skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is partialy true, as I can attest to having changed my diet very considerably and now eat only food cooked from basic ingredidients, with no prepared sauces or anything with long long lists of ingredients.....as simple as I can get....sort of semi keto,no wheat most complex thing is cheese.....and along with many other health benifits, my oral health is much better, and nit picky flossing is no longer nessesary, now flossing just to help clear something that is lodged, still brush, but until recently I was having "issues" should I neglect things.
I should add, that my dietary changes, seem to have supported the resumption of a very physical lifestyle, which also seems to feed back into having less little health issues, now healing from injuries quickly, cuts, torn ligaments
that sort of stuff that was slow and lingering.
I think that this is more important for people like me, who were/are very physical, others who
have always been more moderate,....or exclusivly moderate.....seem to thrive with very different daily habits and inputs, but in general terms, good food just cant hurt anybody.....so
Also, the steel mills and automobile factories are powered by software (along with the raw materials and manual labor).
This guy spent a few hours trying to "solve" covid from "basic principles", ran some python on the DNA sequence, and then gave up. None of this is serious.
What is a good economy and what's the purpose of economy?
The sibling commenter was nicer about this, but what are you even talking about?

If anything, I think the finance industry is more built on stock markets, real estate, etc., and manipulating or trading on them to extract value from people participating in them, which are generally wealthier people and businesses.
The author is advocating for simpler single-purpose products I guess.

The microwave example just doesn't make sense when what you have isn't a single "just push the power button" machine, but a combined microwave/oven for instance. You'll want clear mode management, temperature management when defrosting meat, pre-heating and convection when cooking a whole chicken etc.

Anecdotally, a lot of people don't really understand/care about bicycle gears, and stick it to the heaviest and call it a day (on city bikes it's not that heavy, they can dance when it's tougher, and just get off and push the bike when it's really hard). We've seen the same cycle for cars, where people only caring about going from A to B will enjoy automatic transmissions better.

All in all, I agree single purpose products are great when you can afford one and it does the job. Paradoxically it also helps expand the use cases as the user comes to better understand how it works and how it can be "abused".
> That sounds like a good idea if and only if there's an extreme shortage of trust in the government and institutions

Umm, yes. Doesn’t that make this a perfect moment to do such? I can’t recall any other point during my life my trust in the US government was this low.
See this for instance: https://atlas.internationalbrainlab.org/

All vanilla JS, HTML, CSS, SVG, except for the 3D widget which is based on Unity.
There doesn't seem to exist a good solution in computer security. You either strain the user, and then they will cut corners and make things less safe, or you strain the business, and they will manage and outsource the liability to snake oil vendors (who will put undue strain on users and make things overly complicated thus extending attack surfaces, diminishing transparency and reasonability and putting, again, strain on users.)
The biggest problem with running your own hosted email server
is that the giants (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo ...⁾ tend to block
all the incoming mail.

Sometimes you can contact them and ask to be removed from whatever
list or be allowed.

In my experience that lasts about a week, then blocks again.

I eventually gave up.

Tons of bots out there looking for SMTP serveres too, .
> Is my email content private?
Yes! Your emails are stored securely and are not accessible to anyone else. Your privacy is our priority

Ultimately I think emails need to be in plain text. Are they stored that way? Will anyone else ever have access to them. Do you use a third party for mailing?
> If you read a few books on mathematics you think you're easily going to become one of the top mathematicians? Many ambitious people try to study math and decades later are disappointed by how they are still mediocre in their field or simply fail to make it into an academic career. Many PhDs in general, actually.

I don't know about being one of the top mathematicians, but I'd argue that actually, fully reading a few graduate level technical books is more than even most PhDs do.

I was once a PhD student in theoretical physics myself and I'd say that we mostly skim over the books or read only the sections that are immediately and obviously relevant to us.

I once did read one of the shorter known-to-be-difficult books of my field fully from cover to cover, and worked out most of the exercises in the book. After this exercise, I realized that I immediately had much better understanding of the somewhat foundational things described in the book than many of the more senior researchers had. And this was a book that everyone in my field knows, but apparently no-one actually reads it.

The reason why no-one reads actually the difficult books, even when half of their job is reading them, is because it's harsh, gruelling work.

So yeah, maybe you won't become the next Terence Tao by reading three or four graduate level mathematics books, but you can get pretty good if you actually seriously do it without any cheating or skimming.
You can add arbitrary information by catching and rethrowing exceptions (which go panics, basically, are).
I question the degree to which even numbered gears matter on bicycles. I have two bicycles, none of them have numbered gears.

One has modern integrated brake-shifters with two separate parts that can be clicked inwards to shift up and down. There's no feedback on which gear it's on, but I know which part to click to make pedaling harder, and which part to click to make it lighter. At the stops, the shifter just won't move. The drawback is that if I want to know how close I am to the end of the range, I have to look down at the chainrings.

The other bike has un-indexed downtube shifters. These are tiny, frame-mounted levers that are moved smoothly (no clicks) forwards or back and they directly control the derailers which move the chain across gears. This is my favourite interaction pattern for bike gears, because you can put your hand down and feel the position of both levers and immediately know which gear combination you're in. Incredibly practical in heavier traffic to never need to take eyes off the road.
Calling fiat money as real money is hypocrisy.

Fiat is printable, bitcoin is not and have limited amount, same as gold.
Return labels. Sometimes they include (besides my full name and address) my phone number and national ID. Don’t feel like printing that in a store.
In my view, the stagnant part begins when extractive industries grow uncontrollably (think financial services). Yes, money is slushing around and line goes up, but ultimately the value production behind it remained the same.

Money is detached from real output. Especially true in a zero interest rate environment like we had until recently.

There is no reinvestment when rent-seeking activities and financialization take place. Wealth is accumulated but not reinvested for greater growth.

> in venture capital you only get returns if you produce value

Is that so?
Why is going to a gas station difficult? I’m far more concerned about needing to charge in a pinch than needing to find a gas station
strong yes for me
People say that in the future all information will not be directly ingested by people – instead everybody will have a "filter" similar to how we use spam filters, but it'll rewrite information (removing misinformation, adjusting bias, adding references, summarizing and/or expanding <<probably more rare>> etc).

I believe this future (all information being like this) is not far off and it has decent usage percentage already judging from direct traffic decline on some well known information source websites.

Perplexity, phind (as well as upstream chat interfaces now) support internet searching (exploring?) already which does it.

When reading (news and other) articles I find myself more and more often reading them through LLMs to perform above steps. If somebody never tried it, it's really worth, especially for politically biased news articles.

I believe this shift in information consumption is happening more and more for everybody.

Everything will become indirect, likely with multiple layers (ie. extra layer at OS level is likely – this is frankly perfect for use cases like protecting minors: it would be great if you can safely give laptop to your kid knowing that there is ai based content filter you've setup for their age group).
Tocqueville was a colonialist who wanted to apply a racial segregation system in Algeria. He also wanted to indemnify slave-owners and traders if the slave went free.
In France, we see Tocqueville as an "egalitarian but for the bourgeoisie". That's what the French Revolution was about : abolishing nobility so nobles and bourgeois are equals.
No, zero based indexing just is based on how arrays actually work. It has nothing to do with resources being scarce. You have an address for the beginning of the array and an offset. The first element has no offset so you use zero. Therefore you naturally end up with zero indexing.
The FTA was Reagan/Mulroney era policy. It was enacted by conservatives on both sides of the border, and the liberals on both sides "opposed" it (and then had a religious conversion once they took power again, and supported its successor, NAFTA).

The 88 election debate in Canada is famous for the confrontations around this topic. I was in my early teens it was the first election debate I remember watching and having strong opinions about.
Where mainstream economics is imprecise and frequently inaccurate, and credited with predictive powers it simply doesn't possess, it is at least an attempt to study economic reality.

'Austrian' economics is more akin to a religion, with associated dogma and moral tenets.
Your message applies to one particular Go compiler from Google.
But since you mention gcc and llvm, it is also possible to use them to compile Go. Each implementation has different trade-offs in quality of generated code, runtime and language features.
> you're saying that it doesn't matter if you cannot communicate with smaller providers

Smaller providers will generally not black hole legitimate message like Hotmail does. They have (paying) customers awaiting those messages. Junk folder? Sure, that can happen sometimes.

> You're not getting reverse DNS on a dynamic home IP.

I don't think anyone here is suggesting running a mail server on a dynamic IP.

> And what did I say: if your ISP has mail servers for you, it can simplify things greatly if you use them.

Only if you want to be using their domain and if you're not sending (too many) automated messages.
While this may happen to some degree, it's almost certainly overshadowed by the fact that this also quickly creates a vast wealth gap, leading to problems with housing, gentrification, etc. In other words, the people actually living there will very quickly be priced out of many markets. We see this effect to some extent in nearly every country in the world, just mixed in with all other economic activity, so it isn't as plainly obvious.
Horrid quality video and not about the trucking you mean (i think), but these [0] electric dump trucks are a very welcome sight everywhere in Shenzhen, China.

[0]https://youtube.com/shorts/B0akomAQgkM?feature=shared
> I prefer my economic takes from economists, or people who actually study these things.

hows that going? economists have been giving advice to policymakers for decades, and we have a widening gap between the haves and the have nots, society increasingly in debt, etc.

Maybe economists have it wrong.
Yes but it is expensive and slow, rarely big enough for A4 (or Letter) and would be plastic. Additionally it would be maybe up to 4 colours. Not as in CYMK but as in 4 colours total no mixing.

Unless you do a lithographic print but they need a light source to be seen.

Also you can print pixels. You convert to G code so it is made up of lines.
The stand off is the point. It gives nationalistic talking points to the government leaders, and a reason to write big checks to defense contractors.
Even having a few 'retro' systems up and running, mostly Macs from the early 2000s, I find that what we used to do on them: chatting on Skype or MSN Messenger, listening to shoutcast streams or downloading on Napster, playing Unreal Tournament online etc. are mostly defunct now. What remains are local games, clunky word processors and MP3's on the local network. It turns out to be a largely empty experience unless you really get back into Command and Conquer or Metroid.
Typically when someone says "I think A" the onus is not on them to do the legwork trying to prove A false. Although I agree that ChatGPT is generally better at putting together an argument than the HN average.
Japan is very good at this. They’re essentially like “You got someone willing to pay you? Cool, come on in.” Then after 5 years you can (if you want) naturalize, and after 10 you can get permanent residency.

No random nation based limits like the US somehow has.
>His "attempt" at self-driving is better than most of the industry, at a fraction of the cost.

Because it was an unserious hack, like him.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/comma-ai-cancels-self-driving-car...
Do you provide sponsorship?
> Average or poorer person in the US does not get to choose where they retire either.

I've already addressed this in another thread. We're talking about brain drain. That means we are talking about highly skilled professionals for in-demand fields that can easily get this level of pay.

A skilled senior SWE can very realistically demand $300k+ comp in US tech companies. In the startup space $150k + equity has become table stakes, and their hiring bar is often significantly lower. These are not anomalies, tech companies employ hundreds of thousands of engineers.

> You guys think everyone wants the same as you do, but it really isn’t like that.

Ok, so tell me, what are things people want? Because people in the aforementioned circles can retire in their 30s, and spend the rest of their lives traveling the world, taking care of their family, and pursing their passions without worries. Is that somehow controversial?
This is a good question. Some user made a good list in superuser https://superuser.com/questions/236158/tmux-vs-screen.

For me, it's because it's more common to use tmux and you can find from legacy configs to modern ones. So, for me, that I have not studied IT (and now I work as a programmer) it's essential to find basic configurations all over the place to have an anchor.

But, as always... Use whichever works for you. Don't think in the "best" or the "most efficient" which is just youtube propaganda. Use whichever works for you and makes you feel like home. If that's 98's microsoft word... then embrace it and be proud to have an opinion.
One does not simply send mail these days
Don't forget Electron mess.
I run my own mail server and use postmark for delivery. It is really inexpensive, I don't need to rely on Gmail for anything, and after setup has required almost no interaction for 10+ years.
I think you are confusing support for expansion—which was necessary for it to happen—with somehow forcing the hand of other nations to join. Yes the above all shows that America thought it was in its strategic interest, that Clinton supported it. That does not eliminate the fact that much of Eastern Europe wanted to join for exactly the reasons I mentioned. And nobody made them do it.

Furthermore, if you read the articles you cited, you’ll find that you are starting mid conflict. By the point when Georgia engaged with Russia in 2008, Russia had already stirred up separatist groups, armed them, supported their violent takeover, and sent Russian advisors to support them in occupying Georgian territory. You can’t start at the middle.
bike gears are numbered now? Is 1 high, or 8? I press the little button at the front to pop one gear up, and push that big thumb lever to push the chain back up the cassette, it's intuitive. If I need to check if the bike is in the right gear (not concerned exactly which one) I pedal a little. What product manager added _numbers_ to bike gears?
Every problem has a solution which is simple, elegant and wrong. I’ve made such confident mistakes when I was younger; nowadays when I have an idea for a fix in a complex system that is simple and elegant, I take a step back and try to look why it’s wrong. Usually doesn’t take much looking.
I think some of this is on the authors of reference texts, though. I often catch myself writing what I think is a very accessible intro to a particular topic, only to re-read it a month later and be mortified by all the logical leaps, niche terminology that's used before it's defined, and so forth.

It's really hard to spell out new concepts in a way that doesn't require the reader to make several passes to resolve all the nuance... but it's not necessarily a matter of how we learn, just how we write.
Via https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/4/deepsearch-deepresearch...
The interesting question would be how to tie the currency to real productivity in a way that makes financial engineering, and fraud unattractive.

Not a crypto shill but proof of work isn't so terrible, particularly something ASIC resistant. Energy isn't such a bad thing to peg your currency to (lot more flexible than gold). But nonetheless you still end up with a lot of weird distortions.

The legacy of ZIRP, and the effects of decoupling the financial and real world, are going to be felt for years to come.
Conditional breakpoints exist in Intellij and work well with Java in my experience. You craft a little boolean expression on the breakpoint that references variables in-scope, and the debugger skips the breakpoint unless the expression evaluates to true. Every time I've used this feature has been one of the darkest times of my life.
Half of CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows
GDP is not a measure of wealth let alone well being, it just means Mississippi is more expensive than Cornwall.

Japan is even lower on the list, but personally I’d rather live in Osaka than Mobile.
I have an actual oven where I can select "programs".

As far as I can tell, they control three parameters:

* Where the heat comes from (top, bottom, or both)

* Whether or not ventilation is activated

* The temperature

There is also a dial for temperature, but not for the other two parameters. I am not sure whether every combination is covered by the "program" dial. I am not sure whether or not my understanding is even correct.

I would say it's an 7.5 out of 10 on the nightmare bicycle scale.
Yeah but why wasn't that converted to human 1 based indexing at the machine code level or assembly in early machines?

Maybe because they didn't want to "hide the bicycle gears"?
Which shows pretty well how things have changed. People grew up earlier, before. Now, so many people at 30 years old are still children.
A lot of old hardware uses TFTP and RARP to boot.
RARP just will get you the ip address, and the rest is hardcoded somehow in the machine - needs very little memory on boot.
For BOOTP you need some intelligence to know where are your files.
TFTP is also cheap in memory to use. UDP without flow, no nothing. Just send me the next packet in sequence when I ask you to do so.

I remember having trouble some years ago upgrading old Cisco routers because the image was bigger than what TFTP can handle.
I cannot speak for Spain and France, but for Germany, stagnation was primarily due to long-standing internal political issues. Wolfgang Münchau discusses this in his book Kaput [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Kaput-End-German-Miracle/dp/B...
"Pretty much every country" couldn't possibly employ "mmt practice" - a significant number of countries don't have sovereign currencies. That's ignoring the fact that MMT is descriptive rather than prescriptive, it doesn't have practices, it is a theory used to describe how a modern economy with sovereign fiat currency works.
You’re right, you should just be bad at everything. That’s a much better way to live your life.
You say it's called Nut because it's about cracking nuts. Wouldn't a truer reason be it's a play on bolt? (Nuts and bolts)

I'd be interested to read a blog post or technical write up. I think conceptually it's an interesting idea
if you go down the austrian rabbithole weird stuff around praxis starts showing up. which is like logically true but probably unuseful (IMO) and used by the community to shut down any ideas from outside Austrianism.

i think focusing on M0 is also incorrect. the debt money multiplier is a real phenomenon, and at least the psyche of a user of the banking system must be accounted for.
These are not normal times, dang. You're normalising them.

(Not in the financial sense.)
Arguably BMW did not produce even the "absolute minimum number" of cars, since they were required to have at least ten cars to sell and only managed to produce three production-level cars, which they never actually sold. There were a handful of other GTR Straßenversions made during development, but I doubt they even had VINs, and I'm not sure if even counting those would get them to ten. Hence the questionable uses of the words "launched" and "ten".
China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide, sources say
So where's that promised exponential improvement?

Oh right, it doesn't exist. The only thing that exponentially increases are the costs and no real, sustainable business model is in sight. AI companies have no moat and are ironically consistently threatened to be made redundant.

Businesses keep running around with the solution that is genAI but can barely find any problems to use it on.

We won't be getting what sama promised, that much is clear, I'd say. Thankfully.

I do think it's time to prepare for the post-AI-bubble age. Big changes are coming, after all, hundreds of billions have been wasted for what's essentially a toy.
Uh no? There is another limiting factor which is time. And there's is yet another which is having a substitute in case you're sick or whatever.
Yeah, now a open question, what's worse:

- reuniting with China

- getting your only industry stolen by the USA

Quick, you have less than 5 years to answer
Only AAA games with that anti-cheat crap don't work on Linux, most stuff does. Whether or not it needs compatibly layers is irrelevant, many Windows games also use compatibly layers to some extent, you just don't notice it.

There's no shortage of games you can install through Steam on Linux. You need windows for GTA6 or the latest CoD or whatever, but saying Linux isn't viable at all is silly.
Well that's right, but only the currently elected parliament is allowed to stay during war times, not the president. So you cannot have elections, but the president cannot simply stay in power without them.
Should you pay a premium price for a bigger internal SSD?
I can remember trying to run applets on a consumer machine.

It wasn't a good experience.

In the meantime, computers became fast enough to run the modern web. The average phone can run tens of these web based wordpressors.
Some of the tools needed to work on modern cars and tractors require subscriptions apparently.