skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting point. I don't think we can get away with just re-engineering ourselves, though - Life is effectively one big phenomena. We'd need to produce an entire ecosystem.

And to do that we could start with the smallest thing that could make a living on the moon. The moon is a good placeholder for "space" - and is arguably a lot kinder than most places. (If the OP is right about Mercury, then it would be somewhere between Earth and the Moon in terms of friendliness.)

Earth's moon is far more extreme than the most extreme life we know of could endure[1]. Look at that table of extremophiles - and recognize that the Moon is easily 10x worse than the worst environments.

There are only two resources available to potential life on the Moon: rocks and sunlight. There are indeed some interesting atomic elements in the rock[2], but you'll notice two elements not in the list: no hydrogen, no carbon. I don't see a feasible way to bioengineer the Rockeaters from "The Neverending Story" but even if you could you'd have to make sure they didn't need to breath or stay warm. And I'm pretty sure that such creatures would be closer to robots than biological life, anyway.

(Note that life in empty space is about as harsh as you can get - you have sunlight, but without mass you can't grow or reproduce, and without gravity you can't move effectively or sustainably. You are forced to lose mass with every movement. As you move away from a star you lose even sunlight, and it's not clear what you could do out there except cool down to ~4K in equilibrium with cosmic background radiation and hope that you warm up enough to come back to life someday.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rock#Composition : mostly: Aluminum, Iron, Magnesium, Calcium, Silicon, Oxygen, Titanium
For what it's worth, implementations like Delta Chat support encrypted subject lines[0].

Also, it would be relatively simple for mail providers to act as two halves of a Cypherpunk remailer[1]. By that I mean that when alice@sender writes an email to bob@recipient, the sender server only sees "remailer@recipient" as the recipient and the recipient server only sees "remailer@sender" as the sender.

That approach just requires some onion-layering of the emails with encryption, and a reserved key-pair advertised per mail server.

[0] https://delta.chat/en/help#how-does-delta-chat-protect-my-me...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk_anonymous_remailer
Ada should be considered dead because it doesn't have an npm full of super[1] useful[2] libraries?

> That never happens. It may well klunk along for more decades... but it's dead

Ada is used in 2021 in the exact same places that Ada was used in 2011 (and 2001 before it), if not more. Ada was designed for a specific purpose, one that it still fulfills very well. People have been claiming Ada was dead for decades, yet still it miraculously lives on. Despite Rust, despite Haskell, despite an algal bloom of "formally verifiable subsets of C", and so on.

> What does happen with such languages is that someone comes along and...

Yet... This just... hasn't happened. A successor language more suitable for safety-critical development has just simply not appeared. The manufacturers using Ada —a subset of which can be seen at this[3] link— ostensibly don't seem convinced that any of Ada's many alternatives offer a more appropriate solution for developing safety-critical software.

> I personally think there's an Ada-like niche waiting to be exploited...

The Ada-like niche you describe is, believe it or not, currently occupied by Ada. Ridiculous as this may sound, Ada is actually pretty good at fulfilling its intended function. What needs to change? Ada is not designed to fill the role of Node.js, Java, or C#. It's designed for safety-critical embedded systems, which is where you're most likely to find it today.

> Ironically, often the biggest partisans of the base language are the last to know about the revival language because every deviation from the base language is seen as a flaw from the One True Answer...

Does this apply to your thinking too, or just the proponents of Ada, and other languages you don't like? Are the Rust users just blind to the benefits of Ada? Are you susceptible to the same cognitive blind-spot you accuse us of having?

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/pad-left

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-array

[3] https://www.adacore.com/company/our-customers
draw on a fake beard

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You can make a totally legal purchase of microspscopy specimens in the form of millions of cubenses spores in a sterile solution, several of them for about Fifty dollars of whichever currency we are discussing. They will helpfully include a microscope slide so you can enjoy your microscopy hobby immediately.

It may be the case that when accidentally applied to a sterile growth medium, such as brown rice flour in a mason jar which was autoclaved in a regular pressure cooker for about 45 minutes, that after a few weeks the microscopy specimens will provide you with a new way to look at the world.

Be careful though, It's really easy to inadvertently drop the mason jars face down in a plastic tub that you use to store perlite that you bought from walmart, dislodging this nondescript white rubbery substance onto some tinfoil squares or better yet a metal rack suspended just above the perlite.

If you forget about the mistake you made with the mason jars and the plastic tub for a few more weeks, and the conditions remain humid enough somehow, you will sometimes find a complex biological reaction has occurred in the chamber.

Its important not to harvest them just before the veil is broken, chopping them up with a sharp knife and stirring them into a pot of water set to a low simmer for about 20-30 minutes.

In any case, if you discover that you, despite your best efforts, have still made this error, you should strain the chopped peices out and discard the water, or "tea", in a way that conforms to local and federal law. Some lemon juice and/or Numi brand morroccan mint tea helps with the disposal.

You might need some friends to help with that part though, it can take about 6-8 hours. You'll likely have a little trouble sleeping after all that work, so make sure to leave the next day open. I also recommend getting a bit stoned first using recreationaly legal marijuana.
Possibly … I know quite a few of these (now retired) ex-physicists. Most got jobs that only expected a Bachelors, not an advanced degree at all.

But I’m sure there’s selection bias here.
DelivApp – An end-to-end on-demand delivery marketplace software
Housing starts are at ~1.7MM units/year right now, that's enough for about 4.5MM people at current household sizes. US population growth was 1.6M in 2019 and <1MM in 2020. Even with generous estimates on losses of existing housing, I don't think 3x is appreciably off.
Those are not very good carrots.

Why bother with barely a vaneer of legitimacy at the EU level which has a democratic deficit?

Why not have an EEC that casts flexible treaties over immigration, environment and anti-trust on as as-needed basis, with actual elected represented 'regular' national MPs dedicated to those issues at the European level? i.e. Boris would have 5 Cabinet Ministers for major European level issues and a European ministry?

That way have the benefits of some degree of coherence without the sovereignty problem.
Re-educate.
Yes, by our current cosmological models, we are in a very young universe.

We don't really know, but it may be the case that the universe is only conducive to life during this phase of its existence.
This is cool.
We finally have verification.
The Venturi doesn't suck the gasoline into the engine. Gravity feed (or fuel pump) pushes the fuel into the throttle body. Venturi causes the flow to must and properly mix.
Which should be obvious because a stuck float bowl causes flooding.
Pallets shift in trucks, often requiring the warehouse crew to climb in and untangle things.

Also trucks are often dropping off a few pallets and not unloading entirely. The warehouse crew talk with the driver, sign way bills, and other things.

Yes these things could be solved but not by one company or quickly.
You'd need to add another "A" for AMD.
No but you can detect prevalent attitudes.
Linux Fu: PDF for Penguins
>Attack their argument, not the location where they said the argument.

As layman, I am powerless to do so.

So I have to go by how much stake the proponents are putting in their argument. A testimony before government puts a lot more of their reputation and what not, at stake, than a blog post on a domain that one control, that has also has no real legal weight.
https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=27757299
A microwave oven is non-ionizing radiation but you wouldn't want to stick your hand in there. It's in the same 2.4GHz band as WiFi.

I personally know a couple people who went blind from looking at radio sources (one was a wave-guide the other was a radar dish; oops). That's one reason I never watch my food cook in a microwave.

As a kid we used to cook hotdogs using an antenna and transmitter.

So yeah, radio waves can have an effect on you no doubt. As for cancer, well, anything that damages your cells theoretically has a chance at cancer. Whether that risk is higher than normal with common radio sources like cellphones is up for debate but I think it's possible.

Edit:
Most Wifi is very weak so at even a small distance unlikely to damage cells. Cellphones can be more powerful and you hold it right up against your body. Does it actually damage cells? I think the jury is still out but again I think it's possible..
> tracking is a pain in the ass

It becomes a lot easier when you need to do it to get paid.

I loathe time tracking for internal metrics, but if I need to do it to get paid the motivations change and it just becomes part of the workflow.
I think the theory is that effects like heating or pulsing might interfere with physical chemistry of biological mechanisms, rather than ionizing atoms directly. But I doubt we'll see these correlations taken seriously unless these interferences can be observed.
I remember back in the early days of BT single ear headsets, there used to be a booklet that warned of prolonged use "drying out your eyeball"...

This was on an Ericsson from memory. old unit that hooked around your ear. I think I got it with a T28 great phone for the day.
Are they illegal everywhere though?
I wish I didn’t look this up.
I think the GP comment meant, like, low-functioning autistic people. Not people who won’t conform; people who cannot. People who do not have the mental capacity to grasp and conform to social norms.

I don’t think China is sending such people to re-education camps. Those camps don’t have the infrastructure required to care for such people. They only really “work” as an oubliette for able-bodied/able-minded people that will understand and carry out orders when threatened with force.

(I’d believe you if you instead said they were e.g. having nursing staff at Chinese hospitals do secret state-sanctioned eugenic infanticides, to avoid having such people around in the first place. But allowing parents to invest a lot of resources into raising unable-to-conform children, just to then inevitably send those children [likely permanently] to re-education camps, seems wasteful.)
> I won't be able to ever understand why historical persons in the movies should be black even if they couldn't be black in that position at that point of history. There're even more crazier examples.

Ooh, I got a crazy example for you: https://slate.com/culture/2004/12/ursula-k-le-guin-on-the-tv...

A Whitewashed Earthsea
How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books.
By Ursula K. Le Guin

On Tuesday night, the Sci Fi Channel aired its final installment of Legend of Earthsea, the miniseries based—loosely, as it turns out—on my Earthsea books. The books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, which were published more than 30 years ago, are about two young people finding out what their power, their freedom, and their responsibilities are. I don’t know what the film is about. It’s full of scenes from the story, arranged differently, in an entirely different plot, so that they make no sense. My protagonist is Ged, a boy with red-brown skin. In the film, he’s a petulant white kid.

Maybe when things like this stop happening we'll understand what you mean by "storm of political correctness", but until then, it's too little, too late.
he is lying
> Gettr encourages new users to use their Twitter handle in the sign up process, saying that it will allow tweets to be copied over in some cases (we signed up, but this didn’t work for us).

neat. probably won't fly but this is a great case for what ACCESS Act should allow, moving between systems.

no comment on gettr itself.
Fantastic job looking into this.

This is actually my point exactly. This may not be 100,000,000x better in a practical sense. It is maybe 60x better but because they are doing math with something that is a zero (or close too it) they get to report an insane increase in effectiveness.

It's actually a great tell for what is often garbage analysis when you have this level of a multiple.
Brain cancer incidence since 1992: https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html

Cell phone subscribers since 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#/media/File:Mobil...

The article claims cell phone radiation causes brain cancer. So where is it?
Try Pantheon hosting drupal 9, very easy and visual to create REST endpoints and their free tier will be a cherry on top.
wouldn't 1,000,000x improvement in bacteria killing be actually lethal to gut flora?
No it doesn't say that.
The same thing could be said about laws prohibiting theft and murder.
In brief, I'd recommend thinking for yourself about these sorts of things.
That’s what GOOG is (as opposed to the “real” Alphabet stock GOOGL). So by your definition one of the FAANGs is issuing “fake” stock. And for some reason it trades higher than the “real” shares.
They are testing against E Coli which is an easy target. My understand was always that E Coli is on the order of 1 minute.

If you are into camping you might be thinking of things like Giardia - much harder to kill.
Or even (especially?) light bulbs. Visible light is far more energetic than radio- or microwave radiation.
Spores aren't legal to ship to all US states. E.g., California forbids them.
It's delayed, and difficult to measure precisely, but there's a substantial cohort of people who cannot and may never be able to support themselves due to the combination of gaming all night and cultural expectations around hiring.

Perhaps it would be free-er for the government to intervene and force everyone to have a different cultural expectation, but both are very substantial interferences.
Hi Jesse - It sounds as though we are aligned with the existing problem, and the approach. Very interested to talk more. Mind shooting me an email? (My email is listed above in the parent comment)
Rather than fixing our democratic systems, the digital revolution may have just made them worse, by encouraging societies to entrust the counting of ballots to machines, and then unsurprisingly stop trusting those machines as soon as they give an answer that half the population don't like.

Even in societies that still rely on analogue vote counting, it is unclear whether instant access to digital information has made societies more informed or misinformed on average.
Well yeah, that's what is in Netflix's interest, but there's a reason many companies succeeded by focus on improving the user's experience. I guess Netflix has a a different approach.
It's not quite as simple when you consider time invested. Messing with someone's lifetime of training with ever-changing EULAs is something I haven't seen talked about. But similar to the damage to pro soccer players if, officially from now on, the soccer ball was twice as big, the fields half as big, and each player was required to swear allegiance to China, a sudden change that kills the careers of pro e-sport players is not as simple as "well don't buy the game". Well I already bought the game and practiced it for 10k hours, and now you're declaring I can't do it anymore.
I don’t think China is particularly competitive in e-sports relative to places like S. Korea or the US. At least for the few I watched (mostly overwatch, counter strike) China always struggled at the bottom of the list.
Yeah, I'm sure being responsible for 10% of the internet's traffic is trivial on a technical level, together with all the codec and video encoding engineering they are doing.
What kind of scalable approach are you describing? Rust is not formally verifiable. I'm aware that there are projects attempting to solve this problem, however as I understand it you can't currently create verifiable production code.
I've suffered from this shit for ~20 years, and have damned near zero hope that the government's going to so much as acknowledge the medicinal utility of psilocybin, let alone legalise mushrooms.

But here's a patented little pill that you can take every day for the rest of your life just to feel human.

Pill a day, pill a day...
I agree changing attitudes towards divorce was the main factor. I was imprecise in my wording, I was fishing for phraseology that would encompass both.
Hey Ben - Will give this a look. Sounds interesting. Thanks for sending.
Mostly they were quoted in 8ths.

Might have something to do with the Spanish dollar being called "Real de a ocho" or "pieces of eight".

Also, I think it was silver based, not gold. Doesn't "silver dollar" in old books ring a bell?

I'm guessing you got your information from here:

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/why-nyse-switch-fra...

It's poorly written and misleading, if not technically false.

"even before the decimal conversion, some ECNs permitted their customers to enter orders in penny and subpenny increments or their equivalents (e.g., in increments as small as 1/256 of a dollar)"

...from https://www.sec.gov/rules/concept/34-44568.htm

It appears that 8ths were the official minimum until mid 1997, which must be why I don't remember smaller fractions being very common. I feel like maybe it was mostly penny stocks that traded in smaller fractions?

The following mentions stocks trading in 32nds:

https://money.cnn.com/2000/03/24/investing/q_decimals/
- CDC estimates that ~114 million Americans have been infected

- Approximately 158 million Americans have been vaccinated

If you generously assume no overlap between these populations, that leaves ~56 million pristine hosts. Vax resistance is clustered geographically, so those 56 million are more likely to be near other unvaccinated people. 56 million is a lot of people.

If you assume any meaningful number of people have been vaccinated after being infected, there could quite easily be 100 million or more latent hosts in the US.

(Also vax effectiveness is not 100% so we expect some number of folks to contract the disease after being fully vaccinated.)
"the strong eat the weak", "autophagosomes are like soldiers", said my body builder standing in front of a "home farmstead" festooned set. .. this video is doing a lot more than explaining autophagy..
The problem is that then the CCP won’t respond with “Oh no! They circumvented our invasive measures!” They’ll say “Hmm, they circumvented our invasive measures, I guess we’ll need even more invasive measures that are harder to circumvent.” This isn’t a game kids are gonna be able to win if the government is sufficiently committed to this goal.
Okay, fair enough, maybe 'very minor inconvenience' is understating it. And granted that the safeguards are not perfect, and some financial crime does get through. I still think the current state of affairs is a big improvement on what we would have if we just threw out the regulations.
Try a 72-hr fast sometime and you'll have your answers and more!
Those services work without a TPM. So do their competitors.
Yeah: the models I have seen involve either vibrations that either change how the DNA is folded (the epigenetic behavior) or cause direct DNA damage due to some kind of resonance with hydrogen atoms. (That said: all of the papers I have personally seen on this are with high-powered and very high-frequency sources... specifically all terahertz.)

The local heating one always seemed much simpler, particularly as you didn't even need to have the heating come from the antenna, as I remember old cell phones--which you usually kept next to your head while talking (how quaint ;P--also routinely getting hot to the touch just from heat dissipation from the battery. There were tons of other explanations for the effects people found, though (which were stuff like "while we didn't find more brain tumors, if you got one it tended to be on the side you held your phone").
US vaccination rate is 43.7% (both doses for vaccines which require that).

US coronavirus antibody seroprevelance rate was 22.0% as of late April 2021.[1] The data runs about 2 months behind.

(Don't add those directly; there's overlap.)

The 22% figure comes from a CDC national epidemic surveillance program. They take random samples from commercial blood labs, using samples taken for other medical purposes, and test them for antibodies. The test used now can distinguish between people who have had the disease and those vaccinated. So this is a low cost way to track the epidemic.

There's state by state data for both vaccinations and seroprevelance, and it varies a lot by state.

[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#national-lab
> We're feeling pretty good right now because it's the summer. But come winter, if we still have a significant percentage of the population that is unvaccinated, we're going to see this virus surge again

Does anyone have more information on why it's a bigger issue in the winter? Is it because people spend more time indoors in the winter where spread will be more likely while in the summer people will spend their time outside where spread is less likely?
I was thinking the same thing. You don't get something for nothing. Assuming the water heater is in the conditioned space, it will just make the central heater work harder (and consume more fuel) during the winter months. Maybe this is offset during summer months when it can help the AC cool the space.

None of this applies if the water heater is not in a conditioned space, but that's not feasible in (common) environments with cold winters.
My impression is that they're trying to solve problems with real or perceived problem of video game addictions.
Miniflare, a simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers
You can swear on SA as well.

It's only if you aren't logged in to an account that word filters are applied (and some other things e.g. there are a bunch of subforums not visible to outsiders).
Not one covid vaccine is FDA approved yet.

If it can keep mutating it seems a healthy life style will protect you more universally than targetted vaccines that are longer relevant.

(Down votes coming for having a critical thought that doesn't support the orthodoxy)
Prevalence of Delta variant doubles in B.C. as feds warn unvaccinated
I also read about it in the book Dark Pools which chronicled the story of a guy named Josh Levine who first implemented the decimal change in his pursuit of free, automated trading for average investors. He’s an absolute legend, someone I think the HN crowd would love.