skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you really want to extend your "healthspan" it seems the correct solution is to do full-body work-outs a lot, eat a really clean diet, avoid drugs, and keep using your brain actively into your 80's and 90's.

All of the folks in my family who lives to their late 90s with a long “healthspan” drank or smoked excessively. The generation after them, their children, who did are either dead or on their way to an early grave.

I haven’t really been able to figure that one out.
> PowerShell has up-front required prerequisites that you can declare

Anyone who's written more than a few scripts for others will have learned to do something like this at the start:

declare -a reqs
reqs+=(foo bar baz)
missing=0
for r in "${reqs[@]}"; do
if (! command -v "$r" &>/dev/null); then
echo "${r} is required, please install it"
missing=1
fi
done
if [ $missing -gt 0 ]; then
exit 1
fi

> Your script is very bravely trying to parse output that includes many different protocols, including: tcp, tcp6, udp, udp6, and unix domain sockets

They probably didn't know you could specify a type. Mine only displays TCP4.

> Now imagine putting your script side-by-side with the PowerShell script, and giving it to people to read.

I'm gonna gatekeep here. If you don't know what that script would do, you have no business administering Linux for pay. I'm not saying that in a "GTFO noob" way, but in a "maybe you should know how to use your job's tools before people depend on you to do so." None of that script is using exotic syntax.

> Note that you had to use 'awk', which is a parser, and then three uses of 'grep' -- a regular expression language, which is also a kind of parsing.

They _chose_ to. You _can_ do it all with awk (see my example in a separate post).

> Literally in every discussion about PowerShell there's some Linux person who's only ever used bash complaining that PS syntax is "weird" or "hard to read". What are they talking about!? It's half the complexity for the same functionality, reads like English, and doesn't need write-only hieroglyphics for parameters.

And yet somehow, bash and its kin continue to absolutely dominate usage.

There is a reason that tools like ripgrep [0] are beloved and readily accepted: they don't require much in the way of learning new syntax; they just do the same job, but faster. You can load your local machine up with all kinds of newer, friendlier tools like fd [1], fzf[2], etc. – I definitely love fzf to death. But you'd better know how to get along without them, because when you're ssh'd onto a server, or god forbid, exec'd into a container built with who-knows-what, you won't have them.

Actually, that last point sparked a memory: what do you do when you're trying to debug a container and it doesn't have things like `ps` available? You iterate through the `/proc` filesystem, because _everything is a file._ THAT is why the *nix way exists, is wonderful, and is unlikely to ever change. There is always a way to get the information you need, even if it's more painful.

[0]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

[1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

[2]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Before, if you read a sci-fi story and wanted an explanation of a plot point or how some tech worked, you would just imagine it and move on. Maybe you had a friend you could talk it through with, but there were a lot less of us back then.

Now there is a thriving ecosystem around these discussions. People put forth their theories, other people debunk them. They spend hours reading and writing fan fiction to flesh them out. They immerse themselves in the act of participating in the world-building in a way that was simply not possible before.

There is a feedback loop here - more engagement leads to more controversy leads to more engagement.

Certainly some people have always questioned things, but it seems impossible to me that these new ways of engaging haven’t resulted in changes in the quantity and qualities of these types of fans/readers.
The Weight of the Co-Sign
Let me set a karma that other users must meet before seeing my username.
My thought exactly.

They don't want to have to deal with the model's "thought crimes"
Not saying any about Apples bug bounty program, i manage my companies bug bounty program and for every good submission we get about 10 from India where they xss themselves in web browser console or similar hard to read texts that lead to nothing.

And now we starting to get a lot of AI generated submitted stuff. Take a lot of effort just sort trough the bullshit to accept the good ones, and then to manage it and fix things within SLA when not critical is very easy it gets pushed very down the backlog, competing with all different kind of request from customers to fix things. Code changes might be a one liner but testing etc can blow up stuff to be a very long process.
sounds right up intels ally.
> you aren't really memory-safe until you migrated all your codebase to the subset.

That's true for every gradual migration, even to another language. At the limit any rust code that uses 'unsafe' is not really memory safe for small values of 'really'.

Perfect is the enemy of good. An incremental improvement to the status quo is still an improvement.

Although I'm firmly in the "I'll believe [the practicality] when I'll see it" camp, I'm all in favour of these experiments with memory safety.
To be fair, rich or upper middle class European is probably actually a better gig than old-timey king from when they were in charge, hah. No countries want to kill them as a major political objective anymore, the creature comforts produced by modern industrialized societies are incredible if you can afford them, and even the nobility in a feudal system has bunch of stupid rules they have to follow, which we’ve just thrown out in liberal democracies.
> It’s an artfully constrained design system

Have to disagree it's a design system - it's basically a theme. Consistent colors, fonts, borders, spacing is handy for sure - but Tailwind is not a great option if you expect to drop it in and have building block components, etc without a lot of work.
I have found a lot of people I know (who have excellent English, but aren't native English speakers) despise metaphors.

This is purely anecdotal, but I am married to a woman from Eastern Europe and I grew up in a schooling system that was primarily Cantonese and Mandarin speaking immigrants. All of these people had trouble speaking English in their formative years and became professionals with excellent English.

I will often use metaphors to describe things. For instance, when talking about a "stack" in computer programming, I go, "think of the plates in your dish cupboard". This works great with, say, my mother, who is an English speaker, she likes metaphor and simile. My friends and wife, they all go, "here you go again, stop using metaphors! Just tell me what's happening inside the computer. A computer is NOT a bunch of plates!"

This is a trivial example, but it actually happened! They did not want to discuss it with analogies or metaphorical connections!

This piqued my curiosity, I asked, "why don't you like metaphors?" and most of them responded, "it feels like you're talking down to me" or "I'm not a child you can use playthings to explain the world to, treat me like an adult or don't bother explaining it".

I asked them, "did any of my other behaviour make you feel like I thought you were a child?" and they responded, "no, not really, but once you started comparing things to other things, I got uncomfortable."

When we really got down to it, they all admitted the truth to me. Using the somewhat complex language of comparisons, metaphors, simile... it reminded them of how they used to not understand English very well. These comparisons would confuse them when they were younger. Other kids would make fun of them for not "getting it" quickly enough.

This remembered emotion made them hate my present-day metaphors and analogies. Explanations in what a native speaker would consider "clear and concise" were frustrating and uncomfortable for them.

Just a reminder to all of us, not everyone thinks in the way this article preaches. Some folks would prefer a more direct linguistic approach and find it more respectful, approachable, etc. As our populations become more diverse, it is more and more important to meet people where they are and where it best respects their lived experience.
How EU forced Ireland and Apple into a €13B tax defeat
They generally don't but they have instinct of survival(as all living beings) so they essentially want to live as long as they can. But mammals do have emotions and when they see their fellow buddy dead, they start to mourn. I remember watching documentary about monkeys and scientists put plastic monkey on the floor acting dead in front of group of monkeys and monkeys gathered together, hug each other and started crying, thinking the dead monkey was one of them. I think that was ephemeral emotion and thought but in that moment they knew that they can die too.
FISA only applies to domestic companies, it’s not enforceable anywhere else. According to https://www.zdnet.com/article/when-the-feds-come-knocking-th... the orders (warrants?) are served to ISPs but they’re too secret to be kept by them.
oh yeah actually Safe Haskell will be on its way out, it does not deliver on much and ecosystem adoption is a pain.
Why do they see it as the "end of experience"? Because they don't know what comes after it? When I see people use that explanation, I also see a fear of the unknown. Nobody has any idea what comes after death: It could be the start of a brighter and better experience or it could be absolutely nothing.

Taking things to the far extreme, for all we know, there could actually be a heaven or a hell as described by one of the desert-dwelling hallucinogen-enjoying people whose book caught on. And I don't mean some ethereal concept, I mean the actual things with 72 virgins or angels with 100 eyes and 50 wings and wheels on their wheels. Despite feeling implausible, we have exactly as much evidence of nothingness after death as we do of a heaven or a hell.

Before you mention that this is absurd because there's no brain activity after death, we still don't know how the brain and "mind" work, we can't observe the vast majority of matter or energy in the universe, and there's a lot we don't know. Filling that unknown space in with "it's the end of everything I experience" is as irrational as filling that in with "72 virgins if I kill enough infidels."
Programmer I Know • Daniel Terhorst-North • Goto 2024 [video]
> You'll never have to see politics, war, or negativity on your timeline again

Sounds healthy to live in a padded room, rather than learning to ignore when you don't want to engage.
> hide the names unless visitor is logged in

I hate websites that do this.

People know that what they're putting here will be public, they make the judgment themselves if they're okay with that.
> I'm not sure why I would need/want to push 10A to each battery?

Because the soldering iron in question dissipates 100W, and 100W is a substantial amount of power?

If a soldering iron is drawing 100W from a 2S pair of 18650 batteries, then:

The cells are supplying ~13.5A of current through their contacts.

To get below 5A, we'd need a six 18650s in a 6S configuration. Certainly doable (a relatively inexpensive [for a packaged battery] 24V Kobalt power tool battery has 6S 18650s), but beginning to be chonky.
Have you ever seen soldering this close? [video]
by the way, for me, all this seems to have more to do with meaning-making frameworks (cf. article). all good.
A major component of that for my grandparents is that they live four floors up without an elevator.

Interestingly, their next door neighbour is also still among us and the general pattern was that people in that block would start passing away starting from the lowest floors.

It's a small thing, but I can see how it works - living on the third floor I see that my joints are better lubricated than back when I was living on the ground floor, so taking long walks is also no issue.
I tend to agree, but just because I’d rather not read it, and not because it’s actually irrelevant. If you’re making cultural commentary, especially about how culture is changing, it gets political. Perhaps that is less true for many decades but not so for this one. Seems like culture is generally ahead of politics and actually creating it, subject to some delay. But lately the opposite is true.
Show HN: Diffumon – A Basic Image Generating Diffusion Model
I wanted to start getting into paper reproduction, so I created an implementation of Ho et al 2020 - the basic diffusion model that showed diffusion is a viable technique for image generation.

I hope this implementation is a bit simpler than others, and certainly easier to install/reproduce than other implementations for educational purposes.
It seems to me that the evil of having haphazard laws that are enforced arbitrarily on discretion is worse than the evil of heritage loss. This solution is much worse than the cure. Yes it's hard for governments to write narrowly tailored laws to achieve narrowly tailored objectives while avoiding loopholes. That doesn't mean they should devolve into making overly broad laws and then enforcing those laws arbitrarily. That's just behaving like a tyrant.
I love that they also wrote a VCS for classic Mac OS, a GitHub equivalent for it and also self-host on that too.
> you make as you play or experience it, traditional fiction can seem arbitrary, even dictatorial. "I wouldn't make that choice, so why should this viewpoint character?" is the sensibility.

> One obvious corollary is that this new generation of readers (not you: if you're reading this blog then, like me, you're probably pale, male, and stale) are inclined to reject the immutability of a described reality that contradicts their own preferences. "The people in this story are not like me: I find this implausible so I'm leaving it a one-star review" is to be expected. But that's already the case

Is the author saying that that new readers lack empathy?
This is the result of giving your Android TV WIFI access. Use it like a dumb monitor and such exploits go away.
They just don't make readers, period. Between netflix, tiktok, games, discord and everything else in people's life, who's reading anymore?

Sure, some will read the random wattpad smut, or isekai royalroad story, or the random fanfic; but that's the equivalent of eating soda for dinner: feels good in the moment, bloats you up and it's completely devoid of any nutrition whatsoever. Also messes up the mouth and stomach bacterial ecosystem.

And so no one puts in the hours, nobody puts in the effort and dedication to build taste and to build the necessary mental stamina for difficult readings. To read becomes a very niche activity, like calligraphy, or drawing. A gaping hole widens in mankind's soul and there's nothing that would fill it up again.
Cats die weirdly. In my experience, they get sick and pretend nothing is wrong for as long as they can. Then, they suddenly crawl into some hiding spot and try to quietly give up the ghost. Or when they're very plainly chronically sick (eg. renal failure, where they'll vomit all over the place, all the time), they might just drop dead on the spot, but not before trying to pretend everything is just 'super a-ok fine, I'm not nearly dead, what do you mean my hind legs are barely functional', for years.

Otoh we had a dog when I was a kid, and near the end you could just see the self-pity in its droopy eyes. 'No I will not go for a walk, can you see how miserable my existence has become? Woe is me.'
I'll give you my theory: Modern processed foods.
If you invent a universe, why wouldn’t you have the rights to it? Doesn’t seem crazy to me.

It’s not like fanfics or theories are illegal.

People always have their “headcanons”
U.S. Govt pushes Nvidia and Apple to use Intel's foundries
That just gives a false sense of security. Someone who means harm would simply set themselves to each city successively, while people believe it to be private (similar to the location feature in dating apps that keeps being broken to find people's exact addresses). Not that I see what harm there is in associating a username with a (nearby) city when one makes that choice consciously, so it's not like the dating app situation where you (1) believe the location will remain secret and (2) it being revealed means your exact address is now known
With respect to four floor walkup, by this logic, excepting other factors which might negate it, you would expect there to be a preponderance of exceptionally aged people in New York.
Why is Intel more American than AMD?
As Mark Twain said the one who can read and chooses not to, has no advantage over those who can’t read at all. This sadly reflects in our current politically morass imo.
It is insincere pandering to claim to relate to legitimate struggles of an ethnic group by acting like you are part of that group, when in reality you grew up completely separate from that group and aren’t even the same ethnicity.

I think the confusing part is when people act like they are offended by this when really they wouldn’t care if not for being opposed to the person politically. So it’s like insincere mimicry of offense at insincere mimicry.
We have circuit breakers for that very purpose. Everyone on the street does. It's just that theirs seems to have failed for some reason.
The Fallacy of Bifurcation – With Examples from Computer Science and Economics [video]
You have actually good coffee at work??

The only office I know in our work where the coffee is decent is the one in Paris where they have a real coffee bar inside the office with a real barista (and cost-price pricing).

But in all the other offices we just have vending machines that spit out horrible swill.
> you cannot send messages directly to a goroutine

Goroutines communicate through channels, all you need is a queue (eg buffered chan).

> you cannot terminate a goroutine from another goroutine

Termination is propagated via context cancellation. go-A cancels ctx, go-B waits with `select`, reads from `<-ctx.Done()` and does a `return`, or checks it after each blocking call.

> there are no "goroutine-local variables"

Not sure if I got this one, but every var in a function's scope, which has been `go`-routined, would qualify.

I'm currently working on a lib/framework somehow related to Ergo, but taking a more "generic" approach of a state machine[0]. It may solve some of the mentioned issues with Go, like addressing and queues for communication.

You seem to be very attached to an idea of using the same goroutine for a long time, whereas it's usually more dynamic and only schedulers are long lived `go`-s.

[0]: https://github.com/pancsta/asyncmachine-go
You’re right. The Western culture of outsourcing all your labor, emissions and garbage and acting high and mighty about it.

The whole article is about Americans buying too much from SHEIN. How did you spin it into Sinophobia?
What does the author mean by "pale, male and stale"?
Tor had a militaristic orientation? That must have been before the Nielsen Haydens were running it - my first instinct was to think "surely he means Baen, yes?" But Baen was always niche even for sf, so far as I can tell.

Irrelevant personal politics aside and in entire fairness to Stross, his use of "fascist" in this article is quoting someone who had complained about the fascism supposedly implicit in worldbuilding.
Mostly marketing/branding, but also that AMD is using TSMC of course.

If you asked someone not in tech "which one is american" out of AMD and Intel, they would say Intel; despite the "A" in AMD literally standing for "American"...
Thanks! I will ask for a darker roast next time then. I always buy dark roast cups too.
It could be a lot more closed than it is, from a general public perspective. i.e. the company having this cool AI and we not even getting the opportunity to use it at all.
zoning has uses, like avoiding cancer causing industries in the middle of residential areas. It's just used to support housing as an industry. It could be used to increase housing affordability, reduce urban deserts requiring long drives to the nearest grocery stores etc... if it was wanted.
The public / non-government sector (especially in Europe) has been quite keen for decades in (linked) open data, knowledge graphs and associated technologies. Yet applications, tools and, ultimately usability, awareness and adoption have been lagging.

In this sense this project offers a remarkable, albeit implicit, endorsement of that broader open data space, as it comes from a major private sector entity and links with the hot LLM technology of the day.

At high level though, this design seems to violate the "bitter lesson" gospel [1].

> 1) AI researchers have often tried to build knowledge into their agents

Which is at the same refreshing (as there is something very incomplete and self-defeating in the "scaling" hypothesis) and hints at the difficulties of meaningfully integrating very heterogeneous sources and representations of information.

[1] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
I'm sorry about that. I didn't realize it would be a problem. It's been reported before and I'll work on this. Thanks for sharing!
Just gonna correct one thing here; fanfiction and other such forms of fanwork existed before the internet in the form of fanzines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanzine

Many things associated with the internet and forums and social media predated its existence, they were just harder to learn about when distribution was more difficult.

And with franchises like Star Trek and Doctor Who also being incredibly popular back in the 60s, a lot of things that people associate with modern fandom were quite visible back then too. The actor who played the 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) was into the show enough that his demands to run the fan club and letters to the BBC had some of the production staff joke they wished the Daleks would exterminate him:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386587/Young-Peter...

The last showrunner before RTD's return (Chris Chibnall) was a vocal member of the fanclub that appeared on TV complaining about the state of the program and its writing:

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/bbc-archive-dr-wh...

And fans have written off storylines and elements they dislike since who knows when. If you follow the history of fandom through things like letters and BBS boards and Usenet and whatever else, you'll see many of the same things you see on social media today, whether that's fans rejecting the series 'canon' or timeline or worldbuilding, criticism that things have gone downhill, fanworks and concepts, etc.

The internet merely took this sort of media engagement from something you'd have to specifically seek out, to something that's front and centre on platforms with millions of people.
You want a dropdown listing every city in the world?
Would a man ever actually say: "Hey yes I'm drinking black coffee to look more manly"?

I mean I absolutely don't care about looking manly but someone who does would not undermine said manliness by admitting to it :)
Didn't Google create the problem.
They could have made the Android core updatable without the need for a manufacturer update