skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I feel chronic diseases due to bad lifestyle is going to be the single biggest cause of mortality unless we figure a way out of it. These things compound and don’t show up as cause for concern until early 30s/40s. You then are left with notions like treatments, management, and maintenance. Even if you end up living like this till 80 or 100, I don’t think you can have the same quality of life that you could have had if it weren’t for them.
It was. Oh well.
US infrastructure does not support electric vehicles, full stop. There are structural headwinds by default that prevent uptake because the logistics fail at a certain point when not subsidized.

This was all totally planned for by the oil companies pushing for more investment in exurbs and highway construction
I would also think that the tolerances between phones and laptops are vastly different. For instance, I have seen one or two phone batteries violently catching fire, but laptop batteries tend to swell slowly over time before failing.
Your talking about some of the richest and most well cared for people on the planet, not the average person
It's a marathon. When you don't enjoy it, start a new one. There will always be bureaucracy, just deal with it and disconnect at the end of the day so you can do the things you love with the people you love.
9% of the American population served in WWII, and I'm assuming less than that took advantage of the GI Bill. So this was not universal by any means.
I guess the foolish belief that you'd eventually develop some kind of self-respect
Lucid is a money pit for the Saudis so they have something to point to and show that they’re trying to move away from fossil fuels. You’d have to be completely insane to buy one of those things though. Especially when there are better and cheaper options without warranty risk.
This is the fundemental problem with science as a self correcting and advancing entity.

It's often wrong, but we pretend it's right.

I remember as a child being told that evolution can't be true because X. Also, that scientists have no idea how the universe came to be.

Of course it's easier to point out flaws that to come up with corrections, but that's not the point.

The point was, science is hubristic and makes untrue claims all the time. They only appear true because we see or hear about them in a small time period where they represent the "most correct" version of reality as we know it, even if we know it's a total crock of shit, like the big bang.
Minor nitpick.

Not some individuals - really wealthy individuals.
> What is the most important thing in your life?

Security - food, transportation, housing. All have huge price tags associated with them.

My wife being able to follow her passion - taking care of her family. Which means I have to make enough to account for her lost income for all the above.
Full remote still means Americas only?
That's a fascinating perspective. Okay, so Taiwan is blockaded and we can't get any more computer chips for the near future. Then somehow we decomputerize industry? Why wouldn't we just start using older computers, of which there is a glut of them? (Just check ebay.) Also many industries, after seeing efficiency gains, are unable to decomputerize. What happens to them?
Honest question: is it better for society if they are for profit? Will the for-profit incentive and control over development and deployment lead to better products that create more value for society? What is the best example to indicate a non-profit model would lead to better end user value?
you could run twitter indefinitely with a crew (25-50) of competent SRE for basically ever as long as they didn't roll out new features. Nobody should take that fact and conclude that firing your employees en masse is a good idea.
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While I haven't played any bridge simulator, I am personally a huge fan of collaborative experiences that tech can enable. There are some many interesting things that can be done when you augment a human's storytelling capability with an environment that can change with their story, offering a way for the audience to interact in a meaningful way with each other and the story itself.

This seems like a wonderful project with a lot of love. Keep going :)
> 100 doesn’t sound extremely optimistic.

It does.

> Jimmy Carter is 98. Kissinger is 100. Munger is 99. Buffett is 92, Dick Van Dyke is 97, Mel Brooks is 96,…

The average life expectancy at birth in the US is 77.28 (men 74.5, women 80.20), and trending down. The country with the highest life expectancy at birth is Japan with 84.62 / 81.64 / 87.74.

That some people live to 100 doesn't mean people, on average, do. People, on average, don't. People with the right generics (and ideally good medical access) may.

> Jimmy Carter is 98. Kissinger is 100. Munger is 99. Buffett is 92, Dick Van Dyke is 97, Mel Brooks is 96,…

Nixon, Reagan, and HW died at 81, 93 and 94, Ossie Davis died at 87, David Tomlinson at 83, Sally Ann Howes at 91, Lionel Jeffries at 83, ...
Majority kept their job, what’s your point?
I truly hope this project live long and prosper. (And I am saying that honestly, not trying to be Reddit-isch)
It’s not fear. Asking others to use a special (from their pov) app just to talk to me is me imposing a burden and an inconvenience on them. I don’t care enough about iMessage’s cons to annoy others around me.
Retirement for physical, strenuous work is different from retirement from knowledge work. Most 70/80/90 year olds would like to keep their brain sharp and no better way than creating artifacts (that has potential value that can be exchanged). There will be a marketplace for 70+ year gig work, especially as Gen X, Millennial hit that age
Yes, and somehow throughout my thousands of losses I've never grown into a lover of fate.
When taking care of a neighbor is none of your business, what you have with them is not community.
The $5 machines work fine for a lot of tasks. I have some services in production that people pay for running on $5 machines and they aren't anywhere near capacity, lol.
It’s not really going down. There are years it was worse and years it was better. It seems like it’s staying fairly consistent around the original threshold, which appears to be close the median. But I’d note the first year observed was lower than this last year observed, so it couldn’t have been the actual median. They probably intentionally picked a level below the median as the threshold to convince people to freak out and “send funding now”
One simple explanation would be that the problem just isn't as bad as you think it is.
This is definitely not my experience with space repetition. I really wanted it to work for me but I found it didn't help at all with retaining anything. I was using anki.

The more cards I created/added made it worse.
If we had the answer to this question, most of the ideological debates of the past 150 would be solved.
Here’s a decent survey of many of the top comms protocols for IoT: https://www.emnify.com/iot-glossary/guide-iot-protocols
I've seen a lot of used Mach-Es too. In fact it's amazing how many people will wait 2-3 years for a brand new car that fits exactly what their ego asks for vs just going out and buying a used version that fits 80% of their requirements.
Or the fact that the annual raise hasn’t matched inflation for years. Each year, you’re not getting a raise, but loosing ($Inflation - $GS_Raise). You can be the hardest working member of your team, but your salary decreases at the same rate as everyone else.

Every talented person I know working in government with a GS scale has left their employer because they were not being compensated fairly.
Or, you know, just rebrand the unemployment office and expand its mission. Call it Logan's Run.
I notice that you still seem to be using electricity and a computer.

I'll bet you're still eating food that was transported by internal combustion engines, too.
Agree. The other upside of private companies doing it is that they might shoot themselves in the foot if their business interests misalign with their "credit scoring" ones, and intuition shows the former will take precedence and subsume the latter. That is, Airbnb might find the limits of its own risk-scoring scope when normal people will get upset and not be able to consume their product, which has happened quite a bit already. The cool thing is that in a place like the US, the open market will then adjust itself and propose a new competitor which will happily take Airbnb-banned users.
I think at this point Oakland is a failed city. Or at least very close to it.
“Life expectancy is dropping in the US” is a great clickbait headline. Life expectancy has been rising steadily for decades, with a tiny blip downwards the last two years. You think maybe that big pandemic that killed a million people in the US had anything to do it?

The handwringing about lifestyle changes is exhausting.
OP here. I agree!

The not so subtle meta-point of my post is to create a system around one's personal workflows and tastes. As I've stated in the post, orgmode was easy access for me because I was already using Emacs as my daily driver. Before my Emacs days, were my MS Office days, during which time OneNote was my go-to corporate survival tool and daily driver.

Sounds like you've sorted yourself out handsomely.

This is, ah, noteworthy :)
> and get paid a whopping $12/hour.

It’s even worse than this in the UK. For the first year of your apprenticeship you get paid £4.81 per hour which works out at $5.78 an hour. Unless you’re living with parents who won’t charge you rent, the apprenticeship route is off limits unless you find a company that pay a proper wage. They do exist but competition for the places is extremely fierce.

The wage does go up in your second year to your age band’s minimum wage, so if you’re 23 you’ll get a whopping (/s) £9.50 an hour, but if you’re 18-20 you’re on £6.83 and if you’re still under 18 you’re stuck on the £4.81. Absolutely disgraceful.
There's still a hefty markup on them, in some places $15k or even more.
OVH had a data center burn to the ground just a couple of years ago, due largely to owner error. I’m not in the market for a European data center but that would give me substantial pause.
Watch these glassy-winged sharpshooters fling pee bubbles with anal catapult
That ship is still the gold-standard of simulator design. The two decks, the many levels on the bridge itself, the nooks and crannies, the two viewscreens, the separate brig and sickbay - ah, it takes me back.

The goal for Thorium Nova is to create that iron-clad simulator that you're looking for, where every crew member's job has a real impact on the overall simulation. Right now I'm working on the power grid simulation, which will have huge effects on the rest of the ship. The quartermaster will have to keep fuel and coolant stocked in the reactor room, the engineer will have to monitor the reactor's usage and heat to make sure there's enough capacity for an emergency, and someone else will be in charge of answering the captain's call to "reroute all power to the engines!"

Building these simulations is an interesting balance of realism and gameplay enjoyment. Hopefully I get each of those right.
That still the norm in France. Most people drive shift because that what’s around.

As a non-car person I could not care less and I find it kinda annoying. More work to do in traffic. Manœuvring on a slope can be tricking ( or dangerous if you are me )

I do understand the fun, but I, for one; welcome our automatic gear box overlord.
There's also no science ruling it out. The closer you look at ecosystem complexity the clearer it becomes that we understand it well enough to make accurate predictions.

Nobody can prove that we're one keystone-species extinction away from calamity, but nobody can prove that we're not, and the rate at which species are going extinct due to our involvement is such that it's not crazy to be expect big changes over small timescales.
who matches which descriptor? (and i personally pretty much agree)
Do you have to be a citizen or just a green card is OK?
The statement of TFA, which GP defends, is

> Today's 5-year-olds will likely live to 100

Notably missing from the sentence: "born in rich families" and "who don't fall into the trap of lifelong substance abuse".
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So, can we get together a good list of websites/apps with links that are these 'not-chess' trainers?

I'll start:

https://lichess.org/training

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.FrameOfMin...
Thank you, super-interesting!
So long as I can finally settle on just USB-C for charging around the house I don't care. iPhones and the kids' old school iPads are the last non-USB-C device I have.
They aren’t allowed to do it, their device has to be charged with any USB-C cable and charger at up-to 5V@3A.

If they support fast charging at currents above 3A or at voltages above 5V they MUST adopt the USB-PD spec and then the device MUST support any USB-PD compatible charging solution to its design limit or 100W which ever is lower.
What would you like Apple to do?
There is some dark humor if one is again forced to look at the opportunities and finds many familiar places left previously.

Back when Dutch government was pretty much the only job agency companies offering such "opportunities" would be scrubbed from the list. If they send people there they just come back looking for work again. Not something the institution was willing to spend resources on.

I imagine one could explore something like a credit score with taxes that reflect what great employer you are. A piss bottle tax could bring in hundreds of millions in tax revenue. Perhaps it should be applied as a percentage CEO wealth, income and land tax. Or call it the asshole tax.
Phones and the cables used to charge them are also typically subject to far greater and more frequent abuse than laptops and their cables. Some people go through even quality charger cables like candy.
What I take away from listening to Sam talk is that in the beginning of Open AI, they didn’t think big compute would be as important as it has become.

It becomes very hard to not have profit incentives when you need to run gigantic supercomputers to push the technology forward. This explains the MS partnership and need to generate profit to fund the training and running of future models.

This doesn’t explain everything, but makes sense to this layman
Is possible to legally provide tools for legal filesharing in Denmark?

Why doesn't Denmark focus on prosecuting the individuals illegally sharing files, and tha seedbox providers for making those individuals easier to find?
"The two values, however, irrespective of how numerically close they are, share no intrinsic relationship whatsoever."

How do we know this statement is true? Is there a way to prove it mathematically? Or is it just an assumption that becomes fact unless someone can prove otherwise?
> Look at how people on HN turn their noses up at bootcamps, or really anything less than a CS undergrad degree.

And for a good reason.
Even the best lifestyle choices and preventive healthcare are not going to cut it.

Two paragraphs in, the article shoots its own title down:

> According to demographers, today’s five-year-olds have a better chance than ever of living to be centenarians, and by 2050 it’ll likely be ...

And then proceeds to offer zero actual reasons to believe even this more realistic claim, apart from some well-known but unfortunately irrelevant life expectancy trends.

I firmly believe that living long, healthy lives (100++ years) is totally possible. But biology is hard so I won't hold my breath.
You can’t do any worse than the USB standards body
It sounds like you need an Electron app. Seriously. I’m not a fan of it, but it’s the web backend with knobs for you to prevent power-saving modes from interfering with your website.
Ironically, this take is useless and reactionary. Perhaps you should have a nice cup of tea before you leave a common next time?
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Yeah, and basically Americans can purchase so much more on credit, and Europeans complain they can't buy shit.
Full stop. You seem pretty certain. How do you explain what's happening in the US (particularly in California)? Are you saying infrastructure currently does not support or won't in the future?
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Of course the middle class is mad. It's dying. And, as the article correctly points out, how the middle class is doing is a very good indicator for the health of the economy.

A big part of this is that we seem to have (in the US) geared our system to prioritize the interests of the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
feed a bunch of articles into it and ask it to summarize

A better way (that's how humans do it) is to first summarize each article, then feed the summaries to get an overview of the topic. This way there's no need to expand the attention window.
> I'm going to contend this isn't so much subverting EU rules but rather trying to ensure that Apple won't get blamed when someone uses a cable that can't handle the power when plugged in given that there's not a good standard out there for this and no enforcement of the "ok, there's something - try this..."

That's just not true. The USB-IF won't certify a cable unless it can do 20V @ 3A, which is around 2x the voltage at 3A that the iPhone would even try to do.

If true, this is just money-grab and spiteful behavior out of Apple, nothing more.
If I could bag cheap VA tuition, benefits, and a 10% discount at Lowes for my "two tours in the Keyboard Jungle", the sacrifice would appeal. Otherwise it just reads as "trying to hire at a discount" to me like a lot of reqs I run across.
> The problem for rightsholders is that a subset of the population prefers not to pay for the privilege.

This justification is increasingly annoying as the quality of service provided by Netflix and the increasing numbers of competitors races down towards worthless.

There's a lot of TV I vaguely remember and would like to rewatch and literally can't find anywhere to pay for it. Plus the less legitimate the service looks the more I wonder if I'd be paying for someone else's piracy, which seems strictly worse than downloading it myself.

So overall I hope piracy has survived the challenging years where it was easier to pay than not to. It was famously much easier to pirate game of thrones than to buy it, I wonder if that result generalises yet.
If you own your own company, just refuse those jobs or charge more to make it worthwhile.
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What are your thought on data transfer speed? Why USB 2.0 speeds unless you pay for the more expensive phone and certified cable?
They can chose the persecution if they insist?