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Thank you. I turned 40 this weekend, and have spent the last few months if not years wondering who the hell I am, and thinking about all the cool projects, startups, languages and learnings I'd love to explore.

However, I also have a 3-year old I'm taking care of who drains me of all my excess time and energy. I can't do any of this stuff. I'm exhausted at the end of the day, and with my 1-2 hours at the end of night after my kid goes to bed, I'm certainly not writing the Great American Novel.

Maybe when he's older I'll have time for a midlife crisis.
Did you read the abstract, or just the title? This is a randomized trial, with couples assigned to do one or the other over the first two years of marriage.
A door-to-door train would be pretty cool, especially when my door is on a 10 acre lot 35 minutes outside of the city and I get a private cabin on the train that I can sleep in.
I just find the arrogance humorous, I don't see how it's unkind. There are politer ways of saying it but you don't deserve it. You didn't care to be polite when associating window tint with: not being 'chill', militant, and associated with reckless criminal drivers. Just say what you really think:

"I don't like window tint and others agree with me, so let's take the rights from others to lower the heat in their idle cars and also keep the sun out of their eyes away. Now let me find a list of disconnected anecdotes to justify this"
As an American who immigrated to Australia, but still travels back home a lot to visit friends and family, this is not my take at all. Moving overseas revealed to me how much lower income Americans are getting a raw deal. Yes, it could be a lot worse, but it could also be a lot better (especially considering that the US could handily afford it).

I don't think Australia is the nicest country to live in by any means, but it's far better to be middle class or lower class here than in the US.
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We're talking about in comparison to aspartame though. I'm sure there's people who have the same reverence for booze as their choice of god, but:

My point in the GP post is that someone isn't going to be convinced to stop drinking because drinking is bad for them, they know it's bad for them. They had to wait till they were old enough to buy it, and maybe they've had a few hang overs, they know what liver cirrhosis is, and have seen a TV show featuring an alcoholic. They ignore those things, because they like drinking. They'll hand wave away why their drinking isn't a problem. Even with bunk click-bait articles like "red wine is good for you". We're on the same page there!

Sugarfree gum, feels pretty inert. There's no laws around the sale or packaging. There's no health warnings. There's no TV shows where someone's life is irreparably destroyed because of their gum habit.

So the root comment's family, I think were just being concerned.

"Inert thing you don't think about gives your family member cancer" is a scary thought! Of course I'm going to talk to ${familyMember}!

"Alcohol gives you cancer, along with a lot of other bad diseases" is a "well I still like a cheeky glass of red winkwinkwink" sort of thought.
> this is plainly false

This really depends on the blog. If it's a person who is making their living off of a newsletter, then readers = content.

I'm not saying that there are no blogs without readers, and somewhat awkwardly was trying to make the point that an author taking steps to create an engaged audience may be doing so as a condition of continuing to write. This is obviously not universal. My personal blog has not many readers. I still write. I don't ask them to subscribe.

>> If you're just coming for a single article and you'll never return again, that's understandable and your prerogative

> not only is it my prerogative, it's the norm.

This quote cuts out the only point of that sentence: even if someone is visiting a blog with the sole purpose of leaving and never returning, there is no standing to be upset when the author providing them with content at no cost simply asks if they'd like to subscribe. This violates basic notions of reciprocity and seems rather...childish, frankly.

This is not to imply that there's any expectation that someone should subscribe. I rarely do.
This is a randomized trial, not an observational study.
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Well that was bizarre. But if you have a government agency saying that electric fans can cause asphyxiation, and even that they have data to provide it, can you blame people in that country for believing it?
I had some difficulty reproducing results that were better than word2vec embeddings + cosine similarity. See my comment on the announcement thread here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706078
No, GDP PPP doesn’t measure what you can buy it measure how much things cost.

It doesn’t know how much money you have, it doesn’t measure the purchasing power of individuals. It also is based on a basket of 3000 fungible goods and services without accounting for value of quality or outcomes; as explained already in this thread.

It doesn’t take into account median income, income and wealth inequality, unemployment rates or any other factor that probably matters more than how much a bag of potatoes or a new highway costs.

Bulgaria has a worse GDP PPP per capita than Russia and many other far worse places. Guyana has a better GDP PPP per capita than France or Canada.

Greece’s GDP PPP per capita and in general is now higher than its pre-2008 crash, its nominal GDP however is still nearly half of what it was.

Youth unemployment is nearly at 40% with overall unemployment at 10-11% which is still masked by the fact that many people were still able to retire early over the past decade as they were still eligible for the 60 year retirement age (and earlier for certain occupations).

None of these factors alone can be used to extrapolate how well people are doing it take far more in-depth and even somewhat subjective analysis.

For example Norways GDP PPP per capita is about 30% higher than that of Finland however the average Norwegian is probably not better off than the average Finn especially not by “30%”.

Using GDP PPP per capita or otherwise as a rebuttal for economic stagnation due to lack of GDP growth is disingenuous at best and dangerous at worse.
Which will be - "The best MacBook Air ever. Starting with the gigantic and ground breaking RAM of 8GB." Yeah.
As others have said, they did a randomized trial. "Whereas couples assigned to keep their money in separate accounts or to a no-intervention condition exhibited the normative decline in relationship quality across the first 2 years of marriage, couples assigned to merge money in a joint account sustained strong relationship quality throughout."

Sadly, I don't have access to the paper. May try and find a link to it later. I'm curious to know if they split the "no-intervention" cohort to look at the idea you are mentioning. That is, mayhap the cohort that got to do what they want was dominated by the separate accounts group? More strangely, it would be really weird if the no-intervention group saw an inverse result. That is, if given the choice and you keep joint accounts, you are unhappier than if you had kept separate.
The UI looks surprisingly understandable/usable, even by modern standards.

I'm thinking that this might be due to the proliferation of awful and overminimalistic design, so we are more tolerant towards those things.
In the EU that isn't so much of an issue.
But the problem that it is not, you are using PPP for things that explicitly it shouldn’t be used for.
I’m 47 and I’m not sure if I’ve had a midlife crisis, which probably means I have not. My adult kids, however, joke that I’ve had one a year for as long as they’ve been alive. I’m what the late Barbara Sher called a Scanner. I keep a Scanners Daybook and lots of other notebooks and I’m always working on a new project or hobby. When someone asks about my hobbies I often say that I’m a serial hobbyist.
Ask HN: Do Emacs users feel as stuck without Emacs, as Vim users do with Vim?
I'm sure plenty of vim users know the feeling of writing in text boxes on the web, or in other programs, and finding `:w` and `jk` everywhere, and not having modal operations.

Do emacs users have the same issue? I know a lot of software comes with some keyboard shortcuts that are similar to emacs, but not all of them, and i don't know if there's a similar level of "i am stuck without my editor" feeling that emacs users get when they don't have all the shortcuts available.
Eurozone does equal the EU. Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden are not part of the Eurozone but are part of the EU.
Yes, you need to learn language features in order to use the language, shocker!
That is true I see no reason obvious reason why the LL companies take pride in not being able to document ideation process. I have no justification but I feel it is deceitful not technical reasoning.
My intel MBP 13" has only lasted as long as it had because I got the 16gb of ram, and wouldn't consider anything lower these days. The upgrade from 8 to 16 only a few years ago though was about $200 (already too high imo), but now every ram tier is a laughable $500 CAD upgrade. FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for 16g more, and even though I know it's a great computer, it just feels sinister. Considering it's an additional $500, I'd be paying a full grand for the 32gb package. Like it's only priced for idiots who finance a new car every few years and get all the options
The sun is too bright.
God no. The devil you know is always better.
I am one of I presume millions of Americans for whom the words

> new Miyasaki flick

are all the marketing I need. Even the poster is superfluous. As long as somebody reminds me when the film lands in the States, I'm there.
Yes, I cut-and-pasted that paragraph from the 286 manual and clearly I shouldn't have trusted the OCR :-)
Read the abstract. It's a randomized study, not an observational one.
This all depends on your usecase. My daily driver is an older $300 Dell laptop with 8gb of ram running bunsenlabs with i3wm. All I did is stick a 500gb ssd in it and it works absolutely fine. With standard dev workflow, I can get close to 6 hours of battery life, never run into memory issues. But my development is mostly python and C.

I do agree that Macbook air from a hardware perspective is a very good configuration for a general purpose laptop, but the MacOS absolutely ruins these laptops, at least for me. Having a work issued Mac, its kind of amazing to me with how much bullshit OS things people, especially technical ones, just put up with.
> why has neotame not been pursued? if aspartame is carcinogenic

I think you just answered your own question.
> Which among those are unfulfilling, unenjoyable, unhealthy?

I was thinking of the one where we go to jobs for 40+ hours a week that are not fulfilling, we don't get to spend much time with our families, we don't get time to sleep and exercise enough... and we have to do it for essentially our entire lives in the hopes we'll get a few years to be put out to pasture
It’s not science. It’s agenda. The average kid going to that site will not have the requisite knowledge and experience to understand. They will only come away with the agenda. 50-60 years ago, we had more respect for science than we do today.
True, but a lot of value is created when mundane tech is implemented widely.
I'm pretty sure, the second amendment has something to do with the availability of guns in the United States.
He is such a beast. Have no idea how he manages to develop and maintain so many plugins.
I'd say especially treatment for childhood leukemia is one of the real success stories in fighting cancer.
RHEL 7 is absolutely in use today, and 6 is still lurking in some corners.
They banged cross validation into our heads in school and then no one in NlP uses it and I just can’t even understand why not.
GDP figures are calculated using CID, specifically in order to prevent exchange rates from indicating false growth or contraction like you’ve demonstrated.

What’s worse you’ve committed a double sin, you’ve used figures which were already normalized using the constant international dollar and applied exchange rates to them.
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To be clear, ACL is the top conference in NlP
I believe it was a catalyst. Trying to put a budget in place to reduce spending only works when both people follow said budget. When you finally have enough and split finances (keeping the joint account for bills, groceries, etc) it was deemed “financial abuse” in the Colorado courts. She claimed she was being abused and everyone bent over backwards to get her free legal services. It was awful. I’m never getting married again.
In the late 70s my father had a Simca with part of the ignition key lodged in the ignition lock cylinder. Getting the replacement key from France was going to take ages, so he rigged it up so that you had to flip a toggle switch he'd installed on the dashboard and honk the horn in order for it to start. It was the opposite of a kill switch.
How close to Breaking Bad has it gotten?
No, it's fortunate! RISC-V support is still a second-class citizen in ESP-IDF.

RISC-V support only just landed in ESP-IDF. Give it a couple more years imo to reach full feature parity.
I think this is HN bias. Companies whose purpose is something other than writing software are not doing this.
Nice metaphor. I like the paper = financial, social constraint and metal as "down to the metal" physical limitations. Kinda clunky though, needs a few rounds of workshopping!
It seems more like a timer for when they will definitely stop supporting call of duty on psx
The evidence presented by scientists to demonstrate climate change is much stronger than "possibly."
When modern people feel unhappy they often fantasize about an idealized traditional or primitive life imagining that would be better.

People in those lives often do the opposite, imagining being unencumbered or living some kind of cosmopolitan life.

It’s pretty normal to imagine “elsewhere” when you are unhappy. “Elsewhere” is by definition not where you are.

As far as I can tell angst is normal for human beings and everyone in every lifestyle feels it.
>there is no evidence anyone has agreed to the law, there is no contract that anyone has signed

How about: "the government built and owns the roads, and now decided to enact a fee for using said road"? Or do you think that the concept of property rights don't apply to you unless you signed a contract? In which case, I would like to know where you live, because I haven't signed any contract binding me to the concept of property rights :^)
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> I tracked her down on Facebook and mentioned it to her, and she seemed to get that it was a problem she might want to solve

Not a lawyer, but feels like you could be sued for a) reaching out and clearly mentioning you have some very private information.

How does it work for a paper mail - from what I understand it could be illegal to open any letter originated to some other person's name.
are you assuming that all refugees entering the country are the bottom of the barrel?
The Bahn app has a human approver in the loop when buying the 49 Euro ticket?
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No. The link is to an abstract of a study, and the abstract claims that it was a randomized trial.

A reasonable person may, of course, decide to trust the authors and assume they executed the randomization correctly. However, without being able to read the methodology of the study (which is paywalled), it is just that: an assumption.
https://archive.is/pL7l4
Can't parse this weird opinion. Do you think cryptography doesn't work? I don't understand.
That makes scents. :)

But yeah very very poor sense of smell with olfactory hallucinations and I got a bunch of T2 flares around my bilateral occipital horns so that sounds plausible.
The chipping sharp edges of the case of my work issued Macbook isn't something I would consider good construction.
Does anyone else have trouble looking at these patterns? Does that mean something?

When viewing these repeating patterns, I get a kind of very uncomfortable visual disorientation, almost like vertigo: hard to describe.
New like sniffer dogs?
It's because it's not the system that causes this. Life causes this.

There was a time not that long ago where every human born on this earth had to claw through the mud day in and day out to scrape together survival. A lot of people still live this way, as do all wild animals, and it was like this for all of time before, for every living creature on this earth. This is the nature of life. The system you talk about has created a world where a lot of humans, the majority of them and more humans than even existed 100 years ago, do not have to claw their way to survival until the fateful day they fail. That's not to say it still isn't hard to survive, but it is not as hard for most people as the natural state.

I'd like a world too where nobody has to suffer indignity to feed themselves, but that world requires more of what we have created, not less.
I didn't say refugee. I said low-skilled labor.
Faster – Open-Source Concurrent Key CRDT Store
Faster is a key value store where the value can be a CRDT thanks to its Read Modify Write capabilities.
> I have tried for several years to figure out a solution that would let me

Pro-tip: Don't use software by companies who explicitly hate cross-platform software when you need said software to work cross-platform.

For credentials/secrets, there are other tools that actually does a really decent job at being cross-platform (including iOS/Android). Two of these are 1Password and BitWarden (FOSS as well). I'm a happy user of the former, but lots of people (including many here on HN) sing praise about the latter.
SD1 uses a head dimension that is not supported by the old version of Flash Attention but is supported by this version.
How about building an AI/LLM without gimping it afterwards? It's a bit tiring to see the usual "pornography is strictly forbidden" or the "As a language model, I can't <do anything even mildly outside the mainstream thought>...."-type nonsense.

I'm sure that would give them a market edge. :)
Ask HN: Should homeless people have a QR code on their signs?
Is there some sort of social not for profit that provides homeless people with a way to receive donations via a printed QR code?

I pass homeless people and think I would like to give them some money but I don't carry cash any more.
My response is “my hobby is collecting hobbies”. I think it’s more I’m just interested in learning anything and everything.

I’ve never heard of a scanner or a daybook. Coincidentally, I’ve been deeply invested in finding the best way to keep notes… But a non-digital format loses a lot of utility without searching, etc… Maybe I should try it anyway.
There were way more Western articles about _The Wind Rises_ back then. I definitely wasn't clicking on a review and going 'wait, that came out already?' Everyone knew, whether or not they had any interest in anime.
(assuming you are in the US).
Go to Amazon, buy an ESP32 beginner kit, which should come with an ESP32 dev board, a handful of different sensors and components, and a breadboard and some wires. It will also have some sample code.

Go through a few of the basic modern IoT "hello world" examples, like making a web-enabled temperature sensor. Then google for "ESP32 [foo]", where foo is some random idea that you have for pretty much anything you can imagine that has even the remotest reason to be internet-connected.

Assuming that you are comfortable with at least semi-advanced software development, learning basic embedded stuff with ESP32 or Arduino is pretty easy. There is no operating system, or heavy stack, which can sometimes make things like a Raspberry Pi more overwhelming to start with in terms of embedded stuff.
Be careful not to conflate the feelings of "I don't understand people who do X" and "I prefer not doing X".
Does Britain leaving the EU affect this number?
> ignition switches that are relatively trivial to bypass.

The switches themselves aren't bypassed. Their design for the lock cylinder is so crappy that it can be snapped off, exposing the peg that actuates the switch.
Years ago I started a Netflix trial account while with the family at my mom's place. I intended it to be for her, and called it 'grandma <her name>'. I ended up paying for it (she never has, directly). But apart from when we're around she barely used it and got back to linear TV (though via internet). Meanwhile, my wife and kids love it and it is among our streaming portfolio (for lack of a better term). So basically it is a Netflix account on someone else's name, though a family member. She kept getting these emails that someone logged in to her account, and every time I answered to her 'yeah that was one of us'. Eventually I changed the email address of the account to my own, and now I keep getting called 'grandma <her name>'. And you know when she watches Netflix? When we're around (well, my kids do then). Now the other day my wife got some kind of confirmation error that this was our account, and ever since the writing's been on the wall that we'll get into trouble on this. Btw, we can only pay for it via gift cards or manual bank transfer. The automated system does not work, and every time it gets our card denied. Honestly, it is an abysmal customer service (my wife tried to sort it out on various occasions w/them; still broken).
On a scale from Walter White to Willy Wonka, how WW are you?
I can see that it says "Offered by: Apple Inc." but beyond that, how are people supposed to see it's "official"? As far as I can tell, there are no links from apple.com/* to this extension.
Couldn't you solve this by changing the email address on one of the accounts?
The upcoming sequel has a much more robust simulation of parking requirements too: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/cities-skylines-ii/...
Ron Swanson quietly saved us all. You wouldn't know it, because he'll seek no credit.
Sorry, are you saying I had the same obsessive collection that this dude did?

I don’t walk around scientifically naming everything and ordering into phylum‘s and crap. Nor do I think it’s worth anything.

By comparing what’s in my brain to this dude’s library, an external memory box which makes everyone’s organization of the world exactly the same, is a nice attempt at trying to defend your useless and damaging scientific pursuits.
> And an iphone is not standard equipment issue for cops, ergo the cop was acting like a criminal by using non standard equipment in effect behaving like their own militia, over stepping the law.

What makes you think a police officer isn’t allowed to use “non standard equipment” in the course of an investigation? If a private citizen is allowed to use an iPhone to look through the tint on a car window, so is a cop.
> Imagine an automated form of this where you can just mass deactivate antagonistic accounts

Then imagine it. What would be the ramifications?
This unfortunately falls into the same category in my mind as most advice: "you should ... X."

My mind is sick of hearing the things I should do. I know I should be better and fitter and less wasteful but... I'm tired.
I have "Displays have separate spaces" checked, and I can drag a desktop from one display to the other by grabbing the desktop from that "film strip" and dragging it over to the other display. I don't have to drag all the windows individually. They move together with desktop.

The limitation, which you might be bumping into, is you can't drag the current desktop that's visible on a display, which is sometimes annoying but makes sense. Switch to a different desktop first.

I agree with you about the confusing ever-changing number labels on the desktops. I would really like to assign names to desktops, like "Work" and "Project 1". The GUI has room for it, as the full-screen app desktops already have names.
FWIW, I have one of the the ad version Kindles and rarely notice the ads. And the ones I have seen are not even close to anything I would want.