skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the article.. (the positive spin as you put it) is that one's mental state due to increased wisdom and experienced puts one in a better position to achieve or appreciate the milestones that may have not worked out at a younger age. Fame in the example of the musician, finding appreciation in a partner in the older couple, etc.

The message is around things happening in their due course rather than in some sort of age-delimited set of phases.

While idealistic, it's more optimistic than the feeling of having failed many of us feel as we compare ourselves to others.
> First, human beings aren't Guinea pigs. Yes, the FDA is slow - for damn good reasons. We didn't use to do things this way and then we changed it to fix problems. There are reasons things are the way they are and it's very well-understood in the medical field. Medicine is not a move fast and cause pain and suffering kind of field or move fast and kill people kind of field. They're very conservative.

The problem with this is that they don't appear to be optimizing for the minimization of harm, which seems very obviously to be what they should be optimizing for. Instead, they're optimizing for the minimization of harm caused by new drugs/treatments/etc., while ignoring the harm caused by disease. It's all well and good to not cause suffering through your actions, but suffering caused by inaction (or slow action) is still very much suffering that's caused by your decisions.
A time before minifigs was glorious. I worked on a scope of figures made with 8 and 4 dots. Several poses possible with a low poly rectangular figure. The lego train of those days had a small clear acrylic motor control unit which responded to whistles one go two stop long reverse.

Billund has an admirable toy museum including early lego.
We're All Just Having Fun Here
REI3: Open-source, self-hosted, low code, business application platform
Ahhh. This answers a question I've had: I'm in the USA and one of my senators has been banging the drum for allowing patients access to experimental drugs for a few years. I have wondered why this was an issue for him. Maybe I'm cynical but this and easy PR win for him seems like good reasons why.
The thing is... multi-process with a bespoke shared memory system isn't better than multithreading; it's much worse.
It's not the trolley problem because in the trolley problem both outcomes are clear to the decider.
The only thing stopping me from using Zig is the lack of docs
Most of what we use now is profit seeking, everything is built to fuel an addiction and increase screen time as opposed to being a utility that benefits you. As a user the idea is that you'd actually be free from that. The technology would work for you, not the other way around.
Which is worse for the world: an lone sociopath who does a short spree of destructive acts, or a ruling class of organized psychopaths with all the levers of power with the ability to use the national security state to kill anything that gets in their way?

I think half a million dead Iraqis would say the latter.
I don't understand what prevented insurers from not insuring these ships? Were they obliged to insure everything thrown at them?
Looks like a direct cause and effect relationship. So to avoid the same outcome, you'll just need to buy your phone in a country where Apple makes the App Store available. That seems reasonable to me.

I don't think there's a danger Apple will discontinue the App Store in any region as a result of these rulings.
This is what I think. No rational, sane person could possibly believe the world is flat. But it makes them special, and it gives them something to add meaning to their lives, so I guess we let them live in their delusion.
This is why I'd never be a good accountant. The price paid was $1m, the thing was valued at $500k, leaving $500k in goodwill? How is spending more money on something than it is worth an asset?
Running the whole DBMS as a bunch of threads in single process changes how fast is the recovery from some kind of temporary inconsistency. In the ideal world, this should not happen, but in reality it does and you do not want to bring the whole thing down because of some superficial data corruption.

On the other hand, all cases of fixable corrupted data in PostgreSQL I have seen were result of somebody doing something totally dumb (rsyncing live cluster, even between architectures), while on InnoDB it seems to happen somewhat randomly without any obvious reason of somebody doing stupid things.
My oldest Ikea piece is a 4x2 EXPEDIT shelf which has been moved three times now. Twice across town in a car (disassembled and reassembled), once across states (still assembled on a truck). It’s doing fine.

My nightstand only went through the truck move though, and it has chunks missing on the bottom corners. The moving company warned us that it was common and they would refuse to move it unless we we willing to forgo any damage claims on those pieces.

I think it has a lot to do with the design of each individual product, it’s hard to generalize about how durable they are. The bottom corners of HAUGA are a weak material and not well supported, if it gets hit there or maybe even catches on the floor while sliding sideways it’s going to crunch.
Agreed, I think Discord is substantially worse. I do think it's the best of a bad set of alternatives, though.
Agree. Anything you ask could be typed in by a human using chatgpt or google so requiring an answer quickly should be able to detect it was a bot. Could also ask a large number of questions and expect rapid responses for extra assurance.
People still tell you to use the search function on discords, and there aren’t even searchable topic names or the option to use google’s algorithm to power the searches.

Also, the great fun of llms is going on youtube and watching content creators accuse other content creators of cheating and using llms to write their scripts, even if they may just be using it as a research tool to round up preliminary information.
Great. Then confront the rationale, instead of dismissing it or pretending it is not there.
> Also: don't put a laser printer in your bedroom. It's unhealthy.

3D printers are even worse, depending on the filament type (ABS is worst?). Always ventilate!

A few papers printed over the course of years won't kill you. What will are the conditions of working adjacent to the office copier, 8-10 hours a day, for years.

Get an air purifier to capture particulates. (Supposedly, houseplants help too.)
Generalized exception-throwing is pretty much the Common Lisp condition system.
My maternal grandfather changed his last name when he turned 18, from the German Uhren to Uhrey. If your last name bothers you, fix it.
I think it was George Carlin who asked why people say "have a safe flight" instead of "have a safe landing."
I don’t agree that the article presents the low interest rate environment as “good for humanity” though clearly that’s your conclusion.
It's not exactly technical, so I get that it's not 100% "on-brand" for HN, however it is a little sad that the post has to be flagged.

It feels like the community isn't trusted with a political topic like this.
Or maybe, if they're all Spaniards, they are just saddened by their country's prominent position in this domain?
On the other hand, automatic retires can be suprising, especially when they don't completely understand the returned error and retry on errors they shouldn't.

I just wasted a couple hours the other week due to langchainjs defaulting to retrying errors which were ultimately caused by timeouts and would never complete.
How interesting that the areas approximately match those of the North Atlantic oceanic air traffic control regions!
That is not the point here. Did you any point believe that you were experiencing a mass market user experience at those times?
I think I'd prefer drowning to whatever horrors happen when your submersible runs out of life support at the bottom of the ocean.
I suppose that how durable IKEA furniture is depends a lot on what you choose.

For instance I have bought some IKEA metallic tables and these do not contain anything that is fragile or that may be damaged without a huge effort to do that.

After some 5 years there is no visible difference from the day when I have assembled them and I do not expect any to appear soon. They look like they will easily outlive me.

If I had bought some flimsy tables made of some wood substitute or dubious plastic, then yes, I would have expected them to not age well.
In my university, the slang term for an uninitialized variable was "dead squirrel". IIRC, some TA had described uninitialized C++ variables as follows: "It could be any value: zero, 100, or even a dead squirrel."
If hurl ever allows uninitialized variables, I would love to see use of an uninitialized variable to `hurl` a `squirrel`! :)
With a proper AI system you don’t even need to specify the exact article and nature of the comment.

For example here’s the prompt I use to generate all my HN comments:

“The purpose of this task is to subtly promote my professional brand and gain karma points on Hacker News. Based on what you know about my personal history and my obsessions and limitations, write comments on all HN front page articles where you believe upvotes can be maximized. Make sure to insert enough factual errors and awkward personal details to maintain plausibility. Report back when you’ve reached 50k karma.”

Working fine on GPT-5 so far. My… I mean, its 8M context window surely helps to keep the comments consistent.
it depends on the scale. want to start a small cafe in a strip mall? if the mall has some unleased space, and is having problem filling it, you can cut a deal.
my BIL did this, and negotiated a 5 year lease for a percent of his gross sales.
the burger joint took off, and the landlord is very happy...he is paying twice the going rate due to success.

the landlord took the risk, could have been $0.

second hand restaurant equipment can be bought at a discount. food suppliers offer credit, 30 - 60 days.

if you are willing to put in the work, there are ways to get started other than borrowing money from a bank.
Checkout https://askhn.ai

The content is ranked by how people discuss the topics and who discusses them

If you just do embeddings on posts you might miss relevant content. When people who have knowledge of AMD discuss intel and believe that content is relevant to AMD, the content will be ranked
We did this with a project I worked on. I came on after the code was mature.

While we didn't have 2000 globals, we did have a non-trivial amount, spread over about 300kLOC of C++.

We started by just stuffing them into a "context" struct, and every function that accessed a global thus needed to take a context instance as a new parameter. This was tedious but easy.

However the upside was that this highlighted poor architecture. Over time we refactored those bits and the main context struct shrunk significantly.

The result was better and more modular code, and overall well worth the effort in our case, in my opinion.
It's a way for Big Pharma to get cheap research by dangling false hope in front of the desperate.

Of course some here would view that as a positive.
The splitting of "store address" and "store data" is an intentional performance feature and not a "quirk" of the implementation. If you had a single store uop then the memory system couldn't start doing a lookup on the address until the data to be stored was available. The data is usually the long pole. By having the address in a separate uop the data dependency is broken and the cache accesses allocating that line in the cache can be started much sooner.
The UK shot itself in the foot hard with Brexit, and has become a quite undesirable place for many for that reason. Doesn't mean that the US is necessarily doing great.
Velo: App for Brainstorming and Sharing Ideas
Top US Chip Gearmaker Accuses China Rival of 14-Month Spy Spree
We need farms and some sort of food distribution system for everyone to survive, so that doesn't sound like a bad idea.

You could always decide that grocery stores are allowed to be for-profit, or perhaps only things like co-ops or benefit corporations.

We eventually came to accept the reality that our society works better if we ensure universal access to things like mail, so we should be willing to evaluate whether the list of universal goods needs to be expanded
Why wouldn't the right thing to do be giving it back to the ratepayers through reduced rates or credits?

If the utility underestimated the cost of providing service, they'll petition the PUC to raise rates, so if they overestimated the cost of providing service, why shouldn't they give it back rather than treating it as a windfall to be distributed to investors?

I'm fine with a public utility getting a reasonable regulated profit, but if they collect more money than they needed to cover expenses, it should go back to the ratepayers. Otherwise the company is just being rewarded for overestimating expenses.
By now when I see "linusakesson.net" I upvote without reading, then I read TFA and watch the vid (or listen to the music in this case).

I'm never disappointed.

Speaking of which I plan to do something really cool: I've got a "time capsule" C64 (well C128 but close enough) and it still works. It's never been "polluted" by anything modern: no "gotek" SD reader, no nothing: just a real time capsule from the early to mid eighties. And I plan to encode, manually, the 256 bytes (yes, bytes) of linusakesson's "A mind is born" C64 demo.

I'll then run it (with the C128 hooked to an old CRT, of course), thinking that technically I could have encoded and ran that in the eighties. Mind blowing stuff:

https://youtu.be/sWblpsLZ-O8
Why don't they just make #FFFFFF brighter?
You're displaying a serious lack of reading comprehension. End of life care provided by palliative specialists is completely different to "scammers who absorb so much cash that they prevent real cures from being researched" and "people who squander their family's financial future on magic beans in futile attempt to live, but die anyway".
An AM-only radio of that period almost certainly uses the "All American Five" set of tubes. All of which are still available.[1]

Note that many of those things are a hot-chassis design. The chassis is directly connected to one side of the power line, so there is a shock hazard. On some units, the shafts of the controls are live.[2]

[1] https://www.tubedepot.com/products/american-5-tube-set

[2] https://geojohn.org/Radios/MyRadios/Safety.html
The Failure of Affirmative Action
The WSJ just want the plebs to stop complaining so wall street can keep the profits to themselves.
Jimmy Wales is building a new social network
I believe the point was you can say the same about goto. With goto you can replace if/else, for loops, while loops, functions, exceptions, etc, making for a very minimal language. Yet structured programming is superior.

(I probably don’t know enough about call/cc to know if that’s a totally fair comparison, but languages being more restrictive/less flexible can be good overall in terms of aiding understanding/reducing bugs/etc)
>Did you even look at the link?

Yes, I did.

>RISC-V encoding "close enough to MIPS"

... while pointing at MIPS-X, 1987. Deranged.

>Is there a relationship you haven't disclosed with RISC-V?

Are you projecting? I have noticed a pattern in your appearances whenever a discussion about RISC-V pops up.
Look at it less like a first class language feature and more like a language feature for implementing others in terms of it.
What's trending today? (06/19: Titanic)
Instead of getting my news from the usual online outlets, I developed a script that checks the daily Google trends and summarize related articles with AI before sending me an email.

For example, the Titanic was trending today:

Searches for "Titanic" have spiked on Google today, with over 100,000 queries, following news of a missing submarine that was touring the Titanic wreckage .

Operated by OceanGate Expeditions, the submersible was carrying at least five people when it lost contact. The U.S. Coast Guard, along with other agencies, is conducting a massive search and rescue operation .

OceanGate Expeditions has been offering these underwater tours since 2021. As the search for the missing submersible continues, it has inadvertently brought attention back to the Titanic. The ship sank after hitting an iceberg on April 15, 1912, and has since lain at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. The wreck, which some scientists believe is deteriorating at an increasingly rapid pace, remains a poignant symbol of human ambition and the power of nature.

If you find this approach interesting (I will probably improve my script over time), you can subscribe to my newsletter to get the emails too: https://trending-data.ck.page/7644c0e118

It is free anyway.
Who should decide how public universities spend taxpayer money?
Since the title is a bit vague: this is a demo of the Mergenthaler Diagrammer, a tool for (semi-)automating the production of technical drawings like circuit schematics.

From a quick look this is what I ascertained: you select a diagram symbol using a keyboard, use a viewing screen (a specialized projector) to position it on the ”drawing”, and then once it’s in position the projected image is exposed onto film.

I’m a technically-minded artist/art historian who works a lot with projection, and this is a treat! What a great find!

If you like this you might also like Fran Blanche’s YouTube video about how the big screens at Apollo Mission Control worked.
Transfer of ownership nor CC licensing explains the lack of attribution, a sign of disrespect and disregard.
> Control groups, preferably in double-blind studies, are an essential part of best practices.

I wouldn't go that far. I think that a paradigm built upon a broader evidence base -- e.g. with far more extensive postmarketing surveillance of drugs -- would be more ethical, of more benefit to society, and ultimately more effective.

Double-blinded studies can miss, can be confounded by placebo effects, can easily be confounded by crooked researchers, and are frequently just plain unethical from first principles. I don't think that they should be considered "essential."
Yep, although they were doing it 'badly', I guess it not being quite so terrible is the 'new paradigm', which is eyeroll worthy IMO.
It is in the instructions (which typically don't have words, IIRC.) Brackets have been included with all shelves we've purchased - even ones that seem short & sturdy enough to use it.

IKEA also sells furniture of varying qualities - for example, KALLAX is a well-known line of shelves that many vinyl enthusiasts use to store records. Records are extremely heavy, but these stand the test of time.

Another example is in the bedroom department: MALM vs KULLEN. The former is much thicker and sturdier, with drawers that have metal hardware. Kullen on the other hand is thinner, flimsy, and uses plastic hardware for the drawers, giving them an awful tactile feel.
Uhren sounds fine to me, now if it was Huren i would understand
Not a huge fan of BetaArchive. You need to have a beta to upload to download from the server, I get that they want betas and stuff like that, but the closed nature really annoys me
Exactly. AT&T Unix was the quintessential example of source-available software. Companies and institutions could get licenses for the Unix source code, but they weren’t allowed to redistribute it, and it certainly wasn’t free. If I recall correctly, while it was originally only $99 for academic institutions, the price went up by orders of magnitude after the breakup of AT&T (before the breakup it was prohibited from monetizing Unix due to an agreement made with the US government when AT&T was involved in an anti-trust case).

We wouldn’t have our modern BSDs if it weren’t for people being frustrated with source-available Unix. BSD initially started out as essentially a collection of additions to AT&T Unix. Eventually after the divestiture of AT&T and the resulting dramatic price hikes for Unix source licenses, the Berkeley developers embarked on a campaign to replace AT&T source code to develop a fully open source Unix. They beat GNU to the punch (see GNU Hurd), only to be stymied by lawsuits from AT&T.
> Now you’re changing the goalpost to “reason”. My god. There’s a reason for everything.

What goalpost?

> Who cares what “well-adjusted” people think?

I imagine the person claiming universal knowledge of the human condition would care. If well adjusted people are an exception to your rule, it's not a great rule.

> The only claim that I care about is if it is possible to think that basically everything that you have to do suck

Oh, if that's the claim then sure. I thought the claim was "everything you have to do sucks", not "it's possible to believe everything you had to do sucks."

Totally agree then. I've met lots of unhappy people that believe that. 100% true.
> At 30,000 ft. a sharp crack rang through the ship, shaking it violently. The water pressure outside was more than 6 tons per sqare inch., and even a slight fracture in the hull would have meant certain death. It proved to be only an outer Plexiglas windowpane which had splintered under the pressure. The inner hull remained watertight. "A pretty hairy, experience," admitted Walsh.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070202144233/http://bjsonline....
Various programs may be basing the time display format on your LC_TIME environment variable, according to the Arch wiki* setting it to en_DK.UTF-8 will switch to ISO format.

* https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale#LC_TIME:_date_and_ti...
> There was another post today about using Pydantic for function enabled completions

That post let me know that pydantic's schema() function actually worked to produce a valid JSON schema, so I was able to optimize from there. (there may be a few optimizations still to be done: schema() also returns an unnecessary title field and I need to experiment if I need to remove it)
Rever aims to modernize eCommerce refunds and returns
cool username.
Was a diehard gnome fan for years but ever since gnome 3 nothing has worked. Have been unironically using plasma now for almost a year and really can't complain.

For a while Budgie was the best but now that has fallen into shambles seemingly so KDE really is the way to go
Art is work, friend. I don't know if you've ever encountered an actual artist in your life, beyond someone making macaroni collages, but professionals in any craft can't afford to do what they do for love alone. Certainly not in game development, the most brutal, toxic and exploitative industry a creative can work in. Even Michaelangelo didn't paint the Sistene Chapel ceiling for free.
>> The number of atoms in the entire universe is around 10^80

This is incorrect. It's an unsolved question in modern physics if the universe is finite or infinite. Even if it's finite most theoretical physicists believe that visible universe (94 billion light years across) is only a small piece of a far larger universe - so there are probably far more atoms.

If the universe is infinite it may be that there are infinite number of copies of every living organism on Earth out there.
The accent was obvious enough that I wonder if they might have not been trying to hide it at all? Maybe they just happened to pick somebody from the team with a very mild accent.
What do you mean by co-op?

My advice is do one thing at a time. If the co-op is like a job, don’t do side projects while you’re in it. Does it really make sense to work on a side project in the evening when you’re taking a break from your co-op, which you’re doing while taking a break from college?
The best we can do is more robot spam.