skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you’re saying, but I think too much complexity hides in those numbers. Some of the optimizations for LLMs (flash attention) are hardware specific.

And anyways, it’s not that expensive. You can rent the same gpu from cloud providers for a few dollars per hour. If you are serious about buying a GPU it is an extremely small cost in terms of time and money compared to the price of the gpu itself.

The alternative is trusting an online review running some training or inference code which is likely not comparable to what most people are doing.
Is the secret in the running of it? The policies?

Or is there a source of funds in the Isle of Man that is not applicable to the rest of the world? Like, if it was applied to the rest of the world the funds would stop going to the Isle of Man?

Is there also something not present in the Isle of Man that elsewhere is a sink for money?
Something you would have to stop incentivising in other places if you want to have them "rolling in money", but that many people can't bring themselves to do?
There is a gradual introduction: Deep Learning for Programmers (https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/)
I really wish he did his research without being restricted to a vegan diet. He mentioned in one of his videos that his choice for a vegan diet isn't motivated by health, so I can't help but think that part of these recommendations are just there to mitigate the effects of that specific diet. For example, an omnivorous diet might not need certain supplements.
That is a good place to start, thanks!
> My theory is this: your favourite hobby store expands and adds one more aisle of fantastic products and five aisles of garbage. You’ll likely perceive quality as having gone way down.

This is actually something which is borne out by research, though in a slightly different context. Niro Sivanathan at the LBS has studied how arguments are presented, and essentially, recipients of arguments engage in an averaging function instead of an additive function, when evaluating strength -- adding one weaker point to a pair of very strong points actually detracts from the perceived strength of an argument.

It would not be at all surprising if we did the same sort of thing in different contexts, such as the example you gave here.
Yes, but back then the other option was Internet Explorer and literally anything else was better than it.

Right now MS is playing the browser game again. And it is beyond me why it thinks people want to use Bing for search.

Sometimes I have this impression that Microsoft has some collective amnesia where they think they’re in the 90s-00s again where they dominanted the market with their tactics. Quite curious why it hasn’t been sued yet by the DOJ.
I believe it's part of the hacker culture. Limitations in life span? Let's hack it!
* Learning from a book is hard
They even have Shinji in the contact form as a placeholder, it's definitely not an accidental naming thing.
> assumption is why eating disorders are on the rise

Curious to see research showing eating disorders are driven by misguided pursuits of health.

> Increasing amount of population eats significantly less then they need and are terrified of eating more

"The overall incidence rate of anorexia nervosa is considerably stable over the past decades," though it's increasing "among younger persons (aged <15 years)" [1]. ("For bulimia nervosa, there has been a decline in overall incidence rate over time.")

Meanwhile, obesity is increasing globally [2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8500372/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859313/
I've placed a number of orders with them, and many come through ok. But the shipping damage is often enough to be frustrating. I had one hard-to-get DVD arrive with the typical DVD plastic case shattered in one area into many pieces floating around the the plastic envelope. Fortunately, the DVD itself stayed in it's splayed fingers holder thingy, and it itself was still ok, image side sheltered by the remains of the case.

They also seem to have become less accurate/consistent in the last year or so, with their quality grading. I've gotten a few "good" or "acceptable" titles that looked very good or almost new, but also some "very good" titles with extensive writing, highlighting, or damage.

Perhaps ironically, I've started looking for the same title used on Amazon, and if the options are comparable, picking a highly rated seller there, instead.

This year, I intend to try looking at eBay, more. Not just for books. For some things, but certainly not others.

Care is required, but there are good sellers and often better prices than Bezosland. This impression is partially formed by more recent comments from others that I've read. So, I'm going to experiment and check that out.
How long has society had voice and video delivered digitally? We managed to survive fine before we had it.

If it now becomes impossible to trust a voice received through the internet without being connected to a verified telephone number I don't know how that can be classified as society-changing.
Kindness is selfish behavior - we receive many rewards for it.

It has its limits, though. Not enough people are willing to sacrifice their lives and well being for others to make a society based on that.
No need for encryted data transfer here. Proven authority would be enough
Obviously, any activity is a chance to hurt yourself. And any regular activity is a chance for overuse injuries.

I keep having small injuries here and there. The difference is that I am currently running 70km a week on average (7-10km on most week days, 10-21.1km on Sundays). My leg muscles are hard as rocks and my Achilles tendons are twice as tough as before (based on the increased cross section based on the images I have). It is much harder to evaluate load capacity of my knees (I don't have images to compare) but it is easy to see If I just started running 10k every day (even if I was able to do it aerobically) I would probably blow my knees in less than a month.

Additionally, I suffer from torn ACL and before I started running my knee was kinda lose which made even walking a bit difficult (constant popping sounds, pains, etc.) Thanks to running and strength training the stronger muscles and other tendons took the slack off my knee and I pretty much forgot that there is anything wrong with it. I just need to pay attention to not get carried off too much and start doing some stupid shit like playing soccer or basketball which would definitely be a bad idea. As long as my activity has controlled moves like running or hiking in not too difficult terrain, I am fine.
Neopaint for DOS.
The rest are freeware I think, but I also made heavy use of:
POVRay
POVCAD
Fractint
I am curious how this would work. Could you put me in the right direction in how this is done?
> People forgot what it was to Google back in the day, where google was always showing a notification box to download their Google Chrome

What do you mean "back in the day"? My daily driver is Firefox, and every other time I go to look something up on Google Maps, it tells me I'd get a better experience using Chrome.
He is also personally experimenting with things far more extreme than that. Like off-label pharmaceuticals, replacing his blood with blood from his son, and even gene therapy.
Somebody has to do the work. Who do you think it should be?
Is there somebody as dedicated to healthspan as him, but who does not ostensibly sell anything?
Immortality has been the pursuit of people with fuck you money and/or fuck you power since time immemorial, as they don’t have much to worry about otherwise and have the resources to do wacky shit. The rest of us mostly don’t really care much about it. Nothing special about “the tech community” here.
Like, anemia is good for you, actually, theory?
This works fine until you find yourself in a shitty public Wi-Fi that blocks outgoing traffic to "non-essential ports".

But then again, SSH is often not considered essential and you need a VPN or other tunnel on TCP/443 anyway...
Kind of reminds me of Data.
That's great; Haml is one thing I like most when doing web development on Ruby/Rails. The only thing I don't like about this implementation is the blocks with inline code:

- if user != nil {
%strong The user exists
- }
My idea of doing this is bringing AGI sooner. Human body is an inelegant and unoptimized vehicle for intelligence.
I think you misunderstood. I don't count calories. It does not work most of the time.

What I mean I calculated that amount of extra fat I gained over so many decades and divided it by the number of days and converted to amount of teaspons of sugar.
you'd be surprised to hear how many in this thread fall in that category.

at the risk of sounding "back in my day"-ish, my first desktop as a kid was a refurbished server. i never used like its original intent, other than running xampp stack during occasional web dev.

the "server" in question was actually an OG raspberry pi, which is still in service till date. that is all i could afford with space and money, and running it completely headless from day 1 had been a rollercoaster ride.

aside: it has ironically become much harder to get hold of the latest pi despite a decade of developments.
Why so? A vegan diet when supplemented is an easy way to avoid potential bad consequences of animal products, such as heart disease, cancer, obesity or diabetes.

The only real thing that meat-eaters do not have to supplement that vegans do is b12 (because livestock are supplemented with it) and maybe omega 3.
> frequently renews his skin through rather extensive skincare

What is he doing?
Are they really that frequent, and would an app actually help?

I thought the gun lobby advocated for more guns so they can shoot down shooters.
About 100kb of carefully crafted yaml configs
Ah... I just realized for the first time that this must be the same Robert Browning whose poem served as an inspiration for Stephen Kings "the dark tower"
Ah yes, because fear of mortality is restricted to tech people.
You do not exhale pure CO2. The CO2 in exhaled air can rise a lot before you need to breathe faster.
> $60 for a bottle of olive oil?

Looks like just another scam artist to sell stuff
Fun fact: he is also the main designer of Musescore and Audacity
To sell supplements, as evidenced by the ridiculously expensive olive oil that he sells on his website and the new line-up of upcoming supplements.

There is no way for regular people to "follow his protocol". But you can have shots of expensive olive oil and reap most of the benefits!
There are links to all kinds of snake oil on that page. With discounts!
Maybe if he was not doing anything, his score would be 1.1?

Also, I don't think the point is doing fancy things. The people that beat him might just be doing "common sense" healthy things. Something which most people don't do. See SAD (Standard American Diet).
The article mentions the dog can smell the off-gassing from electronics. There’s probably a lot of false positives.
> "I don't know what a 'protected class' is, but let's say it means ..."

Come on, Margaret Atwood. You can do better than this. "Protected class," "inciting," and "credible threat" are all specific legal terms, and you can look them up rather than invent your own definitions in service of your argument.

Later ... "anyone displaying the insignia or claiming the name is in effect saying ..." [emphasis added]

"In effect" is doing a lot of work here and is not in accordance with the Content Guidelines (not Terms of Service).

A swastika is a symbol of hate, and Substack could choose to ban display of such symbols, but they don't. A symbol alone is not the same as an incitement to violence.

And the reason they don't ban hate symbols, I'm guessing, is that they would have to list them explicitly. And how do you categorize, for instance, the Palestinian flag or the Israeli flag? There are large, non-overlapping populations of people in this country claiming that one or the other are symbols of hate.

I'm no fan of Nazis, and if Substack wants to deplatform them, I'm all for it, but they'll need to rewrite their Content Guidelines to do it. And in the meantime, I wish the folks campaigning against them would bring a little more rigor to their arguments.
I wonder how far you can push RAG and it's comparison to methods like LoRA

https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA

It seems like you can only get so far with a sophisticated prompt engineering framework like RAG. but I dunno, I haven't tested them against each other.
Bryan Johnson is already independently wealthy, and if he wanted to become even wealthier there would be much easier and more lucrative options.

The most parsimonious explanation for his behavior is that he very genuinely does not want to die.

Of course, anyone who is rich and famous is liable to veer into narcissism and abuse of power.

But if any HN reader were very serious about doing whatever it takes to live as long as possible, then reading this page would be a great start, as it is one of the most obsessively researched and documented health regimens towards this goal.
There is literal eating disorder for "obession with healthy eating so much you harm yourself" - Orthorexia Nervosa.

And yes, eating diaorders among young people are on the rise, both in boys and girls. When people complain about social media and mental health of young people, that is the primary concern.

Plus, you can have eating disorder and be fat, while your body lacking whole host of nutrition.
Yes! I saw a presentation a couple of years back from police dog trainers. Different dogs would specialise in different things - drugs, guns, and amazingly - hard disks! They train them specifically to do so. What blew my mind was the reward was always just a tennis ball. But the dog was soooo happy to get the ball for a short amount of play when it did well.
Will do!! Thanks!
Sure, if you use only the OpenSSH client and other software respecting its command line option paradigms or configuration files. But there's tons of other things connecting to SSH.

And even only in the OpenSSH universe, I find it quite annoying having to remember whether the `-p` can go after the hostname or has to appear before, whether SCP uses `-p` or `-P`, whether `ssh-copy-id` supports one or the other etc.

There are some protocols I wouldn't necessarily run on their default port and publicly accessible, but SSH is really not one of them, also given that sshd has been specifically hardened for that adversarial use case.
I don't think he needs te money tbh
> One would most certainly require more calories if he/her started training

Not necessarily. Consider the calories you're burning carrying around fat or being inflamed or from a higher resting heart rate.
Nintendo uses bittrex in the plastic for their Switch cartridges to stop kids from swallowing them. Potentially this is more widespread in the SD card industry? (I don’t have any around me to test-lick unfortunately.)
Yes but fewer calories might also make you less productive at work. Might affect your reasoning and executive skills. They might also reduce your sex drive.

Not sure maximum age is what you want to optimize for unless there is more data.
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38831673
So what is the cutoff to say this works? Live to 130? 150?
For Hungary, there is another which shows freight trains and single locomotives, too: https://iemig.mav-trakcio.hu/
We have so much lower hanging fruit to tackle first that doesn’t even require research: what’s the point in extending your miserable life a couple more miserable years? Adding a decade on to your life of extreme privilege is worthwhile, but for the majority of people on earth, simply getting them on to a nutritious diet would do far more for their quality of life and their lifespan than slowing down aging ever could. So much human suffering is a result of policy, not lack of scientific understanding.

Slowing down aging is like going to space: it’s a fun complicated problem for nerds to think about but it is utterly meaningless to the quality of 99% of lives on earth.
*Cant predict the important things _yet_
Nothing, it was never practical to mail my credit card info to the US from a world away (not that anyone I knew had credit cards back then).
HTTPS is the method by which authority is proven.
The quizzical failure of a nudge on academic integrity education (2023)
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P.S. Just the other day, I ordered a new book from Thriftbooks ( for reasons) and it arrived in that cut to size thin but stiff sticky on one side cardboard, when two pieces are slapped together around the book. That seems to work rather well, and the title, a paperback, arrived in perfect shape.

It shipped from a Texas location, and I seem to recall one or two other books from them that were also shipped that way. And that at least one of those also came from a Texas location of theirs.
Yes but if we all just bent over to the status quo our entire lives we‘d still be living in caves
Agreeing with this: please track your protein and check it against your weight. You can eat quite a large excess of protein safely, so it's not a hard quota to hit (and if you're having trouble, protein powder is great as a booster in things - I have it with breakfast cereal to give me a morning kick).
You would still get that same very behavior whenever you try any Google website in a non chrome
This doesn't even have to happen maliciously. Even if it happens by accident, it can result in locking yourself out of a server.
What was your take on how to fix that regulatory mechanism?

(Also weird the use of word regulator for finance and other NGOs - but do they really adjust? What would a regulator that said “wow we are making too much profit this quarter, let’s slow down a bit boys we must be taking steam out of the rest of the economy”)
Gloriously useless :)
California is trying out something like this with their digital drivers license.

Basically, if you only want to verify age, you open the app in age verification mode. It will display your picture and a qr code but not your address and other sensitive info typically present on a drivers license. The participating* alcohol vendor then scans the qr code which only contains data like "over 21" and some sort of verification that the qr code isn't forged. I'm a bit hazy on how this last bit works but it really all pivots on how this bit is implemented. Could be good for privacy or a total nightmare.

*there are only 3 locations participating in this test phase, afaik
Well, I don’t see, say, medical doctors designing “protocols” taking dozens of pills every day.
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We all agree it would be bad to die at 40 if you could have lived to 60. By that logic, isn't it bad to die at 80 when you could have lived to 100? If you could do something to increase that probability, wouldn't that be a good thing? Good health also increases quality of life, independent of whether it extends lifespan.

To put it another way, pre-civilization life expectancy was somewhere around 30 years. Would it have been wise to say to someone who was trying to live to 60, "So what? We all knew we're going to die from the age of five or so. This is pointless."

I agree that sometimes these health protocols are excessive, and can be driven by fear of death, among other things. It's also uncertain how many years on average any given habit will add, and there are opportunity costs that need to be factored in. At the same time, I see this common knee-jerk response to dismiss any attempt to extend human life. Given the abysmal state of health of the average person, I think it's a good thing that some people are working on figuring out what contributes to optimal health.
Women voting. Black people voting. Saturday. A lot of changes happen and stick around afterwards.
> you're better off just consuming substantial amounts of complete protein

Except restriction of essential amino acids, as well as the total amount of protein, was consistently shown to improve health markers and longevity in many animal models, as well as in human epidemiological studies. It's not even news, the first evidence for methionine restriction in rodents dates to the early 90s.

I can't figure out what motivates some people to go online and assert their baseless suggestions with so much authority.

https://www.cell.com/article/S1043-2760(14)00127-1/fulltext

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39...

https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nya...

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(23)00374...
I think it makes sense. He's doing the most extreme things to find things that work. And then be able to say, "This subset of intervention worked very well, let's try to reproduce it in a larger population."
Regular stress in muscles maybe, assuming you allow them to recover properly. Repeated stress on support structures damages them. Running every day is terrible for your knees if you don't know how to run properly. Specifically if you overstride and land on your heels.
> Orthorexia Nervosa

"Orthorexia nervosa is not listed in the offical ICD-11 and DSM-V classifications of mental disorders" and "there is still no officially accepted definition of ON, or standardised criteria of its diagnosis" [1]. As such, it's difficult to characterise its prevalence.

You said "eating disorders are on the rise." That's not true outside a narrow cohort, and among them, there is no evidence it's driven by misguided pursuits of health. What we do have evidence of is increasing obesity.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8160773/
Searchlight BBS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searchlight_BBS

A friend actually ran the board but I paid for the software. I coded in Turbo Pascal and enjoyed the file format documentation that came with it and the TPU containing various user interface components that allowed you to write "Door" programs that mimic the BBS UI.

It was also particularly neat that Searchlight supported redirecting BIOS screen writes to remote users, allowing you to use any program that wrote to the screen thru the BIOS as a "Door", with the BBS handling the serial communication.

I had a ton of fun with it in the mid-90s. Then the Internet came along and killed it all off.
They basically killed off all the other minority languages they had in their country (like oxitan) and homogenised on standard French. Some irony in that.
That is absolutely disgraceful on the part of the accountants and programmers who should have been reconciling the cash vs sales. Over 13 years!
40% of the population is B12 deficient: https://eatingourfuture.wordpress.com/science-studies-vegan-...

So most people should supplement, not just vegans.
Something I wish Apple and Google would support is notifications that are only delivered if you’ve opened the app during the last 2 hours. Taxi and food delivery services for example have a reasonable usecase for push notifications, but only around the time when I’ve opened the apps.

I think adding such dials to the operating system could help align the user interest of not being spammed with the engagement metrics used to motivate the spamming a tiny bit.