skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An American man of 72 in average health has a mean life expectancy of 85, but that stretches to 97 for 72 year olds in the 95th percentile. So this Congressman might be staring down 25 years or a quarter of his life at the age of 72. That’s a long time to be relaxing. Good for him.
>It’s existential dread about existential dread…so very meta.

Is that the definition of a mid-life crisis?

I'll see you in a decade and a half, I guess. :)
I think "plant-based" is a better term than "vegan". "Vegan" describes a person or food. "Plant-based" can only describe the food—you wouldn't say "Bob is plant-based", you'd say "Bob eats plant-based food."

If you order "vegan buffalo wings" you're attaching yourself to the vegan subculture and the baggage that comes along with that. Ordering "plant-based buffalo wings" just means you're ordering cauliflower.
I should've put an emoticon. It was a play on the old saying about trying to censor on the Internet. In this case, it was trying to "shut down the Internet", and "the Internet" popped right back on.
There was a paper recently showing that small scale allotments have higher yield then conventional farming. The suggesting is that it was the high labour approach, including high crop diversity that increased the yield. It's this sort of thing that robots can do: run large farms like small scale allotments, with all the environmental benefits that would bring.
Going with The Meme[0], Constantine XI[1] was the last Byzantine emperor until his death and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The line of succession, ignoring dead empires and bought titles, is supposedly brother (Thomas) > nephew (Andreas, son of Thomas) > niece (Zoe, sister of Andreas) > Grand Prince of Moscow (Ivan III, through marriage with Zoe) > Tsar of the Russian Empire (grandson of Ivan III)

[0] https://i.imgur.com/tolQ9ih.png
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_XI_Palaiologos
It's even problematic in theory. If there's more open jobs than applicants, the jobs will absorb (filled) applicants pretty fast, and they won't have more chance to apply more.
It’s an interesting idea but how would you define simple. Would be pretty sad to lay down your tiles but find out your word wasn’t “simple” enough.
The statistics in that article are of the "damned lies" variety: none of the values are normalized (they compared simple number of cancellations and delays without taking that as a per flight value, or perhaps better, per passenger) and they treat all delays (and cancellations) as equal; I'll take an airline often delayed by 5 minutes over an airline sometimes delayed by 3 hours.

Perhaps it's true nonetheless, but the numbers there won't tell you.

(And IME, it's perhaps true that SWA is often delayed … but by tolerable amounts. Compared to delays I've endured with Delta, where, e.g., a flight was delayed longer than the time it would take the plane to drive at highway speeds, from where it was coming from. Or … also Delta … where I was cancelled on twice in the same flight. They wanted to go 0-3 but I gave up and bought a ticket on … SWA.)
I applaud your accuracy when measuring your kids' temperature. My approach when figuring out if my kids are sick is if their temperature is "high" and their general appearance and conditition is out of the ordinary. The exact decimal of the temperature doesn't matter too much by itself.
The solution is the automation of low wage jobs. I fail to understand why they still exist in the developed world. When will we make that shift..and eliminate them entirely?
Tbh this is guy must be quite an exception. He is literally doing the wrong thing, the market (really...just suppliers) have decided hype is the thing, basically sign on to promoters and publishers (in the tech space, the equivalent are advertizers) and shoe-horn feeding other suppliers every dollar you can in hope you can make it back. It's no longer actually just "sell a product," you have to join this system of apps that you can fit ads in every tiny gap on the screen you can fine, because this is profitable.

Except it really wasn't, as this story says, at least for books. People apparently just want to buy books, and if you sell them books, may be they'll buy them.

I don't know, I wish other types of companies (ahem, game companies) figure this out, you can make money without trying to be genshin impact. I'm really convinced the current tiktok/influencer/advertizer mindset that tries to ring people's brains dry really isn't that profitable in situations other than exceptions, it's essentially just groupthink and bandwagoning where people are chasing one off successes, whereas being boring (just selling a product) can be pretty profitable.
Depends what "worked" means. Is your country that much richer, e.g., higher GDP per head than most countries? By some other measures?

Different societies might chose different objective functions and then comparing what works is tricky. Especially, if being around in a certain cultural form isn't a strong part of the objective.
Apple Maps has this mode at least when picking a route. It usually gives a fastest and a fewer-turns option.

I’ve also found their turn by turn directions less stressful to follow than google maps because they announce like a human codriver not like you’re an AI. At least a few years ago it felt like Google Maps didn’t do the whole “go through this light then at the next one turn left”, which is easier than a last minute “turn left now!!”
NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
Workbench PC with a 50s Twist
It's unfortunate that so many companies are staying private so late. The employees are trapped in their equity positions, the values of these companies has no price discovery, and non-insider investors have no opportunity to invest in these possibly high-growth young companies.

I've heard that this is an unintended side-effect of Sarbanes-Oxley, does anyone have any insight?
The other benefit is not requiring monocultures. The robot could deal with individual plants. Imagine having non-crop nitrogen fixers interleaved within a normal crop. It might not work in practice, but these are the sorts of things that start to be possible.
I don't check ID or run sanctions checks when I hire a photographer or cleaner, do you?
I'm personally forced to use Mac like many others in order to account for 28% iOS mobile market share. There are two truths which kinda make this unpreventable

You can only build iOS apps in XCode

You can only do USB-debugging for iOS Safari on Mac, and they made it so buggy so you HAVE to debug all these inconsistencies with WebKit.

Apparently good job from Apple to secure Mac's positions, but generally each year MacOS feels more and more "abadonware", a lot of stuff doesn't get fixed for years while new touch-y features come in. It certainly feels that they don't make as much money from it as from iOS, and ideally they wanna merge this stuff removing the line between iPads and MacBooks
Wait, people are selling off Stripe? I know they called off the IPO and a lot of customers seem to be upset lately (given all the HN posts), and they had layoffs, but the fundamentals seem much stronger for Stripe than the other companies on this list. Maybe I should buy some of those secondary shares…
TBH, it won't make a difference, I have all that I want here.

A house, parents, friends etc.

Extra money won't offer much apart from future safety.
Although I question how you think your freedoms are going to be robbed by the men quoted in the article, everything you've said is just as applicable to government. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance" as the saying goes.
ChatGPT gives a pretty good answer to this (whether it's accurate is another story):

===

Yes, it is possible to use the ChatGPT model to generate text based on a private dataset. However, keep in mind that the ChatGPT model was trained on a large public dataset and may not be well-suited for generating text based on a small private dataset without further fine-tuning.

To use ChatGPT with a private dataset, you will need to follow these steps:

Preprocess your data and split it into training and evaluation sets.
Fine-tune the ChatGPT model on your training data using a library or framework like Hugging Face's Transformers. This involves specifying the model architecture, defining a loss function and an optimizer, and training the model on your data.
Evaluate the fine-tuned model on your evaluation data to see how well it performs.
If the model's performance is not satisfactory, you may need to adjust the model architecture, training parameters, or the data itself to improve the model's performance.

Fine-tuning the ChatGPT model on a private dataset can be a complex task that requires programming skills and some knowledge of machine learning. If you are a non-programmer, you may want to consider using a turn-key solution like Hugging Face's API, which allows you to fine-tune and use language models like ChatGPT without having to write any code.

Alternatively, you could consider using a chatbot platform like Dialogflow or Botpress, which allow you to build chatbots without programming knowledge by providing a graphical user interface for defining chatbot interactions and integrating them with various messaging platforms. However, keep in mind that these platforms may not offer the same level of customization and flexibility as a self-hosted solution like ChatGPT.
"Dotting" into some property or method for ruby works noticeably slower than for any other language I've ever tried, same for autocomplete.
For people who want to reduce meat consumption for environmentalist reasons, being strictly vegan would sometimes do more harm than good (e.g. almond "milk" involves more CO2 emissions than milk). So the concept of a meal that doesn't include large amounts of meat, without necessarily being vegan, is a valuable one.
When I grew up I've always been told that the "normal" temperature is 36.6 C, which is much closer to the value from this article than 37 C.
> leaving the older, less physically able

At a guess, just out of interest, how old do you reckon Paen and Tawan are here [1] as they drop a tree and process it to make Sago?

That's physically demanding work with a lot of prep (weaving mats, strainers etc).

Hunter/gathers/agrarians typically work until they drop and take care of children through extended overlapping family, not to mention taking children out to gather and dig from the get go from being carried before they can walk to having them follow along and help as soon as they are upright.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VomE4GN9Z6I
My point isn't the competition, it is the fact that there is a physical decline with age that no amount of training can offset, which you can observe if you compare to a 20yo. I think it is the same with the brain. And like for every large population it is a distribution, there are always outliers. But not many.
This is what I came to say. When I was a teen my body ran hot, so hot people used to even comment at times it felt like I had heat coming off me. My normal temps were in the low 99.

Now, as an adult, my metabolism nosedived. I barely feel like eating once a day. It's not abnormal to get temps in the 96s, though that could just be the cheap covid thermometers.
It might be to do with the remaining durations of some kinds of UK (and US) copyrights counting down from the death of the author. (I don't know whether those rules were in place during Conan Doyle's life, but his copyrights might have been retroactively extended.)

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyrig...
My comment is not gatekeeping at all. Good for the congressman. I'm just of the opinion that the mention of the age isn't really that big of a deal. "Person goes to university" isn't exactly a remarkable headline. Getting a master's at 72 is rare not because of gatekeeping but because it's just not common, for a myriad of reasons.

My overall opinion is more of: getting the master's degree is just not worth it over taking classes unless he has a need for the degree, and I have the same opinion for myself and others at a much younger age.
It was French, and Nigel Richards is not American but from New Zealand.
But why doesn't the menu say "cauliflower wings" with some "V" icon or leaf icon next to it?

I will never understand why parts of the vegan movement need to disguise foods as something else. Vegetables are good!
GP made dittytoy.
This WSJ post & HN thread offered more information about that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165791
Crazy swing in the prediction market: https://manifold.markets/MP/will-twitter-suffer-a-major-outa...
a. other airlines will charge for baggage

b. other airlines will advertise prices that don't exist: it'll be the base price for the seat, but all (remaining) seats will be of the upcharged variety, so you can't pay the base price.

When you make the adjustments to compare apples-to-apples prices, SWA's get a bit closer. (But I do think SWA does tend to not be the cheapest, unless they're having a sale.)

I actually prefer the per-flight¹ pricing, too. That's what I'm buying: two flights.

¹IIRC, the pricing is per-flight, not per-leg/segment. (But it isn't, as you say, round-trip.)
Similar story via the staff unions: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/12/28/sou... ( https://archive.ph/STwMR )
I wonder if dominos on a scrabble board, or something like that, could be fun. Anything to replace the spelling. The game described in the article:

> There is something magical, however, about realizing how to play Scrabble even one step above beginner: using the bonus spaces, creating overlapping words, hitting your first bingo. You also learn how to play defense.

> The first time you realize that your opponent is stuck with the Q and you make a crucial play to deny her the legal two- word layup QI, securing yourself the victory, well— that’s magic.

almost sounds like a fun game about territory control or something, but I’m not about to memorize a bunch of random letter combinations to play it.
Exactly, and I think the same context will become associated with "plant-based" if it is consistently used as a substitute for "vegan".
So it’s pretending to be an average human, and the average human gets it wrong a lot? I wonder if you can improve coding results by telling it to act as an expert programmer?
I think it's a shame that 'vegetarian' has come to mean 'lacto-ovo vegetarian' in the vernacular. Now, 'plant-based' generally takes the position in language that 'vegetarian' should occupy.

To be clear, there is also a distinction between 'plant-based' and 'vegan' in that the latter has ethical implications. If making a product caused animal suffering, but that product wasn't made from any animal products, then I'd argue it would be plant-based and not vegan.

As someone who has these ethical concerns, these distinctions are important to me, even if they're not to most people.
Aren't cases like this is where the automated solvers are expected to shine?

If, on the other hand, it's not at all about software failures as many comments here suggest ("company management lost track of crews" notion), then does it have something to do with software at all?
Not venacular in which countries though?

Eg: I'm Australian and instantly thought "that'd be a paring knife ..", and yes, that appears to be what it is.
> It's criminal to evade sanctions for a reason.

It’s criminal to evade them as a citizen of the sanctioning country. That might be a lot of countries, it might also be only the world police USA.
I recently became vegan, and I compare it to being straight-edge (i.e. not taking drugs). I don’t think there is a moral aspect to taking drugs, and I disagree with the way straight-edge people invent one and talk down to people who take drugs.

However, I do think there is a moral aspect to using animal products when other options exist. But, I also wasn’t vegan for most of my life, so I don’t think it’s for me to tell other people they are immoral, because that probably won’t get me very far in convincing them.

Not sure if anyone else has had any thoughts like this, I’d be interested to hear how they reconciled this in their own minds, it’s still unresolved for me personally.
Those are really edge cases. What is certain is that if everyone were vegan, our CO2 emissions would be way way lower
I come back from time to time to the thought of how exactly to define the threshold where games are fun while you're still improving. I hate playing with people who take the experience professionally, but having some strategy involved is definitely fun.
I'm reading 12m3 as "twelve cubic meters"
you got a source for that claim, chief?
I don't think "Western culture" can have much meaning going back more than 2 or 3 millennia at the most. And I suspect that's true of every identifiable culture around the globe, at least the large and complex ones--smaller, isolated ones may be more stable. Go back to the first millennium BC and you can find the roots of Western culture in Northern India, Persia, the Middle East, North and even Central Africa, and elsewhere at least as much as they can be found in Europe. And vice-versa--Buddhist and Hindu religious sculpture, for example, was strongly influenced by Greek art. If you're looking across 10,000 years, the histories of much of Eurasia and Africa are intertwined in ways that make our modern categories useless.

OTOH, an argument could be made that an expansive definition of "Western culture" could be inclusive of much of Eurasia and Africa, especially when you look at major religions. Though they often have wildly different answers, most of them are asking similar questions--e.g. the problem of evil. To find cultures (or clusters of cultures or what have you) which consistently ask fundamentally different questions you have to go further afield.
Disclaimer: I’m the author of this article.

No, the iteration count is no secret. It’s even exposed via a public API, anyone can query it if they know the email address.
And? That's all great, but it's not common. And the congressman seems to intend to remain a congressman.

I don't think it's too late for anything, within reason, but I also don't think it's a massive problem in society that the congressman's late age is mentioned.
>One example is the loss of freedom to own what we buy. We have been slowly moving towards to future where we own nothing, and merely lease stuff. Smartphones are kind of already there - utterly locked down, with a walled garden of apps. Cars too are moving in that direction.

What does that have to do with the article?

Also... insofar as this is something people want, the market should provide it, no? Nothing prevents you from building your own PC that runs linux.

Cryptocurrency has been huge. VPNs are a huge business. Nothing prevents you from deleting your Facebook account. Mastodon is blowing up.

I think what you're discussing is pretty much orthogonal to the topic. Thiel (mentioned in the article) has been a big cryptocurrency proponent, for example.
Banks pushed deeper into the cloud in 2022
fpcupdeluxe will automate the process of installing a working Lazarus/FPC environment. You can just click through, as the defaults are fine.

https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpcupdeluxe
Nothing to do with Sarbanes-Oxley, although that was a popular talking point a decade ago. It's entirely the market.

All of the companies in this article could/should have gone public in 2021. They simply missed their window.
I fly all the time and SW is usually more expensive than American.

And that’s why they refuse to share their prices with Expedia and Google Flights. If people could more easily compare prices, Southwest would lose a lot of sales.
TSMC starts volume production of 3nm chips in Taiwan
So a tomato picked by a trained monkey would be plant-based but not vegan? What about canned tomatoes picked by quasi-slaves on some mafia farm in calabria? Would they not be vegan then?
thanks, that's pretty cool!
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/GLSL/blob/master/extensions/...
Tornado Cash, Alexander Pertsev.
You're saying that vegan people have to use milk alternatives like almond milk. Which is certainly not the case. What a non-argument.

Also, the problem with milk is not necessarily CO2 but CH4.
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Tangential wondering: how do married people in tech industry with school-going kids, who also find the time to read non-tech books, manage to do so between raising kids, dealing with the daily grind and constant upgrading of knowledge demanded by the industry?
Disclaimer: I’m the author of this article.

I don’t think so. 346,000 guesses four years ago was for the old default: 5,000 iterations. 88,000 guesses is on more powerful hardware but with the new default: 100,100 iterations.
Vietnam GDP grows 8.02% in 2022; fastest expansion in 25 years
microcode updates are volatile, you can rollback your microcode package in your distro and get the capability back. Some BIOSes also apply microcode. If you updated your BIOS, roll that back instead.
I find it especially ironic that SWA system failed them, and this large failure was preceded by worse and worse "near failures", since SWA is in the aviation business.

In the aviation arena, high reliability is maintained in part by careful analysis of "near failures": lessons are extracted and improvements are made to aircraft designs, procedures, etc.

By contrast, the "near failures" of the SWA system as a whole don't appear to have been utilized to motivate system improvements.
Why do meat eaters disguise things as burgers, sausages, and nuggets?
I wouldn’t be that surprised to hear that they were always running slight fevers, though. The past was disgusting.
I understand personal anecdotes and am glad you're in good health, but they don't negate biology.

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

I'm getting older too, and I understand the change comment. But I do sense a decrease in "oomph", so to speak, particularly when it comes to recollection of things I used to recall instantly.

Maybe this better belongs in another comment, but in a way, it's nice the age is included in the article as maybe it could inspire others of similar age to do similar things. I have been trying to get my mom to take some online classes.

> Getting a degree is a more traditional route, which older people tend to pursue. But he might be doing it for show partly since he is a politician.

That might be part of it. Saying "I got a degree" has more impact I suppose to politicians than "I took some classes".
Interesting. My last job was doing something similar but much more ambitious.

Manage the entire fleet. All tails, flight legs, and crew.

It was for a much smaller US airline but still a household name.

The crew aren't union so that helped. But it was tricky to manage the crew part.
How much they knew is an open question.

FTX funds were used to buy them a beachfront property as a vacation home. Apparently they were aware before the bankruptcy that this was not SBFs personal gift. And in fairness they are now offering to return it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sbf-parents-ftx-executives-bo...