skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article doesn't quite spell it out, but the current thinking is that the apparent paradox is explained by:

1. Bigger animals have larger cells, so the number of cells does not scale linearly with the mass of the animal.

2. Cells from larger animals are more resistant to cancer development in various ways (eg more copies of TP53, more propensity to die after DNA damage).

3. Large animals have non-linear metabolic scaling. So a cell in an elephant sees fewer metabolic cycles per unit time than a cell in a mouse. Some of this is due to the greater thermal efficiency of large animals.

Now that we have more detailed data on animals, I think this paradox is a bit less interesting, albeit generally true. For example, there are some animals that just don't seem to get cancer (eg the blackbuck and the Patagonian mara, from several hundred autopsies each) [1]. Cancer is also very rare in Zebras. This is fundamentally interesting because it shows that being free from cancer is possible in an otherwise normal looking mammal. In theory therefore, we could consider engineering humans to be cancer free. To me, given the high incidence of cancer, the progressively increasing incidence in an ageing population and the incredible amount of misery it causes, this is the most ethically palatable reason to consider widespread genetic modification of humans. I think all anti-ageing efforts will ultimately bump up against cancer as the limiting factor. The technology to safely genetically engineer humans is nowhere near ready for prime time.

The association between height and cancer is not thought to be due to 'more cells'. It only applies to some types of cancer and not others. It is believed to be due to growth factor signalling eg growth hormone and insulin-like growth factors.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04224-5
Quick fix:

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5 dollar/month VPN. NOT BLOCKED BY SVTPLAY KK.
> Why do these involve Asian nationals? I'm just not a good enough crook to determine the advantage here...

Kansas City shuffle. You find someone who wants to help run the con, but they're actually the mark.
Something like that, back in the day I had it memorized and would use it even when I had purchased a perfectly valid license, too hard to look around at the back of the computer (even with a valid sticker you were supposed to put it in a place that wasn't "removable").

I think the "FCK" made it super memorable.
They sound rather similar these days.
I find Lingua Franca Nova very readable (I speak French decently as a second language), plus it has a very nice flag!

https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca_nova
How to build a browser is also a much more solved problem now.
The Last Days of Twitter
Not sharpest; he says he thinks it can be improved, but not down to 1 (if it could be improved down to 1, that would prove the nonexistence of Landau--Siegel zeros).
> Beppes Godnattstund

For non-swedes, this is a show about a old guy who lives in a bed with a bunch of little girl dolls who need to go to the toilet all of the time.
What's a minimal AP implementation that works with Mastodon?
It applies to every organization. You have to take some of it on unless you turn minerals into revenue using only processes and systems that can be recreated from scratch at will irrespective of who your employees are. Since no one can do that, everyone has it.

Taking it on unnecessarily is bad for the health of the business and worse than financial debt because technical debt, unlike financial debt, is not fungible.
Tech companies:

APPL:-23%
META:-71%
MSFT: 31%
NFLX:-56%

Car companies:

F: -37%
TM: -26%
GM: -35%

What surprises me about this, given the sell pressure of the self-inflicted pain from Musk, is that Tesla is down sure, but not by that much. I guess the issue is it's behaving like a tech stock, but it's not. It's a car company that used to employ a guy who said he could deliver self-driving.
Congratulations, you might have APD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder

I suspect I have it, too. I seem to experience sound differently than other people. Separating voices from background noise is HARD, but I'm also very good (I think) at recognizing actors by voice.
Paper on 'Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System' by Bytedance Inc (TikTok)
> Masters in French Lit

Like I said, get educated friends, not friends who think reading some poetry is education. This isn't England in the middle ages where that would have been considered an education.
Might come off as political, but Americans need need to throw off the yoke of British intellectual affectations, especially pre WWI ones.
I feel like saying this is similar to making progress on P!=NP is not accurate (extreme disclaimer: I have no formal math training). My understanding of P!=NP is that an answer to that has strong implications for the nature of the concept of determinism _of reality_, let alone most cryptography and lots of other stuff too. From my quick scan of the GRH wikipedia article, it doesn't appear that the GRH has the same widespread almost philosophical implications as P!=NP.
Memory leak is better than privesc in most cases of active exploitation.
The salient part is that it's hypothetised that whale cancers can't grow big enough to threaten a whale before they themselves get cancer and either stabilize into a benign equilibrium or wither away. Fairly hilarious if true.
Doesn’t the compiler do some hidden allocations?

And as a follow up, why use rust if allocations mean ownership rules are no longer needed?
> Some people might find the Australian and British accents difficult to understand.

Or even recognise; Graham Norton has an Irish accent, not British.
I saw that movie!
Why torture yourself with any reddit website though? Popular websites like reddit have multiple open source native apps. Just slap F-Droid on your Android and download Redreader, Slide or any of the 10+ clients you find.
I'm afraid so, and you've been posting so many unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments that were going to have to ban you unless you stop. We've already asked you once.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Ask HN: How do you interpret Britain seeing China as a threat based on this?
"Japan and Britain look to sign defense pact [against China] next month, report says" (2022)

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/11/06/national/britain-japan-defense-pact/

"UK spy chief says no threat to Five Eyes alliance over Huawei" (2020)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-huawei-tech-five-eyes/uk-spy-chief-says-no-threat-to-five-eyes-alliance-over-huawei-idUSKBN23B2T3
One of them is an app I'd like to build for my galaxy watch that lets me enter data on the go, that is going to be synced with my notion database. This would be super useful for habit tracking.

*this one seems to be one of the more feasible ideas
I live in Canada, and have for years. I have US Dollar credit cards from Canadian banks, I have US Dollar credit cards from US banks. I have Canadian Dollar credit cards too. My phone number has a US area code (Canada shares an international prefix with the US), but I also have a virtual number for Canada.

Whatever system you think of to price discriminate, people will break it.

Funny little Canada price discrimination story: Cell phone data is really expensive here since there is no competition, so much so that it is often cheaper to roam on an international line in Canada than to have a contract with a Canadian Telecom, hence the US number.
+1 for sqlx. Native SQL queries that are typechecked at compile time.
I don't get how one who is interested in the continuity of humanity would willingly vote for the "any election we don't win is fraudulent" party.

I disagree with the democrats on many things, but to vote for the republicans at this stage is to vote for the US to turn into China -- a country ruled by a strongman who answers to no one.
Ubiquiti EV Station
>Math used to be a young person game, but it now requires so much knowledge just to get to the frontiers of human knowledge, not to speak of making a dent into uncharted territory

>The sad part is that as the trend continues we may reach a point where a mathematician's intellectually productive life is not sufficient

Hmm. I had never thought of it like this. Is it possible for human knowledge to become so advanced in a single subject that it takes a persons entire life to learn just one subject? That's already true of something like the human body, which is why doctors specialize in organs or regions of the body. The more human knowledge expands, the more individuals specialize into increasingly smaller niches.
It is different for different cultures but also depends on mobility.

In western world it is currently family but that's because family ties are much more likely to be preserved over time than ties to your village.

In other places in the world people are so immobile that they are expected to be born, grow up, work and die in the same village. And so ties to your local community are much more likely to be preserved over time just like ties to your family. It is not that the village replaces your family, it is just another group of people where it makes sense to invest to get something back in the future. Imagine you had tight knit group of friends where you left school but somehow are still able to stick together. If you trusted that this will continue for a long time it would be much easier to invest within the group knowing somebody might help you out later.
It’s not India, but Vietnam has one of the highest supports for capitalism of any country.

Not surprising considering the terrible conditions under the communist economic policy and then the shift to capitalism in the 80’s.

”No less than 95 percent of Vietnamese respondents said most people were better off under free market capitalism.“

https://thediplomat.com/2014/10/capitalisms-biggest-fan-is-a...

It’s easy to criticize capitalism if you’ve never lived under the alternatives I guess.

The entrepreneurial spirit is really impressive. You can call up some store and say “can you have someone bring the clothes to my home to try on?” and they’ll say “no problem”. They’re dynamic, resourceful and willing be flexible.

People start companies all the time. Of course the lack of paperwork and regulations (they exist, but mostly ignored) helps immensely.
That is so remarkable. What a terrific achievement.

Remember: This is all from scratch, not even using the Linux Kernel if I recall correctly. Bonkers!!!
Or we innovate elsewhere.
Actually Linux consistently got worse battery life everywhere I've installed it, PCs and Macs. And it often had quirks with things not working workout much fiddling.

I may go back someday when I'm retired, with free time on my hands. Or when forced off the easier proprietary OS's by a thousand cuts.
> equating a programming language to a carcinogenic substance is inherently wrong,

I work with C and it kills me a little more each day, just like cigarettes. Its a pretty fair comparison.
Both Interlingua and Ido are improvements over Esperanto.

But as it is with any language, programming language, or ecosystem in general: There is strength in numbers. Esperanto is great because it's easy to learn (Europeans have an advantage, ok) and it's the most popular constructed language, meaning there are good resources and actual people (few, ok) to talk to.
Near 360°degrees stereo depth robot for developers
It is called a john doe defendant. The investigation was was opened before 2017, which was the deadline, in secret. When they found the guy they changed the name from Doe to Zhong . Had the feds waited until 2018 or so before opening an investigation, it would have been too late. The statute of limitations expires only if no investigation is ever opened.
It’s well-defined, at least in the terminal: the east-asian characters are simply double the normal width. There’s a Unicode property to decide which is which: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11-2/
I agree, the whole mobile ecosystem feels just gross to me. Microtransactions, everyone pushing their shady app instead of a website, navigating the app stores feels like wading in a swamp where everything wants to kill me.
The Fallout from Trial of a Corporate Executive for Covering Up a Data Breach
Above view
The Chinese government has built work camps and committed genocide against Muslims in their northwestern provinces. With the CCP covering up things like that, I don't think it really matters how nuanced or rosy you are trying to be.
> The infrastructure is also much better than it was in the 90s. My grandfather would be shocked to see the Nagpur Metro and would think Aliens built it.

I think this is underappreciated. Yes, infra in India is still not Switzerland, but eg. airports are now unimaginably better compared to just 20 years ago, when you needed a biohazard suit to venture into the bathrooms at DEL.
Towns are testing new ballot counting machines that use open source software
He and his parents were victims of Mao's cultural revolution (like millions of others) - and he was forced into agricultural labour instead of attending high school. Amazing cinderella story. A real academic hero.
Android devs are having flashbacks to Thermosiphons
A tag-along tangent to that: I'm curious as to the cases where there are adverse reactions to the vaccine, what is the probability/possibility that the individual's response would be comparable if exposed to the virus directly.
The title of the post needs to reflect the title in the article, except when it is blatant clickbait, and to allow for the HN title length limits.

There is no question mark in the article's title.
I don't mean the symbols themselves, but how each member was defined and the history behind it.

It's like watching a Marvel movie and not only knowing the plot of the current movie but also the deep history of each character and their relationships with other characters.

I assume the paper didn't come out of nowhere and it's based on "the shoulders of giants".
malloc should be eliminated from the image if unused, so can't you just check the symbols in your image to make sure it's never called?
Thanks, thats a neat tool!
It'll probably boot just fine, and yeah, I wouldn't take it online, but old hardware is like hobbits - difficult to daunt or kill. It's like the cell network wouldn't even connect (though if it is old enough it might).
Check out this article from the other day. It gives a nice info-graphic showing a lot of the major players in Activity-pub. No shortage of options :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472622
I fully agree, but sadly its character set is rather limited in terms of Unicode characters.
Relevant article from The Onion:

https://www.theonion.com/woman-who-drinks-6-cups-of-coffee-p...
India's central bank target inflation rate is 4% +- 2%, and even now the rate is still at 7-8% and they're in no hurry to try to reduce it (https://www.reuters.com/world/india/exclusive-india-govt-in-...).
> Wouldn't your lack of bad conflict regarding money be less about the fact that you combined finances, and more about you yielding to the conflict and accepting its presence in a different way?

A simpler way to put it is we communicate with each other our plans for the use of our money, especially when it concerns larger amounts.

And it's easier to think of it being "our money" when it's pooled in shared accounts.

> Based on your choice of words, it seems like budgeting is a option rather than critical, so if that's the case, how would you approach things if both of you needed to have the same relationship with spending?

What do you mean by "needed to have the same relationship with spending"? Whether we budget or not depends on our financial circumstances. In leaner times, budgets become critical. Most of all, it's a monthly opportunity to talk about the family's financial health and spending/saving/giving priorities. If somebody is spending too much or conversely, being too thrifty, we talk about it.

> It would seem to me like combining finances would only lead to less actual conflict (good or bad) if you've both already synchronized your relationship to the money coming in, rather than a solution in itself.

I don't fully understand what you mean by "synchronizing your relationship to the money coming in". If it's a fancy way of saying "we talk about the money we earn and how we spend/save/give it", then yes, we do.

I agree that pooling finances is not the whole solution. The main solution/bad conflict preventer is thoughtful communication and trust. To use a git/coding analogy, studies have shown the act of combining finances is a small (but important) commit on the trunk of your overall commitment to each other in marriage.
> It's not debt. It's stuff that used to be perfectly fine and due to no fault of yours is not anymore.

The risk of this happening is more or less measurable and is the debt. Denying responsibility doesn’t make the debt not exist. It might mean you’re so far removed from understanding how your (sub)systems function that you’re unable to assess it. It may be so complex that no one is able to quantify it, in which case I suppose “it doesn’t exist” might be accurate enough — either your business fails or it doesn’t based on the success of your subsystems, and your business outcome is the measurement. I’d rather have someone else be the measurement.
It was already more than 10 years ago yes. I did a big project in it. Was not impressed. The generated frontend code (inspected on firebug prob?) was completely bloated and had huge amount of code inlined.
Twitch, LinkedIn, Soundcloud, Grab, Parse, and Deliveroo. GitHub and Stripe are both transitioning off.

I.e https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20349004

"I worked at Twitch from 2014 to 2018... No more Ruby on Rails because no good way was found to scale it organizationally; almost everything is now Go"
You are not the rati they were looking for XD
People preferring to work with people from their own (sub)cultures, languages, and social networks (networks which often develop in schools) is pretty normal and I don't see it as inherently a bad thing.

In an ideal world you hire from a broad pool of people from the public but in reality hiring people you know tends to lower risk and a natural phenomenon.

But obviously it shouldn't be a hard rule, talent and applicable skills/personality should be what comes first every time.

If the company is entirely all Indian, over a long period of time, when they work in a diverse city then it's probably a sign they aren't looking broadly enough for talent and that is not just negatively biased socially, it's also bad for business.
More than ridiculous, it's often outright bigotry (the original comment here being firmly in that category).
what's the general feeling on Lojban these days? used to know a guy who was a unix command line wizard and lojban enthusiast
This is very sad, indeed. I hope rosa mannen get restored (again).

This type of archival work is very important for us interested in current & recent culture (This probably is all of us in some sense).

There's so many cool archival efforts going on that unfortunatley seem to rely on youtube.

As a nostalgic swede, i found this one recently.

Its a mad ** archive of all of the early underground swedish hiphop.

https://www.youtube.com/user/mfsthathustla/playlists
It's a reference to Brendt Christensen.
My guess is that you're missing the flipper zero hype this is probably trying to capitalize on, which are currently going for 500+ on ebay and sold out on the actual website so if you don't look too close/aren't knowledgeable this probably seems like a great deal in comparison.
This isn't moderating, Daniel - it's curating.

So do what we both know you enjoy about this job since you don't seem to do the other aspects of it.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with this. Musk for a while was a fairly laudable person who garnered a lot of respect. He had a dignified public image. Sometime around the Thailand cave thing he went pretty off the rails and seems to likely have started a pretty serious drug problem.

Just like Rogan, the dilbert guy, and many others he seems to have gone from mostly reasonable to corrupted and self contradictory and it's not really clear how or why that happens. It's hard to know if he was always the way he appears to be now or if there was some kind of transformation.
Build yourself a Nix. Or Gentoo.
LBRY Sold Tokens as Securities, Federal Judge Rules
> However, this kind of “performance tuning” is not necessarily portable, not between different compilers, nor between different hardware architectures on the same compiler, nor between different versions of the same compiler.

I do recall a time when we unrolled loops to minimize the number of decrement+jump instructions. Then there was a time when we stopped doing such in order to minimize the code size and increase the likelihood of it fitting into the cache. Later on loop unrolling became a thing again in order not to upset the CPU's branch predictor ...

So yes, definitively depending on architecture and pointless w/o testing.
Does anyone have experience with this vList data structure in real life applications? How well does it cache? Any production software that implemented this?

It's intriguing but wonder why it never gained traction.
I think P != NP is extremely interesting, but I wouldn't say it has strong implications for the nature of the concept of determinism or reality. I think that the idea of a Turing machine / the notion of computability has deep philosophical implications, but even that I wouldn't say has implications for "the nature of reality."

If you think that prime numbers are interesting, then I can tell you that GRH is the single most central conjecture in the study of prime numbers. Personally, I think prime numbers are some of the most fundamental and intrinsically interesting objects in pure math, but of course, this is subjective!
A lot of people had that problem. The subtext of their marketing, like the fediverse today, was ‘move on folks, nothing to see here’ so far as normies were concerned.
To expand on Dejanews' search (for the uninitiated), Usenet servers had limited retention. That was the length of time they'd keep a message on the server before deleting it. If I sent out a message a few months ago and you just checked the server today, it's entirely possible you'd never see my message. You might see more recent replies to my original message but your server might not have my old original message.

Because every Usenet server carried copies of messages each one determined its retention time based on the amount of storage the machine had.

Dejanews imported a bunch of old Usenet archives and ran their own servers which subscribed to everything and indexed it all. They were to Usenet what Google was to the web.
For Hayek's sake, would you please stop it with the generic ideological flamewar comments? I don't want to ban you and you're making it seriously hard. How many dozens of times have we asked you not to do this at this point?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: actually your recent comment feed is so full of this that it seems you've stopped using HN for anything else. As that is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, I've banned your account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
‘Initially I thought it was a scam’: can collagen turn back the clock
> They seemed unsure at the hearing of what exactly they had signed up for.

One even had no idea what the name of the patent "he" owned was, or what it was for.
Yeah anything above about ~1000km or so is essentially zero drag.
phase out C on the schedule the internal combustion engine is going out of circulation as is being required
What is fil?