skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not totally sure this belongs on HN, but it was at least informative and well written. It's not at all about philosophy, but about design trends. I was sort of vaguely aware that Scandinavian simplicity was getting long in the tooth and that vintage, humorous, and eclectic was back in. I think it would be interesting to consider if we could end up seeing this reflected in UI and graphic design.
Interview with Paul Smith from Plasmakinetics link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brEm4mEizns

"This BANNED Technology Could Push Hydrogen Cars Over BEVs" by E for Electric

A few links:

https://plasmakinetics.com/

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/04/plasma-kinetics-light-...

I'm skeptical too, could not find any data on this stuff.
The bug has been in the wild for 8 years, so there are almost certainly customers who have VBA scripts that rely on that behavior. Microsoft puts a lot of emphasis on backward compatibility (or at least they used to), so I think there will be some internal debate on whether fixing the bug is more or less disruptive than just leaving it in.
Wasn't the whole reason for invasion to get bin Laden?
Interesting ideas. I think that anytime you pass data between code bases, you're going to end up converting it to/from json, xml, or some other intermediate format. It's a cost that I don't think we can avoid.

If you think outside the centralized server, I could fairly quickly implement my fragment of a distributed twitter. It's a matter of declaring a few objects/types, and writing code to do CRUD for my locally hosted parts, replicate those to some publicly accessible file host/web page, and them write an engine to scan all the other sites where the people I follow publish their data.

Two things that can't be replicated:

1> blocking of users. Once data is public, you don't get it back.
2> anonymous comments or replies. This would require scanning all replies, even of people you don't follow. It's possible this could be a service from a 3rd party aggregator.

What I'm seeing most of all is a glimmer of what is possible if you don't have to worry about security, and just solve problems. The walled gardens are a result of security issues, the network effects are a result of the small number of walled gardens. If you can tell your computer to do function X with data Y, and there is NO possible way it could get hijacked or confused into doing Z, then this could work.
> If I can’t go to the arcade, at least I can bring a favourite game home, right?

Wait, you guys have arcades where you live?? There used to be a proper arcade in my city years ago but it shut down.

These days the closest we get are a couple of bars that have lots of arcade games. But it’s not the same. Because it feels like a bar, not an arcade, even though arcade machines are there.

Where can I move to that there are real arcades?
Unfortunately, Wikipedia is often not a reliable source of

information because its articles are posted and maintained by

largely unaccountable anonymous parties.
How are folks using light weight cloud resources approaching password hashing? The `10s of gigabytes of RAM` feels like an expensive requirement. Even lower memory, high iteration count sha256 seems expensive for something like AWS Lambda where you're paying by the millisecond.

From the UX perspective there's also the issue that adding a second of latency during login or registration could increase user drop off.

How many sites really incur the higher costs and higher latency?
It's much more green this time around. Plants are a must, escpecially succulents. Colors are green, gold and purple. Untreated wood is definitely not over but is associated with black iron.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/522558363009051596/
How about things like decentralized finance?

Stablecoins like USDC that are pegged 1:1 with the USD enable “wire transfers” with tiny fees compared to what banks charge.

I can picture this for other parts of banking that are so dated - escrow, checking accounts, collecting debit payments (lots of Internet companies won’t host sex workers because of puritanical terms from credit card processors for example)
What about tabular data?

All these goofy syntaxes encode groves, meaning trees annotated with key/value pairs. XML, JSON, YAML, etc. Pretty good for serializing object graphs and so forth.

What syntax (sugar) is good for tabular data too?

My persona grove syntax is (secretly) awesome. Think JSON superset, like HOCON, HJSON, and SCON, but with more scalar data types, tweaked ergonomics, and conveniences.

But for the life of me, I still don't have an obvious syntax extension for tables. Like inlining CSV. Or how markdown does tables. (Nested arrays for representing a matrix sucks.)

The One True Syntax to unify groves and tables could really benefit all these big data (NumPy) and note keeping (Notion, Roam) projects.
This 100%. I seldom, if ever, carry a phone with me when I leave the house. I finally activated cellular on my Apple Watch and it is liberating. I find it nice for those times the spouse says "pick up bread" when I am out. Otherwise, there is nothing on my phone that I need to use when I am out and about.
Same, I am an extensive google maps user and I see so many (home) family and kids pictures in any random place. The UI is not clear on what happens. Even I did it once nearly accidentally. At the same time, there are some funny ones in between. One person uploaded Caribbean beach pictures to the local public pool.
Wherever you got your information from is either greatly outdated or outright wrong. Thermoluminescence dating is quite possibly the single most used dating method in modern archaeology. It's used anywhere and everywhere funding and preconditions allow it to be.
Seems like after about the twentieth time Google could at least block someone from making changes, but apparently that's not considered a technical problem so nobody's interested.
I disagree building a liberal democracy is a method of achieving a geopolitical goal, not a goal in itself.
nkozyra:
This is all a big problem with unrealistic expectations.

> If I get one percent better each day for one year, I'll end up thirty-seven times better by the end of the year.

OP also seems to assume that 1% improvement today is same effort/as easy as 1% improvement yesterday. it becomes harder to improve by 1% as time goes on, just coz your baseline is compounded too but absolute effort/difficulty may not. 3.65 rather than 37.78 at the end of the year is probably closer to the truth (and that is if one is able to do this every day at all to nkozyra's point)
This is a little unrelated but it’s a funny anecdote about submitting changes to OpenStreetmaps.

A few years back we build an open source app to handle employee tax deductions and pay for work related driving together with a few other municipalities. Part of how it works relies on a local company to download data from OSM and feed it to us in an address to address routing api, but at one point we changed the driving direction on a rather important (very busy might be the right English?) street to become one-way. OSM got the direction wrong, so that it was suddenly impossible to reach the municipality of our second largest city.

This was “fun” with tens of thousand of employees sending in issues, and I set out to fix it. So with our official municipality account (and not bothering to read the rules) I used Google maps as part of the evidence. I also included a photo I had taken from the street myself. Anyway, because you’re not allowed to reference Google maps I got our account banned and the change reversed so that OSM was wrong again, and it took me 3 days of arguing with the “amateur” contributors to get them to realise that I worked in the organisation who decided which way the direction of the street goes.
Ye well I agree. It is still astonishing how the army could collapse in this way. I guess the general staff more or less folded in some agreement with the Talibans. There should have been plenty of reports of artillery shelling with civilian causalities otherwise. Some kind of blood bath when high ranking officers have their backs against the wall.

> If you don't give a rat's ass about your cause, and there's a serious possibility of defeat, why would you keep fighting?

Keep fighting? My understanding is that there was no serious effort to fight from the army's side.
>I don't know what an airborn attempt at global shipping would be like, but I'm pretty sure it would be nothing like that stupidity.

Well, since air freight on the scale of global cargo shipping is probably not economically feasible, especially to save the puny remnant of species that are no longer profitable to exploit, I'm afraid there are no steampunk airship fantasies on the horizon, I think.

Last time someone grounded the idea of air ship cargo at least a German province got a tropical island in the sun.

https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/tropical-world/attraction...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
Well, after failing twice at posting my app, I don't know how or what to feel lol
> This is a very ironic comment considering that the soviets, not the US liberated Europe from Germany.

You're responding to another human, such that its a locality sensitive sentiment. To a French, Belgian or Dutch national the US is the savior of that war - the Soviets being uninvolved in their liberation.

As an aside, I wonder if there exist an Slavic-language HN where Eastern Europeans argue that American steel was the true winner in the war and the Soviets don't deserve glory...
I agree with the questions you're asking, in reality I'd ask those too but wanted to constrain my post to make a point.

That point is, again, the attempt to get to root cause (whether you go deep or wide) is valuable. The idea that you won't get the ONE TRUE ANSWER shouldn't stop that effort. An organization that landed at either your or my answer is better off than one that landed at neither.
Seen locally, all improvements are useful. PHP is better each year.

Seen globally, it's 10% improvement and 90% churn. One "improvement" is a half-fix, another is another half-fix, and so on, where after 5 improvements you're 97% of the way there.

In the meantime, you've broken backwards-compatibility five times, perhaps not always in the literal sense (old code still runs), but in the practical sense (old code has to be rewritten to follow modern conventions and be compatible with new code).

You've also had five learning curves.

And you have a ton of legacy stuff to support, from each of those five changes, leading to an almost unbounded explosion of complexity.
My tactic (which I'm violating right now in order to post this, mea culpa) was to move the few things that strike me as valuable to a newsreader and quickly grind through them with coffee in the morning.

I don't give a damn about smartphones, so there's no temptation there, and simply organizing around a handful of computer-oriented reddit groups (as opposed to the crazies at /politics), science news sites, the local newspaper, and oddly enough, RT (mostly international news) pretty much does the trick.

Add in the forays to email/banking plus archive.org, libgen, Sci-Hub for books/papers and Amazon for stuff and the internet is pretty much handled except for the occasional technical question.

For some reason, the discipline of RSS is good for calming down any need for outrage porn.

As an aside, my latest experiment in social media consists of sending vintage postcards.
>The Xperia 5 III is 1080p

I must've confused it with other model, the naming on this series is atrocious, thanks for clearing that out!

>It's probably a good habit to put your phone facing down

I'm not really bothered by the smartphone addiction, in fact, my daily usage is 2 hours at most, where half an hour is reading before the sleep and the rest is me using it outdoors
Not even reading a two line comment fully before replying to it, huh?
Do UK/European organizations typically give employees stock?
One thing I’ve been wondering about, as someone who’s considering making the switch.. is the role of hiring contractors for things you yourself aren’t a specialist in (ex: for me, design). When I hear “one-person” and read posts like this, they sometimes give the impression that indie hackers do everything themselves.. which I imagine is really not the case. Does anyone have insight into that?
So, I actually made three other comments besides the one above, but they were all censored. I guess that account is shadowbanned already for telling the truth.

That's the way it goes on HN every day, but the evidence is quickly hidden, supporting the illusion that HN is a good place to discuss things, when it's actually only a good place to discuss things for people who basically already agree.

Doesn't it just feel bad to be dishonest?
Even if this was true (and as comments are already saying skepticism is clearly warranted here) frankly I just don't see it mattering. Hydrogen in vehicles is a complete dead end. Maybe, maybe if the industry had seriously pursued it decades earlier it could have gained traction. But at this point any theoretical benefits look exactly like the theoretical benefits of so many other technologies and designs that got crushed by raw economics. As classic HN-related example would be x86 vs all the other various ISAs in the 80s and 90s. x86 wasn't the best, and as we've seen from ARM I don't think it can be said that's entirely meaningless, in theory the same investment in another ISA might have yielded better results. But it simply didn't matter, because there wasn't the same investment and would never have been given the platform effects involved. And "good enough" plus enough capital expenditure was plenty to power through everything else until a complete environment shift disrupted it.

By the same token, the main issue with batteries is range. But BEVs are coming that will push 500 miles, and from basic theory and lab work batteries have plenty ceiling. The difference between the perfect theoretical lithium based design and present ones is something like an order of magnitude, so even if we never do more than a fraction of that we could still see BEVs pushing 1000 miles at the high end. So that factor just isn't going to be a deciding issue vs all the supporting infrastructure needed.

And it is there that BEVs obliterate any other solution by riding on the same core energy infrastructure as nearly every single other piece of mass market advanced human technology which has long since gone electric. There are something on the order of 150000 fueling stations in the US. Converting all of those and all the infra supporting them to hydrogen would cost hundreds of billions if not trillion+. But with BEVs, almost all of that can be sunk into the grid instead. With that kind of investment not just local improvements but buried HVDC backbones or even super conducting continental, potentially even intercontinental backbones is on the table. And the thing is that all that investment, and all the opportunities opened up by everyone having enormous distributed energy packs that they can lean on in a variety of ways beyond just driving, benefits and can be amortized across pretty much the entire economy directly.

That's an economic steam roller if ever we've seen one. So any advantages hydrogen might in principle have alongside the many, many nasty difficulties of dealing with it will end up the same was as advantages Alpha or POWER might have had. Electrification, which abstracts and in turn offers enormous flexibility for power generation, distribution, and usage, is just too economically compelling the instant it becomes minimally feasible. The ultimate network effect.
It's weird that you call BS and then proceed to completely agree with the author, but, ok.
Opposite experience. COVID has made Apple Maps pretty useless as they don't include info about which restaurants are opened / offer dine-in vs takeout only or which stores have reduced hours.
I too have been trying this, not finished the book yet but so far it's absolutely fascinating.
But thanks for kind of saving my face for 14h ^^
Ummm no thanks, you can keep your anxiety-inducing clutter.
Your comment is nonsense.

> civilized humanity

The CCP is a gang of thugs.

> we saw a failure to prevent it

It was most likely lab-made in WIV, and deliberately spread via international air travel.

> It’s just impossible to coordinate on that scale.

The CCP won't even say who Patient Zero was, so no coordination whatsoever.
The internet was also very useful and functional. though I’ll admit it got better in the 2000’s with Google Maps etc. Still I managed to navigate unknown cities with MapQuest printouts haha
Leaving only the other issues with hydrogen (inefficiency of generation, awkwardness of transport compared with electricity, so-so generation efficiency, low power output.)
There's a reason "bug for bug compatibility" is a thing, but this isn't it. I highly doubt anyone is relying on this, because it's completely stupid behavior.
Yes, make the additions to OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/). The more you add, the better the map becomes for everyone.

Very easy to use app for adding info to OpenStreetMap from a mobile device: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...

Full editor of everything OpenStreetMap on a mobile device (but does have a steeper learning curve than StreetComplete above) https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.blau.android/
Jane Street candidates are already top shelf candidates, and can pretty much write their own tickets - so it's in the best interest of companies like JS to capture them for potential full-time employment, before they graduate.

A solid salary helps.
I think I saw that in Doom: Enternal. And yeah it wasn’t the good guys saying that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_Eternal
I haven't tried MeiliSearch, but I spent a little bit of time this morning looking at the code. Maybe off topic, but Rust really is a nice language to read. I wanted to learn another non-Lisp language, and after a few evenings of playing with Rust, I settled on Swift for a few small side projects. I slightly regret that decision, but both languages fill the same application space for me.
I just learned about this Ballonfest thing. How could anyone have thought it was a good idea?
That actually has a certain kind of charm. The patterns fit together well and the accents support the overall feel of the room.

This can go awry very fast if done with less care, but then again, so can a minimalist room. Minimalist rooms can quickly start to look like a chipboard warehouse if no care is take to prevent it.

Of course, it helps immensely that this room has no "life clutter" in it. Imagine adding a few discarded Amazon boxes waiting to be recycled...
> Escrow is sometimes a good solution

Escrow would be a great solution for rental security deposits. However rental agreements are drafted by landlords and are contracts of adhesion. If a tenant wants to negotiate the contract, the landlord will simply reject the negotiation and find another perspective tenant.

You could write into landlord and tenant law that escrow is required for security deposits, but landlords are generally more wealthy, stable and politically connected than tenants are and would be able to stop changes at many steps in the legislative process.

The problem with setting up more sane incentives to overcome game theory problems is that you have to implement it, and you get back into all the gnarled game theory with incentives and human unpredictability.
what's the ongoing elastic drama?
How much energy does this system use? Powering a 10,000 lb machine and running a laser takes a lot of fuel whereas a few human laborers can do the same job with enormously less fuel cost.
That's a misinterpretation of the data.

The incident radiation is on the order of 100 W / square meter (10K Lux max, and probably much less depending on local conditions) from ambient (versus about 1KW / square meter for direct sunlight, 120K Lux), the panels then extract about 10% of that, so 10 W give or take for a panel area that would produce 250 to 300W when exposed to full sunlight.

Ambient light tends to be reflected more than direct sunlight due to the percentage of the photons arriving at an angle < 45 degrees relative to the plane, which means they'll very likely bounce off.

This is why it isn't cost effective to put solar panels facing North on a roof, and panels facing East or West will only be producing power for a small part of the day.
Loads of people are on quickfire mode, judging every little "but we could do better" as "perfect" and throwing out that phrase. It is really annoying. When you want to invest a little more time, because you already know, what problems will bite you in your behind later, and then you hear that phrase.

Whoever outputs that phrase should first think about whether they are stopping improvement, by labelling it as "perfect", to make it match this pseudo-wise phrase.
Because the math doesn't work out, see my other comment.
How Does an Engineer Create a Programming Language?
> Marie Kondo, the decluttering phenom who encouraged millions to “spark joy” by throwing out heaps of perfectly good things, was met with substantial ridicule when she began selling “essentials” like silicone head massagers and $61 paperweights on her website.

I think this is a misquote of Marie Kondo. She says to get rid of things that don't spark joy. It's just permission and encouragement to part ways with things that you keep around but never use or enjoy.

So the $61 paperweight isn't a contradiction at all, not if it's owner really likes it. Especially if it replaces two other things that they didn't really care about.
Interesting after they were bought they kind of fell off the map. That's typical
The children take them home or the coach collects them for practice sessions.
What's the immense hubris? The reinventing the wheel constantly?

I mean rebuilding from the bottom up would be an example of that hubris at work... So I feel like I'm not understanding what you were trying to convey.
> How about we allow clickbait only on Sundays. Then during the rest of the week we can tell all the submissions with questionable titles to “Save it for Clickbait Sunday.”

Thank you for the idea, but no thank you
Psychology needs a bridge to the mechanisms of neuroscience. That will be the way forward will the greatest success. Once we understand how the brain produces behaviors and thought patterns, and can understand the mechanisms behind "what goes wrong" we can more effectively apply corrective therapies, be they behavioral or talk therapy, medication, or a combination thereof. Psychology has correlations, but they're mostly missing giant pieces of the mechanism puzzle.
I agree with you, except for the opportunity of getting rid of passwords.

When its about company property, you might not care too much about the consequences so a solution without passwords can be fine.

On the other hand, when it is about your personal data or devices, it may be unwise to trust anything else except the passwords stored in your head.

If I would design myself some kind of security token with a microcontroller or better with a FPGA, I could trust it, but I could never trust any kind of commercial device to be free of backdoors or defects.

So the most secure method for most people remains to memorize passwords.
This is the first I've heard of it. For others wondering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
With the amount of people coming online, India also probably needs it the most
I agree. The article is practically an ode to consumerism. Much better to find the middle ground of making do with the things we already own, not throwing everything out a la minimalism, or buy buy buy a la maximalism so trumpeted here.