skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever these immortality drugs come up, I always envision some kind of old, rich guy who dedicated his life to becoming rich, finding out that all that money won't buy you a second youth when it's already too late to do all the things he wanted to do. Multi millionaires getting rich, forgetting to live, and then focusing their wealth on a pipe dream of living long enough to spend all their money.

Ever since the first days of medicine, people have sought to prolong life. I think the entire quest is misguided and a waste of the medical field's resources; finding the cure for cancer and other horrible diseases should have priority on making some chosen few live to 100.

Even if the drug does work on humans without making life worse through side effects, I think the end result will be quite dystopic. You end up with a drug the rich can afford quite handily, while the poor will need to work their asses off for decades longer. Unless the drug is free, this will only serve benefit the top 1% of the planet and the pharmaceutical companies selling these drugs. As mankind struggles to accept mortality, the pool of workers will grow, led by drug companies telling them just a few decades years of hard work will surely make them rich.
You are -ah- not a big fish!

I always thought you were a bit eccentric, but you seemed to be fairly sane otherwise, and managed to always keep yourself out of trouble. How did you manage to get yourself sitebanned of all things? %-(

I mean, arbcom reviewed it too, so it's not just a mob. Did you get tempted into saying or doing something unwise?

I hope you're doing ok now at least.
This is the kind of rhetoric that will end all life on earth. These are all border regions for Russia and NATO was messing with them. Maybe we should stop trying to dominate the world and other countries will stop freaking out.

Lest we forget, the Iraq war occurred with zero justification half way around the world. Every bad thing you can say about Putin, you can say worse about George W. Bush (who ran a torture program).

The most important thing we can do is come to a peace agreement and an arms reduction agreement.
I wish it were more obvious the extent to which this is all astrology.
Glad you're liking it!

I've been working on simplified hosting for nixosConfigurations; likely I'll launch paid plans along with that, since otherwise costs will be too high for me to shoulder, and anyhow free hosting leads to abuse or the moral hazard of accidentally using too many resources. I still have some hope for a donation-based system for individuals, and paid plans for companies, though.

I do think about open-sourcing it as well. I've been thinking about a license that would require only running it (and derived software) on green energy; that way, if competition were to arise, cheaper/dirtier energy wouldn't be what we would be competing on. But figuring out whether that's plausible, and what the consequences of the decision would be, is hard!
i regret getting hooked on nicotine.
> FSF/GNU has a habit of forking or rewriting existing free software to make it "more free" but delivering no actual benefits to users

"More freedom" is a benefit. You're free to judge whether it's a benefit specifically to you, but you can't judge that for others.
While the candidate appears to have shot himself in the foot here, and some on the Right seem to be particularly susceptible to conspiracy explanations; in the context of repeated Big Tech overreach in deplatforming and "accidentally" de-indexing conservative voices in the last few years, censorship is not an unreasonable hypothesis to assume.

Knee-jerk mockery is maybe a complacent response here from those of us on the liberal side.
I actually didn't know this, and gives me all the more reason to be done
German slang for "US citizens", shortend from "Amerikaner".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ami
EDIT: content seems to be updated to point at https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sensory-deprivation/#sens... which is readable.
Corallary: Hours of programming can sometimes save days of planning.
It isn't open-source yet (and might never be). But it also might, as I said in a sibling comment, I've been thinking about a license that would require only running it (and derived software) on green energy; that way, if competition were to arise, cheaper/dirtier energy wouldn't be what we would be competing on. But figuring out whether that's plausible, and what the consequences of the decision would be, is hard.

(In general the idea of a license that's viral like GPL, but oriented towards green and renewable energy, seems like an interesting thought to me.)
Cash the side line has been a great allocation for this whole year. As the mantra goes, don’t fight the fed.
Today not 'everyone' is using x86 - by a long margin - so it's a bit of a stretch to say that in a hypothetical alternative history an architecture that failed in the market would be utterly dominant.
Interesting. Do many people experience transcendence as a result?
Yeah, not the only warning flag in there, is it.
How to fetch data in React with performance in mind
As an author you need a better class of friend, she is frankly a thief.
> Just like creating your own front-end framework is a rite of passage for web developers, creating your own version of Scrum is a rite of passage for engineering managers.

Excuse me, what? I've worked in web development for years and I personally know 0 people who have written a front end framework like React, View.js, etc.
Ask HN: Favorite app for reading or listening to eBooks?
I have looked at some e-reader tablets and the Kindle finally released a tablet you can write notes on but its nothing like the ReMarkable one. I went with an iPad so I can take notes for work but am beginning to realize it would be nice to write notes on eBooks too.
The German security landscape in general is in a pretty bad shape, hence such pentesting isn't all that valuable. Patch one vector, dozens or hundreds left open, and there is neither a strong security mindset nor a realistic option to implement meaningful security in infrastructure that often as not is decades old, fully analog, built without any security considerations at all, and falling apart on its own. IT security is pretty catastrophic (German law makes it hard to do it properly, it's much stricter than e.g. the corresponding US law), but physical security often as not turns out to be a sturdy closet with a hardware store combination padlock, even for things that would be considered critical and protected much better in other places.

I think this is about sending a message (we're aware of that situation + able and willing to take advantage of it) and to do it in a way that can't be kept under wraps. I guess this won't make it any easier for Chancellor Scholz to send the tanks Ukraine requested.
Interestingly, I assumed it was just a reference to author Garth Nix.
Ask HN: BrowZer – Seeking feedback on our concept, & web apps for alpha testing
Hi, I'm Curt, one of the Principal Architects on the OpenZiti open source project, and I'm seeking help from this community.

One of the efforts I lead within the OpenZiti project is something we refer to as 'BrowZer'.

An introductory article is linked in this post's url, but the TL;DR is that BrowZer is a new and novel way to provide your users secure access to your web apps using zero trust principles.

We have reached a milestone where we will begin to run many different types of web applications on BrowZer to validate everything is working correctly.

This is where you come in...

If you are curious about our BrowZer concept, I encourage you to read the overview article (https://openziti.io/introducing-openziti-browzer).

Then, if you are intrigued about what I describe in the article, and you are interested in taking part in a pilot, we'd love to hear from you!

You can opt-in by dropping your coordinates in the Google form linked below. We will follow up with you as soon as we can.

https://forms.gle/AzBpThzBuhjGcKDs7

Together, let's keep malicious hackers off your site.

Thanks everyone!
you just read the text in the boxes
The article has

"A car from the 2020s with thousands of microchips ..."

"Thousands"? Uh, I confess: That's where I stopped reading!
Can you point me to this blockquote?
I think the US being the largest rich democracy might have something to do with that, too.

The cultural history of valuing individual freedom above everything, so much so as to start a war rather than pay "unjust" taxes, also seems relevant to me. Society is all about giving up individual freedoms for the group's benefit, and the US's founding mythology is kind of the opposite.
> People shared software based on the same ideas for many years before RMS.

And did they encode that understanding in an official license and create a foundation to spread and protect those ideas under the banner of "Free Software"? No? Then he ostensibly created that movement. I don't know why people just can't give RMS the credit he's due. Others had similar ideas to Darwin at the time, but he's credited with discovering evolution by natural selection because he was first to create the most comprehensive and authoritative work on it.

> Not to mention that the whole scientific world has been sharing knowledge while also respecting authorship and providing citations in ways very similar to FOSS for a century.

And this has what to do with free software? If RMS came out and said his ideas had been inspired by how open science worked, would that make you feel better? Would that in any way change the fact that RMS was a big influence in changing the prevailing trends seen in software development at the time?
Liquid Death is killing it
The overmedicalization of death is a giant ethical problem that we haven’t developed the culture to healthily deal with.

If you haven’t read the book “Being Mortal”, I would highly recommend it. It addresses how to approach death from a perspective that combines existential and medical issues. It’s one of a very small set of books that should probably be required reading for all of humanity
This future is oddly more comforting to me than Skynet.
Wow, this is amazing, thank you for sharing this! This was annoying me for years.
I don’t want to
Are you reading digitally or on paper? I’ve found that I’m much better at reading deeply on paper. Even e-ink seems less effective.
"in version 5.0, we migrate Less that antd has long followed and introduce CSS-in-JS instead"

This is nice. Less can be really annoying in create-react-app projects.
Click on a node to go to the original.

(Snarky comment removed)
They did not shy away from leveling Chechnya, in case you are attributing some sort of inherent virtue to RF military and political command.

Complex internal and external equations are scoping RFs actions, just as they do any other aggressive military power's behavior. US doesn't have to live next to future generations of its leveled victims. Russia's victim, in this case, lives next door and is family. And sure I know of the famous Russian Indian affinity, but there remains the appearance that only brown nations get that treatment. Including from Russians. Something to keep in mind ..
Click on a box, the mastadon view is reasonable
Yes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also the free but not really has already a name, called shareware. I think it's just their marketing ability that they managed to be called free software, despite the definition of the word. (But GPL is not really about the price of the software, they aim to be free as freedom, but .. they are not.)
I am the founder of web3.net- I would live to learn more about this service.

please contact me - Altverse@web3.net
> There's also the fact that if we are still talking about a story from 1883, it says more about the quality of that specific work than the average of the era.

Yes, exactly!

Old things that are still remembered have passed a lot of filters, significantly raising the probability that they're worth attending to.

It's not going to be true for everything, but it's a helpful role of thumb.
Informed, decision making away from the pulse of the emotion is essential here. High quality physicians with the time and space to guide a family are immensely impactful but sadly both the time and space are becoming increasingly limited. Having a trusted advocate by your side who is not as connected is becoming a significant trend.
Rapamycin is the word I keep hearing in 'health and wellness' communities online and on podcasts.

I think this guy is the most vocal about it

https://peterattiamd.com/rapamycin-risks/

https://twitter.com/mkaeberlein/status/1428740546177105922
Looks like they had a meaningful conversation about it a little later. https://youtu.be/jstD4tIuRuI
All your vitality and youth eaten up on the hamster wheel to get 10 miserable years surrounded by medical equipment at the end of your life consuming the rest of your fortune.

And why exactly? to move the doomsday clock an inch closer to midnight?
If there was ever a shade of a possibility that a cellphone or other electronic device could interfere with the operation of an aircraft, they'd never even let you take anything like that onboard.

The whole "turn off your devices" thing is more about validating compliance and making people pay attention during the most incident-prone times of flight (takeoff and landing)
The official non-microblog source appears to be:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sensory-deprivation/#sens...

The official microblog source appears to be:

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109128406324931625

The interesting graphical view in this submission looks like it is more intended for content like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26459603
85% of desktop users and about 90% cloud users certainly are.

Mobile phones and tablets are mostly consumer devices, Apple's ARM laptops are only relevant for about 10% of the desktop market.

Outside embedded devices and electronic appliances, every other CPU is a rounding error in what concerns the general public.
that’s not helping
How does the lower frequency and one thread per core reduce the die size?
I'm not entirely convinced that automated delivery isn't just a diversionary tactic from Amazon.

The biggest advantage Amazon has that no one currently has a working response to is their people driven delivery network.

All traceable back to a short sighted, politically motivated effort from a former president to encourage the USPS to jack up their delivery rates on Amazon. Within a few months, the first Amazon labeled trucks were on the streets --- and the USPS, Fedex and UPS have paid a price for it. Incompetent former POTUS obviously never imagined that they could respond so quickly.
Employers are losing their pay ethic.
Amusingly a transit system has to be pretty decent to be bad - if it is actually horribly bad people don’t treat it at all reliable so they don’t really notice late trains, because getting a train at all is a miracle.
> it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control

This about sums up everything these corporations do. Why do people accept this? Is this really going to be our future?
What I meant is that we are not talking about absolutes here. There will be some cell phones turned on, sure, but the less there is, the less likely it is to become a problem.

And one of the reasons airplanes are not constantly falling out of the sky is that there are thousands of little rules and safety considerations at every level. Software, hardware, pilot training, ATC, and some of them affect passengers directly. For example one not so obvious rule is that the cabin lights are turned off at night during landing, the reason is to make sure the eyes of passengers are accommodated to a dark environment in case of an evacuation. Rules related to electronic devices are in that category.

Rules are much less stringent on general aviation, but general aviation is also much less safe than commercial aviation. Cessnas don't fall out of the sky constantly but they do it more often than Boeings. The ratio is about the same as motorbikes vs cars.

I repeat, cell phones won't make planes fall out of the sky by themselves! But if the plane is already in the unlikely situation where it is about to fall out of the sky, everyone needs to be fully alert to respond to the situation, and the authorities concluded that it is better without beeping cell phones. Has it saved lives? We don't know, but if we waited for someone to die to implement safety policies, we would have a lot of dead people.

The rules may change, in fact they are changing and cell phones are allowed in some flights, but please follow the damn rules, there are here for a reason even if it may not be obvious. Flying is intrinsically dangerous: deadly speeds, deadly heights and deadly outdoor conditions. And yet commercial aviation is one of the safest means of transportation, the likes of the FAA and EASA are doing at least some things right.

And on a more personal, subjective note: I think it is a good thing to disconnect once in a while.
I agree, removing the "How" from an article title is a weird feature that almost always behaves like a bug.
> The tone of this article is cheap and overall it's terrible clickbait.

Agreed, and what's worse to me is that it's all entirely speculative. The author didn't do any original research to, I dunno, email the guy's campaign about his website and ask if he made it? Having not done any research that didn't involve reading Twitter, he decided it was okay to write an article about it, and just pad that article out with wild-ass guesses and invective.
I used to have a few PPA's enabled as additional sources on my Debian system. It never caused me major headaches.
The entire system seems somewhat incentivized to harvest as much cash out of situation as possible…
Congress is a popularity contest. The more outlandish you can get pandering to your base, the more you play in the news. It is universal. We have a government made of Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho clones.
This trade pub says around 1,000 is the number:

https://electronics-sourcing.com/2022/05/04/how-many-chips-a...

This article says 1200. https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/mark-phelan/2022/02/1...

So no. "Thousands" doesn't seem out of the ballpark.
The only thing that sucks is that all this had to be videotaped. Has noone else been pulled in multiple directions at a party, its an uncomfortable situation kind of like having high-guy telling you all his mindblowing theories he just thought of and your like I'm not drunk yet.
I don't know that I'd agree that it's a "very, very poor choice" but I can see how it would prevent Mastodon from seeing more widespread adoption. If widespread adoption isn't their goal, then it really doesn't matter though, and as you said, they made a tradeoff. I can definitely see the benefits of both ways of handling users.
This was a discussion that stuck with me:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28463482
Imagine that you are in Bezos situation, you have 20 people super excited about what was just achieved (including yourself). You have one person that is reacting in a deeply philosophical way. Everyone knows that you are the leader and you set the tone. Do you want to change the tone at that moment to a deeply philosophical (and slightly non-positive) one? Being the leader is not as easy as many think.

I suspect the deep philosophical discussion did happen, but perhaps at a more appropriate time.
What is the point of surveillance of grad students? I guess I don't get the value regardless of the intent.
They could teach a lesson to all the clinical researchers and studies that completely eschew derivatives for exclusively qualitative analyses.
> Instead, she spent 2+ years returning every since book she purchased for her Kindle, well over 100, when she realized she could buy a book and immediately return it, but turn off the Kindle internet connection while she finished reading it, before it was removed. They banned her from ever doing another Kindle return but she otherwise uses her Kindle normally.

Out of curiosity what goes through someones mind to think this is remotely acceptable?

Obviously by sharing this with you she sees nothing wrong/feels no remorse for what she does?

Blatant theft like this costs everyone money, why not just go to the library or something?
Another rant from a right-wing publication.
Any reduced functionality implies reduced area: the interesting question is choosing features given some area and power objective.

For example, fast (and hot) AVX-512 with a large area, slow AVX-512 with a reduced area, or no AVX-512: having the extension on the P-Cores only was deemed enough.
In this segment, Bezos is listening intently:

https://youtu.be/OTfQVMH5SuI
It was flagged because it's hyperbolic flamebait-- a perfect example of the sort of low-effort comment that is discouraged on HN.
I haven't had a chance to read the article yet but as a physician--yes we often overtreat at the end of life. I have had horrible experiences basically torturing patients with repeated invasive procedures and disease-focused treatments who have designated their decision making to a family member who is unable to accept a recommendation for hospice care from the treating physicians. In some cases this is motivated by religious beliefs that "everything must be done" to save a life no matter how much pain or suffering is causes. It's morally distressing.
I never got covid. But, I also rarely ever get sick. I usually get colds once every couple of years.
Dr. Thomas Seyfried: Cancer as a Mitochondrial Metabolic Disease (2019)
On the one hand, it’s easy to wallow in nihilism. On the other hand, many who employ an optimistic tone are selling something that probably won’t help
For some additional context on why the new list has fewer items. From the parent link:

> Here are my nominations for software’s top 12 classic mistakes.

Additionally:

> To make the list of classic mistakes even more useful, in 2007 Construx consultants update the list of Classic Mistakes based on Construx’s work with hundreds of clients since 1996. The following mistakes were added:

- Confusing estimates with targets

- Excessive multi-tasking

- Assuming global development has a negligible impact on total effort

- Unclear project vision

- Trusting the map more than the terrain

- Outsourcing to reduce cost

- Letting a team go dark (replaces the previous “lack of management controls”)

These additions and changes produced a total of 42 classic mistakes.

Construx then conducted a survey to determine how frequent and how serious these classic mistakes are.

“Software Development’s Classic Mistakes 2008”. (PDF) https://www.construx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CxWhiteP...
Is there any actual evidence of "repeated Big Tech overreach in deplatforming and "accidentally" de-indexing conservative voices in the last few years"? Seems like a conspiracy theory to me.
The pandemic let the hamsters off the wheel just long enough to start questioning things…
If you are starting with C I second this. C is a really good language to learn because it is not as far from what a cpu does. You end up understanding more of the workings. When someone says "garbage collection" you understand. In my opinion understanding an assembly language and C are fundamental to programming.
As far as I understand it, Putin’s actions are motivated by the belief that in order to continue to exist meaningfully as an imperial superpower Russia must have a sphere of influence whereby it dominates politically and economically those countries on its western borders.

I’m not sure there’s any possible dialog that will change his mind, particularly now he’s staked the country’s military reputation on being able to defeat Ukraine - he’s “all in”, afiacs - hence the (previously unthinkable) nuclear sabre rattling.
I watched it live and remember distinctly how my mouth dropped to the floor.

He was pouring his heart out to the man but you could tell that he just didn't want be there. The least he could've done is pretend to show an interest but he couldn't even do that.