skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bar I frequent uses straws made of biodegradable material derived from sugarcane - they last a lot longer than paper straws, but ultimately are water soluble and will dissolve after a day ish if submerged. They obviously cost a lot more than plastic, but the user experience is just as good without the forever waste.
That approximation of how email works was definitely helpful in the days where most people got their email via POP3 and actually downloaded those emails.

And I agree, I do not need to know how the USPS works internally, how FedEx or DHL do what they do exactly. Same with email.

But the approximation is no longer true. The approximation would now be that the USPS stores all mail at the post office and if I want to read it I have to go to the post office and when I do I only take a copy of the mail back home to read. The post office keeps the original. Oh and the post office also reads all my mail and checks if they can show me relevant ads based on the content.
Song predicted the rise of smartphones back in 2002
Young people
... who do you think is supposed to manage all this complexity if not the people who are building the software?
Honestly this seems more like a cautionary tale about why you should prefer named arguments.
There are ideas and projects aiming to go straight from fusion to electricity, maybe through photoelectric effect but without the water heat cycle. Those may be orders of magnitude harder than "normal fusion" but still - people work on that.
Former Harlem resident chiming in here as an additional, concurring datapoint.

I didn't fit the traditional Harlem demographic (ex-FAANG employee, startup founder, etc) but found the neighborhood to have solid access to the rest of Manhattan, an increasing number of amenities, proximity to Central Park, and an overall appealing character compared to the increasingly sterile areas of Manhattan

If/when I move back to NYC I would certainly consider living in Harlem again.
I'd also recommend people check out Defold: https://defold.com/

I'm not a game dev, but its the engine King uses that they completely open sourced, and I think it can be a good alternative.
You might be able to export no-code apps and regularly back them up for version control.

Appsmith, which is a no-code/low-code builder for internal apps works with git.
https://docs.appsmith.com/core-concepts/version-control-with...
I've been googling for user experiences with supplements containing Lactobacillus Reuteri and i've found weirdly disturbing forums where people were reporting 50% increase in testicular size, hair growth and testosterone level after few weeks of usage. It felt like someone is trying to sell these supplements to teenagers with low self esteem by creating fake reviews or something... Some of these were on reddit.

What the hell?
I think the best medicine may be giving up attempts at perceiving an optimistic future. I don't have so much 'reasons for optimism' anymore as a list of negative trends that might still be reversible. Cf the amazing _Cruel Optimism_, by Lauren Berlant, on how straining to see good things that aren't there is considered harmful: https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism
The amount of top colleges in the Boston area is astounding. A school like Tufts (ranked #28 by US news) would be the crown jewel of almost every city in America, but it’s totally overshadowed in Boston.

Especially if you include Massachusetts as a whole it’s absurd:

MIT

Harvard

Tufts

Williams

Amherst

Brandeis

UMass Amherst

Boston University

Boston College

Northeastern

Wellesley

Olin

Babson

Smith

WPI
Keep morning clothes on an electric blanket with a smart plug timed to turn on before you wake up. Get out of bed and put on piping-hot pants. Timer on your coffee maker makes either coffee or tea (put tea bags in the coffee pot) as you wake up. Make a hot breakfast in the microwave (oatmeal for me). No need for a thermostat change for hours.
That was fun! I was surprised at how close your model got to results of the Greater Idaho project.
> I feel obligated to participate in situations like these, reach for questions or at least acknowledge other's hard work

There must be two (or more) schools of thought on this then. I am the opposite. It's painfully obvious when people are just asking questions for the sake of it. It's completely pointless and wasting everyones times. Another thing I see is where the Asker wants to make a point about something. They make their point and then tack on a question at the end.
It's capitalized like the rest of the words because it's in a title.
Much of the time that I don't have anything to say in a meeting, it's because I don't think fast enough to have anything to contribute on the spot. If someone posted the content of the meeting as a text post in a Slack channel, I'd read it, stew on it, and then probably end up writing 2–6 paragraphs of thoughts about it about five hours later. But you want those 2–6 paragraphs right now? I haven't thought of them yet!

And, IMHO, this is the main reason "async meetings" (e.g. email threads) are an improvement over sync meetings. Why put people on the spot, when you know you'll end up getting only a fraction of their mental capacity out of the deal? "War rooms" are for emergencies, not for creative thinking.
another way to read that is that you are not able to get food if your phone dies
Yes, my 'statistics' were implied. I've always seen HN as a place where people can write their opinions even if they're not backed by official statistics.
This is not the St. Louis FED website. My opinion is that recessions are worse than people expect because if they weren't people would see right through them and keep the money flowing (spending/investing).

> I disagree with your implied statistics and sloppy use of words.

No problem if you disagree, it would be nice if you elaborate your point though.
What exactly do you expect from a recession? What does your data say?

I'd also like to point out that Economics is not really an exact science, even with a ton of data at hand the predictions that economists make are wrong quite often. Specially during the past 2-3 years predictions have been quite bad - fiscal/monetary stimulus doesn't add much to inflation, if it does it will be transitory etc. That's one of the reasons we're in this mess.
Show HN: Tweedle – A Wordle game for profiles and tweets on Twitter
Hey everyone! I wanted to share a game that myself and a couple other colleagues hacked up called Tweedle. We wanted to try something different in the genre of wordle clones, so we decided to build a game that algorithmically generates daily wordle puzzles for any person/profile on Twitter. The idea is that you can play someone’s tweets, guessing a word inside the tweet using wordle style gameplay. If you have an active Twitter profile, the game will generate a puzzle for your profile; this enables anyone on Twitter to have their own wordle game!

Here is a game for a popular hacker news bot on twitter: https://tweedle.app/mtx2R

If you have a twitter profile, you can play your own game by navigating to https://tweedle.app/@YourTwitterUsernameHere

The game runs on a pretty standard AWS stack. The backend is designed to dynamically generate puzzles for any new profile. It uses an idempotent heuristic that both selects the daily tweet and daily word for any profile passed to it. We use multiple layers of caching to make this fast. The frontend is a React + Redux SPA. We built some tools to make sharing and link attribution easy so that when you share a game with a friend, we ensure they are able to play the exact same game.

For the game’s design, we’re exploring how we can make it more competitive around profiles. IE, who knows a particular profile best. We think that letting you play all the tweets from a profile could be fun as well.

We hope you find the game fun to play and would love to hear any feedback or answer questions!

(note: we’re not affiliated with Twitter)
Yup I just assume bitterness would be front and center
Get in touch with the maintainers if it's causing a problem, they probably don't realise and it's typically very easy to perform a parallel release under a different applicationId.

GPL'ed code, but so is FairEmail:

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/7082f6ee93ed1...

Most of the relevant code is in parallel-package-name.sh
Isn't saltwater lithium extraction close to being a thing, as well as recycling?
There is Mean World Syndrome[0] which can occur when you're constantly exposed to the news, and social media just exacerbates it, and feeds off our fear-based response. Just limit yourself to it, and there are even news sites that talk about all the positive things happening in the world, so read them instead. Technology is being abused, yes, but it has incredible potential if used right, and we need to teach people how to approach technology, not just leave them vulnerable and exposed. The Internet is this enormous rabbithole to get lost in, and we have to train people to navigate it, and be skeptical of all the disinformation and scams out there. Even savvy people get hacked and scammed, because they think they're invulnerable to various attacks. Education is key here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome
It's easy to look at things today and point to dozens of examples of why to be pessimistic.

But if you look at the past, the broad trend is continual improvement. If you were alive at any point in the past, I'm sure you could have also pointed to dozens of examples of why to be pessimistic – even over the course of years, decades, centuries at some point, especially in the distant past.

I don't think you've outlined reasons to be pessimistic about the future, just examples of things that may not be so good. IMO reasons to be pessimistic would be more fundamental about why the future will be different from the past.

Your point about 'outlining some positive vision of the world we're building with a rough idea of how to get there' is also misguided. That’s generally not how progress happens beyond a certain scale and over long periods of time.

Complex systems aren't designed, they evolve. What we do have is millions of brilliant people across an ever-increasing number of different specialties who may have visions of how to progress their corner of human knowledge in inches. That all that comes together, with varying levels of success, to make the future. Sometimes we take steps back, but the trend is always forward, because that’s what humans do.

But to your deeper point, none of it is predetermined and it is up to us to make it happen. And therein lies my answer to your question: The human drive towards progress is what got us here and I have no reason to believe it has fundamentally changed enough to make me pessimistic.
Because the pendulum swings both ways.

The past decade is not so different from 1973 to 1983, which sucked. US inflation ran high (12% in 1974, 13% in 1979), unemployment high (11% in 1982), we had two rounds of gasoline embargoes and rationing, US dominance in heavy industry was fading fast (steel, oil, coal, lumber, etc), Americans had been kidnapped and held for 444 days and our vaunted military bungled their rescue (1979), and until then, being under-educated in the lower middle class had never been a barrier to a decent career and lifestyle -- then it was. Those were big letdowns from the preceding post-WWII two generation-long boom. Unsurprisingly, America's can-do attitude hit the skids.

But we got over it. The economy rebounded in the 1980s and then exploded in the 1990s, and has remained dynamic ever since. Startups redefined business as we knew it. Computing and networking revolutionized access to products and media. Some forty years later, we can make international calls instantly, for as long as we want, essentially FOR FREE. We're in touch with distant friends and relatives as much as we want, any time we want, and can share almost any experience with them through photo, audio, or video. We carry an unlimited amount of music and other media with us wherever we go. That's just amazing, and deep down, we know there will be more where that came from. Further surprises await.

As far as our dwelling on the negative, people are herd animals. It's easier to react to the mood of others than think independently for ourselves. It takes time but eventually we remember this, and that dwelling on failure is a stupid waste of time and it just makes you unhappy.

What generally happens is that somebody or something (like the moon landing in 1969, or the arrival of the PC in 1975, or the internet/web in 1990/1995) comes along and gives us a rejuvenating shot in the arm, reminding us that life inevitably changes from what we know (and love), and yes, there's nothing we can do to stop it. But there are also some pretty great opportunities out there, if we're willing to stop looking backward and get on with reinventing ourselves.
Since you brought rhetoric into it:
-you are straw manning pacifism
-you are claiming no sensible person could be anti-war using that straw man
-you are implying that war is generally fought for self-preservation against bad leaders

I don’t really agree with any of those propositions.

I’m also curious what you think the author’s intention was in calling Guernica anti-war.
I'm working towards that with my Home Assistant installation, using inside and outside thermometers. You can trigger the fan based on the appropriate parameters, time of day, temps, etc.
I do consider that eugenics, but I just wouldn't use that term because people's brains turn off when they hear that term. It's a useful term if we want to discuss social policy, but only if people have the emotional reservoir for nuance.

All societies practice eugenics to some extent, whether in banning relatives from marrying, choosing abortion when the child would have terrible life conditions, or selecting mates based on biological traits like beauty.

From the first paragraph of Wikipedia:

> Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well', and -γενής (genḗs) 'come into being, growing')[1][2] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population,[3][4] historically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or promoting those judged to be superior.[5] In recent years, the term has seen a revival in bioethical discussions on the usage of new technologies such as CRISPR and genetic screening, with a heated debate on whether these technologies should be called eugenics or not.[6]
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You're pretty early in your career to be so sure "there are no consequences for my actions". It's possible you'll get away with it. It's possible also that you'll get discovered, fired from all three jobs, and then have a situation where it becomes difficult to get a non-entry job because you don't have any experience you can refer to.

Also, what university was this? It doesn't sound like mine.
What about a physical interface that can control any software synth?
The Tony Seba hypothesis is a big foundation to my optimism: We're going through an unprecedented convergence of disruptive key technologies. Precision fermentation, renewables and batteries, AI, and more. All of these reduce our ecological footprint and improve our ability to live at a high standard in a relatively autonomous fashion. The rate of improvement in these disruptive techs is not linear; a big part of the hypothesis is that they keep beating expert estimates on key metrics by huge amounts year over year, and when plotted on a graph are on a hockey stick trajectory. There's no one magic breakthrough that saves the day, rather, it's an accumulation of effort in all these different categories that makes the numbers work in our favor instead of going Malthusian.

The reason why it looks grim is simply that we aren't in the "other half of the chessboard" yet: we don't have the self-driving fleets out in number, we're still fighting over oil, we're still using traditional agriculture for our protein, and we have a pandemic and social unrest in the background.

"Tech" as we knew it in the late 20th century - tech used towards state bureaucratic ends to accumulate capital and defeat adversaries as in "O Superman's" electronic, petrochemical arms - has basically arrived at an endpoint where it's limited by imagination. It can make numbers go up, but it can't address philosophical challenges about how to organize society and whether economic "growth" is where we need to go. So increasingly it's the latter that are being discussed, and that drives up the unrest, because a discussion about numbers going up is "cool story", but one about truth and purpose threatens everyone. Truthful messaging about the state of things is actually very loud and clear: "we can't live like this, let go, grasp the future" and the backlash is "no, you can't tell me what to do, the future is scary and I'll die before I let go". It hits everyone at some point because everyone had a stake in how it was, so you end up with a lot of people in varying states of cynicism to fanaticism.

But we've been through such transitions already; in moving towards agriculture, building cities, industrializing. We can get through it, collectively. But it can be scary precisely because we don't understand a disruptive future and where its dangers are. There are no comforting stories to fall back on other than the apocalyptic ones.
There's reasons why it takes time. The perspective that it's "just produce rebranded RPMs" really undersells even something as significant as the amount of server power required to recompile all the packages. You couldn't get the packages until the distribution upstream had released, so no way to get ahead of the build time. You just had to suck it up at release time.

You used to be able to track the build process for CentOS when it was a RHEL clone, see how many packages were left to go as the days crawled past.

Things are a little better with the way that development happens more recently. 6 was a massive delay for distributions because RedHat had overhauled a lot around the build process and distributions needed to completely overhaul their stuff too, in ways that weren't that obvious.
And for those without Spotify:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kknkpcmH4N4
Fleet is ok, it can’t compete on price or extensibility
> solid material handling in general, is a perennial problem

Ugh! Yes. One one machine I worked on, this was one of our major issues. We had a subsystem whose job it was to get small plastic containers out of a bulk hopper, orient them correctly, and deposit them into a carriage all with a failure rate, IIRC, on the order of "no more than one unrecoverable jam every 10,000 units."

An "unrecoverable jam" was one that required human intervention to open the container and clear the jam by hand. Fun fact: tiny nonconductive plastic containers are very susceptible to static cling!

This was my introduction to bulk material handling (I was the dev writing the code) and its associated patent minefield. Just about every good idea the very experienced mechanical engineer could think of was already patented. In the end we got it to work and met the spec, but not without a lot of hard work.

At my previous job we had similar issues with paper. The company had an entire Paper Handling lab staffed with people constantly working on better ways of moving a sheet of paper from one place to another at speed. Paper might actually be worse because changing the humidity changes its properties quite a bit.
Show HN: Birdfeeder - Twitter bookmarks in your inbox, once a week
Yes. It's really amazing. First thing that I did after bought house last summer was to install whole house fan. Due to it we used hvac to cool house for less than 36 hours in July-October timeframe (only at days when temperatures were above 40 for few days in a row or when night temperatures didn't went down below 20)
Yes, but doing it naturally and unconsciously makes it not evil

There can be no public sanity regarding anything that was done by people in the wrong side of fresh (historical) memory
The renewed interest and pace of innovation in space exploration is pretty exciting. We have a non-zero chance of making humans a multiplanetary species in our lifetimes. Even if we don’t fully achieve that we’ll likely see a bunch of benefits along the way.
I can't assume a disclaimer that contradicts what's explicitly in the main body of the work, no.

Religious philosophy is generally embedded in a paradigm where that religion is correct, and where scripture in particular is perfect and infallible. So it's not at all obvious to say that you can pull value from it outside that paradigm.
This is true.

It's also true that Upwork has many, many people who will present themselves as a single individual. Instead, they are actually an agency and you will get a rotating cast of developers. This becomes apparent the fifth time you explain the same thing to your contractor, who is actually not the person you explained it to the fourth time, or the third time, or on and on and on.

Video verification helps you ensure that you are getting what you paid for, and that your time explaining the brief and iterating on their work isn't wasted.
So ideally one of your systems would be at the local elevator to make stover dropoff/biochar pickup easy? And then maybe someday combines would have a baler on them? And the biochar could go in a manure spreader for application?

Is there waste heat/syngas coming off the pyrolysis (beyond what's needed for sustaining it)? If so, have you looked into applying that to grain drying?
Almost certainly not in the sense that most people might object to (so you are committing the "Non-central Fallacy"). And your distrust sounds franlky paranoid.
Roger, Roger.
I wonder how's Cassandra doing? I heard companies are migrating away from it.
Rogers executive addresses what went wrong with their networks [video]
https://leakuidatorplusteam.github.io/ has more details.
Are you able to make a game out of someone else's profile (like a celebrity with thousands of tweets), or just your own?
Inadvertent mass synchronization is a known pattern and it has a solution: jitter everything, even things triggered by events which you don't think about as synchronized.

Your widget needs to fetch data periodically and the network connectivity died. You'd be tempted to start fetching data right away after it goes back, right? Okay, but if a huge network provider gets back from an outage, you will have a problem - all widgets in that region will start fetching data at the same moment.
Please release it on iOS as it can be more widely used and there is really a need for it.
Email this stuff in if you want it to reach a dang.
For theoretical foundations, I'd recommend reading about the FLP result (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3149.214121), the reduction of the state machine replication problem to consensus (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/78969.78972) and the different consistency criteria.

To climb on the shoulders of giants you can dive into the work of (incomplete list, irrelevant order but these have been eye openers to me) :

- Leslie Lamport

- Maurice Herlihy

- Eli Gafni

- Rachid Guerraoui

- Michel Raynal

- Petr Kuznetsov

- Hagit Attiya

- Sergio Rajsbaum

- Nancy Lynch
Yeah, not everyone has to talk in every meeting. Sometimes people will be taking in info and need time to absorb it.
Thats a liber and a smear.
I expect better of HN.
Best bang for the buck: teach non-tech folks to internalize the basic outline of the client/server model. You have a program on your machine that is your view of the website. The company operating the website has their own machines where the site "lives". They are constantly talking over the internet, your wifi router and every computer in between, a third class of machines.

My wife is proudly non-technical but has internalized this to the extent that she can self-identify the source of most availability problems. "Is it my program, the internet, or the site itself that's down?" is basic question that any user should be able to troubleshoot.