skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for "longer life expectancy", all accounts I've read say that we got that early on in the 20th century

In the US, life expectancy at birth was around 53 in 1921. Today it's almost 79. That's a nearly 50% increase.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-...

It's a particularly interesting time to discount the life extension benefits of modern technology. We just saw multiple vaccines get developed and deployed in record time to significantly reduce the death toll from a worldwide pandemic. It's unlikely we would have seen this remarkable success even a decade ago.

Much of the rest of what you say is also inconsistent with actual data.
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I'm not even American :) Their national security isn't something that would worry me. And I know they often do things in the name of national security that are more about commercial interests.

However we are talking about a man who murdered thousands of innocents in cold blood. And shocked the whole world.

If people already have distrust for the local medical service, that's a local problem they should address. If they feel like helping to track down a mass murderer makes that health service even less trustworthy, they really are supporting the wrong side.

I think the only thing they did wrong was killing Bin Laden. I feel he should have stood trial for that. They shouldn't have killed him no matter how much he deserved it. Even the worst Nazis stood trial. I know it would have given him a stage but it was still wrong.

But I think sending a fake medical team in to confirm was a small measure considering what he had done. I'm sure even the police would do things like that in much less important cases.
I’m not sure how much the field has improved - good chance there’s some new papers I haven’t read. But I think it’s pretty doable. For all the talk of concurrent editing, the reality is that having multiple users edit the same value at the same time in most applications is incredibly rare. It’s rare enough that concurrent editing is just basically broken in most web apps and nobody seems to mind or talk about it. For structured / database data, the best effort merges of current systems (or doing simple last writer wins stuff) is a fine solution in 95% of applications.

But ideally we want something like the semantics of ot-json-1 [1] which supports arbitrary move operations. This is necessary if you wanted to implement a program like workflowy on top of a crdt. Martin thinks this is possible in a crdt by sort of embedding part of an OT system and doing transform, but I don’t feel very satisfied with that answer either.

The other thing I would love to see solved is how you would add git style conflicts into a crdt. The best effort merging strategy of most OT & CRDT systems is fine for real-time editing but it isn’t what you want when merging distant branches.

Automerge today supports arbitrary json data, inserts, deletes and local moves. I think that’s plenty for the data model in 99% of software. I think most software that fits well into a classical database model should be reasonably straightforward to adapt.

I’m not sure if that answers your question but yeah, I’m thinking about this stuff too.

[1] https://github.com/ottypes/json1
I don't know if they have made it into production yet (probably not?) but Lindsey Kuper wrote a nice pair of posts on how DNNs can replace an existing collision avoidance system (ACAS), and how to verify whether it's still safe after doing so:

http://composition.al/blog/2017/05/30/proving-that-safety-cr...

http://composition.al/blog/2017/05/31/proving-that-safety-cr...
Evidently making blanket statements about two geographically huge and economically / culturally heterogenous areas is misguided.
So where are all the crazy new mutations then ?

I can tell who has been recommended Darkhorse podcast pretty quickly. I've listened to it too.
It is. If you go read about these, on balance the information is negative. The projects suffered from design creep and cost overruns, and turned out not to be well-suited to the types of missions we allegedly needed them for.

The US Navy is already well into a new project to develop a new guided-missile frigate [FFG(X)] to replace these LCS ships.
They both use Safari's engine. There shouldn't be any difference in performance or support for features.
The actual saying is closer to "the disciplined shall inherit the earth".
I built a process for myself when self teaching coding that generalizes pretty well (have used for it for coding, basketball, 3D art, and most recently cooking).

Revolves around Dr. Strange quote: “mastery comes from theory and practice”.

I start by finding books/resources for absolute beginners. Examples: (Salt fat acid heat [cooking] blenderguru [3d art] Murachs intro to Java [coding].

Next I go through the entire resource cover to cover, and as I learn I add interesting projects to an ongoing list. I find the more I learn, the more interesting the subject gets and the more I want to learn.

The key to getting this cover to cover completion to work though is habit building. I force myself to do the activity every day for at least ten minutes. It sucks in the beginning, but after 2-3 days it becomes super duper easy and I find myself working for hours over that ten minutes.

Once I finish the intro resource: I find the next resource that suits my level… rinse and repeat after that :).

Other stuff that helps/optimizes the process:

Focus on meta learning. Figure out what works for you as you learn. Reflect often.

Surround yourself with experts on the topic if you can.
>there are many great scientists that believe very deeply in Religion. Which as a non-believer I would think would be at odds with one another.

And you would be right, we definitely shouldn't trust religious people to do science, of all things.
> Could someone with more knowledge/experience with the Navy explain whether that's a normal period of service for this kind of ship

These ships were commissioned to counter shallow-water adversaries. Iranian speedboats, pirates, et cetera. In the context of balancing Russia and China, they’re underpowered.

The orientation shift from terrorists and regional powers to countering a regional hegemon and emerging superpower explains part of the lifespan. The rest is it being a garbage ship.
Hi George, is this one finally doing stereo depth?
The problem is that the military doesn't give a damn about money. They co-developed the ship class with the first four ships that were built. Those four ships are worthless and each cost $600 million. It would cost another $2 billion dollars to make them combat ready.

The philosophy of developing and building weapon systems is called "concurrency" and has been a subject of debate for 50 years. You can look at in different ways, but the cynical view, is that if the military first developed weapons systems then reported their final price to Congress, they would never get to run these wasteful programs. So instead, they promise a low price tag and then develop concurrently so that Congress falls into the sunk cost fallacy.

This kind of "money doesn't matter we'll do it live" mentality happens all over the world. It plagued the F-35. It's resulting in a disaster with Canada's new Type 26 frigates.

The simple solution is to ban all concurrency. You're given a budget, you design the system, then you build it. If you go over, we pay for the cost of the redesign, not the insane cost of upgrading half-broken ships or aircraft. The F-35 wasted more than $21 billion dollars on worthless aircraft https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2017/10/21-billion-worth-of-f-...
I'm assuming you are being facetious in order to highlight an alleged absurdity of the suggestion. Though in reality the suggestion seems quite sensible to me.

Where I am, we've been under the effect of a pretty steep tax on plastic grocery bags that get noticeably passed along to the consumer. The result, from my personal experience, seems to have been a widespread adoption of tote bags. These last a very long time, 5+ years in my own experience. It has not resulted in a decrease in supermarket visits, to the best of my knowledge.

Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment.
This is not news for anyone paying attention to the media space. The big question is ... is there a way out? Or are we destined to have a small number of powerful organizations controlling world's information and in extension, our thought?
Right, but for the average user, it's not really feasible for them to receive a megabytes-large CSV of data in whatever format Amazon decides to provide, and then transform that into the necessary format for import into <Etsy/Ebay/Shopify>. We could make tools to do so, but then Amazon could just change what format they use for export, so we'd need to update the tools...

Regarding importing: you as a user have the right to provide your downloaded data to a different party, but there's nothing in GDPR that says that party must offer the necessary import capability.
I'd vote for NASA + private enterprise combo similar to DARPA programs. Leadership in the gov, execution in the private industry.
I thought I felt this way about a lot of stuff I never used or looked at. Then I read the Marie Kondo book and tried it and I realized it was much more freeing to have the space and only have the books, movies, games, etc. that I actually cared about, not have them mixed with tons I was indifferent to.
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I'm not sure about restaurants not getting more efficient. Even things like microwaves, refrigeration and automated fryers and cash registers seem like they would drive up efficiency, not to mention the improvements in logistics and food distribution.
> I remember them being commissioned without a working gun

I think you're confusing the LCS with the Zumwalt class... both of which were troubled and mostly cancelled, but for slightly different reasons.
> CNO Adm. Mike Gilday told USNI News in an interview it would take $2.5 billion to upgrade the first four ships – money he would rather put toward the emerging Constellation-class frigate (FFG-62) program.
Got to plug Concepts app. Pressure sensitivity included. Multiplatform. And opposed to MS Whiteboard, you can save your work in your own disc and sync it with whatever tool you want. It has been a game changer for me. No collaboration though.
What a great article.

I'd love to see this author adapt his work to ethereum and ETH.

In my view, ethereum does not share the "hole in Bitcoin's heart". It's because ETH has real utility, as well as the foundations of being money "which reigns supreme as the primary pricing vortex in one geographic area", ie. on the ethereum blockchain and its web of Layer-2 scaling solutions.
Reusable rockets with massive cargo capacity is just one example. SpaceX equipped rockets will soon be able to carry around 100 tons of cargo to any place on earth in less than an hour; massive implications for disaster response.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40865/rocket-delivery-...

Your whole perspective is a bit jarring. At any point in history - on the precipice of technological innovation - someone could have said 'Why go further, what's the point?' And that's just it, your limited ability to see the positive implications shouldn't define where progress goes. If we stopped at the horse-drawn carriage we would have missed the fire truck. If we stopped at Arpanet we would have missed every unforeseen positive associated with the internet today.
If you're not already familiar with the term, it's "spaced repetition" - And is big in learning/memory.
Try using Firefox on the world's most popular streaming site Twitch.Tv and report back, let it sit there for a while and try for example use multiple streams to check different perspectives. It slows down to a halt.

Also I can't for example leave Firefox alive while playong some games or it starts to create stutter in the games.

I tried profiling but the Firefox profiler just hangs all the time or uses so many resources it becomes unstable ironically
The FIRE movement confronts the 4% rule
As somebody who works with video and photo user data for machine learning, I'd say they are much better off not releasing the majority of their data. Unfortunately there are fairly severe legal consequences for commercial use of certain kinds of unconsented user data in various US states (consent of the people filmed, not the people collecting the data), and even companies in complete compliance have to deal with a huge potential legal headache to prove that their datasets follow every local regulation.
That last reference is pretty poorly written, I’m not sure it’s a reliable source.
Jean-Georges allegedly invented the dessert in 1987, having recently received the highest possible rating from a NYT review. He later went on to be a 3 Michelin star chef.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_chocolate_cake
Not really, considering many people spend a majority of their time consuming "indie" content on Instagram or YouTube and it's never been easier to create and release content of any kind.

The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems slip through your fingers.
This is perfect! Just replaced the battery in my SE/30 and will have to try this as soon as I find an ethernet solution. There are PDS ethernet cards but they're rare and expensive, or SCSI-ethernet adaptors but they're slow.
Somehow I doubt many of the tens of millions of people who switched have any idea about this minor tech feud. Blaming this for Firefox's fall would be just as silly as me assuming the tens of millions of people who use Brave know what kind of person is CEO and support his views. Most people don't look that deep into the tools they use.
As I understand it, Amazon is already internally organized in relatively independent groups, each focusing on a particular market. If so, one possibility would be to:

a) break Amazon into many independent companies based on these already-established groups and

b) bar forever (or for some time) these groups from merging with each other.

The initial conditions (terms of the break-up: e.g., how much cash each entity would get) would determine whether, when cast out onto the street, each might survive.
There was quite a heavy advertising campaign for the littoral combat ship in the early 2000s. They even had ads in the subway! I think this is a fairly common word.
Wouldn't you be able to see telephone or other cabling going into the building?
His high school valedictorian speech was about going to space: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-space-travel-life....
Playable on all desktops and in browser, and with seamless travel between servers!

Very cool. Looks like 2021 will be the year of the Metaverse.
Skepticism is a tough gig really. If you are right then nobody cares, if you are wrong then you look like a fool.
Wondering why this is on the second page? Why would smb flag the story?

Using alternative browsers is important. I have the same issues as others described in the chat. Meet-up does not work well in Firefox (video hangs, screenshare not working well ). In chromium no problem.

Zoom and others work like a charm.
I feel like I have more choice than ever. if you don't watch TV this is not so much of a problem.
You are selectively picking one example from the parent post and making a rather personal attack. There’s no need for that. Stick to your argument and don’t make it personal.
https://bookthing.org/

At least when I used to enjoy it 20 years ago.
> The lead-crime hypothesis is almost certainly true

Could you explain what is true? You are talking about a societal wide chemical change in behaviour in all aspects of life.

To start, what % or amount of the reduced crime is due to the lead-crime hypothesis?

Since the lead has brain damaged somewhat equally everyone's impulse control can we see this in TV viewing habits and other everyday behaviour? I'd expect if it can cause us to murder more, it'd also have many everyday effects.

Do you have any conversations around it's effects on other animals also in these environments. How would our pets changed or city animals like birds have changed their behaviour?

Societal wide chemical changes are pretty out there, but they happen, IQs rise as countries become richer through diverse food security but this a limit function, 90% of people get enough iodine so the IQ changes will on be the 10%. Lead-crime hypothesis is ~100% changed.

The Middle East was late to reducing lead. Do the think the we will see more stability there. Do you think lead-crime hypothesis is that important? What is true?
Median U.S. income is higher than any other large developed country, including Germany, France, the nordics, etc. More likely is that computers and automation have enabled small numbers of people to have huge impacts. If one person can create a 10% better solution that solution scales infinitely without any supply constraints to the rest of the market, creating a winner take-all effect.

Scale of impact is historically why finance and law paid well, and it's also why management gets paid more than ever now. If you as a lawyer are 10% better than your competition and you have automation to make the grunt work un-fuck-up-able, you have much more time to make decisions on many more cases. That means the gains accrue to you instead of being spread among a bunch of mediocre lawyers, whereas previously without computers you might have been limited in how much time you could spend on high value work by communication and physical constraints.

In contrast, most workers are performing jobs that are either menial (paper pushing) or automatable, which means there is no way for top performing workers to highly differentiate themselves, since there's no barrier to entry. If you look at software engineers, there is a large gap in skill and business impact between even a Fortune 500 engineer and a FAANG engineer. That gap means 1. ability to highly differentiate yourself, at least to a degree and 2. skilled engineers have huge leverage and impact which translates to higher salaries. When the skill gap ranges from "doesn't understand what a linked list is" to "started a billion dollar company" the income distribution is bound to be heavily bimodal and heavily biased towards the top.

It is no coincidence that the advent of automation and software has both caused finance and law salaries to become more bimodal, and created a highly bimodal market for software engineers themselves.
By being a super-advanced space alien?

I mean, or just practicing. Humans who put in the time can do pretty amazing stuff.
Yup, I've weaned myself from all of the brands they listed, except for when I consume certain news via an aggregator like HN.
JavaScript was made in a weekend, wasn't it?
Strange, considering the next big thing in military thinking (other than urban) is a shift to littoral focus, preparing for the Pacific shores to become the battleground. Read up on the Marines' major self redefinition currently going on.
> We take advantage of this by "converting" the machine into a Quadra 650, which involves desoldering resistor R151 and mounting a 1.2K 0805 resistor at R152. After this, the new chip was solid at 44 Mhz.

Back in the day overclocking was more of an adventure.
I’m sure there’s a way out, considering that I already consume the minority of my media from those sources. The internet is still a lot bigger than what’s listed here, and with cord-cutting, that has extended to my TV as well.

The turn of the century was probably the rock-bottom as far as choice in media is concerned. It has been getting better over the past 20 years.
For reference, using modern ssh to connect to a 15 MHz m68030 Mac LC II with 16 bit memory bus takes literally just under ten minutes (NetBSD 9 to NetBSD 9). An LC III+ with 33 MHz, 32 bit bus m68030 takes a little over 3 minutes.
Buying “Made in China” Is Killing Us
You're right - I was definitely thinking about the Zumwalt's cannon!
The bristlecones in Great Basin NP in Nevada are approximately the same age. The oldest tree in the world lived there until a guy cut it down in 1964, making the new oldest tree the one in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees
If you haven't tried it, I would refrain from making that claim.

I used the v1 of this device for ~1 year, and since then driving has never felt the same. It was sooo much less annoying to do regular commutes when the device took control for even 90% of the trip. This was true even though I still paid attention to the road and had hands ready to take the wheel.
Probably not without government intervention. Antitrust or antimonopoly (or anti-oligopoly) enforcement would probably help. Perhaps copyright reform would help, although that is less obvious.
Ah, makes sense. My bad.

Although I do believe there is a great future for public transit in coordination with lighter ‘last mile’ solutions simply because cars are way too bulky for cities.
Does it mean that some studies should arrive at false result due to random errors in methodology and in peer review process?

Maybe affect is so strong that to get opposite result you'd have to botch so many things that your chances of getting through peer review are so low that not a single wrongly successful research debunking this made it through peer review. Probably not many people are trying to debunk it and those that failed to prove it don't publish because people don't like publishing negative results.
not sure that's right...

for interactive use, compared to rendering to the display and pushing the packet out the crypto overhead is going to be minuscule
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Is there a significant number of people who use vim without any sort of syntax highlighting and linting? I'm still a newb programmer but I started trying to learn neovim this weekend, I can't imagine using it plain...
I don't have a dog in this fight, but it's pretty revealing that RSF's concerns seem to be limited to the jailing itself and they implicitly accept that he's guilty of a serious offense and deserving of some level of punishment ("alternative measures considered in lieu of his prison sentence").

Even if one shares the RSF's concerns, and I would count myself in that group, that's a far cry from the implication that OP's article is making that the whole case is a sham.
Or a Lisp and let the user face them instead.
Meh. Is government expenditure bad? The money flows into the economy and technology is researched and developed.

It's not like the money would be spent elsewhere, it's all debt we're just going to hold on to until inflation renders it irrelevant.
Good points. Maybe I expected to learn more details but given your comments, that doesn’t make sense.
I still have a proverbial shape shifting Jenga at my place, not just books but research papers too. Although things are a bit saner once I got a tablet. I do appreciate the advantages that a tablet brings, but I do have to be more careful with it than I am with a book.
You can also just turn Javascript off and the full article loads.