skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was decidedly not right. His claim was that neural networks are fundamentally not able to perform an XOR step, limiting any relevant computational capabilities. That claim was easily remedied later by slightly changing network architectures later on.
Part of that is simply that the cumulative copy errors of cells several generations old incurs a higher chance of cancer as well as the higher chance of those cancers not being detected by the aging immune system. So there is degradation on multiple axis at once (and probably others that I'm not even aware of).

> I am cautiously optimistic about potential rejuvenation of immune systems in older adults.

That's a worthy goal.
Web3 Is Self-Certifying
The domain is Natalie-lang.org and the header on that page is “Natalie Programming Language”, so that’s where I’m a little confused. Maybe the goal isn’t to be a Ruby compiler but to transition into something more, so I was wondering if anyone had any idea.
I find it ironic that you're trying to censor the site that's calling out censorship merely because they have a few things you disagree with.
> You can, but that's not idiomatic

I know that this is a fairly contrarian take, but I strongly believe than the emphasis on idiomatism is more harm than good. The only thing that matters is the language spec - everything that fits in there is kosher. Idioms just create pointless fights and tabs vs spaces situations where there doesn't need to be any.

> Not having to deal with "invisible control flow" in Rust is one of the things that makes me much more confident that the code actually does what it looks like it does.

no, you just choose to ignore it. I can also write C++ code with throw and no try..catch and that will give the same result (as I pretty much use exceptions like one would use panic! in rust). I don't know anyone who would say that this is a good idea. My sweet spot is to have a few catch handlers around the main loop which catch 99% of the unrecoverable issues, and sometimes, when it turns out that an issue has a way to be recovered (or that maybe it doesn't matter), then someone gets a try..catch block.

Like most articles about exceptions, that Joe Duffy post talks about the problem of "where the control flow goes". I've written my first lines of C++ something like 17-18 years ago now and not once it has actually been an issue. Consultants sure do love selling it as one though.
Yeah, version info is more important than date, really.
Hire a lawyer. What a great solution! We don't even need computers for that!
“Tesla loses money on every car they sell” was another popular one. People seriously believed it.
÷
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_sign

avoids this entirely.

or if you wanna be really fkn nerdy:

∕, instead of /
I was under impression this can already be achieved via TruffleRuby compilation into a native image? Not that I used it, but thought this is doable, and the process is well tested.
Yes. Eastern dialects and Western dialects. Looks like Slav v. non-Slav (Romance/Germanic) split.

“The primary differences between the contemporary dialects are in the quality of stressed vowels, though there are also differences in morphology, lexicon, and grammar.

Northern dialects are more conservative in vowel quality, while southern dialects have preserved vowel quantity distinctions.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_dialects
Why ?
Something can be good for certain outcome e.g. reduce infection rate, hospitalization rate and yet infringe on civil rights. Those are orthogonal
concerns.
the logical conclusion would be that effective existence, enforcement and peoples' cooperation with vaccine passports will prevent unvaccinated persons from gathering in groups indoors and further spreading covid19, so the relevance is quite clear.
Not remotely similar at all. Right now if you don't like Facebook, there's nothing you can do to change it... but hypothetically if Facebook ran its infrastructure on a decentralized platform like Ethereum, then anyone could trivially fork the entire system with backwards integration.

It's similar to how if someone doesn't like Chrome, they can fork Chromium and make their own version of it and keep complete compatibility with Chromium. The decentralized web does a similar thing except it does it for services instead of strictly software. It's a fully transparent and accessible ecosystem of services whose entire history is immutable and available for anyone to access.

That said, no blockchain technology is remotely close to the point where a massive system like Facebook could possibly hope to run and it may never get to that point either, it's hard enough getting even trivial services to be cost effective on Ethereum... but in principle that's the idea.
A small, 0-alloc, statically linked SSH server is perfect for installation on consumer routers that manufacturer didn't intend to run SSH
With the recent changes in Javascript, I've developed an aversion to old fashioned for-loops. I prefer to .map.reduce.filter and if absolutely necessary, .forEach my way through the problem.
Yes, I should have been more careful in wording that, obviously if the early stage stuff gets snuffed out we won't know about it. But the numerical angle is an interesting one and the ratio between the cancers that are caught versus the ones that aren't (and maybe per age cohort) could be quite insightful.
Pressed a picture. The image shows. Pressed the back button. Nothing happens. Pressed the back button again. The browser left the site.

Chrome on Android.
"A pretext is a pretext."

????

No.

A 'crime' is a legitimate pretext for putting someone in jail.

Being of a certain ethnicity is not a reason for putting someone in jail.

I can't believe I am reading this.

And your statements about 'putting Muslims in jail for being Muslim' and But mostly 'black people are railroaded into prison for being black' are completely false. People are put in jail for crimes, whereupon the justice system in some cases may not be fully equally applied and FYI if anything the Justice System is heavy in the US to the point whereupon supposedly privileged group face nearly equally excessive oversight from the system - which is altogether a different problem.
Like Jani Lane saying “I could shoot myself in the @#%*ing head” for writing “Cherry Pie” in the 80s:

https://youtu.be/dNNa8wbKGb4

I imagine there are a lot of people in this industry who feel that way about some their creations…
There are a lot of Rust GC approaches here, makes me wonder why the study author didn't use one (or more) of the existing sound GCs. Remove a glaring flaw of the study, and spend less time writing throw-away code.
I find it difficult to believe that most theoretical physicists are wrong and one guy in the math department at Columbia + the comments section of a venture capital link aggregator are right. It could be; it just doesn't seem very likely.
It's a bit odd to see an article on the efforts to reduce cancer incidence that doesn't include the terms 'carcinogen' or 'mutagen' anywhere in its body, or that doesn't reference Rachel Carson's significant role in the understanding that many pesticides and herbicides have carcinogenic properties, and doesn't even reference the well-studied linkages between tobacco and lung cancer.

Obviously, the industries involved in producing agricultural and industrial chemicals have an interest in suppressing this aspect of the cancer story, but entirely ignoring it is pretty ridiculous on the part of NPR. Clearly there are a wide variety of both naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals that can damage DNA and otherwise cause the cell cycle to go out of control, which is thought to be the fundamental process leading to cancers. A major part of the reduction in the incidence of cancer has been the removal of such substances from the water and food supply, right? The recent judgment against Bayer/Monstanto over the carcinogenic properties of their Roundup-Ready formulation wrt non-Hodgkins Lymphoma is one such example. (Note there that it's the surfactants causing the problem most likely, not the glyphosate itself, although without the surfactants the plants don't absorb the glyphosate).

As far as the 'war on cancer' theme, one of the most curious books on the topic is about the German 'war on cancer' in the Nazi era, a period when the science of carcinogens (and toxicology in general) was making a lot of advances. It's a bit disturbing as well [1]

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691070513/th...

I can't help thinking that NPR's silence on this rather fundamental feature of cancer, i.e. the role of environmental carcinogens, is in some way related to the money they take from their advertisers in the fossil fuel / pharmaceutical sector.
The advantage with decentralized services is that they scale and distribute costs.

If you want to compete with YouTube in the traditional way, better have a CDN, and if it becomes popular even though you're not taking in any revenue, the bandwidth bill is getting paid with VC money or you're going out of business.

If you can more easily build it on top of something like BitTorrent, you don't need the VC money as much. Now what you need is a payment system so your creators can get paid.

The more of these pieces get built and work decentralized, the less capital it takes to compete without relying on or yourself being a centralized service.
From your original comment it sounded like you may have had first hand experience. There are a handful of 70+ year old folks on hn. Good to hear that folks are looking at all periods of computing.
>As all of this was happening, the economic prospects for newspapers were becoming grimmer. In response, beginning in 2008, the Times began the first in a series of six buyouts of its most experienced staff, reducing costs by replacing them with new hires. Within a few years, a half century of institutional memory had been erased and newsroom culture transformed – hardly the way to insure a great institution’s continuity. ...

> ...

>Digital transformation had been the subject of earlier reports at the Times and all over the media world. But there was a startling tone to this one. It gave minimal attention, if any, to the Times’ most important asset: the editorial and critical judgment that would be necessary as a counterweight to the need to drive traffic.

> ...

>There is also a hectoring tone in the report, which can even seem to anticipate the tone of "cancel culture," praising news organizations that have used "buyouts" for "clearing out reporters and editors who were actively opposing changes" – a sweeping approach that extended into 2017 at the Times and opened the paper to heightened forms of political advocacy.

To be quite honest, if you read between the lines, it sounds a lot like the New York Times basically turned large parts of itself into Buzzfeed or Gawker in order to adapt to a revenue model that fit today's social-media landscape, in the process basically trashing their own institutional knowledge of how to do journalism and (this being the goal, from the owners' point of view) deskilling their journalistic workforce.
If you can make Facebook say things you want them to say, can Facebook make you say things that Facebook wants to say?

Why does your speech come before Facebook's speech on Facebook's private platform?

Is auto-block a single post really censorship? Did they block everything from this person? Did they stop this person from similar speech elsewhere?
People always doing the easier thing is precisely why this industry is so broken.
One past thread:

My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22276184 - Feb 2020 (402 comments)
My local scientists said masks did nothing (then licked their lips to turn a page). I kept on wearing my N95 mask.

Then I was told that the vent made the N95 ineffective. Obviously wrong, I was certainly protected, and as a source control compared to folks wearing thin mesh or surgical masks (usually with nose out) no doubt far more reliable. Scientists wrong again.

Then I was told we couldn't go to to three mile beach with my children (deserted at 9AM when we went even during non-covid times). This had an ocean breeze onshore, huge quantities of fresh air (and sun). Supposedly it was safer to crowd into a grocery store with others. Count me skeptical again.

Then we are told that only the CDC can test for COVID. Count me skeptical.

Then we are told that antibody tests need to have full computer connected to an iphone and pay for a medical consult to use at home. Seriously? This great threat, and you can't do a test like a pregnancy strip at home? Thankfully they are backing off this now - scientists wrong again.

We are told that inflation is transitory, it's just misinformation that it might stick around a bit.

After the administration goes out of its way to block fossil fuel production in the US, they announce an investigation of oil companies for failing to keep prices low. Again, these are the "experts" in markets at the FTC.

If these scientists demanding vaccine passports spent even a FRACTION of the trillions put into this COVID (now Omicron) stuff between lockdowns and interventions into something as simple as healthy diet, exercise and socialization - what would be the outcomes?

I'm vaxed and boosted, but the blind obedience to these "scientists" and "experts" is totally ridiculous, especially the non-hard science epidemiologists - is absolutely silly.

I would not count this as their shining moment. Half the time the politicians ordering us off the beaches are squeezed in rooms with their staff and lobbyists hatching another political effort of one sort or another.

The words "misinformation" have become a near joke.
Cornell McRay T'Racing
this sounds pretty solid too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDdJsdYM3g, a full lecture with the same Author.
This is why we need the pine phone and librem 5 so badly
TikTok surpassed Google as most popular site in 2021
As I tried both Clean and Haskell, for me Clean is "worse Haskell".

As one example, Clean did not support non-latin1 alphabets in the UI library and my attempt to somehow correct the situation was in vain, the next release of the language did contain the same error. In contrast, when I discovered non-linear (at least quadratic) behavior in relatively fringe case of type checking algorithm in ghc, it was corrected quite quickly.

As per language themselves, Clean purported to have uniqueness types which should make programming better and easier and Clean developers came with special syntax to reuse same names during processing unique-typed values. Which is essentially a Haskell's do notation in disguise, except it cannot be used for different purposes, like non-deterministic List monad. At about 2008 or slightly earlier, type system of Haskell became powerful enough to erase bindings from environments (famous HList by Oleg Kiselyov), allowing one to express many things, including linear and unique types (example [1] - if state's parameters can change number of bindings, we can check for bindings' erasure, expressing linear (all bindings are erased, except ones returned) and unique (some bindings can be left) types).

[1] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/02/beyond-monads.html

I keep saying what is language feature in regular programming languages is a library in Haskell. Clean is no exception.
RubyMotion is probably as good as it gets for AOT. Ruby depends on dynamic dispatch and thankfully objc is very similar the needs of a Ruby-like language.

Truffle might work even better as it’s able to recompile.

Any C++ port will likely need to reimplement half of the objc runtime to support all of Ruby. Not sure if clangs/gcc objc support includes the runtime, but I’m imagining it would… so maybe it’s reusable that way.
Isn't that the whole point of the satire? Anyone can make duplicates of any NFT on the blockchain so you still need a central authority to say which is the real million dollar jpg and which is a copy, even though it's on a blockchain.
Let's be very specific. The teachers are teaching kids to be nice to each other. That's what you're objecting to here. Teaching kids to be nice to LGBT people or teaching kids that math is important are both "[influencing kids] into their own worldview." Be very specific about why you object to one and not the other.
You're missing the point of the satire.

> No. Mere possession of bytes does not prove ownership of a work, as many casual music pirates discovered during the early aughts. The more important question is "do I even own the artwork being right-clicked to begin with?" If you bought an NFT, you probably don't.

[...]

> There is no trustless way to prove ownership. If push comes to shove, you will need to appear in a court of law and identify each person on the chain of custody. So you can trust it as must as you trust each individual participant.

----

The point, which

- many artists who have had their work stolen and minted without their permission have already realized,

- many owners who found out that NFTs can get scammed away from them have already realized,

- many users who are now grappling with platform decisions about what sales to allow have already realized,

- many owners who are trying to navigate what exactly they are legally allowed to do with their NFT tokens have already realized,

is that NFTs don't actually get rid of any of the legal problems or systems, and in fact often are completely subservient to those systems. For example, BAYC itself:

> The BAYC license states "You Own the NFT. Each Bored Ape is an NFT ... you own the underlying Bored Ape, the Art, completely." The license then goes on to place any number of restrictions on its use, implying that you don't, in fact, "own" the "underlying Art" at all.

NFTs don't solve the fundamental problem of trust, they only solve the problem of a shared ledger. And it turns out that they don't even solve the problem of trust in that ledger, and the community seems to be pretty split on questions like whether someone who steals an NFT from someone else "owns" it or not.

A lot of the NFT hype about distributed consensus boils down to "the code is law, except for these exceptions when it's not, and except for when the code has a bug, and except for when the real law steps in and threatens to send someone to jail." In short, if the answer to "how do I know an NFT is legitimately issued by the artist who made the artwork" is "community consensus/law", then the blockchain isn't actually solving the problem of ownership, the community/law is.

"That's My Ape" offers transparent, user-facing reliance on a system that everyone in the NFT space is already relying on anyway.
Yes, but those properties and components do not include race/skin color. Anybody of any race can be an asshole, true -- but bringing up their race turns the focus to that, and instantly separates and alienates.

A racist is the one who unnecessarily injects race into the conversation.
I am much more productive in Rust vs Python and Java, it's not even close. Memory management in Rust is trivial, it takes up virtually 0% of my time.
At the time, I was looking for more detailed information on the charity in the hopes of finding a more direct contact than a non-responsive email box.

In most countries, operating as a charity has certain annual reporting requirements. These reports often contain a direct contact (i.e. Agent of Service type contacts).

I was able to find the charity registration info from sirene.fr by their address (there were 14 listings out of that address when I just rechecked). Siret# 83037871700029, Siren# is the first 9 digits.

There was no phone number listed so I moved onto JOAFE and found that there were no annual reports attached to that Siren #. Backing up I went to RCS, the company & trade register which is required to obtain a kbis-extract (needed to open a bank account as a company in france) and there were no listings on the Lichess or Lichess.org trade names. RCS doesn't allow a search by Siren # and that's where my search died.

The complaint was that they were operating, and had not filed the required reports.

I don't speak french, so the complaint was in English via a webform and since it was difficult to pursue the matter further at the time, I chose to move on to better things.

Edit: I've confirmed that the annual reporting is still a problem on JOAFE. Also, back when this originally happened I had noticed the budget they linked to on googledocs for what they spend on infrastructure was dated, not sure if that is still the case.

If anyone with a greater knowledge of OSINT or a command of the french language wants to look into this further there are a number of administrative inconsistencies that might be worth following up on.

Personally, I don't see how you can be registered as a french charity and accept donations/other assistance without the appropriate bank account or filing annual reports.

Though I admit, I don't have much first-hand knowledge of doing business in France. Either way, its not worth my time taking this any further.
I mean, is there really a need for utilizing ZStd for audio compression?

FLAC is extremely good at compression audio, has very fast encode and uber fast decode. It also doesn't use zlib...
the US effectively doubled the supply of normal currency in the past year, other currencies have followed suit. the only thing that has ever doubled in a year about bitcoin is the difficulty of finding new bitcoin.
I understand you can hide under a table (won’t help if the building collapses but you won’t be whacked in the face by a bottle or bookshelf flying through the room), stand in the doorframe (these offer some protection AFAIU if the building gets damaged, or even run out into the open space.
You can't give your data to a company which is not compliant with GDPR (for all practical purposes).
I think a more accurate translation of Aristotle's quote is simple, "virtues are actions, not words." It's more about actions speaking louder than words.
> what kind of mitigation can you do for a magnitude 2,4,6?

Simply walk outside? If you have an empty area nearby that's an extremely safe spot to be in an earthquake.

If you're in a car, get out from an underpass? A lot of deaths were due to a freeway overpass pancaking in SF.

Open your garage door? This is one of the big things that is supposed to happen in California. Fire departments are supposed to have an automated system that pops the garage doors when there is an earthquake so the trucks don't get trapped by bent doors.
Regulators are contacting businesses which they suspect are in breach of GDPR to give them the chance to become compliant (I was in companies that received such communications). If the company is in good faith, they’ll fix whatever the regulator found or explain why haven’t breached the law.
These cases don’t get discussed in the media probably because they aren’t published anywhere.

Before a company gets a fine, at least for now, it must do some really crazy stuff and/or refuse to cooperate with the regulators.