skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evolution works on the genetic level, not the population level. While some altruistic strategies might be selected for (e.g. kin selection), in general evolution doesn't care if something "hurts the group."

In nature, dying of old age is incredibly rare as you are much more likely to die from predation or injury. Even if you suffered no ill effects from aging, ie you were biologically immortal, passing on your genes successfully would still require you to have offspring reasonably early in life. There is only selection pressure on your genes up to the point where you have successfully passed on your genes. It makes sense for evolution to keep you alive while raising your kids, and even while helping your offspring raise their kids (see the Grandmother Effect [0]), but eventually the marginal utility of your support drops so low, and the odds you're already dead rises so high, that there is simply no selective pressure. As an illustrative example, you could have a gene that makes you twice as strong as you were at 25, but if it only activates after you're 150, you and evolution would never know.

On top of this, many genes have tradeoffs. If there is any mutation that gives benefits early in life but is harmful later in life, evolution will tend to select for it, especially versus the reverse. Similarly, traits that only provide a benefit for a finite period which is nevertheless long compared to natural lifespan can be favored over traits that work indefinitely (eg many mammals are born with a few sets of teeth and have no way of repairing them). This leads into more general accumulation-of-damage theories of aging.

We see many species in nature, particularly those unlikely to undergo predation and at low risk of injury, with substantially longer or even indefinite lifespans. In the lab, we can also breed organisms like fruit flies to have substantially longer than natural lifespans.

There is no evidence that living longer is harmful to others in hunter gatherer societies of the sort we evolved to live in, and certainly no evidence that such harm would still be present in modern, industrial societies.

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/22/grandmother-effect-helps...
Is there a missed connection between entropy and circuit complexity? It looks like one might be able to draw some parallels between the two.

Other thoughts; it's interesting that PvsNP is essentially about the lengths of proofs, and thus it is the task of deciding in poly time whether you can decide all decidable problems whose proofs are polynomial to their encoding.
Yeah, mine either. But then, my circle of friends and acquaintances aren’t hung up on social signals like clothing.
How so? How is it not statistics?
If only people would stop underestimating how hard those four pages of js are. If you study it carefully you’ll notice some real time reloading type stuff for /newest, because it’s so important for finding good stories when you’re wading through hundreds. You can just click hide and see the next story instead of having to go from one page to the next.

The smallness is evidence of skill, not (merely) simplicity.
The tweet is by someone trying to sell a product that claims to automate something

It isn’t a considered view
"Saying Hello Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits"
Awesome. :)

Is that $250 Australian, or $250 US?
That's really not the recommended way. Write a handler for the event and just mention it in jsx. Don't do stuff inline. Also jsx conceptually is not html. Just alternative syntax for some JS. You don't even have to use it if you want to completely avoid coding in anything that even resembles html.

React is nothing like Vue or Svelte.
Another good one: Fast Sketching Techniques by David Rankin

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/fast-sketching-techniques-capt...
That's the most annoying part. They have literally every other tool and technology and scientific equipment/personnel to find out (sometimes even parallel construct) whatever they need for a case, why do they need to have access to ALL your private data and thoughts? How did thry ever solve a crime before the mass proliferation of all the data-rich personal tech we have today?
That's most modern software development though. Drag any old shit off the internet, dependencies, malware and incompetence included, then execute it as some arbitrary user with full access to your mission critical data and an outbound network connection. Maybe if you're big enough to have a security or compliance guy they will at most want you to buy in something that does a half assed attempt at tracking dependencies after it's too late or intercepts traffic pointlessly on the way out crippling your business inconveniently sometimes.

I tend to just use whatever Debian ships with package-wise when I'm doing something for my own purposes. People laugh at me. Their funeral.
I'm not an encryption guy so maybe this is a stupid question, but doesn't this mean you can't update the firmware without losing all your encrypted data?
Check out the Upwind section of this PG essay (and the rest of the essay).
http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

What do you want to do with coding?
What's going to give you the most leverage in the long term?

That course is going to dump you into the deep end for modern web dev. You'll probably struggle with it because it's taking on a bunch of things all at once. Some of the technology is also temporary. Will MongoDB or GraphQL still exist in 30 years? Will HTML, CSS, and JS exist in 30 years? Focus first on fundamentals that will give you a leg up.

I know professional frontend devs that still struggle with HTML because they went straight into React without learning semantic HTML first. If you can master the basics early on, then learning React and other frontend frameworks later becomes way easier.

Start with building web pages rather than web apps. You can do apps later but there's a lot more stuff going on. It's like trying to ride a unicycle while juggling flaming torches and balancing a spoon on your nose. Maybe you could sort of figure it out but it's better to split up the tasks and handle each in turn. That course is for people that already know the basics and want to try balancing on a new unicycle.

If you want ways to practice frontend, try building copycats of websites. Read the DOM, look stuff up, make lists of HTML elements or JS built-ins and memorize them. Play games to learn CSS flexbox or grid. Do whatever as long as you like it and it's teaching you the way.

There's lots of other stuff like frontend challenge sites that are good too. You'll always be "challenged" going forward for professional projects. Some might be really easy tasks, others will be hard. Get used to being resourceful and learning how to figure things out. It's an infinite game.

This style of learning isn't unique to frontend. If you wanted to be a backend dev, learning Spring Boot before design patterns, networking, etc. would probably be a bad idea. It's better to start as a beginner and embrace learning the basics. Go slow and master things step by step. Eventually it pays off.

You could also zoom out and abstract things to help with programming languages. Popular languages are pretty similar. Familiarize yourself with basic control flow syntax in one language and chances are it carries over into others. The same goes for "paradigms" like imperative, OO, and functional programming (others exist but they're more niche). Learning a paradigm is like rebuilding the thought process for your brain. If you learn different paradigms, then your thinking gets more flexible and you can approach problems differently. You might like the "aha" moments you get when things finally connect too!
You're perhaps confusing Maximilian Krah's Twitter account, with the account of the European Conservative. The full "search ban" is for the latter, while the former is afflicted only by the "search suggestion ban". You can verify their claims yourself with https://shadowban.yuzurisa.com - I tried it, and got the same results as the article claims.

> From wikipedia "The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies statements by [the politician] as nationalist, Islamophobic, xenophobic and anti-constitutional."

Ah, so it's election interference for a good cause. Never mind then.
And you speak for Michaelangelo and Leonardo?
> Rust doesn't have a "I know what I'm doing, let me be" switch.

Every piece of code you write is security-sensitive. IMO It is our professional responsibility to our users that we treat it that way.

For a vast majority of situations, even if you know what you are doing, you are human and therefore will make mistakes.

If the (probably) most heavily invested C++ codebase, Chrome, has memory use-after-free/overflow bugs, there is no way that truly safe C++ can be written at any product-scale.
I witnessed the converse of this in the recent Mario Brothers movie. There is a scene where steam piping is about to overpressure and it shows a pressure safety valve lifting. Well that pressure safety valve is an accurately drawn ASME I BPVC open-bonnet PSV with test lever.

The open bonnet is to expose the spring to air so it is kept cool and therefore has the correct force downwards on the seat. If you specify a closed-bonnet PSV (like the vast majority of PSVs) for steam service then the whole valve body can get up to the steam temperature, including the spring, and it doesn't lift until a much higher pressure than your bench test indicates.

Quite remarkable that they found someone to help them on this 5-second bit of animation who had experience with using steam in an industrial process plant or boiler, and not just a domestic plumber.
"Most forms of processed meat are considered unhealthy and have been linked to an increased risk for health complications like cancer. The chemicals used in processed meat are what makes it harmful to your health".
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/why-processed-meat-is-b...
Careful, that logic cuts both ways-- you're inadvertently arguing that 702 isn't really doing much of anything. So there's no harm in continuing it, right?

It's about Intelligence, not Evidence. Intelligence (like anonymous tips) is what you use to find the Evidence, which is what you reference in the affidavit. Much Intelligence is speculative and/or bullshit and wastes everybody's time. Publishing Intelligence tips off associates of the adversary and betrays what you know and what your capabilities are, and possibly who you learned it from.
Learning to see does still matter, yes. It's not the same as classical anatomy copy drawing. And seeing color (which is really hard for the common civilian) is not going to happen through classical anatomy. So we can choose our battles while still paying attention. Architecture schools try to teach seeing also - not through classical anatomy.
Understanding the Neural Tangent Kernel (2019)
> Well, you could listen on a socket for subscribers ...

"I'm afraid to inform you that you have built a message bus with RPC features.

You had a program that needed to broadcast some information. You have built some simple mechanism using a UNIX socket. You send everything anytime someone connects to your socket and close the connection.

Then, your software grew and could provide various other things. It became impractical to send everything everytime so you needed some way to advertise what information your software provides, and receivers would send the list of what they need when they connect.

Your program grew again, and you needed people to be able to call your code to do some actions, so you added a way to call methods that can take parameters and to advertise them.

With the mess you ended up with, you felt the need to standardize how information and methods are represented and used. You designed a DSL to write schemas and some kind of code generator using this schema to automatically build interfaces for these methods and this exposed data.

You figured calling methods and requesting information through a UNIX socket directly is unwieldy, so you wrote a small library hiding this complexity to the caller and making everything more convenient to use.

Your program evolved again and you needed the callers to be able to receive events without having to poll. Your library now contains an event loop that the callers need to handle.

Your program kept evolving. Before the number of generated events and the performance issues it caused, you felt the need to add a mechanism to filter / subscribe to events to avoid flooding the callers.

Time passes, and your to had to write a new, unrelated program that also needed to communicate. You wanted to reuse the same mechanism. Callers needed to listen to multiple programs. Those multiple service providers could come and go and you noticed requiring callers to poll multiple UNIX paths to find out if there is a socket there was not practical nor efficient because of the syscalls and that it's better if they could tell some kind of daemon they are interested in a service and get informed when it becomes available. Therefore, you took the whole mechanism out of the first program and made it a daemon so callers had a central place to discover what is here, and providers to advertise themselves. This daemon of course needed to be run at system start, or at least in a lazy fashion, or the different actors would, again, need to do the UNIX socket path dance, which is not quite convenient after all.

Time passes again. In the bag of services you wrote, some are related to the system, and some are only relevant to a logged user. You wrote some kind of integration with your init system and your session manager.

I'm afraid you have built D-Bus."

In reference to the recent HN repost [1] of [2]

(edit: damned, I spent an hour writing this shit)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37162898

[2] https://rachit.pl/post/you-have-built-a-compiler/
I was not trying to say it is simple, just that is very lightweight.
I wonder how many people would like a block button.

I work at a large company with thousands of people on Slack. It is effectively unmoderated social media.

And if anyone thinks that HR are the moderators, well the buck stops with them but no HR team has the time, resources, or training to moderate a Slack workspace(s) in that way.
Any chance your configs are on a repo somewhere?! For rails vim and for this tonic setup (if there’s even configs needed for that)
As an unironic GNU nano power user, I feel like this project is for people who want to like GNU nano but don't know how powerful the editor really is. Seriously, I highly recommend everybody to sit down with GNU nano and read the manual. There's a lot that you can do, almost as much as Vim in fact.
The point is everyone has chatGPT and everyone will use it.

And am being very charitable that that kind of writing works
The youtube genre of "Expert at XYZ reacts to XYZ scenes in TV/Movies" is a guilty pleasure of mine. Especially the medical ones.
> But there is no test where you are "guaranteed to fail" as mentioned above. Every test presented to you can be passed.

Sadly, when a site with captcha has decided to fail your every attempt, there is no feedback on why. You can request new sets as much as you wane; you can submit perfect results as much as you want, and you can try alternate methods offer (such as audio captcha) as much as you want. Typic'ly, when this happens, the following don't help: incognito/private mode; toggling extensions, adding some less direct mouse movement, forrce-reloading the page. Occasionally, other browsers or other hardware (phone, tablet, desktop), Windows/Linux/Mac, changing user-agent string might help.
I really think that just like everything else in modern times, drawing or the act of actually doing something that requires talent or skill is too laborious to get monetized for. The other day on YouTube, I saw a guy swinging an upside-down bucket of paint over canvas while standing next to it with another person and discussing the entire thing like they were watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel. He has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Later, came across another artist who makes hyper-realistic pencil drawings of people where each picture takes 2 to 3 months to make and looks literally like a photo-copy. He has a couple of thousand subs and barely gets any views.
These concepts don't generally apply universally to all things. There are things that are perfectly reasonable to ask for directly. "Could I have a glass of water?" "Could I use your bathroom?" There are other things that create an uncomfortable obligation. "Could I borrow $5000?" "Could you pick me up from the airport at 4am?" There's no point in beating around the bush about the first set, but it is polite in most cultures I'm familiar with to give a person an "out" of the second.

So instead of directly asking in those cases, you could instead mention your need, without directly asking. "The vet bill's going to be $5k and I have no idea where we're going to come up with it." "Ugh, the flight gets in in the middle of the night; going to have to see if I can get a cab or something at 4am." You give them a chance to _offer_ help, but don't create an expectation.
Plus, let's be real, the Register is basically the tech equivalent of the Daily Mail. Often amusing, occasionally occurate.
2009scape
Also related:

People underestimate the positive impact of speaking with strangers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48459940
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/09/deep-convers...
You picked the easiest (though still not easy imo) thing, and ignored the rest of the complexity haha.

If it's so easy i'd love to see your implementation that works multi-language, across all media types, for all jurisdictions and hell handles burden all the massive number of edge cases.

Or frankly, any implementation. Whatever you think is easy and everyone should be doing - please point to an E2E implementation of it. Maybe i misunderstand your scope. Something where if a user submits CSAM, or does something to some country authority..?
No text 8-( Watching a video is just too fuben...
It was indeed a big yak to shave. Cloning a Microsoft technology probably wasn't a good idea for OSS adoption either.
This is the assuage that contemporary artists tell themselves at night to go to sleep. The fact remains that people are crushing in to see the art of 100 years ago. Monet still makes people swoon.

And for our times we have a banana on the wall and we're not supposed to argue because taste is relative and someone likes that ... as we slow step our way down the staircase to oblivion.
Tracking project hours and managing how time is spent generally. I am very time blind.
only eating fruit is not an extreme diet at all, especially if you're consuming the right number of calories. what makes you think it's extreme?
Soy and turkey meat do provide health benefits. https://scienmag.com/major-research-initiative-explores-how-...
Yes, this drives me crazy. I particularly hate the trope where the plot hinges on two characters having a huge misunderstanding that would be resolved by a 5 second conversation.
In case it wasn't clear, I didn't meant to disparage people without phones or computers (or for that matter, people without bank accounts), just to note they are a small group of people and shrinking.
How many times was this result replicated?
My brother has this problem but for all films. He was a producer, so his field of expertise is film. As a result, I can enjoy a wide range of film and TV series that he finds unwatchable because "the casting is terrible" or "the lighting is all wrong".
fats don't all do that well on satiety studies. just look at the holz studies. most of the satieting things didn't have much fats in them: potatoes, apples and oranges.
Explained properly here - https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/mrbeasts-lost-at-sea-v...
Perhaps it's better to call it another wave, or another style of fear. The point is that the events of 9/11 scared Americans enough to hand over their freedoms with the PATRIOT Act. The impact of surveillance everywhere in society has had an overall chilling effect on public discourse and activity. People act differently when they know they're being watched.

I'm reminded of Ben Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
A serial workplace or school sexual harasser affects many people's livelihoods, their own livelihood is very far down my list of concerns. Beware isolated demands for compassion.
There are many musical traditions which evolved completely orthogonal to [western] music theory. That such traditions can exist and have performers who express virtuosity contradicts the claim that all 'riffs' originate with [western] music theory.
I remember hearing that allocating space on NTFS on Windows takes a long time for a large amount of files and/or disk space compared to ext4 and the like on linux. Presumably they are built to write out 0's or something when they do that whereas in linux you're just updating inodes or whatever. I remember this was in reference to Steam allocating file system space for game files before downloading them.

I don't know if it was the views of the designers of NTFS taking a different set of priorities or if it's more that NTFS wasn't designed as well as some linux file systems were.
This really bothers me and I'm young, I am TIRED of applications FORCING restarts, and other garbage as a software culture. You are doing something? Oh sorry our developer team thought it would be smart to crash your whatever task you are doing by force to give you a 2 line changelog.

Typing a dm on discord or talking to people? boom random restart to force update, using firefox nightly? sorry you cannot use it as your main browser because they can decide to brick your browser randomly to force you to restart. for no reason whatsoever, what is the downside of just warning people but not FORCE restarting? none.

Doing critical stuff on your pc that requires long term uptime? sorry Windows will decide for you to restart forcefully (at least these can be turned off, for now, via group policy)
Musk offered the Chief Engineer title to Michael D. Griffin who is discussed elsewhere in this hackernews post. That was mentioned in Liftoff. Griffin basically felt he could pull more strings in Washington.
My Kushy New Job (2010)
I'm in the minority on this, but I want BIOS to make a comeback. I don't want TPM, or any of the rest of this broken garbage. Just let me boot my OS, and get the fuck out of my way...
The version I know ends "I get real crazy when I'm fucked up".

To deconstruct the joke: the punchline is absurd because the monkey ordered the sour cream when it was completely sober, thus setting itself up for the craziness in the first place.
Yeah it's a shame because it was such a cool Philip K Dick-esque kind of plot point.

> Which, to get really meta, you can explain as the filmmakers incorporating the inability of audiences to grasp, and projecting it into the film as an inability of the “free” humans to do so, so that (as part of the system of control it is established that Zion is) instead they were fed the “battery” story.

Yeah and the original was already meta being a postmodern critique of society so it's a "yo dawg I heard you like meta..."
Who's doing all the book covers and advertising art, then?

There's plenty of good realistic art coming out from young artists. Take a look at anime fan art. This is not a lost skill.
Related:

Ask HN: How to convince my parents to buy me a good chair? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585571 - April 2009 (7 comments)

(I'm joking)