skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The prediction is not surprising.

The set of people alive at age N has size Sn. Some of them die. Some survive and form a new set of people alive at age N+1 with size Sn+1. Sn+1 <= Sn.

If the expected number of remaining years at age N was Y, death removed all the people that actually lived only 1 year or less, so the expected number of remaining years for people of age N+1 must be greater than Y.

Life expectancy at birth is always lower than at any other age.

Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire

> When the high infant mortality rate is factored in (life expectancy at birth) inhabitants of the Roman Empire had a life expectancy at birth of about 22–33 years

> The 46-49% that survived to their mid-teens could, on average, expect to reach around 48–54
From the SERIALIZABLE explanation: “The database runs the queries one by one … It is essential to have some retry mechanism since queries can fail.”

I know they’re trying to simplify, but this is confusing. If the first part is true, the second part can’t be. In reality the database does execute the queries concurrently, but will try to make it seem like they were done one by one. If it can’t manage that, a query will fail and have to be retried by the application.
I'll save you the trouble of reading, whatever this is. Here you go:

>But what is the psychological impact of a bespoke Internet, tailored to you, and one where it is increasingly difficult to outrun yourself? “Bespoke” sounds luxuriously considerate, but it also entails a kind of revelation. It comes from the older word bespeak, which refers to an indication or a piece of evidence. Sewn into the bespoke is the fabric of external judgments. In the tailor’s series of sartorial calculations and decisions, the wearer is shaped, a silhouette is cast.

Imagine seriously writing word salads and calling them articles. It's too disjointed with no coherent thesis to it, and just meanders for what is (i imagine) an attempt to fulfil a wordcount quota.
This is reasoning by word chaining.
Yeah, those states are often lambasted for their poor infrastructure. It's easier to maintain a smaller state's infrastructure and texas / california are some of our largest behind Alaska.

We still have 48 more states that do pretty well though.
I would love to see those rules removed along with the drivers. I expect it would be amazing to see the self-driving version of these races.
> What people are asking for is a regulator that steps in and redresses the imbalances so a healthy browser market can arise.

That’s not what I see. I see people constantly calling for the ability to run other browsers (really Chrome) on iOS.

I almost never see people trying to get Google’s massive browser share reduced.

If you do one without the other I expect disaster.

That was the point of my comment. I want the “open web” people (in general, not just this org) to call for BOTH. But I don’t see that.
OPEC is a cartel. In most econ 101 classes it is used as the most prevalent example of a cartel. I have never seen anyone argue that it is a labor union.
Yeah....I'm not gonna trust a Firefox fork maintained by 1 dude, and if Firefox would ever disappear I don't expect any of these forks to pick up the slack. I'm not a fan of everything Mozilla does with the project but it's still better than the alternatives.
It's so saddening to see how the Kubernetes hype-cycle follows OpenStack and all the fundamental problems still seem unsolved. I sometimes feel like its just the same story playing out 5 years later, one layer up to the stack (IaaS -> CaaS) and with other fools to fall for it (with OpenStack it was sysadmins trying to run a control plane, with Kubernetes its devs trying to run infrastructure).

The abstractions we have available to build and run distributed systems may have improved, but they still suck in the grand scheme of things. My personal nightmare is that nothing better comes along soon.

> - Is it the networking model that is simple from the consumption standpoint but has too many moving parts for it to be implemented?

Many poor sysadmins before us have tried to implement Neutron (OpenStack Networking Service) with OvS or a bunch of half-assed vendor SDNs. Or LBaaS with HAProxy.

> - Is it the storage model, CSI and friends?

I mean, the most popular CSI for running on-premise is rook.io, which is just wrapping Ceph. Ceph is just as hard to run as ever, and a lot of that is justified by the inherent complexity of providing high performance multi-tenant storage.

> - Is it the bunch of controller loops doing their own things with nothing that gives a "wholesome" picture to identify the root cause?

Partially. One advantage the approach has is that it's conceptually simple, consistent and feels easy to compose complex behavior. The problem is that Kubernetes enforces very little structure, even basics like object ownership. The result is unbounded complexity. A lack of tooling (e.g. time travel debugging for control loops) makes debugging complex interactions next to impossible. This is also not surprising, control loops are a very hard problem and even simple systems can spiral (or oscillate) out of control very quickly. Control theory is hard. David Anderson has a pretty good treatise of the matter https://blog.dave.tf/post/new-kubernetes/

Compared to OpenStack, Kubernetes uses a conceptually much simpler model (control loops + CRDs) and does a much better job at enforcing API consistency. Kubernetes is locally simple and consistent, but globally brittle.

The downside is that it needs much more composition of control loops to do meaningful work, and that leads to exploding complexity because you have a bunch of uncoordinated actors (control loops) each acting on partial state (a subset of CRDs).

The implementation model of an OpenStack service otoh is much simpler because they use straight forward "workflows", working on a much bigger picture of global state, e.g. neutron owning the entire network layer. This makes composition less of a source for brittleness, not that OpenStack still has its fair share of that as well. Workflows are however much more brittle locally, because they cannot reconcile themselves in case things go wrong.
So what, this is how every multiplayer game works. I don't think it has anything to do with being kid friendly, it's just common sense. Banning racism, threats, bullying, hatred, and cheating are completely fine by me, in fact, I want those players to get banned even if they're doing it on a private server.

In rust people get EAC banned and the community has good methods for tracking those users, including ban evasions and hardware id. You break the rules you suffer by losing access to the game and if you think you'll be safe using an alt account think again, you'll get caught and be out even more money.

If you've ever used an xbox and played a multiplayer game you know people aren't getting banned for just profanity. I've had a steam account for 18 years, not a single ban and I've talked a lot crap in game, I just don't cross any lines or make it personal. Crazy how that works...
Send an HTML tag via email, and tell them to put it on the website.
Why not just rest, then? We could all use some rest in today's "productivity" obsessed world.
Does use of Copilot absolve the user from dealing with copyright and license infringements?

An author of infringed source code could always make a claim.

I can't imagine that it does.

That's a problem for releasing some things made with Copilot to the public.

And it's a gray-zone for closed-source software, for which any infringement could be hidden.
I was initially annoyed by this title but now I'm gonna switch my perspective to being happy that ideas like this are floating around since it acts as a really cheap signal to tell if someone knows what they're talking about or not when it comes to ML.
> This is why using financial system as a weapon of politics (or war) is fraught with danger. Sure, for this situation, it might be the best option short of a shooting war, but countries that currently rely on the US financial system would be smart to think of strategies to diversify themselves. This diversification will take away financial prowess from the US, and remove some of that wealth associated with such prowess.

But that diversification was probably going to eventually happen anyway, so it could be foolish to refrain too long from using the "weapon" of financial system sanctions, since eventually they would become useless even if it's never used.

IMHO, the era of globalization is over, so every power is going to pull back (at least a little) and setup defenses where they're dependent on adversaries. For countries like Russia and China, that means creating alternatives to the Western financial system; for the West that means pulling manufacturing back from China. This may be an area where the West is at a disadvantage, due to democracy and stronger ideological commitments to free markets. An Authoritarian can make a decision to protect a longer term goal and tell her population to suck up the short-term consequences (e.g. higher prices), but a Democrat may just get kicked out of power in favor of someone who will ignore the long-term risks to avoid the short-term costs.
This saves a lot of time. I tried hardening Firefox and it took more than a day to get everything sorted. I added a few policies and about:config tweaks yet with each new release of Firefox some new stuff has to be disabled or tweaked for hardening purposes. I always wondered why Firefox doesn’t just do all this anyways and be more privacy-aware. Their data grab in recent years has gotten worse. Forks like LibreWolf are a godsend and I am glad it exists. My only issue with it is that it causes sites to have a CAPTCHA interstitial due to all the fingerprinting mitigations it does, and it doesn’t play nice with e-commerce since those sites do a lot of KYC and fraud prevention and flag browsers which are trying to blend in.
> There was even a precedent for something similar: [1]

No there wasn't, unless you mean killing a 10 year old version of Internet explorer with a banner to a newer version of Internet explorer is somehow playing unfair.
I don't think it'll be way too much different than it has been for most of human history. We really only had a brief blip of having video, which was generally trustable, but keep in mind that before that for thousands of years it was just as hard to know truth.

Someone told you stuff about the outside world, and you either had the skepticism to take it with a grain of salt, or you didn't.
Closing port 80 may help with passive observers, but doesn't help with MITM, because they can just accept port 80 on your behalf.

If you care, you need hsts preload to prevent browsers from trying http on your domain(s).
What Life Is Like When Corn Is Off the Table
This is a fair point. Long term tax issues could def be a factor. Even beyond the abstract potential bankruptcy: who wants to buy a house when 90-110% of appreciation will be eaten by the inevitable tax increases?
It's not super steep compared to some, but yes. Climbs 300ft in just over a mile.
User control is remarkably empowering and makes the web more of a joy like it felt in the early days. The day that I can't run uMatrix anymore will be a sad day for me indeed.
The EU seems to try something like this, which I guess is the scale you need to get traction without being Meta or ByteDance. Though there’s only about a dozen users right now
> Anyway it's still the case that none of my doctors or nurses have advised me to cut down on oxalate-heavy foods to avoid kidney stones, so I don't think you need to worry that much. If there is a risk, it's a risk only when considered at a population level and probably very low at an individual level.

Again, are you a kidney _stone_ patient? The vast majority of people don't form kidney stones, so there's no reason to expect being told to avoid oxalates if you're not talking specifically about them. I have received explicit advice from my doctors to avoid oxalates in order to minimize kidney stones (ditto for people I've known) so I will continue to follow my doctor's advice rather than an internet stranger, no offense.
The software is way too complex to gauge how long something will take. It’s also extremely risky to make a mistake in production. Projects slated for three months can take two years.

If you’re engineers are constantly hitting deadlines, probably it’s greenfield development or the problem space is simple
For those who don't use C: header files are more or less an interface description and (usually) don't include any code. The code is added from external objects during the second "linking" step.
Copygen v0.4 can generate customized code based on types
> You are (mostly) wrong. The definitions of long Covid are indeed a bit inconsistent for now,

It's not a matter of "a bit inconsistent". There is no definition of "long covid". Literally anyone can claim they have it and not be wrong.

> but there’s evidence that both repeated infections do tend to be worse with the omicron variants (possibly due to t-cell exhaustion but I’m not sure if that’s the only factor)

No, there isn't, and "t-cell exhaustion" is not a thing. It's a phrase made up by pop scientists.

> I’ve seen at least one estimate that puts the impact of an asymptomatic Covid infection on the brain as being equivalent to 10 years of normal aging.

There are, sadly, a large number of irresponsible people making hysterical, pseudo-scientific claims with no data to back them up. This is a great example.

Even if it were possible to quantify "10 years of normal aging" on "the brain" (it isn't), the specific claim advanced here -- asymptomatic infection leading to accelerated 'normal aging' -- is not backed by any evidence.
The only way to avoid all-eggs-in-one-basket is to convince everyone to have hybrid everything (ie a gas boiler _and_ a heat pump, and their own personal generator), which would be insanely expensive (note: having mixed infrastructure of electricity for devices and gas for heating is not the same thing, having a charged mobile phone is cold comfort is you can't heat or cook, and having heating doesn't help you economically if a brown out takes down your computer so you can't work), so if we're going to have only 1 method of doing each thing, making that 1 method be electricity means we at least get the flexibility of producing the power from a range of sources and changing that generation on the fly.

Electricity can be produced pretty efficiently from almost any sources. Whilst it has a lead time, that lead time is measured in years to build power generation, rather than decades in replacing peoples devices and the transportation infrastructure.

Alternatives are almost always much less flexible, and are a much bigger danger of getting caught out by a volatile market.
this isn’t an appropriate place to flame an entire technology just because its been mentioned
Ah, like Crypto AG?
That's right. I knew there was a Gordon Murray tie-in somewhere, but it was for Brabham, not McLaren, that he utilized a fan on a Formula One car in the late 70s.

Edit to add a link to Jim Hall's "sucker car" that predated the Brabham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral_Cars#2J
Maybe you're feeling that there's a repressed positivity in a lesson learned?
I acted on them. I fell for it just like people who fall for (other) conspiracies. None of us are immune.

So, during Brexit times, I read (and wrote) a lot of r/europe, r/ukpolitics, r/brexit. Which at the time were cesspools of doom, every little thing was a catastrophe, and I believed it. I started thinking "I need to get out", that was on my mind fucking 24/7.

Then I lost my job partly because of Brexit (drop in exports to EU, company decided to lay off a bunch of people), at which point I was convinced the UK was going to shit and I was gonna get locked in, kicked out or some weird shit.

So, yeah, I left the UK without bothering to apply for pre-settled status, just abandoned everything. Those Reddit subs played a major part in it - I've thought about it a lot and it's a reasonable conclusion.

The reality is that the UK is the best country in Europe if you speak English and like your freedoms. It has not gone to shit, and it's unlikely that it will. I know poor Brits love to complain, but they're just not seeing the opportunities. It was by far the easiest country to settle and make a lot of money in. And the food is great - people who say otherwise are either snobs who only talk about restaurants, trolling or have never stepped into an ASDA lol

Anyway, don't be a dumbass like me. Just do yourself a favour and don't read r/politics, /r/news, worldnews, national subreddits, and just most general subreddits. If you see a lot of doom and gloom, abandon it.
I use the fully leaded version of firefox, which has the disable autoplay feature. That is one of the best quality of life features there IMO. So often I will click on an article or something like that, and it steps on my music and drives me crazy.

Gonna have to try out librewolf.
You really don't.

Having experienced him, he's kindof an asshole. Smart, but with the tact un an unpleasant rash.
Point of clarification for readers who aren’t familiar with Haskell:

Haskell doesn’t have operators in the classic sense, since they’re just an alternate syntax (infix) for regular functions; implemented in libraries. The Haskell ecosystem OTOH has a shitton of infix functions, as does Edward Kmett’s lens library. I don’t think there’s any reason to bother memorizing the ones that aren’t useful to you. You can always search them on Hoogle if you encounter one you don’t know. E.g. https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=%28%5E.%29&scope=set%3Ast...

I use lenses frequently in a large application and have only ever used view, set, and over.
Yes. There may have been _some_ 8-bit or 16-bit games that were written in C for mainstream consoles but it wasn't until the 32-bit consoles (Playstation, Saturn, etc) that it was really practical to do so.
I think a bigger question is whether reputable sources --those people trust for whatever reason, would use this technology to prop up ideas and or to create narratives.

I don't think it's far-fetched. We've already seen where videos are misattributed[1] to stoke fear or to promote narratives --by widely trusted news sources.

[1] This was foreshadowed with "Wag the Dog" but happens often enough in the media today that I don't think use of "deepfake" technology is beyond the pale for any of them.
Off topic, but that subreddit logo is patrician.
Writing a diff/PR description to get better reviews
> use inputs not normally possible like left + right simultaneously.

Are there NES games (or mods) that have different (useful) behavior when an emulator permits such inputs?
> 3) And the above is not an argument or a refutation.

It's not meant to be either. Vitalik is an intellectual. Tyler Cowen says he is one of the more interesting writers that he has come across. That's a big endorsement. But your comment is really not interesting at all and just a general rehash of an old debate.

There are hundreds of other threads on HN that would be appropriate for your comment. It just isn't this one.
This article will explore optional chaining, Bigint, and how developers can utilize them for better data analysis.
If this is on an open source community, it's bad advice IMHO. On open source communities, please make all feedback public. It is really important to make the history of the project public. There are many ways to write the feedback in a not-offensive way, many of the comments in this thread have good suggestions.
As someone who has lost significant weight on a keto diet (~80lbs) I can say it works in assisting someone who is overweight lose weight which can help with their health issues. It is easy to stall out by eating too much protein and fat, you still have to go hungry to cut down calorie intake. But it's overall a fad diet that ignores a lot of valuable nutrition that will be lacking essential healthy food.

My take on the diet you need is that it should have a good fiber to carb ratio (5:1 or less) and low in added salt, fat, and sugars (ideally none added). If you start looking at foods in this category they are all the so called superfoods. Soluble fiber slows down absorption of sugar, lowers cholesterol levels and increases satiety.
I believe there was a caveat around this exact point later in the post. It was really tough striking a balance for people learning this for the first time and more knowledgeable audience without confusing them further.

I do appreciate the feedback and will look to add some more color here! Thank you!
Even if it is trolling - that's orders of magnitude less harmful to society than a subreddit that offers dangerous financial advice.
Is it just me or is that a very shallow review, written more for SEO than any interest in the book?
Brain applies 'data compression' when making decisions, study finds
I recall watching a program on green construction on KQED and the Federal Building in SF and how it was built.

From Wikipedia:

> The building was designed to be a 'green' building consuming less than half the power of a standard office tower. Utilizing natural light to illuminate 80 percent of the building helped it achieve worldwide recognition as the first Federal Building to be certified under the USGBC's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) criteria. Its southern wall is draped with translucent panels of perforated stainless steel (3 by 8 feet in size), intended to accumulate solar heat and thereby create an upward air flow, which in turn causes cooler air to enter the building through sensor-controlled windows, achieving an air conditioning effect. The result has been criticized as unsatisfactory by employees working in the building, which has received low workplace satisfaction ratings.

And an article on it - https://www.govexec.com/pdfs/green/080108gsa.pdf

There are some neat things they tried there.
Ask HN: Are career breaks detrimental when applying to a new job?
I'm in my low thirties and have been working in tech for little over a decade now, five years at my current company. I am also completely over my current job, in fact, even thinking about it makes me anxious to the point of having the eventual panic attack (You can guess how productive I have been in the recent past).

I would like to quit my position, take some time to sort a few things in my life (probably less than six months) and eventually get back to working in the industry. I am, however, afraid that this empty space on my curriculum would be very badly perceived by future employers.

To the people who have taken a career break, have you had issues when applying to a new position after your break was over? And to the recruiters out there, do you view these breaks in a bad light?
Vangelis’ own Chariots of Fire and 1492 are exceptional scores.
> There's everything you mentioned plus 欄間 (ranma)

I think the closest western equivalent would be a "transom window".
It's not just your own connection, it's every device your packets flow through.

And if you use Comcast/Xfinity, then your own connection can't be trusted. They've been caught injecting messages in plaintext HTTP web pages.
Microscopic Hydra are even more impressive you can blend them to a pulp and they'll just grow into more copies of Hydra animals.
Some very basic things look very hard to me. Right now I’m scratching my head how do I implement even non-HA WireGuard server in a pod, so wg clients can access a pod network and pods can access wg client network. Seems like a very basic requirement for any installation yet zero guides about it. And don’t even talk about HA server with load balancer.
Oslo Pride canceled [again] on the advice of the police
I think people can be interested in how something plays out without “ enjoy people losing their life savings”.

I don’t mind seeing some of the pyramid schemes and such revealed for what they are.

I like to think everything plays out and for a while more people don’t risk and loses their money and maybe some bad guys go to jail even.