skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's, in part, the American diet. Americans eat an insane amount of beef, fat, grease, etc which accumulates into old age. Then older Americans see a reduction in "usable years" because basic things become difficult.

A lot of older Americans are "skinny fat". In that they might not appear obese, but their actual health compares to an obese sedentary person.

Add in the car centric culture, the obsession with luxury goods(beef is a luxury food), and the glorification of sedentary lifestyles, and you get olds who can barely walk for the last 20 years of their life.

We're also seeing a crazy uptick in people in their 20s coming down with heart diseases. I havent looked into that specific issue in a while but the leading theories were over consumption of caffeine and beef.

I grew up in rural America. I watched so many older people I knew come down with diabetes and heart issues in their 40s and early 50s. It meant they couldn't do much physically. A lot of older Americans, especially rural, spend their last 20 years trapped in their home because going outside is too much effort. In hindsight, and the data backs this up, it's clearly their diet. Americans glorify overconsumption of horrible foods. We made beef and meat a luxury good and encouraged it's over consumption by making it a "thing" successful people consumed every night.
The argument of "coding speed not a bottleneck to productivity" is not in contradiction to "productivity is a combination": it even implies it.

Again, the context here was that somebody discussed speed of coding and you raised the point of not using any tooling with Notepad.
You claim it is inverted. That is a hard claim, full stop. One that is, notably, not supported by any figures.

I can largely agree that it, similar to other things, has become too expensive. I cannot agree that it is not worth it for folks that can do it.
Stuff like this doesn't have to be disclosed when given to PACs, so there's no way to really know
Ayn Rand did not "want to let the disabled starve to death". What a ridiculous lie.
There's an entire industry of "closers" (and the natural companion, people selling courses on how to build an agency of closers). Pitches like "we place closers into your business and guarantee they close business or you pay us nothing" are the standard. The reason this business model is not as good as it seems is that the incentives aren't aligned, these closers don't care about the business, so they'll sell to bad clients to hit their targets. You can definitely be successful doing this (so don't be discouraged, if you do it well you'll stand out) but you're competing with an ocean of trash that so many businesses / startups have been burned by and/or are apprehensive of. "high ticket closer" is the phrase you can google for to find examples.

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/sales/comments/146gjwu/what_the_hel...
Manufacturing pays very little, and for good reason.

You are competing with sometimes slave labor in other countries. Countries with no environmental protections and with no labor laws or concern for safety.

Imagine you could open a factory in country A or B, but country B's labor and employment law makes your production cost 30% less. You'd be an idiot, and more importantly you would lose in the market if you chose country A.

But you slap a tariff on, then it changes the dynamics. It makes the higher pay and labor costs more palatable in country A.

The usA has gotten itself in a pickle. It advanced worker rights and minimum wages to the point that shipping their work overseas to countries that don't care about such things is the only rational choice.

Perhaps if pay rates go up by some percentage to bring them out of their self isolation, then this will be resolved.
I wonder if this stands any chance of passage.

There are many bills introduced that stand no chance, but give the legislator a chance to show their constituents that they're doing something. They then get to blame the opposition for its defeat. (Even if it's actually shot down by their own party.)

That happens at both the state and national level. The state level bills are often seen as barometers of national opinion.

I have no idea what the Arkansas legislature consists of, so I don't know if this is serious. It sounds like the kind of thing that gets referred to committee, maybe a few meetings are held, and it's quietly dropped. But they may well consider it seriously -- in which case it's pretty likely that the haircuts part will be dropped, but many other parts remain.
Do you feel that the department of education is responsible for your ability to think critically?

Do you feel that it would be impossible to think critically without the department of education?

Do you feel that folks from other countries, who grew up without our illustrious department of education, lack critical thought?
> I don't know what it is, my hunger for a system?

Karl Popper called it "monocausotaxophilia". Humans want everything to have a single cause.
Was, and then there was a lawsuit with kid. Probably hard to claim still is then? Lawsuits tear families apart.
Kinda hard to not own it when you’re convicted.
Yes please, is there a site or something that you have to collect emails for those interested?
This has been my take throughout the last 2 losses. There's a massive divide between what the vast majority of Americans need/want to change and what the top Democrats have been pushing for the past 30 years. I mean, it's not to the level of a "death-cult" status that has pervaded the Republican mindset, but really are they that far off? > $1 Bil. was spent on the last presidential election cycle and for what? All they had to do was drop the corporate puppet-masters and speak to the general population with some sensible plans for getting America back to a place where the general population can live decent lives.
I had to think about this one a bit.

Basically, binary.Read/binary.Write are capable of reading/writing struct values. The worry would be that, if the Go compiler reordered fields under the hood, the order may differ between writing the data and reading it back (especially across different versions of Go).

However, because these functions use reflection, they likely wouldn't be affected. While the in-memory layout of the struct fields might get reordered, presumably the reflection order would match the declaration order. Indeed, there is already an Offset field on the reflect.StructField type, and there is no statement anywhere I can find that such offsets must increase monotonically.

So, the fields would remain in declaration order when inspected with reflection, but their offsets could jump around within the struct, yet well behaved reflection-based code should be agnostic to this change.
There is no way to know if a business model is compelling. There have been many business models that didn't make sense to most people, yet yielded good businesses. If you believe there is potential, you as entrepreneur can take the risk in trying it out and potentially reach success. If you end up trying, I hope you succeed in your endeavours.
This reminds me why I keep going back to C. C++ features often clash with each other (especially using object oriented features with classic C), but from the C programmer's point of view the additional features don't really add too much but end up massively constraining the user.
Open-Qwen2VL: Multimodal Large Language Model
Your copyrighted work just has to be an original expression, not derived from someone else's work. It doesn't have to contain original ideas.

Patents are for ideas. Patents do in fact expire far faster than copyrights in the USA. The main problem with patents is patent trolling in the area of software patents.
>Its date is November 2021

The date can be spoofed. It first showed up on archive.org in December 2022, and there's no captures for the site before then, so I'm liable to believe the dates are spoofed.
Definitely it should not be patronizing. Presentation was so bad for various important topics (burning fossil fuels, nutrition habits, sex stuff, etc.).

Still, personally I try to let myself challenged even if the argument is patronizing. I don't want to say "I will not do X because you made a patronizing argument!". But for the cases I conclude it is actually a good idea, I will try to explain to the people making the argument "you would have convinced me easier if communicated like this".
Check again. A balanced vegetarian diet is perfectly healthy.
Looks neat, but I hate the "limited free" thing. What's the actual price? If I make this product a part of my team's workflow, what's the future sticker shock?
US collectively does ~3.3e12 miles per year[0], over 283e6 registered vehicles[1], or 32 miles per vehicle per day.

EV efficiency is around 24-30 kWh/100 miles[2], so that's around 8-10 kWh/day.

200 W is what I expect as a 24h average; that's 4.8 kWh/day, 48%-60% of average usage.

I'd expect a semi to be a much smaller percentage because of getting driven further each day — drivers get in the news for spending longer than they're supposed to behind the wheel.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-drivers-log-328-trillion...

[1] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/number-o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_EPA_fuel_economy
That's just because Putin has been in power for long enough that he no longer needs the support of oligarchs. He came to power with their help and his relationship with them was initially transactional. Now he and his cronies no longer depend on them, so they either fall into line or fall out of favor and thus out of windows.

What you're describing is the first step, where the wealthy attempt to install a ruler friendly to their interests, someone they think they can control and reason with. Joke's on them -- and on everybody else, too, unfortunately.

Edit: this led me to realize that the advanced age of Fake Tan President is a saving grace. He simply won't live long enough to implement the kind of system Putin has been able to solidify over the past twenty or thirty years. And I'm not aware of anybody in the GOP who can replace him in the cult of personality that a stable dictatorship generally requires.
ah, some both sides claims while people are disappeared
No, I am not. Read my comment again. You can literally just ask AI for whatever you want. It has such an incredible breadth of what it can produce that calling it uncreative because the default thing that it produces is the most common image you'd expect is both lazy, and motivated thinking.
Something exits in the world, it seems. Sound waves and music are merely our interpretation of it. Maybe what actually exists in the world is music, and sound waves are what our brain invents when the music is too complex for it to grasp?
Bringing Krampus to Life with Maxon One (2024)
not use animation in the first place :)
You have to monetize people's nostalgia
The important thing is to know fundamentally "why" a rule exists and what goal / organizational objective it's existence and constraints provides. Then breaking it can be productive if it meets the same ends. This usually puts the rule breaker at conflict with people in the organization who put adherence to process higher in priority than the actual organizational goals.
I was at a meeting and was sitting next to a guy whose company made an on-premise clone of parts of AWS. By the end of that conversation I came to find out that a lot of their funding came from Amazon.

A lot of people will walk into a trap. Some, once in it, will thrash to get out of it. Even if they hurt themselves in the process, they gain their freedom. Other people, seeing an escape route, will happily or at least grudgingly stay a while longer. Which then doesn’t warn off observers from making the same mistake.

If it makes sense for AWS to fund a “competitor”, then it makes sense for whale oil lamp sellers to cheer for an alternative fuel because the users can think, “we can always switch to kerosene”. And I’ve seen too many people who want to try something at least once while they still have the chance to experience it.
There's bad policy in other areas. Councils are going bankrupt due to court cases and equity laws that say any gender pay gap is the result of discrimination. Therefore they were found guilty because they are paying e.g. bin men or sewage workers more than mostly female jobs like nurses and librarians. They obviously have to do this because those jobs are dangerous and unpleasant so if you paid the same as other jobs nobody would want to do them. But the courts disagreed and now the councils have to pay huge sums out in equal pay lawsuits that they can't afford.

All this is a direct result of bad, ideological law making combined with a biased judiciary that interprets it in bad, ideological ways. Unfortunately it's the ideology Labour is in thrall too and they're in power for several years at minimum and maybe much longer if the right stays split, so the state of Britain's infrastructure will continue to sharply decline.
FuguIta: OpenBSD Live CD – Celebrates Their 20th Anniversary
The actual title is "I made my home fossil-fuel-free. Why did my utility bills nearly double?", and the heat pump is part of making a home fossil-fuel-free.
A lot, but not all. The problem is that educational programs focusing on agriculture and manufacturing skills were eliminated in many school districts, rather than simply downsized to make room in the budget for information-economy education. By not offering these options at all, many children were pushed to positions that they were ill-suited for, often resulting in professional failure at best and at worst, large college debt that they would not be able to service without the expected parallel high-salary professional job.
Subreddits study highlights the hidden ways that hate speech spreads
Scaling Language-Free Visual Representation Learning
Readers might enjoy Mozart Was a Red, a play by Murray Rothbard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIk5C2qsRH8
it took a world war for the state to weaken enough to matter...
> What's interesting is whether this app can accurately estimate food at all.

Spoiler: It can't. It is physically impossible to determine calories from pictures of food.
Ayn Rand herself was on social security too fwiw.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/
If you look at it from a systems perspective, battery storage is the same as increasing/decreasing steam output or drawing from a steam bank to match demand and the diurnal nature of solar is the same as taking units offline for maintenance.

The durations, scale, and reaction times to changing conditions are different (sometimes worse, sometimes better) but the concept is the same.

We solved those problems before, and have already solved them with solar it's just a matter of building out the infrastructure.

We may have to shed a single digit percentage of "market efficiency" in the short term to ensure the future of humanity, though, so there is resistance.
On February 20, 2025, they celebrated their 20th Anniversary of the public release:

"To be precise, it dates back to the release of its predecessor, CD-OpenBSD.

Initially, it was just an experimental project to create an OpenBSD system that could boot from a CD. I never imagined it would last this long.

Now, FuguIta supports three CPU architectures: i386, amd64, and arm64.
It can also be installed and used on a variety of media, including DVDs, USB memory sticks, SD cards, hard disks, and SSDs.

Its use cases have also expanded. While it was originally intended as a way to "try OpenBSD," it is now used not only as a daily PC environment but also as a dedicated machine for servers, routers, and IoT devices.

As a result, FuguIta is now used for various purposes in different countries around the world.

This is all thanks to the continued support of many people over the years:
• Users who downloaded and used FuguIta
• Those who provided valuable feedback, including reviews, questions, and feature requests
• Community members who offered mirror servers and technical support

When I first released CD-OpenBSD 20 years ago, there were many similar OpenBSD-based live systems. However, most of them have ceased development over time, and now FuguIta is likely the only one remaining.

I will continue to develop and release FuguIta for as long as possible.
Thank you for your continued support!"

Disclaimer: The above are quotes from the official site. I'm personally just a HN user and I have no ties to this project. I just think it's really cool!
python is the winner, turning pseudo code into interesting stuff

it's only the beginning, there is no need to create new programming languages anymore
It is not a lie. She felt that the government had no right to assist, and that they should be left to depend on "charity" (IE - Begging).

There are also tapes of her saying that the retarded should not "be allowed to come near children," and that children cannot deal with the "spectacle of a handicapped human being."
I think that’s a misrepresentation of her views. She opposed self-sacrifice but she wasn’t against charity. She supported it when it came from a genuine personal desire to help others (as opposed to a moral duty).
Im not the one making the hyperbolic claim that a majority of households wont survive long.
You don't know how they feel, so what you're saying is "they have to show/express appreciation," which is synonymous with a loyalty oath.
You must not work in big tech, then. At my company, AI-companion tools were forcibly installed in everyone’s browser, soon followed by a press release parading how “100% of people at our company now use AI because it’s so great”. Attempts to uninstall the tool are explicitly blocked. Similarly, AI coding tools are forcibly installed in IDEs.

Every single hackathon or team workshop has been turned into a AI-specific hackathons or training. Managers have been told explicitly that they must come up with yearly goals that include the use of AI. Every project proposal must include a section answering how this project plans to utilize AI.
It can be argued that they already did. AMD and Apple worked with Khronos to build OpenCL as a general competitor. The industry didn't come together to support it though, and eventually major stakeholders abandoned it altogether. Those ~10 wasted years were spent on Nvidia's side refining their software offerings and redesigning their GPU architecture to prioritize AI performance over raster optimization. Meanwhile Apple and AMD were pulling the rope in the opposite direction, trying to optimize raster performance at all costs.

This means that Nvidia is selling a relatively unique architecture with a fully-developed SDK, industry buy-in and relevant market demand. Getting AMD up to the same spot would force them to reevaluate their priorities and demand a clean-slate architecture to-boot.
I think it would be valuable to have a first-principles discussion about trade imbalances.

For a country, what are the actual downsides of having a trade deficit? Isn't it great to get stuff shipped to you and not having to ship the same amount of stuff back?

In fact, wouldn't a 100% trade deficit be ideal? Have stuff shipped to you without having to ship back anything?
Yep, that's the guy!
Not an expert with this stuff but could you not just put "Harrison Ford" in the negative prompt?
It doesn't work that way unfortunately. The founder(s) have to sell initially because you know your product the best. No external sales person can come and suddenly get all these sales. You may hate sales but if you want to start a business, you are the best salesperson for your product/service.

There is no magic wand to this. You just learn sales by doing. I am a nerd myself but when I started my company, I automatically started selling which is mostly just trying to talk to potential customers and understanding if your product can solve their problems. Only you know that best in early days.
You literally put words in my mouth; I said nothing about the DoE.
> At the end of the day situations that involve humans always involve feelings.

My more cynical take is that humans are emotional beings first and foremost, and reason is a distant second at best. And even our pretenses to reason can't be trusted, as they are often just emotion masquerading as reason, and the most insufferable of the reasonpilled are those that refuse to understand this.

I'm not trying to say emotion/reason are good/bad. What I am trying to say is that any hopes for a human society that place reason above emotion are fundamentally unachievable.
Attention economy -- dismiss apparent flaws asap.

Not "Purple exists only in our brains" instead " “All colors are made up by the brain. Full stop,” says this visual scientist"
This business model was quite popular and successful in the 90s in the UK when early stage US tech firms wanted to come to Europe without having an office or perm hires. Those working in it that I knew were highly capable. Most of them went on to be hired by the client once enough business had been built in the geography. They would typically become EMEA VP Sales for said clients. Netscreen among others started this way in EMEA.
who gets to withdraw that money?
This feature works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral and Ollama via various plugins.

The new Gemini 2.5 Pro is particularly good at this - especially with gnarly sources like PDFs of scanned documents.

I just upgraded the llm-gemini plugin to support the paid tier of Gemini 2.5 Pro which was released this morning: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/4/gemini-25-pro-pricing/
Citation needed. Modern transformers are much, much more than just speech models. Precisely define "cognitive capabilities", and provide proof as to why neural models cannot ever mimic these cognitive capabilities.

> But let's say we have something more than an LLM

We do. Modern multi-modal transformers.

> This is because natural languages are, as the article mentions, imprecise

Two different programmers can take a well-enough defined spec and produce two separate code bases that may (but not must) differ in implementation, while still having the exact same interfaces and testable behavior.

> And no, transformers can't change how languages work. It can only "recontextualize," or as some people might call it, "hallucinate."

You don't understand recontextualization if you think it means hallucination. Or vice versa. Hallucination is about returning incorrect or false data. Recontextualization is akin to decompression, and can be lossy or "effectively" lossless (within a probabilistic framework; again, the interfaces and behavior just need to match)
Egg prices in the US have dropped, but not by much. Not at the retail level. They're still roughly 100% more than they were a little over a year ago.
AIX is a different beast. I played with it on a couple of RT/PCs. It was IBMs foray into the workstation market, that became the RS/6000. It had an educational alternative based on BSD. Trying to get it to work on a 486? It only worked on PS2/386s, and I do not remember if efforts to add accelerator boards worked, but unless you are a ATT SYS V god at debugging hardware drivers in the kernel... "It was based on UNIX System V Releases 1 and 2, incorporating source code from 4.2 and 4.3 BSD UNIX."

https://technologists.com/sauer/Advanced%20Interactive%20Exe...

Mee Too!
See also: https://tinygrad.org/

Reverse-engineered python-only GPU API, works with not only CUDA but Also AMD's ROCm

Other runtimes: https://docs.tinygrad.org/runtime/#runtimes