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I have never seen mortality used to mean lifespan.

I assume it is a clickbait title technique intentionally misusing words to pique interest.
Is the Worst Over? Models Predict a Steady Decline in Covid Cases
100000000% agree with this. Some common difficulties with this are...

Sometimes you can't think of a reason why something is good. Learn how to believe not knowing the reason it's good yet is also a good thing.

Be very careful when doing this with other people's problems. 99.99% of the time if someone else is struggling, it's a mistake to see the good in it. Usually it's best to acknowledge and learn about how the situation is so difficult... say "That really sucks!" and let them be the one to see it as a good thing if they want.
Big surprise, meat consumption and generally better nutrition correlates with longer life expectancy over the centuries. It's only in very recent times that overconsumption has become a problem.
And on purpose.
Out of interest, have you considered moving to a "serverless" db like Aurora Postgres or even DynamoDb, to avoid the cost of unused database capacity at idle times?
What kind of hardware do you have? I haven't encountered problems with sound on Linux in years. And Pipewire is indeed good.
> I kind of hate looking at Go code containing generics.

Pretty much any mainstream language that supports generics is shit to read. (And I love to read code.)
Obituary for Ned Seeman, Inventor of DNA Nanotech
Me and a collegue were having this discussion a couple of days ago. There is a way to do it. It involved bringing up mission control selecting the window then pressing option.

Also there is this https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
I mean only 93% of humans have died so who knows for certain....

https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived...
> How about turning them into a kind of value-added identity verification service where any company wanting/needing an identity verification could rely on the Post Office to accept someone in person to prove who they are (through fingerprint, document, etc) and be the 3rd party to make this proof easy?

Consider how you would like the Post Office to verify your identity and then ask why someone else, e.g. the person you're trying to prove your identity to, couldn't do the exact same thing.

One advantage of an ID is that it's a physical token, so they can't just guess your password, they'd need to physically have it. Unless they can forge one, so you'd really want to use some kind of cryptography. You've just reinvented a YubiKey.

The actual problem isn't that we don't know how to solve this. It's that people prefer insecurity to minor inconveniences. Especially when the liability is on someone else.
Does anyone ever see the W writing state? I don’t. :(
I'm not quite sure what Colab is, I'll have to look into it, thank you!

EDIT: Ah, looks like it's only available in a handful of countries, sadly.
The article you are citing shows that some crimes have increased (Homicide, Burglaries, Vehicle Thefts) but several other categories have decreased. If you go to the SFPD Dashboard linked[1], overall crime in 2020 was down 23% vs 2019.

For 2021, overall crime is up 10% vs 2021, but is still seems to be on track to be down 15% vs 2019.

A lot of this is probably due to COVID restrictions rather than any change in policing or enforcement, but using the metrics you've cited, crime is actually at a low.

If we follow your argument about adjusting police budget proportionally, we should have cut the police budget 23% in FY 2020, or $160M. FWIW, I don't think cutting the budget 23% in 1 year is a great idea.

[1] https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...
Why ignore the other articles the conclude the opposite?

This study is just a prospective cohort study, not a gold standard RCT or anything close to it.

Also just one region in one country.
How do you extraplote that globally?
As people age they tend to eat less, so intuitively it makes sense to me that people that eat more meat live longer due to meat having pretty good nutrient profile.
Facebook takes aim at vast networks of spies for hire
Many people have addresses without having a job. Kids, stay-at-home partners, roommates, college students, retirees, and likely others.
> The more time that passes from the point a branch is broken off from develop to the time it is merged back in, the more opportunity there is for other branches to diverge in drastic ways.

When a release is made you should merge those changes into other branches too. Then merge-conflicts or behavioural changes are found, and fixed, earlier.
If you're on the scientific side -- which I guess this audience is -- and the idea of meditation feels a bit weird and spiritual, give Sam Harris a try. His 'Waking Up' app is marvellous.

It just feels more realistic, more pragmatic. More grounded in how the world actually is. I really like it.
I think to understand how to solve the problem has become harder over the years. It used to actually only be "stop emitting". That was the issue in the 80's and when we first saw scientists discussing with congress.

But now not only has the problem become more difficult (as we've let the problem snowball), but others have been creating new agendas. To be clear, this confusion and misunderstanding is on a continuous scale, not binary (misinformation in the green movements is better than the misinformation in the anti-climate movements). The problem is that if you aren't in the academic spaces it is often difficult to find the actions we need to take because there's this game of telephone going on (I do think it is "the media"'s job to distill this information by talking directly to experts, but they've been failing). What's worrying here is that we often note how climate is "the most complicated crisis that humanity has ever faced" but almost everyone acts like they have an expert opinion on it (I _do not_ but I have worked close to the space and am mostly appealing to authority here).

So I want to give an example of a common myth on the pro-climate side that actually takes us a step backwards but most people think it is an obvious path forward: reforestation. This is confusing because we all learn in school that trees "breathe" CO2 and exhale O2. But in reality young forests are actually carbon sources and old forests are carbon sinks[0]. This is about 20 years and so we have a lag. But that's only the beginning of the problem[1], and things get really complicated really fast because we need to consider the whole ecosystem involved, which is why land management is so important as well.

In this example, taking the "obvious" and simple answer actually is harmful to the goal even though it is "more correct" than the other answers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDdKOmvIKyg

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/ForrestFleisch1/status/1306221445...
I find this amusing, because in the 80s “rules lawyer” and “min-maxers” were derogatory terms.

Anyone who favoured a build over a story and using your imagination would have been told to join a war gaming club, or to take up chess.
In the latter scenario, an extra person made an extra $1000.
I think you have it backwards. It says meat intake is inversely correlated to all-cause mortality.
D&D has a bit of a identity crisis. It's a lot of things to a lot of people.

For the mainstream, it's a way for a group of friends to group roleplay. You don't really want someone to be left behind because of a bad build. If someone's boyfriend stops playing because it's too hard, eventually the couple drops off, which leads to more people abandoning the game.

It's still board game-ish and not a full roleplaying system. Something like FATE is more suited to RP, but you have to actually write characters in depth. There's more emergrnt stories, but that's too much effort for people who just want to kick orcs and roll dice.

The character builds metagaming has branched into Pathfinder and roguelikes, where you get a tighter loop of whether your wizard build can kill liches.
Obvious features aren't obviously made
Tired of the carriers. They are all the same, no safe alternative.

Is twilio SuperSIM feasible as a self managed mobile service in the US? Can I pop in a sim, roam without thought and manage voice/sms/data accordingly? Will switch ASAP if so.
Yea I’m excited for it. What I’ve seen and used of stimulus & turbo is exactly the future I want to continue working with.
You've failed your Diplomacy check with Trolls this round.
> I'm sure they weighted it, and then money won out

> for everyone like me they've pushed away, they've probably on-boarded twenty new customers

That’s not just a money decision, that’s also an audience decision—making something that more people will enjoy, bring more life and more ideas into the hobby, and introduce the fun of TTRPGs to a much bigger group of people. That sounds like a huge artistic win as well as a good financial decision.
Agreed, I think you need over $1m these days to retire safely with that much time left. Even with $1m you'd have to watch your spending a bit and invest wisely.
1) You are. You only get one life and you’ll miss the vast majority of possible experiences.

2) It will. Either you will die an early death, which many would consider bad, or you will live long enough for other bad things to happen.

3) For me, Christianity solved for this. I was an agnostic for over three decades and for various reasons, mostly metaphysical, I became convinced of the necessity of a nonmaterial dimension to reality. I live my life with joy and gratitude in my heart every day. Obviously I think that’s the best path otherwise I wouldn’t follow it. But whatever your conscience and intellect might lead you to, you should ask yourself how your beliefs are shaping your life experience. This isn’t a dress rehearsal.

There are of course many other more or less effective paths to take, ranging from Epicureanism to Stoicism and many more besides. At the end of the day though you either believe some higher power gives your life meaning or it’s on you to give your life meaning.

For what it’s worth procreating makes most of this seem ridiculously childish and irrelevant, but I think one had best sort oneself out before doing that.
Just don't.

I have notifications turned off for everything other than direct messages from my best of friends and my alarm system.

Job done.
This guy gets it. Those might be the smart employees, the ones getting a better deal.

I make plenty of money, I don't need any "promotions." I leave the glorious cool stuff to the kids who are still on the treadmill (and don't mind going down some AWS rabbit shit hole).

Getting promoted is not going to make me happy. It is likely to make my life worse. Management often doesn't know what to do with me. I am productive with relevant skills, offer no drama (except for scoffing at yearly evals), and I don't need any carrots, nor do I want their job.

The only thing they can offer me is a good team and meaningful work--which is usually outside of their grasp.
It's hard to answer the question without more details about your life. Married? Age? Hobbies? Job? Also, what have you tried in the past that didn't work?
The issue is when these metaphors aren’t presented or interpreted as such but as literally physical reality.

It’s the difference between seeing the Bible as inspirational and believing that the earth is literally 6000 old and Christ Is Coming Back Soon; take this course to prepare to Meet Him.

If you compromise on truth in order to further your goals, you’re just priming people to be susceptible to conspiracy theories and other actually harmful untruthful ideas like that Bill Gates literally is putting nanochips inside vaccines.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that most of my hippie friends seem to have turned antivaxx on unscientific grounds lately.
No yeah you're correct, double negative slipped me up haha
Dont worry they already passed the law forcing new developments to install rooftop solar.
I had to install the last Win 11 release candidate the week before the official release because I needed a new function in WSL2 that was simply unavailable without being part of the "Insiders Program".

I gave it a week instead of a day because I'm old and change is difficult but, if anything, the productivity impacts of their design choices were even more apparent at the end of that week.

Force tab grouping on the Taskbar? That stupid half context menu that requires an additional click to reach the real context menu?

Everything seemed designed to take at least two more clicks than Win10 while offering worse situational awareness as to what was open on my workstation.

I agree, Win11 is not a love letter to users. It's a drunken 3AM rant.
“I don’t fail, I learn.”
I don't understand why people think religion is the main reason to oppose this.

The main reason to oppose this is that if you had a low friction government ID system, surveillance capitalism would then require you to present your ID to do anything whatsoever and all privacy would disappear forever.
While there may be some good life wisdom dispensed in this thread, honestly I think it will all amount to armchair psychology. I think some individual therapy may go much further here. Have you been to one to specifically talk about this? If not, start there.

This could be a mindset thing, or it also could be a specific to a diagnosis that may be helpful to have to better understand yourself. A qualified therapist will be able to help you figure that out.
Wow. I wish they tell us the reason.
Seems reasonable to me. It's an approved medicine for home use, so you should be able to get it in any way you can get other such medicines.
This isn't about being competent this is about stuff in corners of the screen being easier to hit.
Tesla Has Clever Plan to Stop Idiots from Blocking Superchargers
Spoiler alert: no Amsterdam content whatsoever.
DataFramesMeta.jl might be exactly what you are looking for then! The syntax is very close to dplyr, but has performance benefits thanks to Julia.

Here is a tutorial for those familiar with dplyr: https://juliadata.github.io/DataFramesMeta.jl/stable/dplyr/
ArtemisQL: Open-source GraphQL migration tool to transition from REST to GraphQL
I don't know what the ONT is doing. PPPoE is definitely running on the router, not the ONT. The ONT could be doing some sort of DPI.
This is awesome. Get it built in to your own brand of golf carts that are an upgrade option at courses :)
> Or reinvents generics with code generation and aboriginal characters.

Tell me you’ve never used Go without telling me you’ve never used Go.
I would love an iOS app that notifies me when my AirPods reach a configurable battery level.

This would be help me do two things:
- Manage battery wear
- Avoid losing audio when I'm using just one AirPod at a time

Does anyone know if this is possible?
Step 1: Don't take advice from people on HackerNews

Step 2: Why are you still listening to me?

But seriously, there's a million ways to lose money and not as many ways to make it. Find the thing that gives you joy and that you're good at and that the world is willing to pay something for and if you can find that magic connection, you'll be doing more than making a living, you'll be truly living.
Ask HN: Find it strange that USPS are involved in so many non-mail related tasks
Reminds me of the Jocko video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTMDpizis8
> consciousness is generated by quantum effects in neurons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...
Truly appreciate your ability to articulate these moral grey areas.

I’ll definitely be referring back to your comments when I need to convey my similar thoughts.
I find I feel like I can get a weeks worth of work done in half-a-day once my subconscious has spent <however long it needed to take> processing <whatever set of data needed to be processed> in the background whilst consciously feeling like I was procrastinating.

Whether this is a 'local minimum' I've fallen into, or this is just how I work my magic, I'm not sure, but it's worked for me for a while now, so I have no reason to question it.

I have a middling career, and I'm singularly unambitious (I want to do well at what I'm doing, without much thought to what my be my next step) somewhat because I've been very-low-level management and it very-high-level attempted to suck my soul out through my intestines.
sounds like you do. ;)
No, they work 60-80 during the 3rd and 4th year of med school, then 80-100 during residency, which lasts 4-7 years. It's absolutely an insane system.
The media sites you linked to are not "broad" at all. They are all very much left-of-center and toe a very ideologically consistent line of standard left of center COVID Hawkishness. The kind of people that told us we definitely needed to mask up outdoors last year and never apologized when it was quietly acknowledged that masking outdoors was utter nonsense and never backed by science.

This cabal of ideologues in media have done nothing but back "abundance of caution" policies with zero limiting principle of analysis of costs. Rather than critique and hold the public health officials accountable, they have simply licked their boots the entire pandemic.

I'm a lifelong Democratic voter, and it's become utterly transparent and obvious that the western media is filled with quantitatively/statistically illiterate activists masquerading as journalists.

The CDC numbers on the risk of young people with covid speak for themselves.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics

All age groups under the age of 30 COMBINED make up LESS THAN 1% OF DEATHS.

For all age groups under the age of 50, the total is less than 6% of deaths.

If you're going to complain about "worthwhile conversation", I would suggest understanding statistics before you get into conversations where you are clearly out of your depth.
Congrats on the launch. This is really interesting to me, not because I need it, but because I don't, and it would never have occurred to me that anyone else might. Personally I don't think I've ever, in my entire technology-using life, had a device run out of battery or even drop below around 40% [1].

So it's always a good reminder to pay attention not ONLY to building products that solve your own needs, but also finding what needs other people might have that you'd never even considered!

[1] with the notable exception of some awful NiCd-powered VHS camcorders in the 80s
True - the $600k will be well over $1m in 30yrs (when retirement would begin) tho
Can you explain this a little more? Because the problem I see is that with any unique identifier it is hard to share in a hostile environment. Let's say I want to share my contact information to someone here but also share my contact information with someone on Reddit and not reveal that I am godelski on HN. Because if I use the identified "1234" here and "1234" on Reddit then I've connected those two accounts.

The only way I see it working out is with temporary identifiers or expiring links like FF send used to have. I saw some users talking about this in the community signal community form[0]. I agree with the users that are trying to say they want to use usernames to be anonymous, not as a way to hide a phone number.

[0] https://community.signalusers.org/t/usernames-in-signal
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Of course it will. Reddit is probably one the largest porn sites.
A software engineer is not paid to sit in front of a computer and that's only a small slice of the work.
Genuinely curious, why is the next step creating a Gemini client?
Check out Victor Frankel's "Man's search for meaning". His story is inspiring and he invented logotherapy which has had a prominent roll in depression therapy for decades now. It gets at the heart of the question "why live?"
The pharmacopeia is vast.
Needs the read/write arm noises for a fuller experience...
I would not be very happy if every time I called math.Min, I was also, under the hood, calling reflect.TypeOf.
I upgraded to Win11 for supporting A2DP AAC codec. I'm fine with new explorer, angry for new taskbar and start menu. Nothing is improved for those but just degrade.
You can buy assets that pay dividends and move to a much, much lower cost-of-living place.

I'm talking some city in a country where the currency exchange rate values your dollars immensely wrt. groceries, etc.

You can even buy property very,very "cheap" so as to never pay rent.
>tolerant people

Yeah people surr are tolerant of all the carjackers and homeless
Darkly hilarious in hindsight, but when I was in first grade, there was a rumor one day at school that there was going to be forced "nasbandi" at school that day.

We were kids and had no idea what the word (Hindi for vasectomy) meant but we were still freaked out for a while, because we knew it was bad. I still remember a Hindi protest song about it to this day, almost 50 years later.

This was during the Emergency (as that time is known in India).
> But a new study published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine, which reviewed data from more than 84,000 abortions, found no increase in complications after Canada made mifepristone available by a doctor's prescription in 2017.

Canada made it available in 2017 with a prescription with no increase in complications. This policy update is long overdue considering the challenges of obtaining healthcare in the US.

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064598531/the-fda-could-perm...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2109779
I wouldn't really call it innovation, it's more just a project trying to bring to python something similar to the tidyverse from R.
That part is easy, actually: make the bearing surface alive, and regenerate it upon wear. It might exude some lubricant too while we’re at it, should not be hard to evolve.
I am in a similar position but with multiple coworkers. 1/3 of the team works hard and effective, 1/3 standard and 1/3 barely works without delivering value. At the same time I am having a pretty hard time seeing 1/3 earning the same as I do while doing nearly nothing. It really annoys me on a regular basis and I don‘t think it‘s a healthy behavior either. Sometimes I wonder if they should get fired or if I undersell myself.
Isn't there a middle ground here? If you have CI/CD, you can eliminate release branches by just making PRs directly into main.

The idea of post-merge code review is horrifying to me. I guess this is the "move fast and break things" attitude in action.

Deploy now, catch bugs...sometime, maybe (TM)!
CDPR Settles Cyberpunk 2077 Lawsuit, Will Pay $1.85M
> Can you give an example of "the ones they don't like"? FB is in the data harvesting and aggregation business. Anyone using their data - without reciprocity - is unwelcomed. Full stop.

Cambridge Analytica comes to mind. Facebook actively assisted them. Though the scandal caused many, many policy changes at Facebook, it is a historical case of Facebook assisting someone using their data to spy on their users.