skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea is that there aren't "longevity" genes only aging genes. Put another way, aging isn't an accident caused by the accumulation of damage. It's a selected for trait, a sort of slow, whole body apoptosis used to get rid of the soma once it's served it's purpose. Lifespan is simply the well timed removal of a generation once it has had the opportunity to reproduce and raise its brood.
Microstrategy and the Winklevoss twins have bigger stashes than that
The message is really anti-exploitation, not anti-work. Saying employees should discuss pay amongst themselves… It’s not even socialist or anything; it is really just encouraging an actual free market by reducing information asymmetry.
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You can work for a bit, save up for a sailboat, live on it, fish for food, travel from country to country.
If Skype had remained as useful and easy to use as it was >10 years ago, Zoom would

A) probably never have picked up steam, and

B) had a much steeper uphill battle

Before the plague hit only startups really used Zoom. The corporate video call space was dominated by things like Webex (awful), BlueJeans (awful), whatever MS morphed into current Teams (only slightly less awful), or if you were lucky, Google Hangouts (also just slightly less awful). Skype wasn't even a contender, and even against the kind of all-star field I just listed, it was a shitty experience - which says a lot.

There was a big void for real-time video business conferencing that "just worked", but until early 2020, the space was cornered off by giants who saw it, at best, as barren ground. Enter global, mandatory remote working and all of a sudden the existing players had nothing to offer. The market had stagnated, and beancounters had driven out all expensive innovation. All of a sudden, the space blows up and the neglected main tech in use is no longer fit for the new purpose.

Zoom has a lot of problems, but what they did have was a product that "just worked" in almost any setup, coupled with architecture and infrastructure that at least COULD respond to insane, long-lasting spike in demand.

Skype had become a rotting corpse nobody wanted to look or smell, but that was too heavy to move and too putrid to touch. We needed big enough a fire to burn it to ashes to make space for someone less atrocious. Zoom just happened to catch the tailwind, mostly because all the existing players had also abandoned the space but would not dare to leave it unguarded.
Not sure if this is within the spirit of the question, but: The individual ADSL bands are only 4 kHz wide, so you could modulate 4 or 5 of them down into the audible range (20Hz - 20kHz) and back up again after the transmission through the acoustic coupler. In theory, ADSL should then pick those bands to transmit the data.
> I dont think currency should be democratic, it should be impersonal and outside the whims of any group of people. Gold is like that.

If gold (or some other precious metal) is such a fantastic currency for a modern economy to use, why are no modern economies pegging their currencies to gold? Why didn't Nixon keep the dollar convertible to gold?
In September 2021 a €3,000,000,000 (!) contract between the Austrian federal railways (OEBB) and the Swiss-based train manufacturer Stadler was annulled after "a legally-impermissible electronic signature" was used on the purchase agreement[0]

[0] https://www.cryptomathic.com/news-events/blog/all-trains-can...
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The decision could be applied to whether a person can refuse vaccines, too.
To kill something, you need to know one way to do that. To keep it alive, you need to avoid _all_ the ways of killing it.

I think that is a strong argument for preventing aging being a much more difficult problem.
Observe Factorio and do what they do, as far as you can. Expose everything to Lua that you can, document well, if you can cultivate a community then it can guide you.
It's in your quote: "NICD has confirmed that almost all cases of SARS-C0V-2 in Tshwane are due to the new variant". They have confirmed almost all of them. That's a far cry from "we didn't test for it because we don't have the equipment".
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There are huge economic incentives that make miner strikes pretty unrealistic. It’s hard to imagine a situation where this wouldn’t backfire big time.
one does not simply put $40k on option based on liking

unless it's WSB
Much of big tech has no physical inputs or outputs. It's mostly network effect holding companies the big tech companies together. There is some gained efficiency at scale when it comes to software as a service, but the actual barrier to entry can be scaled by an individual or a small collective (open source).

The main input of the social networks is US, and our consent. If they break our trust, we start looking around for alternatives, and it might take a while, but we all hold grudges, and will route around their damage.

We must retain access to general purpose computing, if we do that, we can keep routing around their mistakes, accidental, or not.
Curious, can you explain why? In my experience (just one company where I had some interaction with accounting), there was a preference toward CAPEX. The costs of building a product, ie software development, was prefered over OPEX, in this case, analytics. Since I was doing both development and analytics, they preferred me to account part of my time as CAPEX. Not sure if this is normal but for context it was a non/pre-public company.
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> So IMHO crypto currencies are an aspect of hyper capitalism pretending to be something else.

Yes, exactly! The "problem" cryptocurrency solves is people with wealth having too many restrictions on that wealth.

I think blockchain technology is super interesting, and insofar as cryptocurrencies are an implementation of that technology they're interesting, but I'm very much not in agreement that they're solving any real problem that needs solving, and in fact the concept of cryptocurrency as money actually exacerbates an already bad situation. If one is worried about a small number of economic elite having undue influence over society, crypto is part of the problem, not the solution.
In this case, they mean Natural Language Processing, not Neural Linguistic Programming.
Is it possible that we might discover some new branch of (say) calculus that produces an exact formula for position as a function of time? (To my amateur eyes it looks like a tricky integral.) If so, this does appear to be merely a weakness of iterative simulation.

Or can we prove that there is no simple exact formula?
A little known annoying detail of web workers is that passing large data to them via postMessage is incredibly slow. The browser has to convert your javascript object into some sort of internal binary format and it slows down the thread that's doing the sending.
Even worker bees can fly away,
The queen is their slave
dig can also be used to make mDNS queries.

dig -p 5353 @224.0.0.251 raspberrypi.local
Might have to do with everyone downvoting the scary carona news from the major news channels
Our service economy that we live in is structured around there being a poorly paid and poorly treated underclass. Sure some in that class could leave but there aren't enough good jobs for everyone. We're talking about a structural problem, which can't be solved by individual action. I understand that can be hard to conceptualize for some.
I'm not fartattack and have no affiliation, but HN is the only site I know of that violates its own guidelines in the guidelines. It's hard to take guidelines (aka rules) like that seriously, to be honest.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

> It's a semi-noob illusion...
Many parts of rural Prince Edward Island (PEI) has DSL running on a phone system that’s probably original from modernization initiatives in the 1960s - 1980s. Party lines were the norm in some areas up west until late-1980s.
I do have some server hardware on premises (well it is in my basement and I have fat internet pipes) but I do not mind going middle road and renting dedicated servers on Hetzner and OVH. They're surprisingly cheap for whet they offer. The same performance / resource wise hardware on Amazon would make one bleed the money.
For clarification, Lambda Layers is the packaging of a node_module, vendor/gem, or python package folder, and then "sharing" that across various Lambdas, instead of deploying the shared files again and again.

The actual lambda file ends up being a few hundred bytes, because they are literally just one function in a single file.

There is no compiling involved in the Layers after its made once. The only changing part of the Lambda is the lambda_handler.
Varoufakis and Graeber actually gave a few talks together
Who is forced? Those jobs interviews weren’t held at gunpoint.

If (You personally don’t like a job)
{
Ban anyone from doing it even if they like it.
}
They just might? Did you recently sign anything shopping in the supermarket? Probably not, yet a valid contract was formed nonetheless.

This is really one of those falsehoods programmers believe about the law. No, courts do not in fact care if your method of signalling agreement is not some unalienable public key cryptography scheme. Unless the law explicitly states otherwise for the kind of contract you are entering into (e.g. requiring a notary seal), contracts are regularly formed a thousand different ways. Advertise a cash-back policy? Great, that's a contract you enter into with every buyer.
dig allows you to control things like retries and timeouts, choice of udp or tcp, choice of opcode (if you want to synthesise a NOTIFY message, say); it shows you the flags and the authority section so you can debug referrals, and the various EDNS options in case those matter.

If you just want the answer then `host` is just fine - I use both of them a lot - but `dig` really shines when you need to get into the guts of the DNS.
Not the miners. They’re only one of many parties with influence over Bitcoin development.
It also meant highest paying companies at one point in the engineer market which is also why it got popular. MS isn’t at the top on that metric
Just to clarify, socialism is about government ownership. Communism is about ownership of the people. As I see it no society has ever reached communism. Those that have gone full socialist have failed. There seems to be a fair amount of success in halfway there "socialist-capitalist" (essential services socialist, regulated capitalism for the rest) countries like Finland.
Well, first off, we can throw out the ideas of juries because contract law is civil, not criminal. You'd be dealing with judges who are well-versed in the actual legal system, and would know that the mechanism of the signature is not what makes it legally binding. DocuSign adds comfort to non-lawyers, but really isn't going to make any difference in court.

And that is the actual business value - not legal, but administrative. Easy to send out, receive back, track who signed what, and when. The actual signature is a nifty feature, but isn't the business value.
I similarly don't understand why Netflix is included. Well, I do, but I don't understand why "we" didn't change Cramer's acronym to FAAMG long ago, IMO Netflix does not belong with these names neither in it's size, it's role in tech or it's cash flow. Arguably Nvidia would be a more fitting N, but it's cash flow is not in the same league either.
> Isn't inflation/deflation about purchasing power?

No, that is the exact opposite of inflation/deflation.

Inflation/deflation are about nominal prices of goods and services.

If you want to talk about the price of a good in terms of a real quantity, then that is not measured by inflation or deflation and you need to specify what your measuring stick is, whether ounces of gold, or gallons of gasoline, or a median hourly wage in a specific labor market. There is one special term, called "real" prices, where the measuring stick is a weighted consumption basket, but that too is not going to represent purchasing power, which suggests deflating by either household income, or wages, or wealth.
> MANAMA

Doo doo do do do.
Agree. We are past carrying capacity. I would add tho’: Half a surviving child per person rather than one child per woman.
> The status of South and East Asians isn't entirely clear to me here.

You must have heard the term "white-adjacent".
The point is that mimimum wage hasn't kept up with productivity increases and that all the added profit of the last xx years is going to the top of the company. Example https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qp769d/think_this...

And that "benefits" shouldn't be something that's held over your head as a reward or as something that can be taken away on the whim of some other people. Healthcare etc should be a right, not a bargaining chip to keep the lower class under their thumb.
MAGMA is a better acronym nowadays, as Microsoft is far larger than Netflix, and Facebook renamed to Meta.
Are the long term goals of crypto-enthusiasts for crypto to completely replace fiat currency?

I can’t imagine a world without fiat currency, for the simple reason that governments operate in a deficit. A world without fiat currency would imply that all government workers are paid with crypto, all roads are funded with crypto, the military is funded with crypto, etc. And since this currency is limited and deflationary, this would imply that the only people who can fund these governments are the crypto whales. This sounds like a dystopian nightmare.

Further, it seems obvious to me that many of the decisions made by the Ethereum community are only intended to benefit wealth hoarders and early investors (PoS and the deflationary aspect). Their decisions don’t seem to have the larger global community in mind, at least in an authentic way. They seem to see it, simply, as a store of value.
These things are subject to interpretation, of course, but "noob" isn't a pejorative in the sense we use it - it just means a new user - so 'semi-noob' means a somewhat new user, and 'illusion' isn't calling a name. It seems like a pretty straightforward sentence to me.
> Under socialism you do not get do pick jobs at will. And you better show everyone how happy you are at the job assigned to you.

Socialism might mean you have more choice of work, because there is greater social mobility and access to education. Perhaps also you might work for a "cooperative" firm, where every employee is a part owner and gets to vote on issues and a take on the profits.
I mean that you have no benchmark to evaluate the relative metric of how stuck we get. Certainly we get stuck sometimes. How do you know that it's less often than in a simulation? Perhaps on a non-simulated universe there is *no* getting stuck. Or it happens so little as to be a virtually unknown concept. Relative to a universe higher up we might be getting stuck constantly.

The entire idea is a counterfactual with absolutely no way of evaluating it as evidence for the opinion that we're not simulated. It may even be true that successive layers if embedded universes would have more problems of that sort, but we still lack any way to establish that our own rate is the baseline. Considering that physicists themselves lack consensus on the question, I don't see how one physicist's philosophical musing on the topic can be taken as more than (currently) unprovable speculation.
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Compared to a society that has given up their guns and tolerates the amount of government violence against its own citizens, I'd take America any day.
Could it? My understanding is that the conservative justices are explicitly arguing that vaccination is a separate thing.
Well it wouldn't be very 'static' if it couldn't, so yes of course.
> hell of it is that it completely shafts those who really did earn their way into the top ranks

But ... again do we know this based on data, or it's patting our own back for finding a logical consequence that seems to nuke the whole affirmative action system?

> math

I think the real problem is that we should not teach math, nor most of the abstract arts. We should teach learning, acquiring skills, and ... picking and sticking to strategies.

And then it makes sense to help them learn whatever they want.
My understanding is that this acronym is partially based on the perceptions employees have about the compensation and perks given out by big tech companies. Historically, Microsoft didn't pay as well.
Perfect! And reproductive longevity is strongly selected. Mole rats and bats, despite small bodies and quite high metabolic rates live far longer than might be expected from simple allometric relations. Reproductive lifestyles can evolve by bootstrapping on large numbers of DNA variants that modulate and molecular-cellular systems.
People that have no other means of supporting their family are forced though economic means.

Do you really think anybody works the night shift at a fast food joint because they enjoy spending their time that way?
No, but they do it because otherwise their kid starves.

Exploitative capitalism doesn't often need to resort to guns. Usually the threat of starvation or dying from preventable disease is coercive enough.
A digital signature made using a government-issued smartcard is always a legal signature in Europe.
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> Why don’t they get another job? These people are inept and blame situations like getting cancer on their job?

You're suggesting that the entire service class get another job not in the service class? So now there's no more restaurants, fast food or otherwise, in the US? No more garbage men? If you agree that those jobs are essential to society's functioning, then don't you think we should treat and compensate them accordingly? It doesn't seem like your position is well thought out.
Vendor lock-in books aren’t my thing.

It’s fashionable to hate on k8s as a Google project but AWS is what props Amazon up, while k8s runs on an Rpi. Online retail is too easy to replicate.

IT people are feeding the beast they complain about; complexity through numerous APIs to do the same tasks. Security through obscurity, by letting Amazon decide what’s secure in their API sandbox.

Nevermind all the “walled garden” complaints about app stores. Cloud is the root node walled garden of computing. Where do you think all those apps get distributed from?

Way to build your own prison.
What are the odds that the client has a verifiable private key?
And if you need python-like configurability/reprogrammability, with go, you can use Starlark.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark
I’d rather take the cash today and stash it for savings tomorrow. I’m highly skeptical SWE will pay well when I’m ready to retire in 29 years.
And jumping past your comments about anti-racist and anti-sexist policy and execution in STEM pedagogy, your anecdotes point out an actually effective intervention -- supporting the development of a teaching workforce that reflects the communities of students in the classroom! There is a significant difference in approach when someone sees their students as "theirs", a resource to be developed and nurtured, instead of "someone else's", an unruly crowd to be disciplined, as you mention in a later comment. Is the teacher teaching, or babysitting/policing? Too much of US education is the second, for children of any color.

Must you have the same skin color to teach rather than babysit/police? No. In the American context, though, it takes effort rather than inertia to accurately see and develop the potential of your black students -- because inertia gives white teachers in particular a relentlessly negative media stream about "thugs" instead of "future Nobel winner". Our segregated society gives white teachers an incorrect set of Bayesian priors on the meaning of acting out or difficulties in class. They don't have black friends whose kids are going through a rough patch but are still the same sweet kid they were at age six. I mean, I just talked with a high school teacher in a rural Midwestern district who said 'at least she didn't have to worry about kids doing cocaine in the closet at school like at an inner city school', and as a graduate of such an inner city school, my response was "honey we couldn't afford cocaine, that's a rich kid drug". This is a lovely lady, dedicated teacher, and that's her prior on "inner city kids" as of Dec 3, 2021.
In the big picture, on a very long time horizon, they seemed on a trajectory of irrelevance through the Ballmer era, up until Satya became CEO. (That doesn't even necessarily preclude record profits under Ballmer, but a hide-bound inability to adapt to changing market fundamentals.)

PG tried calling it in 2007: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

They really changed when Satya Nadella came in, however.

(Not to romanticize. Big tech has a smarmy evil these days. Ballmer just wanted to sell Windows and Office like products to big enterprises. It was less disturbing than donning their sith robes and joining the rest of big tech in trying to posses our incorporeal souls through massive amounts of data and 'nudges'.)
> Unfortunately high-quality bundling into executables just isn’t a focus of Python (nor of any other high-level language).

You seem to be ignoring Tcl, which solved this problem about 20 years ago with Starkits (https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Starkit) and Starpacks (https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Starpack).
At least 99% of the people signing documents won't have a public key that anyone else can verify. Even if you help them generate one, they'll probably forget about it and you'll be the only one with a record of it, so once again we're left having to trust that you didn't tamper with your records.
At this point america is basically east europe with money.
Twitch is indeed a really interesting case-study for burnout and social interactions. I don't think it's fair to say that everyone is lonely or angry, but I've certainly seen streamers get that way. What's interesting is the dichotomy between people who have been streaming near-daily for a decade without issue, and the bandwagoners who break down after a couple months. I don't think there's any conclusive evidence as to why this happens, but I've got a few theories:

- If you fight your chat, more people will try to bring you down. It's a feedback loop.

- Conversely, if you refuse to engage with your chat, people may become bored and vicious to get your attention.

- A lot of modern "content creators" are used to highly-moderated platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

- Twitch is a free-for-all that rewards the most in-demand content, not what you want to do.

When people fall victim to these concerns, they almost always start to spiral out, and not in the kind of way that can be reset when you turn on your stream tomorrow. People like tyler1, Amouranth and Dream who see massive amounts of abuse and goading messages are caught in this bear trap: they can't leave, they can't do what they want to on-stream, they're forced to engage with an audience that hates them and they have no good alternatives. It's frankly kind of sad.

On the other side though, are streamers who have been at it for several years, and are relatively "well-adjusted". If you ever plan to stream yourself on Twitch, you should study them instead: people like Vinesauce, Jerma985, Limmy, Limesalicious, and other people who take their streams in stride. It's a fickle medium, but after a while you'll start to understand how harmony with your viewers can create not only wonderful and enjoyable content, but sustainable content.
Twitter can even provide GSA the software and managed hosting.