skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the MTB world they invented dropper seatpost which allows the seat to slide up or down depending of the riders need. Usually they want it out of the way in the downhills.

Turns out it is also really useful when you are using your bike in a urban area and want the seat down at the traffic lights and I can see those becoming popular on city bikes in the next few years.

Right now there is one particular city/step-thru kind of bike that sports one because it is built to also handle dirt paths:

The Marin Larkspur 2
https://www.marinbikes.com/ww/bikes/2021-larkspur-2

So you could totally buy a bike this bike in your size, sliding down the saddle and removing the pedals to use it as a balance bike for a little before you get confident enough to use it with pedals.

Additionally I think it looks super cool. I don't need it, yet I want one for myself. I think they just released an e-bike version that I may gift to my partner.
>In other words. Health insurance firms have capped profits in the US. But in this case one conglomerate can own both an insurer and a PBM, so it can just overcharge consumers for insurance and then launder its profits through the PBM.

Most insightful comment in this thread. THIS is the crux of the issue, and we've allowed the likes of UHC to buy PBMs and other pieces of the supply chain / customer lifecycle because UHC lobbyists claim it would reduce costs across the board and also improve efficiency. Load of absolute bullshit obviously but here we are.
Ask HN: Will I stagnate as an engineer if I become a tech founder?
I am an engineer (mostly backend) with about 9 years of experience. I love my craft, especially diving into complex problems and continuously improving my skills.

Lately, I've noticed that the joy I get from my work has been fading, mostly because it's been extremely hard for me to find a company that shares my values.

I’ve been thinking about starting my own venture for a long time, but the main thing holding me back is my fear of stagnating as an engineer. I still feel like I have so much to learn in the field, but on the other hand, I’m not sure if that feeling will ever go away.

I would greatly appreciate any advice from tech founders ex-engineers on how to resolve this kind of dilemma.
I really enjoy audio books much more than reading (perhaps it helps me feed my need to "consume", as I can listen to them while doing other, menial things) but I also enjoy buying the same titles and filling out a physical book shelf.

I love the visual appraisal of a library a lot more in person than on a screen.
I don't have it because it is collectable. I have it because it is a great book and I still refer to it once in a while. (mostly I can find what I need on the web, but once in a while what K&R really said is important - though mostly for online arguments)
> Too bad that we are currently doing the exact opposite (cutting down more forest than is regrown)...

"Plants" is not a synonym for "trees". There are grasslands that are significant carbon sinks - even farmland managed in the right way can be a carbon sink . The oceans (which have a notable lack of trees) are a major carbon sink (although this paper is not talking about this, if I understand the abstract correctly).
Basically, it felt like the body had gone through the motions of sleeping, but the brain felt even more tired than usual. It felt very confusing, as all measures seemed to indicate that I had slept for a solid 8+ hours, but I felt less rested than when I'd gone to sleep. It's like someone hit the "pause" button on the brain processing cycle, and sleep never happened for the brain.
Control can be separated from who is owed what share of economic profits. For example, some Alphabet and Meta shares having more voting power than others.

On a more pragmatic level, even in the US "own" means what society will defend for you. However, the US (and other western countries) are presumed to have courts that have a higher probability of defending claims of ownership assuming you have the right paperwork. Whereas in places like China, it is presumed that your paperwork is less likely to entitle you to a defense.
I totally agree. At the previous company I worked for, we decided to sponsor a 3-year scholarship (paid directly to the student, not just covering fees) at a local uni that targeted high-school leavers from demographics that were underrepresented in both our company and the wider industry we were in (renewables/energy sector). Trying to hire more people from those demographics is futile if the candidates don't exist, so the idea was to encourage people to choose this pathway.

The scholarship is for students who would choose a certain program/specialization relevant for our industry and includes a paid summer internship at our company after their 2nd or 3rd year of study. Having mentored some of these students when they were interns (capable and bright students with promising futures), they said that this scholarship helped them choose this career path whereas otherwise they may have just tried to get into tech like many others at that university.

Note this was not in the USA but in New Zealand where we have a different colonial history we are reckoning with. The scholarship targeted women, Maori (our indigenous culture), and Pacific Islanders (a large ethnic minority in NZ). This less about meeting any ratios or quotas (we didn't have those), but rather we felt a distinct lack of e.g. Maori voices in our company and the industry which is a problem when you are frequently interacting with Maori stakeholders and landowners in energy project development (and indigenous relations and historical landonwership plays a large role in our consenting & planning process).
> Would HN be OK with European governments banning Meta, X, Discord etc?

I'm a bit surprised it hasn't happened yet, although those companies are also willing to adjust policies in foreign nations—for instance, Meta saying it won't eliminate fact checking outside of the US.
I'm not trying to go to the mat for Big Pharma, but I'm certain that they do a lot more than slapping a stupid name on the research right at the end of the pipeline. Most universities can't fund sustained, large or diverse clinical trials, for instance; they also can't generally do the long-term post-market research/surveillance once a drug has been released.
I got a lightly used copy off Amazon, along with "The UNIX programming environment" a year or two ago, probably. They're both fine with only a bit of wear, but I don't think they were ever of a super sturdy binding that would hold up well under heavy abuse.
There should be a method + requirement to pay royalties back to public funding for basic research, but pharmaceutical companies really bear 99% of the risk and complexity of bringing a drug to market. It's not all that expensive to find molecules that might do something useful, it's obscenely expensive and risky to prove one does something useful.
Sorry I don't follow. What did I make up? That I don't believe that the US are "always fair" either? That I don't need to believe it, because it has been documented many times?

> We know that CCP upper leadership holds seats at the major mainland corporations.

And who holds seats/has major influence in the US government?
> Ironically, what people consider the most prosperous time of America happened to be the time when America was opposing a vague foreign adversary.

It happened to be at a time when the rest of the world's industrial capacity had been almost completely destroyed by a devastating world war which hardly touched US infrastructure.
I mean, Chinese people should be allowed to post videos for Americans, the issue is editorialization.

Like how newspapers and other media can use editorial discretion to create the impression that “all reasonable people” hold some opinion X by only publishing the voices of reasonable people who believe X (manufactured consent), social media platforms can do the same thing, but x1000 thanks to automation and personalization (“the algorithm”)

So editorialization, including the algorithmic editorialization of social media platforms, is a form of speech separate from the speech of the authors on these platforms. If the editors are independent, and part of the same public discourse as their readers and authors, then you wind up with a diverse media ecosystem where the liberal machinery of people working out complex issues through public discourse can hopefully still more or less proceed.

If one part of the ecosystem isn’t letting outside voices in, the feedback mechanisms are broken and you don’t have a healthy public discourse anymore. And growing and maintaining a diverse media ecosystem in a society that does still have a healthy public discourse is slow and fragile (as the posts below comparing the risk of books to TikTok observe).
Yes, this is an issue!

And, zooming out a little more, free market healthcare is just part of the problem.

We have a system where we’re only treating people once they have a disease, and not working to prevent the disease, so it would be helpful to look at the effects of for-profit companies on making healthy people sicker. Fast food, snacks, alcohol, there are so many industries that are incentivized to succeed by making people sick.

This is the system “working” according to the current rule set.

It’s time to look for a better algorithm than a purely profit maximizing one.
To be a tool it has to be able to be directed towards an end.

Hurricanes are effective for coastal property destruction, but they can't be used as a tool
Physical has a spatial dimension that digital cannot replicate. Like I can't tell ya what page something is on but I can find it quickly by feel.

Something is lost by moving to digital but what? By what metric?
> While what you're saying on the surface may be true from the numbers you are comparing, the fact of the matter is that healthcare costs are becoming more and more expensive during a time when many are experiencing a cost of living crisis.

Which has almost nothing to do with the amount of profits derived from private health insurance - that's only ~1.2% of spending.

Maybe it used to be ~0.8% - that delta is not moving the needle.
> why you all over the water are upset about the prospect of people taking away your big shooty guns

All over the water? Ducks. It's the ducks. Ducks are the enemy. Unless we defend ourselves, the ducks will sap us of our natural vital fluids!
Wait, so your position is that the US is harmed by being the global master of the internet (through companies like Meta that are synonymous with the internet in some places in the world) and that we should build the great American firewall to keep our internet in and other's out?
Most pharma companies can't even fund clinical trials. That's why big pharma (Pfizers of the world) are more like holdings companies that buy smaller pharma companies (biotechs) with novel molecules and they big pharma eats the risk of putting the smaller companies' inventions through trials.
And doesn't bringing in The Associated Press solve this problem? No need for the AI to decide what is trustworthy or not. For the vast majority of people everything The Associated Press publishes is trustworthy.
Don’t you think it’s possible if drug advertising is banned then perhaps some of our media organizations may be at least slightly more inclined to investigate some of these hostile practices?
The US is a hostile autocratic power with undue cultural power on our own citizens, so even if it's a given that TikTok is mostly a propaganda platform (which I completely, categorically disagree with), wouldn't it be better to at least have a choice? Or be able to compare between them? You are speaking as if US citizens don't deserve/ aren't capable of making their own decisions which is about as autocratic as it gets.
And this works IME

I use Cloudflare for hobby projects 90% of the time because it’s free. That dramatically increases the likelihood I advocate for their offerings in the enterprise
I just recently discovered navidrome https://www.navidrome.org

I converted all my old CDs to ogg and installed navidrome on my home server. Basically, now I have my own personal spotify.

I am aware though that this solution won't work for everybody.
Obviously. Why would I give a damn what's between the legs of someone that was a victim of fraud? It's just as sad when guys are catfished for scams and I feel the same empathy for them.
Yeh, this would be great. I'd also love to see the ability to publish multiple library crates as a single package.
> It's marvelous that we can do so much, so fast, for free, with minimal computer skills. We should aim to make the independent web this easy.

Actually, I'd argue that our takeaway is the same. That's exactly the wider point I'm making, I'm just using this emergency as a synecdoche for it. This is good, the independent web would be better. Why is the barrier for entry to the 'normal' web so high that these people didn't consider it?

Lots of information that should be hosted by local, independent groups is being hosted in these closed un-indexable platforms. It does the creator a disservice and the end-user a disservice.

Had this disaster happened 10-15 years ago, I wager that this information would (I think) likely be displayed and posted here as a website (or at least turned into one).

And zooming out, how much good info is tied up in Google Docs alone? Indulge me.

- Here's TaranVH's (The editor from Linus Tech Tips, and a very technically skilled, impressive person) guide to colour grading.[This one hurts particularly because it's such a good document and desperately wants to be anything but a Google Doc.](https://shorturl.at/InI89)

- Here's a great resource for buying products for [Curly Hair.](https://shorturl.at/ZbNF9) This should be a blog.

- How many times have you seen YT drama or open letters be Google Docs? (https://shorturl.at/fJapj) If they were here, it'd be <motherfuckingwebsite.com>

- Here's a guide to video game stats. This should be on a Wiki. (https://shorturl.at/db49s)

- Here's a worldbuilding calculator. This should be a tool website.* (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AML0mIQcWDrrEHj-InXo...)

Whatever your opinion on whether or not these should or should not be documents vs. webpages, can we at least agree that they have information that people would be interested in? This stuff makes up the internet, this is where all the cool shit is. 10-15 years ago, these would be in search results. They're not anymore. It's all here, in undiscoverable Google Docs, unsearchable Discord servers, slow meandering Reddit threads, locked-down Facebook Groups and anti-discoverable TikTok feeds.

I keep hearing too much about good content leaving us (AI Slop in search), and not nearly enough about where it's going. If you find out where the good, creative stuff is going, you'll get your good, creative internet back.

*: I've said 'should' a lot, when what I mean is 'it would have been one when I was a kid'.
The strong force is short range for a different reason. It's called [confinement][1]. The strong force gets stronger as you pull color charges apart. At some point the energy is so high that it's very likely that corresponding matching-color particles will exist, and so now there two pairs of close charges, instead of one pair of far charges.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_confinement
So... in the end it's like telling the parents to eat healthy to show their kid that they should also eat healthy...

I didn't expect what I wrote to be that confusing.
Have you ever asked an LLM what time it is? It takes months to train them...
In the middle ages, all of Europe could hide behind Latin . . .
You're ignoring the fact that all of the large insurers are increasingly also the healthcare providers.

UnitedHealth Group is the owner of both United Healthcare (the largest insurer in the country) and Optum (the largest healthcare provider in the country).

Part of UHG's low profit margin is its liberal use of intra-company eliminations, where transactions between Optum and United Healthcare get zeroed out and don't count toward profit despite it ultimately generating more dollars in the parent company's coffers.
I think the udp example is a counterexample personally.

"Hmm udp, so ...unreliable and...hmm...but high throughput?...hm, good to build stuff on top of?"

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, yet I know exactly what udp is.

If you just meant "unreliable", how was this better than just saying that?
It goes the other way too, nouns as verbs, and just as cringy: "you can solution this", "we need to action that".

Both ways come from subtle manipulation of language. "Ask" sounds like a polite word while "request" sounds demanding, so the former gets used even if it's the wrong word class. "Lesson" sounds harsh while a "learning" sounds positive. The word that gets used is whichever frames the speaker or conversation better, making them sound more courteous or cooperative and nudging the recipient towards complying.
>They don't support Linux with GOG Galaxy

This is a bit of an issue.

For example, Dead Cells offers daily challenges and has a few items locked behind completing them. They facilitate these by using the platform's tooling, which means the GOG version uses Galaxy and Linux users can't access it. And as far as I can tell, there's nothing on the site telling you this, troubleshooting the problem took a fair amount of digging.

A small thing, and I still opt for GOG over anything else, but it can be annoying.
> boy

And nouns as interjections.
What "innovation" is UnitedHealth doing, pray tell me?
Anything other than 0% is borderline immoral. Imagine sending a push notification to somebody's phone with a completely made-up headline summary. Even if it happens once in a hundred times, that's too much.
Things like that slowly but surely erode trust and make it harder and harder to trust anything that's generated by AI, especially when it comes to news, where trustworthiness is essential, and probably the main reason people pay for news. See for example https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge93de21n0o
Indeed which makes me excited for..

Open AI creating an AI phone with Microsoft ... release H.E.R. (the movie) in your pocket.

Your AI assistant / Agent is seen on the Lock Screen (like a FaceTime call UI/UX) waiting at your beckon to do everything for you /be there for via via text, voice, gestures, expressions, etc.

It interfaces with other AI Agents of businesses, companies, your doctor, friends & family to schedule things & used as a knowledge-base (ask friends birthday if they allow that info).

Apple is indeed stale & boring to me (heavy GPT user) in 2025.
Congrats on the launch, QwQ is fantastic!
I'm kind of the opposite, I can't bring myself to let go of my collection of paper books, or even to stop buying a new one every so often, but I do not like the physical experience of reading one nearly as much as I like the experience of reading on a phone or kindle. holding a book in one hand and turning a page with a click is a really wonderful way to read.
I'm not sure it works quite like that - you have to acclimatize to the altitude whether you are using bottled oxygen or not. Going without oxygen can be considered a bit antisocial as you're more likely to collapse high up and need others to rescue you, unless you are happy for them to walk by while you die.
Very strong action of the SFC! We all benefit, like to hear the insides from neo4j perspective…
ETOPS per se makes no sense for a 4 engine aircraft (the T in the acronym is "twin-engine".) Three- or four-engine aircraft have equivalent engine-out long-range operations ratings, though.
You are correct. Diversion points are Perth or Durban. Nowhere else.
All KPIs are derivatives of revenue or cost
In Robert's Rules (of Parliament Procedure), which are kind of the "base level" in US corporate politics, "to table" means to "send [back] to committee" in part coming from the idea of physically collecting all the debate notes so far and setting them aside on a table for the committee to collect to take to their next meeting in order to (try to) address concerns.

In Robert's Rules to address something is to "motion" it, with "call to vote" being a common sub-type of a motion to make. (Generally addressed to "the chair" of the meeting, or asking for wider debate from "the floor", so sometimes something might be "chaired" or "floored" to imply a vote/address, but usually "motion".)

The default vote in Robert's Rules is a show of hands or a verbal "aye"/"nay"/"abstain". It takes extra work to motion for a paper or ballot vote. I'm curious if the UK jargon for "table" is as much a difference/switch in that default among UK parliamentary procedure? More paper votes would involve more tables, if that were the case, so that would maybe explain things.
To be fair, his universe was much simpler than ours. He didn't need a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator to transmute lead into gold in his theory.
Too late, the library has all of the discs now. :-)

She could borrow them all back, one at a time, and re-build the library.
There is a max % take insurance companies can have.

The easy as hell solution to this is insurance companies collude with hospitals to charge patients more. 5% of 5000 is more than 5% of 2000.

In some cases insurance companies just buy up hospital chains and then bill themselves whatever the hell they want to.
What does it mean to "handle online media?" How is it you would say "most adults" fall short of this?
A bit like skateboarding - on typical pavement, it's easier to fall just going straight if you go ~3 mph than if you go ~6 mph.
But it can be trained to access basic, limited APIs to get current information.
You don't think relocating someone to a camp against their will is intending to hurt?

Are you serious about that?
Fantastic article, I loved it PG! So many prigs on here have criticized you though for violating their religion. You own one of the largest outlets for prigs around! How can you solve it?
Ludum Dare 2025 is cancelled
Wait what you get billed for jailtime???
> I regret the decision having gone fully digital, which can only be a complement to physical books.

I've long thought the purchase of a book should be considered a licence: you pay a little more if you want a physical version too, but they're not separate things; the digital ebook comes free/is the basic way your licence can be exercised.

(Ideally licenced people would be allowed to order cheap replacements if they damaged the physical copy, but how would you stop fraudulent sale & continual replacement-ordering.)
It means that we are not on the same page with that and should not be used. With jargon, audience is everything.

Also, you use it in context. The jargon becomes illustrative for the analogy, not precise definition. After all, human can't have UDP connection.
If there's any company who can afford "real-time LLM training" at this moment, I'm 100% sure they will win this AI race since they probably have at least ~10x compute compared to competitors. Of course, no one can do that right now.
My high school was mainly textbooks, then things were more digital in college. Normally I'm against fancy new tech, but this felt like an improvement in hindsight. I was never missing the book I needed, there's cmd+f and page skip, I can annotate without ruining it...

The real problem seems to be licensing. Lots of books are physical-only, and the digital versions are those annoying "epub" files instead of PDFs.
Guess we will find out. They sure do seem to prefer Russian style oligarchy and control over Western values.
YMMV, but during my time studying the course coordinators of the first year CS courses had to put out a notice to the male students that the female students (greatly outnumbered) were there to learn and didn't want to be hit on during labs and tutorials. They did that because it had become a problem, especially as these courses consisted of a lot of students who perhaps didn't have much experience interacting graciously (or at all) with the opposite gender.