skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java did kill most of the C++ usage.

The overall use of the language grew because everything in IT grew a lot during that time, so the niches where Java sucks grew larger than all of the C++ niches at the start.

The real question is if Rust will leave any niche. It looks like it won't, but this is not the kind of question one can really answer.
> 2.4 GHz is considered an ISM band meaning it's license free meaning you do not have to purchase a license from the government to use that physical chunk of spectrum.

This is not necessarily true: some governments demand that ISM frequencies be used for Industrial, Scientific and Medical purposes only, so it is not license-free for personal use in all jurisdictions.
Social media invites all sorts of low effort "you ought to" or "look I know about X" comments. These people don't really care about her baby. They care about getting virtue points for pretending like they care. It's a twilight zone at the intersection of virtue signaling and bike shedding.
I happen to like the Harry Potter series. Yes, they are children books. There was a point when I wondered if it was worth reading the next one, but once I started reading it was immediately really fun to read.

The movies are also amazing. Most movies that are based on books are really inferior to the books. But the authors of the Harry Potter movies did an extremely good job.

Just remembering Alan Rickman for his role as Snape does not give him full credit. He played in a lot of other movies [0] and he did a lot of theatrical work of which there is no real record.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/
I find if you combine the standard library with boost, it does become pretty useful... Although some of the libraries in boost are beyond my understanding eg CallableTraits.

I agree that the python standard library is really useful.
I use Tweet Delete[0] to auto-delete my tweets older than a month. I see no value in keeping old tweets around, especially compared to the risk that I inadvertently become briefly well-known and some wokes decide to trawl my timeline, take some tweet from 12 years ago out of context and convince my employer that I'm racist or something. Seen it happen too many times.

[0] https://tweetdelete.net/
Ask HN: What are some engineering / “hack club” groups to join in SF?
I'm moving to SF this weekend, and was looking to see if anyone has any suggestions on groups to join that might do things like hack clubs, etc? Something like South Park Commons but not necessarily aimed at starting a company.
Deference-all-the-time is an incredibly convenient fig leaf for 'take whatever abuse I feel like subjecting you to'.

In a healthy relationship, the deference isn't abuse. In an unhealthy relationship, deference enables abuse.

Edit: Additionally, decent people can end up poisoning a relationship, if they never get any negative feedback in response to their poor behaviour. (Or if they completely disregard any negative feedback, because their opinion is the only one that must be deferred to.)
I highly recommend this same approach for schoolwork/studying. Just simply doing something, everyday, keeps topics fresh in your mind. It's so much better than forcing activity into giant chunks. I feel it reduces stress as well.

It keeps feeding your brain to subconsciously churn over topics during downtime like showers and sleeping.
It isn't entirely separate either. Often increases in efficiency direct increases in consumption. This observation was made by the English economist William Stanley Jevons and is known as Jevons paradox[1]. More recently, the economists Daniel Khazzoom, Leonard Brookes, and others have analyzed this relationship[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

[2] http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/ejarticle.aspx?id=1091
Because I think you’d be the person to ask: what is the feasibility of putting up a space sunshade to block some incoming solar radiation, using starship/super heavy?
> The problem is that there’s a big gap between “sports martial arts” rules and “self defense.”

The "sport" aspect is the most important part for becoming an effective fighter. And being an effective fighter is paramount for self-defense situations.

The "sport vs self-defense" argument is a false dichotomy anyways. If my "sport" consists of me wrestling resisting humans to the ground, controlling all of their limbs, and potentially putting them to sleep, then my "sport" is an extremely effective form of self-defense.
Tiresome? It's hardly ever discussed on this site.
Fuel cell aircraft are very much a thing, and are being researched by the biggest companies in the industry.

But they’d be called hydrogen aircraft rather than electric by most people.
Don't ignore the sentence that "it doesn't matter" applies to:

> You still caused me damage and it's still not crazy for me to hold you accountable.

Obviously it matters in other ways.
Literally just came here to link to asciiflow. It's great!
Michael Crichton wrote a great piece on this called "Why Speculate?"

https://americandigest.org/long-read-week-speculate-michael-...

Experts are so often wrong on their economic predictions that there's very little value in listening to them.
The problem is thinking of it as a problem. You can't have a sustainable system that requires birthrate (really a proxy for output and consumption) that increases infinitely.
I think they meant that their examples are things that would have been "shoved under the rug" or hidden in the past and are no longer taboo. If you were gay in 1900 you hid it, if you are gay in 2020 you are out (usually). Abuse may consist of a lot of things, but using physical abuse as an example. If you beat your kids (more than just spanking) in 1900 it was still taboo (but maybe less so)
How to render an array of components in React
Europe is also well below its replacement rate at ~1.5 children per woman.
Most people on the Nix world are moving away from stateful package management entirely, identifying it as precisely what causes complexity and mixed up & stale dependencies in the first place. It's much simpler to be able to either just name what you need when you're about to use it or put together a list of packages for an environment you're going to repeatedly use.

The comparison in this case would be

nix-shell -p qemu

Which is gone and not junking up your system as soon as you've finished with the shell provided.
https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted....
If in doubt, buy land
If you haven't gone to a financial advisor, I highly recommend it. Best decision I made, I happily pay her annual fee because I am guaranteed to make/save more in the long run with her advice each year than without it.
What parts of the C++ standard library do you find useless/random?
I think there's a real concern on Twitter's end with the conversation being dominated by those who are "good with Twitter". That's a big problem because it's kind of a snoozefest to read tweets by a small in-group that you don't know and that won't interact with you. Twitter serves no purpose without interaction.
First: Why should there be a term at all? Stop thinking of yourself and others in generic bureaucratic or therapeutic terms from a particularly dire era of mass self-absorption.

Second: If you must, "son" or "daughter", and only prefixed by "adult" when necessary for clarity.
ShapeShift Is Decentralizing
As a child of divorced parents, I'm glad they didn't stay together. For as far back as I can remember, it's been very uncomfortable being around while they're interacting with each other. Most marriages don't end for no reason, and I question the implication that unhappily married parents are necessarily better for a child than happily divorced ones.
I'm somewhat unfamiliar with the problem, do you think you could explain why this is bad? Or maybe just point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Yes, I really wish there was a way to turn that off. I personally use Twitter almost exclusively through a 3rd party Android app (Twidere) which just shows me my timeline in chronological order and nothing else. Seems most of the problems with Twitter comes from it not just doing that.
Apple gives the people what they want: their old Safari tab design back
So what do you do when the interests of the people are driving cars, building highways and suburbs, and buying cheap, disposable plastics instead and other things?

Are we regulating "business" or "people" when we ban plastic straws when the people want plastic straws and the business is providing them because we want them?

I guess I'm just not sure in this instances I see a meaningful difference. I'm not saying we shouldn't take action and that businesses should be responsible, but it seems like we're saying that we'll just regulate the business and that the people are like somehow hopeless and unable to take action. People can do things like not use plastic bags, turn the A/C off, and buy locally made products that are more expensive (just examples). If you care about your community or country why wouldn't you be doing these things? Maybe people don't care about anything except their bottom line too? Idk.

So here's a regulation we could play with - you can't buy any produce that is grown outside of 50 miles of where you live. Now what? Who are we regulating?
I suspect some of this is just how hard it's gotten to avoid people. People used to just get on a boat or train, move to the other side of the country, and then all they had to deal with was letters and the occasional Christmas visit. Now, with the ease of travel and communications, you actually have to tell people you don't want to see or talk to them.
I think that even for each person, their motivation varies and depends on the paper. I tried to document my own backstory behind writing my papers, and would be interested to hear others about this: https://jeffhuang.com/struggle_for_each_paper/
Hey munificent, big fan of your work. Eagerly waiting for the paperback version.
> normalizing abortions

Wait, what? This isn't a view I'm familiar with in England
You're making statements, and I would like to check them. Unless I'm able to - and it takes enough of efforts to find this information on the Internet, I've tried - I'm not convinced, despite of, or maybe because of, all knowledge that I have, and I can't recommend it.

If that would be trivially available, surely there would be some page which can be easily linked to with all answers to questions like these?
> considering traditional personal finance knowledge can become irrelevant within my working life-time.

That is BS. Make more than you spend. Invest in things and or people that pay you back. The same as it ever was.
It's what you said about Japanese people that was the problem.
Resentment arises from a gap between expectations and reality. Maybe the problem is the idealized expectations. And talking about things doesn’t help that. Kids need to learn that life sucks and then you die and really internalize that in order to bring expectations in line with reality.
> "These are opt-in, so they are only sent if requested."

Are google.com, youtube.com, netflix.com, facebook.com, amazon.com and reddit.com going to ask for User Agent Client Hints? If they're going to (which is more than likely, let's not kid ourselves) - I don't see how your point holds?

> "Why/how does this waste bandwidth?"

Based on the current proposal - non-mobile browsers or browsers that simply do not wish to expose the specific model are somehow required to return the following header in response:

Sec-CH-UA-Model: ""

Those are 19 absolutely useless bytes. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply omit the header from the response altogether? It would convey the exact same information to the server ("my Sec-CH-UA-Model is empty"), without the overhead of sending additional data.
I think you underestimate a lot of the APIs for a platform and how they influence an app; Cocoa provides a lot for an application; for example, it can provide a lot of the structure for a document related app in terms of i.e undo/redo, window management, etc.
$1 is actually significantly cheaper than industry average. Most providers charge upwards of $5. We're able to cut costs by connecting you directly to end respondents and cutting out middlemen - our proprietary panel is over 1M respondents large now.
The system needed to support their narcissism — refineries, drilling operations, finance, war, and the emissions caused by them all — are the more significant problem.
I see Fleets as a thing that takes up a row in the Twitter mobile app, but I never clicked it.
Now I hope Facebook says goodbye to Stories.
> owning land you can live off of is a protection against all form of “dooms-day” scenarios

In doomsday scenarios I doubt people will respect ownership rights very much. In that scenario, "ownership" isn't as much of a protection as your ability to defend and maintain control over whatever valuable resources you have on the land.
I think MIT is a scam and we can't predict the future. Thank you for your attention.
> I swear the last 4 years drove the vast majority of everyone insane, in a very literal sense.

Just out of curiosity, would you say that this has ever happened to you?

I'm asking because I also see many people around me going 'literally insane' (and yes, in both the 'left' and 'right' ways. Basically becoming consumed by some drip of outrage pieces and provocative online discourse).

But I also recognize that I 'went insane' at one point too. Being a kid who grew up on the nascent internet, I became addicted to reddit when reddit first emerged, and I can look back to around the Occupy Wallstreet era when I became obsessed with rhetoric that was disconnected from my own lived experience, and repeated certain ideas that were often disconnected from reality or evidence.

It pains me to see friends and relatives go through the same process. But I 'survived', and I do hope many others can too.
They moved to a new home that is more "cockroach friendly", Washington D.C.
Happy to be of service, in filth it will be found!
It's not a technicality. One is limits that we have carefully placed on our government to prevent such abuse. The other is a matter for the police and the legal system.

This is akin to a private company only allowing men to vote in board meetings, and people saying that it's violating the 19th amendment. Is it wrong? Absolutely! But it's not violating the 19th amendment.

I'd also argue that a lot of people care about this "technicality". Businesses are not the government, end of story. The 1st amendment is quite succinct, and there's little room for misinterpreting it.
All organisms can modify their own environment. Humans are not special. Malthus may have been wrong about the 19th century, but what is a couple hundred years? Life on Earth has been evolving for a much longer period of time.

I wouldn't discredit Malthus too soon.
From wikipedia[0] "it is possible to mechanically recharge the battery with new aluminium anodes made from recycling the hydrated aluminium oxide". I've found a few papers regarding recovery of aluminum from aluminum oxides, but I don't have the background to interpret them with an eye towards that process's impact on the overall efficiency of the battery.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium–air_battery
It's an hour long, but I watched a few snippets - is the "problem" only if you try to print megabytes of text on the terminal?

I started with computers more than 30 years ago, and have been a "power user" and coder for essentially all of that. In all that time and experience, I've never found any terminal to be slow, or found one to be noticeably "faster" than another.
Yes, they would definitely want more people to Tweet.
There's only one directly observable universe*

There may be other universes created by whatever mechanism created ours. It is possible also that in some such mechanisms, indirect effects of those universes may be observable.
Social media companies pay users from day 1 by providing service for them. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.

There's of course power imbalance, and it's valid to talk about who gets more value of it, and how that should be balanced. But let's not pretend that users get nothing in return.
Focus on acquiring assets that help you live comfortably in self sufficiency and that you can adequately defend against others.
What is the damage to a developing child of living for 18 years in a home where their parents should have divorced, but didn't?

People, especially people with children, rarely divorce just because it's Thursday.
im not sure whether you can disable them for certain pages but there is a checkbox setting in the extensions page that stops anything from auto-updating. i have this set in my user.js file with this line:

user_pref("extensions.update.enabled", "false");

i have nearly 20-25 extensions myself and im pretty sure they are all open source. when i was using chrome (a long time ago) i only had one or two open source and the rest were closed. its helps when you find some extension that does something really basic but you dont know if its trustworthy or not. usually theres not a whole lot of code to look through
Yeah I actually really respect that they axed something within a timely span, posted about their thoughts, and well, lately the Twitter team has been killing it as far as deploying features and long talked about stuff, so it's all good. The idea of Fleets, whether it was inspired by Stories etc, was another way to engage users and it did have some usefulness. I love the 24hr disappearing thing on IG and I liked it similarly here.
> 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity, as "normal, natural, healthy."

When Stalin came to power, homosexuality became a topic unfit for public depiction, defense or discussion. Homosexual or bisexual Soviets who wanted a position within the Communist Party were expected to marry a person of the opposite sex, regardless of their actual sexual orientation

The Khrushchev government believed that absent of a criminal law against homosexuality, the sex between men that occurred in the prison environment would spread into the general population

The first Khrushchev-era sex education manual...described homosexuals as child molesters: "...homosexuals are aroused by and satisfy themselves with adolescents and youngsters, even though the latter have a normal interest towards girls

....

Thousands of people were imprisoned for homosexuality and government censorship of homosexuality and gay rights did not begin to slowly relax until the early 1970s

....

In 1984, a group of Russian gay men met and attempted to organize an official gay rights organization, only to be quickly shut down by the KGB

....

On 27 May 1993, homosexual acts between consenting males were legalised

> 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

The 1944 Edict... sought to preserve the family unit by making divorces even more difficult to obtain

You'll have to provide some evidence that your list is anything to do with McCarthyist Commumism fears
Forgive me for asking a simplistic question: What’s the advantage for you to write these as functions rather than, say, adding a new column in a view?

Would you use the same predicate on multiple tables? Is there a performance benefit?
> everything encourages you to post hot takes that require as little context as possible to drive engagement.

> Being "careful/clear/explicit about what you Tweet in the first place so that it can't be taken out of context" is equivalent to not Tweeting at all.

No, I don't think it's the same as not Tweeting at all. In my experience it just requires self control (which we all lack sometimes and mess up as I certainly have). I mostly use Twitter to tell my friends and my small number of followers what I'm working on and my opinions on things related to domains I have some education or experience in (software, economics, education, etc.). You can use Twitter for mostly professional and anodyne topics. Saying the constraints of the platform encourage you to post hot takes is like saying the constraints of modern working life encourage you to eat junk food. It's true, but it is by no means forced.
Are you really asking, why Twitter doesn’t allow to edit tweets after publishing them? I think this is a feature, it means you can’t change what you wrote. If this would be possible after you get responses, you could change the meaning of these responses.
People hate this because it’s not the all-in-one all-nighter over-the-weekend hacker stereotype I think we all want to be; rather it’s a slow movement towards success over a much much longer period of time.
I think if your kid grows up knowing you love them and you do your best to educate and teach them right from wrong then you are probably a good enough parent.

"Personally, I think putting that reckoning front and center is a good thing"
I really disagree. If you parent was a monster, then absolutely. Otherwise, if they met the 3 points above then what good does calling them out and telling them that what they did was in your mind, harmful? They cant change anything and all it will do is make them react in hurt; they are still just people and you are invalidating their core life achievement. My parents were far from perfect, but they loved me and did their best, what would calling them out on any perceived failures do? I feel like people have lost the ability to just take things in stride these days. I can only speak from the personal experience of me and my siblings of course. My brother and I are very different in almost every way especially politics (He is pro Trump, I am not) but we just assume the other is coming from an honest place and doing what they think is best in their mind for their family and have good conversations and our families hang out often. My sister is unable to take anything in stride and assumes anyone that has different opinions than her is coming from a vindictive place. She has elected to completely remove herself from the family based on us not being far enough left for her (and I am pretty left). I find if one just assumes positive intent on another's actions as long as reality and not being a sucker allows then things are good. I always just assumed positive intent on my parents past actions or simple human flaw and all is good.
Git's best and most unknown feature
According to your article 9 billion is still a safe estimate:

The world population is projected to reach 8.5 billion in 2030, and to increase further to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100. As with any type of projection, there is a degree of uncertainty surrounding these latest population projections. These figures are based on the medium projection variant, which assumes a decline of fertility for countries where large families are still prevalent, as well as a slight increase of fertility in several countries with fewer than two children per woman on average. Survival prospects are also projected to improve in all countries.
This is a terrific model but it's not the only model - another highly effective model is to develop useful skills+resources, then strike with full force at the perfect time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835163