skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is saying that life expectancy is still improving in Europe, but it's improving at a slower pace than it used to improve in the past. In the United States, life expectancy started diverging from Western Europe in the early 90s and has had zero improvement in the last 15 years while Western Europe has continued to slowly improve.

The pandemic hit US life expectancy figures incredibly hard due to the very high levels of excess death compared to Western Europe, but presumably there might be a 'bounceback' due to natural selection of the aged population with the strongest immune systems and fewest comorbidities.

I've heard a lot of Americans comment on putting on a lot of weight while travelling in Europe. I can only imagine that Americans would be more accustomed to eating out for more of their meals. When cooking at home, I found the French to have a good sense of portion sizing and a cultural aversion to overeating; the sensation of being completely full was often described with a sense of discomfort and disgust. Whereas in Anglo cultures, being completely full is treated more positively.
I suspect there are far more people like that, and we just don't hear about them because they keep to themselves. This Youtuber is an exception: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40519095
On the other hand, a motivated person can now pursue their interest in a subject of their choosing, at their pace, as much as they want. LLMs are great tutors if you use them in this manner.
It'd be easy and cleaner to use miette for pretty error printing.
Opnsense is not like OpenWRT, it targets running on relatively powerful generic x86 hardware. Intel CPUs and networking hardware usually works best because of driver support on BSD, but it will work on others. I say "relatively" because even low power old embedded CPUs are more than enough to route at a gigabit or more with lots of firewall rules and services running. Opnsense's cousin Pfsense also has some support for ARM, but that version is only really available on their commercially supported hardware.

Most people either buy a generic box that can be had for ~$250, or recycle an old PC and stick in a network card. You can also buy commercially supported hardware for Opnsense or Pfsense's parent companies, though the value proposition isn't worth it for home users IMO as you will pay a steep premium versus loading up something yourself.
That's an interesting attempt!
I think it's a good approach for prototyping using Gistr (https://www.getgistr.com/)
Are you the developer of Gistr?
I'm afraid the top 1 issue forever is that it really only works if you are a sun. No need to try and harvest or contain the energy, high energy neutrons damaging the whole thing is a non-issue, and the gravity does the rest.

We already have a fusion source and a way to harvest it from afar in solar panels.
SpendScan: Analyse grocery receipts for spending patterns and env. impact
I built SpendScan to answer a simple question: where does my grocery budget go? While working on receipt analysis, I discovered there was no good tool that could tell you the environmental impact of your grocery purchases at the item level.

SpendScan analyses your grocery receipts to provide both financial and environmental insights. It uses standardised emissions data to calculate the carbon footprint of your food choices. The system analyses factors including food type, seasonality, local vs. imported status, and processing levels to estimate environmental impact.

The tool helps users understand:
- Item-level spending patterns
- Carbon footprint of food choices
- Seasonal vs. out-of-season purchasing
- Local vs. imported food impact
- Price trends over time

All receipt uploads are free to try, and creating an account to track spending over time is free. The analysis works with any supermarket receipt, including digital receipts from store apps.
I'm sharing this here because I believe the HN community might find the environmental impact analysis particularly interesting, and I'd appreciate feedback on both the approach and implementation.
99% of people who never written go will know what the go version does
When Robert Frost Was Bad
I guess I won’t be adding new information to what your “experts” said as well, but hey. I love Go’s error handling. Syntactic sugar like in Rust could’ve made things a bit nicer to they eye, but apart from that: being forced to think about each error path leads in my view to better code. Compared to a fat try/catch and fingers crossed that all goes well in it.
> A Chinese company used a Chinese cloud.

Using a Chinese company for every thing except for distillation for which they used OpenAI lol.
OMG they nearly played one show and then broke up. I’m not surprised you’re not cool enough to have heard of them. I heard of them before they formed. They were going to write a song but decided it was too commercial so they decided to never actually form a band to avoid selling out. You sound like a casual music listener.
https://archive.is/nh8Ol

He really did rhyme "flance", which is a word I think he made up, with "dalliance", which is not pronounced "dally-ance".

(The article gets more interesting as it goes.)
> mandated by Java that each type needs to be in its own file, ridiculous.

Each public type, but in general I agree, this is ridiculous decision.
I disagree, it’s just another step in the automation of knowledge distribution that’s been going on for a long long time. Every step someone has lamented that we lost something, maybe starting with speech itself, and the invention of writing taking away from oral tradition, scrolls, books, the printing press, the World Wide Web, etc…

I was just wowing to myself the other day that a local 70b 4q 40GB model on my Mac basically replaces Wikipedia for me and can be used offline in an airplane. A whole library can be replaced with a cube of knowledge that is just a wrapper around an LLM.

Of course there is going to be resistance to any move up, there has never not been resistance.
Being insolvent is not enough of a trigger.

They can be perfectly solvent and simply decide they don’t want to play anymore, take their ball, and go home.

Or they can be acquired and the new owners can tell the community to pound sand.

Finally, when companies are insolvent they tend to not have the resources to follow through on things like this. Including maintaining things in escrow.
You mean "NOT even definable"?
Ironically, that was a pretty Reddit-like thing to say.
They might not admit it if they're not drunk enough.
I remember streaming Pandora in summer of 2008 and thinking how amazing is it that I can listen to whatever music I want on the go. And it got better and better by the week, it seemed. I don’t recall ever having issues with insufficient bandwidth, almost everything I expected to work, worked when I needed it to (in NYC).

It wasn’t long before we had Maps, Latitude, Yelp, Four Square, Twitter, so many possibilities due to combo of camera + mobile broadband + GPS + battery technology to allow on the go computation and communication.
>We could fix it all with a single law: All federally funded research papers must be published with full open access.

Two things wrong with this sentence:

1. All federal funding for research is in jeopardy.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/trumps-nih-budg...

2. The executive branch now considers itself superior to the legislative and judicial branches, so actions of the legislative branch (i.e., laws) might as well be moot.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/vance-and-musk-attack-...
Because people in independent agencies are by act protected from exactly these things. Think for a bit, why were they not just called "agencies"?

And for all the stupidity of congress, if the fail to protect against a self-coup, that doesn't make it any less likely.
> It honestly seems like it's for people wanting to LARP as being powerful and important. Which is fine (as long as no one gets hurt), but how big of a market is there for that?

It might be large enough. Aren't there companies specialized in putting up sets for wannabe influencers to pretend they are in extravagant places such as private jets?
I think this is an awesome feature and will probably a great alternative to my use of nix to do similar things for scripts/python if nothing else because it's way less overhead to get it running and playing with something.

Nix for all it's benefits here can be quite slow and make it otherwise pretty annoying to use as a shebang in my experience versus just writing a package/derivation to add to your shell environment (i.e. it's already fully "built" and wrapped. but also requires a lot more ceremony + "switching" either the OS or HM configs).
Yes quite helpful- thanks for explaining and will try it out!
So is this meant to be used by end users to run models and provide an API like ollama? I don't entirely follow the readme, though I think that's a context problem.
You mean in real world or in math?

In real world, correct, assuming "dot" and "number line" are consist of real world materials.

In math, you need to define "randomly placing a dot" first, because it's proven there isn't a uniform distribution over real numbers ("pick randomly" is usually a colloquial way to say "pick from a uniform distribution.")
Write that article then. Don’t badmouth the writer’s firsthand (evidently not secondary) experience over the course of a year since they didn’t express your idiosyncratic view that Java is a Declarative Language, which is very different from a data-centric language, which itself is a term from the clojure/scala enthusiasm about functional programming around Java 8.
I had migraines which ceased when I switched from a steroid nasal spray to an allergy nasal spray. I guess the steroid spray was not good for my brain.

Edit: I even reintroduced the spray 2 years later (out of allergy spray) and had another migraine. It was surprising, as I only used it for a few days.
It's possible the person you're replying to wasn't using replication, so it's entirely different. Those folks also used "synchronous_commit is set to remote_write" which will have a performance impact
That was also a use case for me. However at some point I replaced Kafka with Redpanda.
Musk's Reports of Social Security Payments to the Dead Are Greatly Exaggerated
As Americans that believe in the Republic, what exactly are we supposed to do about this? Should we continue to implore congress to take action against this lawless behavior?
That’s because Europeans focus on society whilst the US focuses on the individual.

That mostly comes from historical experience and “societal maturity”.

When society decides that only those people that both actively contribute to society and follow a strict set of guidelines as to how people should be, act and express themselves, then those outside that subset are superfluous to society.

Taken to extreme, that subset of superfluous people are just deleted.

In Europe, that deletion was abhorrent and it has left an indelible mark that echoes through its gene pool.

The US will too have its experience, and eventually learn from it.

There’s nothing like watching your disabled or sick child be forcibly removed from your love and care and knowing that they will subsequently be gassed and burnt, simply because your political masters believed they were a burden to their glorious nation.
The US is a net fossil fuel exporter at this point. In 2023 we inported $283 billion in fossil fuels and exported $361 billion (sauce: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/usa?yearlyTradeFlowSele...)

The real missed opportunity IMO is one of not communicating how well we are doing.
You can try the service for free at https://www.augmentcode.com/
This will probably get flagged, but if you read this, spent a few minutes trying to understand the gravity of this specific EO. Every federal employee even in independent agents must and will jump when Trump says so. Even if he asks them to do something illegal (close the congress! Jail a democrat!), they must follow his orders. Because HIS interpretation of the law cannot be superseded.
equivalent exceptions:

let res = bar(foo());

(I think you meant: let res = bar(foo()?)?;
If you ignore all context, their support of the unitary executive (anti-american) theory, and the recent comments that "if a president does it, it isn't breaking the law" and "going against the will of the president is going against the will of the people"...

If you ignore ALL of that then you have a talking point worth debating.
Jason Kottke is a well-known developer, and I find his sentiment of being ashamed to be an american resonating.
Probably not going to be saying much though. The state of real-time LLM-based conversation aids just isn’t where it needs to be for those folks to function in public effectively. I could foresee there being a heck of a slam broetry event happening at an after party, though.
Designing a biologics facility involves creating a layout and process flow that ensures biologic products’ safe, efficient, and compliant production. The design of such a facility should adhere to Good Manufacturing Practices (GxP) to ensure the safety, quality, and efficacy of biological products. Here are some key considerations and components to focus on when designing a biologics facility:
Great, go get yourself 4 phds and a 600k/year job if ai can do everything for you! Meanwhile the rest of us in the real world will continue understanding the limits of the tools we use.
This isn't true.

https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizians-and-the-rationali...
Or, you could actually read the deck and it explains the problem.

At this point, I think this is just performative
Allow me to introduce The First Step Fallacy. https://thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-16-the-first-step-fal...
Let's see how long that one lasts as n standalone service. It's a shame that their product longevity reputation is pretty much non-existent at this point.
I also discovered the dive / ice water reflex sometimes helped my migraine. The reason I tested it is because caffeine supposedly releases some chemicals related to the same chemicals that are released when you vomit. Since my migraines always ceased after vomiting, I used these other methods to induce the same chemical response in the brain.

I now keep Excedrin migraine on hand (has caffeine). However, my migraines completely ceased after I stopped using nasal steroid spray and started with an allergy nasal spray.
I agree that this is probably a parody, but maybe it's the ravings of someone not right in the head. As a parody, it's not laugh out loud funny, but well-done in the sense that it sits on the border of believably.
It’s useless to post paywalled articles.

https://archive.is/bEoCT

Also, it’s an interesting theory and would make a lot of sense, but it’s presented with literally not one shred of actual evidence. I find it hard to believe something like this is going on and our intelligence services haven’t picked up on any of it.
There’s a big difference between presidential appointments and the rank and file of the civil service. (For what it’s worth, I also think we should seriously consider a constitutional amendment to prohibit the firing of political appointees, in exchange for all their terms being staggered.)
All the collected metadata will go with it.
Oops. Thanks for pointing out.
This explains better what I mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudge#Texture - milk is added only as a stabilizer, and many candies that resemble fudge in texture incorporate milk or other stabilizers to prevent too rapid a crystallization. Fondant is just fudge without stabilizers.
Near Zero Energy Chips [video]
You wrapped propaganda that NASA is useless nicely with a rant about DOGE and conflicts of interest.

NASA is not useless. Just look up how many innovations literally came from the ISS. And that is just one part of it.
Could I order thugs on demand to become a menace anytime I wanted? Say I order 5 to back me up in my local coffee shop. Would my time share security detail be pushing patrons out of the way, as I walk to the self serve counter to add cream and sugar to my coffee? Forming a protective barrier around me against anyone that is wearing some kind of hoodie or face mask, or isn’t fully groomed?
Don't forget the company being so weak it has resorted to suing its former customers because they decided to stop buying the company's product. I wonder what the government equivalent will be.
If anyone doesn't know, Windows PowerToys has some of these features built in, like bulk renaming. I particularly like their FancyZones feature, although that's unrelated to the file explorer.
What their current (advertising) revenues ($3.1bn?) are is only one piece of their valuation; their future growth depends also on whether you think they'll add micropayments and get regulatory approval. If they did, they could pass out Patreon, Substack, Medium, Locals, Rumble et al. for direct subscriptions to written, audio, video and mixed bloggers. And get a slice from TikTok, YT, IG, maybe Twitch.
If the city bureaucracy doesn't exist primarily to provide continued employment to people of a certain class who can't or won't do something more productive, it's doing a pretty good impression of it. The purpose of a system is what it does and all that.
Noise-canceling headphones may be linked to a rise in this brain condition
How about this:

What is the most efficient algorithm to generate an N x N array of the integers 0,1,2, … such that each entry is the smallest such integer not appearing either above in the same column, or to the left in the same row?

Posting it in this thread is a bit of a spoiler :)

https://nicknash.me/2012/10/26/happy-halloween/
But giving an engine to developers to make games for free (to them to release on steam) would bring more merch and volume to the store
People didn't read books by making copies of them. Producing new copies of manuscripts was a skilled occupation.
Unreadable in portrait mode on mobile. The text column is way too narrow, should be an easy fix!
This critique starts off with little to no credibility, with statements such as this:

> Although it claims to be a human-friendly language, TOML constitutes a step back into something more robotic and primitive when compared to INI files and libconfini's approach.

INI files are a complete, utter mess to the point it's even hard to argue they exist as a specified format. TOML's value proposition is specifying a INI-like language.

The critique is an exercise in myopic nitpicking, and confuses specification with implementation. The doc even whines because strings and numbers are different types. Go figure. The whole document is a textbook example of "not even wrong'. A waste if time.

By the way, TOML is supported as the config language of tools such as Rust's Cargo and Cloudflare's Wrangler. It's funny how things actually work in the real world in spite of these documents.
Same here. We moved when I was four, so I know I have a lot of memories from before then, because they're set in locations I never went back to after the age of 4.
What about empty string keys, duplicate keys and byte order marks?

\uFEFF{"": "value", "": null}

(Yup, there's a reason those are not recommended for use)
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uv basically does that + python version handling + conveniences like auto-activating venv and installing dependencies
Yeah, why help add support for my device when I can just type "LLM create driver Logitech mouse & install" :P
A lot depends on the actual reactor design.

I was thinking more of large scale D-T fusion, e.g. the tokamak design, which requires breeding tritium & is expected to create a lot of neutron activated waste. The tritium is especially concerning, as it's roughly as deadly as polonium-210 & highly bioavailable in the form of super heavy water.

You're probably right for smaller aneutronic designs like Helion's. If they can actually be made to work, they'll be much safer.
Similar I'd love to hear anything you can share about how you are persisting the data. I've been working on the web version of the recommendation todo app that I'm building and so far, since I know basically nothing about web development, I'm storing everything in cookies *ducks*.
It was named so based on the Idea is that like the author (who the term "Kafkesque" is coined after), Apache Kafka is a prolific writer.
>But hey, the site is still running. So, success.

more like, I'm the co-presidennt of the United States. So, success.
How AI takeover might happen in 2 years (fiction)
The article says its from heart disease and cancer and believe its tied to increasing BMI from diets and poor life style choices.
I think contacting patent trolls about anything like their opinion on legal matters about existing projects is a huge mistake. It only gives them the idea whom to shake down (namely you, since you contacted them)! It also probably makes it easier for them to claim that you knew about their patents when they come to shake you down. Don't feed the trolls!
This video parallels the article, going further. I love the tag line, "We know none of the numbers." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkIe60y2GI
Not really, linux doesn't really have a good file manager. Dolphin probably gets you closest. I'd like to scratch the itch, but I don't have time to start such a project at the moment.
Even if a 110 won’t quite do it for some people’s amount of driving, 220 will generally provide more than enough. No charger unit installation needed in either case. So thanks for the wager, but the point stands.
But that’s NOT the joke. There’s no implication the week is over on her part. It’s more “so much has happened it feels like a week” much more than “thank god it’s over”

Saying “a week full of mondays” doesn’t mean it’s over either.
You would appreciate https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/09/14/Vector-math-library-code...

TLDR: SIMD intrinsics are great. But, their performance in debug builds is surprisingly bad.
I don't see how that follows.

A salaried person has to bootstrap a company using income-taxed money, whereas a business person can engage in creative accounting whereby an existing business can invest in a new business practically tax free.

If your average income tax is 35%, you're paying a ~50% premium to acquire the same assets as someone who rolls over money from business to business. This includes real estate and everything else.
This seems like those “choose you own adventure” books from the 70s and 80s. “If you cross the bridge turn to page 40…”. My brothers and I had like the first 30 of those..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure

These seem more complex.
These are good points. But I think there needs to be an explanation why conda hasn't taken off more. Especially since it can handle other languages too. I've tried to get conda to work for me for more than a decade, at least once a year. What happens to me:

1) I can't solve for the tools I need and I don't know what to do. I try another tool, it works, I can move forward and don't go back to conda

2) it takes 20-60 minutes to solve, if it ever does. I quit and don't come back. I hear this doesn't happen anymore, but to this day I shudder before I hit enter on a conda install command

3) I spoil my base environment with an accidental install of something, and get annoyed and switch away.

On top of that the commands are opaque, unintuitive, and mysterious. Do I do conda env command or just conda command? Do I need a -n? The basics are difficult and at this point I'm too ashamed to ask which of the many many docs explain it, and I know I will forget within two months.

I have had zero of these problems with uv. If I screw up or it doesn't work it tells me right away. I don't need to wait for a couple minutes before pressing y to continue, I just get what I need in at most seconds, if my connection is slow.

If you're ina controlled environment and need audited packages, I would definitely put up with conda. But for open source, personal throw away projects, and anything that doesn't need a security clearance, I'm not going to deal with that beast.