skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, this is an excellent argument that merely making healthcare more affordable in the US isn't the answer.

I'd like to posit that the culprit(s) of bad US health could likely be narrowed down by carefully analyzing the differences between (a) 1970 and now; and (b) Americans and Europeans in an exhaustive list of the human body's environmental touchpoints, narrowing the list to things that apply to >90% of each population. A few examples:

- food supply differences. For example, European regulation prohibits GMO and a lot of pesticides that are allowed in the US. Meat also differs significantly in their food supply (corn vs grass for beef) and other factors.

- vaccines. How much of the European vaccine schedule's components are not sourced from American suppliers?

- atmosphere. Off-gassing of synthetic materials in homes and offices is a newer thing.

- containers. In 1970, none of the food supply was distributed in plastic containers, for example. And glass containers are a lot more popular in Europe than the US.

I do wonder whether the answers could be staring us in the face, but have been suppressed because of corporate interests in the US. (Much the same as how cigarette smoking was publicly labeled "healthy" prior to the 1970s, even by scientists and doctors, because of studies funded by Philip Morris and other tobacco companies.) At least theoretically, health-related companies do stand to benefit financially from keeping us alive but less healthy. Widespread chronic semi-disease does make a lot of money, especially for vertically integrated insurers who can delay/deny claims, and for suppliers who have achieved regulatory capture of some sort.
Yeah, I figured I wasn't alone in doing just that :)
An ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) article says credential stuffing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-04/drt-how-superfunds-we...
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I see what you're saying, but even with visual basic you needed to understand the basics of coding to get anywhere. Vibe coding seems to be more about intentionally not understanding things. I just think that, if you can code it yourself, maybe AI saves you some time, if you can't code it yourself, AI gives you a fancy toy that you can't expand or change. And God help you if you make an online service..
>All three receptors fire. However, the green receptor has much better sensitivity than the red receptor, so violet triggers the strongest response in blue and red.

I'm confused - it sounds like you're saying it's so off-peak for all of them that, even though it's more proximal to blue, it is effectively equally out-of-range for all three - except that the green receptor is more sensitive. But then that would mean it should look more green, rather than more red and blue, no?
puts Killing in the Name on at full blast
Fuck that!

We have this thing called the First Amendment. It applies to all people under the jurisdiction of the United States. There’s no exception for “guests.” Criticizing the government is a time-honored American tradition. Throwing people out for it is absolutely vile.
He literally did support the admin; to claim he doesn’t really is disingenuous. He gave the current admin a million dollars.

If Tim Cook gave you a million dollars, would it be fair to say he doesn’t support you?

It’s silly the kind of gymnastics we engage in to preserve our mental models. The facts are the facts.
Line doesn't even go up anymore.
The article says this (and pretty much all the other comments here).

It doesn't however mention James Clerk Maxwell who took a break from inventing equations to torture EE students forever to figure this stuff out, including making the first color photograph.

(Yes I know Heaviside actually came up with the equations we use)
In NYC you can probably get by with the ~40 miles range of 120V charging, but this doesn't really negate your point about poor charging infrastructure.
Universities seem to have settled on it for CSE 101 courses in the post-Java academic programming era.
It's the ecosystem, specifically the huge amount of packages available for everything under the sun.
Trump is leaning on the fact that US consumers are the golden geese of consumers. Which is in fact true. So he will go to the EU and ask them if they would rather sign new currency and trade agreements or lose the top 20% of their buyers. The currency and trade agreements will pretty much be "Let us weaken the dollar, and equalize trading tariffs, ideally at 0%. In return you will get continued military support and preferential future trading terms"

On the surface this actually isn't too terrible. But the problem is that Trump is an idiot and he is the one who has to navigate this.
Not to mention this is almost certainly not what will happen in the USA. Trump and the GOP have no interest in reducing wealth inequality, and the vision you have laid out would be immediately labeled "communism"
Here in Ireland I've never had to wait more than a few hours to see a doctor to get a prescription for an infection. Can be a bit harder at the weekend but still seen the same day
Agreed. It's simply philosophically sloppy to suggest that purple, brown, and really any other colour don't exist without qualifying what one means by existing in this context, and why that definition of the word is used.

In this case, it seems the "what" is that for a colour to "exist", it has to be a distinct, isolated frequency of light, and (for some reason) it needs to appear in a logical place in the frequency space in relation to other colours. They don't answer the "why" question, and I think if they tried, they would find it difficult, because it's completely arbitrary and in conflict with reality.

Just because some colours do in fact correspond to frequencies of light, that doesn't mean all colours have to. There's a reason we have the terms primary and secondary colour. Some colours are emergent from mixing other colours together. Does that mean they can't appear in the natural world, being discriminated by sensory systems? No. Does purple cause things to happen? I'm sure you could find myriad examples of this in the natural world.
Ironically, the only thing here that only exists in our brains, is the notion that purple doesn't exist.
I'll just go get my AI lawyer to get on it...
I don't see a CPU usage spike on Safari Technology Preview Release 214.
I think the confusion was less about the part after the @ not being a major well known service, but not being something that sounds like a company or a service. I think their confusion is that it has my name in it, and people are used to a name going before the @. ...so when I say my name, they're expecting another @.
I tried Zig in 2017-2018 span (and as part of research I've read quite a bit of Zig over the years). To me the language had some details not previously tried out: special operators for wrapping ops, error value based error returns and pervasive NPOT types. But overall it felt unnecessarily verbose with what I feel were unnecessary changes to established syntax in standard constructs such as "for" and "while". For this reason I started to contribute to C2 instead.

However, my impression was obviously coloured by being around 45 at the time and I was used to program in many different programming languages. Plus I grew up with BASIC, Pascal and C.

There's going to be quite a different experience for someone coming from Go/JS/Java and venturing into low level programming for the first time!

That is not to say that all of the people being enthusiastic about Zig is coming from those particular languages, but I think that C is considered a scary language for many people, so C alternatives tend to attract people from higher level languages to a higher degree than C itself.

When I eventually started on C3, I incorporated some features from Zig. I ended up removing all of them as I found them to be problematic: untyped literals combined with implicit widening, unsigned error on overflow, special arithmetic operators for wrap, saturation.

However, I am very grateful that Zig explored these designs.

From Odin I ended up including its array programming, but for vectors only. I also adopted Odin's use of distinct types.

But most of the C3 features are GCC C extensions plus ASTEC inspired macros.
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> How many millions joined those street protest?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot...:
"The British Stop the War Coalition (Stop) claimed the protest in London was the largest political demonstration in the city's history. Police estimated attendance as well in excess of 750,000 people and the BBC estimated that around a million attended."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/11/slugs-iraq-w...:
"In February 2003, 1.5 million people protested in London against the looming Iraq war. They didn’t stop the conflict… but their legacy still looms large"

add in David Kelly - RIP - ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert) ) and it's not a surprise that people are unconvinced that peaceful protest will achieve anything :/
> It's paperwork

Paperwork, with a mind-numbing set of rules you need to pay attention to, that can affect people's lives in very serious ways. Just a couple days back a guy with protected status was deported to a gulag in El Salvador by a "clerical error".
True, I didn't have five paragraphs on the proper way to handle bounding boxes and the conceptual use of bounding boxes and "please don't confuse lower for upper". All my fault!
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What I see happening soon is a deeper transition from playful whimsy to real applications with contractual obligations.

Right now it's an unencumbered exploration with only a few requirements. The general public isn't too upset even if it blatantly feeds on copyrighted data [1] or attacks wikipedia with its AI crawlers [2].

The end state once legislation has had a chance to catch is breath looks more like Apple being forced to implement USB type C.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/why-the-new-york...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/ai-bo...
On the other hand, I've heard it said that the Steam Deck's sticker price is almost wholly justified as a single-purpose Baldur's Gate 3 device. Let alone Skyrim, Civ, etc.

Just because steam sells games that do in-game profiteering, doesn't mean you need to play them?
Trademark isn't the same as Registered Trademark either, while we're at it
The notary can be a public, decentralized and distributed ledger like a Blockchain. The signature and signed copy then can be "scarce" like are signed posters right?
Then what a tragic misuse of societal resources. A simple IQ test would be a better signal to employers than a massively overpriced four year charade.
1) foxconn isn’t apple

2) the suicide rate at the foxconn factory was, even before the nets, lower per capita than the province in which it is situated. using your logic, the foxconn factory simply existing prevents deaths that would have otherwise happened if it did not.

i’m all for calling apple on their shit when warranted, but the suicide nets meme needs to die.
What about the side that complains about A and complains about B, and complains that constant polarizing rhetoric has been ratcheting up to get us from the less bad A to the very bad B?
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The bit about being able to get something workable going in an unfamiliar tech stack hits home. In a similar vein I was able to configure a VyOS router, a nushell based api client and some MSOffice automation in Powershell with AI assistance. Not a big deal in and of itself but still very useful.
I don't see the difference there. Whether I've written all the code myself or an AI wrote all of it, my name will be on the commit. I'll be the person people turn to when they question why code is the way it is. In a pull request for my commit, I'll be the one discussing it with my colleagues. I can't say "oh, the AI wrote it". I'm responsible for the code. Full stop.

If you're in a team where somebody can continuously commit trash without any repercussions, this isn't a problem caused by AI.
The hard thing is staying with the project. Lots of interesting C-like projects have died over time, such as https://www.kitlang.org
Here is an example of a stupid idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43563580

To answer your question, Yes.
It's the build-environment (how cities are designed). Everything is America is segregated, especially by income, age and race to an extent. Culture (fitness and food) also play a role. There's a reason more walkable places like Denver and NYC have healthier people.
Still broken though! Has been for years. In a recent GH issue regarding desires for the reboot, I asked: "Try it on a few different machines (OS, GPUs, CUDA versions etc), make it work on modern RustC and CUDA versions without errors." The response was "That will be quite some work." Meanwhile, Cudarc works...
That too. If all/most labor is automated, humans will be free from the 9 to 5 grind. Products will be cheap or free.
You continue to make a strong, incisive argument! Thanks so much, and thanks for the charity of discourse you show here. It's sad that such a sharp, critical mind's time is wasted by, what I can see now, such low quality, near-worthless submissions. I hope the standards don't continue to fall, just for your sake. On my end, I guess I'll just have to check out this "TikTok." Thanks for the rec.
> While incompetence is merely a barrier to further promotion, "super-incompetence" is grounds for dismissal, as is "super-competence". In both cases, "they tend to disrupt the hierarchy." One specific example of a super-competent employee is a teacher of children with special needs: they were so effective at educating the children that, after a year, they exceeded all expectations at reading and arithmetic, but the teacher was still fired because they had neglected to devote enough time to bead-stringing and finger-painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle#Summary_2
I don’t want to spoil your efforts, but I think the source is already online: https://github.com/option8/Altair-BASIC
if one's childhood had many instances of tv playing in the background, then I suspect it's their nervous system marking that environment as their most safe/comfortable environment and that revisiting it can have a soothing effect on them?
> These seem to be facts.

Actions the person in question freely admitted having done.
Granted, but not the best example, red and green are the emblematic colours elves wore in northern european cultures.
Santa is somewhat syncretic with Robert Goodfellow or Robin Redbreast, Puck, Puca, etc etc. it wasn’t really a cola invention.
The article references the true granularity issue (actually the function names need a version number as well, not sure in my scan of the article if it was mentioned).

Modules being collections of types and functions obviously increases coarseness. I'm not a fan of most import mechanisms because it leaves versioning and namespace versioning (if it has namespaces at all...) out, to be picked up poorly by build systems and dependency graph resolvers and that crap.
Waitlists can't be Show HN's but you could post this when you're ready for others to try your thing - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
All 3 are achieved in Python with a simple import ctypes /sarcasm
Sadly, these clean contexts also include vast swathes of the internet. I bet someone already came up with "pigment of your imagination".
> I wonder why Python take over the world?

Not sure what "most popular programming language in the world" even means, in terms of existing projects? In terms of developers who consider it their main language? In terms of existing actually active projects? According to new projects created on GitHub that are also public?

My guess is that it's the last one, which probably isn't what one would expect when hearing "the most popular language in the world", so worth keeping in mind.

But considering that AI/ML is the hype today, and everyone want to get their piece of the pie, it makes sense that there is more public Python projects created on GitHub today compared to other languages, as most AI/ML is Python.
even putting aside how rust ownership semantics map poorly onto gpu programming, ml researchers will never learn rust, this will never ever happen...
Yes: https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c...
Transcribing the AltairBASIC source, by hand, ten lines at a time
I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source released by Bill Gates for fun and preservation's sake. I'm starting out with ten lines a day, but I'll be increasing or decreasing that if I feel like I need to do less or more. Not to be taken too seriously; I'm just doing this for fun! I'm not a programmer, just a nubbin with too much free time.
> never offered to do the work themselves just demanded it be done for them or they'll keep harassing.

I mean if you've worked much in open source, that is pretty much how nearly every feature request and bug report goes unfortunately.
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And they lack the excellent soundtrack of the movie. Also, rarely are good looking like the ones depicted.
Could be the "beautiful beef" we are not eating here in Europe.
It's fine, people mispost stuff all the time, you don't need to delete it.
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I honestly think it's https://godotengine.org/features/, though I do think the GUI-only WYSIWYG creation flow hits a brick wall a little earlier than Flash did. Lots of content being made with it though!

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/animation/i...
Not supporting Palestine is supporting terrorism.
Violet in the rainbow is not a purple hue, it is a deep blue. Illustrations often color it more purplish but that is inaccurate
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Yep, fewer moving parts tends to mean more reliable. Jet engines versus piston engines in aeroplanes is an example that's not about electricity, the difference in reliability is enormous, maybe 100:1 ratio.
It's all related to naming. You can refer to a symbol with auth/guard/token/authenticate or auth_guard_token_authenticate, and what matters is the amount of characters you type sometimes. Also you can have encapsulation with the first option.

Smalltalk have the same live experience, but do have modules, because it makes editing easier and encapsulation is nice for readability and clarity.
I think you're misinterpreting color and wavelength. No color exists "in the wild". Colors only exist in the consciousness of beings that can capture photons. Wavelengths do exist in the wild I guess, or at least it's a human description of how electromagnetic waves move in the wild.
In this case, it's because JS ecosystem is now divided between JavaScript and TypeScript
> It is an indication of US mismanagement that concentrated people can't be served with recharging infrastructure while distributed suburbanites in mcmansions can easily be served.

No, it is an indication of good management for lower prices for all. Maybe an indication of lack of foresight, but electronics don't last forever, planning for EVs in 1960 would have been stupid - the fuse boxes (probably not modern breakers) would be worn out and replaced without every charging a single EV. Even today there have been a number of EV charger fires because outlets we thought were safe for EV currents for decades turn out to be marginal when put to that use and so again planning ahead would have put in the wrong thing.

Suburban houses have plenty of power because you might use the dryer, stove and AC at the same time and so need that much power - but in fact nobody every uses all their power so there is enough spare power to every house for an EV. An apartment can better rely on not everyone does all that at the same time and so they can build with much less extra power and in turn save costs for everyone.

Even in suburban locations, any one house has enough power, but the whole neighborhood might not and power companies are doing expensive upgrades to fix that. Not to mention power plants may not have enough spare capacity. (there are also commonly incentives to charge off peak thus using power when there is spare capacity in the system)
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I do backend web server development using FastAPI/Starlette and Django.

If I were a Ruby developer, I'd be using Rails, and I'd also be describing 90% of Ruby development.

However, I do Python. What I'm describing is a tiny fraction of Python development.

If you want to do something with computer code - data analysis, ML, web development, duct-taping together parts of a #NIX system, even some game development - you can do it reasonably well, if not better, in Python. The paths that you can take are limitless, and that gets people interested.
Yes, why not? You don't lose anything. It's a net gain.
As a Spanish person I can’t even imagine what would make someone come here to live - I suppose you’re already exceedingly wealthy?

Almost all of my friends with higher educations have left for northern countries, as the situation here is untenable for young people. Of course if you have money that’s not an issue… and evidently the kind of money that makes that non an issue can only obtained in places like the US.
In which EU country do you live? I moved twice and I never had this experience. Visits this routine can be done almost without delay, sometimes directly off the street inbetween scheduled patients.
GPGPU programming != ML.
this reminds me of the time I tried to use a prepaid lawyer to research some copyright issues

they went down the rabbit hole on trademark laws, which are not only not copyright related, they are an entirely different federal agency at the Patent Office

gave me a giggle and the last time I used cheapo prepaid lawyers
All indications are that the US is on track to become a Russian style government and political system. Unless the US people halt the decline.
You're just defining your own fate here if you think 24 is so much older and different than 16. But also, perhaps your situation now would be different without the grind you went through? Instead of regretting anything I think you could just try to enjoy your youth now.