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Show HN: You will die in X weeks
- aoveri 7y agoThe contemplation of death is a necessary exercise for a well-rounded mind. All the better that it's now available with a slick UI.
- shahahmed 7y agoI built an interactive visualization that shows you how many weeks of life you have left. Seeing the finiteness of life definitely helps me stop procrastinating!
- this-pony 7y agoIt gives me mostly anxiety
- cybwraith 7y agoI like it! I think it should also add in "If you commute 2 hours/day, 5 days per week, you'll spend X weeks sitting in a car."
- Agentlien 7y agoI like that idea, though I'd probably word it differently. Personally, I do spend 2 hours a day 5 days a week commuting. However, I don't commute by car.
- the_af 7y agoSomehow that's more depressing than the 1500 weeks spent sleeping. At least sleeping is (for the most part) a restorative/enjoyable part of life. Commuting to work is hell.
- sethammons 7y agoThe classic example is that you will spend over a full month of working hours putting on socks. Some assumptions: living 91 years, taking 30s a day to deal with socks, and work days being around 8hrs.
- xwdv 7y agoIt was cool but by the time I got to the part of people’s accomplishments I felt utterly worthless and left. God damn, I haven’t accomplished much of anything in my life except writing code and accumulating money to spend on making more money.
- khazhou 7y agoYeah, that part kinda frustrated me. The boxes highlight, e.g., that Simone Biles and Michael Phelps has world records in their teens... so what exactly is the takeaway? I'm happy for them, I'm not sad about myself for it -- it's just random trivia. Unclear message.
- GFischer 7y agoYou're beating most of us. I've done nothing but write code and accumulate debt..
- ljm 7y agoIf you can take your mind off the comparison bit (I think it’s unfortunate they put that there) and look at what’s made you happy so far, then the result might be quite interesting. I’ve been doing a different version of this sort of activity for a while to help with depression. E.g The first time I travelled alone or moved country might not impress anyone else, but they’re certainly pivotal moments in my own development. I think we’ll all have our own examples, and we can quite often be dismissive of them.
- taurath 7y agoFwiw it’s simulateneously comparing you with the biggest .0001% outliers in recent human history.
- starshadowx2 7y ago"On average, women get 364 weeks of life than men" I think this should say "364 more weeks".
- ASalazarMX 7y agoSurprising how little 7 years sound in weeks.
- zepto 7y agoThis is why there is a tradition of skull watches: https://www.watches.com/blog/skull-watches-over-time/ https://www.watches.com/blog/skull-watches-over-time/
- throwaway_bad 7y agoThis is not an original idea: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html But I don't see credits anywhere.
- sunir 7y agoYou don’t need to credit anyone. It isn’t a school paper. And no death clocks are an older idea than this webpage.
- khazhou 7y agoA random article from 5 years ago doesn't own this concept.
- JansjoFromIkea 7y agoyou seem to be assuming it's such an utterly genius idea that they had to have stolen it as opposed to just coming up with it by themselves
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- NickNaraghi 7y agoThe other responses to this comment seem oddly defensive to me. I was thinking the same thing - in particular, the format and the connection to famous milestones are similar in a way that's uncanny.
- DrKabab 7y agoYep. Something fishy about got defensive the replies are. Besides, its not just an idea from a "random inter Blog from 6 years ago", Tim Urban also shows it in his popular Ted(x) talk
- sunir 7y agoIt's Hacker News. It's not defensiveness; it's a check on social norms to remain positive. For business ideas, originality is great, but execution is everything. For hacker ideas, originality is great, but the hack value is everything. There's nothing gained by poo-pooing someone else's fun little project. Be positive, encourage more hacking, encourage more people building things.
- coolspot 7y agoWould be nice to have lines representing decades. Also I doubt 91 year lifespan.
- kangnkodos 7y agoDoes this give everyone a 91 year expected life span? If so, it could be more accurate if it took your current age into account. Older people who have already dodged a lot of chances to die are expected to live to an older age, on average. Younger people are expected to die at a younger age, on average.
- dysoco 7y agoYeah no way I'm getting depressed on a Friday afternoon
- html5web 7y agoJust try it. It’s something you do not expect :)
- nathankunicki 7y agoIt's exactly what I expected, and I regret trying it.
- taurath 7y agoIts what I expected, and even worse because you get to compare your life against the milestones of the greatest accomplishments in recent human history.
- gyvastis 7y agoYou could make the memorable pop-ups on hover instead of on click. It would make it faster than trying to find that small rectangle you're supposed to click.
- d--b 7y ago> There's nothing quite like contemplating the finiteness of life to help you to stop procrastinating. I had the total opposite thought. Seeing this makes me realize how stupid it is to toil one's life away for a career
- ninju 7y agoI believe they are implying that 'procrastinating' is the same thing as 'toiling one's life' away
- xwdv 7y agoThere’s not much of a point to life, so you might as well choose to be happy and chase after pleasurable stimuli. The silver lining to toiling at a career is that it gives you the funding to chase greater and greater stimuli and with less effort. As long as you keep your body healthy the climax of your life will be that much greater. If your career is not doing that for you come up with a new strategy or get a new career, but never change the goal.
- winter_blue 7y agoFair point. (Basically, if you have the financial means, live the best life you can. Don't toil it away on non-meaningful stuff.)
- taurath 7y agoTrigger warning for anyone with depression or anxiety - this will more than likely make you feel like crap.
- cagenut 7y agoYou can always tell those links, they start with "http".
- RandomGuyDTB 7y agosometimes they start with an "https" too
- Ancalagon 7y agoSeriously, talk about existential crisis :(
- smegmasamurai 7y agocan confirm - have both - feel like crap
- ASalazarMX 7y agoOTOH, I picked 1930-01-01 and it says 48 weeks left. Be glad you're not from 1930.
- drharby 7y agoSome sort of death clock?
- the_af 7y agoSome years ago there was a similar "death clock" site which everyone at the office was sharing. When I opened it, it predicted I had more or less a month to live. Yes, yes, for a minute I didn't get the joke. I'm dumb :P
- buboard 7y agoMaan, can you please give me the exact date so i can make arrangements?? Also, does this take into account leap years? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON8cTi5NSMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON8cTi5NSMc
- munherty 7y ago"If it takes 50 weeks to become advanced at any skill, you can learn about 44 new skills during your career or 64 if you include retirement. Might as well pick something for this week" This last statement really stood out to me. Especially as someone who has been feeling like theyre are late to the career phase of life.
- smsm42 7y ago50 weeks seems too low. Even if you're going all-in "do nothing but this" I have hard time believing you can go from "no idea" to mastery in less than a year in most subjects.
- ASalazarMX 7y agoAdvanced, not master. The low hanging fruit is going from novice to intermediate, progressing to advanced requires more effort, and mastering is the really difficult part.
- _bxg1 7y agohttps://youtu.be/ON8cTi5NSMc?t=75 https://youtu.be/ON8cTi5NSMc?t=75
- z3ugma 7y agoCurious why this seems to make a record in a database with an autoincrement ID for each sumbission(https://www.failflow.com/die/1102 https://www.failflow.com/die/1102). Try putting a number <1500 at the end of the URL to see some strangers' answers.
- shahahmed 7y agoHello - it's not an auto-increment, that's the number of weeks calculated from your birthday til today. You can try it with 3000 to see what it looks like.
- wbrando 7y agoThe section at the end displaying famous figures and their milestones seems a little bit counterintuitive, at least from a certain perspective. If the goal is to get visitors to stop procrastinating, it's pretty disheartening to display that information and make the visitor realize they've likely done nothing in their life by comparison.
- excessive 7y agoI prefer looking at in months. If you make a grid 36 across and 30 tall, those are the months of a 90 year life. Much easier for me to fit in my head.
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