skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose that's literally true, but living for a million years would be effectively immortal but is still no where close to heat-death-of-the-universe long.
The focus of anti-aging research is to maintain good health for a prolonged period of time. I don't see any reason why we wouldn't be productive for far longer in such a world. While doing the same grind could get old after a while, there would be far less restriction on taking prolonged "time out periods"

Imagine being able to take a year off for the Appalachian trail or get a PhD in your 50s without concern for ROI or the short-term career impact of losing 4-5 years. Not be viewed as having hit peak potential in your late 20s/30s.
I wonder how much time you’ve spent with the very old? My 97 year old grandmother passed last year, in the last conversation I had with her she expressed to me just how ready she was to go. I told her that I thought I understood and hoped that when my time came I too would be ready. She assured me I would be.
We were aware of that and very careful to not allow something like it for Spyder users.
You are correct, and this is important. The flood of 2020 newcomers have not acculturated, creating frequent misapprehensions.
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There's a POSIX utility named "cat" and cats already know what it does, but if a man wants to know, he just types the following words into the terminal and then presses <Enter>:

man cat
From the thread:

>The secret to not dealing with crapty company practices is to avoid ones that advertise literally everywhere 24/7 nonstop around every single corner you look.

This is so true it nearly qualifies as physics.
perhaps flexibility of thinking is not about neuroplasticity, but instead having many pools of thought and experience to draw from.
under what jurisdiction do you believe the fed has that power? it's not an overarching government that gives power to the states, but rather the states, as canonical units of power, that cede power to the fed for mutual benefit of the collective states. the fed doesn't own/control all the (unincorporated) land, the states do. the fed may try to use it's limited delegated powers (like the interstate commerce clause) to shape things on the margins, but it doesn't have direct jurisdiction on this matter.
A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B
> isn't divorce a pretty healthy outcome to a marriage

Isn't bankrupcy a pretty healthy outcome to a business?

Isn't death a pretty healthy outcome to life?

Isn't coup a pretty healthy outcome to a country?

Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?
The fact that we find ourselves in such an incredibly unlikely situation, on a planet that seems perfectly designed to harbor life, is probably the best argument for the existence of a higher power.
The title here on HN isn't right. There's no indication that daughters provoke this in the title or article itself, only that having daughters does, which is not the same. The actual cause is barely touched.
I think violent crime has more of a direct impact on individuals emotionally, and so there's a larger reaction to it
It could also be that fathers who had no sisters were more emotionally attached to their daughters, whereas fathers who grew up with sisters has less emotional attachment to their daughters and consequently were less affected by their horrible teenage years.
Possibly ironically, the plastic lining cans is usually toxic but regular tubes are made of polyethylene which is safe!
You're right, I misunderstood the statistic. It's saying that the fraction of couples with a first-born daughter who have divorced when she's 15 is 9% higher than the fraction of couples with a first-born son who have divorced when he's 15. Bleh, comparing rates is unpleasant business.
Well yes, I do. What calendar are you exactly referring to though?

I'm going to assume you're referring to a general calendar. I use Google Calendar for using time blocking technique.

I divide my calendar into the five major categories :

- Jog/Shower/Meditation : Grape

- Work : Blueberry

- Study : Yellow

- Lunch/Dinner/Breakfast : Green

- Entertainment : Sage
I imagine retirement would disappear in its current form, and be replaced by super long vacation where you spend your savings, only to start working again (maybe in a new career) afterwards. Economic pressure wouldn’t allow for lifelong retirement.
Better than abuse and resentment, yes; healthy, no.
Fortunately this technology does nothing of the kind. Crashes, choking, and shower falls just to name a few enduring killers will continue to cull our numbers. Even with aging itself there are many factors involved so making major progress does not mean eliminating aging, just greatly reducing the impacts.
Too bad we don't get these headlines in printed form anymore! Saving enough of them as papers throughout an average lifespan probably would made it possible to recycle promising texts into a nice tombstone.
>There are extraditions treaties.

The extradition treaty matrix is - luckily - rather sparse.

For 60 mils, I think he has ample incentive to find an empty slot in the column of his country.
> or they didn't in which case they're negligent

I think some care should be taken in being too reductive here. If a CEO oversees just 50 people (maybe companies should be capped at smaller sizes?) then there will be at least a 50:1 information reduction even if they spend all their working hours in 100% efficient information transfer. Moreover, in many cases I would expect the bulk of that missing information to be the more negative aspects of the business -- who wants to look bad to their superiors?

Adding to that, defaults matter. If by default a CEO is culpable then it's suddenly possible to force them into jail by simply joining as a malicious employee.

> The risk of criminal liability is also the only possible justification for the high current level of CEO pay relative to average salaries at most big name companies.

Not necessarily (I think the idea is that they're paid a lot because they bring in proportionally more profits/cashflow/etc?), but I agree it's a little fishy that a CEO can take credit for large gains and be handed a golden parachute when a company's fraud sees the light of day.
60 millions can buy a lot of friends in jurisdictions without extradition treaties. Maybe not the friends one wants to have but he didn't earn those money in a legal way, so he probably won't bother. Even if he has to give away most of them he'll still be well off.
You just explained the core problem, so definitionally at least you must agree that it is understandable. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree that it's acceptable. It seems you're coming from a core premise that apple shouldn't block anything, ever, so yeah, you will fundamentally never find any blocking to be acceptable.

I can sympathize with that premise, as I myself don't personally like blocking. However, I think it's apple's right to do so, and given that, I think the "racial" aspect of the blocking is excusable (if they fix it quickly).
> I'm not sure why you react so strongly, do you have any reason at all?

Because your comment and others are grasping at demonizing one thing in a fairly sexually prejudiced ways, prejudiced because the assumptions don't factor in any counterbalancing force, such as boys being sexually harassed by either parent or outside the family unit. Or creating a laser focus so quickly to there being a perpetrator and victim of sex assault at all!

Plenty of other strife, such as with the boys, is also more than enough to counteract the discrepancy in divorce here.

The reaction is about how this topic reflects a lot more about you, and the additional negative affects on society that are centered around pre-judicial judgement on males, and a society that ignores where males are victims.

In this thread, and this current point in time, I completely understand how this might seem like a completely left field reaction to you and many people. But it shouldn't be and I can do my part by pointing that out.

Regardless, it is shocking to me that people would gravitate toward "aha this must be what happened" out of the universe of possibilities in what could just as easily be a rounding error.

I can simultaneously acknowledge that maybe during the time of this study, that population did do exactly what you imagine. Its just has to factor in so much more for that to even be the first thing one thinks about.
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Fraud is actually committed by individuals working for an organization. Suppose that every individual i has a certain probability P_i of committing fraud, or, equivalently, (1 - P_i) of not committing fraud.

The probability that two individuals j, k will not commit fraud is (1 - P_j) (1 - P_k), which is smaller than either probability.

Therefore, the probability that fraud is taking place in an organization increases with the number of employees:

1 - (1 - P_1) (1 - P_2) ... (1 - P_n)

Sheer organization size is a predictor for occurrence of fraud; with increasing size, the probability tends toward 1.

We can know this without gathering any data at all, just by remembering high school probability and stats.

"Big name" is not the same thing as "big", but organization size correlates with fame. "Big name" is a facsimile for "big".
For myself I would prefer a solution were I would still die but can retain all my functions until that day (mental performance, muscle mass, strong bones, bodily functions, etc).
Not an ideal ending, as it negates the fundamental promises of the marital contract. However, it's two peoples' (plus kids maybe) lives at stake. Staying together in a dysfunctional marriage can damage all those lives (with downstream repercussions on even more people). In those circumstances, a divorce can lead to much healthier outcomes.

In those cases, is the tragedy that the marriage ended, or would the tragedy be if it remained?
Wait,, what's wrong about 1?
The two blog posts by Frank Calegari are from July 2019 and irrelevant to the paper in Nature (from February 2021). The paper went through peer review by mathematicians and experts in the field.
This is just the same set of anxieties and hopes, ultimately religious in nature, that surround "superintelligence", except this time projected into space.
Living - literally - forever would render life meaningless. Every choice would become inconsequential since every possible outcome and situation would be relived an infinite number of times.

Curing biological aging that this article is about is something else entirely and obviously very desirable. Should people think it is not very desirable - after the lengths we have collectively taken over the past year to prolong the lives of a few by a little bit - it would be... strange.
Ah, the hopeless pursuit of eternal life. Old people's desperation shows itself every single time this headline pops up. You only get one life and you will still only have one life if we cure ageing. Don't let it get to your head.
Thoroughly disappointed in NPR's style guide for this article. It's 2021 and we still perpetuate the narrative that "Africa" is a country. For example, if this show originated in Sweden or Mexico or India, the title would never have read as:

"Europe's Hit Science Show for Kids Is Coming to the U.S"

"South America's Hit Science Show for Kids Is Coming to the U.S"

"Asia's Hit Science Show for Kids Is Coming to the U.S"
The only drawback is that you’d have to kill yourself, eventually.
Stepmom, actually. Just because I contemplate a thing doesn't mean I'm seriously interested in attempting it. I'm a problem solver, and out-of-the-box thinking requires contemplation of bad ideas. And yeah, your advice is in line with my actual approach to the situation. But sometimes I worry that I don't have enough compassion for him, which planted the seed of me needing the MDMA treatment. Sometimes bad ideas just need some rework to get a genuine out-of-the-box solution.
I'll paraphrase something I read a while back. Men have physical competition, women have emotional/social competition.

Men play sports, fight, kill each other and video games imitate life.

Social media is the women's version of video games, refined to weapons-grade purity.
My neighbor is 89 and still works part time as orthodontist for children here in Toronto. When he was 6, his job was to run from one outpost to another delivering messages during World War 2.

He volunteers weekends removing trash from the public parks and cleaning up our streets of litter.

I am teaching him how to play professional chess and we had plans to go to professional tournaments (but covid hit so maybe next year) and he is picking up really well.
> 1)

Open wifi networks still exist. When last I was at my public library (a year ago... covid) they still had an open wifi network for public use. I think for them it's a matter of principle, since it means nobody has to ask permission to use it.
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I never knew the origins of the TTY console on my machine. To hear it was an accessibility tool at first is really cool. It does make sense that if these were widely available, people would use them to dial into a computer!

I wonder what other interesting innovations I use that I don’t realize have such a deep history. Thanks for sharing the article.
You seriously compare severe physical punishment with voluntary courses and meetings?
To JSC or not to JSC: running JavaScritp on iOS in 2020
This was also my experience with my grandparents (died in their 90s and 80s), but they all suffered towards the end and I wonder if they'd say the same thing if they could have had a 20-something year old's body.
Issue report at https://globaldossier.uspto.gov/svc/doccontent/US/2016150817...

The language seems pretty specific, apparently the original patent was too generic to be granted. I'm curious what the implications of that are -- I also felt like (for all of its praise) the original system was far too generic to be patented.

If their new patent is so specific that it basically doesn't apply to competitors, then maybe this won't have much of an impact. On the other hand, if this is just a way for WB to get their foot in the door and now they are going to start shaking down smaller devs or competitors -- I'm not sure.

In general, I tend to be pretty skeptical of these things. I think 14 years is too long of a duration to have exclusive control over a video game mechanic, I think the industry works better when games can build on each other. I haven't seen any evidence, at all, that game mechanic patents are necessary to spur game innovation. The indie scene doesn't use them, and it is far more creative than any of the games coming out of WB.
A while back I switched from hosted Ghost blog to Jekyll. My content is stored in markdown on GitHub. I publish the site on Netlify. For comments I’m using Disqus and for search Azure search.

I love the simplicity of the setup and the fact that there are no updates I must run to avoid security vulnerabilities or other issues or that I must make regular backups and test if they work. I can rebuild the whole site simply by pushing a commit to the repo. For a blog or a simple site I find SSGs totally worth it.
As a cat I've been waiting for someone to write a new UNIX shell for us named fish.
And if your browser does warn you: what do you do? You use a VPN.
IME (n=2), people don't really use "senior/junior/third" when introducing themselves. Disambiguation is done with nicknames (eg John vs Johnny), and the titles only come out when it makes sense to talk technicalities.
The framing is odd though describing it as "forced" instead of simply the school's dress code. Especially when comparing it to a case in Britain a few weeks ago where a girl was threatened [1] with legal action because her skirt was 'too long'. Or how france forces girls to remove their hijabs [2]. One can always find rhetoric to justify one's decision, what I find odd tho is how a group of people will use words like "forced" in one case but will bend over backwards to justify the same forced rulings with more euphemistic language when it's in favor of their own worldview. You'll hear "it's just the law" kind of excuses, while not realizing that their own arguments could easily be used to justify the opposing case as well.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/12/school-thr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_scarf_controversy_in_F...
Purrrr...
We're also very good at not thinking about certain things, though. And I doubt anybody would make a system of immortality that didn't have an escape hatch.

Alpha Centauri is prescient as ever on this subject:

>I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.

- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morganlink 3D-Vision Interview

Of course, we would surely need to expand to other planets before we got anywhere near a 500-year lifespan. We can't manage this planet's resources properly even with a 70-year one.
hah. there is a big difference between 1000 years and immortality. imho we would have to completely rethink how we live and most importantly why we live if immortality was, even remotely, on the table
Agree. I always use my own VPN for this.

Most VPN services get blocked eventually and then play cat-and-mouse to get themselves back up, so the service is overall unreliable.

The China firewall also does some "intelligent" blocking of common VPN protocols by fingerprinting their traffic patterns, handshakes, ports, and other things.

If you set up own server, it helps to modify the protocol or wrap it in a proxy that obfuscates the VPN traffic as something innocent-looking. Basically, if you implement something like TCP/IP-over-cat-picture-jpeg-files-on-HTTP-port-80 you'll generally have a rock solid experience. (That's not exactly what I do, but it's along the same lines of thinking, you get the idea, be creative.)

Unfortunately I'm not going to provide code to do this though because that makes it vulnerable to its traffic pattern being fingerprinted and blocked.

Also, avoid AWS. Using slightly lesser-known IaaS providers helps.
Let’s start with abortion as an option (which it isn’t in some places).
From what i understood by other articles posted here at the past, unless there is some actual brain issue, the practical difference is very small and it is largely a matter of self-imposed limitation (e.g. people stop learning or get set into their ideas because that is the path of least resistance, but if are placed in an environment that encourages or forces them to learn they can do that fine).

Regardless, if we figure out how to live more and end up with brain zombies, we'll also have an incentive to figure out how to improve our brains. There is a lot of research into such topics too (see topics on research on Alzheimer's disease which are also posted here often).
Peptide vaccines do work - there's a very similar vaccine currently in limited use (EpiVacCorona, running phase 3 trials in Russia, with emergency use approval granted in two countries at time of writing). The inhalation based delivery mechanism is also not novel, but almost never used because you need a whole lot more spaced doses than intramuscular, and that's a massive pain logistics-wise when you are trying to run a public vaccination campaign. There is no clear reason this wouldn't work. That said, there are many reasons it can fail in practice without a GMP environment - peptide chains are fragile and contamination is a risk - with a contaminated substance inhalation is going to be a much safer mechanism than injection, but unless repeated multiple times it will be less effective. The thermal disinfection stage needs precise temp control to not destroy the peptides and in general there's a lot of handling steps that can go wrong. But that's a matter of process, not of principle - both intranasal delivery and peptide vaccines have individually been shown to work.
You might be interested in the YouTube channels:

* I am Bunny (a very fluent dog) ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEa46rlHqEP6ClWitFd2QOQ )

* BiliSpeaks (a cat) ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGMTesZlKa0Lokb7ZNqOJXQ )
> Try running 15k containers ...

That sounds pretty different from the audience they said they're targeting → "impatient homelabbers/SMB".

As another commenter points out though, the load you're talking about definitely sounds like something PowerDNS should handle without much problem. Given reasonably spec-ed, hardware and software that is.

It's used by some pretty big places:

https://www.powerdns.com/users.html
Right, but how do you respond to that? Using a VPN seems like a reasonable approach in this situation.
A good rule of thumb is to be slightly more suspicious of "DL for X" unless X was part of the AI/ML umbrella in the 2000s. If no one was publishing about X in AAAI/NIPS/ICML before 2013 or so then there's a pretty good chance that "DL for X" is ignoring 30+ years of work on X. This is becoming less true if one of the paper's senior author comes from the field where "X" is traditionally studied.

Another good rule of thumb is that physicists writing DL papers about "DL for X" where X is not physics are especially terrible about arrogantly ignoring 30+ years of deeply related research. I don't quite understand why, but there's an epidemic of physicists dabbling in CS/AI and hyping it way the hell up.
“It can be” is not the same as “it always is”. Devil is in the details. Infantilising someone or putting someone on a pedestal, rather than communicating and understanding their lived experiences, is how I currently distinguish sexism from usefully accounting for real differences.

(I can’t judge my own success in this regard, but it’s where I’m at right now).
Whole nations declare bankruptcy sometimes
it doesn't require belief. liquidity is liquidity.

all the stock options and private equity gamblers require a lot more belief than people compensated in tokens.

so fascinating how much our realities have diverged in just a few short years, when it is very obvious which employees and contractors are wasting decades of their life for a payday that never comes. didn't plato write about this like 3,000 years ago?
It's an interesting thought. If we radically extended life (say to 1000 years), how would society change?

Would people still want to marry? Would we pursue careers as aggressively? You could spend your first 80 years in school and still have 9 centuries of career left. How would savings change? Criminal justice?

I don't know what would happen, but the changes would be radical and have many knock-on effects that we cannot predict.
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I have two sons, three daughters, and I was one of those who said I was terrified of having a daughter and how much I would worry.

It has nothing to do with thinking girls have to be parented differently and everything to do with knowing that most teenage boys and men are pieces of shit when it comes to actually loving and caring about her (just like I was in some cases with flings and tempromances that were more about excitement than deep, long-term love and affection).

I worried (and still worry) about having to watch my daughter make terrible choices in men, while being utterly powerless to do anything to protect her.
i don't know, but, why not, say, BASIC? (most programmers being able to understand) or, Smalltalk, (little syntax, that ''fits inside a postcard'') or a lisp?
I wonder what portion of that being ready is due to physical pain and limitations.

I’d bet a 97 year old with the body of a 25 year old would have a different sentiment.
60 million in bitcoin is pretty worthless to a man stuck in a concrete box.....