skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sound like you are talking about US because in the EU the discussion is a bit different. There about 50% want to fight climate change by using renewables + natural gas, and now with the Ukraine war, renewables + oil and coal. The other 50% want to use renewables + nuclear power. Neither side think that climate change is a hoax, but they are still dragging in two completely different directions with just as much effort as they did before.

Didn't Biden just a few days ago advocate towards the Arab states to increase oil productions?
I agree, good post.
Depends on the compiler. LGDT is probably never emitted by the compiler, no.
By me.
C++ toolchains in general are broken with or without IDEs. It doesn't matter if you're compiling from the command-line or a GUI, it's a trash fire either way.

This problem is sometimes temporarily "fixed" by some approach, but the problem is fundamentally with C++ itself, making many basic things night impossible to solve. Eventually the new "simple" toolchain is adapted to support every possible scenario, and then madness creeps back in and we're back to square one.

For example, I recently had to compile Chromium from scratch. It has a custom build system (of course), that is more complex by itself than all of the code that I have written in my entire life put together. It was written to "simplify" its builds. That's... crazy.

I vividly remember the day I snapped and gave up C++. I was trying to compile previously working code and it was complaining that "__malloc" was undefined. This was a linker error with no further information. It didn't identify the source of the problem, and provided no clue on how to fix it.

After hours of effort I simply gave up, switched over to C#, and never looked back.

PS: A part of the reason C/C++ developers don't "get" why IDEs are so popular is precisely because C and C++ are so hard to write IDEs for! A single header file can mean different things in the same project depending on where and how it is included. Simply providing tab-complete and inline help is a monumental task. So most C++ IDEs are bare bones compared to Java or C#. They do basically nothing for the developer except the basics.

PPS: The Rust team are all ex-C++ programmers and made the same mistakes in their language design, making IDEs very challenging to write for Rust. Don't agree? Remind me, how many IDEs are available that can do something as trivial as "extract method" in Rust?
I am being pissed of videos that should be a blog post. I also ack that great effort went into making a video but the substance could have been a 2 page text and a few specific pictures. I also ack the incentive to get video ads vs text ads(more expensive) but i don’t want to accept the fact that someone has a choice between publishing the script of the video as text or spending time, effort and money to make a video instead. I also accept that video is a better medium than text for certain topics.
One irritation I have with FF is its confoundingly difficult way to add arbitrary "search engines" with a keyword. eg: I want to just type `r subreddit` and have it expande to `https://reddit.com/r/subreddit`. You can DO it, but natively if FF doesn't "see" the URL as a search (so it doesn't provide the 'add search engine' option in the search bar right-click) it's overly hard to accomplish. Had to install a plugin, and/or hope project Mycroft has it.
It's been that way for years, as long as I can remember probably. But I still watch Youtube for probably ~50% of my content. I'd probably like podcasts but I never know how to play them. I just want educational content and, to my knowledge, Youtube has the best collection. I like hearing an expert in a field talk about a subject. Even Khan Academy has their content up on Youtube.

I signed up for Nebula and I barely use it. It's poorly curated, there's seemingly no recommendations so I'm just in a wash of content with no direction.

I think that it's probably worse the more you use it. The more I subscribe the more garbage I get recommended I think. I watched the raw footage of some of the Heard v Depp trial (as in - uncut, direct footage) and I don't know if my algorithmic output will ever recover - the shit I get recommended now is of zero interest to me. Similarly, I looked up a few 'how tos' for some games, and now I get tons of 'gamer' content. The other day Youtube recommended Ben Shapiro to me lol

But that's just the main page. If I'm already on a good video the sidebar recommendations are decent.

If there's something better please let me know, I hate Youtube as a construct and I think that the monetization of horribly low content is damaging in ways I can't even predict, but also I gotsta have my "expert on topic talks to me about interesting thing" content.
I've recently observed gcc 10.x emitting LEAVE instruction in functions using __builtin_alloca or __attribute__(( force_align_arg_pointer )), although only for x86_64 targets (for i686 it's still MOV ESP, EBP / POP EBP pair).
What's the problem with the drive for monetization? Out in the physical world you also rarely get services and content for free. Also monetization here mostly means possibilites for donation and paying for extra content, usually most of a creator's content is still free. As for money-grabber content: a good platform should have an efficient and honest rating mechanism.
I've made mayo with a hand whisk, it doesn't require very vigorous beating as it does patience to not add the oil too quickly.
There is so much content on youtube, especially independent music, that it's often I find that I need to purposefully watch things I want to see more of instead of letting autoplay or autorecommend take over.

Purposeful searching and watching habits make youtube much more enjoyable for me.

Of course `Dead Internet Theory` might be true, or at least feel that way, if you let the algorithms drive.
By far my worst experience of any delivery was a recent deliveroo order.

Our household were down with covid and therefore trying our best to isolate while at the same time we were running out of painkillers.

All the supermarkets couldn't do same day delivery.

Out of desperation we tried deliveroo.

Ordered paracetemol, ibuprofen, strepsils and to make up the delivery some comfort food like cake, cokes and a few other essentials like milk, bread.

Over half our order was "unavailable". We got none of the painkillers whatsoever, got a different loaf of bread. Only thing that actually arrived correct to order was the cokes.

Tried to complain to deliveroo but never got passed the automated bots which gave us a pathetic amount off our "next order" which is useless because I'm never going to order from them again.

If it weren't for an introductory offer we'd have ended up spending a vast amount on essentially nothing between the delivery fee and the price gouging that's baked into the quoted prices.
Spammers use vpn nowadays. This make these spammhaus like services useless. They change IPs every week.

Most mail protection models against spam don't work.

I have an idea of a method that could help reduce spam and undesirable mails. It would be free for non-spammers and spammers would pay.

The problem is that I'm not sure if people would be ready to adopt it. There is also many different ways to execute, and I'm not sure which one to pick.
Plastic ukulele. https://www.ceceres.com.au/pub/kealoha-concert-ancient-realm And because it's plastic it's travel friendly. Cost about 80$(AUD) and it's a great way to learn a "skill" and have fun. (I quoted skill because I suck, but have fun)

Longboard skateboard.. Good way to get around and in shape. (I'm over 45 years old)
Society?
Why is it that "freezing weather" starts on this chart at -20°C - literally 20 degrees C below freezing?
In the Netherlands, these services tried to disrupt the supermarket market by basically ignoring zoning laws. As the externalities dark stores create have been disrupting enough for residents to complain en masse, cities are clamping down hard. Which means that 15-minute delivery promise is increasingly impossible to achieve.
At some point we will have to start building a "second internet" that is governed through a network of trust rather than through an economy of attention grabbing.
100% agree with this. I passed my test in 2018, but YouTube was a game changer. The UK driving test is pretty difficult, and everyone always tells you horror stories about it, so being able to watch test videos reduces anxiety so much.

When you face the facts, it's just two 45-50 minute tests and each has a 45% pass ratio, so it's nowhere near as bad as people make it sound. You can easily pass on the first or second attempt if you study enough.

Failing your test can cost you loads of money in extra lessons, car hire, testing. It's so useful to be able to see lessons online and get better. Financially, I think YouTube lessons and tests can save the average learner £500-1000.
Killer feature for me - add blocking in on mobile browser.
I've only ever heard that term to mean bias against people considered too old for a given activity.
Isn't it desirable to have the team function in one language?

Communication is hard in an organisation. Anything you can do to make it easier is going to improve outcomes for the business.
I'm a little nostalgic here, but social media was more fun and healthier when the timelines were simple streams of the stuff your friends posted.

That's when it was still good and went down the drain around 2014 or 2015 when the Facebook told me what I should see.

For Twitter I use third party apps that still present me the classic timeline instead of the things they do. And I only follow stuff I want to read, similar to an RSS feed reader.

And ad-funded social media platforms will eventually die when regulation roles in that says what needs to be done. No loss, as it causes more problems at the moment than it solves.
If you do this, please use a cabled headset. Bluetooth headsets inevitably add latency, particularly off WiFi. Latency makes meetings more fatiguing.
With that many tabs I can't get either to work well, tbh. OTOH, FF has an _apparent_ speed advantage for me in that it crashes pretty regularly so I'm not having to worry about memory leaks. =\
Because I have no device which support 10g out of the box.
Also ethernet is already installed to all rooms.

For me it would be wasted time/money to replace all ethernet to fiber now.

A 8 port switch is replaced in about 1 minute.
Maybe free speech/creation spaces are moving away from massively capitalistic oriented spaces.

Because in the end, the search for maximization of profits may not be the best way to achieve creativity.

For a time, and I still think that somehow it's the case right now, a lot of creativity can be found on: TikTok, some Discord servers, etc. etc.

But clearly, Youtube feels like TV in a way: a bunch of "professional" people rehashing the same concepts over and over: over-produced fiction, gaming stuff, react-stuff, beauty stuff, etc.

The only thing that I currently value Youtube for is the access to science stuff: 3 blue 1 brown, Veritasium, etc. etc.

Oh also Youtube has become the home for the cancer of tutorial: the video tutorials. Why cancer? Because reading is faster, searchable, indexable, etc.
> ... just collectively calming the hell down for a few hours when it's cloudy.

This is the exact argument people opposed to wind and solar make.
The greater issue for this use case is latency. Bluetooth + cellular delay is not a kind thing to impose on your teammates.
> It feels like the majority of content is no longer organic or passion driven. It is now monetisation driven content.

Yes. There is a griftopia or mania around these platforms which early adopters, geeks, etc have used it for fun for a long time and the tech bros go and successfully hijack it for monetisation and this has been happening since the 2000s up until this point.

I think there is no going back from this and this form of grifting is here to stay and it will continue on another platform which will take YouTube's place because the content creators, shills, marketers will go where the money is.

Now the money is in TikTok and you will watch that get destroyed very soon and the so-called early users will get upset because the platform has changed to favour big business or much larger creators manipulating the algorithm to favour them.

So I'm afraid you will be very disappointed as nothing has changed.
I'll bite. What's the most controversial activity you have held at maths camp?
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf

https://summerblizzard.tistory.com/87

for the curious
As somebody who does some 'mathy' theoretical CS work, I wonder if this will stay true forever, for the following reasons:

* The general population, but also academics, take increasingly more time to mature.

* The body of knowledge grows and mastering it takes more time.

* People (at least the privileged elites) spend more time taking care of their mental and physical health. For example, we see that athletes competing in team sports on top level may reach their peak in their mid-30ies, which is a relatively recent development. If one translates this to math (I know it is a shaky assumption, but why not speculate) and peak creativity is reached in the mid-30ies, the papers that result from it may be published years later.

* In some decades, people will most likely frequently use software tools as helpers.

Not that I think that these developments change things completely, but I would expect that we will see a substantial shift.
Yeah so this really took the shine off of my morning too, BUT apparently it's a crappy study without good backing for its claims. Some guy on reddit remarked that the plankton are still clearly visible from space in huge amounts. THAT SAID, we don't need to wait around for this headline except for real before we take action, and countries really need to get their stuff in gear.

There's no good reason for plastic to be leaving waterways and entering the ocean, and farmers need to be strongly pushed and supported to look at ways to farm without leaching fertilizer.

And yes, all your ideas are good ones. We need to try a bunch of these things.
I think the OP's point is that people like Colin Furze used to film themselves and just put out content, but now they court sponsors and have a production team. All of the people you mentioned have a production team, I think.

I've got some channels I watch that don't have production crews (I think) like "Under Dunn" and I enjoy them every bit as much as the big ones you named, if not more... But there's no doubt that even they pay at least some attention to monetization.

I also heavily curate my recommendations. It's kind of painful because there's so much crap, but I do still find channels that I enjoy once in a while. They generally aren't new channels, though, just ones I hadn't found yet.

A few of my channels got really stupid about monetization, though. One of my woodworking channels recently said that he wasn't going to do any more content like his old content because it doesn't attract new viewers. He's very much trying to make that channel be his day job, and it ruined it for me. I almost never watch his new stuff, but I guess others do, so... Oh well.
I couldn't find the bit where the original performance claim was refuted (or not). Was it one of the listed options?
Improving “Extract Function” in Rust Analyzer
I agree. The trick is not to search for your ${dayjob} related content. I no longer watch software or hardware, learning K8S or iToys reviews. I mean, how many iPhones, ThinkPads or MacBooks will I buy each year? Instead, I found small family vlogs much better. Also, stuff like repairing old watches, documentaries/vlogs about ships, aeroplanes, or manufacturing goods, offbeat travel or learning a new foreign language vlogs are good.
Interesting - someone laser focused on education. When school went virtual he quit as a teacher, rented a space, and told 145 students he’d be teaching there. 140 showed up and they crushed competitors.

So he immediately felt virtual learning would not be as good as in person, school wouldn’t let him teach in person (he is in his 60s) so he quits.

I’d trust this guy more then the Ed unions saying virtual is just as good as in person
Please share some channels that you found helpful
>Ok so one country has chosen

FALSE. 20+ countries.

You apparently simply refuse to follow the science from credible authorities.

>But the risk of refusing it vastly outweighs that.

FALSE. Again, why are you refusing to follow the science?

UK's JCVI which is the official scientific body advising the UK govt, and staffed by internationally renowned immunologists and infectious disease specialists, recommended against universal vaccination to 12-15 year olds.

It was specifically due to the risk-benefit consideration, because the benefit is marginal and risks of infection in that age category are very low. [1]

This is the list of the prominent scientists who made those calls.

Professor Andrew Pollard, Chair (University of Oxford)
Professor Lim Wei Shen, Chair COVID-19 immunisation (Nottingham University Hospitals)
Professor Anthony Harnden, Deputy Chair (University of Oxford)
Dr Kevin Brown (Public Health England)
Dr Rebecca Cordery (Public Health England)
Dr Maggie Wearmouth (East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust)
Professor Matt Keeling (University of Warwick)
Alison Lawrence (lay member)
Professor Robert Read (Southampton General Hospital)
Professor Anthony Scott (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Professor Adam Finn (University of Bristol)
Dr Fiona van der Klis (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands)
Professor Maarten Postma (University of Groningen)
Professor Simon Kroll (Imperial College London)
Dr Martin Williams (University Hospitals Bristol)
Professor Jeremy Brown (University College London Hospitals)

>I still don't see anything on the NHS site indicating there's any concern that AZ is harmful to those under 40.

on the NHS website I linked: "if you're pregnant or under 40 you'll usually be offered appointments for the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines"

Notice how AZ is NOT offered first to those under 40. Did you expect something like: "WARNING. AZ WILL KILL YOU"?

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/joint-committee-on-vacc...
Watson: Wasted but Turing-Incomplete Stack-Based Object Notation
> I don't get why nulls are so hated by people who are not real FP purists. How are they different from ", err := .. if err != nil .." in golang which people do a lot and seem to enjoy (in comparison with exceptions and even Optionals)? NPEs are not common in development and very unusual in prod. I'm not sure I like how much ceremony there's in Kotlin to keep track of nullable things.

Disagree that NPEs are a rare occurrence, that Go-style error handling is universally enjoyed (I would say it's one of the top complaints people have about Go) and that Kotlin null handling uses too much ceremony.

And as for that last point, idiomatic Kotlin code (or, indeed, code in any language that has null-safety) will tend to eliminate nullability from types as much as possible, it's not really the case that most function arguments, return values, etc. really need to be nullable.
Monodraw is an awesome tool to have in the toolbox. It's just damn fun to use. It got me out of a hole during my most recent foray into education too.

People's biggest complaint everytime it's mention on here seem to be that there's no WinX version. Okay, if you want one then go write one? I know I'd pay € for it.

I've been stuck in a WinX world recently and have started using Kroki for structured graphable info. For the most part it 'works' but it's not as much fun to just draw like Monodraw allows. Asciidraw doesn't quite hit the same sweet spots for me and I find it finicky and inaccurate.
When I first started using the Internet it was like going to a pub and striking up a conversation with a stranger about a topic of mutual interest, or going to the park and watching people do things they enjoy. There was no competition to maximize my engagement in order to have me watch ads that create desires for things that I don't need. It was just some dudes who really liked talking about crop circles or model trains or semiconductors. Imo it's the difference between doing things in order to make money and making money in order to do things.
I wonder if there's any service/search engine that could help find authentic, non-monetized content? Ideally results would be filtered out if they had any ads at all or affiliate links anywhere on the domain. Perhaps it'd also be valuable to exclude analytics platforms?

I feel like a decade ago discoverability of those little corners of the internet where someone is passionate about something and writes a blog about it was better. Trying to search for reviews has always been tough, but it's impossible to find anything that's not monetized to the hell and back for something like "best tent for camping" or "tent reviews 2022".

The closest I've found is millionshort.com, which does have some nice filters (e.g. "remove sites with live chat"), but that still doesn't quite get there.

https://millionshort.com/search?keywords=Best%20tent%202022&...
Ask HN: Writing APIs in Node.js – best framework?
Hi,

all the APIs I've ever written have been in Python, more specifically Django and FastAPI. I'm looking to resaddle as a nodejs dev, but need to hone my node.js skills.

Looking at the node.js ecosystem, there's tons of packages for every imaginable thing. However, I've not been able to find a more comprehensive framework as such as Django for node.js... Am I just not looking hard enough?
Nearlyfreespeech.net may be good for that, they also have an identity-masking domain registration service.
As a kid I had a great book with lots of science experiments in it called "Science Is" (Author: Susan V. Bosak)

It had an entire section on airplanes but there was one that absolutely destroyed my intuition about flight and to this day confuses adults whenever I get the chance to make it (something like a team building event where we need to make paper airplanes).

It's literally two hoops of paper and a stick. Here's a page I found with the design.

https://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/hoopster.html
Only according to Americans, tbh, and often ones who have never visited.

Ones who have visited the UK, when asked where they ate, often ate at hellish tourist traps or absolute shit tier chain pubs like Wetherspoons or Greene King.
I feel like you are talking about something more like roadmap.

Of course long term plans/road maps have their place when everybody agrees on that it is an "idea of what's coming"

However most long term plans I have encountered at my last two companies have absolutely been treated as commitments to detailed plans two years ahead of time,
before we have no idea what we really want.

This is causing project members constantly stressing/hurting about not meeting plan still years after everyone knows that the plan does reflect real life anymore.
YoutubeVanced and SmartTubeNext
>> Because of this, Go developers lean on the standard library more than many other communities and generally hold it in high regard.

> [...] Compared to JS and C/C++ this is accurate, but .NET, Java, PHP, Python this is the normal case.

This is not my experience with Python, and even less for PHP. There are too many dark corners in the standard libraries of these languages to hold them in high respect. The standard library of PHP is an inconsistent mess, with many documentation holes.

For instance, there are several ways to send HTTP queries using the PHP STL. Apart from very basic needs, the usual way is through the libCURL integrated into the STL. Unfortunately this library is just a port from C, far from a native syntax and barely documented. For any advanced usage, the developer has to read the C documentation, or switch to a non-standard library.