skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I am given a death sentence where I know I have X months to live I want the following things:
- I want the right to take some opiates and feel as comfortable as possible
- I want the right to refuse medical procedures with a low chance of success
- I want to be able to be with my loved ones
> Well, if they got any stock, it's worth about 50x as much now as it was then (not adjusting for inflation or other factors). So if they were getting $25k in stock for 4 years, that would be worth a few million today.

But that's assuming they held onto all that stock for all this time, which is probably did not happen in the vast majority of cases. My guess is that most sold it for less than 10x within 10 years.
Yeah... that's a bunch of nonsense.
I don't think these are conflicting ideas. We should absolutely do what we can to fight against the aging process, which is horrible in so many ways.

But defeating aging will never mean that we've defeated death. Accidents, murder, disease, and disasters would still happen. And the 2nd law of thermodynamics would still reign supreme eventually, even over effectively "immortal" humans.

So it's important to understand and accept death, even if we continue to work towards a world where nobody has to die of old age.
Bulletproof hosting providers are indirectly monetizing false DMCA requests.
Not really. I’d be immortal if I could.
Yikes. That's the only one of those that was even close to being accurate for me. And I'm not sure I can get it removed because they don't have any of the right email addresses. I don't usually leave much of a trail on these sites, but the info that is correct vs incorrect makes me suspect they probably got it from one of my parents.
Yes. Happens often. Politically speaking, the Government is well known for dropping cases that may lead to unsatisfactory judgement or precedent rather than following through and putting up with the flurry of resulting appeals to vacate convictions based on a nullified law since judicial nullification is retroactive.

The trick to keeping something unchallenged is to only enforce it against people they are fairly certain they don't have to worry about challenging it in a substantial way. Only people with standing can challenge it, and once you're in a position to challenge it, your defense is unlikely to go down a route to nullify. Nevermind that there is a prevailing ethos of minimizing the impact of a decision on the body of case law, so it is extremely difficult to make a compelling argument to get a law nullified unless it is extremely and obviously egriegious in nature.
> Death will never end.

As far as we know. It seems logical based on our existing knowledge, but really, anything can happen.

Certainly we’ve never seen someone come back from the dead in recent history.
Wow that trailer brought back some BIG nostalgia, even through that epic potato quality. (I had to use VLC to play it.)
My perspective on this is totally different. I don't like python because I find it to be a simple language. I like python because it's powerful, expressive, flexible, and gets out of my way while I express my intent. I quite like rust as well (for different reasons), and after using pattern matching in it, I am so excited to see it in Python. I can't think of a single change to the language that has been made that I would consider questionable, but I keep hearing complaints about them. Nothing specific to the features themselves though, the complaints are less targeted about how specifically this feature does not belong in the language as a whole, but just general noises about how peoole are worried about changes. It's quite tiresome, I must say, to have it come up in literally every discussion of Python on this forum.
Can you explain why Axiom 1 is an axiom? I don't understand this
I enjoyed that but the technical bits were kind of cringey. The idea we're only ten years away from being able to scan every synapse in a living brain is like saying we're ten years away from terraforming Mars.
Oddly enough the developer of Cities Skylines is Finnish and the publisher is Swedish - you'd think mixed use would be the first option!
I've come across recently the JTBD Framework, and I'm wondering if applying it would have prevented some of these failures

https://review.firstround.com/build-products-that-solve-real...
Welcome+to+Microservices+March
What if they make it before they go?
All over the Shop: A Conversation with Geoff Dyer
That’s nice though. I really hope to feel that way when I reach that age (and I hope to reach the age to start feeling tired of life in the first place).
If what this guy is saying is true, that is clearly terrible. There are however thousands of people who aren't gaming the eviction moratorium and need the protections provided by it.

Also just an aside here to say that both the NY DOB and NY landlords are shockingly terrible in pretty much all possible ways.
Same. The worst was grieving his loss while he was still alive because there were other family members that wouldn’t come to grips with the fact that the man we knew was gone. Some of the family grieved over the loss a year before the actual death. It caused strife when his body gave up and it was viewed as a relief for those who already grieved his loss...
It depends on where you are in the US.

The age of consent is 18 in Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

It is 17 in Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, and Texas.

It is 16 in the other 33 states and in the District of Columbia.
Spatialite has some nice spatial indexing features built in that work very well. This is an older article series that talks about Spatialite spatial indexes, but most of the queries in it still work today: https://northredoubt.com/n/2012/01/18/spatialite-and-spatial...
The media object is for embedding media within a document (an image, a sound, an animation, some bytecode to execute in a sandbox, or whatever). It's not intended to be used as an archive format for storing files (which, as you said, could be trivially accomplished with a byte array for the data, a string for the file name, and some metadata like permissions etc). A file is just one way among many to store media (in this case as an entry in a hierarchical database - the filesystem - keyed by filename). CE is only interested in the media itself, not the database technology.

The media object is a way to embed media data directly into a document such that the receiving end will have some idea of how to deal with it (from its media type). It won't have or need a "file name" because it's not intended to be stored in a filesystem, but rather to be used directly by an application. Yes, it could be built up from the primitives, but then you lose the canonical "media" type, and everyone invents their own incompatible compound types (much like what happened with dates in JSON and XML).
Seems perfectly logical to me? I’d do it too. Getting tired of living and finding a way around immortality is a problem for future me.

If I can’t, then I’ll eventually go crazy and the effect is more or less the same.
So, a bash script written ten years ago probably still works on any version of bash since then.

A python script written ten years ago probably doesn't even parse on python3.0, let alone python3.6 (because there have been backwards incompatible changes since 3.0 even!).

And that's also true vice versa.

So like, this is to the point that there's some "reasonable subset" of python you can use to make it portable (ie. no external packages so you don't need to worry about pip vs. setuptools or venvs or whatever, let alone whether they'll build). I'm asserting that there is not.
There's no reason it can't be. Telegram limits individual files to 2GB but offers unlimited storage besides that.
How to Find Hidden Business Ideas on Twitter
Back in March 2016, I took a couple of swimming lessons. Starting from scratch, I learned enough to be able to cross the pool using a desperate and random sequence of arm/leg strokes.

I thought I knew enough to jump into the swimming pool in my apartment complex. It was a quiet evening, and I was the only person in the swimming pool. Without thinking too much, I jumped into the pool, started executing the weird moves, and managed to reach the middle of the pool. It was at that time that the horror began.

Suddenly, I realized that I was in the middle of this 8' pool (I am 6' and some change) and that the water was pulling me in. I felt really helpless, and at that moment, it struck me that I might be drowning. This was it.

I was 23, fresh out of college with a decent job, had a whole bunch of plans, and it was all going to evaporate just like that. I didn't get any flashbacks of the life I've had so far, but I clearly remember thinking that my parents will be really sad and that the travel plans I had for the next month will never materialize. I really did think that I was going to die. I screamed out for help, but there wasn't anyone around (and I might not have been making much sound).

Fortunately, I didn't give up, and something told me to keep moving my arms and legs. I felt that I was finally moving ahead. I gave it everything I had and grabbed a corner of the pool. I came out and ran back to my apartment. All of this took about ~20 seconds or less. Still, I could have been dead (later that night, I looked up the statistics for the number of deaths per year due to drowning in a swimming pool, and it was a non-trivial number, ~4000/year in the US IIRC).

So anyway, that incident changed my perspective of life and death altogether. I care about my life a lot, and I don't want to die, but something changed that day. I developed an urgency to get to things on my to-do list, because I realized that the lights can go off rather unceremoniously and without much notice. I also like to think that I'm less scared of death now, but who knows, really.

I don't suggest having a near-death experience to lose your fear of death, but maybe try not to overthink things not in your hand in general. Some things are just too random to worry about.
Apples?
It seems that there is a product/market fit problem that the author keeps hitting. Or simply, building something that the people who would find it useful actually want.

I have had the same problem. One way of overcoming this is to have a co-founder that has experience in a particular market, and knows the problems that need solving and the people who are affected by the problem. Another way is to do more thorough market research.

It seems to be a common problem for technical (only) founders.
Can you elaborate? I have no idea how to interpret your intention with this, and I imagine many people also are similarly confused. Your confidence in this terse prose reveals your authority while simultaneously denying the layman your insight, so please, elaborate for us.
I wonder why India with population 1.3bn has only 145MB zipped footprint when USA with population a quarter of that has almost 1 GB? AFAIK, FB is huge in India.
You might give this a look. It's a FOSS browser extension that auto-solves google captchas by switching them to sight-impaired mode and using speech recognition.

https://github.com/dessant/buster
Reading your post felt like I was reading my own experience. My mom just passed away a month ago from stage 4 stomach cancer after a brief, hard fight.

> Having an advocate

There aren’t enough upvotes in the world to highlight this! The average person never understands until they go through it. My dad, my brothers, and I were her advocates. At one point, laying the facts out to the doctors who were delaying some of her tests due to “insurance requirements” (false) and pleading with them that it felt like my mom was being forced to advocate for her own life at a time when she should be taken care of by the “experts”!

We took shifts, around the clock, getting visitation exceptions to at least have 1 person sitting in the room with her at all times. Because the doctors had the amazing ability to burst into a room and present options to a half-cognizant woman suffering from cancer and expect her to make a decision there-and-then.

> I can’t imagine what would have happened if me and my siblings weren’t able to help her.

The exact thought I had as I walked out of the cancer ward past all the other rooms filled with people, laying there, alone. No one to advocate for them.

There’s just a dizzying amount of information, decisions, staying on top of doctors, following up, describing symptoms such that nurses / doctors actually check to rule out new causes (e.g. describing stomach pain and lack of bowel movements over multiple days before they finally checked her stomach and found a blockage due to a new tumor in her intestine)... it’s hard to imagine how anyone could get along alone in a hospital with a complex case.

Overall, the hospital experience left a bad taste in my mouth.

I was happy that my mom knew she was loved by all of us though, and I got be bedside and talk with her for her last couple weeks. I never thought I’d lose my mom this early, but I’m glad there wasn’t anything left unresolved between us. She knew I was proud of her; she knew she was the best mom a son could ever ask for in my eyes. I loved her.
This (and a loooong history of similar posts) is the post that I was originally responding to:

> Seriously, if you can avoid it, just don't write shell scripts at all. Use a real programming language instead.

This may be slightly weaker than "never use shell" or "always use python" but it's pretty close to the former (you can almost always "avoid" using shell somehow), and people seem to believe that python is somehow particularly uniquely suited to use for shell tasks that I think there's some degree of the latter implied.

So... I agree with you? I am saying that there is room for discussion around what constitutes a good use of shell script, and that there is a space in which that is true. I'm suggesting that a lot of people who believe otherwise may just mostly be writing things that aren't in that space, and I think this is actually a pretty charitable argument tbh.
Sabine is a great writer and speaker. Many people in academia could learn from her.
Coffee in Code Mug – Python
It's very strange to me that this is the case for those with clinical depression; I personally feel great each morning and by the late evening my mood tends to be nearly as low as it was when I did have a bout of clinical depression. I wonder if this suggests a different mechanism for my melancholy.
> The Dockerfiles are kind of surprising since they read more like a an ansible-playbook than like a Dockerfile. This one image has it all - php, nginx, mariadb, phpmyadmin and who knows what else [4]. It's an interesting approach to Docker images, certainly against the recommendation but might have some good reasoning for something as special as WordPress.

i can totally see why they would go that route, even if unconventional. those are all the tools necessary for a WordPress installation, and if you wanted to go the conventional route, you'd have to run each one in a separate container and use something like compose to bring them all together - which can be a little tricky to get your head around.

by contrast, having only one Docker image to deploy means no leeway for the developer to get anything wrong. it's a known-good distribution of all of the tools, pre-configured to work together with each other seamlessly.
How San Francisco decides to rename a school
Retail in Australia current retail prices are roughly 10 times what this article is stating.
I got a bit of an existential creative mind, and I love sleep deprivation because it kicks me into lucid dreaming a lot.

I have incredibly intense waking dreams for hours on end, I fall asleep and wake up up to 15 times in a row.

They are more intense then most psychedelic trips I've had. Lucid dreams feel like I'm some where between the material and metaphysical world.

I use the WILD or Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream method. It can be annoying sometimes because you essentially have to go through sleep paralysis every time, which can be terrifying if you don't know about it or aren't in the mood for it.

Copying this from another website but it sorta works like this;

> "Wake yourself up after 4 to 6 hours of sleep, get out of bed and stay up for anywhere between a few minutes to an hour before going back to bed. It is preferable that you do something related to lucid dreaming during this time, but it is not required.

Go back to bed and lie absolutely still, as if your body is melting into the mattress and losing all sensation. Silence your inner monologue if it starts to chime in. You may hear hypnagogic sounds, echoes of voices and other sounds in your head.

Once in the half-dream state, you will experience hypnagogia as a mixture of patterns and colors that take over your vision in the darkness. Observe your hypnagogia and stay relaxed, allowing it to hypnotize you and draw your awareness away from the outside world into the internal dream world that is starting to evolve now."
Just for the love of God don't use Perl.
Perhaps I should be more intellectually vigilant but this claim strikes me as so likely to be true that I wouldn’t bother trying to find a citation for it.
Shanghai security files expose China's surveillance state, monitoring of Uyghurs
Aww, sounds like you're an American.

Well, I have news for you...

> my kids inherit what I've worked for

Almost certainly that will also be taken away by the US government by the time you die.
Covid vaccine passports: Health experts are deeply concerned
End-of-life memoirs, the type where the author has a terminal illness and knows the end is nigh, are one of my favorite genres. Key takeaways after having read ~10 such books:

1. You will die.

2. Enjoy life.

3. Be kind.
I am not afraid of death but afraid of painful death. I just want to go away
I think one of the important lessons that the author is yet to learn is that people don't give a shit about your product.

You have to realize that even if someone gives you a 1 star review saying "product does not work", they still probably don't give a shit. Even people who use your product more than likely aren't going to give you any feedback.

The fact the author is focused on things like SEO and is overly emotional about people's reactions to their product shows they don't understand this.

Who cares about SEO if your content doesn't make people give a shit, and having people take time out of their day to tell you how shit your product is isn't the worst outcome. I would rather people tear me and my shit apart than them not react at all.

The fact someone organically posted about your product and it got engagement is actually interesting. Maybe none of their feedback is actionable, but I would still count that as a win.

It also sounds like they're trying to build generic B2C products, which I think is the complete opposite of what you should be building as a solo bootstrapper.
https://houston.culturemap.com/news/real-estate/04-01-21-bes...
Hey thanks for replying. Again, I didn't mean to point a finger at you or any of the team. Thanks for your work.
I hate Sony for that page.
I’ve helped multiple people with router issues who turned out to have forwarded all those ports from wan to their PlayStation (or it’s previous IP).
Ofc it wasn’t the issue at hand, but horrible none the less.
You cant evict, but its still your property so you should be able to move in. Cops cant throw you out because you have nowhere else to stay, and there is eviction moratorium. Bonus points for moving in with couple of obnoxious friends.

Btw Sunny is hardly hurting, he has successful renovation business in NY.
If it’s literally a sentient being in the cloud, I’m not sure.
I would consider it as well, but not because I'm afraid of dying.

Rather because I think I would enjoy being able to learn about more things.

Wanting to be immortal specifically to escape death seems odd to me.
This is from, at least partially, "Free Thought and Official Propaganda." https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/br-free-thought.html
> It is said that death is impossible for humans to understand. We don't have a concept of 'nothingness.' We like to imagine being in some void.

I think the closest we can get pre-death is the experience of being under general anesthesia. It's not a pit, or a void, or darkness. Just a complete cessation.

(Of course, this is assuming that general anesthesia does actually cause the complete cessation of all conscious processes, and not just the formation of memory. I don't know enough to say whether we're entirely certain about that.)
So, uh, he's a septic tank cleaner?

Anyway, I call shenanigans unless he showed you his suitcase full of cash.
Drew DeVault's blog uses openring to add a webring to his articles:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring
https://drewdevault.com/
We’re ten years away from terraforming mars. We’re just not 10 years away from finishing the process.
>In rest of the world, unless you're explicitly requested static IPs, your IPv4 (and IPv6) addresses are being rotated (usually either daily or weekly).

Fair, but that's still IPv4 and IPv6 rotating at the same rate.
Lost the thread for me during season two. Writing left too much unsaid.
Oh my God, THANK YOU! I have used this for years but my psychologists think I am nuts
The lead in story isn't terribly surprising to me. Pancreatic cancer is just so bad. Even if you catch it in stage 1 or 2, the median prognosis is under 2 years to live, and it's exceedingly rare to catch it that early. Usually, it's caught stage 4, and the median prognosis there is a few months. I imagine a lot of people with that ahead of them choose to skip chemo and radiation. It's a miserable experience, one you would choose only if it had a marked effect.
How about a neural network trained on thousands of fashion trends?

And by "neural network", I mean my brain.

And by "thousands of fashion trends ", I mean I look at people in the mall.
Java doesn't do type inference at the level of Crystal. It's not the presence of type inference, it's the fact that almost everything in a Crystal program can be inferred.
I've experienced similar things using this pattern, but also using melatonin before going to sleep. Not only I get to sleep 12+ hours, the dreams I do are so lucid it's crazy. I get to explore the world as I know it and sometimes I can even fix nightmares. This has helped me a lot.
Related post from 7 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188791 "The Case of the Top Secret iPod"
Thank you for posting this paper, it is more statistically/psychometrically sound than the one I posted.
By testing each person across a significant path of their lifespan, and correcting for test-retest drift, it produces a more defendable result.

Still, it does not make decline disappear into statistical insignificance, just lowers its magnitude to 0.8~1.0 s.d, which is still large, thus sparing the qualitative reasoning in my interpretation. It should also be noted, that the Flynn effect has ended somewhere in the 1990s-2000s, at least in Norway[2], so it is likely that long-term it ceases to be a disturbing factor for between-cohorts comparisons. Test-retest gains will still be an issue though (and there is a viewpoint that a large part of Flynn effect could be explained as a large-scale environmentally-driven test-retest effect acting on the population).

I also like the review[1] of paper you posted, suggesting several measurable histological/neurological/physiological correlates of cognitive aging, aptly summarized on this graph: https://i.imgur.com/CpQ6Upc.png

If you are interested in discussing these papers, or joining a community of like-minded people, feel free to ping me via the email in my profile.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19231030/ (sci-hubbable)
2. http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/Sundet2004.pd...
The Incubator: The Brave New World of Bionic Babie
This is a must for any serious cryptocurrency.
Absolutely unbelievable.... sad to see it’s coming down to this.