> Dr Newman showed that the highest rates of achieving extreme old age are predicted by high poverty, the lack of birth certificates, and fewer 90-year-olds. Poverty and pressure to commit pension fraud were shown to be excellent indicators of reaching ages 100+ in a way that is ‘the opposite of rational expectations’.

Blue Zones absolutely destroyed.

After spending years on end doing functional programming I used to stumble when looking at for loops until I got used to thinking that way again. It's funny how different the skills are.

Lisp actually kind of sucks and the community is insufferable but a lot of good things in computer science are unachievable without lambda calculus. Compilers, type inferencing, Rust's borrow checker, some parts of React, async/await desugaring all flow from monk-like practice of the lambda calculus.

You could possibly invent these things as a Turing machinist but it'd be by stumbling backwards into them and likely doing a shitty job.

probably the best use of s-expressions is as an alternative to json which you can implement in 50 lines of code

e.g. pretty good for config files or basic serialization

> pretty good for config files

Case in point which suits well for config files; EDN - https://github.com/edn-format/edn

We're so close to realizing the answer was with us the entire time.

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The irony of these fancy FP languages that were designed to develop compilers or to get PL academics off is that they're actually also really good at the most mundane code imaginable.

Being able to minimize boilerplate and have strong refactoring and bug resistant types is a huge edge.

The only problem is their ecosystems are limited so you might spend more time than you like implementing an API or binding a system library.

Given this is "BBC Future" let me guess, barely above significance and n=16?

I'm unfamiliar with the subject. What's the problem with BBC Future?

Yes, chronically disturbed sleep is the obvious confounder and is well known to drop T and explains the observed small changes a lot better.

If human babies actually evolved to be the terrors they are in order to lower fathers testosterone levels/chill them out that would be wild.

> Not only does the US not respect the commitments it already agreed to, it hasn't done so for the past 10 or years.

These commitments were commitments by the administration in the White House at that time. They were not accords or treaties ratified by Congress. Agree with them or don't, they should have been understood as what they were: limited in legitimacy and free to be canceled by the next administration with no discussion.

This isn't a matter of arcane political skullduggery, it's spelled out in the US Constitution's definition of treaty, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2. The people were not formally heard.

The administration is administering the USA. It's the USA that commits. To other countries it does not matter what your internal rules are to what your country does.

A year ago I would have agreed but lately, when it comes to stuff linked off of HN, it's actually more likely to be clear and readable if it's AI written.

Is it more likely to be clear and reliable if it is AI-written, or are features associated (both directly and by correlation) with clear writing increasingly misperceived as “AI tells” because they are also favored in LLM training?

I don't find the LLM written stuff very readable because after one too many "real"s or "The X Dilemma" my brain shuts off. It's not even voluntary, it just does that on its own.