skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I expect I will be/look/appear older and older the older I get.

I have a suspicion that something is being miscommunicated between you and many others here. (I admit that I might be wrong. But hear me out.)

It sounds like you are thinking about the visual signs of aging. Like wrinkling of the face, or salt-and-pepper hair. That kind of thing. And sure, there is a lot of vain people who would like to stop that from happening.

But in general the aging people want to defeat is not the wrinkled face. It is things like our immune system demonstrably going to crap as we turn older. Or losing muscle mass. Or becoming senile. Or our bones becoming more fragile.

For young people the flue is basically an inconvenience (by and large). But as we age things like seasonal flue becomes huge issues. People's immune system used to work for decades without a hitch, and then suddenly it decides to crap out. Why?

I can also put it into a more mathematical framework. If maybe that helps? Imagine plotting the probability of a human dying in their x'th year assuming that they have survived before x-1 years. If you plot this now you would see a sort of bath-tub like curve. There is some chance a newborn dies in their first few years of life due to birth defects. Because of that the first few years have a higher probability of death. Then the plot plateaus, and the probability remains basically constant low number for multiple decades. People can still die due to violence, or accidents, or random health issues, but the chance of that doesn't really change much from year to year. And as you approach the other "side" of the bath-tub you see that the probability starts climbing again. And this climb is quite rapid. By the time you are 100ish (plus minus a few years) you have fairly good chances of dying in any given year. And then around 105ish you have about even chances of dying or staying alive in each year. And then we don't have anyone who ever lived to 130.

On this kind of plot if we were to defeat aging what you would see is that the plateau remains constant. That is the chances of a 35 year old dying in the next year where the same as the 135 year old dying in the next year.
If you don't like cookies and don't want to be tracked, perhaps you should disable all cookies in your browser.

It's really simple, you'll get no more cookies ever. That tracking vector is totally disabled and you have full control over it. There's absolutely no need for a cookie banner for a person to be free of cookies.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-...
> but rather the long-term psychological effects of filling every spare moment with entertainment.

Oh, for sure. I mean I'm in my 40s and have never owned a TV and have spent every morning with my meditation practice for a very long time. Even on 14+ hour flights I tend to just sit there, maybe listening to music a bit, but largely doing my meditation practice. I'm totally on board with people being present in their environments.

But of all the places for someone to use something like the Vision Pro, an airplane seems totally reasonable to me. I'm much more concerned with people needing to scroll TikTok while on the escalator at Whole Foods and what that says about society than someone watching a movie on an international flight!
The Minnesota law which provides exactly this goes into effect in 2025.

https://www.allaboutadvertisinglaw.com/2024/06/minnesota-joi...
Those who are pro-market probably consider the companies cropping up to be evidence that legislation is not needed (as the market is addressing the issue). I'm not such a person, fwiw.
Another (properly functional) homoiconic language that enjoyed mainstream adoption briefly in '00s is XSLT. Its metaprogramming features were rather widely used, that is, producing an XSLT from XSLT and maybe some more XML, instead of hand-coding something repetitive, was rather normal.

The syntax was a bigger problem than Lisp's syntax, though.

It's not easy to produce a language with a syntax that's good as daily use syntax, but is also not unwieldy as an AST. Lisp is one of the few relatively successful examples.
Microsoft forced a lot of uniformity on x86 designs, with standard methods of probing to find all of the buses and devices, while historically ARM devices where embedded and the architecture was arbitrary, which was why you needed device trees. The kernel couldn't figure out the device configuration on its own.
Kernighan spends a page whittling strcpy down to just that, with various intermediate versions. After showing you that version, he describes it like this:

Although this may seem cryptic at first sight, the notational convenience is considerable, and the idiom should be mastered, because you will see it frequently in C programs.
You greatly overestimate the speed at which bureacracy moves
What is the best AI/automated code review tool?
CodeMind, CodeAnt, CodeRabbit, etc...

Separate the marketing from reality...what are you using, do you find it useful, and why?
I wish someone did slightly smaller models still. Not phone size, but bit down. Would be easier to carry sometimes.
When people try and say that regulating stuff like this is impossible, I often think about how unreasonably great the regulations around “Unsubscribe” links in emails are.

There really seems to be no loophole or workaround despite there being huge incentive for there to be one. Every time I click an “Unsubscribe” link in an email (it seems like they’re forced to say “Unsubscribe” and not use weasel words to hide the link) I’m either immediately unsubscribed from the person who sent me the email, or I’m taken to a page which seemingly MUST have a “remove me from all emails” option.

The level of compliance (and they can’t even do malicious compliance!) with this is absurd. If these new rules work anything like that, they’ll be awesome. Clearly regulating behavior like this is indeed possible.
I agree. Especially that last bit.

I've thought about this quite a bit since I responded to a commenter who was somewhat was amazed at an ARM supercomputer quite a while ago about this subject. I decided to comment about this a lot more since it is my option to do so. cheers They had posited that ARM would take over, mostly recognizing the very low-power and fairly inexpensive ARM SoC in phone handsets and routers.

This thought didn't sit quite right with me. I considered the power requirements and architectural needs of a larger computer system. With many, many PCIe lanes or some other interconnect, rapid storage commitments and the very responsive performance required by a "serious" architecture will cause all of these subsystems to continually draw current and dissipate heat. This is in stark contrast to power efficient computing devices like iPhone or ARM macbooks, and in my mind seems likely to eat the "gains" that people generally associate with these devices.

The piece missing in my understanding is about the semiconductor industry and the electronics field in general, and is particularly interesting to me, because many of the highest-tier operators outsource %100~ of their production to TSMC or the other. There isn't anything magic or even very good about x86 architecture. I'm fairly certain the instruction set no longer maps to hardware in most cases, rather more analogous to function calls in typical software applications.

Every now and then I like to reflect that iPhone came out in 2007. My car is older than that, and we were well on our way during the election of Barack Obama. And while legends hold that Power still exists, I had long forgotten about ALPHA or SPARC by then.

Imagine for yourself this earth-shattering shift: What happens when the basic lithography processes, assembly practices, and validation procedures become such that for similar trade offs, any advanced hobbyist could order a wafer from future fab houses similar to JLPCB, Scaleway, OSH Park, TSMCWAY, or whatever on-demand? Like, what if you could just pay $$$$ to buy a wafer that you designed and then sell 14nm UltraSPARC on tindie?
I have Boox with android like you described. Quality doesn't compare with kindle though. I still prefer reading on kindle.
> As for the new Colorsoft, I'd really like to see some reviews.

Here's a hands-on Kindle Colorsoft review, Amazon's first color Kindle is the e-reader of my dreams,

https://www.tomsguide.com/tablets/e-readers/kindle-colorsoft...

submitted earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41858947
I used to think this especially since airlines touted how good the air filtration was when COVID hit.

It's actually quite poor and significantly worse than most indoor spaces I've entered (most spaces aren't great at around 800-1600ppm). On planes I've measured※ very high CO2 levels (1800-4000ppm), with the worst air during boarding and deplaning. This matches the findings of others (both amateur and professional researchers).

※ - using Aranet4
I've seen people argue for the most heinous shit here without so much as a slap on the wrist. HN isn't above politics, it's just above the _wrong_ politics.
HN is mostly developers. Why is there no palpable backlash against this? Security?! Have we fallen for that crap again?

If there's one place on the whole internet where it should begin taking shape, it's here. It's kinda sad. While I admire fellow Firefox users, 2% marketshare leaves no dent in Chrome's brutal dominance.

Has google really pushed chrome so far down our throats that there's no hope of destroying its monopoly?
Yeah the 3B are NOT open. The 8B are as they can be used under commercial license.
They are seriously ending the roof right at the wall? That is monumentally stupid and will guarantee a multitude of problems down the line.
A lot of people's salaries depend on screwing over customers.
There are contracts that are basically impossible to terminate and offer basically no benefit to anyone, timeshares is a key example of it.

A problem with our contract law is that if you get anything out of a contract it becomes really hard to terminate if the terms don't allow for it (a peppercorn). With contracts now being written in dense legalese with multiple pages of terms and conditions, it's not really feasible to expect the common contractor to have a full understanding of exactly what they are signing up for.
"The general idea of streaming changes from SQLite would work, but it's a lot of work"

Seems easy to me, just store/stream all update sql statements. That should have all information needed and don't have to mess with WAL data format etc.
For anybody wondering about the title, that's a sort-of pun in French about how words get pluralized following French rules.

The quintessential example is "cheval" (horse) which becomes "chevaux" (horses), which is the rule they're following (or being cute about). Un mistral, des mistraux. Un ministral, des ministraux.

(Ironically the plural of the Mistral wind in the Larousse dictionnary would technically be Mistrals[1][2], however weird that sounds to my french ears and to the people who wrote that article perhaps!)

[1] https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/mistral_mistr...
[2] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/mistral
It might be one thing if I had done it on purpose, because I was thinking about camera eyelines. But it wasn't deliberate. I subconsciously choose based on how another person will see me, because I don't really expect to get a whole lot of information from seeing them. Something about this being a type of "masking" in autistic women, trying harder to get my social cues across to others, but not expecting myself to receive them.

I think maybe I have "trauma masquerading as ASD," because the symptoms are subjectively improving as I learn to down-regulate my nervous system, but then I don't much care what label gets put on why I'm weird. I'm much more interested in figuring out what to do with the different ways I'm weird. I'm old enough that I can't think of ways formal diagnosis would help me, so I'd rather assume each challenge is treatable until I find out that it isn't.
Ah yes, "we can't do anything before an election", despite it always being just before some election, and also it's totally okay when one party does it.
My Kindle Keyboard still works. You can't use the shop from the device, but you can push books from the website (although on mobile, only 3? devices are listed and there's no way to choose from more if you have them...)
I think it's a little disingenuous for you to take what I said out of the context I said it in, but you're right as far as it's in my anecdotal experience. Which is why I said "around here", but I guess I could've made it even clearer.
Ultimately, you can't. From Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [0], written in 1984:

> The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well-installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
Was there an official announcement of this? All I can find in Google is reddit threads speculating about its discontinuation.
There’s a high of friction for taking AVP off and on. It’s not as simple as locking/unlocking an iPhone or folding a laptop. Not only is the fit hard to get right, but it takes 3-5 seconds to unlock with OpticID. Might not sound like much, but it’s friction.
Bezels are good. Bezels are GREAT.
They give you something to hold without interacting with the screen.

If you've ever used a device with edge-to-edge, you know you have to hold it like a diva with 10-inch nails—it is neither comfortable nor effective.

In my opinion, the industry's trend towards smaller-and-smaller bezels has made it MORE difficult to interact with them than the advances gained by having a few millimeters larger screens.

Leave the bezels alone, bud
Hopefully won't have to write that part 2
I've talked to various people over the last couple of years, and it seems Colonial Pipeline was the big eye-opener for politicians in USA: Nobody could be sued, even though they were aware of the problems.

In EU I've heard more about ransomware in general and the behavior of Microsoft and Oracle in license negotiations and "audits" in particular.

But the overall tenor is that politicians have had it up to here with the IT industry's "What me worry?" attitude to quality, responsibility and liability.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41858665
Fair point. Although it is not their body being exposed, it is a very realistic Photoshop.

> it isn't a problem asking for a solution, because a solution would violate another person's privacy

So there is not possible solution that would not imply violating privacy, but it is a problem. So it is useful to look at the root causes of the problem. What I was saying is that the problem comes from how we approach nudity and sexuality as a society.
> But getting a discount in exchange for a longer-term commitment is often a benefit to consumers.

This is already framing it in marketing terms. You're not getting a discount but being charged an artificial price premium for less/no commitment. This can get especially obscene in places where gyms are required by law to offer monthly membership options but they charge a significant markup if you go that route.

All of this has the effect of suppressing competition.
Are all the big clouds not GDPR compliant?

Hard to imagine anyone competing with AWS/GCP/Azure for slices of GPUs/TPU. AFAIK, most major models are available a la carte via API on these providers (with a few exclusives). I can’t imagine how anyone can compete the big clouds on serving an API, and I can’t imagine them staying “non compliant” for long.
People keep making these, but they become outdated so fast and nobody keeps up with it. If your definition of "great" changes in 6 months because a new model shatters your perception of "great," it's hard to rescore legacy models.

I'd say keeping up with the reddit LocalLLama community is the "easiest" way and it's by no means easy.
That would require a serendipitous level of

- sitting next to someone who you get along with and don’t run out of things to talk about for the entire duration of the flight

- neither one of you wanting to sleep or do anything else for the duration of the flight either

- not caring about the other passengers around you who might also want to sleep
Nobody invests "solely" in it, because Uranium is plenty cheap and plenty plentiful, and the Uranium infrastructure is in place.
Please stop spamming this conspiracy theory. It devalues the discourse. Thank you.
Show HN: I made a site that can help you get Viral on YouTube
I've created a set of YouTube tools that can help you go viral. Currently, it includes two tools. The first one helps you generate new viral scripts for any title by mimicking the format of other successful videos, allowing AI to enhance your existing script, proofread, and more.

The second is a powerful thumbnail testing tool, which lets you compare and test your thumbnails and titles on various devices, against competitors that you choose, along with relevant titles and let AI suggest you some amazing Title ideas as well.
The unspoken truth of 'cybersecurity' (even the name is part of this pattern) is that bolt on complexity will always reduce safety. Computer security is not that hard. What is hard is selling complexity as a vector for vendor lock in and then bolting on security on top of that. Every new feature, every new line of code will introduce potential vulnerabilities. Every extra bit of complexity will make the systems more vulnerable overall. And the pattern is also followed by the 'cybersecurity' providers. The more complex they make the song and dance, the more dependent their costumers become long term.

Normal Accidents opened up my eyes to this grift. I highly recommend the book.
Firefox can decline that money.

Firefox can be bound to enough different sovereign funds which explicit reject it, so they can't be controlled that way.

By "fully free software" I deliberately meant to exclude closed blobs.

I also deliberately did not say mandate use of that browser, only that use of that browser is acceptable.

I mean, Naenara, a Firefox fork, shows your dread is easily possible by even a third-world country. It doesn't take all of the EU to pull it off.

The US already has government support for journalism, both with special legal protections, and in some cases with direct funding, as with NPR and PBS.
With the advent of OSS LLMs, it's "just" a matter of renting compute.
Wow, I don't know that! I would be curious to know how they did it.
You have no idea how slow governments are.
Learning MIPS assembly currently using mars and QtSpim.

Any recommended hardware I should use for bare metal development messing around? Hopefully priced like a SBC like the raspberry pi.

Want to move from making basic programs like adding, messing with functions, etc and bring my MIPS assembly up to a real hardware environment.
Politics is deeply intertwined with everything, but simplistic summaries like "party lines! remember this!!1" are as much disinformation as anything else. I mean look at some of the comments in this subthread specifically along similar lines. Completely ignorant of (or more likely, willfully ignoring) the fact that there's more to this rule than just "make cancellations easy."

One of the people who voted against it explained why and it has nothing to do with wanting to make cancellations harder. But we can't acknowledge that truth because that goes against the "one side is good, one side is bad" narrative so many here try to push so often and so hard.
I feel like there can be broad and general use cases, but they don't prevent you from giving specific examples.
Airplane air is clean but there are just too many people aboard and for too long. Something like a quarter of all air travel passengers get a respiratory illness within a week. Some hypothesize that the incredibly low humidity of cabin air (in most aircraft, except the very newest) makes it easier to acquire infections. A face mask, in addition to its normal role, also solves this problem because it is very humid inside the mask.
Mathematics and computer programming are two different fields, so I don't find it surprising that people who choose one are perhaps not so interested in the other.

Generally speaking, mathematicians view programming as one of the tools to use in their professional endeavors, not as a thing of interest in and of itself. Just as programmers view mathematics as one of the tools to use in their professional endeavors, not as a thing of interest in and of itself.
Ah yes, states' rights being used to justify treating people poorly. Famously, this has never happened before ever.
I have good news! (as long as Lina Khan stays on as commissioner)

> FTC Proposes Rule to Ban Junk Fees: The proposed rule would ban businesses from running up the bills with hidden and bogus fees, ensure consumers know exactly how much they are paying and what they are getting, and help spur companies to compete on offering the lowest price. Businesses would have to include all mandatory fees when telling consumers a price

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/10/...
I have never(?) updated my Netflix billing information, but I know it has survived many new cards/numbers.

Which feels like it defeats the purpose of getting a new generated card.
Which isn't helping [0], cookies are just a more convenient shortcut for fingerprinting, and GDPR is not against cookies but tracking and profile building so prevents those too. The removal of cookies by the majority of people would bring up "Fingerprint banners"

[0] "Yes! You are unique among the 2926891 fingerprints in our entire dataset." https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
I agree. Temporary / bandaid solutions are totally great if they are straightforward to implement AND unimplement.
I am very, very, very sad to hear this. This does match with my experience of fiddling with various Kindle competitors over the years (nook, kobo), but between generally faster processors and the increasing bloat of kindle OS, I thought maybe the gap would be narrower.

Looks like I've got to build my own.
Will this prevent shut downs of games that rely on central server, like what happened to The Crew?
Arc Institute Announces New Cohort to Accelerate Biomedical Research
Who decides the definition of "what was suppose to work" in the context of a given software product?

There are times when a feature is used in a way which was not intended by the developers. Now do the developers have to publish their test scenarios?

What if the bug is in 3rd party library? Add to it the complexity of open-source code.
I believe that on-device models will become a significant trend. I previously released a local file manager app called Riffo, and we have been using the OpenAI API since its launch. However, our users have informed us that they need on-device models. This indicates to me that it's an important issue.
Mine's only semi-recumbent, so I can ride it for hours. I think it was maybe $120 on Amazon. My knees only come up high enough for my thighs to be parallel to the ground, so I can keep the keyboard position nice and low for typing.

I've supposedly pedaled over 10,000 miles this year, and I've lost over 40 lbs in the process! Never mind keeping warm in New England!

One of the best purchases I've made in a long time!
I think a huge part of this is that email providers use the functional existence of that link to screen spam.
Yes, e.g. there is no law for cookie popups, you can use cookies without consent if you use cookies say for session handling.