skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A false dichotomy some would call that. Children can be raised in units different from the current western perception of "the" family unit.

Besides, what countries are you talking about? Have you ever been there and met the uniform mass persons?
articles with plenty of audio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian

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

(I found the alphabet sequences of Спокойной ночи, малыши! to be an excellent way to learn cyrillic. If I watch enough lyric vids, I may even eventually learn cursive...)
There have now been several intervention trials investigating whether HDL-raising meds improve health outcomes (there’s no evidence to show they do) and MRs looking at genetically determined HDL-c and various health measures (no evidence of effect either). We don’t actually have any evidence that HDL is anything other than a proxy for other factors, and no evidence that it directly affects anything.

Yes, there are no known issues. You can speculate that there might be, but we could equally speculate that they’re actually superfoods and we don’t know it yet. At the end of the day, speculation is all it is so I believe it’s most sensible to apply the principle of indifference and look only at what we do know. That is, margarine is a sensible replacement for butter on the current evidence.

Because of antagonistic pleiotropy, we can actually make an a priori argument that given two foods that are equally health promoting within the reproductive window (I.e. it’s not killing or neutering people before the age of ~50), then probability holds that the food to which we are least adapted is actually more likely to promote longevity than the ancestral food.

Because adaptations are on net more likely to be antagonistically pleiotropic than not, foods to which we are most adapted are more likely than not making a trade off in favour of reproductive success over longevity. Since we don’t have these adaptations to novel foods, this concern does not apply to them.

Therefore, given butter and margarine are both similar in their effects on reproductive success, with no further information at all we should favour margarine. The fact there are studies confirming this is just icing on the cake.
Show HN: EmailMagnet – A dead-simple Chrome extension
Hey HN! I built EmailMagnet because I was spending too much time manually copying emails from websites. It's intentionally simple: it runs in the background while you browse and automatically collects email addresses, with zero configuration needed.

Core functionality:

Silently collects emails as you browse (no clicking, no setup)
- One-click export to CSV/TXT
- Basic deduplication to keep your list clean

That's it! No bloat, no complexity

Here's the thing: I believe in "do one thing well" principle. EmailMagnet doesn't try to be your full-featured CRM or email marketing suite - it just finds emails really well while staying out of your way.

Why I'm sharing this:

It's my first product launch and I'd love your feedback
I want to make it better and I know HN is the perfect place to get brutally honest suggestions
I'm genuinely curious if others find this simple approach valuable

The backstory: I tried several email finding tools but they were all either too complex in UI, too expensive or required too many clicks... I wanted something that just works in the background while I do my normal research.

Would love your thoughts on:

- Is this simple approach actually useful?
- What critical features am I missing?
- How would you improve it without making it bloated?
- Any suggestions for better email pattern matching?

Try it: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/emailmagnet-email-e...

Current pricing: €4/week, €8/month or €48/year (50% off)

I know this is a simple tool but sometimes simple is exactly what we need. Looking forward to your feedback!!
Building [any learn] [dot ai]. Ostensibly a course-maker, it's in the genre of quora/wikipedia/udemy but completely AI generated based on any prompt.
> But as a general introduction to programming it's terrible.

It’s just a terrible language. Full stop.

Lua is touted by supporters as this orgasmic language.

But there’s a reason it’s relegated to the role of scripting language embedded in something else. It’s small, sure, but it *sucks* in literally every way other way from functionality, to tools, to libraries, to community.
Blockchain or any other skill. It’s perfectly generic, and the stock photos add a professional flavor to this useless guide.
Usually it’s a good move for articles but for this title, it’s a bit distortive to the point of HN selfparody
This is actually one of the main reasons I don't think China will become a global hegemon. English, with all its flaws, is far easier to speak, read, and write.

Languages are the walls between cultures.
As someone who hated The City and The City to the point of never reading Mieville again, I appreciate the warning for Embassytown. I sometimes consider reading his stuff again but I was genuinely offended by the trick in City. Like... I paid money for this? No. It felt like contempt for his audience.
This post makes me a bit angry. In a nutshell it’s promoting engineers doing more project management.

I think an engineer at any level should not be managing (“driving”) projects, and you should not expect that, unless you are able to pay “the engineer” both a manager’s and an engineer’s compensation.

I like the idealistic view on proactivity, but I think idealising this soup of responsibilities should not be promoted.

I want a good engineer and I want a good manager as well in a team.
For a different but related take on this, check the video game Blasphemous. It made me realise how dark the Baroque style and Catholic iconography can be when presented out of context.
i'm just programming a shell in C for fun
English speakers perceive it as a native word, not a Greek one.

There are lots of examples of this, where English has a foreign-sounding word for something whereas German has a Germanic one. For example oxygen vs. Sauerstoff.
I am developing a 3D activities visualization tool for Strava (https://paintmove.com/).

My goal is to enhance the visualization and increase performance to reduce animation generation time. Additionally, I want to improve the overall aesthetics by applying colors and designing the paths to resemble a serpentine shape rather than a pipe.
There was a story on HN a while ago that I can't seem to remember the title of.

It was something along the lines of "The optimal amount of slack in an organization is not zero", or something like that.

The argument was that, since it's impossible to plan for every eventuality, you need a certain amount of slack capacity in order to retain some flexibility.
And that by always using 100% capacity, we end up dysfunctional.

I think the same is true for our personal lives.

But the endless treadmill of self-optimization, side-hustles and ever more commitments leaves us unable to cope.
I'm currently working on Mockoon, an API mocking tool. It's an open-source project that I've been relentlessly improving over the past 7 years. I decided to build a SaaS/cloud offering to help finance my work on the project. I'm solo bootstrapping, and revenues are slowly growing. It's not the easiest path, but definitely worth it!

https://mockoon.com
Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?
Hi, Just installed OpenWRT.
Which solutions for ad blocking and other trackers would you recommend?
Pi-Hole is not a option, since I don't have one laying around.

So anything else I can try which will work out of the box?
For links and guides I'd be happy.
PS: I got dual antennas what would come into your mind to do with it?
Blindsight was the only sci Fi book I ever read that had citations used non-ironically.
Being in my early 30s and moving to a new city, I have been thinking more about ways to connect with people in real life. A friend of mine remarked that no one seems to get lunch anyone, so we kind of thought it would be a great idea to try and bring back the modern power lunch.

We created Milieu Club https://joinmilieu.com as a way to connect with other busy professionals in your city over lunch as nice restaurants. You can join clubs in your city or create your own, and then you get randomly watched with 3 - 5 other people and invited to lunch. It's sort of inspired by Soho house, meetup.com, and Opentable.
Even if they had the diacritics, it’s unlikely most foreigners could accurately reproduce the tones anyway.
If you do it this way I think you lose all of the prefix size info I.e. every match will claim to be part of a /24 match. Depends if you care showing that portion or not if that matters though.
Why can’t one faction in the pentagon do something, other than trying to get a conviction, that still induces risks on another faction?
You’re describing the extremes on a spectrum, but you only go to one of the extremes, which exposes your bias.

And it’s a false dichotomy to begin with, since shifting more care work towards society doesn’t equate to a path toward totalitarianism. You’re conflating socialism with totalitarianism. Understandable, but misguided.

Frankly, your whole premise is based on a capitalist narrative that keeps workers in their place because individual care work is so inefficient—it drains energy that could otherwise be channeled into organizing worker councils to balance out the power now disproportionately held by banks, IT corporations, political parties, and the military-industrial complex.

I’m aware that I may come across as an arrogant prick in this comment. I wish I had more time to craft a friendlier response with more sources and explanation, but I simply don’t. I need to work to feed my children and their mother, but anyway, here’s a reading list for anyone who’s interested:

"Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?" by Mark Fisher - Fisher discusses how capitalism has permeated every aspect of life, including care work, and critiques the idea that alternatives like socialism lead to totalitarianism.

"Workers of the World: Essays Toward a New History of the Working Class" by Philip A. H. G. D. Van der Linden - This collection explores the historical context of labor movements and the importance of organizing against disproportionate power structures.

"The Care Crisis: What’s Wrong with Care and How to Fix It" by the Institute of Public Policy Research - This report outlines the societal implications of care work and its impact on worker organization.

"Wages for Housework" by Silvia Federici - Federici argues for the recognition and compensation of domestic labor, linking it to broader struggles against capitalist exploitation.
I'm working on a 3D infinite canvas of text, focusing on code. Runs on iPhone, iPad, macOS so they can all act as separate viewports into a space. You can point the app at a repository, download a copy locally, instantly render the entire repository into space in less than a second in most cases, and then fly around and search for text. I just got an optimization working for larger files and it's kinda fun how much even an iPhone can do with instanced rendering.

Im developing it with the use in mind of flying through your code to show others relationships, or edit with a visuospatial look at your code instead of basic 2D tabs and a mind map of which one had the thing you're working on. It's kinda fun to work on the project In the project!

It's built on Swift and Metal but can ready any utf8 text file, minus a few subsections of the Unicode spec (for now).

https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat
but can you argue with them for an indeterminate period of time in earnest dialogue until the idea goes CLICK inside your head? You cannot, and so the value is much lessened because that critical access isn’t present.
"Became" doesn't add much -> "Gothic architecture spooky"

"Gothic architecture" and "spooky" is basically synonymous -> "Spooky!"

Why use word when emoji do trick? -> U+1F47B
Every time I read some Alan Moore interview, I find myself agreeing with him.

Also his masterclass on writing was great to listen to, and I'm not interested in writing. His ideas about writing/creation = magic have stuck with me.

He's always lucid, and clear, and has a stark sense of observation.

One of my favorites: https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/11/moore-on-jerusal...

Here's an excerpt:

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What was the impact of popular heroes comic books in our culture? Why are people fascinated by alternative realities?

I think the impact of superheroes on popular culture is both tremendously embarrassing and not a little worrying. While these characters were originally perfectly suited to stimulating the imaginations of their twelve or thirteen year-old audience, today’s franchised übermenschen, aimed at a supposedly adult audience, seem to be serving some kind of different function, and fulfilling different needs. Primarily, mass-market superhero movies seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on (a) their relatively reassuring childhoods, or (b) the relatively reassuring 20th century. The continuing popularity of these movies to me suggests some kind of deliberate, self-imposed state of emotional arrest, combined with an numbing condition of cultural stasis that can be witnessed in comics, movies, popular music and, indeed, right across the cultural spectrum. The superheroes themselves – largely written and drawn by creators who have never stood up for their own rights against the companies that employ them, much less the rights of a Jack Kirby or Jerry Siegel or Joe Schuster – would seem to be largely employed as cowardice compensators, perhaps a bit like the handgun on the nightstand. I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race. In fact, I think that a good argument can be made for D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation as the first American superhero movie, and the point of origin for all those capes and masks.

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I am working on making stats on financial securities accessible to more people so they can make better trading decisions. This is very much a work in progress.

https://www.statsviz.com/

A big part of this is me learning how to get code into production including infra setup etc. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Stack is python, dash/flask, and gunicorn+nginx
Building http://tryskipper.ai/

I built a Slack bot that converts your Slack conversations to detailed Jira tickets in seconds.

Our team needs to routinely convert Slack convos into tickets manually, and it gets tedious and repetitive. Automating scribbled requirements to a ticket has been a big time saver. It's like I have a Jira assistant now.
There are reasonable moral arguments against copyright infringement, but the false equivocation with stealing is not one of them.

The same moral principles that argue against depriving people of natural property they already own do not imply further arguments against reducing sales opportunities for non-rival goods for which scarcity has been artificially established via positive law. Other, unrelated principles, can make for compelling arguments, but not the same ones.
4 people taking care of 4 kids 24/7 in 24 hour shifts. From article:

> To get that individualized care, though, they had four social workers and four children. One-to-one. [...] But you couldn’t stray that far from one-to-one without changing the nature of the experience, without industrializing it to the point that individual care is lost.

I don't think you need the ratio of worker:child to be 1:1 in order to provide 1:1 care.

The alternative might be 20 social workers taking care of a group of 20 kids. It's the same ratio of workers to kids, since no 1 worker will get to deeply know individuals in the group.

I agree 1:1 is confusing and not totally accurate but it's fine for illustrating the point.
I vaguely remember The Gods Themselves by Asimov being a strong contender here, but it's been decades since I read it.

Spider Robinson's "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" series had a story towards the end that blew my tiny little teenaged mind back in the 90's.

Octavia Butler, of course. Xenogenesis.
I think the idea is that many totalitarian systems treat every child as an orphan, in some cases taking them physically away from their parents and then have people look after the children as a job. Hence the comparable situation.

And, of course, all such systems I've ever read about do not care about the practical limitation of 1 caretaker per 1 child. I believe youth services in the Netherlands, for example, has 1 caretaker (effectively available to the child) per 15 children, or 7 or 8 if they're trouble. Does this work? No, of course not. They don't care. The kids grow up caring for nobody, probably because effectively nobody cares for them. One person watching 15 children can only hope to prevent disasters, if that, they cannot provide decent attention to children. By the standards of this article, there's probably 2 people who work in the same "group". If there's a third one, they will be shared between at least to groups. So 2 to 2.5 per 15 children ... comes to one parent figure per 7 children, which is a third to a fourth of the care children would receive in even a huge family, and much less than in a small family.
because western especially people got to tech has more chance to comfortable being on the web than the app

example of Gen Z and alpha social media addict that used to use Tiktok,Snaps etc
You cant deny that the use of web is dying and I still not mentioning Asia market where mobile is the first choice
Could argue this works in exactly the opposite way.

This "wall" makes the west an open book to china, while for the west it is hard to crack the Chinese. For one thing, think of the implications on recruiting people to spy or interpret intercepted messages from china or on espionage in general.

Also the impact of this "problem" on running a well-functioning highly-productive and scientific powerhouse society is highly exaggerated and easily refuted by empirical facts.

Just think of what Japan and China managed to accomplish in engineering and scientific accomplishment in the last 50 years and they both use character-based languages.
The thing where people quote optimisers as only eeking out tiny percentages of performance over decades really annoys me. It's true for the numerical kernels written in C and Fortran where the code is essentially optimal already, and all the compiler has to do is not screw it up.

It's grossly false for the vast majority of code, where the sludge written by thousands of engineers gets completely rewritten by the compiler before it executes. Compilers are the reason unskilled devs manage to get tolerable performance out of frameworks.

The cpython is slow complaints? That's what life without a good compiler looks like.
> At the word level, it has long been known that while our brains perceive spoken words phoneme by phoneme, letter perception in reading is highly parallel

that might explain why 1x video, while good for conveying specific details, is so slow for conveying general ideas?
Most people do, since groceries are physical, rival goods to which natural property rights apply. But if it were possible to make copies of groceries while leaving the originals intact, far fewer people would argue against that on the same grounds. They might make other, unrelated arguments against copying, but moral principles applicable to physical property wouldn't be relevant.
but centralization is in many ways the thing that is needed to scale all sorts of other things.
I'm working on a tool to generate and host full stack web apps from prompts (just like everyone else). I'm loving it. Using llms to do as much of my coding as possible, so in a way eating my own dog food, although it's a more developer-driven effort than what the end product will be.

Strange thing is, the most time consuming part of getting this ready for a user facing launch is not the code generating, but all the scaffolding/queues/storage to run it.
Several commercial databases offer this capability, under a term like “frozen plans”.
Autonomous casual games! Here’s one:

https://riddler.game

Also building a Pictionary-like variant with Processing animations such as you see here:

https://po.studio

Not a game designer though, so would love feedback!
All the news from Apple's 'week' of Mac announcements
The stoicism secret: how Ryan Holiday became a Silicon Valley guru
Q: How many Silicon Valley software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: They will refuse to change the lightbulb, claiming it "doesn't scale" unless the "lightbulb problem" is fixed globally ;)

In seriousness, enjoyed this article and it's a wise realization. I think the world would be a better place if more people take the time to be a good person to the people around them, rather than focusing so much on big picture issues.
Try looking for NetUP in the sanction list, whose employees (including a former one who's actually working for Amazon) were removed. You won't find it. I'm surprised nobody called out James Bottomley on this bullshit answer.
I don't fully buy the thesis. Human vision is logarithmic; the article's central metric of "cost per lumen-hour" isn't a well-founded one—it has linear utility implicit in it.
The Chinese had a big advantage in a lot of young cheap labour. But now the population is aging, the wages are going up and the playing field will level out.

They are also having issues with cheap capital. A lot got misallocated into building too many tower blocks and Xi's people don't seem quite as smart as dealing with it as Deng's were.
I have! Mill is a lot more thorough, handling things like caching and parallelism for you. BLD is a lot more minimal, which would be fine for small projects but maybe not for larger projects as they grow
I think it comes down to the many meaning of the word "care" in English. The state is certainly willing to accept way greater risk than the individual parent, in many circumstances. If we take something like daycare, which I presume is included in "care", then it's typically four children per adult until the age of 4, in schools it goes down to 20+ children per one adult, where at home it might be more than two adults per child (but also less obviously).

The risk profile is different, if you have a newborn in hospital, then that child may have their parent present at all times, plus staff, but it might also be one or two nurses and an on-call doctor for any number of babies. In some sense the potential risk is greater, but it's also more professionally measured.
this looks really good, and super useful
any plans on making it available for ff?
I would argue that they found it and that kids are not getting that individual attention they need.
I’d be interested to read a comparison with Bazel (which you already mention as one of the influences).

For somebody looking to escape from Gradle, Bazel seems like one of the most promising alternatives, as it’s built on sane and sound fundamentals. Although in practice it has plenty of rough edges and annoyances, so maybe there are areas where Mill can do better.
I've been working on a site that helps you find in-person work in NYC that is actually convenient: https://walkablework.com

After working on a remote startup for a few years I felt very isolated and that the best startups are going to have a strong in-person presence. Now many larger companies have started implementing return to office policies that unfortunately don't make sense for a lot of employees. I wanted a site like this to exist to give people the power to find hybrid/in-person work that they don't mind commuting to.

Let me know if you have any feedback or want to post a job!
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QX98rCSXPkPSMriYi/rational-a...
>Or importing even more foreign workers.

Except you can't force foreign workers to do shit jobs the locals don't want. They're not slaves.