brightbeige

Watch out, these are big files (for 1990's technology). About 1.6 megs each.

IIRC There is also a discontinuity when it comes to the histogram of ages of marathon runners, because runners are binned into age groups and there is a more runners at the youngest ages of each group, I guess because it’s younger runners in each group that are more likely to run if they feel more likely to place well in their group

At least your reply wasn’t written by AI

Recent, related New Yorker article that goes into the background leading up to the vote

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/could-switzerl...

    Despite the prosperity, many Swiss had mixed emotions about the guest workers, who came largely from Southern Europe. As the Swiss novelist Max Frisch observed, “We wanted workers, but we got people.”

You mean my comment above? That’s the only human-written thing. As for the commentary in the website - instead of making it a weekend coding project, I chose to spend time with my kids.

It's for fun. Yes, it's vibe-coded and intended as a static HTML page. The idea isn't new, but I didn't find any online quizzes that had instant answer feedback and were shareable at the end. Have fun. Enjoy. Have a nice weekend!

Take the quiz - some answers may surprise you.

It's pure escapism is all it is...I'm not the first one to do it, nor shall I probably be the last. But I think it's really a part of the human condition that you've got to have some fun. You've got to get away from whatever you do to make a living or other parts of life that stress you out. I try to make it at least 50/50 fun to work and so far it's worked out. -- Jimmy Buffett

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. -- Warren Buffett

How about a rogue AI agent banking some cash for the uprising? Are we there yet?!

Interesting. On this page, the one dad is wearing a Boston Red Sox hat. But in a photo on The Guardian article that same dad is wearing a New York Mets hat. I guess people can change after all.

And to consider AI agents are still mostly entirely limited to generating code in token-heavy programming languages designed to be written, tested and debugged by humans.

Here are two experimental exceptions:

https://github.com/vercel-labs/zerolang

https://github.com/sbhooley/ainativelang

A while ago I signed up as a sighted person on Be My Eyes. I didn't get as many calls as I had hoped, but I was glad to help out on the few that I could. One call was to read envelopes of incoming mail, another was to read pill bottles, and then there was the two funny guys on big cozy chairs with shopping bags of cereal boxes and wanted to know what was what. I remember one guy really didn't like one type. The app had a unique feature for the sighted person to turn on the camera of the vision impaired person.

https://www.bemyeyes.com

"Meta staff angry at AI"

Not OP, but my guess is Underworld.

Edit: or Erasure?

Actual title: Only half of the calories produced on croplands are available as food for human consumption

He’s replying on this twitter thread - perhaps someone with an account can ask there and link his comment here?

https://xcancel.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532#m

There is a term “islandness” which may help to explain the allure - and many research papers on the topic. For me it’s a “smallness” that is the ideal.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/islandness

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/a8ba1494-ff23-4d...

Me too. The wiki article is full of fun facts

On sports competitions:

However, opponents were in short supply. It was a case of waiting for visiting opponents, and sometimes years might go by without any opportunities to play foreign opposition. Their first match was against a South African fishing vessel and they lost 10–6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha

https://archive.ph/DyHGv

Here's the blog post

https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremon...

Abrahams explains: “The city of Zurich and its institutions rapidly moved mountains (only metaphorically — in Switzerland it is illegal to physically move mountains) and committed to make this possible. Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things — Albert Einstein’s physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind — and is again helping the world appreciate improbable people and ideas.”

I would like to point out the cuckoo clocks originate from the Black Forest in southwestern Germany - not Switzerland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock

Makes me think there could be a big cognitive difference when playing with Lego as well, for example, divergent vs convergent thinking.

Actual article was in the evening standard, but like all things Rory Sutherland, it’s worth to watch him tell the story: https://youtu.be/OTOKws45kCo?si=jbTdx3YCGkZv3Akb

For those who want more of him, check out his classic TED talk from decades ago: “Lessons from an ad man”

https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_...

I’m a subscriber with the mobile app and the “video” is a still image for me.

I have a pet theory about increasing phone sizes

Screen size is area (x^2) and battery size is volume (x^3). As battery life is a critical feature, a bigger screen supports (a nonlinear) better battery life.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44588733

If Tesla is a meme, is it worth a trillion dollars ?

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - (probably not) John Steinbeck

I guess with inflation we can update the quote to “temporarily embarrassed billionaires”

Shuffalo, from the New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912263

4k white settlers

England wasn’t always an island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

Ikejime … is a method of killing fish that maintains the quality of its meat.

It involves the insertion of a spike quickly and directly into the hindbrain, usually located slightly behind and above the eye, thereby causing immediate brain death. After spiking the brain, a thin needle or piece of wire is inserted into the spinal column's neural canal to prevent any further muscle movement.

I read about it in a recent New Yorker short article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/26/how-to-kill-a-...

Here’s the Lamb and Flag in Oxford

https://www.ismypubfucked.com/pub/11447801200

the Inklings, a literary group including J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, started meeting at The Lamb and Flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_%26_Flag,_Oxford