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> That is to say, I'm not clear that "beating aging" is what is required for "long life."

Ageing is not a perfectly understood process, so what it would mean to overcome aging wasn’t clear, and there was some hope decades ago that maximum human lifespans would just keep going up indefinitely as medicine slowly eliminated the various causes of death.

But now this research concludes what has been suspected for a while - that even under perfect conditions the average human lifespan isn’t going to hit 100. Even if you eat and exercise well and have the best medical treatment, and avoid all the other things that might kill you, ageing will get you.

The medical term for this is “mortality compression”, the idea that as we remove all the ways people die early, the ages of death for everyone end up being squashed up against a limit.

It will take significant breakthroughs in technology (probably some combination of gene therapy, cancer treatments and nanotechnology) to actually stop, or reverse aging.
As a FE dev I’m not surprised something does not work in Safari.

I love Apple but Safari is the new IE, it’s more and more common for feature to take x then fixes for Safari take x^2, it is a joke of a browser.
Cosign, Spenser and I are aligned on this :)
How does Fivetran use SQLMesh?
M5stack.com makes a whole bunch of ESP32 modules with display, enclosures, batteries, etc already integrated, and they're cheap and robust. You can get one with a built-in keyboard for $30.
It's about 9mm which is not that thick. It really does make a difference in how you can hold it one-handed and without accidentally touching the screen. Most phones and thin-bezel tablets need to be held very carefully.
> The same could be said for most/all startups. They all can be distilled into some simple implementation.

Hard disagree. There are lots of niches and businesses are complex. If everything was CRUD the people who are using no-code app builders would win against the ones who code, which hasn’t happened despite continuous attempts for 20-or-so years.

Now, I don’t know if GP is right, but assuming that it’s true (many prompt wrapping startups), then yes absolutely they are completely owned if they sit on top of an existing “platform” which can see everything they’re doing. That’s much worse even than selling IaaS on top of aws.

It was the same during the blockchain hype peak – you’d see lots of startups that forked some existing project and replaced the name of a token, and created a website to drive hype.
Just give me lockable cubicle please.
As a teacher, I love it.

I wish we could let each student and each teacher leave a 1-line comment on the other party that permanently goes on both peoples' records.
Out-of-distribution (OOD) problems present critical challenges in modern machine learning systems. As AI models are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, they often encounter data that differs significantly from what they were trained on. This can lead to unexpected and potentially dangerous failures . The field of OOD research encompasses several key areas:

OOD detection aims to identify when a model is presented with inputs that deviate from its training distribution. This allows systems to flag unusual cases for human review or fallback strategies.
OOD robustness focuses on maintaining reliable performance even when test data differs from training data in important ways.
OOD generalization seeks to develop models and techniques that can successfully extrapolate to novel domains and tasks without requiring retraining.
Together, these interconnected areas of research are crucial for building AI systems that are safe, reliable, and adaptable in open-world environments. Recent work has made significant progress, but major challenges remain in areas such as handling complex input spaces, scaling to large models, and providing theoretical guarantees, among others. Advancing the state-of-the-art in OOD machine learning is essential as AI becomes more pervasive in high-stakes domains like healthcare , autonomous vehicles , and critical infrastructure .
Great job, thanks for sharing.

Just noticed what company you did leave and I have even more respect for you.

Someone get this guy a job please.
Unless they force their employees to buy them, their share price will crater.
It's like people completely forget about the "A" in the CIA triad.
This talk of automation is all well and good for systems that are permanently connected to the internet.

Let's say I've got a system on a vessel that will be at sea for two months with unreliable, or no internet connectivity. I want to allow passengers and crew to use this system with their own devices.

What do I do then? Use self signed certs, and just tell users to click through the warnings?
As a user, I don’t care about x86 bloat or “baggage”, all I care about is how fast is it relative to its competitors and how stable is it for what I need it for. A lot of hardware people will be angry with that but I say let the market decide; if RISC V or ARM supplant it, great!
RSUs and other vesting should be (as in, it would be nice if they did) prorated in the event of a layoff (assuming layoff here means no-fault separation).
Oh, they did exactly that. Trying to pay elite users.

...but those anime Rommels are the 1000x pageview elites in Twitterland, and they practice religious anti-commercialism, so that fell apart instantly.
All those things you mention are almost certainly contributors. Another one for you to investigate if you'd like to get pissed off: endocrine-disrupting chemicals. They are everywhere and many of them are strongly tied to metabolic disorders including obesity.
Read-Copy-Update has been around for quite some time, but the fact that it was patent encumbered meant that its usage was limited. IBM made the patent available for use in the Linux kernel, and now that it is expired, the technique is being made available more widely to applications in userspace. This is just one of many possible approaches to making data structures more scalable through clever use of memory ordering.
> The comparatively small difference in screen real estate between an iPhone Pro Max and the iPad mini

Due to the aspect ratios, there are significant differences in viewable area. It is not a "small" difference at all. Once you add in the ability to deal with specific aspect ratio content, the difference becomes even larger.

https://displaywars.com/6,9-inch-d%7B19,5x9%7D-vs-8,3-inch-d...

> All in all, this device leaves me wondering who this is for?

Not for everyone I would suggest. But I have people in my circle who will be very pleased. As they use a Mini as their phone/portable machine out of the house. They have little keyboard cases and use VOIP services for communication.

> but perhaps people really start using iPads for productivity/creativity workloads

Part of the appeal for most people is the seamless usage of features and functionalities across their sweet of products. People expect to be able to pick up where they left of, and have access to the same functionality as they largely do on the rest of the devices.

It's nice even if something is not your primary productivity device, to be able to execute or perform things on them if that's what happens to be in front of you at the time.
If anyone knew how to get rid of all the speculation bugs, don’t you think they’d do so? What concretely are you proposing Intel and AMD do?
The article skirts around saying that not much damage is happening in two-shifting operation.

What kind of damage is expected? Is two-shifting a sacrificial operational mode that’s planned to see the coal be sunset in the next decade?
A slightly different point than the one I was making - I am saying out of reach for 99.9% of people no matter how much effort they put in. Even if they devoted their lives to the task, worked 60 hours a week on chess etc.
> You seemed to imply there wasn't any reason for limiting extensions if you trust the author.

That may be implied but the precedent is not important. The bigger consequent point I am trying to make is that there is no good reason for limiting extensions at all, and my reasoning for that will follow.

> you can easily be sabotaged by the most trusted color theme author.

Okay. Let's say that we solved the hypothetical issue of colour theme authors sabotaging their themes by requiring color themes to use a format that can't evaluate arbitrary code, only dictate UI options.

Now what about all of the other packages that aren't color themes, that do more useful things and require greater breadth of functionality? I am not trying to separate things into functional and non-functional, as it is futile to do so--there are an infinite number of separations between the degrees of utility packages have, and once you have "solved" the issue of their insecurity by restricting one class of them, there are always more. And every time you do this you only degrade the freedom and extensibility of the entire system; you do not gain anything by it, you only lose.

This phenomena can be explained because it's really an application of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. For any program running on any computer, it will always be possible to induce conditions that the program was never designed to handle. Thus it is my belief that the entire field of computer security is really a joke, and anyone who sacrifices freedom for safety ultimately ends up with neither.

In practical terms a bit of security is useful, however Emacs is not the kind of program that benefits from it. It is not useful to waste time reasoning about which methods of security should be applied to a text editor. If you were using Emacs to run an air traffic control system then this type of thinking might make sense, but not as a reasonable or common case.
Yes this is what I meant. Sorry I was being lazy at the keyboard
Because the "fork" still relied on the presence of the included distutils.
100% accurate except for the “or.”
Do not Disturb mode on to disable notifications

Self control to not get distracted

I don't get this whole "Too many distractions" shtick. If you don't have the self control to swipe away from your book to sneak in a round of Angry Birds, you'll probably end up pulling your phone out every 2 minutes to check your Reddit feed
I used to play MUDs, MUCKs and MUSHes, for several decades. Naturally, once they incorporated programming languages, a few players ventured to write bots. (For my part, I implemented Conway's "Game of Life", which was synchronous and notorious for freezing up the server.)

One highly successful bot had an extensive inventory of reactions, triggers, actions, and absurd nonsensical sayings. He was quite beloved. I'm not sure that I was ever able to peek at the source code, but it was surely complex and expanded over many years of development. This bot was imbued with such perspicacious insight and timing that we often treated it as a sentient player in its own right. Indeed, it became one of the most prolific chatters we had, along with yours truly.

Another time, one of our players went on vacation, call him "J"; and to fill the void, someone created "Cardboard J". And it was a very simplistic automatic bot, just loaded with one or two dozen sayings, but it was hilarious to us, because it captured the zeitgeist of this player, who didn't role-play and wasn't pretentious about his character; he just played himself.

Other players were known to keep extensive log files. I believe that sometimes the logs were published/leaked to places like Twitter, at least the most dramatic ones. I was involved in at least two scandals that were exposed when logs came to light.

I can only imagine what it'd be like to interact with a chatbot trained on me for the past 30 years!
This is all lies. I use Claude and it's just not good enough to 100x productivity.

Update: I think this is an ad by Anthropic
Prediction: AI Stock Will Outperform Nvidia over the Next Decade
It sounds like it's a mixed bag. It'll be quite difficult to transition to renewables before storage projects like Snowy Hydro 2.0 are complete, and an increased service life really just means an increased service life before we need to pay for an expensive infrastructure project the cost of which companies will try to recoup, so a longer lifespan might actually cause the plants to shut down sooner.
Yet people are running games[0] on their MILK-V Jupiter boards, using the same discrete GPUs that you would on an x86 system.

Meantime, companies such as PowerVR or ARM are funding their own open source mesa3d drivers.

0. https://box86.org/blog/
Sorry that my requests to stick to reality are seen as an attemtp to, "Control the discussion".

No evidence based medical treatment has ever been improved (reasonable definitions like longevity and real metrics like numbers) by making it religious. The same goes for every human endeavor, religion taints and drags.

At its core religion is belief before evidence and that simply isn't a path to long term progress.
If it were possible to do so, I would possibly buy this as my new "phone":

- I almost never hold my phone to my ear
- I don't need the dual-lens features of the new iPhones
- Standby battery life seems up to the challenge
- Apple doesn't offer the iPhone Mini anymore, which is what I'm carrying now. If I'm going bigger, why not actually go BIGger.

Things holding me back:

- Not actually sure about the battery life
- As far as I know you can't transfer your actual phone line to a Mini
Thank you! Was about to ask for axis labels as well. I assumed seconds but I had some doubts because there were no labels!
They also restricted themselves to a subset of his stories; branch out beyond Jeeves and you find the school stories, the social commentary, and more.

From 50,000 feet they do look somewhat similar, but they're not.
Why product owner? (Perhaps rather not say team lead?)

Are these deeply technical product owners? Which ones would be best to make this decision and which less?
Building a cloud-native TSDB based on ASF projects in Rust
I think you are underestimating how many times slower processors would be without any speculation at all. It would mean having to wait dozens of cycles on every branch so you can know whether it was taken before executing the next instruction, for example.
Really smells like one of those “some alcohol is healthier than none” things where there’s a subset of the otherwise-healthiest group that’s in the otherwise-healthiest group because they’re very sick.
(This was obviously not aimed at you, but at the VCs who have been trying this for the last 30 years)
Internet Archive Services are "temporarily offline"
I have a feeling people are overthinking the whole "we need to have a moat" and really the best moat you can have until you're a multi-million/billion dollar business is your craftsmanship (as silly as it sounds).

Good UI/UX is still the edge as technology becomes more of a commodity.
thats like doing tinder instead of talking to users and building it
It could be that there is something making our leaders mentally ill, or it could be that only the mentally ill think that they should be leaders.
Neat! How is this different than domaintools/farsight [1]?

Passive DNS [2] has been in my toolbox for 15+ years, and is invaluable for security research / threat intelligence. Knowing historical resolutions to something are so helpful in investigations.

For anyone interested, they should check out the talk by one of the DomainTools people [3] on how it can be utilized for investigation.

Are you passively collecting this data, or actively querying for these records?

[1] - https://www.domaintools.com/products/threat-intelligence-fee...

[2] - https://www.circl.lu/services/passive-dns/

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmapqLkZd0
That’s the exact opposite conclusion of this paper.

“Our analysis also revealed that resistance to improvements in life expectancy increased while lifespan inequality declined and mortality compression occurred.”
To be fair, Chess.com said that they had identified 24 other GMs who they believed had cheated (who they declined to name). His cheating may have been more normal than is comfortable. It's entirely possible Carlsen was on that list; we just don't know.

Niemann seems like a jerk, but he's also just a kid. He was 19 at the time of the controversy. I've sure grown a lot since I was 19.
To RISC-V, due to its licensing.

ARM is yet another dead end.
> even Nvidia has finally given up on their closed source GPU drivers.

lol. No. They just added a CPU and then offloaded all the closed source userspace driver code to it leaving behind the same dumb open sourceable kernel driver shim as before (ie instead of talking to userspace it talks to the GPU’s CPU).

> The past 30 years of the Linux kernel's evolution has proven that there is no need for a stable kernel ABI.

What the last 30 years have shown is that there is actually a need for it, otherwise DKMS wouldn’t be a thing. Heck, intel’s performance profiler can’t keep up with the kernel changes which means you get to pick running an up to date kernel or be able to use the open source out-of-tree kernel module. The fact that Linux is alone in this should make it clear it’s wrong. Heck Android even wrote their own HAL to try to make it possible to update the kernel on older devices. It’s an economics problem that the Linux kernel gets to pretend doesn’t exist but it’s a bad philosophical position. It’s possible to support refactoring and porting to new platforms while providing ABI compatibility and Linux is way past the point where it would even be a minor inconvenience - all the code has ossified quite a bit anyway.
I came to say the same thing. Ours is above our back sliding glass door which is about 8’ wide. Does a great job keeping the room cool in the summer.
Have you been asked "why do we never have the time to do it right, but always time to do it twice?"
Maybe I'm weird, but I don't mind having a bit of bezel around the screen. It makes the device easier to grab without extra touches or fingerprints on the screen. It's also a good place for cameras and front-facing speakers. (Although I don't think any iPad has front facing speakers.)
It's still useful because it provides some information. Specifically, a change in life expectancy, or a change in the rate of change in life expectancy (as here) means something. We just don't necessarily know what that something is without further study.
> It should be ++C because with C++ the value you get from the expression is the old one.

You get it!
You will never be able to tell how you wouldn’t change had you not tried these. But I feel the same as you and I still feel the impact of my only LSD trip I had over 15 years ago like it just happened over the last weekend. However, I know someone who tried LSD for a year here and there every other weekend and I could tell that they incurred some dammage in their brain. They’ve grown in a way but feel fragmented and a bit broken in some other way.
Also the nut being hit is restrained by the string whereas the hitting nut can go in any direction or simply rebound. Cracks may start at the hole in which case being hit is worse than hitting on average.
Well its not that they couldn't do it but the iPad has always had bezels and the apps are expecting bezels not thumb rejection. They could be but they're not built with an on screen safe area.
but its not really photoshop either because its targeting vector based graphics, whereas Photoshop is mainly raster-based.

I'm not up on Adobe (I use InkScape which is sort of the default open-source / free alternative) but I guess Adobe Illustrator is the closest analogue here.
Yes, LCDs are made as giant sheets that are cut into panels. They will want to cut those sheets in a way to ensure the least amount of waste as possible. They are not making them completely arbitrary sizes.
this looks really promising. I'm missing the old days of PSP to dr up some image for meme fun etc. This looks like it'd do the job.
I own a Concept 2 rowing machine; I have detailed stats on every workout going back 19 years, and for the last 7 years or so I have heart rate info as well.
I think OrbitDB [1] is the closest we have to a functional version of this right now? Unsure, but the concept is really cool!

[1]: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbitdb/blob/main/docs/GETTING_ST...
I wonder -- does the iPhone have to be on a service plan? Or is wifi good enough?
In that case the first six years of iPhone models were also minis. None were cancelled due to low sales. The original SE was also not cancelled due to low sales, it continued to sell extremely well for years after its release. Apart from the 12/13 minis, the only model that had low sales was the 5C, which is actually a little larger than the 5S.

The rule for the SE is that it always has the design of second most recent hardware design, regardless of size.

If Apple re-introduces a mini, that will be the first such 'cycle.'
> As great as modern insulation is at keeping hot and cool separate, a modern insulated wall doesn't cool it's surroundings like a high thermal mass wall would.

Why does modern insulation hold less thermal mass? Is it just that trapped air has less mass than stone?
Flipper Zero was banned in at least one country: Brazil.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/flipper-zero-devices-b...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brazil-seizin...
That's a really good idea. Thanks
'I decided to imitate this outburst of human creativity with AI. Wow!' is a great way to stop getting invited to parties (with humans).
I guess "large" has a bit of wiggle room built in.
I think it’s the same mentality as “change all your passwords every 6 months”, just a useful principle “change your password if you think you need to” because a ridiculous rule of thumb and hammer slap everything is a nail. A reasonable rule like “update your cert at least once a year” becomes “by extension wouldn’t updating your cert once a month better?”
The product owner often isn’t technical enough, or into the technical weeds enough, to be able to asses how long it might take. You need the technical experience to have a feeling of the effort/risk/benefit profile. You also may have to start going down the hole to assess the situation in the first place.

The product owner can decide how much time would be worth it given a probable timeline, risks and benefits, but the experienced developer is needed to provide that input information. The developer has to present the case to the product owner, who can then make the decision about if, when, and how to proceed. Or, if the developer has sufficient slack and leeway, they can make the decision themselves within the latitude they’ve been given.
No. Screen sizes come in whatever size Apple orders them in.
In hot areas, even the shade of rooftop solar panels can make a substantial difference inside a building. And there's the ultra low tech method of just planting more shade trees.

Unfortunately with most US build tract housing, there's not enough room between most houses to provide dedicated shade by most any method. I wonder if shade between the roof gaps between houses would be useful.
This weekend I was in a small early-20th century home with marvelous cross ventilation - they hardly need anything else. I assumed it was a happy accident of the design, but now I wonder if it was intentional.
The prior rumours that Jim Keller had AMD develop the K10 core with the option of using an ARM front end would have created an extremely interesting way to compare the merits of the 2 instruction sets. x86 has constraints that make it far more programmer friendly than ARM (weak memory ordering models make my brain hurt!), yet performance has been pushed ahead through techniques that were only dreamed of decades ago. I really wonder what Intel and AMD could come up with using the ARM64 instruction set combined with the knowledge gained from decades of pushing x86 and x86-64 to the limit.
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