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I believe, as you hint towards, that the ultimate way to reduce cancer risk is to cure ageing.

Most cancers are rare in your 20s and 30s, then get dramatically more common every year after from your mid 40s roughly.

To me, this suggests that the mechanisms that stop you getting cancer (and your body/DNA repairing in general) are themselves failing.

Of course, if everyone was 25 forever we'd still all eventually die of cancer, but it would take a lot longer than the current state of affairs.
Hopefully this will change things for people who aren't as powerful as her without that level of following.
We have quite prevalent “code objects” too, tweets etc. we sent out on the internet to solve our problems. They do act as agents though, and are sometimes not successful. And you do not code for operations but for virality in an execution machine that is being optimised for this operation via specialisation of its components to be collaterally, obsessively specifically extremist.
> The literacy rate in Afghanistan is below 50%

The literacy rate in Tsarist Russia was ~50% in 1916. The Soviet Union managed to raise it to 75% in two decades, despite a largely rural population, near-zero infrastructure, going through a civil war, famine, gross government mismanagement, being flat-broke, and having incredibly incompetent, and ideologically-bound leadership, that was more concerned with waging a war against its people, than actually governing them.

If you're telling me that the United States, with an unlimited budget couldn't accomplish the same in two decades of occupying Afghanistan, I'll tell you it's not because it couldn't do it. It's because it didn't try.

> No form of social engineering would solve this

No form of social engineering if you don't actually try to build a national identity is going to solve that. National identities don't arise by an act of God, they arise out of focused top-down propaganda and education and cultural efforts. Every country that has a national identity built one through such a manner. Afghanistan didn't develop one in the past twenty years, because the occupation couldn't be assed to.
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If it were not scheduled to take decades to build, there would be no purpose in the project at all. Like other big public-works projects, the true purpose is the gravy train of money delivered with no required result. The will'o'th'wisp "fusion" is just a distraction. Taking less time would mean cutting off the gravy early. Nobody involved wants that.

All of this would be garden-variety corruption, wholly legal under modern norms, except that a rapidly unfolding existential disaster looms: global climate disruption, and the project steals money from work that could actually help.
I don't think the size of the prison system is causally related to the size of the government.

The main cause as far as I can tell was a wave of drug addiction epidemics and crime in the 70s, leading to a "tough on crime" sentiment in the 80s that persists to this day.

Also there's a huge industry around private companies supplying contract services to prisons (including "public" prisons). Not to mention the fact that prison labor is dirt cheap it is an explicit loophole in anti-slavery laws. Follow the money.
This HN post is about Google breaking uBO by retiring Manifest v2. What then?
I've installed a great tabbed file explorer aptly titled "Files". It's a little rough around the edges but shows a lot of promise. Prior to that QTTabs worked well but didn't play nice with dark mode or the "add/remove programs" window. I'll look into Directory Opus thanks for the suggestion.
I see this as a failing of microprocessor design. I/O should be standardized and there should be high level API's that do not change across chips or companies. MCU's are intentionally fragile in this respect to try to lock buyers into one MCU product family. It is absolutely stupid that I/O ports work differently for different MCU's and don't use a common API. It means every designer always has to reinvent the wheel when moving to a new MCU. This must have had a huge negative effect on product reliability and innovation. It's also why many products have moved to using Arduino's.

There is also a huge lack of improvement in MCU designs. Why doesn't my SPI bus autonegotiate everything? Why can't the serial port do the same? This should all be available in hardware as a standard feature of the ports. What a waste of decades of engineering talent to have to repeatedly troubleshoot everything at the bit level.
It's mostly decor. There's so many more subdivisions and suburban areas, and the style of houses and interior spaces have really changed since the 1980s. A lot of things nowadays are made out of plastic that still would have been made out of metal in the 1980s (even more so in the 1950s). Case in point, today I went looking for a hose reel and nearly all the models were plastic pieces of crap. Plastic--a terrible material for outdoor work that will break in less than 5 years.
If control was somehow wrestled from them a second golden age of mobile apps would emerge.
The headline is definitely incorrect in terms of framing the problem. The foundational creators that spark a platform do not require cash.

The foundations of YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok were not based on creators/influencers getting large piles of cash. That all came later with mass adoption by the general public.

The problem with Clubhouse is that the general public is not very interested in the product and never will be. There's nothing they're going to be able to do to force that as it's fundamental. The only thing a lot more cash would accomplish is that it'll be vaporized.
Colloquial language changes rapidly. Ask anyone in India. Many modern words don't have a Indian equivalent.
There is plenty of evidence to suggest that sending someone to prison might actually increase their likelihood to commit crimes in the future.

You could get a much better ROI by reducing the circumstances that lead to criminality in the first place.
The amount of property stolen by police using civil forfeiture exceeds the amount stolen in property crime. On average, the risk of abuse exceeds the rewards of enforcement.
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Dustin A Moskovitz of Asana. How is this some sort of gotcha? Just noting they're both in tech?
The JavaScript / JavaScript logo is 10 years old
Check out the Azure team's benchmarks. Pretty damn impressive.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-po...
My mom was born in 1939 in France. She told me that she used to get an orange as her Christmas gift (nothing else). She would save her orange for a few days, looking forward to eating it. On the other hand her one brother would eat all of his immediately. I have an orange for lunch every day at work, partly because I like them but also to remind myself of this story and of how relatively good most of us have it these days.
If you're purchasing a game right before playing it, a 50GB install and a 20GB patch is probably easier than getting your hands on a mega drive game.

If you're buying the game ahead of time or already own it, then shouldn't auto-updates take care of things so you can jump right in?
Only as long as people believe in it.

With a national debt of over 30 trillion, it's amazing that some people can still believe that the US will pay all that debt back.

The USD will crash sooner rather than later.
Permaculture is vague and hand-wavey but some core notions IMHO are thinking about the suitability of sites for agriculture of a given nature, whilst increasing biodiversity (including non-agricultural biodiversity) and reducing reliance on foreign inputs. These are good ideas that generally lead to higher outputs for a given land area and a stronger and more resilient ecosystem.

The catch, however, is labour. You need to be OK with harvesting by hand, eating in season, weeding by hand, etc. And even if you do the full "food forest" approach (note: 5 years to get started) you are going to need a lot of land to support relatively few people. It's primarily a lifestyle thing and not practical at societal scale.

That said, however, it is "better; for our bodies, for the soil, for the water and birds and bees". If you can't see this, you are perhaps insufficiently schooled in biology or being mislead through the use of a simplistic accounting approach typical of traditional agriculture, which externalises costs such as soil and water degradation and assigns no value to sustainability, freshness, local processing, genetic diversity and so-on.

(Full disclosure: I am no farmer, but I operate in the food area and have an interest in related systems. I am from Australia, the origin of permaculture.)
But why not? They can still charge for it and have a FOSS dev model. Nobody who wants this without paying for it is going to have trouble getting it.
There's a significant difference between training to handle sleep deprivation as part of specific operatipns and just being sleep deprived 24/7 for months or years, though, and the US military has a long history of doing the latter.
You’re getting completely confused between ISA extensions (very rare) and other functionality on the SoC such as GPUs which are obviously universal and very diverse.
Beware Centralization
Turning shipping containers into three-bed turn-key homes for less than 75k
The Congress does not share responsibility. It dictates exactly the form required so that money can be disbursed on a regular schedule, over decades, to select constituents.

Q is certainly misleading, but no one is misled.
One survey last month showed three-quarters of New Zealanders supported the use of lockdowns, at least until vaccination targets had been reached.

Sounds like consensus to me.
Do you think Google's bans have a 0% false positive rate?
IIRC Motorola couldn't keep up in terms of producing competitive performant designs and lost out to competitors. ARM hasn't fallen into that trap. Then again, empires rise & fall, and the end of something is usually just a matter of time. But in the tech world the "end" is also some after-life embedded in another organization or pivoted to a different direction. For now, ARM is rock solid on a foundation made from shifting sands of eternal tech change.
I did specifically mention "competitive", which this is not. Literally, this is Blackberry against Tesla's "iPhone" - it has no chance except among the most die hard of BMW fans, and it's also goofy looking with its kidney cancer grille.
If only we paid the same attention to human driver accidents. It's good to keep the company and technology accountable but I still believe that autopilot is _miles_ better than your _average_ driver.

Like in this particular case - it was on a bend, there was an oncoming car approaching - should the autopilot have hit the brakes at full and risk swerving into the oncoming car? Should it have swerved around the deer and hit the oncoming car? I would have probably slowed down a bit but still hit it as human reaction speed is not that fast in reality. The deer becomes clearly visible ~3:53 and contact is made at ~3:56. Studies[1] show that the average reaction speed is 1.5 seconds. This leaves 1.5 seconds to come to a full stop. Would you be able to come to a dead stop within that timeframe at 70mph?

Every time a Tesla thread comes up I see so many "couch racers" in comments that pretend they're formula 1 drivers with split second reactions.

In reality this is a life-saving technology - imagine how much death, loss and suffering will self-driving cars prevent by taking drunk people off the road alone.

[1] https://roads-waterways.transport.nsw.gov.au/saferroadsnsw/s...
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> Last year, I saw a couple of guys at 3.00am at my street (twijnstraat) drive in a moped blow up a door of a graphics studio and steal all the digital equipments, Macs, etc.

There is an ongoing arms race/feud of sorts between Apple Stores, which sport beautiful glass facades, and thieves with SUVs, which they use for drive-in theft.

It's puzzling to me though since so many of the pilfered devices are display models which are supposed to brick themselves after removal, etc.. Perhaps they are sold to people who break them down and resell the components, or shipped abroad for remanufacturing/resale (and avoidance of IMEI blocks.)

Apple, for its part, just rebuilds (and possibly reinforces) the facades, perhaps adding some steel bollards or concrete barriers until the next drive-in.
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I feel it was less the disagreements, and more the inciting and fomenting
The Pfizer COVID vaccine has full FDA approval. That's why these mandates have started. It is now on the same approval level as the measles vaccine.
Some people here might defend exposing children to pornography as a good thing, but I am not one of those people.

However, blocking a ten‐year‐old from accessing the entirety of the Internet Archive simply because some of it happens to be pornographic… that’s exactly the kind of collateral damage that makes me resistant to such filters in the first place. I mean, imagine if children—presumably meaning not just young children, but “anyone under 18”—were prohibited from the adult section of a library. It seems antithetical to growth.
Also applicable to 2018 MacBooks.

Apple laptops are not able to cool themselves if used to any medium or higher capacity.

A laptop cooler or cabinet fans underneath to draw air away are a must if you want anywhere close to the cpu power you are purchasing.

An external keyboard is also a must to own a MacBook 2015-201i+ if it’s from the special years of dust existing on Earth,
Microsoft, Apple, And Google are perfectly timed right now for a competitor take over. They have been for a couple years.

Microsoft’s constant privacy violations with Windows 10 telemetry, their user hostile subscription pricing model on everything, horrible security vulnerabilities (and hostile bug bounty programs).

Apple’s pricing, security holes, (and hostile bug bounties program), and anti-developer activities, alignment with China, running the company like a CFO owns it.

Google’s complete corruption on account take downs, horrible search results (yes, I want that keyword I typed in to be included!), and privacy violations.

Why hasn’t all the money being thrown around the last handful of years been used to unseat these companies?
A lot of us "reasonably plugged-in" people were doing those things back in 1995. It is easier today, though.
The original Danger OS was home grown by some of the same folks that later started Zircon!
Show HN: Porfolio website simulating Google Search using React
But that's not connected to fifths tuning. It can happen with any tuning (one “trick” with a dual neck 6/12 string electric guitar is to tune the strings on the 12-string neck to each of the diatonic pitches so they resonate with whatever note is played on the 6-string neck, and then of course there are the sympathetic strings on Indian stringed instruments which have a similar function).

Curiously, while orchestral strings tend to be more comfortable in the sharp keys, as a double bass player, I was equally at home (if not more so) in the flat keys that tend to be favored by winds.
Bah, she's a piker. Hillary Clinton made hundreds of thousands on 'cattle deals', with no knowledge of the workspace and quick turnarounds.

But they're not even close to Hunter Biden's league.
That sounds kind of like Havana Syndrome.
You invade us, we'll torch every fab on our island.

As Dirty Harry would say, "Go ahead, make my day". Torching the fabs would level the playing fields as China would then have more fabs available than the West would. TSMC is who is supplying most of the West's semiconductors these days. They are more advanced than Intel, etc.
Yes the recent paper [1] that confirmed they were circular mentioned the similarities to plasmids in bacteria too!

In the nematode world, we create extrachromosomal arrays of transgenes by injecting plasmids into the worm’s gonad that then get passed down to progeny; the expression we see is almost always variable and mosaic and not every cell ends up showing it.

I would guess this technique used for decades in the field is actually an induced version of these!

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1763-5
Right. Finding a difference in color language would be more surprising. At least it's good to know for certain.
A lot of this gain has to do with leverage. Her husband loves to buy stock options which juice up typical returns significantly. Not saying there's no insider information, just that the returns are heavily amplified either way.
Seems like Chromebooks break their brand promise by not being slow enough.

With a new slow custom chip, Google will kill Chromebooks the way they killed Google Pay and Wave and Loon and all the rest.
> Every time when user will start your application it will check the identifier over the internet.

I’m not anti-commercial software, but when thinking of your license enforcement scheme, please consider carefully whether your users will always have internet access when launching your app.

Many use cases will not have internet 100% of the time. A very few will have it 0% of the time.
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Hi all. I built Gfolio, a Google Search themed portfolio website. This is my first ever React project, and it was a great learning experience :)
It's open source too.
Source code: https://github.com/enjeck/gfolio
Website: https://gfolio.enjeck.com/
Or we could do neither, and let parents be in charge of keeping their kids from seeing adult content.
It is decriminalized for personal use. Not exactly the same as not enforced. Not enforced means a cop could decide to enforce this on you for leverage or personal reasons.
Now think through the ways we might accomplish that, and then reflect on how the wealthy elite have rendered them all "cringe," "naive," "xenophobic," etc.
I can get the Airport example, but not the other two. I have mainly inhabited Australian universities and hospitals, and they’re nothing like malls.
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We’ve moved from a less diverse world (where Intel and AMD have an oligopoly) to one where a large number of firms can use Arm’s ISA and base designs (eg Neoverse) to build a decently competitive CPU. This is the opposite of what you’re suggesting is happening.
It wasn't my argument. I was explaining why I downvoted your comment, which I probably should have been more clear about.
That's not how ratios work. If 50% is wasted then 50% of new funds would still increase the overall amount.

And waste is defined as money spent that doesn't reach any goals, or even make any progress towards them. It's a very common topic on HN about startups spending capital poorly, and likewise profligate spending can be found everywhere in (US) government. $2T in a decades-long war is a recent example, including the hundreds of billions in equipment and resources left behind.

But surely, you knew what I meant. I wonder how much climate change progress could've been made with all that money. Feel free to donate more with your next tax payment if you want.
There was a clear implication, let's be honest here. Extreme violence is a normal part of our culture - young kids watch hulk smash violently in marvel movies and no one bats an eye. The reason strong offense is being taken here is because of the racist context of the violence in the movie.
I agree market forces are largely an issue, just know that when you're saying 'WrongThink' and 'Market forces drive companies to support one point of view in media, and censor everything else;'. Just as a heads up cause I would rather have these conversations than not, just like you said others wouldn't.

It just sounds like the 'reason, discourse and civic debate crowd are more aligning groups known for hate speech or using dog whistles to encourage that type of person to watch their content. For instance a Ben Shapiro, who sounds smart and looks like he wants reasons and facts but really his perfectly crafted throw away statements just take 30 minutes of googling to disprove. Rather than actually providing real fats and logic, it's just the common sense he can placate to and arguments reinforcing a religious agenda. It makes sense why he doesn't notice this as well, because to be cold and analytical it reduces blood flow to the sections of your brain that contribute to emotional thinking which is normally ideal. However, it also turns off your ability to sense when it's seeping into your thoughts regardless. So focusing purely rationality alone, can also dampen your effective rationality because it is harder to tell when you let emotions play a factor in your think
Blind trusts are used in these cases.
Background: I used to belong to a 50 person company that used TriNet and now run a ~10 one that uses Gusto (multi-state).

Honestly, if you are in a small company, having a PEO helps tremendously for both being an employee and the company's management.

> So I'm not really being hired and I have to deal with this PEO if I have issues with insurance of any sort.

(1) When would your employer ever have to deal with insurance issues even at a F500? That's all done directly with the carrier unless it has to do with the benefits calculation, which would be no different to do at a F500 with benefits and one that uses TriNet.

(2) If you did actually have to deal with insurance issues, trust me you want to go through a larger organization to deal with carriers. Carries don't give great customer service to small biz / independent LLCs.

(3) Yes, you legally are an employee of <insert PEO here> but who cares? There are few instances where this actually has an effect.
how about a running instance of this thing to look at if it is so great
Oh, how shocking! Google is scrapping a project! Someone catch me, I'm going to faint!
Sorry, wasn't trying to mislead. The full headline was 6 characters too long; I did my best to keep the intent of the original.
https://www.unacast.com/post/hedge-fund-location-data

> Modeling consumer behavior and forecasting future financial performance based on foot traffic and POI data;

> Evaluating and managing real estate asset portfolios based on migration patterns;

> Conducting trade area analysis for new investment opportunities;

> Leveraging property-level insights to build more specific insurance risk assessments; and

> Assessing sector and competitor performance.

Note that this is the words of the data broker itself. This one in particular doesn't appear to sell individual data, but rather aggregates by age/county/census group/income etc. It appears as most of their source data is mobile/app based.

I'd not be surprised if fraud is common among data miners and brokers - it'd be easy to inflate numbers in order to make more $.

Feeding the data miners with fake data would probably be relatively easy to pull off - say you just bought a house in a remote area and you want some new shops to open and the price of your house to go up..
confluence's main problem is that it is being used by enterprise software people doing enterprise software baloney.
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