skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe five years ago I bought a used Dell workstation with a 8c16t Xeon and 32GB ECC RAM. It was a couple of years out of date at the time, but I paid €200 for it. They had dual-CPU versions for maybe €100 more, but I figured I didn't need that. To build a desktop PC with even remotely similar specs would have been well over €1000. It came with a not very good GPU, but that and the SSD were easily upgraded.

For what I did at the time - and probably even now - it was well over powered. At one point I ran 10 instances of our Selenium test suite at once (trying to debug random failures) and it didn't even bat an eyelid.
> can’t be used as tinder in an emergency but that’s about the only disadvantage

If the battery's charged, it's better than tinder! Although you'd only get one try.
Tesla is at fault for not considering how real humans will use the product.

I think they know perfectly well, on some level.

As they are of the fact that large portion of their drivers will be perfect dumbasses.

But they're invested too deeply in the promise of an "Autopilot" product (which of course consumers will take to mean exactly what it says) by this point that they're not going to backpedal or change course -- unless forced to do so.
Honestly, Git was not at all obvious to me from that. And I fully admit that it could be a failing on my part not to read that into his post, but nonetheless I didn't see it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20211220104931/https://www.eurozi...
I feel like news reports of invasive species usually end up with the invaders becoming endemic. Nice to see a successful eradication for once!
It seems to me than 'longevity treatments' are likely to be a quality of life situation over a quantity of life cure, changing the curve more than the intercept.

A higher quality middle age has quality of life benefits that probably stand on their own, but remaining active also does increase life expectancy dramatically. So the cause-effect curve may be treatment->healthy lifestyle->life expectancy, instead of treatment->life expectancy.

I could get the jab, continue to be a couch potato, and leave a prettier corpse.
NorCal and SoCal are attitudes more than actual points. I consider Monterey Bay to Morro Bay Central Coast. I live 3 miles from Monterey Bay and ~40 from Sunnyvale. Greater area San Jose people seem to consider themselves 'Bay Area' rather than NorCal but it is easy to spot the ones that do consider themselves NorCal.
The disaster of Afghanistan has made everyone very wary of interventionist foreign policy.
I do believe that economics itself will take into account increased lifespans, UBI and other measures of normality...

Here's a take, if people get to live so much longer, then money is not the variable to be optimised for humanity in general...

Also, rates of labour, skill, energy expenditure and so many variables will undergo a change in definitions.

I would like to see everyone make it... I believe so would everyone else, if increased lifespans are on the line.
> With all the problems arising from leaky abstractions and trying to adapt to a foreign runtime?

Huh? The point is Go might be a lousy language, but I can't think of anything OCaml needs to do that the Go runtime cannot do. This wouldn't be leaky and the FFI could be quite good.

> Especially now that OCaml Multicore is on the way.

As I wrote in the other reply, this would be a naked ploy for new users, and flexing the language isn't wedded to a single run time.

Multicore OCaml isn't just a runtime change, but also demonstration of the new effects indicating that the language can do parallelism without bad concurrency problems. All that language-side work carries over to the other runtime: you get to show off Goroutines done more safely!
Alternatively to both, you could use F# as a single language.
First off, this probably only holds if you sort of ignore current rules and regulations in a lot of cases (e.g. KYC, AML, securities laws, clearing requirements, reporting etc.). But to be fair, there is a discussion to be had if all those regulations are fit for purpose.

Second, banks do a lot more than just be middle men in financial markets. They do have risk bearing capacity and they are willing to - crucially - use that on uncollaterized risk and things not netted atomistically. This means the demand for liquidity is kept low - which is good because money can flow towards longer term objectives.
"aging" is a complex set of a number of different issues. Cell senescence is generally considered to be an age related issue.
This is the ultimate, fundamental problem with the cryptocurrency market. People parrot "only invest what you can afford to lose" and end their moon-promises with "...not financial advice" as if their moon-promises would be worth typing if they sincerely believed that their audience will only invest what they can afford to lose.

Yes, the person who lost their money made a terrible, stupid mistake... but if you spend more than a moment in/around cryptocurrency projects, you will be sucked in to believing that _the old-world financial system is crumbling, the only way to secure your future is by investing everything into cryptocurrency_ and so "only invest what you can afford to lose" has an implied wink, "I'm only saying this because the old-world system will come for me if I don't!"

I have sympathy for the fool.
On the other hand, I fully support the exclusion of the weirding module[0] from David Lynch's Dune.

[0] - https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Weirding_Module
No HoA. I do see them around usually for multi-tenant places tho.
It's a bit of a trade-off. An existing browser for example will likely just add the format, effectively creating more attack surface, yes. A new product however can choose to only implement the simpler one (and if no features of the more complex one are needed, will likely want to do so for a multitude of reasons).

Over time, the old format may potentially be removed if it falls in disfavor, or at least only be accepted in more and more restricted contexts, but this works better in closed systems of course. I just finished excising a complex format in favor of a much simpler one, and since it was internal to the organization cutting out the old one did not cause anyone problems. For browsers, I don't know. Deprecating Java Applets and Flash seems to have worked, but those are maybe "heavier" examples than SVG.

As for comparison to existing vector formats, I don't have the necessary domain knowledge there.
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words...
Though if you did it differently and the ligature was in a single-character width it would mess up alignment between users who are and aren't using the ligatures... probably a worse problem.
> Finally, after many rounds of arguing about why this needs to be done in the first place (ahem: you told us to migrate to your platform, and it literally does not work for our app), they quote us a delivery timeline of end of Q1 in 2022.

This is where your manager (and if necessary their manager) needs to get involved. Is this actually important and urgent work? If so, they need to work with this other team’s management to get this done. If not, it can wait.

What you’re describing sounds like a particularly dysfunctional and bureaucratic corporation, but dealing with politics like this (and that’s exactly what this is) is part of being in a large company. Cynical people will say that everyone is just trying to protect their fiefdom, but most people are just trying to do the most important work.

That team you’re asking for work probably has hundreds of feature requests every quarter. The process is intended to protect the engineers from being randomized constantly by low value requests. But yeah, the trade off, especially if taken to extremes like this, is that it can slow collaboration to a crawl.
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> As they say, the path to Hell is paved with good intentions...

The other path to Hell is to not act on good intentions.

> With misguided laws like this I wouldn't of been offered a job.

No, you're just making that assumption.
Not entirely sure what the question here. Because I dont see how a workstation, or a Desktop PC for software programming is any different to a "decent" computer.

You need lots of Core, ECC Memory ( if you need it ), and a fast / reliable SSD.

For example, if your software stack works on MacBook Pro, the M1 Max is currently a very capable laptop that offers near the best compute performance you can get.

So the simple answer is, any decent computer will do.
> Everyone gets cancer if they live long enough.

Every human. Not all mammals get cancer though. Whales live a very, very long time, and to my knowledge there's no incidence of cancer. In general (and somewhat paradoxically) the larger the animal the less likely they are to get cancer.
because it shows a lack of understanding of the basics of distributed computing. specially on top of the web we have today (which was how the thread started "IA as a default host-of-records" which implies said records must be reachable by a any tech illiterate lawyer today)

car analogy time: It is the same as reading a post about "how to lift my car to do work in the garage", and the the second paragraph starts with "using energy harvested from my perpetual motion machine"
Your scenario is nothing more than a thought experiment. You can think of a different future anytime you want. You can imagine some colonists will form the utopia of our dreams.
I would write "... and bread pudding with chocolate sauce as desert."
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Scientists Say the Laws of Physics May Be Changing
I have probably 500 games in my steam library and at least 50 are no longer available for purchase on Steam.
This is the actual issue with DeFi's "decentralization", not what the article talks about.

Bitcoin remains the only decentralized cryptocurrency that keeps living without governance.
Unpopular opinion, but I personally think ECS has no place in C/C++ game dev. Every supposed advantage is either curbed by limitations of the language (e.g. serialization) or can be implemented more logically in a stateless manner.
(Coauthor of RWO here)

We are just finishing edits of a few chapters (the tooling, testing and GADT ones), and then it’ll be off to the publishers early in the new year. The online one is therefore pretty up to date.

There’s also a thread on the OCaml forums on this topic with more suggestions: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/how-do-you-stay-productive-in-oc...
...not matching what I read. Folks giving up after the first (low) offer, only to get a better one a few days later. This is how it works. It can take a little time. If you get butt-hurt on the first offer and go off somewhere else, you're leaving money on the table.
With meaningful life extension you'd have to increase the number of years people worked.

But most people would probably take the "you have to work an extra 100 years, but you get to live an extra 125" bargain.
There's long time EU wide classification for the "light quadricycles" (L6e/L7e) but in some countries the age limits are same as for normal cars. Eg in Germany you can get a license for some of these at 16.
Ask HN: What is “the answer” to distracted driving due to cell phones?
It seems like more and more I notice people driving while looking at their cell phones. Even at stop lights when people just "quickly check" their phones it distracts them from noticing the lights change and then only a few cars getting through on green and several more running the red. What's the "best answer" to this dilemma in your opinion? Is it steeper fines if caught? More enforcement? Regulation disabling devices if/when certain conditions are detected? It's getting to where someone leaving the bar after a few drinks but focusing on driving is better at driving then a completely sober person looking at their phone.
Thanks, I did start reading that, might pick it up again. That's a good list too I've seen it posted before.
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This is a very bad idea considering Go runtime is optimized for way less allocations due to 1) how good Go in stack allocation is and 2) how mutable everything is.

OCaml on the other hand has an extremely well optimized runtime for lots of small heap allocations (typical in FP), and produces good asm code for functional patterns.
This whole space turned out to be one big joke. It's the wild west of scams, hacks, snake oil salesman, teenage influencers giving "expert" advice on trading, shilling scam coins, NFTs and what not..

I am following this space since 2015 as a bystander when Ethereum was founded. Currently this is the most spectacular shit-show on the planet. Especially now with all the NFT craze, I am seeing more and more celebrities getting sucked into this craze and trying to promote the next big thing.

I wonder when it's all going to pop and who is going to be left holding all the bags?
Ok now show the mathematical proof or demonstrate the error in his.

Everything that doesn't carry the coiner narrative of "number go up" is FUD
They have been the norm for a long time. Not sure what is new here.
If you look closely, you can see that the railway lines were later drawn onto the map by hand:

https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/europe-19century-secondsurve...
To lever gains. Now you can "own" 300k worth of bitcoin gains with only 200k worth of bitcoins. Of course the downside is that loses are levered too.
Ask HN: Email saying my Amazon Route53 domains will be transferred?
I got the mail below saying my AWS Route53 registered Australia domains will be transferred.

What trickery is this? If it was valid then surely Amazon would be telling me?

Anyone know what this is about?

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That's a real pro-tip! Lottie animation JSONs are better left out of the bundling and loaded dynamically.

We built dotLottie[1], a little superset encapsulation layer ontop of Lottie as an experiment/solution to make it easer to bundle multiple Lotties and any associated assets AND make distribution/CDN use simpler. There are several sites that are using it now with good success.

1. https://dotlottie.io/
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I don’t disagree there.
Just leave, seriously. I spent way too much time in the same situation waiting for things to get better and they never did. I did this twice; once for 6 years and one for 2. It won't get better, but it will make you worse at your craft. The only regret I had was I should have done it sooner.
Most important thing with this type of product is the options for account recovery. Anything exist around that?
I am also from a rural area, I've spent the better part of the last two decades driving through farmland on roads with no posted limit to get to anywhere. The legal speed limit on such roads is 45 MPH but for the most part on the flat, straight segments traffic goes 55ish. County Sheriff doesn't care until somewhere in the 60s unless they're looking to pull you over.

If you're on a road that goes through a town just barely large enough to have a police department, you can guarantee that the road suddenly gains a posted limit of 35 MPH without changing in any significant way and that there will be strict enforcement which may or may not be biased towards those with non-local tags.

The exception is the state of Indiana. I don't know what they put in the water there, but no one in Indiana seems to have noticed that interstate highways are no longer stuck with the double nickel. Of course they also have the most bare minimum 2+2 interstate where one dawdler refusing to pass a semi can tie up traffic for miles on end.
Do you have a rebuttal of any substance or just personal attacks on the author?

The irony of a bitcoiner accusing someone else of drinking the Kool aid. Lots of people participated and made money in Madoff's scheme for decades too.
Reminds me of a multinational where I had to "purchase" infrastructure from the team in the next workspace to deploy our new application. Literally all the paperwork and requirement gathering you'd expect from getting external providers/contracts, run through an internal system with all sorts of forms and people being brought "in the loop", yet the infra team was literally a few desks over... '
Agreed, you see this misunderstanding constantly here and it makes it hard to take the valid parts of any counter-arguments seriously. De-centralization doesn't mean that there are no centralized UI winners. It's that if those winners disappear overnight (https://nftplazas.com/hic-et-nunc-finds-a-solution-after-sud...) or start to abuse their power, people can just move to alternatives and the company has no power to lock them in. HackerNews would love this kind of "data portability" hedge against the classic google deletion of chat apps and other services.

The blockchain just provides a decentralized trusted authority to ensure that the portable data is authentic. Without this, any data portability solution would have a problem with spoofing, or the data would require another centralized authority to validate the data which defeats the purpose. I guess you could argue the government could be that authority but idk how that works in a global sense.

Having a data portable chat app is sketch if someone can just make up messages and import them into their new 3rd party app. it's dangerous/unworkable if the application is something with more consequences like defi.
Whether you check errors is a correctness issue, not a stylistic one.
Which in turn is based on the size of a equine derriere, as the story goes.

https://www.precisioncontent.com/blog/on-rocket-ships-and-ho...
I still think it would be unnecessary to do anything more than what I described, but just at a larger scale. But not the scale of emulating a whole human being. For the most part you're going to be looking for "does this bind with X but not Y" and expanding your set of X and Y is what makes things safer.

I think you could get to human trials using just a computer if you had a sufficiently sized set of emulated X's and Y's.
To add to this, something that helped me accept this change: your acquisition marked the achievement of your startup goal. You're done now, you can now stop living for your work, and start working to live.
One of Roald Dahl's adult stories featured this, surprised it's not mentioned on the wiki.
> Results in mice will probably not track to humans,

In this case I don't know if that's true. Total layman, but this sounds like autophagy triggered through an immune response. Autophagy is already promising fro human life extension. This feels like an approach that could be generalizable, even if perhaps the specific antibody might not apply.
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Didn't realize this was the website https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
I understand your frustration because I work in a large company and stuff can take forever. And this is the case for 99.9% of large companies.

However one thing you should consider is this: there are probably 50 other people like you demanding to just have feature xy implemented. They are all totally simple etc.. until you have seen a large enterprise code base with lots of legacy cruft. Test suites that take hours to run..

And then the team has to fix bugs that also pile up. Every fix makes the code base uglier.

And then people come along and want direct access to your repository to "help".

You see where I am going?

Long story short: it's not as simple as you think it is. If it really bothers you that much and you cannot understand "the other side", you should probably find another startup to work at. And I am not snarky.. this is my honest recommendation.
The best benefit to one of these houses in this area is that you have one of these houses in this area. My house isnt an investment but a roof over my head and a good sized yard not far from a very beautiful bay and lots of mountain trails. Its worth more to me than what zillow says.
The borrower does keep the collateral in that it's only use to them is the gains it provides. Those gains still belong to the borrower.
One of the biggest risk factors for cancer is age. If you can slow down aging you can reduce cancer risks considerably.

Your body produces cancerous cells all the time, but most of the time the immune system finds them. But when your immune system gets old and sluggish it doesn't find and kill them as well increasing risks of cancer. So if we can figure out how to keep your immune system young we could reduce risks of cancer by 20-100x.
Having lived in Sunnyvale for a bunch of years, this is just not true. Heck, there’s more than one Michelin starred restaurant with tasting menus well above $100 a head in the South Bay (Manresa, Baume, and Chez TJ).
> I mean, if you have a gun and use it to shoot cans in your backyard

Most of Europe will send you straight to jail. Several states in the US will as well. It's disgusting.