skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was younger I wanted to live forever, nowadays I'm more at peace with the idea of death.

There are a couple of things that make death bearable. Any longevity treatment should placate the first and we should aim to compensate the second with plenty of change in our lives.

First is physical ailments. Even a healthy person will accumulate aches, and those will slowly erode they will to live. Several of my grandparents (and some that were not mine) have expressed that they were waiting to be taken, and I'd wager that would be a part.

Second is the mental fatigue. Not only your mental state is akin to your physical one, so you might be mentally exhausted, but also you begin to get bored with most media. It's hard to find a story that hasn't been told before, music that you find original and good, few dishes that you still dare to discover, ... .

Apart from the personal point of view there's also the general one. There two more problem arise.

Sustainability, as the planet can support what it can. The society and the way resources are managed will have to change a lot if people live longer. But don't worry because...

Power. You'd go from families holding power to individuals. No longer the young master will spend all the money and none will be left, because their parents will have control over that. Situation could become even more oppressive with them withholding the longevity treatments, giving some to their employees and none to the general public.

So while I agree with your sentiment, which is also beautifully expressed in HPNOR, I'd say that there's a lot of transformations to be made before it's good.
I think the person you're replying to is referring to cryonics (the topic of the original article), which is still illegal in many jurisdictions.
Science doesn't hold up, but immediate headcanon.
Perhaps the poster meant that the contents of the commits themselves make bisection slower? By touching a lot of files unnecessarily, incremental build systems have to do more work than otherwise.
> Why?

I think that one of the aspects can be the fact that IDE support isn't quite there yet. Going to using Godot's built in text editor or to an external editor with GDScript plugin from something like JetBrains Rider with IntelliSense feels like a large step backwards.

Then again, many projects out there won't need advanced code analysis or refactoring capabilities, but personally I think that engines supporting C# (and JetBrains having plugins for Godot or Unity) is a great choice to give that additional flexibility to those that need it, as well as access to at least some of that already existing ecosystem with lots of libraries available. Oh, also, the docs having C# examples next to GDScript examples is great!

I don't see anyone writing a linear solver, or their own networking library in GDScript anytime soon, even though there have been some pretty great plugins for Godot in GDScript already, like the terrain plugin or the LOD plugin (which I ported to C#, link to my blog post is in another comment), both of which are portable and work pretty well.

That said, Lua is also great!
Some people recognize that language has impact on others, despite the intentions of the speaker. Those people may chose to adapt their language to be more accommodating, or ignore it.

Its like requiring all new buildings be handicap accessible. No one is mandating that everyone use a wheelchair, but instead we're building new things in a way to (try to) minimize the impact on the handicap. By telling architects that stairs are hard to use, and ramps are easier, you're telling people how to build for everyone.

Similarly, by telling people what words may have negative meanings, you're empowering them to minimize their impact on others. This is a suggested language update, not a forced way of speaking, so its even weaker than the handicap accessible requirement. If you meet this list with open contempt but you don't show the same contempt for a handicap ramp... then maybe approach the list with a different perspective.
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> How many of the "Consider using" suggestions will be considered "harmful language to be eradicated" in another few years?

It's been interesting to watch The Guardian tie itself in knots over the acronym BAME (and later to some extent BIPOC), which was meant to be the new, inclusive, non-offensive to the minorities it sought to describe, term for non-white (particularly in the UK), which the newspaper was much in favour of but then seemed to decide was probably bad and might even be racist. And then keep using it all over the place.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/22/black-...

In the mean time, outside of that particular bubble, I think most people either looked on with bemusement or had no idea of the existence of the term anyway.
Correct.

And these people will not only be the leaders of tomorrow but also the ones that control worldwide communications from their offices in Silicon Valley. They will shape the entire world.
Interpreting Language Models with Inseq
About Index.js Files
I agree with part of what you are saying on the subject of bloat, but looking at what has happened in the recent past, I think it's naive to believe this is not going to be implemented.

It will, like banning "master" repositories, and other examples have already happened.

Quoting Orwell in all irony:
"It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
I keep reading, but all I understand is "never hire anyone who associates their education/work experience with this organisation".
Ask HN: What is the best browser “new tab” hack that keeps you productive?
Dabbling for a long time with ways of staying more productive, I always felt the "new tab" (in Chrome, Firefox, etc.) has a lot of potential to be the front page to a GTD hack that could simplify one's focus and help stay productive. Curious to hear what the community have been using the "new tab" for (e.g. todo lists, integrations with trello/ms todo/google tasks, integration with emails/calendars, pomodoro timers, etc.).
Being white south american in europe is quite strange, people (usually old people) ask you were you are from assuming you are going to say germany/france/italy/spain and when you say a country in SA they first frown, then, in their heads, they try to reconcile their views of that country with their views on your skin color.

For example I got told several times I don't look Brazilian and one time I remember someone completely changing their attitude (for the worse) after mentioning I was brazilian

I have one last name or German origin and one of Portuguese origin, I started putting only the german one in CVs
You can pair Bluetooth with location off, but not Bluetooth Low Energy devices. But it's even more complex in reality, depending on the Android version, see here:

https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/bluetooth/ble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering_(audio)
"Nuts"?
Your blazée atittude on radiation safety reminds me of Homer Simpson.

There is no way to know what radiation dose they got. Their activities increased the ambient radiation levels, but not extremely. But the soldiers themselves probably got quite a bit more since they came into direct contact with contaminated material. A few of them almost certainly got non-trivial doses on parts of their bodies. We don't know if any got radiation sickness, and I don't know of any source that said so. If they did, Russia would keep it quiet.

The point of the story is that such a site remains a problem for millenia and people have to pay attention. If you don't want the dirt to travel further, you have to somehow remove it and store it more safely to keep it from circulating. That's what they are doing in Fukushima because they can't afford the same size of permanent exclusion zone.

Another point is that the Russians put their artillery pieces near nuclear power plants. They discovered that the Ukrainians wouldn't shoot back when they fire from there. Funny that.
You aren't taking anything seriously. Good riddance.
I can't wait for "Assassin's Creed: Excel" to really capture the spirit of this.
Some of us from the CrypTech core team are involved in Tillitis and the TKey device. Compared to the Cryptech HSM, the TKey is closer to a secure element (it started its life as an embedable root of trust module for VPN relays).

https://tillitis.se/
https://github.com/tillitis

The TKey is basically a tiny, RISC-V based System on Chip in a tiny FPGA. The SoC has a minimal interface to the host, a simple context based memory map and a FW to allow loading applications and generate application base secrets.
> that came for my music away from listening to my music, including NOT playing more of my music after the intended song plays.

To be entirely fair at least for me in lot of cases I end up adding maybe 2 songs of an artist total to my playlist. Assuming random passerby is going to like rest of your stuff just because they liked one song is a stretch.
Thank you very much. I never knew anything like this exists already, only wondered why is there not given all the advances in the AI.
Does anyone real believe this will fix the chronic problems facing the US?

The people who are actually responsible for the greatest inequities in our societies are neither talking of listening to you or I in the first place.
Ah! True…
Sadly, it’s about feelings, not facts. That’s how indoctrination works.
I can't tell if you're serious about "Valve as big enough"

Valve isn't some small indie company. They're not massive in terms of employee size, as they're only in the hundreds, but remember they have some of the biggest gaming tech stacks, such as Steam in itself, but also games like CSGO, which is arguably still one of the biggest fps games. No doubt they run those things solely by themselves without contracting some of the work outside of the company.
Same price as a model Y performance, 60% of the range, and they don't mention the full charging speed (although it appears to be similar, the model Y with the new batteries appears to be 15m 10-80%).

Also, same 0-100 speed.

The years tick on, people keep arguing that the traditional manufacturers are launching the Tesla killer "any day now", and they still can't beat the golden triange.
Like how Google Streetview became a disaster? I dislike mapping like this as the next privacy conscious guy, but the world hasn't really changed since then. But it was anticipated to.
I would actively pay to fight such a movement. The world is full, yes it can be fuller but we are seriously cracking whole ecosystem and one of main reason is simply the amount of people living on this planet. If you prolong life say 2x it means Earth has 2x the population long term just due to this. Lets focus on serious issues hindering our growth as a race and not some vanity fears of few rich and powerful who think they are oh-so-special while they are not.

Death is good on so many levels - equalizer that removes most horrible tyrants like Stalin who would easily burn whole world just to be immortal and stay on top. If you are a normal decent person you can't even comprehend mindset of such sociopaths and their eternal greed. Don't think there are few people like that in a generation, rather few millions, just with fewer options.

Death also makes whole nations eventually forget wrongs on the past, otherwise we would still be hating mongols and huns and romans and swedes and british and slavers and germans as nazis etc. If for nothing else, just to remove threat of semi-eternal planetary dictator death is great.

My grandparents from my dads side both died few months ago aged 94 and 95. They saw all their friends, neighbors and colleagues die decades ago, and they were witnessing same starting to happen to kids of those close people. They were both depressed from this, gradual loss of everything that has any long term meaning plus decline of everything health-related. It sucks to be the last living guy from say group of friends, you think you would find tons of solace in the fact you are still alive but thats not how reality on the ground looks like. People just wait for death to come and many prefer it comes soon.
> But breaking down tasks provides (1) some certainty that you know a thing is achievable, (2) gives you a strong idea of what can be started immediately, and what can be run in parallel, and (3) hidden dependencies on other teams. This in turn leads to a better estimation.

I very much agree. I think the key in the OP article is "to the smallest details." In order to truly know how to build something, you need to build it in the first place. Worse, you'll end up with a load of outdated documentation that will either be abandoned, or take up more developer time to update when it inevitably conflicts with what's produced.

I tend to stop planning once I hit some "unknown horizon," meaning that any further planning is more or less built on well-intentioned speculation, or is bikeshedding at best. Past that, and I think you end up creating more problems for yourself.
> especially since many such words are probably older than the current use of "man" to mean male person, and refer to the older sense of person, as in the US constitution

I feel like that use is... complicated. Why, exactly, did "man" mean "person"? Why not "woman", then? It feels like using "man" to mean "person" -- including and especially in historic usage -- is itself patriarchal. Given the time period you reference -- the writing of the US Constitution -- I think it's even more stark, as it was written by men who were not inclined to allow women any sort of participation in the government (and I expect many of them did not feel that women were as entitled to many of the rights they were enumerating).

But really, the semantics aren't the primary issue. If a lot of women feel excluded by "man"-terms, then that's a problem. To be fair, though, I have never asked a female police officer or firefighter if she felt that "policeman" or "fireman" made her feel excluded, so I don't really know.

I think "excluded" is a better term than "offended" in some cases. "Offended" is a very squishy, subjective, imprecise, emotional term. What matters is why someone might feel offended by a particular term, and I could certainly sympathize with a woman who felt like "policeman" was implicitly telling her that she wasn't fit for the job, that women should be excluded from consideration for that job, or that women should intentionally exclude themselves from considering wanting that job.

As much as I disagree with a lot of the things on Stanford's list, I think calling words "harmful" is better and more descriptive than calling them "offensive".
You could even install a monorail so they could get around the city above the cars.
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907897
Nice article. Wish they had gone on to cover Cosimo Medici! He was the best. Inventing banking and then using the profits to fund the renaissance? Need people like that today.
I don't see how it's satirical. If you need a job to run, you need to handle the case of transient node failures. K8S helps alleviate this issue by allowing the job to be launched on any of a choice of nodes. Sure, cron is fine if you're just looking to rotate logs on the local machine, but if you want to reset your nuclear watchdog timer, you may want something more reliable :)
As well as getting used to the idea of losing loved ones. Anyone who doesn't feel anything from the loss of close relationship, or conversely, does not seek out to make new ones, isn't likely going to be a well adjusted noble immortal with humanities best intententions at heart (see: Man From Earth), but an immoral perpetual leach that only serves themselves (see: various vampire films).
> something like JetBrains Rider with IntelliSense feels like

JetBrains is a billion dollar company that ONLY makes tools lol... Of course they have a leg up.

> I don't see anyone writing a linear solver, or their own networking library in GDScript anytime soon

Wrong tool for the job. That's why GDExtension exists. That's why C# is integrated. Also Godot already has ENet networking integrated into the engine.

GDScript is an alternative to something like Blueprints for basic behaviours that only call engine functions, not a full replacement for real programming languages.
Living 1000 years wouldn't necessarily imply resistance to change. I'm not sure why you think that it would.
It seem pretty likely that we have to die, based on the second law of thermodynamics. The whole universe has to end eventually, after many trillions of years. There's no physical law that would stop a person sticking around for those trillions of years, but it would be technologically very difficult.
Pagerduty v3 webhooks explained and implemented
You were on the right track: I'm gp, and I meant there are other lower-hanging fruit that government ought to tackle ahead of senescence.
If a hacker gets control of your account, probably the first thing he will do is disabling all checks. Does Azure(or even AWS/GCP) provide some "non-configurable" default alert?
Because it doesn't intend to remain in "stealth mode" forever?
> they do a ton of things to siphon listeners that came for my music away from listening to my music, including NOT playing more of my music after the intended song plays.

I understand the criticism that it's hard for you to get an audience to notice you. But once somebody has listened to a tune of yours and then doesn't actively seek out more of it ... could it be that they just prefer to listen to something else instead? Competition is toughand it may feel easy to blame it on big tech, but sometimes peoples taste is just not something you can legislate..
You are shifting your arguments whenever convenient... Replacing fossil fuels is mostly to reduce emissions from energy production, not for geopolitical reasons.

Gas power plants are plenty reliable. And you can source your gas from multiple sources. Nuclear fuel isn't entirely without sourcing problems, either...
I disagree with this assessment on running a static type checker, although I will admit, every update of python over the past 3 years seems to add more and more typing changes which tends to force global typing updates (looking at you Numpy for python 3.12!)

When python converges on consistent typing across its extended numpy and pandas ecosystem, I believe we will be able to move towards a fully JIT'd language.
> Why _wouldn’t_ I want to avoid using any but your last category?

Thing is, _you_ are free to avoid anything you want for whatever reason you want. It is when someone else (e.g. myself) who doesn't want to have his language policed is faced with a prospect of being told to change his language, that he may become upset. After all, if you recognise that language is part of a person's identity, and that identity is important (as those who champion such linguistic changes almost invariably tend to claim), it is really inconsistent then to be demanding that people change the way they talk.
May be the the first time I’ve heard the UK called “exciting”.
Not just a multi-cloud, but also managed kafka and a managed db across a multi-region deployment. Regions can fail, your job needs persistence and you need to maintain the state of the message in the db..

oh!! have you also thought about the right queue semantics? Do you want your job to trigger exactly one, at least one or at most once? What happens if the previous job is still running when it is time to trigger it again? Is it 15 minutes from start to start or end of previous to start of next? How about metrics? Is your process idempotent?

So, the right answer is 42 unicorns.
I wish! As a newcomer I have to wait before I start making such (sensible) suggestions!
> This will cause a lot of indirect access

You can optimize the common case of string data following the header by encoding the fact in a bit of the length field.

E.g. if the length is odd (LSB = 1) then the next word contains the pointer to the string body, otherwise the string body follows the length field. Archs that lack tagged arithmetic would require a shift but at least that skips a memory read for the string data indirection.
Just get a pro at this point. Killing the battery is not worth it
> But, presumably, if they were to lose more weight in winter be being awake than asleep, they'd just go to sleep.

This is quite a leap of faith, that they can do this calculation.

There's some kind of feedback mechanism going on with "if food is plentiful at a certain time, don't go to sleep", and evolution may have optimized this to avoid losing weight in typical scenarios, but evolution doesn't perform that well in outlier situations.
I’ve found learning harder as I age. I can still do it, but I don’t think we’re as elastic as we are at 5, or 18. I’m guessing but I think it’s both internal changes and the sheer product of an expanded mental landscape. We have more to consider than a freshman. I think focusing really hard and making changes is easier when you have less on your plate. In a few years, an 18 year old can transform the trajectory of their life. It’s much harder when you’re 50.

This isn’t absolute. Of course with an infinite life some of these restrictions go away, but unless we get rid of the meat minds I think we’ll have some built-in limitations that are core to who we are as humans. I honestly think I learn more than most of my peers because I keep trying to, but I do find myself getting less interested in the latest fad. Some amazing people can learn entirely new life journeys, Carmack or SamA, say. But look at most people you know. Most are going to keep plugging away getting crankier and crankier. If those people hold power and grow their wealth indefinitely, I think that’s a net negative.

Max Plank said, paraphrased: Science progresses one funeral at a time.

We make way for the youth to have their go, with our influence reducing over time.

This all ends when AI arrives anyway. Change has to outpace us. Someone or something will get your wish of indefinite life, and we’ll find out how these patterns change.
According to Wikipedia, more than 9 million people in the US have reported Near Death Experience (NDE) [0]. Some common traits that were reported:

- A sense/awareness of being dead.

- A sense of peace, well-being, and painlessness. Positive emotions. A sense of removal from the world.

- An out-of-body experience.

- A perception of one's body from an outside position, sometimes observing medical professionals performing resuscitation efforts.

- A "tunnel experience" or entering a darkness. A sense of moving up, or through, a passageway or staircase.

- A rapid movement toward and/or sudden immersion in a powerful light (or "Being of Light") which communicates telepathically with the person.

- An intense feeling of unconditional love and acceptance.

I'm not sure, but this feels relevant juxtaposed the prospect of returning to life in a body of unsure quality, with all my friends, relatives and acquaintances long gone, into a world that I can not expect to understand much of. Even if it ever became possible, which I sincerely doubt.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience
Stairs are really hard for people in a wheelchair, signage is really hard for someone blind, and fire alarms are really hard for someone deaf. Missing any of those ADA adaptions is more harmful to one group than another.

Harm can vary based on the person, so doing something "harmful" is person dependent. The goal is to recognize the harmful history of language when choosing words, because, thankfully all spoken words are newly spoken, so you can pick fresh each time.
> more reliable than your VM that falls over when it's full of logs (at some indeterminate future date)

If this is an issue, I think all other solutions have similar risks: account banned, company acquired/closed down, forced update to new API/system, to a point that I think I'd take the bet on a VM living longer in most cases