skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PPP isn't based on "a potato", it's typically calculated based on a representative price index covering all the different types of goods people buy.

Theoretically it would be possible to create a price index based on Macbooks or cars, but since most people in the world buy more food than Macbooks or cars this would obviously be misleading. When people living in developed countries move to a developing country they don't think "wow, the cost of living is high, the Macbook has a luxury tax on it" they think "wow, most things are incredibly cheap here". It is impossible to come up with a perfect PPP because people spend their money on different things, but it's a lot better than thinking a country which has inflated prices for everything is much more materially wealthy than one which has low prices for everything.

And the whole point of PPP adjustments is to get rid of the scenario where the same education contributes much more to GDP in a nation where wages and school buildings are expensive than one where they're not.
3D WALK game :
https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01

( load twice to play )
Its a reasonable looking wrapper. Could benefit from the ability to build queries with variables, although not sure if that would be useful in the Scala ecosystem.

To make it clear, I disagree I'm conflating things. I'm currently working on a TypeScript based graphql builder (https://typed-graphql-builder.spion.dev/) and I can think of several ways the language could've been designed to make it easier to write typed query builders.

This is not without consequences - since its quite hard to write the builder, most tools available for code generation (https://www.graphql-code-generator.com/) are built around editing GraphQL strings and will try to find them in your code and add type assertions. Additionally the rest of the ecosystem tools are built around supporting this workflow (graphql playgrund, etc)
Wouldn't there be a difference in cases where due to foreign ownership and capital extraction some money would get counted as GDP in one country but GDI in another?
Wasn't expecting to see a Jerma985 reference in this, too bad the video link is broken (video unavailable).
The simplest intervention would be to offer state backed loans that could be used for back orders and to be repaid 3-6 months after the delivery.

It's not ideal, probably it will create further delays, but it would put small business on the level playing field with the big corporations when it comes to orders.

The criteria for eligibility may be difficult to define too, so that fraud is minimised.

Maybe such surge of demand could incentivise MCU manufacturers to secure more fab capacity.

State could also make scalping illegal. For instance buying MCUs with a sole purpose to hold on them and then resell at inflated price would be illegal. This could be done by setting maximum margin someone could ask, that should be no higher than Mouser or Digikey have. So anyone selling MCUs at 10x the price would have them confiscated and get fined.
Foreign online stores that facilitate such sellers like Aliexpress would risk being sanctioned and banned.
It's from the perspective of someone (a friend of mine actually) who's involved in anti-aging research, but this is still a pretty good video that goes into the overpopulation concerns related to anti-aging treatments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Ve0fYuZO8
I’ve seen this type of an argument before and it seems not just skeptical for the sake of it but super lazy. The main reason for progress is that people with outdated ideas die and if they don’t, the progress will end - that’s the best we can do? A bastardization of Max Plank’s idea, ad hominem, (justifiable) criticism of western approach to death, and anti-capitalist motives all blended into some kind of pro-death philosophy? Maybe let’s reform how science operates to promote innovation in hundreds of possible ways instead of telling billions to die because of an idea if we don’t have to? And is the quickest innovation necessarily even a good goal? AGI presents serious dangers.
It assumes a normal-ish distribution. Mode would be a better single-number measure, but it’s the income x number of people curve that carries the important message.
I have successfully deployed this strategy by just dressing in black and carrying around a heavy duty speakon cable. Worked every time.
Imagine Trump and Biden living forever holding outsized political power in perpetuity.

Without the cycle of life there's no evolution, with no evolution there's no progress. That goes for biology, but certainly also for ideas.
Not the OP, but I can easily answer.

No matter how often it gets repeated, not everyone bothers to update the board, while for some psycological reason most answer on messaging apps.
Batmud (bat.org), Aardwolf (aardmud.org) or Carrion Fields (carrionfields.net). Run away from sindome.org, immortals specialize in torturing players in unimaginable ways.
>but Mac OS doesn’t require so much fighting

That's probably because you're used to it so you're biased without even realizing you're biased, since everything is second nature to you at this point, but give a person new to the Apple ecosystem a Mac and see what happens.

When I first touched a MacBook a few years ago, during a job interview, I bombed it because, as a long term user of Windows and Linux, instead of being able to focus on coding the sorting algorithm, I was too busy fighting MacOS (some swipe gesture on the touchpad or some hot corner hid away my coding window and browser or the entire virtual desktop, and I didn't know how to restore them to get back to work).

So yea, to me, MacOS is horrible for first time users as it's full of these hidden cryptic gotchas.
I'm trying to gather support for this project. Is anyone interested? I seem to have gotten over 2,400 views on the cprogramming site in a few hours.

Give me an email :)
I would probably take it, but that doesn't mean it's not harmful. I drink coca cola, doesn't mean I have to think it's healthy or the the coca cola company is fantastic.
Not dying is a pretty major goal of most life, even.
And if a USA retailer imports a container of some sweatshop-made clothing for $5 each and retails them for $50 each, that's $5 in China's GDP and $45 for USA GDP, because technically the import-to-retail markup is added value.
Doing without thinking first is a recipe for disaster, but often doing is required to confirm your thinking. And of course, it helps to think even more afterwards, see what else you can learn that you didn't think of beforehand. Doing without thinking is probably how most Darwin award winners are made
"Why is there nothing of significance in the background?"

"Why are there no diffraction spikes? When do diffraction spikes occur?"

"Why is this showing surface detail vastly more detailed than any previous image which only showed vague shapes of even the closest stars (other than Sol)? How much better can the Webb image stars compared to Hubble?"

"Why does this have so little noise compared to the recent Jupiter image?"

"Why is the border not perfectly round?"

"Why does part of the surface look shinier than the rest? Is there some odd effect going on with false-color or color grading?"

"What's with the odd features on the surface? Why don't they look anything like our sun's sunspots?"

And of course the most important thing...

"After looking at it for 30 seconds, and really trying to categorize it, what does my brain tell me it looks like?"
Totally agree, this is the 'vitamin D kills' theory.

Nope, doctors just give old people vitD because they are deficient and also old people die.

People have are hard time utilizing statistics that actually retain context.

In fact, that may be the biggest problem in medicine today.
Yes, I am aware that the style of the crystal script is not perfect yet.

That's a TODO
>>We need mainstream movies, tv-series and books where the guys who want to live longer are the good guys and they do it through science.

In that respect, Vitalik Buterin is a great role model, in presenting the case for longevity front and center on his Twitter profile:

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin
Imagine that when lifespans change and mortality drops, society adapts and changes too. Imagine.

Actually we don't have to imagine, for instance we can see that in general birth rates drop when infant mortality falls.

The idea that stagnation is the only possible outcome of longer lifespans seems ... reductivist.
Quick question? Is the grammar of Dutch also Subject-Verb-Object?

I suspect this sort of "merging into a single language" effect is a lot easier when the grammar overlaps a lot and thus substituting a word in one for a word in the other gets most of the way to translation. When the two languages have a totally different word order, I suspect your experience to be rare.
Sure, none of that is in doubt. But in my experience the performance cost of hot code getting deopted is so massive as to overwhelm virtually any other factor, so realistically, fixing the deopt is what solved TFA's problem. Of course getting rid of the switch statements was presumably an additional speedup, but since TFA doesn't compare those cases I guess that's neither here nor there.
I'm happy to see that this went semi-viral. I got 2400 views in a few hours :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conatus
Even if there are, they are a vanishing minority - they're worth taking into account but not to the extent of not taking measures necessary to save everyone.
This is why I find, especially for self help books, reading a distilled summary may suffice. Often the Wikipedia page for the book has enough depth for me.
Telling the bees is a tradition in many European countries in which bees would be told of important events in their keeper's lives such as births, marriages and departures and returns in the household. If the custom was omitted or forgotten and the bees were not "put into mourning" then it was believed a penalty would be paid, such as the bees leaving their hive, stopping the production of honey or dying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees
Right now my soundscape is dominated by AC unit and PC PSU hum. Wouldn't mind if both of them were quieter.

I was also expecting to see mentions also about quieter vacuum cleaners and annoying appliance beeps, like the harsh microwave oven beeper. No way vacuum cleaners need to be anywhere near that noisy, or am I wrong?

Is anyone working on quieter appliances?
50km is a pretty small orbital distance. I assume it is to spy on any communication from and to the satellite.
Since the last time you played a Sonic the Hedgehog game?
It sounds like your oncall is far stricter and noisy than those I have experienced. It genuinely sounds like it is disrupting your life to a large extent.

"failure is not an option" is not something I recognise, in the same way that sometimes features cannot be implemented as quickly as wanted, and systems are not as bugfree as I would like. But I am expected to put in a professional level of effort.

In my experience of oncall, it means carrying my laptop to social events, not drinking, and apologising if my alarm goes off in the night. For that, I accept the deal that is offered, which is less than my normal hourly rate, but still substantial given the number of hours.

If the volume of pages increased, or the required response time was lowered, I would reconsider.
We have been to all ends of the earth on this sort of thing. The final conclusion I have arrived at:

The amount of process and ceremony required is inversely proportional to the trust level on the team.

Once we had some difficult conversations and realigned expectations, we found our daily standup was extremely redundant. Team members began to realize that others would simply reach out as needed. Everything is much more async now. Only 3rd party interactions require explicit scheduling these days. Prod down, vendor integrations, etc.

Other observations: We seem to somehow spend more time on adhoc calls than our prior scheduled calls, but A Lot More (tm) is getting done regardless. Stress levels seem down as well. Weird how you can have cake and eat it too sometimes.

I don’t know if I would sit here and proclaim that process is exclusively a bandaid for lack of trust, but it certainly seems like one indicator of this condition.
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I don't have any substance to leave here, I just want to say that I appreciate your writing style - "As punishment for your deployment of this canard" had me laugh out loud at something for the first time in days. Beautiful phrasing and great inclusion of a direly underused word.
The Dragon Fable? Seems more like the case for moonshots rather than longevity explicitly.
> People are obsessed with not dying, yes.

I'd say it's more like

"People are obsessed with not dying early."
> We need mainstream movies, tv-series and books where the guys who want to live longer are the good guys

Faust? Not sure he is a good guy though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust
Here's what I figure:

Whatever thing we're talking about, be it online media or TV shows or an activity or whatever, there's a thin line between "fun" and "addictive" - in order for anything to be "addictive" it must also be "fun", or otherwise nobody would get addicted to it. Even more - the more "fun" a thing is, the more "addictive" it gets.

In online media, engagement tricks have got a bad reputation (at least with HN-visiting crowd) because of the companies who pour huge budgets into "engagement research", A/B testing, dark patterns, and all the other stuff we hate.

However, discarding all fun things because they might be addictive would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. So it is important to draw some kind of line between "fun" and "addictive".

Right now, the absence of user engagement data collection seems to be a good rule of thumb. So in conclusion, your widget is okay.

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I apologize if my question has offended. I did not mean to imply your personal work is "bad" in any way.
WebMD is not a great resource when it comes to new medicine or even old medicine for that matter, I digress...

Found this on the first Google search:
https://www.nmn.com/topic

Are they selling something, sure, but the studies are all linked.

The wide research interest alone should be some indication of the promise these compounds hold
Jesus, what a mess... No wonder we have all sorts of allergies and imnune issues.
Capchas are bad. It will trow users away.
I remember this game. Or at least, I remember the start of it, but not how it ends. I was (and still am) a massive Discworld fan, and it's hard to believe I didn't finish this game. At least it was until this article reminded me how unplayable it was.

Still it was gorgeous, with beautiful details. I remember that when you left the keyboard for too long, Rincewind would start calling out for you, which was a bit creepy first time that happened; as if he'd actually come alive and was really annoyed and irritated by my absence.
There is a reason Franz-Josef Strauss became as rich as he did being a "mere" minister and state prime minister. He never got caught so... In the end his insistence on a multirole fighter and the fighter being the F-104G (already almost oboslete at the time) killed a lot of pilots. Great example to show the cost of corruption.
I did some contracting for Velocity on Spectre VR, back in the day (AWE32 sound driver), and have fond memories of working with Mike Lyons on that project .. we were astounded when we found a copy of the DOOM demo project on the Velocity BBS, uploaded by someone who said "you guys should check out this other multiplayer PC game that is going to eat your lunch" .. and yeah, we spent a lot of time playing that game, in between spotting "Whale or Submarine?" from the Embarcadero offices .. any chance you know what Mikes' up to these days? I lost contact with him when he went to work for Microsoft ..
To me it's the references.

Can raise awareness of the likelihood that when right-handed people learn to read & write from other right-handed people, that a certain amount of verbal concentration can be made exclusively to the left side of the brain in some kind of a self-perpetuating pattern. The numerical predominance of right-handed people makes this into an underlying mainstream development.

Going back quite a ways but who knows how far?

OTOH those who are left-handed often do not seem to conform as uniformly in this respect, and those having a tradition of large vocabularies but without reading or writing might even have the advantage of some verbal or other skills handled by both sides of the brain simultaneously far differently than the mainstream.

Some types of thinking may or may not be accomplished in a relatively verbal way at all.
Looking forward to 200 year old heads of state, so that the status quo changes even less than it does with the gerontocracy we already have.
Insightful comments, long ago. Yes wasn't it a bit like HN is today, back that long ago
Agree with the comment that you need to start. Having now my third (small) business. After I have had a ML-startup.

I learned most by doing it. There are so many things you need to do and know as a business owner (product development, marketing, sales, HR, finance). You need to learn to quickly grasp the basics and then implement it.

I would certainly recommend reading books about entrepreneurship as they help to sharpen your mind and offer new perspectives. But certainly don’t use it as an excuse to postpone ‘just starting’. Disguised as: ‘I need to learn just a bit more and then I am ready’.

Good luck with it!
The choice is to take a picture of the eiffel tower as the subject (without you) or a selfie with the eiffel tower in the background. Being into photography somewhat, I've always posted pictures of attractions and never myself. I still found it a bit narcissistic/self indulgent, like "oh I'm travelling to nice look at me" I hardly post anymore
Happy and successful people want to keep being happy and successful for longer.

How evil of them!
Yeah, short of a complete rewrite in Rust, I don't see how we could survive on the long run.
> I don't know enough about biology and chemistry to understand much of this.

The Machinery of Life by David Goodsell is a gorgeous introductory book on the topic. I recommend it not because it's the most comprehensive, but rather because it has amazing illustrations and it's written for a general audience with the purpose to be inspiring.
For the record, Neal Stephensons' "Snow Crash" was required reading at Velocity around the time of the Spectre VR release, I got my first copy of it directly from the general manager of Velocity at the time, he pulled it out of a box of them he had at hand ..

So, not Gibson, more than likely Stephenson...
I tend to believe Ghosn here.
He is definitely not a saint, but I don’t think he would have gotten a fair trial.
Despite the grim motiv, it is one hell of a photograph!
Maybe optimize happiness times life expectancy then.
Weird take, just because there are people better and have done better means it's pointless to want to take my own photos? There are lots of reasons to take photos, to practise/improve, for something to keep as a memory of the experience, etc
In my case, knowing that I have a limited amount of time to save for retirement makes it difficult to consider a career switch from a high-earning career like tech to something I might find more fulfilling or noble. Curing ageing could eliminate this pseudo-mandatory retirement phase of our lives, which means more freedom to switch career tracks, to find more ways to impact the world.
> unless you go to a source like Qobuz which serves FLAC.

Apple is another odd one out there by only selling music as AAC, and Bandcamp gives you a comprehensive choice of all sorts of formats.

> Same with devices - basically everything supports MP3. Vorbis and Opus support is far patchier.

True that, though AAC support might also be somewhat reasonably common-ish these days. (Though I've found that apart from also having a relatively low folder count limit in general, my car radio also has some difficulties with reading the metadata in some files, and as far as I can tell I think the affected files are all MPEG-4 files. It's only some MPEG-4 files that are affected, though, but I haven't yet bothered to find out what exactly else they might have in common.)
I have to agree with the OP (_dain_) here. Excel has evolved a lot in the last few years, first the whole Power Query and Power Pivot revolution and now all the functional stuff brought on by Simon Peyton-Jones and his crew like LET expressions and the functional constructs like LAMBDA, MAP, FILTER, ...

There's very little you can't do neatly and efficiently in Excel anymore. Yes you can in principle do those same things in Google Shets, but at what cost of readability?

I don't think it's worth spending much time getting into these arguments because the people arguing against Excel clearly don't know modern Excel very well.
Why do you think that population growth is a bad thing and giving up getting new kids is in any way a rational decision?

Earth could easily carry 100 billion people, we could build cities on venus and mars, and if people could live for thousands of years, 100 year journey to another star on a slow ship would become quite acceptable.

Bedsides, In most places birth rate is already below replacement level, so longer lifespan is necessary to prevent population collapse.
Huh. I guessed from the title that it would be about how Saabs were designed and tested to handle a head on-collision with a Swedish moose/elk. Instead, this Wikipedia article concerns the nickname for an avoidance test.

As an example of the moose collision test I was thinking of, "In order to reduce the number of injuries caused by passenger cars colliding with moose - Saab engineers have designed a Moose Test - Unique in Industry . This research and subsequent changes in Saab cars design - have saved many lives on the roads. " - https://www.saabplanet.com/frontal-collision-of-saab-and-moo...

Here's another: "Five crash tests were conducted with cars with different size and characteristics, such as glass and sun roof. A moose crash dummy was impacted at 70 km/h. ... Crash tests were conducted with a moose dummy according to a test method developed by Swedish National Road and Transport research Institute, VTI (Matstoms 2003)" - quoting https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/25/25ESV-000294.pd... which cites "Evaluation of the moose dummy Mooses II with a view to consumer guidance" at https://trid.trb.org/view/743464 .
Can’t see if this is multiplayer on the Nintendo store.
Interesting point!

In that respect Ghost In the Shell and the protagonist moving beyond the human body seems like an alternative take on this issue.

More broadly, it looks to me like the ones who succeed in going beyond their allocated life-time are rarely at the center of the story, and more assisting figures or legends. The witch who've lived for 500 years stays in a remote forest far from the world, will help the heroes in a Deus Ex Machina way and get back in the background once her part is done.
The $20k prize is specifically, from what I read, for randos who can trawl through past research and find forgotten ideas, with the goal to resurface them.

To quote: "Over a century of all the world’s biological knowledge is available to anyone taking the time to read the literature."