skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a counterpoint in that historically "middle age" arrived in one's twenties, and sometimes even before.

There's a passage from a Gene Wolfe story that I like. It's illustrative:

> How are captains trained, anyway? Not like other officers?”

> “No,” Daw said. “We’re not just officers who’ve been promoted, although I know that’s what most people think.”

> “It’s what I thought.”

> “That was the old way. I suppose the British carried it to the ultimate. Around eighteen hundred. Have you ever read about it?”

> The girl did not answer.

> “They put their future skippers on board warships when they were boys of eight or nine—they were called midshipmen. They were just children, and if they misbehaved they were bent over a gun and whipped, but at the same time they were gentlemen and treated as such. The captain, if he was a good captain, treated them like sons and they got responsibility shoved at them just as fast as they could take it.”

> “It sounds like a brutal system,” Helen Youngmeadow said.

> “Not as brutal as losing ship and crew. And it produced some outstanding leaders. Lord Nelson entered the navy at twelve and was posted captain when he was twenty; John Paul Jones started at the same age and was first mate on a slaver when he was nineteen and a captain at twenty-three.”

> “I’m sorry . . .” The girl’s voice was so faint in Daw’s earphones that he wondered for a moment if her suit mike was failing. “I’ve never heard of either of those men. But I’ll look them up when we get back to Gladiator.”

> “Anyway,” Daw continued, “it was a good system—for as long as people were willing to send promising boys off to sea almost as soon as we’d send them off to school; but after a while you couldn’t count on that anymore. Then they took boys who were almost grown and sent them to special universities first. By the time they were experienced officers they were elderly—and the ships, even though these weren’t starships yet, had become so large that their captains hadn’t had much real contact with them until they were nearly ready to take command of a ship themselves. After a hundred years or so of that—about the time the emphasis shifted from sea to space—people discovered that this system really didn’t work very well. A man who’d spent half his life as a subordinate had been well trained in being a subordinate, but that was all.”
these donations will do nothing to change Trump's mind anyway, this is happening because these tech CEOs think that Trump is a vain baffoon that can be swayed by gifts and sweet words. I'm sure to some degree it's true for anybody but Trump has often spoken out against ppl who try this on him. I still remember him talking about his dinner with Romney where he laughed about this kind of a behavior.
The top half of the front page is just fine - but then you have a huge amount of whitespace followed by another set of CTA buttons below a couple links that aren't relevant to buying the book. I'd delete those. Also, your secondary pages have large gaps of whitespace and overly large titles. Shrink them a bit and tighten up the content on the page, and you should be in decent shape.
Segway is just an electric pizza delivery bike _that don't look like one_. That's it. The Segway City is just electric Ho Chi Minh 1995 in style of 2000 Chicago.

People wants to die in style so much that they turn blind eyes to plasticky scooters and Nissan Leafs. To them, the ugly attempt don't exist, and the reskinned clones are the first evers in the history. But reality prevails. Brits aren't flying EE Lightning jets anymore.

Segways were kind of cool to me too, to be fair. To lesser extent Lime scooters too. Sort of. But they're still just sideways pizza bikes.
As Fertility Rates Fall, Some Scientists Say Everyday Chemicals Are a Factor
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/health/fertility-chemicals-science-bc096...
This looks really good. It seems to fix all the warts and moles in Lua that used to exasperate me and adds type-safety which is a huge enhancement.

Replacing the 'everything is a table' with records, arrays and hashmaps is also a thoughtful improvement IMO.

Just confirming one point to make sure I understand the licensing implications correctly. Since the compiler transpiles to LuaJIT, and since that's just data, using output of the (GPL v2/v3 licensed) Luon compiler (i.e. the LuaJIT output) in a commercial/closed source project without divulging the source of said project should be fully kosher right?

Am guessing the answer is most likely in the affirmative but just making sure.
Wife.
It should be taught in school that being a whistleblower requires safety preparation. Make it a woke thing or whatever, because it is something many don't give an afterthought about.
Not a "redeeming feature," it's pointing out that there were other victims here. I agree it's manipulative to mention it (sort of like saying "Ivy League grad Luigi Mangione" to tarnish his ideology). But you are being cynical and agressive for no reason.
Dune at 40: David Lynch's oddball adaptation remains a fascination
The message is not necessarily to dissuade you, but to protect Reddit.
Regarding getting better at writing, there was a post recently on improving technical writing, ostensibly about shell scripts to detect passive voice, but it also had a list of recommendations: Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace as an alternative to Strunk and White, the Chicago Manual of Style, and A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations specifically for technical writing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407250
> What human in the world could be trusted with AI? Only delusional people could say yes to that question.

"AI" is too broad a topic to draw that conclusion.

Almost everyone can be trusted with Stockfish. Almost: https://github.com/RonSijm/ButtFish

Most of us can be trusted with current LLMs, despite the nefarious purposes that they can be put to by a minority. Spam and fraud are still minority actors, even though these tools increase the capabilities of those actors; and they're still "only" at the student/recent graduate level for many tasks, so using them for hazardous chemical synthesis will likely literally explode in the face of the person attempting it.

Face recognition AI (and robot control attached to it) is already more than capable enough to violate the 1980 Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, and we're just lucky random lone-wolf malicious actors have not yet tried to exploit this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...

We don't yet, it seems, have an AI capable enough that a random person wishing for world peace will get a world with the peace of the grave, nor will someone asking for "as many paperclips as possible" accidentally von-Neumann the universe into nanoscale paperclip-shaped molecules — indeed, I would argue that if natural language understanding continues in the current path, we won't ever get that kind of "it did what I said but not what I meant" scenario; what I currently think most likely is as an analogy for the industrial revolution, where we knew CO2 was a greenhouse gas around the turn of the 1900s, and still have not yet stopped emitting it because most people prefer the immediate results of things that emit it over the distant benefits of not emitting it.

But even that kind of AI doesn't seem to be here just yet. It may turn out that GenAI videos, images, text, and voice is in fact as much of a risk as CO2, that it collapses any possibility of large-scale cooperation, but for the moment that's not clear.
The period when people have their own reactions, followed by a sudden reset and synchronisation once the taking points get assembled and is really quite fascinating. I would really love to know how centralised the process of defining talking points is, or if it is, itself, emergent behaviour of a distributed system resulting in coherent outcomes.
Creates a feedback loop to make any death of a whistleblower statistically look like a conspiracy.
Not only is “completely” the definition they're quoting from the dictionary, it is also exactly what is exemplified by the examples, so I'm not sure what you mean by “don't fall under it”.
Array Languages for Clojurians (2020)
According to this post you can bring back running software from anywhere:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255759797?sortBy=rank
I was a long-haired teenage boy in the 1960s. Why did everyone hate us so much?
The appropriate place to report this is dark reader's issue tracker.

What is a website maker to do with this info? An extension made to deface sites defaced my site? Expected behaviour.
> Luon can be regarded as a statically typed version of Lua. The name is thus a combination of "Lua" and "Oberon".

It's rather curt. How about: Luberon
Do you have a source for the administrative costs being larger than they could/should be?

Obviously they'd be lower with single payer, especially on the provider side, but outside of that the system runs pretty efficiently for what it is.

On the provider side, they're going to have to code up a claim.

But once they're submitted, the majority of claims automatically flow through the rest of the system with low human touch.

That's literally the only way insurance companies can function under ACA admin cost caps.

When that generates a denial... then obviously there's a lot more touch during the back and forth.
What? Imagine if they didn't pay for protection. He would attack them in public just as he did during his first term. They're paying for favorable treatment and you're wrong.
And Canary Islands as not part of Spain.
even without embeds, youtube keeps loading video but not the rest of UI (or sometimes the opposite) from time to time for me

and simple refresh doesn't help - I have to ctrl+f5 to fix it
Ugh.

Any reason that they couldn't add a basic text link, below the video, with "Open In YouTube" as the text?
how is it different from ctrl+c ?
This explains a mystery I only recently noticed.

If a site has preferred ads they'd like to show anyway, maybe it's time for them to pay for hosting the video elsewhere.
Do you have a list of those reasons? I find it curious that I really enjoy `match` in both Scala and Python. While it can be argued that Scala is a completely different beast than Clojure, Python is much closer (in the sense that both are dynamic typed languages).
I can't stop seeing: lube in this name.
I'm just a casual homelab guy, but all my hardware now supports IPv6 but I'm not really using it precisely because it is just so different from IPv4.

How you assign addresses is completely different. How you configure your firewall as a result is completely different. In fact software support for the latter was one of the things I struggled with for years before having to change router software from pfSense to OpenWRT. Last I checked pfSense still didn't have full support.

They changed the way you write the addresses, using the port separator as group separator as well, leading to needing special software support for parsing IPv6 addresses. I know because I had to fix this in a few projects where we bothered to add IPv6 support, and that was the biggest PITA by far when adding IPv6 support, the rest was trivial.

Out of all the trouble I've had with IPv6, the wire format was the least problematic by far. All the wire format did was cause it to take some time to get IPv6 capable hardware.

But I've had that hardware for decades at this point. The thing keeping IPv6 back is all the other things they changed.
Side track, but does anyone have suggestions about how to better present such content. I am struggling with similar docs/demos.

As a documentation page, each section is laid out uniformly with section heading, content, link to code and link to paper.

However the page itself is a blog post which will be difficult to find again next year.

Are there other examples of companies having well presented technical summaries which remain findable from the hime page?
WebGL works very well on iOS.

If in doubt try https://luduxia.com/whichwayround/ ;P
There is a revenue share, so they are already paying for the video hosting.
Yes. The US is an oligarchy (soon to be kleptocracy) and the purpose of the police is to protect capital.
Towards Higher Performance Batteries Through Network Topology Optimization
Intel Tempers Expectations for Falcon Shores AI GPU
> Also, what's with using unofficial Python builds by default? Even on platforms where official builds exist (macOS/Windows)? I get that these standalone builds solve certain problems (like bootstrapping), but it feels like a risky shortcut. If those unofficial builds go unsupported or change directions, where does that leave "uv"? Why not at least give users the option to rely on official binaries?

The official macOS binaries wouldn't work for uv because they're not portable. They're also taking ownership over the indygreg project which is a great thing for everyone since portable pythons are useful in a lot of contexts. I'm sure they'll start sending some of the portability changes upstream too once they get there.

I don't see how this is criticism.
In which browser? I have the feeling that Google degrades the experience in everything but Chrome.
> ... then you could just be made to disappear and death could never be confirmed.

I don't know how it works in the US but there are definitely countries where after x years of disappearance you are legally declared death. And, yes, some people who are still alive and, say, left the EU for some country in South America, are still alive. Which is not my point. My point is that for inheritance purposes etc. there are countries who'll declared you death if you don't give any sign of life for x years.
When you use some webpages, it forces you to agree to an EULA that might preclude web scraping. NYTimes is such a webpage which is why they were sued. This is evidence that OpenAI didn't care about the law. Someone with internal communications about this could completely destroy the company!!!
Quite difficult = Not impossible.

So, completely difficult. But completely difficult doesn't sound quite right, probably as less syllables are preferred over many unless there's a quite good reason to prefer the latter.
Wow. Suchir was my project partner in a CS class at Berkeley (Operating Systems!). Incredibly smart, humble, nice person. It was obvious that he was going to do amazing things. This is really awful.
Yes, my thought too, especially since the basic embed allows you to click on the YouTube logo to be able to view the video on the YouTube website.

Unless YouTube is deliberately not allowing high traffic publishing "partners" (?) like the Verge and Vox to get the benefit of their preferred advertising?!
Makes sense from YouTube side. Why they would associate themselves with ads that has nothing to do with them?
Yeah, Deutsche Bahn can find a route from Berlin Jannowitzbrücke to Barcelona Sants that takes less than 20 hours (as opposed to 2 days) https://www.bahn.de/buchung/fahrplan/suche#sts=true&so=Janno...

Hopefully, the existence of a black-box oracle makes it easier to find out where the gaps are.
Talking about the slider specifically, I'm of course not advocating for going out and rewriting all sliders using shaders.

This is just an example of a place where you can use a shader to create a cool, interactive visual effect.

On the example site I've implemented the slider as a regular HTML slider element, and using a canvas to replace its visual appearance. Doing something like this, I don't believe there's anything in the way of getting all the accessibility benefits of a regular slider element, though I could be wrong, I'm no expert by any means.
having no experience in Closure, I was thinking exactly the latter
>Even byte representations are human designed encodings

The point is that it can model any sequence of bytes. It's what-follows-what that matters, not how we're encoding it.
Show HN: High-accuracy OCR API for receipts/invoice with easy customisation
Stupid question: why doesn't fujitsu commoditize this for deep-learning stuff and steal some of nvda's bullrun ?
I haven't used it, but you could check out Lago.

https://www.getlago.com

https://github.com/getlago/lago
I am of the opinion that async/await syntax for efficient embedded programming is one of the true revolutions of Rust -- and often overlooked. I gave a presentation about this very idea at a recent Rust meetup in Paris. The slides are there if some are interested (though admittedly not very explicit on their own): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRT_ejw7Uza6...
I once wrote a sentence with a double “in” in it — it was something like “let's see what state this is in in two weeks’ time” or similar — and at least two people commented thinking that it was wrong and needed an “in” removed...
Inheritance was invented as a performance hack in Simula
Please don't take away from the point.
You can't have it both ways or at least YouTube tried to help publishers out with the special player.

What's the actual problem here: that Verge doesn't like entitled ppl complaining to them about lack of links. Verge is trying to be one of those very publishers going independent etc, so support them, expect to 'stay on site', can't have it both ways.
(Unless Verge does the extra work for the users and adds a quick link under every vid)
Trailing in languages which support ending the last item with a comma as this follows the usage of the semicolon.

[ 1,
2,
]

Leading otherwise as no language I can remember supports a leading comma on the first item:

[ 1
, 2
]

The entire point of this is to avoid needing to edit the prior line when inserting items into an existing lexical list this makes the diffs just:

+

instead of:

-
+
+

If you don't care about how your line diffs look, don't bother. Just auto-format your code instead.
No need to do it in Figma. Soon your OS will be able to do it, and it will be able to use all apps on your system to create a design, not just one app.
I could see Astral's unofficial builds becoming official at some point after they've matured a bit more.
> I am disgusted that this is still proferred as a valid moral philosophical principle.

Can you explain what makes it invalid besides the fact that you and me don't like it?

There are no "valid" or "invalid" moral principles, there is no objectively correct morality, nor does the idea even make sense. Morals are historically contingent social phenomena. Over different times and even over different cultures today, they vary dramatically. Everyone has them, and they all think they are right. That quickly reduces all discussion in cases like this to ornate versions of "you're wrong" and "no, YOU'RE wrong."
Yeah, that fact is evident if you look at the news… ever…

Hunter Biden pardoned, Trump’s convictions not resulting in punishment, high ranking executives getting bonuses for layoffs, etc…
You can simply install uBO (and its dependencies) and the question who’s gonna profit from ads will resolve naturally.
I'm 46, and I've gone through something of a midlife crisis recently (and things are getting better now!)

When I was a kid, I was constantly being told how much much "potential" I had. I have accomplished a lot, and when I was in my twenties and thirties it was easy to imagine that all the things I hadn't accomplished yet were still ahead of me.

Now, I've been faced with a reckoning: for sure, many great things still lie ahead, but I won't be able to achieve all of my aspirations.

One thing that worked for me: seek professional help. I sought out a therapist and am still working with her. When I developed insomnia, I tried pretty much everything (medication, CBT, sleep study etc.) until I eventually found a medication that worked. This took years, but things are better now.

Also, avoid the "sunk cost" fallacy. For years I practiced at a yoga studio which was excellent, but the vibe was a little bit off for me and I wasn't enjoying myself. I just sucked it up and kept going. But after Covid I decided to try something different, and ended up finding group fitness classes which I love.

Good luck!
Trump wants to end daylight savings time
>In a post on his social media site Friday, Trump said his party would try to end the practice when he returns to office.

>“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” he wrote.

>Setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during summer months, but has long been subject to scrutiny. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942.

>Health experts have said that lawmakers have it backward and that standard time should be made permanent.

And I couldn't agree more.
I’ve had diplomatically phrased and cited comments on HN called an “inherent flamewar” because they go against hivemind consensus — eg, pointing out BLM leaders described themselves as “trained Marxists”.

I think it’s reasonable people don’t want to present the profile on HN as their “first impression”. People have different aspects to themselves in different fora and that’s not only okay, but healthy.
GNewSense
Maybe people just don't like to talk to other people, hence everything is behind websites and APIs now, just so that human interaction is minimized.

You may oppose this. But the best move from a game-theoretic perspective, is not to not play.
Okay — but we have more concerns than a single virus.

It’s entirely possible to engage in net-negative behaviors because you fixate on a singular goal — a human version of the “paperclip optimizer”: we became “COVID optimizers” and produced suboptimal results.

Ethics and morals are time-honed heuristics to avoid those failures. “Freedom” is the heuristic that distributed risk assessment and planning out perform centralized versions — and we forgot that in our panic.
Who is this hypothetical person who gets outraged at YouTube for having one of their videos embedded on a page with objectionable adverts? I’m sorry but their stated reason is crazy, I can put any site in an iframe on my website, that doesn’t mean they’re associated with me.
Another way is to use a hardware key for your ssh keys. I use a yubikey for ssh and for encrypting my passwords (via passage). Of course they could still steal my session tokens or try to backdoor my browser to catch my passwords when I enter them, but its a higher bar to clear.
Trisquel GNU/Linux is a free operating system
The article quotes Dunbar as saying "In the normal run of things, when a fifth person joins a group, it’ll become two conversations within about 20 seconds." I've noticed something similar. The article suggests this might be because of the difficulty we have imagining what multiple other people are thinking, but I suspect other causes also play a part.

If I'm in a group of five or more, and I think too long about what somebody said, or about how to respond, I find there are two conversations going on without me. In a group of four, the only way it can split into two conversations is if I participate. If I don't, the other three have no choice but to maintain (at most) a single conversation, making it easier for me to rejoin.
Autonomous agents will soon handle distribution, making these platforms unnecessary.
They spent a really large amount of money getting studios to port, and then proceeded to be the worst partners ever, so nobody continued when the incentives went away.
> Phil Schiller (Apple’s head of marketing and the App Store) once said that “running to the press” doesn’t work

That was actually from the 2010 App Store Review Guidelines: "If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."
Of course they can. So can every other site that is affected. But seems not optimal.
Slow and Steady: My 15-Year Endurance Goal
Would it have killed him to put an example YouTube embed in the article so we could see the effect?