skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Introducing major key based songs would do a lot to improve the mood of the music.

In general, major keys are used for a lot of pop music...for example, both the Beatles and Nirvana wrote almost all their hits using major keys (Let It Be and Smells Like Teen Spirit), while ballads and more sad and "moody" music (ie Stairway to Heaven/Zeppelin and Unforgiven/Metallica) will be written in minors.

Also, tempo is important to add to the"upbeatness" of a piece...it would an interesting addition to this wonderful program to add switches for major/minor key and tempo.
You think we should blame the developers/engineers for abysmal security?

Security failure is a systematic fault of businesses and regulation: not the fault of the grunts mining at the coal face.
1955 opening day of Disneyland.

In temperatures that reached 100 degrees, the fresh asphalt on Main Street, USA melted into a sticky tar that ensnared the high heels of some women

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/disneylands-disastrous-ope...
As you were writing this post, did you have a source for this, or was this hearsay? Not asking you to look for a source now, just curious about the quality of information in HN.
cxx is great but it isn't anything close to what cogman10 is describing.

It actually can't ever be, because C++ has move constructors and Rust deliberately doesn't, so you can't for example return `std::string` from a Rust function by value.
My experience of grad school was that first & second year students tended to have an inflated sense of their own abilities - they had tended to be the smartest kid in their classes in school & university and it took a year or two for the arrogance to wear off when hit with the realities of actual research work. Not always, but more often than not.
> The level of ignorance in the general population is astounding.

In 1979? Years before the Internet? Yes, people were ignorant.

Don't get me wrong, I'm the last person to defend ignorance in the general population, but you're speaking from hindsight.
For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz#Defense_measures
> How do I know if posting a selfie of myself is just "serving the system" or "empowerment"?

Are you doing it to assert yourself, or to impress other people?
I was curious too, Here are the products under wearable categories[1] on indie hackers.

Very few of them which make revenue has something to do with apps/data on wearable, Most them listed in that category have nothing to do with wearables.

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/products?category=wearables
I'd really love to see container constants.
As of this writing only strings or numbers can be set constant.

```
const map[uint8]string {
0: "thing1",
1: "thing2",
}
```
That way tables of data can be made immutable at compile.

Folks are left to invent stupid hacks, that don't really work.
For example, a function that defines a template and returns:

```
func my_data() map[uint8]string {
return map[uint8]string {
0: "thing1",
1: "thing2",
}
}
```

And then we have folks running silly function calls for the sake of avoiding mutability.

Don't get me wrong, I understand why this hasn't been done.
We've all read the arguments against adding things to the language, but I accept in part, and reject in part that argument. Complexity always increases, so it's understandable to put the brake on run-away complexity. But GO is slightly pathological when it comes to the avoidance of adding sensible language features. The thing is most folks would rather have a slightly more complex compiler than a limiting programing language.
> And you believe that is a failure?

Yes, it's a clear failure thus far. Unexpectedly slow progress, unexpectedly high losses, and "we just want the Donbas" was clearly not the original goal. They're having to settle for that, and they'll have to hold it.

> Considering that Russia's top objective is to take the Donbas, that seems like a success.

Maybe you can borrow George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" banner?
Major incident declared in London as fires burn
IP-based nostalgia.

The people paying are really into Disney.
It's true that "dysprosium" is not as familiar an element as "nickel".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysprosium_titanate
Much faster than C in some cases.
The tube is for the dirty working class, AC is for the elite. A few weak people dying in London is no big deal - that's how life in London always worked.
https://nic.eu.org/
Definitely seeing a trend in decreased literacy in science. Voters are more easily manipulated, and proposed legislation increasingly has a misleading title and not enough voters can understand the details.

Things like the Florida governor banning state use of the term "Global Warming", as if that's going to fix the problems Florida faces. Or maybe the view that the USA government shouldn't back 30 year mortgages for places expected to be unusable in 30 years.

I had a little taste of this when my city's schools decided to kill off a major academic program based on a "peer reviewed publication". Parents were shocked, layoffs were made, the decision was made after normal meeting hours when the video recording was off. People asked for more clarification. Turns out a parent wrote up an opinion piece that boiled down to, if their kid didn't get in, they wanted the program gone. They showed it to a friend (the peer) who liked it. They thought that counted a "peer reviewed publication" and thought it was justification for killing off AIM/Gate, despite the success of the program and minimal cost (the AIM/Gate classes had the same teacher/student ratios).

Another sad case was a new development that set aside some land to make room for burrowing owls, after a year or two that land was sold to developers. The reason? They didn't think any owls actually lived there, it didn't occur to them that you'd only see the owls at night. I walked the perimeter every night with my dog and would often see the owls on fence posts.
> This is not a bug bounty program. We make no offer of reward or compensation for identifying issues. But at our discretion, we may still choose to thank you
I don't think they'll stay that benign and harmless after they reach America's level of leadership over the world.
Nah. It’s gonna be either both together or none at all.

Like another poster mentioned, when Brazil was growing, deforestation was shrinking.

The meme that the Amazon has to be destroyed for the country to grow is quite new. Please stop spreading it. I got people there.
NYC is also a much warmer summer city than London.
I live in the USA. My highest degree is high school. I had some college, but was a complete waste.

I taught myself systems engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and some chemistry. Most of these, I taught myself with low amount of investment, pirated books, pirated software, and garbage salvage.

I now work for the federal govt as a contractor making $150k/yr. The classes I took never even remotely got me here. I got me here.
Those 5 million people aren't dying, and they aren't taking all those open jobs either, so apparently it's not that hard to survive on out-of-work benefits.
The matter under discussion revolves around a matter of quality, not quantity.
The author of this paper finally states:
" Dryden and his co-authors do identify atmospheric CO2 as the driver of ocean acidification, which they warn will result in the loss of 80–90 percent of all marine life by 2045."
Which essentially negates his own claim that the other article is rubbish. The current article is more rubbish than the original that author wants to critique.
@dang could we have the link updated to a better source?
Global warming is caused by burning fuel, not by extracting it. To say Shell and BP caused the icebergs to melt is ridiculous.
Note there is rapid eye movement you’re not conscious of
I was raised with 9 peers and can address this!

Firstly, births are (usually) spread out over time (20 years for my family). Secondly, the older children help the younger ones (in all respects: I am deeply grateful for the socializing influence of my elder (by 4 years) sister). Thirdly, there is more to life than "family" life (neighborhood children, friends, school, sports, job, etc.) and so we were often under the care of others or on our own. Consequently my friends and I roamed the woods and swamps, cycled around town, to/from school and generally, wandered everywhere within the city limits (~20-mile radius). Once we could drive a car, trips became shorter, less varied, more task- and family-oriented.

I remember the first time my mom told me to "hold down the fort!", rushed out in an emergency and left me in charge of my younger siblings. Pretty exciting to be handed such responsibility but it was easier than it sounds and a lot of fun really.
Could you provide sources for any of these claims around the cultural differences you mention?
by giving it permission
Thankfully the Elizabeth line, opened this year, has AC. Both in trains and stations (at least the new build ones).

Small steps…
I live close and know people who livelihoods depends on that forest. Believe it or not, it's not the farmers or loggers fault. Their livelihoods depends on that forest. Farmers depend on the rain cycle. Loggers depend on the forest staying healthy, so new trees grow so they can keep their business going. Illegal logging does happen but it isn't their fault exclusively either.

The root cause is illegal occupation and settlement of land. People invade other people's land, often federal land, they cut down all of the trees, they burn it down, so they can clear it to set up makeshift camps. They then split and sell the land. Once there are people living on it, it's pretty much a lost cause due to how loosely enforced private ownership of land is, specially federal land. Also, it's a lucrative business, and involves corruption in all levels. People affected by it, like loggers who lose their property and livelihoods can hardly do anything, since the invaders will often get violent and the State wont do anything.
> But there is not, so why blame the project for it?

Because it shows a significant lapse in judgement.

> the author could be reading Gab because sometimes you're curious to see what all the extremists are up to.

Then they should say it. You can't assume good intentions when anyone willingly includes Gab because they'd be an incredibly rare outlier.
I love how USA isn’t on the list, despite the two millions of people imprisoned in US camps, which is some 25% of worlds total prison population. Not to mention ongoing prison slavery which is reportedly critical to economy in some states.
Don't blame "the public". This wasn't some conscious informed choice by millions of people. The public sucks the glass teat of mass media, and the interests controlling it did not want to present global warming as a problem.

In fact, this state of affairs has not even changed that significantly.
Do you think this could be useful in a classroom environment? Maybe shared notes for students and/or groups?

My personal workflow is Plain Text files (often markdown) in a Notes folder on Dropbox. nvAlt on my main machine to quickly search, edit, and create notes. A shortcut in terminal that cd's me into the directory, rg for cli search, and Editorial for mobile access. I have thousands of notes and have only had a few sync issues over the years.
I love designers! Especially when they listen to devs, or even better, can write CSS themselves. Devs should be in design review meetings, designers should be in the conversations about functionality. If you want a smoother workflow, make the communication happen.
> Is it just me or does ESG feel like a giant virtue signal from companies and investors?

Well yeah, it is explicitly intended as a signal that investors can use to select virtuous companies.
Reuters headline yesterday had the “melted” language.
Right, but why would the debugger need to do this?
> Five hundred data points collected from 13 vessels sounds impressive, but David Johns, head of the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, describes it as "a literal drop in the ocean." Johns would know—the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey has been running since 1958 and has accumulated more than 265,000 samples.

That uh isn't how stats works. 500 data points is a significant amount if they were being taken in a proper (randomized) manner. Maybe Johns is being taken out of context (i.e. his point might be that the sampling methodology was poor) but this too sounds like BS.
I know HN has its cadre of pro-nuclear devotees but until we have some large technological breakthroughs, nuclear power isn't going anywhere long term.

Fusion as it exists today (eg ITER) is a massive boondoggle. Hydrogen fusion fundamentally loses energy from neutron escape. To add insult to injury, those neutrons also destroy the reactor.

As for fission, of the almost 700 fission plants humanity has ever built, exactly zero have been built without massive government subsidy. Why? Because they're expesnive to build, maintain and operate, uneconomically so. And that's before you even get into the issues such as:

- What do you do with the fuel processing waste (eg UF6)? Some claim this problem is solved (eg reprocessing UF6 -> UF4) but it's not solved but it's not economic;

- What to do with the fuel waste? Putting it somewhere geologically stable and hoping for the best for thousands of years is... less than ideal.

- Can humans be trusted to run nuclear plants long term? Corporations notoriously cut costs that don't have immediate impact but the failure modes of fission plants are catastrophic. Governments too suffer from corruption;

- Can governments regulate fission plants at scale?

I support Germany delaying nuclear power plant closure because of this crisis but this in no way will be a return to nuclear power.

But let's examine how we got here and this is the part that makes people unreasonably mad for some reason. Yes, Putin is the unjustified aggressor but you cannot ignore what role US foreign policy played in creating the Ukraine crisis through NATO. The US would never accept the equivalent level of expansion of a hostile military alliance the way we somehow expect Russia to. I mean the US almost started World War Three over Cuba after instigating the Cuban Missile Crisis by installing Jupiter MRBMs in Turkey.

This war in Ukraine is a massive boon to the US military industrial complex. The level of military aid we're giving to Ukraine is oddly similar to the income defense contractors "lost" by ending the war in Afghanistan.. Weird, huh?
to assert myself and also to impress others
My husband looked over my shoulder and made the interesting point that it's worth comparing the population of America in 1960 to now: 179,323,175 people in 1960 has grown to 331,449,281 in 2020. That's about 180% as many people competing for the same entertainment resources.

(source on those numbers: wikipedia's pages for the 1960/2020 census)

Movies have also kind of stopped being a thing you have to go to the local Temple of the Cinematic Arts to see. You can sit at home and stream everything on a pretty big screen. So their revenue's dropped off a lot, even without the fact that they have to give almost the entire price of the ticket to the film studio and are trying to survive by marking up the popcorn.
But how do you know someone is making money?
Well, just you wait for the 100 year Bolsonaro bullshit censoring of his government corruption https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2021-08-08/cem-anos-de-prot... to be lifted, and such number is likely to be updated, and also, Lula did not get convicted.

Edit: trickle down economics has no basis in reality either.
https://codeberg.org/ is managed gitea.
> I started to get a bad feeling when the class keyword became popular, but all of the old good parts are still there.

I actually like many of the new parts - the class keyword being a notable exception. The other (much much milder) exception is async/await syntax - I love Promises but the async/await sugar on top of it this seems a little too much like magic. At the end of the day, they're still just Promises, just weirdly abstracted (just as classes are still just prototypes, just obscured so they look like something they're not).

The odd thing imo about the class keyword is it doesn't even seem to "fit" with the direction of may of the other new changes. E.g. arrow-functions are a very un-classy simplified functional form (no this re-assignment). This is very evident in the direction of many frameworks - e.g. React quickly moved to using classes (extends React.Component) and then quickly moved away from that convention (function components) as if realising their mistake.
I've always wondered why isn't someone trying to do a nuclear power generator in outer space.

Say, we create a nuclear plant in outer space (maybe around the moon orbit?) where there's no risk of nuclear waste "falling down" to earth if shit happens.

Then, said plants are used to generate energy and store it in some high density material (maybe liquid hydrogen?).

Finally, some of that energy is spent to "push" the large hydrogen tanks into Earth's orbit so that they fall down into earth.

This way the nuclear fusion issues would not matter and this could be scaled a lot.

I think that we have all the technical pieces to do this, but it is just a matter of some large company developing the project, even if starting small.
Everyone in London uses the Tube. What are you on about?
> Federal officials recognize that the current centralized system of air traffic management won’t work for drones: at peak times today, US air traffic controllers actively manage only about 5,400 en route aircraft.

Concept: routes above roadways up to 200 feet, administered locally, with some kind of payment structure.
Sort of, the american people will not celebrate to the most part apple or google working against the chinese government but the american government will sure cheer them on. But the Chinese people will be on CCP's side if it works against american national security, the CCP has popular support in China because of the economic improvements it has enabled.
I like https://techurls.com/ for my tech news. It aggregates most of the common techsites into a single place. They also have other versions for finance and a few other topics.
I just love that kind of design with dedicated physical buttons and connectors for all the important (and less important) use cases. I would love to live in a world where such devices were ubiquitous, instead of everything just being a touch screen with inconsistent and half-baked UI.
Reciprocity is necessary but one of the best strategies for iterated prisoner's dilemma is tit-for-tat or "equivalent retaliation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

You always start out by cooperating but if someone defects on you, you defect on them.
Javascript has GC and tail calls, and I don't think WASM is getting either anytime soon.
Honestly, if this is the cost of a "shared" subscription, then it's a bargain. The devil is in the details of how they detect that a different IP constitutes a "new home." Especially for those of us who use VPNs or other such security measures.
Installed the plugin and very intriguing MVP. Thank you for pulling this together. I have two questions/feature requests.

- Have you thought about adding edit functionality to your content sourcing under feed settings to add or remove sites? Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and other sites come to mind.

- Have you thought about adding an report export functionality of links recommended? Basically to help an individual understand why their copy of the algorithm is recommending specific items.
Cars are enormously nicer and more advanced than they used to be, yet have largely just kept pace with inflation.

Housing in Japan has gotten much nicer too, but rent has stayed fairly reasonable even in Tokyo (which is huge and has still been growing). Plus, even just the cost of land in the US is enormously higher now, ignoring any buildings.
I see both of those (and more) used by way way different groups of people here in Switzerland.

- e-bikes up to 45 km/h require a "light motorcycle" license (much like a Vespa does), lights, license plate, and a helmet. They drive (or are ridden? the line gets blurry) on the road like a Vespa. The people on them are generally people that already commuted everywhere by bike, now they just end up less sweaty when they arrive.

- e-bikes up to 25 km/h are treated exactly like regular bikes. They're driven by pretty much everyone that wants to afford one - commuters, rich teenagers, grannies, you name it.

- I never see electric motorcycles. Every single neither-a-e-bike-nor-an-e-scooter motorcycle is either a Harley Davidson or a sports bike. I know they're not electric because I can hear them both from 3 miles away.

- Vespa type scooters are around, but rarely electric. I assume people just keep the ICE ones they already own and switch to something else when those hit EOL.

- What's really taken off is electric sit-down scooters. They don't require helmets, are illegal to ride on roads, and lots and lots of 16-25 year olds just ride around on them in the evening every single day. They're styled to look like Harleys etc. to appeal to the rider's ego. It's amazing how they turned "scooters you stand on are for Bay Area dweebs" into "this will make you look so cool, dude!" by adding a seat and trim.
A predicted 80-90% loss in 23 years is not the same as a 90% loss now.
^ That's an old rusi post. Russia was not running a lot of air operations (other than choppers) in the beginning because Ukraine had 100 or so S-300 systems. Airplanes and pilots are expensive. But they've absolutely been ramping up air operations in the past several months. But in general, why send in a jet when a standoff missile will do the same job with less risk?

This by Andrei Martyanov (who's a US citizen fwiw) is worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS7kaHzRNw
Yep. Brazil doesn’t need to go trough another industrial revolution. Germany is happy to sell machines to Brazil.
Well, this is a UK-based site, so it doesn't seem particularly relevant. But the answer is 'yes'.

First, the site advertises LGBT+-friendly housing – it does not appear to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. Fortunately, "LGBT+-unfriendly" is not a protected class.

Second, the FHA does not apply to shared living units – see https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/property/property-keyed-...

IANAL or even an American for that matter.
And you need to be sterilized before transitioning. Not a great example country to pick.
Grade A BS, the greens predate Russia for generations
China does not need to do anything for that, we will to it to ourselves freely with out reservation, they just have to sit back and enjoy the show
You know, Milton Friedman forgot to control for money velocity, imagine if he had thought of that like Irving Fisher did.
It's an imperfect measure to be sure (peer reviewers are humans), but it's the best criterion anyone has ever come up with so far. It certainly weeds out a lot of cranks (even if it on rare occasions mistakes a novel genius for a crank), and isn't that robust to deliberate fraud (peer reviewers generally look for errors in analysis or lack of needed controls rather than look for faked data).
Ah, you mean those halcyon days when China blew up a satellite in 2007 to demonstrate its anti-satellite military capabilities and caused a huge debris field?

https://swfound.org/media/9550/chinese_asat_fact_sheet_updat...
Even without the government dictating content policies, the threat is still there. Take how the Chinese government has addressed the exact same concern from their side. That is to say, they've banned US social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter and who's to say if it's solely because of the allegations that those platforms follow US government dictations.

A forseeable future is one where Americans are using VPN to access Tik Tok and then we see some government officials clamoring for an American version of the GFW.