallmarks of aging” to see roughly what are the problems that we are confronted with
What makes you say that? I skimmed through a couple pages of tweets and it seems consistent with the twitter account belonging to Farlow.

Somewhat surprising for an 84-year-old math professor to have an active twitter account, but not out of the question.
The phrase is talking about the top surface of the circle as the circle is facing you, since that’s normally where your vantage point is when you’re turning something with your hand. You have to think things through more carefully if the circle is oriented differently (imagine reaching through a broken window to turn a doorknob).
Yeah their entire study is "we looked at a list of companies who comitted fraud, and can see that the percentage of companies in that list that committed fraud is higher than that of the average company"

Nothing was discovered here, and the title is not supported by their methodology
I think it simpler than that. White collar crime isn't punished because half the government would be in prison if it were. Your average city government is at least as corrupt as your average corporate organization, and probably much more so. And it gets worse the higher up you go. The government operates essentially like the mafia, only it's legal when they do it.