skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you can't escape legal responsibility from intentional sabotage that easily.
The most well funded companies fail to write secure code.

Cybersecurity is a process, not a binary without vulnerabilities.
At the very end they do have this:

> Slower population growth could make the challenge of cutting carbon emissions less daunting.
AMD Patent Details Innovative Stacked Accelerator
We have no known way of increasing birth rate other than letting society collapse and letting whichever society survives to continue.

That or something horrible like abolishing woman's rights, decreasing rate of survival, etc.
Yes, actively harmful
How many of these organizations achieved the financial growth the Wikimedia Foundation has achieved by crying poverty?

NPR and PSB also cry poverty, but their budget is relatively stable. They take much the same money each year. The Wikimedia Foundation, on the other hand, has consistently doubled its revenue every two to five years – while crying poverty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...
> What is the advantage of GPU acceleration for a terminal emulator?

I haven't found any. Seems like it's just a fashion accessory for $THIS_YEAR.
The latter mostly. Antwerp went through challenging times right after its heyday.
Plain Org v1.1 Released
If you buy quality screwdrivers you'll be able to resell them for a good price.
Video's thumbnail updates everytime I'm stretching
A lot of the discussions here seem to forget one thing for the Chinese language. The written and spoken Chinese were different from early on, and the spoken spoken language for the administration or office was not the same as that for locals' chitchat.
Tacitus writes of the Jews that

"Still they provide for the increase of their numbers. It is a crime among them to kill any newly-born infant."

(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...)

Were it otherwise in the peoples around them, would Tacitus have thought this worth of mention?
Crypto is not hard to value. Valuation is the estimation of the present value of future free cash flows. Since most crypto tokens produce negligible free cash flows relative to their market cap, they have approximately zero intrinsic value relative to their market price.
Power and speed. Bigger transistors need more electrons to switch and have larger threshold voltages. More voltage and current sloshing back and forth means more time per transition and more power.
Youthful longevity would obviously be a focus of any longevity initiative. Far future, we are unlikely to remain on any fragile biological substrate. Not sure why people keep on bringing up the idea of 90-year-olds living forever.

> death is evolved for a real reason

Not necessarily true. Evolution only cares that we fuck and pop out kids and they grow up and do the same. Once we've accomplished that goal, we are irrelevant from an evolutionary perspective.
I used to live in a rural area. As soon as it began to get cold the mice - and sometimes a few rats - would start their annual pilgrimage from the freezing, dangerous fields into the nice warm safe human houses.

I bought some live catch traps. The mice blocked the entrances.

Really. They collected all kinds of crap that was on the floor and pushed it into the entrance holes.

If I'd known about the cooking oil trick, I'd have used that instead.
Totally agreed. If software is ever to become a serious and respected industry we can't just deny responsibility and blame the users as soon as something goes wrong.
Do not miss, in your interpretation of "humour", that a big topic of the movie is, in fact, compassion (interestingly, at the same time a legacy and a radical difference between "the old gods" and "the new gods"). Compassion also involves noting the absurdities of those existences bound to their own nature (of god, of man, of titan). It is subterranean in the movie, and sometimes its side or radical humour (laughter inducing, but not "funny": tragic) emerges more clearly.
Living that much longer through disease and natural degeneration elimination with the possibility of still dying from trauma might be quite horrible. Aversion to risk would logically skyrocket. Would skiing or even driving make sense?
>Well, more people to build the houses, for a start.

How so? Do you only let builders, contractors and handy-men immigrate in the country?

>The housing crisis has nothing to do with population.

How so? Housing prices are a function of supply vs demand, and more population equals more demand, unless you expect the immigrant population to be homeless.
> people sharing your opinion that stopping aging is selfish/immoral.

People share this opinion until they're on their deathbed. If offered a pill to be restored to youthful longevity in that moment, most people would give up everything and endure just about anything for a mere chance at it.

People are remarkably shortsighted and don't take the time to comprehend what the horror at the end of the tunnel will really feel like.
So then I hit Ctrl-C and issue the correct command. How does a GPU based renderer improve on that use-case?
Frankly, this is what America has always been about - A combination of science, technology and capitalism. We need a lot more of these moonshots attempted at a massive scale. So what if it may not work out? People can not stop for the fear of failure. If founders have money and resources, by all mean I for one welcome these with open arms.
But how is it different from a company spending money to find cure for cancer which also ultimately extends the lives of the people? Am I missing something?
The psychological rot is what I'm talking about - not anything physical. Perhaps it has to do with aging brain anatomy but we don't know that it isn't due to the arduous nature of life itself. Life has a way of beating people down and making them bitter, far too often. Hell, you could be right and perhaps seeing everyone they know and love, sans their children, get sick and die, perhaps that is traumatizing though we have normalized it.

P.S. Don't know why you are being downvoted. Some people find fault in healthy discussion :-/
Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?
You know what I'm talking about. Even at their best, the pop-ups for every single website to accept or choose cookies is ridicuous.

Can you imagine how much time in total we all lose to this?

And yet, these "solutions" to the data privacy questions have become widespread.

It's bad enough at normal times, let alone those who double triple quadruple bluff you into choosing the wrong setting.

This is a tech board.

Why have we all accepted this ridiculous situation?

Isn't there a better solution?
So, you like long walks or not? And the who killed the cat book is bad insurance opinion?
He forgot to remember the most important lesson of all, humans love fake things above all else.

From novels to games to movies... and facebook conspiracy posts.
Thorium-Special – Performance optimized chromium fork for ARM32/64, AVX and AVX2
Most "cryptos" are just affinity scams riding on the coattails of the true innovation of Bitcoin. They offer nothing significantly new or important over Bitcoin. Most people in the space understand this and why. Institutional investors starting to come in understand this. State governments are starting to understand this. The energy sector is starting to understand this.

Yes crypto is a bubble, and it will pop. When it does Bitcoin will likely get dragged down with it for a while, but at the end of the day it will be one of the few left standing.

Save yourself time, money, and effort. Ignore all other cryptos, and just buy Bitcoin (i.e. dollar cost average), and hold it for 4+ years.
They usually run them through power regulation circuitry (a boost converter or the digital equivalent) and overdrive the LEDs, maybe into the 24v+ range. The "turbo" mode usually only runs for a few seconds at most, and is where they derive the high lumen numbers from.

With this kind of flashlight you have to use unprotected lithium ion cells because they far exceed what the protection circuitry will let you do. Also related to their tendency to go kaboom if set up wrong.
Yes. I would expect the article to become an "eternal cornerstone of web development" which evolves with the stacks.

After a few years, the history if it would be very interesting. It would show how much maintenance a minimal web app based on the different approaches needed.
Immigration is a bandaid on an internal injury. It makes you think you’ve helped the problem for now, but you’ve really done nothing.

Most of the countries that act as sources of immigrants are beginning their own population decline. Very soon there’ll be a slim number of countries with enough population to maintain their numbers while having enough to send abroad. Within about 50 years or so, that number will be approximately zero. When immigrants come to a country and adapt, their birth rates drop off pretty quickly as well. It’s a one, maybe two generation patch that slightly sustains numbers and that’s it.

Figuring out how to get people currently living in your country wanting to have kids is the real solution. At that point you can recruit skilled immigrants and not just play a numbers game to try to stay afloat. You also don’t need to think you’re entitled to the population of other countries to solve your own demographic crisis, like so many western countries do.
In any longevity scenario we will necessarily have the time to iron these problems out :) No technology, no matter how good, has been perfect from the beginning.
Is this really something that people in the USA spend their days worrying about? Serious question, as it is not part of the law over here in the part of the world where I live. Also, with every crypto transaction recorded on the public ledger and the vast majority of wallets held in exchanges, why wouldn't the police just acquire the crypto too?
people like to think they are "doing something" even if it clearly does nothing. Kind of a collective guilt complex

The solution is to use they "i don't care about cookies" chrome extension
All I did was go to the adoption place and ask for a slightly older cat who'd been on the street long enough to be a hunter. They were very happy I wasn't asking for a cute kitten. He came litter trained, fixed, and kills everything that gets in the house.
I must congratulate on your excellent demonstration of Poe's Law.

Nonetheless, to the extent that you are being serious and not sarcastic, I largely agree with you.
Money is hard to value. Fundamentally, it relies on a consensus that it's useful and valuable, but there's nothing inherent in money that makes it that way. It's a useful collective hallucination.

So is crypto. Some people came up with a collective hallucination that they considered useful and valuable, and convinced some other people that it was, because, hey, we all like valuable things, especially when we can create them out of thin air and sell them to people for other shiny things that we like.
Those “management failures” seem to be working pretty well then, as the US gov and private industry don’t seem to see the fuss. Where’s your competition?

That said, it is definitely foolish the comparison here.
I really wanted to love this article and the author's ideas but couldn't help feeling like it was a rediscovery of some LISP principles while keeping some contemporary development practices. Food for thought, for sure.
Wall socket
> No. It is manipulative framing where responsibility for backdoor is pushed onto users.

I fundamentally disagree that anything was pushed onto downstream users. They explicitly pulled Log4j.

Framing it as the maintainers pushing the update onto downstream users is itself so manipulative that I wonder if you are conversing in good faith. Framing the bug as a backdoor is absurdly manipulative.

The Apache License even warns the users explicitly:

> Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Work (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Work and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License.
If robots replaced humans there’d be significant deflation and some UBI policy would be enough for people to afford said deflated goods

Maybe. Idk really though. Sure it depends on the good
Android logs.
I don't see how this is duct-tabing, decorators are very straightforward syntax sugar over Python's everything-is-an-object mentality

@decorator
some_func

is simply

some_func = decorator(some_func)

There is no C++style "Here is 100 more arcane rules and 1000 exceptions and meta-rules that govern their interaction and application". It's all consistent additions to the language that does nothing but abstract out what you could do by hand but more verbose-ly and error-prone-ly. In fact, nothing in the above comments except type annotations are "language features" at all, they are libraries, and not even implicitly imported at that.
Author here. Apologize for the late response, as I only realized it was on HN a few days after. Thanks for posting it!

A bit of our background: we have been a long time user of Thumbor, with millions of images serving under it and applications built around the Thumbor syntax. However Thumbor is not quite in active development anymore. Support is getting stale, and its stable version is still using Python 2.

So we started to look to alternatives. We wanted to keep the Thumbor syntax as it is a pretty good one, and we want no disruption to our existing image urls being created, and applications that built around it. So we wanted a drop-in replacement. We studied closely with Imaginary and Imgproxy which both are made with Go and libvips. Imgproxy is a pretty solid one, but we are not happy it is charging for premium, even for common features like Chained pipelines (a.k.a filters). Imaginary is very popular, but the feature parity gap is pretty large between Imaginary and Thumbor, with ongoing memory issues and the author seems not interested in maintaining it recently. And most importantly, neither of both sides are interested in adopting Thumbor's URL syntax. And building a proxy around them would be a half baked solution, as their high level APIs are unlikely meet the Thumbor's feature parity. And so we decided to do the hard work and here it is.

We have already implemented all features we need and it is working great for us in production. The S3 Loader/Storage is battle tested, but the file store is not though. We do acknowledge it has a long way to go to meet the Thumbor's feature parity. But this is just our first step and of course we wanna keep pushing it.
Similar but somewhat different. You would normaly not have

echo "<h1>Hello World</h1>" > index.php

in a Dockerfile.
How Germany became Europe's cargo bike hub
That's a very egocentric view of the whole endeavor of life.

Part of the game is the renewal process of it.

If for once find it way more creepy to have centennial billionaires that are hoarding land and resources, because they have the illusion that things belong to them, when in reality it was never theirs to begin with.
Although I agree with your view there is one aspect you aren't considering - Bitcoin is currently backed by a mining network that is managing to achieve around 200 Exahashes/second or however they measure it. A big number.

While at a theoretical level different crypto tokens are the same that will not be how the market plays out. That sort of computing power isn't easily replaced and while it exists Bitcoin is unique. So it does have value at the moment, but the value is not inherent in the protocol.
"Whatever the reason, Great Britain is an obscure place". Obscure to whom?

I hope Longreads will let us know about other obscure places: New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome...
> We have no known way of increasing birth rate

A blatant generalization, in the face that it wasn't much of a priority for now. Or is there any proof that it was much of a priority, for example in terms of media influence, % of budget, etc?
How to Create a TikTok Trend
Germany if you were wondering, and trying to ignore the clickbait title.
Yeah I wouldn't even mind if somebody spent billions on finding an 'Upload' like solution where you can just put your consciousness in a computer and live forever like that instead.

People generally have a knee jerk hate for such things but I welcome that with open arms too.
this seems like a good thread to piggyback on. Could I get some links to " official development blogs"? I recently bumped into the one by Etsy (http://codeascraft.etsy.com/) and I'm sure there are many others.

I find the first hand story of how different architectural decisions turn out in real world scenarios are way more valuable than all the blogs out there writing about any new hot piece of tech. I'm curious what you found interesting and even check regularly.
Where? There seems to be no way to access this documentation without spending hundreds of USD on a code platform.
npm has long had a problem respecting lock files. The concept is easy: have a fixed lock file, get a reproducible build. But no: npm will change your lock file (I believe it's framed as "optimizing") without notice.

(Perhaps they've solved this in the last couple of years. I've been staying away from that ecosystem... too much growing in it...)
It seems this article went into the second-chance pool, which is great! It didn't get much discussion last time around but might spurn a lot of interesting threads.

However, something I find a little upsetting: I commented the first time around (about 2 days ago). But currently the comments show that I commented first about 50 minutes ago. That's a little too much rewriting of history, if you ask me.

What's funny is that when I came to leave this reply, on the "Add comment" page, it correctly says that my first comment was 2 days ago. So this information IS available. So the timestamp is rewritten? @dang, seems a little too much ret-conny...

(It also makes me wonder what would happen if I visited the second-chance page before some of the other first-time comments were/are-going-to-be posted.)
> to have centennial billionaires

All technologies are expensive at first. To imply that longevity will not some day be available to all is absurd. The riots would collapse society.

Technology becomes affordable over time.

> Part of the game is the renewal process of it.

There is no renewal process. There is only a permanent end. A void that you will never escape from.

--

Whether you agree with that or not, what's clear is that this stuff should be a choice. Who are you to tell someone that they shouldn't live as long as they want? It's their body.
No if we lived to a 1000 years, almost all of our problems here would be solved -- as people would finally take responsibility for their futures.
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> Birthrate-boosting programmes conflict with those for educating girls: the more educated women are, the fewer children they have.

This is phrased as an inherent property of education, but how true is it? I argue that if educational systems were more accommodating to young mothers, women wouldn't need to postpone motherhood for the sake of education. What about existing programmes that give tax incentives and financial aid to young families? Does that also conflict with educating girls?

The author has performed a clever rhetorical sleight of hand, using the fact that education correlates with lower birthrate, to claim that any effort to increase the birthrate reduces education. This is nonsense - would she claim that a punitive tax on families would help women's education, by way of lowering the birthrate? She has causation backwards, the equivalent of "wet streets cause rain".

And the fight for equality shouldn't end at enabling women to choose between education or motherhood. It should keep going until they don't have to choose. Same goes for professional careers. The Guardian article, despite their usual sensitivity to feminist causes, is completely lacking in this perspective. Speaking of perspective:

> Musk’s striking indifference to the implications of a scheme that will depend, as with all reproductive fantasies, on women’s biological compliance, may actually have helped. Fellow pronatalists who acknowledge, with various hero-mother inducements, the required female sacrifice in independence, earnings and influence

Lets ignore the repeated casting of motherhood as inherently limiting (despite things like alimony and child support that greatly reduce the sacrifice in independence). "women's biological compliance"? Really? Women would never want more children, or be equal participants in this drive with men, they merely "comply"? Meanwhile, men don't have to comply - since Musk is male, he speaks from the common will of all men?

It's strange seeing the Guardian use such dehumanizing, sexist language.
I suppose, we just have to be real careful that we aren't preserving Emperor Palpatine.
The Astronomical Hijinks of the Shortest Day of the Year (2013)
>Any millisecond that you spend blocking on outputting your terminal is time that your build can't take.

Many Build tools don't just pipe the output of every program to their own STDOUT, but redirect them to a logger, which usually runs asyncronously, so from the PoV of the compiler, its output is processed without delay.

Secondly, if I know that the build produces a huge amount of output, I redirect it to a file instead. If I don't know the first time, I interrupt, correct my command and re-build.
The wording on the fundraising banners is subject to elaborate A/B testing. Recently, for example, they reported that

'A simple, yet effective phrase that we were surprised to see resonate with readers worldwide was simply asking readers not to “scroll away” from or “scroll past” the fundraising message in the banner.'

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2019-20_Report#O...

They call it "resonate"; the other day I saw a guy on Twitter saying that phrase in particular made him think they were about to close down (though he followed that with a "lmao" ...)
I’m not even sure it’s that deep. Having listened to some of David Sinclair’s work, he talks about how modern medicine doesn’t see old age as an illness to cure, hence it not getting any funding.

It’s just accepted that you get old and your health goes down the toilet, because “that’s life”. Nobody bats an eyelid when we hear “died of natural causes”.
Iterm2 is GPU accelerated if I remember correctly as well isn't it? Seems incredibly fast for everything I throw at it.
Yes, changing the colours so green means no, dark patterns within dark patterns.

Perhaps a plug-in to go via archive.is, but that’s a slippery slope and really people would need to contribute to archive.is to keep it alive.
they 'd push all their problems to the next millenium
Value is defined by the expected return on investment or equity.

Since there is none in crypto, you're essentially buying into Monopoly money, with the assumption that it's going to get more popular and not less popular or disappear over time.

But make no mistake, to some people it's everything, to others it's a fartcicle. So it's roughly worth between nothing and what you can find an idiot willing to pay for it.
Ask HN: Is the Customer Ever Right?
You're supposed to listen to feedback from your customers and use it to improve your product. I feel like if you did everything customers suggested you would end up with a bloated design-by-committee mess. If you try to make everyone happy you will make nobody happy. How do you strike a balance between your perfect vision and that of the stinky unwashed masses?
The solution is to stop voting corrupt idiots into the EU parliament.