skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife teaches art (drawing, painting) at a couple of senior centers. She is also a fairly accomplished (but not judged, doesn't enter many carving contests) carver; she started that to do something with her dad (and indirectly that led to the art teaching gigs at the senior centers). Her dad was an origami master; I dunno, I do a little origami.

Here are some of the benefits for older adults of these activities: staves off dementia and improves motor control. How do you do it? You start drawing circles and straight lines; I'm only sort of kidding. She actually teaches people about transferring drawings (to e.g. canvas), layering paint (it's not going to look like the final picture when you start): things that require envisioning the final goal and laying foundations to achieve that... along with drawing circles and lines.

It's not something you asked, but (to my relief and profit) I can still paint a house: painted one this summer, and I got compliments from strangers. Call it a hobby, I don't think I'd get the same personal satisfaction if it was a job. ;-)

I think in general adults forget how hard it is to be a kid, what Piaget called "hard fun". Find, and celebrate, some hard fun in your life.
The beginning of the article should put your mind at ease:

> To adhere with the requisite language outlined, any food products with a date label — with the exception of infant formula, eggs, beer, and malt beverages — must state “Best if Used By” to indicate peak quality, and “Use By” to designate food safety.
date of manufacture, or date of processing is far more practical to the consumer
Fun fact: la brea means "the tar", so the La Brea Tar Pits literally translates to "the the tar tar pits".
i hate how Zionism has become a bad word, like it's some world domination conspiracy theory. as a Zionist myself, it's not at all likely that IA was attacked to take down Zionist-related material as these material are neither embarrassing nor damaging to Israel. on the contrary, I would like for them to stay up and be archived for all eternity.

what is more likely is that these pro-Palestinian hacktivists are once more engaging in misplaced activism, targeting those they perceive as tied to Israel, regardless of whether those targets have any direct connection. just see the boycott movements... they're boycotting Gal Gadot, McDonalds, and Starbucks
Just look at your teeth. We are built to be omnivores.
It always bugs me when I see that pattern in JavaScript, because each `map`, etc. call is an array allocation. Yeah, yeah, I know that the VM's memory allocators are likely optimized for fast allocation, but that doesn't make the allocation completely free.
In that case you don't have to bring coca into it at all, that just muddies the waters. All you have to do it look at Marcellus Williams and Richard Glossip and compare how they were/are being treated to how Donald Trump is being treated.
Many foods are unregulated. It's strange that milk, for example, doesn't have any requirements for its expiration date. One brand widened their "best buy" date and I noticed their milk was souring 3 days before the "best buy" date. After contacting them several times, I told them that they gave me no option but to escalate this to authorities, they didn't seem concerned a bit, and after doing my research, I found out that they can put anything on the label without repercussions. The manufacturer even recommended the record stupid stuff like using the milk in smoothies and other odor and taste masking means to make it "best." So, even "best buy" for foods that can make you sick is meaningless!
There are many different engineers with many different interests. Some senior engineers should be talking to clients, but some should in no way be allowed to talk to them. Some senior engineers get there by knowing the client. Some get there by make the code "better". Some get there by creating tools everyone else uses. Some get there by digging into the really hard problems. Some get there by mentoring others. Some get there by figuring out the big picture and building an architecture that works better. Some get there by figuring out priorities and getting the real important stuff done. Some get there by writing ads, projecting financials, messing with Figma. I'm sure there is more that I can't think of now.

There is nothing wrong with anything on the above list. Depending on your situation some will be more important than others. It is not possible for one person to do everything in the above list well, though often you need to do more than one. Some of them are better done by departments - but if an engineer is interested does it matter (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't). Your junior engineers should be thinking about what they like and what is needed - then positioning themselves to their future senior role.

The only really bad thing is when a mid level engineer is so good at something that you don't realize how important they are and so don't promote them to senior much less principal. (bad because when they leave that you didn't promote them is a sign to others you don't care about that and so the juniors didn't study it to become a backup - if you really don't care then you should be talking to that person about their waste of time side activity)
Fast Rust expression evaluation with custom assembly
It's obviously just skill issue
> What if inflation was really way above 10 %? Car insurance went up 20 %, homeowners insurance 10 %

You’re may be in one of the regions seeing higher inflation [1]. (Florida, Maine, New York, Arizona, Texas and South Carolina being the worst hit in 2023.)

In Wyoming, my homeowner’s is up 10%. But car is flat/down, gas is down, and fresh veggies down—altogether I’m spending less than a few months ago on basics.

[1] https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/personal-consumption-expenditu...
Players comfortable with the ASCII graphics version (the one that existed for years) often just paid for Steam release with pretty graphics just to support the brothers. And then kept playing the "hardcore" version they are used to.
As someone with an ultrawide monitor, this seems like a really neat solution. Thanks for sharing it!
Well... maybe. What I mean by novel fold would be something that isn't a product of evolution, because that's going to be incremental modifications to existing structures. That's why overfitting can be especially devious in this scenario.
> What was the expected value?

2.3% was forecast and 2% is the target.
I know.

Have you been to Mississippi?

Perhaps a study indicating that maybe repeat storms is a factor, would help understand why they have a difficult time, and what to solve for. That would help explain why the richest country in the world could have pockets of complete backward destitution.
Yeah there are lots of reasons to go into the warm case: in addition to genuine effort on the asker, urgency, criticality, or relationship building can all tip the balance.
Study Links Calorie Restriction to Longevity
Nature vs Nurture I guess. If more people = more progress we would see way more innovation coming from China/India/Africa.

Each of those places has double the population of Europe and 5X that of the USA, but aren't really driving human progress in any meaningful way. It seems like pouring more resources into fewer people has better outcomes. 2-3 generations of depopulation might be what we need to make space for some huge innovations.
seems plausible.
After Google shoving manifest v3 down our throats I think it's time for some regulator pressure on them.

An advertisement company should really not have such a stranglehold on web browsing.
> How are you supposed to know if you have milk that will quickly go bad etc.?

The milk will say "Best if Used By <date>".

This information can be found in the fifth sentence in the article.
There are also left-handed pens. They're geometrically identical to right-handed[1], but they contain faster-drying ink.

[1] Unless they are a high-end pen with a nub, rather than just a ballpoint. A pen with a nub may have left-handed or right-handed versions of the nub.
I'm hoping someone can answer a question that's been bugging me for years: When I take blood pressure medication my blood pressure goes down but my heart rate goes up[1]. That can't be good. Heart rate has a strong inverse correlation with lifespan, and this even holds across species (animals with higher heart rates have shorter lifespans). So does lowering blood pressure reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, etc, but nevertheless shorten your lifespan in other ways because of a higher heart rate?

[1] I've verified this for myself with careful record keeping over long periods of starting/stopping different BP meds, but I'm not entirely sure it's true for everyone.
>Customer selection is not corruption.

depends on the selection process, of course. At least in the US and I imagine most of the EU. You can paint a ferrari pink and get blacklisted. Not sure how it would go if they say they don't sell to women...
I believe this is an example of ludonarrative dissonance. The camera is simply at a fixed offset from the train model.
Ask HN: Has anyone purposely hired someone in the Autism spectrum?
A large company in my country posted some tech-related openings saying that they would like to hire someone who has been diagnosed formally with Autism.

I was very skeptical about such a posting. It sounds like a big corp just want to write a bullet point about "doing good in the community" without understanding what those individuals need in a workplace. A large workplace is cruel for people who cannot read faces, read between the lines and work together with other. Educating the entire department on Autism spectrum on short notice could be unrealistic.

The stereotypes say the folks with Autism are so good in one single thing that other shortcomings are overlooked. In reality, many have just average or above-average intelligence but are not genius. They could be "brillant jerks". If you have two people with the same skillset, you'd choose someone with people skills because teamwork is important in modern workplaces.

Someone I know has a formal diagnosis for Autism. They went for training in tech. They are high-functioning that they read & write, navigate the city and play video games. They need special prompting to say what they could do: Open-ended questions such as "tell me about yourself" would invite a blank face for them. Even if they disclose their disability at job application time, I wonder what the HR and the hiring team could accommodate given the hiring process is here for fairness to all candidates.

This person wasn't offered a job even after going through the in-person interview.
That’s not a real life video. Is a capture from a train simulator app.

Like Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for trains.

Example: https://www.trainsimworld.com/
Yes, I understand that you can do anything with imports. But that's not part of the Wasm spec. That's a capability the host has decided to give the module. Of course the person with the most privilege can always open holes up, but that capability is not there by default.
> My issue with the go way of iterators is, you can’t chain them like you would in JavaScript

You are not supposed to chain them. This addiction to try and chain everything everywhere all the time is so freaking weird and has been for a very long time.

Not only you are completely losing grasp on what is going on and write code prone to errors, but you are making it unreadable for other people that will be maintaining or just reading your code who will come long after you are gone from the company or abandon your library.

This is where Go's simplicity approach and splitting each action into its own for loop or block of code is a godsend for maintainability.
> Product owner isn’t a dictator, but they are ultimately responsible for the product.

they are accountable for the product.

when there’s a problem, they’re the ones who take the schtick for it.

engineers are responsible for the product.

they are the ones who fix the problem the product owner is getting schtick for.

accountability always goes up, responsibility always goes down.

this may seem like a nitpick. but it’s an important nitpick.

because the more accountable someone is made for something they care about, the more invested they are in making it succeed.

a lot of engineers care very deeply about the things they are making.
This is _genius_. I have been using RegionToShare in Windows to share only a section of a widescreen monitor, but didn't have a good Mac equivalent. Now I have something that may well work _just as well_ with Windows inside Parallels (need to try that ASAP, am on the "wrong" Mac now).

Edit: A quick test shows that yes, the Windows VM sees the additional display just fine--but, alas, Parallels doesn't let me pass _just_ one physical and that virtual display to the VM, so I can't have my "personal" portrait monitor unoccupied by Windows...
Is this article layout busted for anyone else on mobile? The words are all cut off on the right side of the screen in portrait and landscape in safari and firefox, I had to resort to reader mode to actually make it readable.

> Set in a near-future dystopian Detroit, Arnason’s story imagines a writer working at home on a novel about a space-age heroine battling a “warlord’s minions” and trying to rescue her would-be lover. Meanwhile, through the newspaper, the radio, and the window the terrible reality of life keeps intruding on the writer’s thoughts.

Seems like an interest storytelling device though - on the todo list it goes!
Not sure having Northern Retiree's bring in capital is a great business plan for other states or countries.

Florida has nice weather and beaches, not some great Silver City on a Hill.
Since this is HN where the house style is

-Wpedantic -Werror

I'll note that the correction is flawed too: it's 24% of Medicare (the program for old people), not Medicaid (the program for low income people).
Meteorologists get death threats as hurricane conspiracy theories thrive
Are they turning their brains off or on?
> but having a site which changes a lot but is still static can cost a arm and leg

How so? Seems like it would be trivial in PHP
What an intriguing idea. I wonder if I could do something similar on linux by placing a second monitor on top of my current one with xrandr.
The original version relied on no fewer than five different imported functions from a package that, if you're not already familiar with them, you would have to go read to see exactly what they do.

The updated version has just one such function.

A function gets less readable as you have to go context switch to more and more different functions to understand what it's doing.

Yes, the `slices` functions are named such that you can make a decent educated guess as to what they're doing, but if there's a problem you're trying to debug that doesn't save you from having to dive into each one.
The secret behind this camera is that it exists within a virtual world, and therefore can freely float anywhere ;)

An easier giveaway might be the floating teal icons on the station platform.
When I was in college, at a house party we were all guessing for how long the oldest item in the fridge had been expired. It was a shared flat for four people, so we bet something like half a year or so. The hot sauce expired more than four years before. I am not sure anyone dared to eat some though.
No, it's not a compiler bug or even necessarily an unwelcome optimization. It's a more precise answer than the original two expressions would have produced and precision is ultimately implementation defined. The only thing you can really say is that it's not strictly conforming in the standards sense, which is true of all FP.
Ask HN: What happens after Vercel enshittifies?
The vendor lock-in stuff that Vercel is doing right now with serverless functions and turning Next.js into open core sits very uneasily with me. If Vercel is currently screwing over it's everyday users in pursuit of enterprise, then what is supposed to come after is screwing over enterprise to extract rent.

The javascript ecosystem is pretty resilient and will bounce back, but what will happen after the capture and stagnation of Next.js? What is it likely to be replaced with?

It seems like there's movement at the moment towards cloud-agnostic infrastructure which seems right to me, but what happens to the frontend space as a whole?
Manifest v3 is entirely avoidable. You have the option (on most proper systems) to select a browser for yourself and protest Google's client-side issues. If you're having Manifest v3 shoved down your throat, it is probably your OEM's issue more than Google's.

What isn't competitive and will be scrutinized, is Google's AdSense business.
I don't believe in nationalizing anything and there just needs to be competition.

Even if we do want to nationalize anything for security reasons, defense contractors should be at the top on the list but they have already bought the US government so DOJ is after those who haven't paid their dues
I'm mildly surprised because it's been adopted fairly universally for multi-document / multi-tab apps. E.g. most editors with tabs will also use it to close the current document.
I prefer "packed on" dates. With "best by" dates you have no idea what the actual age of the product is. Either for comparing freshness when buying it or for deciding whether to consume it later.
Not to mention all of US jobs that we said "Ta ta" to as they went to India. I worked for GE during that time and the US divisions were pretty bad as well. The handwriting was on the wall with the future of the company. I'm sure someone in the C-Suite wrote a Kaizen to shift that inefficiency overseas and probably got a bonus for it as well.
>went up

Went up over what period? Inflation was quite high from mid-2021 to mid-2023, peaking around 9% (annualized) in June 2022. But since mid-2023, the inflation rate has been steady and not very high. Prices haven't gone back to what they were before, which you really don't want because deflation is worse than inflation. But prices aren't going up the way they were 2 and 3 years ago, but that doesn't mean we don't still feel it.
> Not sure if it’s ready for production, but see that article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-dotNET-RISC-V

> It's coming from a Samsung engineer, Dong-Heon Jung, who is involved with the .NET platform team and works on it as part of his role at Samsung.

answer: no

> According to nVidia, the answer is yes: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/hybridizer-csharp/

> Dec 13, 2017

answer: no

> Not sure, probably not.

correct, the answer is no.

again: this isn't politics, this is software, where the details actually matter.
I think that's game footage, but not sure what game it is. The train game or sim genre has a bunch of folks who go incredibly deep and accurate in their representations of real trains.

If you want an incredibly detailed 3 hour history of the genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vwE_p9SCXw
I refuse to believe anyone not under threat of grievous bodily harm has written down the phrase 'In a dynamic, fast-paced world' of their own free will.
CPU instruction sets do account for signed vs unsigned integers. SHR vs SAR for example. It's part of the ISAs. I'm calling this out as AFAIK, the JVM has no support for unsigned ints and so that in turn makes WASM a little more compelling.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/Shift_and_Rotate
"Pontifex Maximus" was originally the high priest of Jupiter in Rome, dating all the way back to the Roman monarchy and before the Roman republic. "Pontifex Maximus" is currently the official title of the pope (in a sense, still the highest priest in Rome). I don't think anybody still has the title "Pharaoh".
How is that relevant to the literature prize?
Rust is a great game that captivates with its dynamic and survival elements in an open world. But it's not just playing that excites me—I also enjoy betting on tennis through the https://1wins.com.ph/ platform. However, I personally prefer real sports competitions. Live sports, especially tennis, give me far more satisfaction than any video game. I love playing tennis, feeling every racket swing, every change in the ball’s speed and direction.
This site stands out with its user-friendly interface, a wide range of sports events, and competitive odds. On 1Win, you can find both major tournaments like Wimbledon and the French Open, as well as lesser-known competitions that offer great betting opportunities.

1Win is known for its reliability and fast payouts, which are important factors for me. The platform also offers a mobile app, allowing you to place bets anywhere, anytime. Thanks to watch, I can combine my love for tennis with the added thrill of betting, making watching matches even more exciting.
Or people could find a middle ground and join

https://bearblog.dev

Simple, has text-focused CMS, lightweight and content generated is static. Plus, dev is a nice guy.
Does the job in question have anything to do with accessibility? It seems like the most obvious and one of few positive reasons to make a listing like this.
Right, but none of that says anything to the effect of "excluding non-commercial use". It's a blanket assignment for "hosting of blogs and web sites that utilize any version or component of the WordPress open source publishing platform product or open source successor..."

That means Automattic's rights ares not restricted in any way despite their claims that The Foundation has exclusive non-commercial rights and Automattic does not.
Studios: Please don't spoil the movie we are seated to see
I understand what you are saying ...

You aren't guaranteed that your microcontrollers float is going to match your desktop. Microcontrollers are riddled with bugs, unless you need floats and fixedpoint is fast enough. My recommendation is still to use fixedpoint if application is high reliability.

Esp if your code needs to be portable across arm, risc-v, etc.
Right, but there are two variables in that equation. If the economy were stronger and more productive people could earn higher salaries. Don't get me wrong, I don't like taxes either (I live in Switzerland and pay relatively low rates of income tax) but it just seems like a loser move to decide that the solution is to fiddle with the taxes, rather than figure out how to make it a place people can build a great life in, including salaries, services, fun, comfort, safety ... all the different things that are important to people.
A lot of the 19th and 20th century thinking on population growth was completely up-ended by several major advances: first the Haber-Bosch process of fixing atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia/fertilizer (and now "Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process"), then the discovery of antibiotics (which basically enables modern surgery), modern sanitization, and so on. And since then we've been changing things so fast that I don't think it's easy to predict what things will look like 3 generations from now. What happens if we figure out fusion in 100 years, and fusion power does to several other industries what Haber-Bosch did for agriculture? What if we figure out some major part of human cell senescence and people live to 200-300?

Interesting times coming, to be sure. But I'm a bit more optimistic. We figure things out, eventually.
Cats Effect manages effects using an IO monad. Most of the projects I currently work with use it.

This is why I say it's not useful to try to draw a strict line. I'm not going to argue with you on whether using an IO monad in an impure language is "pure FP" or not, but some Scala devs would. That argument in itself is not nearly as illuminating as knowing all the tools and concepts.
Vinegar based hot sauces, and/or hot sauces that are very high in sodium, usually yes, but not always.

Particularly if the sauce includes unstrained organic bits such as garlic or onions, or includes oils - botulism (odorless, tasteless) can be a non-zero risk.

At some point, that crusty $5 bottle of hot sauce you found in the back of the fridge should just get tossed out instead of taking the risk.