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Longevity research had been fun to follow, but I’d caution newcomers to take everything with a grain of salt.

The field of longevity influencers has exploded recently, with increasingly confident claims extrapolated from preliminary research and hypotheses.

Some of the longevity influencers, including some of the people in the list above, have significant financial interests in promoting their theories and methods. This ranges from selling educational materials to speaking engagements and even promoting supplements. As is typical with cutting edge research, the confidence of certain claims tends to be exaggerated when a financial conflict of interest becomes involved.

A few years ago the longevity world was all about resveratrol after some promising early research, though later research suggests that resveratrol isn’t quite as miraculous as it was initially promoted. We’re currently going through a similar cycle with NR/NMN supplements like Niagen.

There may be some promising developments in this area, but I wouldn’t rush out to spend money on expensive supplements that haven’t been tested at high doses long term in humans just yet. Longevity influencers like to talk about the potential upsides, but they rarely admit the unknown potential downsides.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but animals don't care about the humane treatment of the other animals they kill.
Yeah, what the fuck? Their decision to let the cat play with the mouse over an entire day startled me when I first read it, and then bringing it up again later in the article as one of the only solutions for dealing with a mouse really threw me out of the article.
And my plex library continues to grow..
I really like the vocabulary and use of words, such as "tight beam", "space him" and others. I think it's a very creative show and one of my favorites at this point. I enjoy the sound track too.
UT2k4 has virtually anything you could possibly want out of a UT game.
No Safe Level of Use: Strategies for Post-Social Media
In the UK at least, it's Sky (satellite) or Virgin (cable), and they both bundle internet access with the service. Often it's more expensive to get the internet service on its own (Virgin) than getting the 'bundle' (tv+internet).

Also, the free-to-air reception in some parts of the UK is still so poor, you need cable or satellite to watch any TV at all.
C++ folks, do you see any big improvement in cscope type navigation? I've tried ycm and a couple of others. Now settled on ripgrep. However, I do need a decent plugin that helps with finding references to a symbol and navigation back and forth in C++. Not finding it in nvim after several attempts. Coc+clangd has only added to the headache. Coc is pretty good for js and python though.
...until the inevitable Mars colony rebellion...
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Show HN: I built a simple web app for my parents to use their network scanner
The human stuff is hard sci-fi. The alien protomolecule is thoroughly in the realm of sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from magic.

And I'm fine with that because of how its handled. The protomolecule is less of a technology itself and more or a narrative tool. How it works isn't important. What is important is that it is a disruptive force that changes the direction of humanity.
If that person owns the rocket company which got everyone there in the first place? The response will probably include seizure of all Earth based assets including the rockets, use of those rockets to fly to Mars, and by way of this give the idiot who thought it was a good idea to be obviously dangerous while in charge of interplanetary ballistic missiles a personal introduction to dangerous end of the first real human space marine.

Needless to say, the likely-Earth-based shareholders are likely to be unimpressed by such a colonial government.

If they don’t own the rocket company and don’t threaten the main colony? That might end up like Jonestown.
"People choosing not to vaccinate are putting him at risk". This might not exactly be the strongest point to make, as the Covid IFR rate for those under 17 is 20 in 1,000,000, or a 99.998% survival rate. Sure, there's a non-zero chance of death but it's effectively zero. It's great to say we should reduce risks further as a society, but is it really worth the costs to reduce risks like that further?

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
Avoiding death may not be the goal of living, but it certainly is a prerequisite.
Sure, but Freenode has a "namespace" system. A channel with a single # is supposed to signify that it's officially affiliated with whatever project it's about, while a channel with a double ## is something community-driven.

It's thus perfectly reasonable to me that, if the project decides to move networks and stop using the official channel, it should shut it down and redirect it. (If for no other reason than because the project won't be moderating that channel any more, and it reflects poorly on the project if something that's flagged as being "official" turns into a cesspool.) It's not stopping people from creating a ## community channel on the old network to keep talking.

That's irrelevant, of course, because Freenode hijacked a lot of channels that weren't doing the full shutdown, and just had a soft "we're moving to X soon" topic set, thus punishing the gentler communications you'd prefer.
Have the statistics changed for people under 10 with covid? Early on data suggested almost no hospitalizations or deaths for young people.
I never got far into Spanish, but I remember that there were exceptions to that rule. Like things that aren't really permanent, but still use ser.

In the end I just saw it as a strange and random language quirk. Like articles in German or Dutch.
Your comment triggers my OCD in 2-3 different ways:

1. First you start numbering with 1.

2. Then you start numbering with 0.

3. You provide links for all but the first element in the list, which, combined with my first 2 points, results in a juxtaposition of "2" and "0", suggesting to my subconscious that I missed something.

Well done.
Fair enough. I'd say these channel takeover shenanigans disqualify freenode from being a good candidate for a software project's home or HQ. It makes me doubt that any IRC network can be rightly considered for that role, if this is what such network operators can do to it. It's a security risk.

If there aren't technical security assurances against such interference (I think this is just the facts of IRC) perhaps there is a cultural norm against it (judging from the reaction, seems there is) and IRC networks with reputations for holding to those norms. So some other network might be acceptable to use.

Still, better for software project to have its own website as HQ. Then they can have an SSL cert.
Capitalism?

Greed is a very human emotion, corporations are like very powerful sociopaths. No-emotion machines that optimize for a single end goal (shareholder money) within the given ruleset: the law.

(Or more realistically whatever they can get away with while still turning profit, ie profit is greater than whatever the repercussions cost).
yes, years were the same... keep in mind that "year" (but also "season") were of the most importance for agricultural people.
I tried out the native LSP support few months ago and the docs + features for it seemed poor. I went back to coc.vim
Yeah but the need to place it in sci-fi setting feels like adding fluff to mask the fact that the commentary is weak/trivial/boring or detached from reality/wrong.

I wish they made more sci-fi about robots and spaceships, I find that stuff entertaining and inspiring. If I want social commentary I have better sources than sci-fi writers.

And there is Sci-Fi that's not social commentary.
weechat-matrix should be pretty great, given the TUI is... well, weechat, which is a pretty great IRC TUI?
Most games are made for consoles first, rarely other way around.

Anyhow, you can play on your screen with docked switch. You can play on your couch with steam link, or pc hooked up to tv.

I am just not seeing a competitive edge for this device.
I think you're saying essentially the same thing as the last paragraph of my post, so not sure why there's an argument.

But sure, there's a long run place we want to get to. Today, we're not at that place and we're depending on fossil fuels. So why are we vilifying them and the companies that provide them? Sounds like we should simply work on replacements, like nuclear.
Will all the Bond movies available for free to watch for prime members?
Computer science was a new branch of mathematics 100 years ago. Folks discovered the easy, low-lying algorithms. I don't know about you, but I've rediscovered quite old results that are named so-and-so's algorithm or what's-their-face's theorem; because they were the obviously efficient ways of solving those problems.

Supposing P=NP, one would expect the polytime algorithm to be brain-meltingly complex. Same goes for, say, a n^2log(n) matrix multiplication algorithm.

Simplification is a really good strategy for optimizing algorithms. But sometimes, doing less work requires doing a bit of thinking upfront, or carefully cleaning up behind yourself (but not cleaning too eagerly).
> It's shocking to me that you're willing to completely overlook the fairness of the system in return for 'more art'. It is not appropriate whatsoever to strip ANYONE of their ownership of a piece of art they have created. Why do you feel entitled to that?

Are you genuinely unaware of the arguments that got us the invention of copyright in the first place, or are you aware of them and just asking me to quote them?

[EDIT] in case it's the former, let me just note that it's very much not obvious or in any sense "natural" that a person who hums a tune they just thought up gets to keep anyone else who heard them from humming it, in any context or for any reason, including for pay. That we, collectively, will it so (with laws) is precisely to encourage more art to be both created and shared. The enhanced level of creation is the entire point. Copyright lets you put an idea in someone's head and then prevent them from doing much with it. That is also an imposition, and a pretty damn extreme one, at that.
Q&A with Guido van Rossum, Inventor of Python
Yes, that is an important limitation of Revise that I hope goes away.

Until then, consider this work-around: https://github.com/BeastyBlacksmith/ProtoStructs.jl
>I can't fathom

A lot of people just can't be bothered tracking their usage over time of a bunch of services and keeping track of what lives where. I don't have a lot of services so it's not worth optimizing to save $10/month or something like that.
"nuances" as in ... seconds? minutes? days?
GrimAge to your service:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6366976/
That's a good point, though I think the time/generational factor may cause it to trend downward. My parents unhappily paid cable prices their whole life. I've never once paid for cable TV and never will be willing to pay that much for subscription entertainment, but I'm willing to pay for one streaming service and have considered a second at times. Anecdotally reading places like here, I don't think I'm an uncommon case. Again to your point, even though there's fuss every time a streaming provider raises the cost (especially Netflix being one of the larger players and who has been around long enough to have increased prices more than once), it seems each service is viewed as cheap and well under what people are willing to pay.
I don't understand this analogy. A business solves one problem very well, then slowly expands to related areas where they can apply their existing strengths and experience. This is true not just for Stripe but any successful company ever created. So are they all mice?
Thanks, that helped a lot.
Clearly you didn't "waste" any time reading the link I provided. b^) We agree completely on the topic of "whataboutism".
weechat-matrix is really not a dead project. the maintainer works for Element, and is working on matrix-rust-sdk (and thus weechat-matrix-rs), but weechat-matrix is alive in well and in no way unmaintained or dead.
More like LEEnode now. The network is dead and will never recover, even if Andrew steps down.
lazy link: http://keptab.com/

The mobile design (Firefox Android) needs some margins/paddings.
Great video - very well done. It's easy to follow and you explain things in simple terms!
> I don't know about conspiracy, but the general population hasn't needed constant vaccination before.

This is a bald faced lie. As you say yourself, there's the flu shot. Kids need their shots for school. We need to get various vaccines before traveling between certain regions. There are all sorts of vaccine boosters and new vaccines they have been recommending to my elderly parents since they were late middle age.

Hell this isn't even the first (or second, or third) mass vaccination campaign - there was smallpox and polio and measels and chicken pox/shingles.

To say that the general population hasn't needed it is literally the exact opposite of anything resembling the truth: we've been constantly getting vaccines for longer than I've been alive.
Google Weather gets a Material Theme design refresh
Graphics and audio are almost always the culprit for large sized games.
This is the case with France, but as usual in France there is the law and then the reality.

We had HADOPI, an organization announced as the Hammer of Thor for pirates. Not related but one of the elected members of our Assembly was talking about the OpenOffice Firewall.

Many discussions started on how this is legal and whatnot, an ISP also sent the IPs they were required to provides hardcopied on paper.

People started to create anti-HADPPI pages, after a chaotic discussion the law was changed from "you are a pirate" to "you did not secure your WiFi enough" (literally).

People started to use VPNs and forgot about the organization.

Then million of euros were poured into that idiotic organization (ah, we also have a tax on empty CDs and DVDs because they are used to copy pirated stuff...) and the first courts hit with the Hammer of Thor.

If I remember correctly, one person was convicted to 2000€.

It has now been quietly merged with another organization and I do not know if it still exists.

So much money spent on idiots doing idiotic work for idiotic results. Garbage in, garbage out.
"it doesn't have to be crazy at work"
Given that they've all been pirated I expect this will just fuel trading of pirated classics.
One of the challenges is communicating context.

20% to 80% of filters is not good enough in a healthcare setting since a provider may be in a room absolutely filled with virus particles.

In a public setting, 20% to 80% might be enough to limit incidental viral loads enough to prevent infection.

It's hard to define the effectiveness across a wide variety of settings a cloth mask might be used in.
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Bad Apple goes much deeper than that. IMHO this pretty much retires it.
What's the MVP equivalent of a game? If you want to make a startup, even if you are planning in two years to have a whole team of devops, etc, you can start small doing a MVP with one person (or two), etc.

I always tried to do something similar but it seems impossible in videogames, unless you are aiming a 2D mobile game.
For people actually moving, the last thing could be quite helpful. One of the challenges for a lot of communities will be making sure everyone knows the move is happening. If the new guys are kicking everyone off the old channels and making it impossible to join, that will prompt everyone lurking on there (and somehow unaware of all the drama going on) to seek the new channel.
I somewhat agree with you, but I also think when you add moralistic disclaimers to the beginning, or claim that the movie should be pulled from streaming catalogs, [1] it’s a small “compromise” to just remove the uncomfortable scenes. Especially if everyone involved will otherwise lose money.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/movies/gone-with-the-wind...
Consider then my family member, who is elderly and immuno-compromised such that the vaccine may not be effective.
I really like the boys and invincible. Granted that's all I've ever watched on Amazon prime, and they are both based on comics so I'm not sure how "original" they are. But they can make good shows.
There was a point in time, maybe circa 2008, where platforms were expected to be a thing. The web was/is a platform. Operating systems were a platform, and MSFT even got rich. Platforms had the power to support an ecosystem so rich their inventors' could never have imagined it.

Facebook and Twitter genuinely had plans to be platforms, remember? Paul Graham even called it a new core protocol, and YC recruited startups specifically to build onto it.

...It didn't work out that way. The "platform" analogy doesn't really hold. What did emerge was one of two things. One model is the "portal" concept, of dotcom buzz. Google & Facebook are portals to content, and they have all the power/profit that comes with controlling access... AKA, exactly what we were afraid ISPs and AOL-like efforts would try to do... the reason why "net neutrality" got a name. The other model is private marketplaces: Youtube, amazon, spotify, etc. You make the rules, cream the market and tax the participants.

Stripe is a portal, sort of. They're a lot like Visa.

I think 80s/90s operating system wars an anomaly that led smart people at that time to think private companies could be real platforms. PG even wrestles with the problem in his short not on the topic re: twitter. Modern, locked down app store OSs are the normal outcome. The "ecosystems" exist to support the portal, not the other way around.
Oops, sorry I forgot that there's no such thing as life-cycle assessment, amortised cost analysis, payback periods or any of the similar analyses performed every day by engineers, purchasers, operators, accountants, companies and governments. I guess they haven't been invented yet. Sounds like you've found a gap in the market; why not pitch it to YC?
HN readers vote.

Sometimes wisely and sometimes less so :)
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>> - a lot of practical lessons learned about managing global virus outbreaks

You would think, but I feel like with each wave (and therefore each opportunity to learn from previous mistakes) countries repeated the mistakes of the past. I have very little confidence that if we were faced with a similar threat in the near future that things would be different.
I'd prefer blatant product placement, e.g. Kermit the Frog emerges from Greedo's corpse in the "Han Shoots First" version of "Star Wars", looks directly at the camera, and tries to sell the audience cigarettes.
>> Laws don't come from gods,

There is a huge body of historical law in the western world that comes from the decree of the king, literally a god.
This is some kind of race to shit. Adtech is a scourge of humanity.
The features are all there, and I found the documentation was pretty good. There were cases where I had to dig through help pages and github issues to configure things a certain way.
> The Matrix ecosystem is the only thing I can think of, that could eventually replace IRC.

This seems like it should have been the logical conclusion. While IRC is a free protocol, this whole controversy has shown that you aren't ultimately in control of your channels. With Matrix/<other-federated>, it simply wouldn't be possible for a hostile actor to claim ownership of their channels (unless Gentoo itself were somehow the victim of a hostile takeover).

Libera certainly has a good few decades of trustworthy service, as Freenode once did, but the protocol is itself built on vulnerable assumptions. There's no way to guarantee that Libera won't have a dramawave of its own 15 years down the line.

> While on newer apps you are expected to keep up.

I completely agree with this. I've been auto-kicked from Matrix channels for inactivity/lurking, which is ridiculous. This could be solved with more client and server diversity - it wouldn't be hard to create an IRC-like experience on Matrix at all.
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or people who didn’t own land, natives, or women… we’re still fighting to allow more people to vote today, it’s absurd
Plenty of selfish Americans would think doing anything that's done in Asia is unamerican cause personal responsibility and all that.

It's a position that makes no sense but I bet we can expect people who put on masks to be harassed in the long term.
Not at all

This is about ownership and control. Andrew is trying to seize legal control over an organization run by volunteers. The volunteers (and everyone else) aren't happy with the way this was handled or the way Andrew is using his power to silence dissent.
how about sharing the link to the book and asking in the comments for more resources instead of Ask HN
> Most Americans grow up in low density suburbs, move to hyper dense college towns for college, get a job in ultra dense cities

Misleading if not factually wrong. [1] Just because some people move away to join cities, does not mean that most people do. If anything, in the last 20 years, that trend is reversing and more 18-24 year olds are living in suburbs than before.

And my humble guess is that this trend is the same in every country that has urban centers with greater economic opportunities than the suburbs. And people move away from the cities to start a family because it's less expensive to do so. No psychology required, it's just economics.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/07/29/prior-t...
Big fan of Neovim 0.5! It's not released yet, but I'm already using it as my Clojure "IDE" at work, and all my nvim configs are written in Fennel, a lispy language that compiles to Lua. I guess it's time for me to start donating to Olical, Technomancy, and the Neovim crew, they do some amazing work!

If you want to learn (Neo)Vim and don't mind a dose of hyperactive video learning, I recommend watching ThePrimeagen his youtube videos. I've been using Vim for years, but still learned new things over there: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePrimeagen/videos?view=0&sort=da

Oh, also: I kinda instigated this thing, sorry TJ: https://clips.twitch.tv/PrettyAgreeableMagePanicVis-4IhDSOhr...
In general, nvim has better defaults than vim. You can simulate an out of the box nvim experience by adding a few lines to your .vimrc.

Besides that, I think the only big difference I've noticed is the nvim exclusive plugins.
Deepnote (YC S19) CTO interview – using K8s for real-time Jupyter collaboration
About the legal basis: "RDS’ [Royal Dutch Shell] reduction obligation ensues from the unwritten standard of care laid down in Book 6 Section 162 Dutch Civil Code, which means that acting in conflict with what is generally accepted according to unwritten law is unlawful. From this standard of care ensues that when determining the Shell group’s corporate policy, RDS must observe the due care exercised in society. The interpretation of the unwritten standard of care calls for an assessment of all circumstances of the case in question."
Excerpt from the court sentence: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:...
now they're changing tactics by bushing "blue" hydrogen. It dovetails nicely with the carbon sequestration spin
I enjoy Vernor Vinge's books. Intelligence augmentation plays a role in many of his books and short stories.

I have recently become aware that the brain topology of the Tines may be more similar to our own than I thought.

A brain structure mediates the communication between our hemispheres, but just like individuals in a Tine pack, they process things independently and contribute their specific value to the whole. I think it is possible that they even have their own personalities and moods.

People having a conversation use language to collaboratively create shared meaning between all the lobes available to them.