skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The excerpt from wikipedia with paragraphs refuting this thread's blog post's theory is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Skepticism_rega...

>[...], the theory had attracted widespread media attention since 30 December 2018 after a series of postings on Medium titled "J'Accuse!" by gerontology blogger Yuri Deigin went viral.[27][28][29] This theory, however, is considered weak by mainstream longevity experts, such as French gerontologist Jean-Marie Robine.[30]

>Robine, a French gerontologist and one of two validators of Calment, dismissed the claims and pointed out that during his research Calment had correctly answered questions about things that her daughter could not have known first hand.[31][32] Robine also dismissed the idea that the residents of Arles could have been duped by the switch.[32][33] Michel Allard, the second doctor who helped verify Calment's records, said that the team had considered the identity switch theory while Jeanne was still alive because she looked younger than her daughter in photographs, but similar discrepancies in the rates of aging are commonly found in families with centenarian members.[8] Allard and Robine also pointed out the existence of numerous documents relating to Calment's activities throughout her life, and that the Russians brought no evidence forward to support their hypothesis.[8]

>After a meeting of the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris on 23 January 2019, French, Swiss, and Belgian longevity experts concluded that none of the Russian claimants provided any proof of an identity substitution, [...]
1.8% fatality rate....

You're neglecting to include asymptomatic infections which have been theorized to be up to 80% of the infected.

So you have to add (x * 34 million, where x equals some percentage of asymptomatic infections) to your infection count....if you want to be accurate which I'm assuming that's not your priority.

https://thorax.bmj.com/content/75/8/693.full

Also, The average death is 80 years old with two comorbidities.

For healthy populations under the age of 55 that fatality number drops into the miniscule amounts.

34,000/34 million.

People under the age of 55 make up 80% of the total population.

Car accidents and opioid deaths are more of a danger to the under 55 crowd.

This is two separate diseases based on population group.

So millions of old people who are already past the average lifespan will die slightly sooner.
It is true that writers in antiquity used AUC. However, it was only used infrequently – primarily when celebrations were held to mark the city of Rome's anniversary, as part of imperial propaganda, and also in historical writings. In everyday use, naming years by consuls was more common (especially in the West), and by the regnal years of the emperors (especially in the East and in later periods). After the reign of Diocletian, use of his regnal numbers were continued–in part because he introduced a system of having four emperors simultaneously (two senior and two junior). Even though that system only lasted 30 years (at the end of which Constantine became the sole emperor), the use of year numbering from Diocletian's reign stuck in the East – anno Diocletiani, or as Christians came to call it, anno martyrum (since Diocletian started the last major Roman campaign of persecution of Christianity). The Diocletian era was most popular in the East; in the West it was known, but less used. The monk Dionysius Exiguus proposed anno Domini as a replacement for anno Diocletiani. It became the standard in the West, but less so in the East. The Coptic Orthodox Church continues to use the Diocletian era to this day. Greeks (and also, through Greek influence, many Slavs) preferred to number years from the estimated creation date of the world (similar in principle to how contemporary Judaism does it), but using two different estimated dates of creation – hence the Alexandrian era and the Byzantine era. It is only in recent centuries that Greeks and Slavs have standardised on anno Domini.

Use of AUC was actually far more popular in the West in the Renaissance than it ever was in antiquity. It helped produce a false impression that it was more significant in Roman history than it ever was.
RCE in that process maybe not, but security exploit absolutely. Things like that are how can be the difference between admin and non admin privileges or an “authenticated/not-authenticated” scenario.
"Succeed or fail, you can still claim you tried. Much of the voting public is convinced that Democrats drink the blood of babies, so convincing them to look more closely and with skepticism is an uphill battle."

I'm not sure what you mean by this.
i bet if there is an arm version of the office suite it will be a no brainer. I've seen tons of stuff soley on ms office and maybe a thick client for an erp, which can be run via citrix or other app-v tech
I'm not going to comment on Snowden's view of what liberal western states do when it comes to surveillance. I have my own opinion, but he's been right about stuff I'd disagreed with him in the past before so I'm gun shy about confronting his ideas again.

On the topic of unsafe language though, he's absolutely right. We don't have to put up with this. We could pass a law and ban new code in unsafe languages from national security threatening devices like phones or cyberphysical devices like self-driving cars and we would be the better for it in under a decade. We could even have taxes to give breathing room during a transitionary period to encourage it before outright banning it, but we don't. We don't because so often it is less of a hassle for the government to trust the private sector that it is to take some real position on the regulatory issues that matter. This will probably always be the case until the government is able to evaluate talent and pay salaries in accordance with that talent as the private sector is.
I believe (unsure about this) that it reused a reasonable amount of userspace macOS code as well, perhaps to do fonts and the like? i have to imagine most of e.g. webkit was also taken from macos.
> It matters because civilians don't wear body armor

Neither do ducks. Your remark about "civilians" was made in a sentence specifically about rate of fire.

> vs .308

Frankly, I'm not really sure where you're headed with the comparison of these rounds - neither are 'hard to control' in a semi-auto. You make too much of this. At the end of the day, both have been deployed broadly by militaries as infantry service weapons. Variants of the same action designs are widely available in both calibers. That the US military is presently using .223 widely should not be considered an endorsement of suitability without an acknowledgement that there are competing interests driving that standard that have nothing to do with terminal ballistics.

The original comment you responded to echoes more articulate concerns made in the shooting community that if gun control interests get traction for bans and further regulation by painting the .223 as somehow unusually deadly (when it's really rather mediocre - dare I say, lower end - insofar as intermediate cartridges are concerned), the arguments for turning their energy to anything over .224 write themselves. For if you restrict .223, why allowing 7.62? It penetrates better, packs more energy at the same ranges, is used by the military, private pyle shot himself with one, etc.". By any measure, .308 is a more high powered round than .223. It's silly to be painting .223 as an unusually high-power round - as they do - and it's not accurate to excuse this is just short-hand for an amalgamation of concerns with action design, rifle color, mag capacity, plastic grips, etc. None of those factors are unique to the caliber.

> lever actions

The statement about a lever action being shot quickly was that it does take an expert to mimic the rates of fire possible on semi-autos. If you agree with this then I'm not sure we need to go searching (or inventing) new things to litigate on the lever action front.

> random nutjob [would be] best served with an AR-type weapon

Back to platform rather than caliber. I'm not sure random nutjob gives a crap about the best weapon. Random nutjob has been shown to research his predecessors, mimic predecessors, and to use what's available -- even when stealing/murdering to get what they need. I'm fairly certain there are some biases in that decision making process for the rifle used, when used. If the Stoner design weren't as popular as it is, I'm quite certain we'd be seeing more mini-14s and SKS/AK platforms being used.
> Why do you say that?

Well, my main issue with Phosh is that it seems to be designed with assumption that display scaling is set to 2. But Pinephone display is not high-DPI enough to justify that, so many applications are unusable with that (or need application-specific workarounds, like setting zoom to 50% in Firefox and terminal to counteract that).

One can set display scaling to more fitting 1, which fixes applications but breaks Phosh, who now has icons too small to be practical on touch screen. And i do not see a reasonable way to confugure icon sizes short of replacing GTK resources for that or perhaps writing custom GTK-CSS style for that.
https://apse.io/faq/

"It depends. Screen resolution and multiple monitors affect how much storage an image takes. For a general guideline, if you have a 1080p monitor and run it nonstop for a full 8-hour workday, you could expect in the range of 200-500MB.

Apse is fully configurable. If you find it takes too much storage, it can be set to delete snapshots after a certain number of days. For space savings, by default images are saved at a lower quality. If you would rather keep full-quality snapshots, you can set that in your configuration as well."
I neurotically checked the Wikipedia article on AUC and I got the impression that at least the term "AUC" was mostly a Renaissance invention, so I tried to hedge against that. Apparently classicists would actually add "AUC" to Roman manuscripts as they transcribed them.
> I have noticed an uptick in older accounts suddenly commenting more

The commenter you're replying to has an account that's a little over two years old. I wouldn't call that "older".
Even with the highest theoretical possibilities, batteries cannot be as energy dense as kerosene.

Kerosene has about about 12,000 Wh/kg, a cutting edge lithium battery has only 200. Scientists speculate that on paper, chemical batteries can theoretically get to about 1100 Wh/kg. A perfect world is still not even close to close to kerosene.

Batteries do not get lighter as they discharge like a fuel tank does, meaning a huge efficiency loss. Finally it's simply not physically possible to recharge a large airliner size battery as fast as a fuel tank can be refilled, and on short haul flights, turnaround matters. Some airlines go from arrival to departure in 30 minutes. Modern airliners do up to 8 flights a day!
Teen Amputee on How Her Bionic Arms Changed Her Life
The Bottom Billion
With TSMC.

One of the announcements here is that Intel will be getting literally the first of the new batch of ASML's machines.
You are retarded.
I just reinstalled gnome manjaro. Not even an hour in and there is a major issue. I right clicked on the dock to get to Dash To Dock. I hit the super key at the same time an while that menu was up, I hit the settings button for the dash to dock.

My dock blew up to ~200% in size, all my icons increased in size and I can no longer enter the settings for dash to dock. It just opens up an error that is very long and I'm not willing to resolve.

This is why Linux desktop will never be taken seriously.
I guess they blamed "the army that didn't know what it was doing" for using that bridge wrong too. So it's not _just_ software "engineers"... <grin>
True; but so are understanding a thing well and being able to use it.

I wasn't really talking about proof-based vs. not though - it's true that an analysis course will be more proof based (than Calculus) because that is also a skill you are expected to be developing.

However most calculus graduates, even the ones at the top of their class, still have at best a somewhat superficial understanding of the set of real numbers and functions on it, regardless of whether or not they can regurgitate an epsilon-delta proof.

This isn't a knock on calculus courses, there is an opportunity cost to the time. By the time a continuous math student hits measure theory and understands why they need a(nother) different definition of an integral, most calculus students have been happily chugging along calculating things they need, blissfully ignorant of the "problems" with the integrals they barely remember being defined.
We tried this with general aviation. Private plane manufacturers all went bankrupt, and now the minimum price for a new airplane is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Apply strict liability to software, and you'll see the same results. Every piece of software will have to be constructed with the care of a medical device. Expect most forms of technological progress to come to a halt. Some part of the HN crowd will post "I want that" from their iphone (which wouldn't exist under such a regulatory scheme).
Aging accelerates with age. So yes, several years more when you are close to 120 matters.
Other than the 'r' sound, it seems to overlap with Eunice.

(based on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDCDCFVuIls )
> and potentially apply immigration quotas to citizens of these countries.

What do you propose that would accomplish?
See this discussion started in May with recent updates and workarounds:

get_video_info YouTube endpoint suddenly returning 404 not found https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67615278/get-video-info-...
Oh please. She didn't get all that funding by pretending to be a man, she got it because people wanted to believe in a a "female Steve Jobs." She succeeded in fundraising because she was a woman. A man doing a Steve Jobs impression wouldn't have gotten nearly as far.
> Around that time iOS was still pretty limited in what you could do

I'd argue it still is.

I can't install a third party web browser that doesn't use WebKit.

I can't select alternative default apps to most apps bundled with the OS.

I still can't unlock the bootloader.

I still can't browse the entire filesystem.

People who espouse the virtues of jailbreaking on iOS tend to forget one big thing... the exploits that are used to jailbreak are also exploits used by malware creators to compromise the system.
> NFTs give them no additional revenue

Portable digital assets could be priced higher and would have more demand.

> still have the same hosting costs

Do content owners have to pay amazon hosting costs? I thought that was included in their platform fee.

> dramatically increase the odds of a compromise leaking their material permanently

The odds of leak are 100% already, so this isn't true.
That would be very cool.

There is this passage in Genesis [1]:

"And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."

If you read the list of verified oldest people [2], the only person surpassing 120 is her.

I wonder if in ancient times they had some statistics and they found out there is some sort of hard limit to human lifespan.

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%206%3A3...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe...
Corrupt data may break invariants, which widen the attack surface.
If you don't sign your commits you leave yourself an escape hatch just in case you need to wash your hands of a PR. /s
Nitpick: stimuli is already the plural of stimulus.
When I worked at Audible I remember a particular hackathon where a team created a way to pay their membership to the platform in Bitcoin.

The executive team at the time was made visibly uncomfortable by the idea while it was being presented. They expressed concern over the process involved in handling fraud and essentially said the business model didn't support a Bitcoin-based payments system. They even had the nerve to inquire about how accepting payments in Bitcoin benefits the customer.

Needless to say, the team did not win. In fact, my team did - but we probably shouldn't have.

Then the Amazon Coin [0] came out later that year, which to this day very few people actually are aware even exists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Coin
I'm not sure how it would be crippled. Say they cap it so your iphone will upload 10% of the amount it downloads for an update. Right away we just took 10% of the load off the main Apple servers and very few people would be affected by uploading 100MB of a 1GB update over wifi.

I'm not suggesting the whole thing become p2p, but that the p2p network assist the dedicated distribution servers. For me, just the local p2p would halve the number of updates pulled from Apples servers because there are 2 of the same apple product on the same local network.

Obviously Apple doesn't need to do this because they are flawlessly pushing out updates every week but if they were struggling with distribution, this is a proven working system that windows uses.
Madoff earned $710 for 3K hours of prison work, got ‘not dependable’ review
A temporary cert only able to be created on another Apple system is not what I would say is an 'allowing' of running third party apps.

It is a kludge designed to make the process as unpleasant as possible but just so enough that Apple can claim they don't block sideloading.

It's disingenuous.
Apple's security is full of holes, yet people want to blame everyone but Apple.
pseudocode my man, pseudocode. ignite the imagination, and let the reader run wild.

however, now my imagination is now running, and thinking about how overkill "true" random might be for this application. something "random" like an orbital sander would probably be enough. you're just trying to get away from side-to-side, left-circle, right-circle, up/down patterns. you're doing this to 3 different surfaces, so they would grind out any slight patterns which is the point. seems like a try crypto random would be as "effecient" as my roomba appears not to be.
> I wish they'd do the Microsoft thing of letting you update based on others local downloads

Apple does let you do this! It just takes a little more work to enable.

You need a macOS device on your local network. Then in Preferences -> Sharing, enable “Content Caching”. This will transparently cache OS and app updates for all Apple devices on your local network. If any device requests an update your caching server doesn’t have, the caching server downloads it first and then serves it to the client. This can minorly speed up updates even when they're not already cached. It also caches shared iCloud file contents as well. (But with E2EE, so the server can’t see the content).

I keep a caching server running and really see the speed up. It's great if you’re setting up a new phone and installing lots of apps, making it particularly useful for corporate IT.
I can't remember when they did it but since the moment they gave old media prominence in the search results (I forget exactly when but in the last couple of years) it's been close to impossible to find any voice outside of the mainstream via search, especially when searching for news. Finding raw footage - no commentary, no cuts - via Youtube's search is impossible. It seems like that kind of thing is intentionally buried.
Why Standard C++ Math Functions Are Slow (2020)
Ask HN: How do I pick a Chatbot vendor?
They seem to all pitch the same features (or very similar) and the actual NLP / intent recognition bits are a black box.

Running experiments consistently across them would be quite resource intensive but may be the only option.

I'm wondering if anyone has had similar experiences and any insights around how they did it.
Culture is such a vague word, though, isn't it? In some cases it identifies a regional association (like Mexican culture). In some cases it's religious or social (like Catholic culture or Deaf culture). In other cases it has to do with socioeconomic status (like uncultured country bumpkins vs. cultured Ivy League grads), the arts (low-culture gossip mags vs. high-culture literary mags), or business practices (like a culture of secrecy or a culture of inclusion within an organization).

Fortunately, the law already bans discrimination on the basis of religion, ethnicity, and national origin, so that covers a lot of the legitimate cases where an attribute that has no bearing on a person's ability to perform the job cannot be factored into hiring decisions.

But there is certainly a sense in which culture absolutely can have bearing on job performance. A company might have a culture of "move fast and break things," and if a candidate is not comfortable with that culture, then it would be to their (and the employer's) benefit to know ahead of time whether the job would be a good fit for them.
Does it need to be 50 million lines of code?
When you design with security in mind you might have to prune old code and drop some risky optimizations, probably drop some features.
Using a higher-level language might help reduce the line count as well at the cost of performance and memory consumption.
This post would have been stronger if the author had gone back to their original 5 whys and continued it without counterfactuals.

- Build didn't happen, why?

- Pod didn't start, why?

- Disk was full, why?

At this point if counterfactuals are off the table, the answers become tautologies. Although if everyone is in agreement that counterfactuals are not helpful, this could become a powerful heuristic in determining that you've hit root cause and can shift from searching for root cause to designing mitigations for the root cause.

I guess that's the point of the post, but it seemed weird to start a scenario saying "it goes off the rails here, because of XYZ" and not come back and give the better version of that scenario.
Having briefly looked it up now, I agree. For gerontologists, I can imagine a strong social pressure not to break kayfabe about the jewel of the field. If I'm generous and assume the field is as rigourous as medicine or history, I have to compare it to how frequently those fields have been mistaken. I put zero stock into Guinness World Records.

I'm not convinced by the evidence in the link because it's hard to make judgements about so long in the past. But that's exactly why suspicion should be the default stance, with such financial incentives to inflate one's age. For me, claiming that people would have spotted the switch or attacking the qualifications of the authors isn't enough.
> Also, with a jailbreak, I own my data.

Also with a jailbreak, other people own your data too. A jailbreak is an exploit. A hammer can be used to drive in a nail (jailbreak) or it can be used to smash windows (malware.) Same tool in the end.

The very act of jailbreaking is what keeps your system vulnerable to the same exploits used by malicious actors.
Sure.

"I'm tired because - I stayed up all night playing games", or, "I'm tired - because my child screamed all night long," are more along the lines of what the post suggests are useful, and I can see how they're fundamentally more useful to getting at the root cause than the counterfactual, "I'm tired because I didn't sleep."

But this example is very simple and makes the argument less important I'd say.
It's evidence, not certainty.