skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should watch Joe Rogan speak with David Sinclair, who researches aging at Harvard, about the latest developments in his field https://youtu.be/ZGLL77wYxe8

Aside from multivitamins and idiosyncratic drugs, Sinclair takes the following supplements every day:

- Resveratrol – 1g in the morning (this is synergistic with NMN)

- Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) – 1g in the morning

- Metformin (prescription drug) – 1g in the evening – except on days when exercising, since metformin reduces muscle growth after exercising

(As an aside, he also engages in intermittent fasting, to reduce his total feeding hours. There’s a theory that intermittent fasting triggers a beneficial stress response whereby your body becomes more “efficient” in a way that prolongs life. Intermittent fasting has been shown to prolong lifespan in mice. Interestingly, resveratrol is expressed in plants as a defense mechanism akin to what intermittent fasting does in humans, and that’s one of the supplements that Sinclair recommends.)

Sinclair is very careful not to recommend that cocktail for anyone, since anti-aging research is still very preliminary. The relevant human trials are underway. However, NMN in particular has had astonishing effects on mice. Mice that took NMN lived significantly longer than other mice. Old mice that took it ran for so long that the measuring device on their running wheel timed out, because they weren’t expected to ever run that long.

In old age, the NMN mice were conspicuously stronger, had more hair, saw better, and were more mentally intact. In short, NMN might reverse the underlying epigenetic causes of aging. Sinclair subscribes to the information theory of aging, where, over time, your epigenome accumulates damage and errors, and protective mechanisms die out. It’s like scratches on an overplayed analog vinyl disc which slowly declines in function and eventually stops playing altogether. You lose a majority of your NAD+ as you get older (NAD+ is fed by NMN), which is problematic because NAD+ feeds biological mechanisms which mitigate informational damage. That’s why supplementing with NMN is theorized to have anti-aging effects.

Sinclair wrote a great book synthesizing aging research if you want to read more about it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501191977/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_awdo_...
> Uncomfortable truth for people who selfishly help environmentally destroy our planet with their meat addictions? I would say yes.

The best diet for the environment is the hunter gatherer diet. The second best diet for the environment is the omnivore diet. The worst diet for the environment is the vegan diet.

People like you need to go learn what farming is. An inuit in alaska can eat a environmentally friendly hunter gather diet ( mostly meat ). An inuit cannot have an environmentally friendly vegan diet. Nowhere on earth can you have a environmentally friendly vegan diet. A vegan diet requires globalism.

I swear veganism is the new anti-vaxx movement and it needs to be countered before it harms more people.
As a kite surfer, this is good news.
Many a time happiness comes with just doing things without bothering about outcomes. So all the important things you want to do should help you to create more such situations. Which also means when you do important things, you won't find happiness.
Totally sounds like a 1950s post war thing. The stereotype Americana decade.
My dudes: it's Saturday night, and this was just a subtle ribbing on a programming language. Save your downvotes.
Why would Google put itself under insane risk from anti-anticompetitve regulation and huge bad PR just to prevent a tiny minority of users from blocking google analytics?
Almost long term expats (~10 years) I knew left just because of the air pollution (that being Beijing rather than much cleaner Shenzhen). Anti westerner feelings never really got to us, but as tech workers we were never involved in politics anyways. Missionaries masquerading as English teachers probably had it much worse.

It did suck that I could never get permanent residence or even just a longer than one year visa after being there for 9 years. We were always expected to leave.
Unless the wind gets too strong and you can't kite surf as much anymore...
Many reasons. The VM is minimal, has a precise mathematical spec and is tailored to be a base for a purely-functional OS. The details of the VM are usable in the higher layer. It's more like a Lisp-machine, than LLVM.
Someone above points out that his death certificate included "stomach bleeding", so the answer may simply be "he didn't":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21673521
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It's so unfortunate that Google couldn't stay focused and make Hangouts competitive with iMessage. I would guess that the issue stems from Hangouts' legacy code base that harkens back to Google Talk. However, it appears their 3rd(?) attempt to replace it with RCS/Messages is failing once again.

Google engineers if you're listening - FIX AND IMPROVE HANGOUTS AND STOP WASTING YOUR EFFORTS ON NEW MESSAGING PROJECTS
> APIs that do a bunch of magic for you are the opposite of simple

You're mixing simplicity of API with simplicity of implementation. More often than not, you can only have one but not both.

Modern Linux or Windows do huge amount of magic when you call kernel API like open (POSIX) / CreateFile (Windows), yet the API is simple and easy.

You can expose all implementation details, your code will be simple, but hard to build upon. Speaking about data storage, once upon a time I programmed Nintendo consoles, their file system API probably was very simple for Nintendo to implement, but using it wasn't fun: SDK documentation specified delays, specified how to deal with corrupt flash memory, etc.

You can do the other way, you'll have to do lot of work handling all the edge cases, your code will be very complex, but this way you might make a system that's actually useful. About data storage, SQL servers have tons of internal complexity, even sqlight does, but API, the SQL, is high level and easy to use even by non-programmers.
Thanks for this link - never seen it before, but definitely worth the read.
Pasta dishes in larger portions with less exercise and a stressful commute.
Your basic numbers are wrong but its closer than I thought. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wind-idiot-power/
https://fullfact.org/online/wind-turbines-energy/
Disagree in this case, it's about exposing a simple abstraction, which may mean a simple implementation, or may mean a complex one, depending on the impedance mismatch with what's going on under the hood.
Do you believe the human body is picky about where its fat came from? Fat from carbs and fat from fat is still fat.

You do not need to starve yourself for your body to use energy stored in fat cells. You need your body to use up its immediate stores of glycogen, after which it will use fat or protein. With a caloric target set for a lower goal weight, the carbs you eat will be used up quicker, so your body will then go for the fat (and possibly protein). You therefore can eat carbs, burn fat, and lose weight.

It should not be understated that the best way to speed this process is with light cardio and resistance training, as it speeds up glycogen use and builds muscle, which increases rate of energy use. At no time do you need to remove carbs for this to work.
This man was under medical supervision.

Many obese people believe the body will enter a "starvation mode" and make it impossible to lose weight under a certain amount of calories. This is simply untrue. Cutting calories to less than your body burns each day always leads to weight loss.

He needed vitamin and mineral supplements (potassium, etc) because not everything is produced when your body burns fat. But if an obese person eats, say, 1,000 calories a day of a balanced diet, he can probably continue this indefinitely until all the extra weight is off without any ill effects. (Of course, don't go below, say, 1800 kcal/day without talking to a doctor if you're obese or overweight.)
At this point, why does the EU even bother with Google? What's stopping them from just funding their own "Google" and forcing all their subjects to use them?
When I hit 40s I plan to retire as a lawyer.
At all my past jobs we've been hit with DDOS (either directly or indirectly via our customers). If the odds are like terrorism I must work at firms with the world's unluckiest businesses.
The Endless, Aerial Surveillance of the Border
I don't get y'all. I have to remind myself to eat and stuff myself at least 3 times a day just to maintain weight. If I want to gain, I have to set an alarm to eat a meal every 3 hours (minus when I'm sleeping, that's sacred time)
Just get a smaller Kite.
The successful college dropout is rare
I don't think he's referring to kosher as confirming to kashrut. I think he's using it more literally as hebrew for "fit".
If funding your own Google was enough to build Google Search, then people would use Bing.
When I see stuff like this I always wonder how people above about finding these capabilities. I don't use bash every day so I tend to forget a lot of "tricks". But then I get annoyed when I see people write about really neat stuff that can be done in bash but couldn't figure out myself.
Serious question: Would you be willing to pay to access/consume the content found on the search engine?
What is getting built for specifically the 1% (or .1%, etc.)? The only service I can think of is Magic.

Additionally, what markets are underserved? This is an area I'm interested in but don't know much about (except from my own anecdotal experience like the fact that comparing costs of healthcare from different practitioners being prohibitively difficult)
Doubtful anyone there has a sustained interest in a domain registrar. any proof?
is this a hit piece? an half-finished article about both the tech and its author? it feels so 2017
As a developer, no one seems to know what's the best solution. But if they're not the one implementing it, then suddenly everyone's an expert and has an opinion.
Only a few 2020 presidential candidates are using a basic email security feature
I'm not saying it has to be any good, but if the CCP can force the unwashed masses into their home grown solutions, I don't see why the EU can't as well.
Nice but too simplistic. The best work I have come across on the topic is: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/d...
Refer to this to toggle the playback info for multiple devices/platforms https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/script-on-top-left-h...
Maybe try https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs ?
>IndiGo still needs to replace 110 engines out of 196 that were affected, ...

Essential questions not addressed:

1. What is the nature of the "fix"?

2. Have IndiGo pilots since been directed to limit power to "alt-climb"?

3. What is Pratt's analysis of failure incidence as a function of power history per engine?
> Performance is really bad if you use Arc for practically everything, as with Swift.

Do you have examples where Swift suffers compared to other languages solely because of ARC?

Also, is this something that Apple might theoretically make up for by optimizing their custom CPUs for it, without changing Swift?
Because the citizens of the EU wouldn't put up with it?
I'm not sure why this comment is being downvoted. I live in Kazakhstan, and while it's not exactly the same as Belarus, we're living in very similar conditions. In winter time, fruits and vegetables are very expensive here. Most of the cheaper ones (the only kind available to most people, myself included) look and taste like they're made of plastic, and are packed with nitrites. I tend to avoid them altogether, you don't get to have a very healthy diet with this kind of food.
> I want a new search engine focused on the passionate creatives who produce for the web

Serious question: Do you think the 'old Internet' still exists to such a degree? I'm not just talking about link rot (although most of my links from a decade ago sadly no longer work), but also things like outdated content, like a car review of a 2010 Toyota.

I don't know if the old internet exists anymore, as much as I want it. Sure, we are at an old internet site right now (Hacker News), but what more?
Deciding to Make Frozen II Was Much More Complicated Than You'd Expect
Shameless plug: I've recently started working on a recommender system/search engine built on RSS/Atom feeds (https://findka.com).
I work at Samsung and see what's on everyone's TV, AMA
Using a throwaway account for obvious reasons.

I work as an engineer at Samsung USA in New York and I have access to the screen grabs from Samsung TVs. These are lower resolution framegrabs from every every TV with network connection.

This came up here before. Ask me anything and I'll see what I can do.
It's a geared engine, so gear failure is basically sending the engine back to the factory and rebuilding or discarding it.

This is a big deal, and the reason geared engines haven't been used in aviation turbines before.

If I owned an airline, I wouldn't buy one now or for 2 decades.
Interestingly, this was just published by CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/30/europe/belgium-blackface-colo...
This is really interesting. Thanks for posting. I want to look into it deeper.
You can’t get promoted at Google by maintaining an existing product. Only building a new one. (I’ve heard that over and over from friends that work/worked at google).

Yes, this is antidotal...
Is This Fish Winning Climate Change?
I think function is introduced in elementary algebra when dealing with expressions like y = 2x
I don’t know whether this matters, and I guess it probably doesn’t, but he was kicked off the Popehat blog not long after writing this, for virulent (and, since then, increasingly theatrical) racism.
I agree completely don't do magic, keep it clean and simple. I disagree with leave the thing you replaced commented. It's not just that you can find it "in the repo", it's that things drift over time. Prose comments have that reputation but code in comments that isn't being maintained drift even further. No one even has any intention of maintaining commented code except if it happens to hit find and replace, and even then good luck.
There's not going to be a simple list of IP addresses for any service behind an ever changing global collection of load balancers shared with a number of other services.
Idk, if they put up with their pensions being invested in neg interest rate euro junk now, I don't see how some DPI and tech providers that may have questionable quality/service that they are in charge of is any worse. Might as well keep squeezing…
I wish we could switch to a system like Tor's onion services where each URL has an embedded key, it would solve so many problems!
Ask HN: Have RAM needs leveled out the way processing power has?
I'm planning on the next laptop I buy remaining solid for at least the next 5 years, hopefully more. With the kinds of tasks I do, 8GB only just gets the job done right now and 16GB is comfy. I'm trying to decide whether to bump it up to 32GB to be safe.

It just feels like the increases in RAM on laptops (and the need for it?) have slowed in recent years. I bought an $1,800 laptop ten years ago with 8GB RAM. Today, a laptop around the same price has 16GB. Seems like a 2x increase over ten years is much slower than things used to progress. So then, will 16GB last me another 5+?
But the independent sites are dying for a reason

Because you'll try to put something up and you get flooded with spam/hacking attempts and whatnot

Because registering a domain, deploying wp, etc if not so trivial

Gmail and other "big email providers" are needed since there's no litigation against email abusers, and there's a constant flood of crap to the spam folder

Walled gardens are surely problematic but they're less trouble than going independent.
That might be the point of the article, but the point of the grandparent is that the only method to get this data is to be seedy as hell. And that we should aspire to use our talents for better things.
A New Twist On Stocks Analysis, without zig-zags and confusing formulas
Aarch64. It was just a minor gcc bug.
Something that is at best bordering on unethical at worst a material breach of candidate confidentiality.
Nice illustrations but that article makes the same mistake that a lot of posts of that type often falls to, namely, assuming the reader has a similar background as the author:

> We all know that the slope of a linear equation/function has a constant value

Er... no. We don't "all" know that.

Actually, I'd say that 99.99% of the population of the planet has no idea what that means.
1772 to 1917 my man. Russia could not afford to "behave nice" back then. Every 100 years or so some European idiot monarch would hatch a harebrained scheme to attack it, only to get his ass handed to him a few years later.

https://www.google.com/search?q=belarus+part+of+russian+empi...
Got an invite recently, got it setup, but have had endless networking issues. Can't join any of the chat groups they advertise in the documentation.

The sheer amount of jargon you have to learn to do literally anything is insane. Nothing is intuitive, especially for someone used to a unix command line. I get upset every time I try and learn about it. All the videos about in on YouTube are 3+ years old.
That sounds like hyperthyroidism - You should get your blood checked.
I quit a couple weeks ago. I've been a developer for about ten years and I could probably do a lot of different types of development jobs if I really wanted. These last three years though I just loath working on development teams. I decided if this next programming job didn't work out I should quit programming. ...thats was TWO jobs ago, lol.

After that I took a break and lived day to day. I worked pretty much all day and night for months and it felt so much better than working in tech. For example, I would flip cars by buying broken ones and fixing them, I built a table and sold it at a flea market, I drove for Lyft, I drove for Doordash (which by the way was great for getting me out to see new places since I'm a bit of a loner. I'm serious, it was good for my mental health). I started work on a patent for an invention I intend to sell. I learned how to use Blender to create 3D models so I could 3D print a case for the afformentioned invention. All while being high as a kite whenever I wanted (and it was safe, of course).

So when this last job didn't work out I wasn't nearly as afraid. You know, I've basically been pretending anyways. Like that meme of the dog in the house on fire. But being a programmer and making more money doesn't magically make me happier.

Right now I'm flipping cars again. After I flip a few I'll drive for Lyft. My long term goal, the only one that matters, the only one that is going to get me into the life I want, is completely unchanged. In fact, hustling like this lets me optimize for bootstrapping a business with my invention. I'm not afraid of failing. Ill get up and try again. There's no point in pretending anymore. I want a better life than this. Programming is not going to get me there.
I don't see a problem. If things get repetitive people will start complaining, but in the meantime these posts have been upvoted out of interest.
> I’d rather they not use tech much at all than be digital zombies

At one of my kids schools, tablets were mandatory so that the kids could develop "technology skills". ipads no less.

Give me a break. Tablets and so on took off because they are so frigging easy to use. Being able to use a tablet says exactly zero about your tech skills.

If you want kids to learn tech skills, then make them use a Raspberry Pi, or an 8 bit computer etc., and do some programming.

Otherwise, they should spend their youth running around outside, learning IRL social skills, and then come back at age 14 or 15 and spend a couple of hours getting their tech skills up to their peers level.
Generally "planned future-proofing" never works, but I would configure as much memory as you can.

> It just feels like the increases in RAM on laptops (and the need for it?) have slowed in recent years

Are you sure? Both the 16" macbook pro and Dell XPS now support up to 64GB.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-xps-15-7590...

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-16/specs/
That was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18908051
The first sentence of the Wikipedia article is "Constructor theory is a proposal for a new mode of explanation in fundamental physics".

Well, if it's a "new mode of explanation", then the baseline expectation is that it doesn't add anything to all existing explanations of physics. The point of it would be to somehow allow explanations of things that were unexplainable before...

I mean, if you have a new way of explaining things, you have to derive all of the things we already know are true.

Edit:

The "Outline" at the bottom of the page doesn't sound like a profound new way of understanding the universe; it makes my bs meter twitch, but I don't see anything that provides a definitive reason to consider it all null.
I guess the mental calculus depends on how much you value positively impacting society vs just wanting money
Workshop.dev Domain Is for Sale
Air travel shows what happens when we give companies ruinous power over us
So. Namecoin? Onion domains? Opennic? Ipfs?
How else can u opt out of icann's influence?
In elementary algebra, functions aren't really first class objects you can manipulate. That is, if you have f(x) = 2x and g(x)=x^2 , you might ask questions like "what do they evaluate to at A?", or "what is their minimum?", but you wouldn't ask questions like: "what is f + g". Calculus is the first time in the standard sequence when you start manipulating functions as first class objects.
Yarvin sounds like a loon.
A user emailed to ask that we change the article from https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/02/story-angus-barbieri... to the paper, which is famous enough on its own. We've done so.

A thread about this from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16941097
I think this is about the rare cases where you have multiple competing implementations that become better or worse depending on small changes elsewhere or when a simple initial implementation can serve as documentation for a carefully optimized subsequent implementation.

I tend to think there is always a better way, say creating a module that contains both implementations as alternatives, but if this is the worst wart on the codebase it is probably a good codebase.

Just leaving giant blocks of commented out, trivial to recreate code as the system evolves is annoying. But I do think that the rule of not leaving old code in as comments is one where the bar to breaking it shouldn't be too terribly high. Personally I've gone overboard following it in the past, and all it did was hurt productivity. A few comments blocks aren't the end of the world.
Phishing for an Analytics Injection
The clean and readable version can be kept, but not in comments. Why not keep it as a reference implementation, and test the new thing against it?
The article purports to teach calculus, so it should get the basics right. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is called fundamental for a reason: it's the most important concept in the entire subject. It's not just a technicality. The article defines things in a non-standard way so as to reduce FTC to a tautology, and nowhere does it correctly explain the connection between differentiation and integration (which can -- and should -- be understood visually and intuitively).

In short, I'm not convinced that the author knows what he's talking about.