Hacker News: lokrian

New comment by lokrian in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

lokrian — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:09:23 +0000

Is AI also superior to humans at black box challenges and attacking actual targets on the internet? That seems like a really important question.

New comment by lokrian in "The role of Amazon fires in the record atmospheric CO₂ growth in 2024"

lokrian — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:48:32 +0000

A lot harder than just not burning it down in the first place.

New comment by lokrian in "Why teach calculus in the age of AI"

lokrian — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:11:17 +0000

The question I keep wondering about is why teach anything, or what exactly is worth teaching.

New comment by lokrian in "Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease"

lokrian — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:33:54 +0000

Please tell us what FDA approved medications Buffett has been on for the past 70 years that aren't available to the rest of us and have allowed him to cope with ice cream for breakfast every morning.

New comment by lokrian in "Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease"

lokrian — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 06:38:20 +0000

Some people seem to not just survive, but actually thrive on terrible, junk food diets, like the current president, or Warren Buffett (who eats ice cream and mcdonald's for breakfast and 2 liters of cherry coke every day, and is still alive at 95) https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-diet-2017-10

Diet really does seem to be one of those highly individualistic things, and I'm guessing humanity is in an evolutionary transition from paleolithic type diets to mcdonalds 3 times day, with different people having the genes to thrive on different things. You just have to see what works for you.

New comment by lokrian in "Pig lung transplanted into a human"

lokrian — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:59:43 +0000

What happened to the 3d printed organs I was promised a decade ago?

New comment by lokrian in "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study"

lokrian — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:05:50 +0000

Unions _can_ protect against this, but they have to do it via lobbying the government for protectionism, tariffs, restricting non-union competition etc.

New comment by lokrian in "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study"

lokrian — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:44:49 +0000

Maybe it's a good time to ask for advice. Which IT job roles and companies are least vulnerable to offshoring? Defense contractors and the like?

New comment by lokrian in "Review of Anti-Aging Drugs"

lokrian — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:09:50 +0000

A question - why hasn't Aubrey de Grey been more successful in getting some tech billionaire to fund his research agenda? He seems charismatic and smart, and had some promising ideas.

New comment by lokrian in "Review of Anti-Aging Drugs"

lokrian — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:41:42 +0000

A better question might be can we afford NOT to have life extension? Advanced economies all over the world are filling up with sick, elderly people who form a massive drain on the economy, and it's going to get much worse. Developing medical technologies that can keep them healthier and productive for longer is the one thing that can save us here.

New comment by lokrian in "Review of Anti-Aging Drugs"

lokrian — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 21:46:06 +0000

This is just another way of saying there have been no big advances in clinical anti-ageing. And that's probably because little serious effort is going into it, compared with say, military spending.

New comment by lokrian in "Review of Anti-Aging Drugs"

lokrian — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:04:22 +0000

People are still getting nerve damage from too much vitamin B6 in energy drinks and vitamin supplements, and that's a well known and widely taken vitamin. The idea that you can take experimental drugs your entire life at little risk is optimistic.

New comment by lokrian in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"

lokrian — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:48:11 +0000

Those businesses own all the social media, all the search engines, all the apps people discuss things on, and all the politicians.

New comment by lokrian in "Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable"

lokrian — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:08:30 +0000

While this is logical, the more diseases of old age we cure the longer and better the quality of life the elderly get, and treating amyloidosis is one small step towards that.

New comment by lokrian in "AI is wrecking a fragile job market for college graduates"

lokrian — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 02:48:33 +0000

Or it will lead to demand for massive government job programs, huge tax increases to pay for, free enterprise being smothered, everything being run by government bureaucrats.

New comment by lokrian in "Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused"

lokrian — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 02:39:03 +0000

At least one clinical trial is underway for a drug that can remove the plaques: https://www.lifespan.io/news/cyclarity-launches-human-trial-... But yeah, we badly need more companies doing more research in this space.

New comment by lokrian in "Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused"

lokrian — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:35:47 +0000

Yes, trying to fight cardiovascular disease by getting rid of cholesterol is like trying to fight rust in your car by getting rid of the metal parts.

New comment by lokrian in "Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis"

lokrian — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:29:16 +0000

Hopefully gene therapy can fix this sort of problem.

New comment by lokrian in "Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis"

lokrian — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:24:19 +0000

Why not just rescan them every few months to see if it's still growing? After all, you wouldn't have to rescan the full body, just the section where the growth is.