skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think doing some kind of cost benefit would be preferable to just spending money on what types of death people are most afraid of, which is basically what we are doing now.

I'm not saying that we need to do super intense cost benefit on every way of preventing death. But if we are spending far more to prevent a particular type of death than another just because of public sentiment I think that is a problem we should fix.

And doing that kind of analysis can actually save far more lives by using resources more efficiently. Orders of magnitude more people die from obesity than terrorism, yet we don't spend orders of magnitude more money on promoting healthy lifestyles. Or to pick a slightly absurd example, if we replaced security screening with cancer screening it could be far more effective in preventing people from dying in ways that aren't their "fault" (false positives aside).
>Are you really sure I'm the combative one in this situation?

Very much so. That much was clear from your first comment, when you equated the knee-jerk acceptance of insane and ineffective security theater post-9/11 with the entirely rational measures we've taken in the face of a novel pandemic for which there is no existent immunity.

Your tirades here demanding someone tell you the threshold at which point we can dispense with masks and distancing are ridiculously off base. As long as ICUs are packed, and as long as regular care is rationed because of antivaxxers flooding hospitals with COVID or Ivermectin ODs, we'll have to keep doing what we're doing to keep ourselves and those we love safe(r).
What makes this such a big deal? There have been many magnet advances before, what makes this one different?
You didn’t explicitly make this argument, but it sounds like you believe estate taxes are a feasible and effective way to redistribute accumulated wealth that would forestall a “torches and pitchforks” historical moment.

I… don’t see any evidence to believe this would be the case. Also, you’re comparing a historical pandemic that killed possibly half of the world’s (edit: Europe’s) population to the present pandemic which has killed 0.06% of the world population, at least 2/3 of whom were beyond normal working age. Sorry, I don’t see the connection.
It's good fodder for the antitrust suit.
Light AI – Replace 500 low-code tools with one line of code
While this is tangentially related to Amazon's fork of Elasticsearch, it's more related to Elastic's trademark infringement suit against AWS's use of the trademarked Elasticsearch name in their managed service, especially egregious given AWS's attempt to portray it as a "partnership" with Elastic in a since-deleted tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ppgosavi/status/11791819009690378...
technically they are federated, not decentralized. Gmail is a centralized, federated node. Think like a federation of states where each state is its own centralized, independent unit.

the newer definition of "decentralization" is more akin to anarchy. Collectivism vs individualism.
I've always wondered that and would probably do it for free, but my guess is that you run into the problem that all those gigs are reserved for grad students.

I do remember seeing a website that attempted to connect SW engineers willing to volunteer with scientists but I think that effort died out. Not a bad idea.
Anything can be blamed on covid or global warming.
Ageing is natural and harmful. Hunger is natural and harmful. Earthquakes, hurricanes, plaque are natural and harmful. We should mercilessly fight all of those, and ensure either of those maladies cause people to die.
This may be true, but is the answer to stoke the flames by accentuating racial differences? This is a far cry from MLK's vision of a colorblind society.
I was expecting it to read something like “why build two when you can build one for the price of 5”
>Amazon is the good guy

This is exactly what Amazon wants you to think. That's why they're calling it "OpenSearch" and not "AmazonSearch".
LLD is written in C++ and depends on LLVM (a massive C++ library). Zig's self-hosted linker has no C++ or LLVM dependency. One of the features of a compiler is how short the bootstrapping path is. C++ as part of the bootstrapping process is a failure of sorts.

Furthermore, LLD doesn't support incremental compilation. It's just not fast enough for our compilation performance goals.
> Aging is natural the same way heart disease and cancer are natural

How are heart disease and cancer not natural?

Aging is also slightly different in that it's how our bodies are supposed to work as far as I understand it, which is not very well (Possibly as a cancer prevention mechanism).

Telomeres and Aging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere#Association_with_agin...

Telomeres and Cancer prevention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere#Telomerase
Doesn't the app pull from the same servers that are down? When I have browser issues, I usually have app issues too.
Probably counting in the cost of unlimited global warming and all the damage it will do if we don't stop it, which we won't if current efforts are par for the course.
Doesn't matter. If you don't have the courage for FOSS, don't do it. And you also won't get the good will FOSS gives you.
Amazon EKS Anywhere – Now Generally Available for Kubernetes Clusters on Premise
Open source didn't go far enough in this case. It should have mandated the platform itself - from the billing pieces, to the hardware imaging, user management, and more - was all entirely open source.
Why were you planning to migrate in the first place?
Yes, I have found positional sparring to lead to the quickest improvement from blue to black (novices have different needs, typically)

"I've noticed the defender from 'bad positions' does better in specific training than they do in sparring in the same position" - It varies, but my rationale is that when somebody is passing your guard and then mounting you, you are typically dog tired and mentally you go from bad position to worse. In positional sparring, the guy in a bad spot starts from that position, so mentally is in a good place, and not as tired or positionally compromised.

"My least favorite: being on bottom open guard and having people disengage and run around to win" - Agreed, like typically new guys not engaging and wasting a couple of minutes by running around. In that case, I simply say, "come here my friend, let's practice", and they start getting in. And the same when I am the coach, I just encourage a more low-stake environment (which does not mean low effort or low quality) and I must say that I never got any pushback. "Let's practice, that's how we improve".

"Do you do the "5 minutes on top / 5 minutes on bottom" approach?" - I typically do two bottom and two top for each position (one top and bottom with one person and one top and one bottom with another), with rounds of 2 to 3 minutes, encouraging students to push the pace (2 minutes go by real quick and I don't like wasting opportunities to improve). My coach likes the line of people getting in, winner stays in, and 3 wins and you are out.

I think that both have a place, but I have prefer the two minutes round because it creates good competition (you pass my guard, we restart, now I am trying to avoid that same pass, while with the line there is not this immediate opportunity of a comeback).
8/10 but satire is frowned upon nowadays
It adds up quickly though. After taxes on those revenues you’re looking at $60k/year for each child’s education, $75k for family travel and recreation - with 2 kids you’re at $200k already before considering taxes. Meanwhile club membership can easily reach $30k for family socializing, $10k for home and garden maintenance, in addition to day to day expenses like dining and sports training/dues - easily another $20k annually. Throw in another $40k on property taxes.

So you can’t really quit your day job and you’re solidly upper middle class - but it’s not like you’re aren’t still thinking about money or that you’re spending your growth (keep in mind your earning on top of realized investment income is taxed at nearly the highest marginal rates - what legacy will you even have to pass down, especially after estate taxes. Can keep you up at night if the Margeaux didn’t knock you out.
I think this might be the story: https://vsevolod.net/good-webcams/
What ruined nuclear's reputation is corruption, and being the most expensive choice. (Although coal will end up overwhelmingly more costly, in the end!) Would it be so expensive without corruption? Who can say? Corruption is wired into the process.

We are purely lucky that, for structural reasons, corruption is minimal on solar and wind projects. Probably this is because what it ought to cost is readily visible from the outset. There just isn't enough fat to attract graft.
Same here. I'm still on a 3Mb DSL connection, and to be quite honest, according to my graphs, it's closer to 196KB/sec. Why in the world would I enable JS when I mostly don't need to? I'm just trying to read text!
I think the core problem is giving out a "free pass" to kill people. Very few people (at least in my experience) think that assisted suicide itself is bad, but the abuse potential is massive. And the action is, by definition, irreversible.

Plus, the people that need this are (quite obviously) unable to make this happen on their own. So this comes with the additional moral qualms of whether this is really what the wanted and if their mental state clear enough to make a decision like this.

Lastly, not killing these people is the "safe choice" - you're not getting sued for not killing a person. In the end, it probably boils down to this.
Morale of the story: licenses matter. Get them right.
Inflation is good for debtors. America is a debtor nation. That’s the other prong of the plutocratic pincer.
Inflation ≠ hyperinflation
A thread of neat tech and security visualizations
The barrage of downvotes were typical HN assuming the worst (mindless insensitivity) rather than giving a benefit of the doubt about my intent.

This, from HN's guidelines: Assume good faith.

You won't see much of that on HN in my very long experience here. People so often jump right to assuming the worst, which is why that guideline exists.

The assumption was that I was being insensitive, when the actuality was that I was going to attempt to start a conversation in order to better relate to the parent's story. I could have structured what I said better? That's fair, it happens, and it still doesn't change my intentions, which were positive.

It's the classic and true line, that people judge others by their actions without considering intentions and they prefer to judge themselves by their intentions instead of their actions. That's why trying to assume good faith on the part of someone else is so useful on forums.

I've got approximately four billion points here on HN, I don't care about the downvotes unto themselves, it's the lack of collegial communication instead of jumping right to a negative triggered reaction (a downvote, which represented a negative, incorrect assumption). You'll notice nobody asked why I was asking that very specific question, there was no attempt to give a shit about that, they all went right to behaving negatively.
I'm an industrial engineer, so this is all right up my alley!

My favorite example is a two-part foam injection machine. They needed to change the injection head, and accidentally put it on backwards. The parts mixed and worked their way back in the supply lines, solidifying along the way. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost productivity, multiple weeks to get it fixed. They promptly switched the coupling so it was impossible to put the injection head on backwards.
Wow, this is so cool!

REAPER (the DAW) has API's in Lua and Python.

https://www.reaper.fm/
https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/reascript/reascript.php#reascript_intro
https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/reascript/reascripthelp.html

It's internal API can't consume external Python libs (IE pip deps), but people have built a bridge module that lets you use regular Python to communicate with another Python process in the DAW and invoke the full API.

This would be really useful, because you'd be able to programmatically process audio on tracks using pre-made effects, and let users create and share VST settings presets.

So users could write scripts which apply chains of FX directly to audio clips on tracks, grabbing the audio sources/files from the DAW programmatically. And a community library of useful FX chains could emerge from this.

Oh man -- Imagine a graphical node-based UI where the user can place nodes as FX and route the audio file through a series of FX nodes, with tunable params.
This is entirely doable!!
Open source can't do that, literally. Any license that tries to impose "copyleft" on the whole platform like that will necessarily fail to meet the Open Source Definition.
It's been policy to scan both intl and domestic for decades now. This is well-documented.
> raising a ton of money without having a concrete and repeatable business would almost inevitably lead to poor decision making

This for me is one of those "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills" lessons. It seems so obvious to me, and I hesitate to even estimate the vast amount of cash wasted in the last decade like this. But it's a lesson that an awful lot of people seem to insist on learning for themselves. Or not!
Some serious channeling of Thomas Sowell in this comment
You aren't! I'm a state-school bachelor's-only don't-even-have-a-CS-degree person; neither of my parents have a 4-year-degree. I had a FAANG job, left it for a better one, own a house in 2/5 of the most expensive cities of the world, etc., etc.

Elitist assholes definitely exist everywhere, but in my experience a lot of what I viewed as "showing off" when I was younger was really just "being normal" for a different "normal". When a 25-year-old software developer talks all the time about Stanford and Lambos, he's not trying to show off, he's just talking about what he knows, just like the guy talking about tail-gating at <insert SEC school here> and then going four-wheeling all the time.

I don't want to devalue experience and education in any way; those things have value! But time is linear and the past has happened -- you just have to move forward with what you have and go after what you want, and don't get distracted by the fact that others started out with a lot more than you. I double-pinky-promise you that if you are good at something, keep getting better at it, and aren't an asshole yourself, you can work at any company you want. :-)
And it's exactly correct. Amazon got burnt by Elastic. Doesn't matter if it's $100 billion company.

And mind you, Elastic is no tiny startup. It has 2000+ employees.
> There are a thousand downsides and challenges that come with a solution to old age, but that doesn't mean leaving aging in place is better.

Sure, not by default, but on the merits of those downside, you probably should conclude that it is in fact better to have people age. Especially if it serves to only be available to the rich and powerful. That's just a shortcut to utter dystopia.
Telomeres are only one part of the equation, and they likely natural mechanism for controlling the cell differentiation. My understanding they resemble natural breaks that prevent cells to divide uncontrollably where they shouldn't.

I doubt they are the primary cause of ageing.

I prefer the theory explaining ageing as an epigenome misregulation that David Sinclair describes.
What does increasing wages have to do with free money? Are you suggesting we should work for free? Earning money is entirely different.
And I paid my mortgage every month. No break for us.
nice but i'm not sure i want everyone at work to be able to zoom in on every pores of my face...
> The US has the world's highest COVID-19 death count

This is patently false. You might mean, the highest reported death count.

The US is the 3rd largest country by population - and the two largest countries either A) Have no feasible way to count accurately or B) Deliberately don't report accurately.

> I'd love to hear what you think of my state

You're clearly not in California - where the lunacy has gone off the rails. Los Angeles bulldozed sand into skateboard parks[1] because kids were playing... despite all data at the time (and since then) has showed children are not at severe risk at all. It went well into the "prevent any death, no matter the cost" territory for most of the past year.

Shutdown all the schools - force kids to stay at home in isolation - drive up teen suicide rates... but it doesn't matter because they weren't COVID deaths and the goal was to prevent all COVID deaths. We ignored all consequences of the policies we enacted - because the goal became zero COVID deaths. Goodhart's Law[2] might come into play here.

Self driving cars is another prime example. Spending billions and billions of dollars, countless man hours of research and engineering, selling a promise and vision - negligently killing people along the way - all so we can have some future where nobody dies from a vehicle? That's just not reality. The reality is people will just die from coding errors instead - but it's the pursuit of "zero lives lost" that drives that industry and fantasy right now.

[1] https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/skateboarders-remove-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Why do we feel sorry for the restaurant and not the waiter? The waiter getting more money is good.
Why did you feel the need to slam this as “Christian?” There’s nothing in Christianity that speaks against medicine or trying to extend life. The only thing that is different for Christians is they believe death is not the final end, and thus have less reason to be afraid. They still don’t want to die.

Would you be comfortable slamming other religions in the same causal way? If not, why not?
Amazon did contribute code back.
In no universe will the current pandemic ever get within two orders of magnitude of the death rate from the historical plague.
yep - not going AGPL is just greed
In the case of Tesla, you call Tesla Roadside. For other cars, you use the fix-a-flat kit or call AAA/other roadside service.
I think everyone saw this one coming...

...although the article is a tad misleading. if a user reports a message, the message (and a bit of chat history) is sent to facebook mods, as it probably should be.
It is definitely not just you.
Right. This is a "shortage of Lamborghinis... at the $10,000 price point."
Wasn’t this one of the things the “death panels” (as so expertly branded by Republicans) were supposed to help with? Helping people on Medicare decide on how they wanted to approach these kind of issues and what they wanted for advanced directives?

Unfortunately so much of this is decided at the last minute as people are terrified or just desperate for any lifeline no matter the consequences. Choices that, had they made them without those immediate pressures they may have made differently and had time to truly think through.
Netflix and gaming are still going strong. Screens stay, but how we use them may change.
The people calling the shots may believe that the costs of stopping climate change outweigh the benefits.

On the other hand, they may just think there is no political route to stopping it.

I have never been an advocate of nuclear power in general, and I don't think the world needs more conventional fission reactors. I don't believe fusion power will ever be viable either.

But my pop-sci understanding of a fast breeder reactor is it consumes waste and produces more fuel.

Couldn't it be ripe for someone to take up a similar role to SpaceX only with nuclear power? Assuming we do really believe that climate change has to be stopped at any cost.
I wish I could work for anyone that I wanted to. The hurdle is acquiring the skills needed for that job, often years before you can get the job (in which case those skill may no longer be relevant). Secondly you need credentials. A prerequisite to both those is access to capital. Other forms of credentials is a built up network of references. Once you get all that you then need to locate someone that has a need that your skills happen to fill (hopefully you didn't skill up on an area that is no longer relevant), then you need to convince them to hire you.

And once you are working for someone else, there are a lot of things tipping the scales of power toward the employer. If you want to switch employers it takes time to prep and interview. Both of those are hard to come by if your current employer is requiring excess work hours from you, and isn't approving vacation request. And you then need to perform well in an interview which is difficult if you are currently suffering employer-induced burnout.
Since power from a fusion plant would cost 100x+ what solar and wind cost, no.

But every cent diverted to fusion from solar brings climate disaster closer.
If your mental image of people who support the notion of death is people who are just apathetically suicidal, then you're missing the point.
You're arguing semantics, not intent.

Just call it something new if definitions matter so much. "Fair Play Source", "Fair and Open", etc.

Fuck open source the way Amazon likes it. Look at how the giants abuse it to crush smaller innovators. It's not rewarding the original authors. It's turning them into labor slaves whose collective work is captured and monetized, with little hope of fair competition or reward.

Might as well call it "open slavery" and imagine Amazon as some Jabba the Hut creature.

The work was intended to be open. They just didn't imagine the giant Jabba slug eating the whole pie and freezing them out. Unintended, yet fatal, consequences.

The DOJ should look very closely at this behavior. It's anticompetitive af and wholly against the spirit and intent of the original authors.
Mitsubishi also invested to BEV by i-MiEV and PHEV by Outlander PHEV. Finally they acquired by Nissan.
There is a significant number of developers who think requiring a database to run tests is abhorrent, even in the age of containers. Instead, they'd rather write tests and validations in their app code against the query syntax, which ends up being more work and not as comprehensive.
> One of the most important reasons is the freedom to use that software where and how they want.

True for me, I agree.
You’re citing an article from 2017 talking about a reactor design from 1988 in response to an article about novel fusion technology from 2021.
Will fusion also occur then due to the mishandling of Windows 11?
FYI, your account is shadow banned.
In OSS, what a company giveth, a company cannot taketh away.
It is an interesting book and I know people who know him since they trained in the same gym, but along with the solid substance (meat) that he proposes, my impression is that he throws a lot of smoke at the problem (see for example the few interviews he gave to Tim Ferris). He is a smart guy and the book is one I recommend, but he overcomplicates what should be pretty straightforward.

I met many high-level, sometimes world-level practitioners of various sports and at the risk of coming across as glib, I have yet to find one with higher-than-average intelligence (there are, I just have not met them). That's why when some NFL or NBA players are presented as semi-savant, it makes me chuckle and want to say to the interviewer or commentator, "that's what you want to believe, not what it is. They are simply much better, but very rarely in an intellectual way".