skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who did work on subtitles in modestly popular videos as well, I believe there should be two subtitles---one for disabled peoples and one for language learners. They serve overlapping but not entirely identical purposes. The point 1 is well said though I think Tom Scott aimed his subtitles mostly to the former, as like television regulations.

The points 2 and 3 are comparably of less concern in my opinion. I don't watch TV nowadays, but when I did I used to watch programmes with on-screen captions (as opposed to optional subtitles, pretty common in East Asian channels), which never faithfully reproduced what has been said, and I was fine. Maybe I was more annoyed if I were able to turn captions off and only occasionally turn them on, but the whole points don't really match my experience.

The point 4 is what I'm most unsure about. I believe this kind of experience can be replicated by who can hear some but not all of foreign words and need subtitles (of the second kind) to connect them. For example, I can hear and speak Japanese but very slowly, so I normally have Japanese subtitles turned on. And I think I often experienced a lack of understanding due to my weak knowledge of Japanese, but never experienced such a conflict in understanding. Maybe the sensory processing issue has a substantially different mechanism to my model then?

> I'm curious to know if you can give an example of that?

Filler words, cut-off words, etc. Faithful transcriptions need to reproduce them (and yes, I also did some transcription works and that was really annoying) but subtitles needn't and shouldn't in most cases.
What happens if your hard disk fails completely?
> How is history recording in fish?

I'd say it's pretty good; history gets saved in a human-readable format (YAML) in $XDG_DATA_HOME, which is configurable.

A feature I really like: when retrieving completions from history, Fish shows the commands that occurred for the particular directory you're in.

Searching history is also nice [1].

[1]: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#history-...
> Now, for many people, they would feel indecent bringing someone into the world in that state.

I think you're overdramatizing how prevalent such a concern is, and would wager that's mostly relegated to people in a certain social class and who've been instilled with the idea that University specifically is the key to success.

Otherwise, many people in certain geographies aren't having kids because the prospect of being able to continue putting a roof over our own head seems tenuous at best, and we're just not so driven to have kids that moving quite far out of our communities is worth it, which leaves us in a limbo state of having scarce upward mobility but access to other valuable attributes, and the ability to keep that going for a while.

Granted, I'm not personally driven to have kids anyway, but if my early thirties starts catching up to me, my first concern is not going to be whether I can pay for their college, it's whether or not I have a stable mother in the picture, and whether or not having a kid is something we're equipped to shelter, feed, cloth, and support through basic public education. Considering that even getting a separate room for ourselves would nearly double our rent, and buying a place with one could cost nearly 850k (without leaving even approximately where we currently live) it's not looking good.
They should own it and show off how MA is such a major biotech hub on the license plate
It is not about money, it is about fitting in. Kids don't care how expensive the thing is, it just has to be a certain way.

Of course, those who sell the things kids use have every incentive to make it cool to spend a lot of money. It is, btw, among the worst kind of advertising. They target kids, who can be easily manipulated, so that they, in turn, convince their parents. It is sometimes close to a hostage situation, where if parents don't get the expensive thing, their kid gets bullied.

Some people want to bring back (affordable!) school uniforms for that reason.
They also break... ours lasted 2 years and then one of the rivets popped out.

Generally I believe you are allowed to use a different bag, it's just... uncommon.
You need lithium chemistry to be competitive and that requires nano level understanding of the anode/cathode crystal structure. That essentially requires quantum mechanics which wasn't even a thing during the two decades when steam, electric, and gas/diesel were fighting for supremacy. Not to mention the manufacturing tolerances required to get reasonable diffusion rates which is the major limiting factor for charge/discharge rates (and a large component of temperature sensitivity).

You might make the case that steam power would have dominated until the 40s-60s if the Doble-style steam generator had been available in say 1890. By the time they figured out how to make useful steam cars gasoline had already won.

For the curious: the Doble-style system uses a steam tube that flashes water instantly to steam - not unlike instant hot water heaters but for steam. They also used condensers so the steam was cooled by a radiator, condensed, and the water re-used. Often paired with a double or triple expansion piston and an aux piston to run an electric generator for accessories. In these cars you turned the key and within 10-30 seconds you can drive away. No need to warm up a boiler and no large tank that might explode. And no water loss so no need to fill up on water either. They could essentially burn almost anything flammable. Steam also has instant full torque at any speed similar to an EV. But it was all developed far too late to matter.
"most of the content and schoolwork takes place on a lightweight Chromebook that stays in the classroom"

- a disastrous mistake.
At work, I have a private Confluence space where I post comments to myself or a OneNote
> gas cars at that period tended to be a little over 100 miles and the best electrics were 80

The difference is that it is downright trivial to add range to a petrol vehicle. Making the tank larger by 10 liters will add less than 10 kg of weight, but will increase range significantly. The same is not true of battery electrics.
C++ has all of these warts too as it's roughly speaking a superset of c. Yes I'm aware it's not an exact superset.

I think you can get tripped up by all these things I have listed in c++.
My state of Oklahoma is above the US average on crime, almost last in health care and education, but by god, we have the helix!
What's "normal use"? Here was my "normal use" as a student in the 1980s and 1990s.

- 4 or 5 large books at once, bag often fairly bulging
- Zipped and unzipped probably > 20x daily
- Dropped onto school, home, and schoolbus floors dozens of
times daily with various levels of care
- Some walking, some weather exposure (less for me than
many others)
- One strap always carrying 100% of the load because the style
was to wear it over one shoulder; it was never acceptable
to wear it with a strap over each shoulder as actually
designed

Anecdotally I didn't see a lot of $50 Jansports lasting multiple years under those conditions and even if they did they would be pretty grungy.

Now... today as a middle-aged adult? Yes, a $50 Jansport easily lasts me 10+ years, probably more like 30, basically a lifetime purchase.

Also... today as a student? I guess it's less physical books and more Chromebooks so sure yeah maybe $50 Jansports can be lifetime purchases for kids, why the hell not
You can use colors, just not ones that look the same to colorblind people. The Sim Daltonism app is great at helping with this.
I completely agree with this observation. In fact, you can use this to your advantage to save time. During the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, Blizzard released "Classic" World of Warcraft and I had this huge itch to play the game. I satisfied it by watching YouTube videos on Classic WoW instead.

Did I waste time watching WoW YouTube videos? Yes. Did I save much more time by tricking my brain into thinking I was playing the game when I actually wasn't? Yes!
Man I'm kind of a bag snob but even pricier brands that differentiate on quality and worker wages are not $400.

I got a Tom Bihn Synapse backpack for around $200 in 2017 that I've traveled to many countries with and has been through I think way more than a kid going to elementary school. It's still going strong today.

It was made in a US factory with workers being paid good wages. $400 is a luxury/captive audience/conspicuous consumption price point.
Long sentences aren't just difficult for people who struggle with reading or have a cognitive disability like dyslexia or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. They're also a problem for highly literate people with extensive vocabularies.

This is partly because people tend to scan, not read. In fact, most people only read around 25% of what’s on a page.

I've got dyslexia and ADHD and several other attributes that make reading difficult.

Most people do not read well and many not at all.
Author of the newsletter here. Your comment just made my day :)
Ah yes, Prohibition, a classic American success story. The most freest we've ever been! I love how our culture, which is centered around the idea of freedom, would be protected by removing the choice to look at something that some people may find harmful! It's just such a beautiful irony.
> Sure, some of the reasons were actually true (it does cost a lot more to pay workers in France compared to China)

Even that, is not a problem that the consumer has to solve if the superfakes can attain the same quality using cheaper labour. In that case supporting local jobs could be a justification, not quality (again, assuming that the quality is the same).
I don't know the answer but yeah, I'm definitely on your side about it being a problem.

I saw a bunch of super explicit stuff, unbidden, on my Twitter/X feed the other week and it made me not want to use it any more.

I love porn, but it absolutely should not be shown to me without my consent.
There's an element of truth here. Part of the reason racial humor was so popular the first half of the twentieth century was because American leadership encouraged that zeitgeist. Granted, the "Censored 11" cartoons weren't direct propaganda (although some similar cartoons certainly were) -- but they and their audience participated in the cultural effect that is the desired extension of all propaganda campaigns. For example, the minstrel show wasn't by any means art or intellectual, yet its depictions were an extension of the claims about Africans by intellectuals at Southern universities, who in turn were currying to a leadership that was fully committed to keeping in subjection the "dangerous" African-American population.
> LLMs would have helped my co-researcher out a lot.

This describes me quite well. During the last few days I was working on getting the matrix for an integral operator, using Chebyshev polynomials. Numpy has regular and Chebyshev polynomials, but the documentation is a bit of a mess. I asked ChatGPT for help. It didn't work that well. But it got me started. It took a bit, because Numpy has actually 2 APIs for all their polynomials, and the ChatGPT code was mixing them. Once I figured that out, I decided to stick to a single API, and I finished the code snipped in about half an hour.

Without ChatGPT it would have been much more difficult. How many people out there are aware of the Chebyshev polynomials in numpy? Certainly nobody in my circle. ChatGPT was aware, but it was also hallucinating quite a bit. Still, it helped me get the job done.
Thanks for a fascinating look into a subject I never would have heard of otherwise.
Sorry to shatter your illusions, but the only states whose residents have paid more taxes than they receive back in terms of federal spending from 2015 to 2021 are NY, NJ, and MA. NH, WY, ND, UT, SD, VT, and NE (+$3,907 seven-year per capita average) are also in the bottom ten in terms of being closest to breakeven. To put another way, residents of all other states—including NY ($13,566) and CA ($53,887) get more federal spending per person than they pay in federal taxes, than NE.

Source: Rockefeller Institute's 2023 report, table 12A. <https://rockinst.org/issue-area/balance-of-payments-2023/>
If there’s no price point at which you’d buy it why weigh in with what you believe a reasonable price to be?
This is true of most "inventions". The first person to think it up often can't put the idea to practical use or find any commercial success. Often material science or manufacturability isn't ready yet. Or the idea isn't very useful until it is paired with several other innovations to make a complete product.
A Cold War Foe Got a Bug into a Secure 'Bubble'
Man the more I think about it there are even more:

typedef NAME struct {};

vs

struct {} NAME;

(Did I even get that right?)

- Namespacing in c is a nightmare, and c++ mangling is nuts.

- sane way of importing code, no header/code bifurcation
Chrome opens the html pages fine once the epub is unzipped. Some epubs may however have DRM I dont have any of those but they probably wont work.
Is this a market opportunity? To make cheaper yet more durable variants?
> Sure, some of the reasons were actually true (it does cost a lot more to pay workers in France compared to China), [...]

Though that's mostly a rational for why the 'real' bag does costs more, not a rationale for why you should prefer it. 'Is' vs 'ought' distinction.
I love this and was trying to recreate this (it used to work on ChatGPT) using pure HTML and JS. Would love to know what exactly react is doing that allows it to be selectable in this way, does it append to text node? What is allowing to work if it's streaming a few layers down like an li inside a ul inside an li inside an ol?
I just started C and Zig at the same time in October. While Zig was not easy to learn right away, in my opinion, it has become a joy to work with as I've become more familiar with it. This isn't to say learning C is a useless exercise in futility, but I think people not understanding why Zig is cool might need to remember they may be more experienced and more accustomed to things about C that are hard to get used to as a beginner.
His Twitter bio says he is the lead of Nvidia AI Agents. I guess that makes him an AI lead, but not the AI lead.
Cheap Jansport backpack zippers didn't last long.
Hah, I have the opposite problem. As soon as I know the episode title, I lose interest because I speedrun the episode in my head and don’t want to watch it anymore.
I've been using the issue key prefix for years now and I never thought about this aspect. If a board gets archived, for example, those issues need to remain available. You're also just tied to that tool like you mentioned. It would probably be good practice then to also include a blurb in the PR description so that never gets lost.
All of the DC/DC boost converters that I am aware of use inductors to transform low voltage to high voltage. It's technically pulse-width-modulated DC instead of AC but there isn't a lot of difference between the operation of a boost converter and the operation of a high frequency inverter.
Literally the first thing I saw was:
Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about how you got to the site, the blog pages you visit, how long you spend on each page and what you click on while you're visiting the site.
I am wondering, why would you share affiliate link (;tag=robstah78-20;) instead of the direct link to the item ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CLVEQCO )? The direct link is just barely longer and probably even faster to make (at least on the desktop)

Are you hoping to just make some money from strangers? You cannot get much commission from the $1.50 item, so I am imagining you hope someone clicks on your link and then buys unrelated expensive item.. This feels really sleazy, does this bring you any actual money?
The author is right that there must have been something going on, because else the transliteration would have resulted in just "ranseru".
I think most of the answers here have missed the basic point of an NFT, which is this:

In a digital system, there is no limit to copying data. You can copy and paste a file millions of times, share it with others, they can copy it, and so on. There is no scarcity.

An NFT is simply a way of introducing scarcity into this digital system. An NFT cannot be copied like other files, it is an entirely unique file. [1]

This has resulted in some people and artists using NFTs for digital art to add scarcity. Think about how the physical art world works: an individual art object is unique and cannot be copied. There is only one Mona Lisa. All the copies and photographs of it are not equivalent to the original. This is different than say, a manufactured object like a Coke can, an iPhone, or a Ferrari.

But digital art can be copied. By using a NFT, however, you can functionally have a scarce digital art object in the same way that a physical art object is scarce. So if you’re a digital artist, you can use a NFT to sell a piece of digital art as a scarce original.

Of course, the world of people using NFTs is full of scams and people trying to capitalize on trends. And it’s not really clear if a scarce digital object actually has value in the way a scarce physical object does. But at its core, it’s about scarcity.

1. I oversimplified this. Technically you can still copy the file, but it won’t be treated as the “original” or “valid” file by the validation network. Sort of like how you could make a copy of the Mona Lisa down to the atom, but it wouldn’t be considered the original by the art museums, experts, etc. that are the validation system in the art world.
Humans indeed make errors; I'm suggesting that the penalty for utterly false DMCA notices (i.e. saying my Hamlet monologue infringes the Star Wars copyright) be significant enough that rights holders put a modicum of effort into not submitting notices with errors.
Hamlet: A type-safe Haml template engine for Go
> Can you imagine carrying 1-2kg empty backpack with you every day?

That's so light, of course I can. I'm legitimately baffled by the implication that this is heavy for a backpack.
those are good points, thanks!
hope it will eventually include a http server and ssl into std for 1.0 release since many applications are now networked together.
I will wait for 1.0 to try it again.
The post asks the following question, which brought out a visceral and immediate answer from me:

‘When two implementations support the same notional feature with slightly differing semantics, should the committee use undefined behavior to resolve the conflict so no users have to change code, or should the committee push for well-defined behavior despite knowing it will break some users?’

I lurched towards the second option for ‘well-defined behavior’. And I would answer that way not just despite knowing breakage, but I would say that is the correct choice even in the event of large breakages for some percentage of active code bases. I have a hard time figuring out who would choose to accept more undefined behavior for new semantic constructs.

While I may not be accepting of the authors stance and conclusions to the question of ‘Trust the Programmer’, I do agree with his thoughts about the inherent positives of full throated argument in favor of increasing semantic constructs being ‘well-‘ and ‘implementation-‘ defined.

I may even go a step further and reach for an ultimate position that if it merely degrades performance metrics by some percentage, then instances of undefined behavior should be eliminated if at all possible. At a minimum, the goal should be to move to, at the most liberal, implementation-defined behavior for any given semantic construct. This would force compiler writers to specify and particularize what syntactic and semantic constructions they were taking advantage of to generate performance gains and allow developers the ability to decide if they could adhere to the implementation’s semantic guarantees.
1. It's said that Britain produced its greatest rock 'n roll when it had the dole. They even rhyme. Point being -- I'm not sure that people need gobs of wealth to make art or to pursue other things that bring them satisfaction. UBI might lead to increases in certain kinds of intrinsically-motivated production.

4. If the western developed standard of living requires too much work, then one way out may be to abandon that standard. Perhaps it is a failed experiment. People in poor countries don't seem any less happy to me.
(along with Anathem, although that's another one that could have used a bit of editing).
There is a formulaic way to transliterate words based either on their roman lettering or their pronunciation in their native tongue. But loanwords aren't always mere transliterations, they often have some kind of adaptation or simplification. So like for example the word building would be nigh impossible to transliterate relying on its roman lettering alone. It would have to be pronounced something like buierujingu. Using its pronunciation in English would be a better starting point; transcribing that into Japanese sounds would be like birujingu. And what Japanese actually does is take birujingu and cut it in half, and thus the actual word for building is biru. (Well, not exactly. Biru is just talking about modern buildings, like concrete and/or steel construction. The word for "building" in general is tatemono.)
> The moment you add an aspect of culture and social pressure...
yep I personally think gender reveal, 21st birthday all out party and easter egg are senseless but here we are
Ah, sorry about that, forgot my extension did that
German kids (typically) don't get driven to school, and get by with cheaper backpacks.
This is BIFL culture math that doesn’t make sense IRL. Plenty of people use the same JanSport $50 backpack for a decade just fine for school.
The team is deliberately pushing back 1.0, they really want 1.0 to be as best possible a finalized version of the language they are happy with. You may be waiting for a long time.

You should also know that the way you're engaging seems very concern-troll-ey.

Why do I say that?

> hope it will eventually include a http server and ssl into std for 1.0

Would you consider holding C to that standard?

Like zig already has way more stuff in its std than c, including json support and crypto primitives.
I use MG chemicals safety wash in the US -- particularly formulated to be safe on plastics and electronics.
It seems like it should be a no-brainer that if the light can cast shadows, it's too bright to install in a bedroom. I've started traveling with a roll of electrical tape.
I think that makes sense, but it still seems a bit arbitrary, I don’t see bookshops having these issues
> I’m sure the corpos that it hurt are grateful, but who cares from the consumer or artists side?

The reason Spotify was able to out-compete piracy (which is ostensibly free) is because it provided a substantially better experience to users. I’m sure the artists don’t get a great deal out of it, but it seems weird to blame that on streaming. Artists losing out to big business has been the entire model of the music industry since forever.

In any case, even if you think Spotify is fundamentally evil, and their innovations are extremely harmful, that doesn’t take anything away from how innovative they were. Which is very, very innovative. They completely changed the whole music industry world wide.

> They didn’t kill piracy, they co-opted it.

Trying to claim that one company licensing a music catalog, and then selling it to consumers is “piracy” is a terrible take, and just makes you look like you have some weird and extreme views on this topic.