skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was life expectancy back in 1776? A quick search suggests 54 for men.

As the sibling notes, the current median age for a US president at inauguration is 55. Most people weren't expected to even live to 55 back then.

(Although, you can make the argument that life expectancy figures can be skewed downward by high infant mortality to the point where they're not that useful a measure anymore.)
> You're not supposed to "trust the science" you're supposed to trust the process to approach the truth. If you can't read multiple arguments on the same topic and analyze them, you really don't get it at all (and waaay too many people with degrees can't do this).

Agree entirely. I’ll add that I go slightly further. If you can’t take your pet topic, and can’t make even a slightly good faith argument against yourself, you have no business with strong feelings on it.

I have a wedge issue topic I am an expert on. I could argue against myself, both effectively, and in an actual compromise that no one wants.

Yet… people who argue against “my side” are constantly using complete bullshit science from the 1980/1990s when governments literally weaponized depts and ivy leagues to push for “evidence” to support their desired policy changes.

These people now tell me to “trust the science”, “I’m sure this researcher at Harvard is wrong and you’re right”, and ”this article from CNN / FOX / VOX / WAPO proves you are wrong and I refuse to consider they have an agenda”.

Worst part that there is no shame of willful ignorance, they “trust” the people they claim can’t be wrong, simple, done. Why should they bother to acknowledge another side - if they do it means everything else needs reevaluation too.
Here I thought this was going to be a literally true headline, i.e. a report on a taste test of a new cell-ag product wherein preserved tissue samples from the 1948 chickens were used for the cell line that was cultured into the reporter's meal. It'd be a happier story, too.

(One of the chickens who contributed tissue for Eat Just's cultured chicken product lived out his life at an animal sanctuary near the Bay Area. But due to the breeding practices referenced in the article, it was, sadly, a short life.)
I just think that the term transformer is overloaded with several meanings - electrical transformer, the cartoon, a transfer function in a NLP neural network and I have heard it used in ETL applications for the transform function. Not fields that are closely related, but still it might result in semantic confusion nonetheless. Similarly term translation has a completely different meaning in mathematics than in linguistics, e.g.
Stories like this make me so sad. We've turned ourselves into wusses in just 20 years...
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Ask HN: Who wants to be like dang?
Obviously dang is amazing but does anyone look up to him, thinking, "I wanna be like that guy"?
He was a great musician whose legacy is tainted by his racism, like many others.

EDIT: just read his own quotes…

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miles_Davis
GitHub processes 2.8B API requests per day, peaking at 55k rps
That‘s a simple and too narrow take. In my area (mountains) it makes a lot of sense to cultivate cattle.
Yes. It demonstrates his complete lack of understanding how flight works. Lift is generated by air moving from the front of a plane's wing towards the rear. Having a tailwind reduces the amount of air traveling in this direction, reducing lift.

Generally, planes prefer to land and take off into the wind. Tailwinds are nice once you're already in flight, since they give you free speed.
Another Silicon Valley rug pull...

When will we ever learn?
of all the streaming services, I have found Netflix to be the one that cares least about geoblocking. they appear to care on the outside to appease the production outlets, but on the inside they don't appear to block or discourage VPNs at all. unlike the BBC who actively, and aggressively, geoblock their content
With this model, migrations would be two-stepped. First the migration would be applied, creating a new schema and adding the new information to the underlying table. Once the version is old and no longer used by any clients, the migration would be "deleted", removing the schema and the underlying information.

So when dropping a column it would go like this:
1. Migration is applied. Columns is removed from the new view but remains in the backing table.
2. Migration is no longer needed. Column is removed from backing table.

This design should be extendable to cover changing data type (introduce a new column and moves values over + sync values using trigger), changing default or changing the contents of a full column.

Constraints or indices are a bit trickier, but it might work to create a new column duplicated from the old one and add constraints to that instead.
I agree. Cycling needs good stewardship.

The biggest problem with cycling adoption is “cyclists”. My hyperlocal blog has a guy that makes me want to throw my bicycle in the bay just so I’m not associated with him. And I love riding my bike.

Cycling needs a “you meet the nicest people on a Honda” moment.

E-bikes are a great opportunity for Americans to rediscover motorcycles but unfortunately cities are willing to allow motorized vehicles traveling at 20mph on mixed walking/cycling paths.
Building an RSS Scully Plugin – Angular
My experience with Gladwell has been a positive one, but I would never consider him the source/expert on anything.

I put him between John Oliver (cherry picked truths veering on lies) and Nate Silver (will have an opinion, but will separate it from the source data).

He tries to reach a conclusion through honest means and good research. However, his narration will skip over / bend the specifics to make the journey to the conclusion more digestible.

He has been an excellent entry point for a lot of my peers who are less inclined to read textbooks or non-fiction novels. Similarly, his podcast is always interesting enough to keep the attention of a random person despite covering what they would've otherwise not been interested in.

There is something to be said for that skill.
They should focus on giving Blaston depth, but that’s a different discussion.
You could just move to a walkable neighborhood in an existing city.
This is really reaching...feels like someone trying to justify an ideology...
Ha, here I was, unable to respond until hours later for having a dissenting view and your response is to use this ad-hominem attack for not adequately participating in your echo chamber. Complete lack of self-awareness, the perfect lackey. There aren't enough words to express my contempt for your lot.

To return the favor, your experience with your dog, as you described, makes you sound like a soft-boiled egg that needs someone to manage your life for you. I can see why you feel this way now.

and fuck you 'dang', you disingenuous double-dealing turd. Just in case you thought I forgot or didn't know what happens next on this platform.
Given finite resources (limited pages in a book), the decision to put some facts over others into said book is by nature a form of editorialization.
> That game is something else.

That game is an Apple Arcade exclusive. The end.
I doesn’t have a floppy drive or a CD-ROM either. Apple have form for dropping “standard” components and usually the rest of the industry catches them up
What a helpful and relevant comment, you’ve really contributed to this conversation, haven’t you?
Facebook made a standalone $300 device that just works. The other players in the market are making $1000 devices that require me to be wired to a $1000 gaming PC.

The Quest 2 is an incredibly attractive device, and I basically can't imagine ever getting a wired VR headset at this point. From my perspective, Facebook made both the most attractive device and the best software ecosystem. I suspect Oculus as a standalone company could not have managed that.

That said, introducing ads to paid apps is a really bad idea. It's going to totally undermine consumer trust, and kneecap the ecosystem they built.

(And yes, I also had a visceral distaste when having to finally make a Facebook account to be able to use the Quest 2. But I can recognize that unifying the account infrastructure is the correct engineering choice, there's no need to assume malice).
The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)
This is good for interviews. I’d prepare with a 10-1 or more time ratio (prep to interview time) for a job I really wanted.

At work you need to pick your battles. 10 hours of meeting this week? I’m not doing 100 hours of prep. Afterall, IANAL!
You're right that the article doesn't mention how this can actually be practically used for migrations, but that is exactly what I had in mind. Maybe I'll write another one some day about the two-phase migrations combined with views.
Major Proterra Investor Al Gore Lobbies White House on Infrastructure
> you have your retirement, a spouse and 3 kids all going to Uni to worry about

On the flip side, I'm not sure we really want the "move fast and break things" mentality moving into government, which seems to be a feature of leaders with less to lose.

(Certainly government moves too slowly most of the time, but there has to be a middle ground.)
Maybe lack of churchgoing is contributing to this. Weekly meetups of the whole community under one roof really does wonders for social cohesion.

Of course then you have the church abuse stories...
> Nuanced and rigorous history requires careful and objective study to truly understand.

Have you read https://acoup.blog/?

Another reader above (@iainctduncan) said:

> Years ago he was a springboard for me to read further on various topics, each time leading me to conclude he doesn't give a shit about presenting the truth if it gets in the way of his story. :(

If everyone were like her or him, it would be fine to write sloppyly and engagingly about science and history posing as if you were a real authority. But that doesnt seem to be the case (this is HN).
I wrote a parser for a DSL using ANTLR about ten-ish years ago, and it was an incredibly painful experience. There's very little freely-available documentation for ANTLR, most of it is just "buy my book". ANTLR doesn't know anything about the language it's targeting (not even Java), so if you name a rule e.g., `while` the generated code will be filled with errors, because it names the parser functions after the rules. The graphical tools for building parsers are cool, except that many advanced things can only be done by adding actual code to the parser rules, which the graphical tool does not support (and how could it?) so you're back at square one.
Yes, this approach might actually decrease the power of your database as some things become much trickier. It might be worth trading of some expressive power of the database for smoother, less hands-on migrations though, which is what I'm going for.
I'm curious what the details around the anonymous IP address assignment are. Protecting copyright holders seems to be the point of the IP assignment to not break content restrictions.

Are they able to assign a set for an entire country? If so, that doesn't narrow it down all that much. However, major league sports blackouts wouldn't work, so is it by city?
Yeah. They could. But few (zero?) studies are retracted for the sake of being proven incorrect later. And, to be far, it would be ridiculous. Imagine having your career nullified because when you're 60 some major break through shows that your studies aren't relevant anymore. Your work was good when you did it, but now there's something new. It's kind of the definition of scientific progress.

However, as a counter example, in my very narrow specialty there is a well known lab that has produced highly cited bogus studies. I've personally published opposing results and said, "these studies are wrong for these reasons" using almost exactly those words. Should they be retracted? Absolutely. Will they ever be? No. Because, of course, the publisher and the authors just point the finger back at me and say "no, you're wrong!" and that's more than enough to keep the vague debate going.
The growth was the recovery of the population. the shrinking is not the growth phase, that's the recession. initially there were not enough people to work, to produce, to care for animals, to plant seeds, to harvest, to clean the ditches, to fix roofs, etc.. waste was enormous, crops spoiled, there was no demand and no supply, markets collapsed.

Then a recovering (growing) population meant that the previous level of economic activity was reached.

This is why some misguided people think that war is good, and it's "necessary", and that "we are overdue". But that's a complete fallacy. Those years have been lost. Yes growth was drastic, but that's hardly any consolation. Just like with COVID19. Yes, mRNA and other new vaccine vectors and tech grown a lot, but the whole economy went to shit otherwise. (Even if the recovery was again fast and even somewhat unexpected, because this time states stepped in and provided okay-ish fiscal and great monetary interventions.)
Chevron Imprisons Lawyer Because He Beat Them in Court
What is the technique?
Facebook says it will launch its podcast platform on June 22
“The role of BlackRock alumni in the Biden administration is the latest chapter in a decadelong rise in both Washington and on Wall Street. BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world with $7.8 trillion under management as of September. As it has grown, it has both boosted its operations in Washington and hired government officials.”

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/blackrock-emerges-as-wall-s...
IANAL! The legal theory is that US courts can stop you from taking actions, but cannot compel you to take actions.

So they can stop you from deleting existing logs, but they cannot require you to collect logs you aren't already collecting.

I have no idea how well this idea has been tested in court, but that's the theory on which providers who don't even have hard drives are relying.
That's been true since the 70s, but it's not an intrinsic feature of inflation. In fact, this time it may be different, and that's what all the CEOs are complaining about.
The link on centrist views wasn't that bad although the other link leads to a site without HTTPS. Bad stuff indeed.
Aurochs[1] were large wild cattle that went extinct. The meek domesticated chicken on the other hand has done extraordinarily well, evolutionarily speaking. The same goes for corn, which couldn't survive in its current state without human cultivation. If rhinos and other threatened species were somehow domesticated to be used for food or leather, like cattle, we'd probably have a lot more of them around.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
This article is similarly light on actual details of how they might've done it.
Flarum 1.0 Released
It's just one step on the way to growing muscle tissue in a controlled environment without the actual animal.

But, not be pedantic, but chicken evolved as a domesticated, food-producing animal. They're "meant" to make food, either via eggs or meat, not to have a specific lifespan.
If you want scientific debate, you seek studies and seek people who study same area.

Manifest on doors (no matter what manifest) to me sound like a statement of conviction and thus pointless to debate. Partly as dont feed the trolls and partly that it is unreasonable to expect such person to listen.
About as likely as youtube interrupting a chamber music concert or classical symphony to show ads. It's never gonna happen... surely, right?
I have. Not everyone has the money or lives in a voucher state.
Not only is the place the project is hosted totally irrelevant to discussion, it seems like it would make more sense for this post to link the project website (www.nushell.sh/) instead of the GitHub repo.
It was crazy to me in NL that motor scooters (Vespas) could use the bike paths.
That is separate from the outdated "you need to combine proteins in one meal" myth.
I am guessing that the author is referencing organisations that are pathologically allergic to GPL, where the legal department might not accept the exception.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bison+gpl+exception
Would it? My understanding is that (vastly oversimplified) both currencies and war are driven by scarcity, and that using a digital currency would not fix scarcity as a concept.
I don't know North America well enough, but the linked video says such walkable neighbourhoods have very high prices. That's great if you can afford it, but it's also good to campaign for it to be available for those who can't.
Government inflation statistics do report that wages have inflated more slowly than a consumption basket since the 70s, on average.

If you want to talk about consumer price inflation as distinct from wage inflation, do so, but be specific.
(And if Apple has logs of which IP address accessed a resource from which egress provider at a specific time, that is often enough to do what most governments are looking for... such is the limitation of two hops, and why Tor has three. I truly hope Apple has designed their system to avoid logging anything about their ingress packet flows.)
Eventually, you won't have to because USB-C will be the accepted standard for all these things.

And the impetus was Apple having the courage to leave USB-A in the past.
If it's not a uniquely Western idea, why write "...there is always the Western idea that..."?
Why do you talk about consent with regards to cookies only? GDPR deals with so much more with regards to tracking and identifiable information.

For example this quote from the article: "Add a unique identifier to all urls on your site when you know who the user is."

I don't see how our legal would allow us to do this with European customers without explicit opt-in consent since this kind of tracking and data processing cannot be deemed a legitimate requirement for the core function of the service.

If the same service can be given to the visitor without the unique identifier in the URL, then I see no way to avoid asking for consent.

https://gdpr.eu/recital-30-online-identifiers-for-profiling-...
You can check Steam's hardware survey for more up to date stats. Quest 2 is now up to 29.33%

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
No one likes ads. So let’s do something about it
> At those levels, the person you are going after can wreck your [and all your colleagues] lives in new and interesting ways that aren't apparent.

Which is exactly why having that much wealth should be impossible or illegal. No single person should have that much power.

With that being said, who am I kidding? It's obvious that the old forms of power haven't gone away and never will.
I am not saying it is equivalent if you think about it.
> Well, the people who are still alive are better off.

No, that's not how it works... these "great reset" theories are nice, and might even make some intuitive sense, but the actual years of the plague were (almost) completely lost (especially economically), sure the recovery seems great on a graph, but the graph would have been (in most of the cases) even higher by then. (Yes, indeed the next generation enjoyed better relations with feudal lords, because labor was scarce. But usually - when people are asked whether they would enjoy a bit better wages or keep their relatives and extended family alive, they somehow opt for the altruistic option.)

The fast recovery soon regresses to the mean rate of growth (as dictated by the general technological progress).
yet they deliver over 3 CDNs, yes THREE, for a maximum viewership of one country
she had me till "leaving her 10-and 2-year-old kids home" 2 year old is far to young to be watch by a 10 yr old.
At this moment of the VR craze/wave/hype if you buy an Oculus and you get burned by Facebook you kinda deserve it. They have demonstrated time and time again how shitty they are.
Far simpler: An entity (here: the US) is malicious towards its enemies, makes malicious laws and commits malicious deeds to harm them. All the others are just proxies for that maliciousness (provided they don't have their own separate agenda there).
I think this is a bad reason to worry.

Knowing how 'lift' works is basically irrelevant to anything in the rest of the story.

Over 500 pages, you're going to get things wrong.

The important facts of that para related to the strategic importance of the Island. The minute details of 'why lift works' are not really relevant.

What's relevant is that "The islands importance is as an airstrip/base and even then it's barely 'in range'".
Don't know dang much but he is definitely someone to look up to. Me, I'd like to be as focus as Carmack. He is probably more intelligent than me, but I only need his focus :D, or maybe even just half of it.
> I suppose you _can_ let your kid ride a bike to school alone in the US at 7

I think you're forgetting just how big and diverse the US is.
I'm on Linux right now and, sadly, couldn't see the magic character properly. :(

Anyone know if I'm missing anything, or is there no support for 13.1 yet? My standard routine is to just install every noto font I can find (noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-extra).
Does facebook make profit on each quest sold? I was under the impression it was a loss leader subsidized by their advertising income and justified by projected future monetization.

Another commenter mentioned that the corporate no-account-required model costs $699, so that may be a more fair comparison. Is facebook subsidizing each Quest 2 by $400 (and assuming they'll be able to extract roughly that amount from each user)?
I absolutely love this answer, it's the only correct answer. I look to the people around me who have modeled leadership, good loving relationships, and productive respectful communication... then I try to mimic their behaviors. Those people are far wiser in their actions than any of those authors are in their words.
Looking forward to your future blog posts! The rename thing got me really interested.
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

https://imgur.com/gallery/2eBXYnT
So he was offended and needed a safe space for his logorrhoea, I see...

I did read the entire website (didn't mean to, it was an accident, one that I resent). The guy's basically full of himself and bordering on alt-right if not just that.

If you hover his photo on his homepage, it has a quote from a climate change denier. The whole thing is like a red flag wholesaler shop.
Experts Doubt Ethical AI Will Be Broadly Adopted as the Norm in the Next Decade
Doesn't DISTINCT work in this case?

SELECT DISTINCT ON (vt.id)
row_to_json(vt.*) FROM vt
JOIN vy ON vt.id = vy.tid
WHERE vt.id = 1
AND vy.amount > 1;