skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This lines up quite well with the late-acting error theory of aging. This theory basically states that many mutations have some kind of clock associated with them, ie they are more likely to cause negative effects after some period of time. There is a lot of evolutionary selective pressure to weed out such mutations that trigger when we are young as those impede reproduction. However as we get older, there is less selective pressure, particularly in pre-industrial times. There is still some selective pressure, as living parents and grandparents help raise and provide resources for later generations even after they stop reproducing, but it diminishes.

So a mutation that causes heart attacks in your twenties is obviously going to die out, but a mutation that causes heart attacks in your 50s could survive. If you had a mutation that would guarantee a heart attack in your 130s, you would never know, nor would evolution; but as the odds of living to an advanced age increase, so too do the odds of experiencing the negative effects of these late-acting mutations.

If this theory is correct, we should not see a perfectly smooth increase in age-related effects, instead we should see spikes near significant life milestones. Assuming a generation length of about 20 years, these peaks correspond reasonably well to the points where grandchildren would be able to take care of themselves, and the point where those grandchildren start having kids of their own. The rate of change of your biomolecules is the derivative of the selective pressure. So basically there is strong selective pressure to live long enough to help with the early days of raising your grandkids, then pressure suddenly drops to an intermediate level - a grandparent is about as helpful to a 8 year old as a 14 year old - then by the time you're a great-grandparent your progeny is setup as good as its ever going to be, and selective pressure drops further.

While I am sure there are ways of explaining these peaks with other theories of aging, like lifestyle changes at the ages increasing the rate of accumulation of damage, it seems to me such explanations would not be resilient across genders and especially not across cultures or socioeconomic conditions.
Andy Stanford-Clark discusses the origins and impact of MQTT [video]
>> There is a lot of hesitation to move significant assets from my Charles Schwab brokerage account.

I'm incredibly double-minded about this. M1 offers essentially the same service and they do it very well. I've compared M1 vs Fidelity Basket Portfolio (which also offers yet almost the same service.) Here are my takes

- M1 is easy to use (mostly, though same super-strange UX choices)

- M1 is a pleasure to use

- M1 doesnt fail on the main features

- M1 Baskets of Baskets gets complicated, but understandably so.

- Fidelity is better in some ways as it allows trading anytime, not just on specific windows as M1 does (this can also be a downside for itchy fingers)

- Fidelity Basket Portfolios is broken 30% of the time. Their OWN buy function fails any time they cannot get a quote for any 1 member of the portfolio

- Fidelity: It is absolutely a headscratcher how, in 2024, Fidelity can have trouble getting quotes for liquid public stocks during market hours (e.g., the other day, their buy of an entire pie failed because they could not get quotes for "DVY" which is highly liquid

- M1 fails absolutely miserably on back-office functionality. Selling losing lots is almost impossible without major Excel wizardry since the accounting info is held separately in APEX

- M1 fails dangerously on things they should never fail on -- for example setting beneficiaries has been a 4-month journey and still remains unresolved. If you dont have a will, get prepped for Probate! Worse, the failure is a silent failure as it suggests on the UI that beneficiaries are set. You get different answers from different people and each wants to help you but runs from "complex" issues (in M1's case, they are designed to have a single account, so their backend features fail if you have multiple accounts (e.g., a RothIRA and a non qualified account.)

The dangerous, infuriating, and befuddling experience with setting beneficiaries on M1 lead me to stick to the majors (Schwab, Fidelity) because at least I can rest assured they have the basics solidly figured out. It also makes me very hesitant to go to startups for this sort of stuff
Telemetry.sh – Simplifying telemetry measurement in your codebase
Ask HN: Has Argentina really lowered its inflation rate?
I have seen a lot of news that their monthly inflation rate as low as 5 percent for August.

Is that correct?
After reading the post, I'll just take the subtitle and run with it:

> Using personality clues strategically to stress test potential hires

The post pays lip-service to the concept of 'pop science' but then goes face-first into surface-level pop psychology.

> The personality science literature also let’s us stereotype a bit better.

There it is. Introverts are like X, extraverts are like Y, and maybe also Narcissists...

The sequel to this post will be how to label those people better: the lone wolf, the loose cannon, the people pleaser, etc. etc.
Likely syrup. A lot of Chinese coffee shops offer flavored syrups in coffee, sometimes with creative stuff like bits of dried orange or freshly pulped apricot, so this fits in pretty well with existing offerings.

Good Baiju tends to have a mildly floral taste. I tried the Moutai ice cream about 2 years ago, it tasted like vanilla with mildly floral notes from what I recall. It was fun to try for the brandname but I couldn't see myself getting it normally (for ref: I am a chocolate w/ crunchies kind of ice cream person)
Also avoiding to import criminals, see Sweden - where I live - for a good example of where that can lead [1]. For the naysayers and label-throwers I can only point at the statistics in the knowledge that these are immune to accusations of racism (et al).

There's also a UN report which lifts up Sweden as an exception to the rule that violent crime is on the wane [2, page 119]: Sweden has experienced unprecedented levels of gang violence and firearm-related deaths in recent years ... Sweden had one of the highest levels of firearm-related deaths in a study over 20 European countries

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriminalstatistik_i_Sverige#/m...

[2] https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/gsh/2023/G...
I’d like to see Netflix cut off any ISP that refuses to follow the neutrality rules voluntarily. See how long they last with most of their customers pissed off.
Red Hat Insights Cost Management does cost calculation and it calculates exactly how much each pod is costing, no matter what ratios, or node sizes, or discounts you may have.

It looks at what nodes are running on each cluster, how much each node is costing (it reads the actual cost from your cloud bill, including any discounts you may have), then it looks on which node(s) each pod is running, and then it calculates how much each pod on each node is costing.

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/cost_management_ser...

It's free for Red Hat customers, both for cloud costing (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and OpenShift costing. No support for EKS, AKS or other third-party Kubernetes, though.

https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-cost-management

https://console.redhat.com/openshift/cost-management/
projects that import the SDK /written by and (un)maintained by the matrix org/

e.g.: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-python-sdk (dependents doesn't work on this python project I guess)

or matrix-org/olm for JS

or matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk

or matrix-nio/matrix-nio (based on an old standard written by matrix, that matrix stayed compatible with rather than deprecating)

the inability to address the third issue (a security issue, no less) in 7 years is an impressive world record in incompetent messenger design
I do the same thing across my (meagre) docker infrastructure, and the reason is simple: If the code isn't running, I know I can just do a disk backup of the target system. Docker is also helpful because I can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the things that can change are on the mounted volumes and it is not possible for something important that I should be backing up to be hiding out in some directory I didn't realize it was using.

So even in my modest environment, you're asking me to write special support for backing up a MySQL DB, the SQLite DB used by vaultwarden, and I don't even know what that mess in the Plex directory is. Or I can just write the same "shut it down, back it up, bring it back up" for every service, regardless of what database it currently has, what it may change to in the future, or what other databases some other service might decide it wants. It's an easy choice.
I don't think OpenSSH's affiliation with OpenBSD really means anything; it's an accident of history that the people most likely to want to build something like OpenBSD happened to have been involved with OpenBSD at the time. Just my take.
Last I heard, Microsoft already has designs that it wants to fab on 18A.

At the end of the day it'll come down to how much and how fast 18A can help recoup what they're spending right now.
Transactions cannot compose because nested transactions cannot simultaneously (1) ensure committed transactions are visible and (2) uncommitted transactions are not visible.

If you don't care about visibility until the end and just want nested atomicity, you can use savepoints as a kind of nested transaction, but they won't be visible to other sessions until the top level transaction is committed.

CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY has steps where it needs to make changes visible and wait until no transactions are open from before that point, so it can't use savepoints.
NFL to roll out facial authentication software league-wide
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That’s amazing, the US plays around in $10k to $50k ranges.
I've seen some people using asdf + direnv. Is there a vanilla way to go about it with asdf AND direnv sourced from brew, or is the mostly used route the asdf-direnv plugin [1]? Seems to be slightly unmaintained, few stars and last commit 9 months ago

[1] - https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-direnv
Yes to the extent they're able.

This article is a pretty good overview of the situation across Las Vegas that night: https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publicat...

In short, every hospital was overwhelmed, but Sunrise was the closest to the shooting so got the most overflow.
iPads don't have NFC. Only the watch and the phones have NFC functionality.
very nice writeup, thought about running my own 'mailserver' :') boy was i underestimating it! thanks for saving me from those months of unreachability :D...
Damn, I realized the thing I like the most about this is I can be disappointed. There can legitimately be "nothing on", and then I can go and do something else to come back later. I think the most apparent way algorithms have messed with my head is teaching me there is always something on. So I keep wasting sometimes upto an hour just to find something. In the end I end up watching something I had already seen anyways.
Yes. The richest man, out of boredom and the me too disease, was insulting a guy rescuing kids in a tragedy.
Here's how that section starts: "An “aggregate” consists of a number of separate programs, distributed together on the same CD-ROM or other media.". Are you distributing a lot of apps on CD-ROMs? Have you heard of Linux distributions? Seems like things are fine!

I'm not super interested in fielding more thin gotchas based on out of context quotes. There's a big difference between a license that's difficult to understand and a license that somehow summons people from the ether who find endless ways to deliberately misunderstand it.
Another sealed computing use case that is public: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/security/ck...

And this one: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/SecurityofPasskeysin...

I've been fortunate to be paid by Google to hide user data from Google since 2016. Not many companies would shell out anything for this sort of privacy feature.

As for the Oak stack, they win the race. It is the only stack that currently provides full hardware attestation covering 100% of the code running in the enclave, and 100% of it is open-source. There are other good efforts, such as CoCo containers with their Key Broker, but so far they only cover the initial boot firmware, not the full set of software running inside the enclave.

Kudos to the Oak team!
Absolutely, and I hope that I didn’t give the impression otherwise. In times of crisis I’m immensely grateful that most everyone will step up beyond their normal responsibilities.

I’m even more grateful that leaders like the author have spent their careers developing the experience, instinct, discernment, credibility, and fortitude to make the right adaptations under pressure.

I’d even agree with the original comment that a good leader trusts their people and gets out of their way. I just think that manifests differently in steady-state operations than during crisis.
a fictional account by filk star leslie fish, 'the day it fell apart'

https://youtu.be/4aYVbt5ZwTc?si=ee4y8BZjgKOf3-5T

just a little general hospital in a little factory town
the board put me in charge for mainly keeping prices down
i hadn't touched a patient since 1982
but the day of the explosion i remembered what to do

at 11 in the morning we all heard the factory blow
the blast took out the windows and the shrapnel fell like snow
we could get no help from out of town for half a day or more
we had near a thousand casualties and beds for 94.

and can you keep your head your backbone or your heart
we all found out the answer on the day it fell apart

it was worse than combat medicine
supplies were draining fast
bandages ran out and antiseptics wouldn't last
i took all the able-bodied i could catch inside the door
and made them help the doctors or go scrounge supplies and more

i invented laws to tell them saying, "in such emergency
forget your usual job and boss; your orders come from me!"
i sent the cops to commandeer anything in reach
food or disinfectant, cloth or alcohol or bleach

and can you keep your head your backbone or your heart
we all found out the answer on the day it fell apart

the janitor ran cleanup squad; the cook maintained supplies
the garbage man removed the ones who died before our eyes
the clerks burned all our papers to boil water on the fire

...

it gets more engaging from there

things like this have happened lots of times in real life, but the people who did them don't sing songs about them of course
High frequency traders pay attention please.
> Every Windows-based business LAN or industrial machine I know still has IPv6 disabled.

Which is against Microsoft's recommendations:

> Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a mandatory part of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and newer versions. We do not recommend that you disable IPv6 or its components. If you do, some Windows components may not function.

* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...
This could be a really cool use for AI. We have so many rules and systems in place to protect normal people from professionals that we have to blindly trust. If I had a reliable AI in my pocket I could be in charge of my own safety again.

I did this a month or so ago when a Dr. recommended a cortisone injection behind my ankle. I asked GPT about it, it said consensus recommends against it because it can weaken the Achilles. The doctor hated it but I am really glad I didn’t just blindly trust him.

I guess I like it because it is enabling instead of replacing humans.
Can you give any insight into why these projects were canceled at Disney or Netflix?
Also famous for getting electricity signs wrong, not understanding that electrons existed and had charges that were "negative" according to his definition.
"we are just rapidly entering a world where photos should not be trusted"

That train departed years ago.
No they don’t. Opinions are customary, but there is no law or regulation requiring that.

Lawyers make arguments. Judges make decisions.
I highly recommend The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. His writing style completely transported me to the time and place of early America. He led a truly interesting and inspiring life which I think HN readers would find fascinating. I think he embodied the entrepreneurial spirit.
The content produced adhered to the requirements and is amusing. It allowed the creativity of a single person to be applied in a larger way to more things. This is exactly an example of how AI wouldn't enshittify the internet.