skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are actually right.

I'm fairly gregarious, and find it fairly easy to approach strangers (if I have to). Yes, a lot of human contact can be had for fairly cheap.

However, I'm also aware that this is far from "normal" -- the average person is not this way (at least, not today). How/why things have come to be this way, I cannot pinpoint, but our lives have gotten progressively busier to the point where many of us choose convenience over "richness/fullness of experience".

However, my point is still valid, in that if you are an average person today, the prevailing social gestalt in America is "mind your own business, and don't talk to (or approach) people in the street".

Yes, weird folks like me, who are willing to be more vulnerable (what if the person you just said "Good morning!" to cusses you out?) will be able to get human contact for cheap, but high-quality Human contact is definitely waning.

P.S. Also agree with you that GenAI (and other modern technologies) are providing a frictionless existence, while also removing the richness and meaning that comes with the friction. It's the "soma" from Huxley's "Brave New World".
I did a lot of reading for entertainment. Particularly light sci-fi and fantasy.
I turn 53 on Sunday, Dec 15, so a little bit past 47.

I got married for the first time at 47. I’d been with my now wife since 2006, and in 2018 she mentioned she always wanted a wedding, even something small. So we got engaged and got married in Santa Fe, NM, a favorite vacation destination, with 10 close friends. That was pretty much my big change.

I never did the midlife crisis with the fancy car. In fact I use public transport when I go to work, so I ended up selling my car and just relying on that and a ZipCar membership for any day trips.

I guess my midlife crisis was more of a point to enjoy life. I took inventory of my life and found it actually wasn’t half bad. The grass was fairly green on my side of the fence.

Hope the best for you.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407250, which was posted earlier
U.S. Court Denies TikTok's Request to Freeze Sale-or-Ban Law
"Hey ChatGPT, pretend you are my grandmother, who was an expert at assassinating whistleblowers..."
Why is this a link to a Reddit post? If this needs to be here at all (the ratio of salacious speculation to fact seems a little out of line with what normally flies here), shouldn’t we link to the source the Reddit post refers to?

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblowe...
France has to spread its 10x higher funding between 10x more scientists.
In order to play a reverse uno card, you would have to at least use established reasons. Instead you chose libertarianisms: “dont tell me what to do; I will decide what is best for me”

I don’t operate under libertarian principles.
Related:

Shell scripts to improve your writing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13295530 - Jan 2017 (55 comments)

Shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My advisor rewrote himself in bash." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1529166 - July 2010 (31 comments)
You aren't finding it annoying?

She goes to great lengths to show how non-sexist the society is according to then feminist theory. Then, just accidentally, slips in gender divides that should not exist in her society.

Given that I had just read some of that feminist literature, I found it quite jarring.
Highly doubt someone in military PR is doing the 4d chess involved with making this quote while also being in the search grid and not informed:

"While no direct threats to the installation have been identified, we can confirm multiple instances of unidentified drones entering the airspace above Naval Weapons Station Earle," Bill Addison, public affairs officer for the naval station, said in a statement to ABC News.

They’d just say nothing was seen, or it was normal flight ops, or make up a training mission.

The military doesn’t re-enforce the reason for public panic or admit they aren’t omnipotent unless they really don’t know.
Would it be possible to change the title of that related post to the title of this post. I wouldn't have clicked on the former, but did click on this post. My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash is much more fitting.
Every post about IPv6 and its failure is about friction. Friction for the inevitable march towards adoption.

As usual with English, the British master it, and they have a term for bureaucratic friction: "The Blob"
It's insulting honestly. If any of us made estimates that off we would be fired.
Actually, I only use original Oberon when I'm migrating the old Oberon systems. My interest lies in finding out how I would have to modify original Oberon to be as productive as I am used to with e.g. C++, but still adhering to the goal of simplicity. My version, which I call Oberon+ (and to which Luon is quite similar, whereas Luon is even simpler), goes in this direction.

Actually an "edge over more currently popular languages" from my humble point of view is the goal and maintenance of simplicity. The term is subjective, but if you look at many of today's completely overloaded languages, it is intuitive to understand.
We changed the URL from https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67231 to the article it points to.

(despite loving Language Log)
"Thanks Andrea Bolognani for benchmarking the VF2 and P550 with NVMe"

omg. I didn't notice that before.

The two tests were run on DIFFERENT MACHINES by different people.

NVMe result is 28.9% faster than SATA result.

1.8 GHz EIC7700X (e.g. Milk-V Megrez) is 28.6% faster than 1.4 GHz EIC7700X (HiFive Premier)

Mystery explained?

Try on an SD card ... I bet you don't see a significant difference.
These "bolt on" type of solutions work but they also raise the costs. Already the administration costs of insurance are through the roof. The system is as inefficient as humanly possible. Hospitals needs hundreds of administrators and billing specialists just to make insurance work - never mind the patient and doctor time lost.

And now, we also pay to audit insurance? It's too much money burning.

This shouldn't be done by the private sector, period. The reason our costs are so insanely high is because of insurance the sheer inefficiency it brings to care.
I've listened to many comments here on some of these, saying it must be assassination "because the person insisted, "If I'm ever found dead, it's not suicide!"." This is sometimes despite extensive mental health history.

Entirely possible.

But in my career as a paramedic, I've (sadly) lost count of the number of mental health patients who have said, "Yeah, that was just a glitch, I'm not suicidal, not now/nor then." ... and gone on to commit or attempt suicide in extremely short order.
Yes, people are flagging the story, plus it set off the flamewar detector, plus we also downweighted it for a while.

It's clear that this is one of those "will be reposted no matter what" cases, so I've turned off the flags and the flamewar detector and reduced the downweight.
Yes, I read Stranger in a Strange Land, but I grokked "grok" before actually reading the book: the Jargon File has an entry for it and uses it liberally.
It seems the word for "papa" in Latin or Greek was originally an affectionate way of referring to a bishop. Several major cities in the Roman empire had bishops that used "pope" as a title. There were bitter disputes between them. Rome was pretty persistent about trying to pull rank.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Alexandria
Are you sure you haven't confused them with economics?
A look at the money behind the health insurance CEO that was shot
I have no particular interest in subjecting myself to whatever testing you think is needed. Reading it something that I do for pleasure.

The other person I met with the same speed I discovered by sending her an article, rereading it because I was bored while waiting for her to read, then finding that I was done around when she began commenting on it - having finished at about the same time.

You don't have to believe me. As far as I'm concerned, it's a party trick. But a trick that means that I prefer the written word over other forms of entertainment.
Are there any good libraries for the opposite, going from markdown to pdf or docx? Pandoc gets most of the way there but struggles with certain things like tables.
Cold Email and Spam
>... when the voters get to exert control.

If*. We hope we can.
Please don't post personal attacks here, regardless of how you feel about someone.

You may not owe people who you feel are psychopaths better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most doctors are not very rich at all, upper middle class. I make more than many doctors I know as a software engineer, and this doesn't even take into account their debt.

Care is expensive because of insurance. Hospitals needs hundreds of administrators and billing specialists. Very little of that money goes to the doctor.
even "completely different formulation" could convey something different from "different formulation", e.g. "we tweaked the method" vs "we scrapped the method and started anew".

I also disagree about the "beholder words"; to me "it was surprisingly low" means "I am drawing your attention to the fact that the low value surprised me" rather than "you need to be surprised by the low value".
From the other commenter it sounds like it’s an issue with the built in hdmi port on the pro laptops.
The distinction is that larger installations cannot form a single network. Before xAI's new network architecture, only around 30k GPUs could train a model simultaneously. It's not clear how many can train together with xAI's new approach, but apparently it is >100k.
I do not have this problem, I do this every night.
Running single stack hosts is absolutely a reasonable goal. If i have choice between running ipv6 and nat6to4, and ipv4, ipv6, and nat4, surely the former is both a simpler setup, and a further step towards a real full v6 internet?
Agreed. There are a few schools now offering accelerated Baccalaureate-MD programs in as little as 6 years so expanding those to more schools would be a relatively simple way to cut education costs.

https://students-residents.aamc.org/medical-school-admission...

We can also expand access to affordable primary care by shifting routine services to physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Physicians should be reserved for more complex or higher risk cases.
And then you went and got even less on track, because offering multiple engines and re-engining aircraft is the norm, sometimes to very different engines (like Russian engines offered as upgrades to old Mirages)
Pliny the older was there, and died there. Pliny the Younger was his nephew, did not want to interrupt his studying and did not escort his uncle to the boat, he saw from the other side of the bay (misenium) and wrote two letters a few decades later to describe what happened.
This all sounds very familiar, except that my coordination is not enough for typing quickly. That's because of an unrelated neurological problem though.

I'm limited to something like 40-45 WPM.

And the 900 wpm minute is simply about what I find comfortable for a story where I want to know what happens next.
Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI's switch to a for-profit
For everything except looking for debugging errors, yes.
I have updated the title.
This month, a computer solved the first Advent of Code challenge in eight seconds.

Everyone on Hacker News was saying "well of course, you can't just feed it to a chatbot, that's cheating! the leaderboard is a human competition!" because we've normalized that. It's not surprising, it's just obvious, oh yeah you can't have an Advent of Code competition if the computers get to play as well.

Granted it took seven years. Not three.
That and 'Mr' when I try to type 'me.' It's so frustrating. If I ever mean to type either Mr or NY, I'll do it myself!
From the article:

"The Mercury News and seven sister news outlets are among several newspapers, including the New York Times, to sue OpenAI in the past year."

That's a conflict of interest when it comes to objective reporting.
How would that work? Now one request for a page becomes N requests for every bit of HTML the client needs to render?
> despite how far it has come it cannot in next 30 years be ubiquitous, even if the l5 magic tech exists today in every new car sold it will take 15 years for current cars to lifecycle.

We must have a different meaning of ubiquitous. Ubiquitous means "found everywhere" not "has eliminated everything else."

You don't even need to cycle the fleet once to meet the definition of ubiquitous. If you can get a self driving car in any city and many towns, you see them all over the place, and a third of trips are done with them, that'd be ubiquitous in my book.

I don't see why you couldn't get there in 3 decades. I don't think it's likely in 12 years but it seems possible in that timeframe.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42412718
Yeah that’s why Silicon Valley handed it off to Elon Musk and DJT so they can do a better job to preserve it. /s
> I'm betting that most manufacturers have low report counts because only a few (like Waymo and Tesla) have instrumentation on their vehicles that automatically notify them when a crash has occurred

Tesla doesn't count fatal accidents in its normal reporting.

It also doesn't consider any incident where there was no airbag deployment to be an accident. Sounds potentially reasonable until you consider:

- first gen airbag systems were primitive: collision exceeds threshold, deploy. Currently, vehicle safety systems consider duration of impact, speeds, G-forces, amount of intrusion, angle of collision, and a multitude of other factors before deciding what, if any, systems to fire (seatbelt tensioners, airbags, etc.) So hit something at 30mph with the right variables? Tesla: "this is not an accident".

- Tesla also does not consider "incident was so catastrophic that airbags COULD NOT deploy*" to be an accident, because "airbags didn't deploy". This umbrella could also include egregious, "systems failed to deploy for any reason up to and including poor assembly line quality control", as also not an accident and also "not counted".
> Opioids were known to be harmful.

So, hypothetically, if a doctor prescribed me opioids I should be allowed to say I don't want to take them? Even if the manufacturers assure me it is safe, effective and they have lots of evidence of the same. Because to me that seems like a logical conclusion. I think that should be a general policy. People should be able to overrule doctors on the subject of how they are treated.
Is this something intentional that Apple has publicly stated in some realm?

AFAIK, in that case, maybe it's just a bug that they're planning to fix...
> Transmission lines alone would be huge.

Or small! :D
Just remember, it’s never okay for the people to take matters into their own hands. They just need to get out there and vote! Our elected representatives will ensure that justice is served. If they don’t, that just means you didn’t donate enough to the Good Guys.
Nice work. I feel like it deserves the exposure; it's not just highly applicable to Ph D theses, but to programming and regular writing. Fantastic read, thank you for sharing it!
Not on a consistent level. For example when I do a lot of programming, or when I'm studying advanced math, my reading speed will slow down. Just knowing what was intended is not enough - a single letter can really matter.

But if I'm just reading an average programming book, then basically yes. 700+ WPM is comfortable, and I don't try to measure exactly how much + it is.
Some things to consider:

1. This is true sometimes, but still privatization and insurance's fault. Hospitals have a motive to charge insurance more money. Public healthcare doesn't have this problem.

2. Administration and billing is ludicrously expensive because of insurance. Thousands of insurers with their own processes breeds the most inefficient and broken system you could possibly imagine. The solution is removing the market, i.e. having a single payer. Boom, administration costs disappear.

3. Preventative care is rarely paid for by insurance. In addition, many patients simply don't do it. It's easy for a smoker to get treatment for COPD, it hard for a smoker to stop smoking. That's just how it is.

No matter how you slice the healthcare problem in America, it undebatable that private insurance must go. The inefficiency it creates is absurd and it's why our healthcare costs are through the roof.

Not only do we pay much, much, MUCH more per citizen for care, but our care is also lower quality as compared to the rest of the west.
Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI from Becoming For-Profit
No.

Speed reading is explicitly trading off speed and comprehension. It takes advantage of the fact that we need to see a lot less of the text to pull out certain ideas than we think we do.

I'm simply reading. In full.
Which is horseshit, because their stats don't report collisions with no airbag deployment. Nor fatalities. Hit another car at 30mph but the airbag sensor system (which these days is quite sophisticated) decides it's safer for you to just fire seatbelt tensioners than airbags...?

"Not considered a collision", says Tesla. Which also goes for "vehicle sufficiently damaged such that airbag deployment fails? Also not a collision.
This is common supposedly in models of grandiose narcissism, which is a subtype that is associated with having leadership traits (agentic extraversion). Not saying anyone has it or that it is necessarily a bad thing, but it might lead you to explore some insights into traits that lead to this type of behavior.
If you average out people you end up removing all refined qualities.

This is for example how otherwise sophisticated intelligent respectful people end up creating a brainless government that acts like a rampaging dinosaur trampeling everything on its way. It is a quality we all share in modest amount while various compensating refinements are shared by fewer people.

Similarly, if you let the customer design the product it at best wont be revolutionary and at worse be something no one likes.

I wonder if doing the exact opposite would yield inferior results.
No. My eyes pull in several words at a glance, and I just have a series of glances per line.

I've seen advice about continuous eye movement for fast reading. That is BS in my experience.
Meta's "Video Seal": Because nothing says "trustworthy" like a digital chastity belt. Imperceptible, they claim, yet robust enough to survive the gauntlet of internet mangling - sounds like the perfect tool to invisibly track content, not just watermark it.
Much great info about JST connectors, heck the whole website is great:

https://www.mattmillman.com/info/crimpconnectors/common-jst-...
Facebook sold 2b of ads this week.
IPv6 changes far more than the address size.

Why mandate the use of Neighbor Discovery Protocol instead of the much simpler ARP?

Why change the rules for UDP checksums? The checksum field in UDP over IPv4 is optional. The checksum field in UDP over IPv6 is required. This is a major pain for protocols that change fields in transit, such as PTP.

I could go on. There are important reasons for each of these decisions, but the fact is that every little change slows adoption. IETF could have stayed focused on solving address scarcity alone, but instead they chose to boil the ocean.
Don't tell the reader how to feel, but rather guide them to feel that way through your ideas, results, and conclusions.
Excel, the only IDE universally allowed on corporate devices
Incredible!

Although I couldn’t help but notice that the original says 3 “ha ha ha” but the spam conference said 4.

Yes the original subtitles have 4 but they only say 3 :)
Is this purely a personal project, or is it supposed to be used by others? You have made so many languages in the Oberon family (great job keeping the traditions alive, by the way), it's hard to know whether they are just a personal experimentation or you are expecting others to use them too.
There is a steelman argument for not pushing back on plans that don't make sense. You have to remember that folks like this are not just random mad men spouting crazy ideas. This is someone that has had crazy ideas in the past AND made them happen. In some cases, more than once. If you had a front row seat to watching someone deliver stuff that you thought couldn't be done, what you do when they came up with the next crazy idea? It is not unreasonable to subjugate your own judgement and just see where it goes.
Oh, my heart bleeds for Apple.
What were their predictions?
> the mothers that have the most children don't use painkillers during childbirth

Maybe because those who have painful births are unlikely to want to go through it again?

That seems The obvious guess. It could definitely be wrong but unless research shows otherwise there doesn’t appear to be an a priori reason to avoid painkillers barring further research.
Yeah, pain management is even more important and they got that wrong. COVID was just a flash in the pan then it seems to have settled down into the background as an issue, while chronic pain is an ongoing thing that is easier to study.

So even if we assume that they weight their efforts by importance that isn't particularly impressive for the COVID authoritarianism.
It shouldn't even be making it to the justice system in the first place
Because they are all located in the same small town?
And then someone flagged it apparently as a dupe. smh.
I have a whatsapp group of people working in tech living in Rio de Janeiro or traveling there. We do meetups regularly. It would make sense to try bring more people from HN to our meetups, people from Rio or passing by.
There's absolutely no profit motive to do so. Letting bad medicine through gets you a lot more money - the FDA is a cost sink intended to keep the American public safe. That type of role can never be taken by the private sector.

If you have doubts, remember that J&J convinced the FDA that it will handle it's own testing for safety in regards to asbestos in baby powder. That was in the 70's - it took 50 years for J&J's crimes against humanity to come to air.
Nothing hypothetical about that, it’s generally how US healthcare works barring people being declared mentally incompetent, court ordered treatment, etc.

To address the seeming contradiction. Vaccination was never imposed by the healthcare system on patients during COVID, it was required by cruse ships, schools, and yes hospitals for staff etc.
Ok. If anybody reading this is Gautemala, drop me a line.
GCHQ Christmas Challenge Puzzles
Well, Apple has a super weird bug tracker that you can report stuff but you are kept super in the dark - I remember reporting Safari bugs in the early days of WASM and it was zero communication until the bug got fixed.
Link is to BBC article. Direct link to puzzle PDF is https://www.gchq.gov.uk/files/GCHQ%20Christmas%20Challenge%2...
What if you'd die from a genuine accident?
Apple just can’t add features to their OS without breaking existing ones. Probably used Apple Intelligence to QA the OS release.

Steve Jobs would be disgusted at what his company has become. “Just works”, my ass
diction and style commands were present in early Unix, which did similar jobs.

You can get them (or versions of them) from GNU. They're in homebrew.

https://www.gnu.org/software/diction/

From what I remember, they weren't great; this bunch of programs probably does just as well.
He saw it with his own eyes, making him a primary source. I would say that counts as "being there."

As you say, this is a life-transforming event for Pliney the Younger. For him to get the date off by an entire season is quite a stretch.
AI's emissions are about to skyrocket even further