skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the method does give a good approximation even at about 60° north in July, although I did not verify by how much. I live near 49° north and recently travelled to Scandinavia. While my intuition at home is pretty accurate, my idea of how long it takes for the sun to set so far north in the evening was completely off the mark at first. To calibrate it, I changed my mental model of the sunset to a double-flat angle and estimated how long it might take the sun to (virtually) cover the longer resulting distance.
The field of nutrition is self-undermining given how frequently it's inverted its advice, and the prevalence of pseudo-scientific studies.

As COVID has shown, "scientists" are incredibly powerful in our society to the extent that they can shut down civilization overnight, force billions of people to take experimental substances, repeatedly lie to both population and politicians in order to generate compliance with no consequences, eliminate all criticism of themselves anywhere except individual blogs and all this with no accountability mechanisms whatsoever.

So, good for Nina? We need journalists investigating and undermining pseudo-scientists, just as it's widely recognized that a healthy democracy needs journalists to investigate and undermine corrupt/lying politicians.
Show HN: Manipulable Image Representation via Triangulation
Thanks, I will bookmark it.
> The short term solution was to isolate at-risk populations.

We didn't know who they were. Even as it became clear, as with most things in life, it was gray, not black and white, and there was a gradient of risk, as well as pools of individuals who for reasons unknown were above-expected risk. Look at the death counts by age cohort. Sure, the elderly are up there, but it's not as if Covid killed just 1M old people in the US.

Your position is essentially a cost-benefit analysis, just like all the others, with the difference that you think that the cost of attempted to limit disease spread throughout the entire population was higher than any benefits accrued. It's likely not just Weiss who might disagree with you, but most of the relatives, friends, colleagues and neighbors of the million dead people. That doesn't mean you're definitively wrong (far from it), but the point is that nobody is "wrong" or "right" in this: everyone's doing cost/benefit analysis and coming to different conclusions.
> People at MIT like Seymour Papert were aghast that BASIC became the dominant programming language for education

Like how we are all aghast at Python now. (All us Lispers, anyhow :-)
Copper – A Go framework for your projects
if you own 1000 parking lots you already did that, if you pulled a permit to repave them you've done it again.
Show HN: A small, concatenative hobby programming language. Implemented in C99
Hello HN!

Just want to show my hobby programming language here, which I have been actively building for the past 2-3 days.

It is my first big programming project in C, and there have been a lot of problems and that I have to deal when building Mil. I overcome most of them, fortunately.

Love to hear your opinion and suggestions on the project!
They are. But similar to many cheap tv series, now most famous games created not by individuals, but by abstract teams.

Problem with individuals, they are hard to deal.

Individuals don't make sustained value; individuals could change mind and go downshifting.

In good team mean performance of member could be much lower than for individual, but unlike individual who impossible to replace, team could easy replace every member and continue delivery.
While I agree he is by far the best candidate, I disagree with

> directly benefits from Bitcoin's flaws

Bitcoin's sole excuse for being supremely inefficient (participants needing to replay the entire history of all transactions ever) is that it's decentralized, with no need to trust any 3rd parties. Limiting the block size is necessary for keeping it decentralized. It's also necessary for developing a fee market, which is Bitcoin's only hope of staying secure in the coming decades when the block subsidy becomes insignificant.
Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC
Hi HN

I started this crowdsourced list to find small internet products made by solo developers (or tiny teams) that can be used as alternatives to BigTech/VC-funded startups.

E.g. you can use Tally (by two devs, $14K MRR) instead of Typeform ($190M funding, 600+ employees)

or Plausible (by two devs, $83K MRR) instead of Google Analytics.

I added a link to a form where you can send me suggestions to alternatives, happy to add to the site!

Thanks,
Rauno
As a person who has lost loved ones to cancer and has advocated for others the medical system was ready to write off but who recovered, left hospital, and lived years longer, the nihilism in your comment is alarming. If you work exclusively in hospice or exclusively with terminal patients who want only palliative care, it may be alright. Otherwise, it's very concerning.

Why change a tire on your car, given that the car only has "a few more decades" (likely less) of useful life left? The engine might blow up before that or it might get totaled in an accident.

Why darn a sock when, after a few more wash-and-dry cycles, the material in other places will have thinned enough that it has to be replaced anyway?

Why plant a tree? It may be attacked by insects or blight and die as a sapling. Or it may be cleaved in half by a lightning strike.

Attempting to persuade or funnel a person facing certain or near-certain death but who still wishes to fight for their own life into giving up or refusing or discouraging them in their attempts to eke out a bit more life is reprehensible and unforgivable and something I hope you have never done.
Religion as a force for cultural homogenization doesn't require a single religion.

A Catholic society with a pluralism of sects and opinions is still more homogeneous than a non-Catholic, more individually-independent alternative.

Even a Catholic / Anglican split society is more homogeneous in the sense of grand bargains being feasible, in the sense that there are fewer, discrete, and more hierarchical power centers who can bargain with each other.

One of the great failures of cultural liberalism in the 1960s to effect more change was an inability to organize into coherent, unified, large groups of voters that could function and bargain within a democracy.

If every asshole gets an opinion, it's hard to arrive at a "nobody is happy, but everyone is optimally least-sad" bargain.
Thanks for the heads up. Anyway, I think .app is good for a moment
Been playing since day 9 I think (someone shared it on Twitter). Thanks for making this. Wife and I have added it our list of puzzle a day games.
> assuming I’m not interested yet in a commercial “Zero Trust Network” solution that maybe tunnels any TCP/UDP packets through a commercial reverse proxy because the packets are not end-to-end encrypted.

This isn’t (always) true. Some solutions are E2E encrypted.
You should start by learning the phonology of the English language and its main dialects (namely Standard British English and General American). You need to know the theory because if you try to rely on your perception it will fool you. You need to know what you have to pay attention to. For example, if your L1 is a Romance language you have to be aware that vowel length is important in English, and that diphthongs are a single phoneme. Things like these you'll never be able to figure out yourself, they need to be taught. Once you know the theory in and out, you have to get a lot of exposure to the accent that you're interested in. Lastly, you start to imitate what you hear. Bear in mind that it takes a lot of practice to get a foreign accent right.
Why are you convinced your armchair strategy is superior to decades worth of analysis by one of the most successful companies in the world?

TSMC has no desire to become Apple because they already capture so much of Apple's revenue. I guarantee you they have put enormous thought into the exact optimal price point, as building fabs is extremely capital intensive.
Thanks a ton for making Figure colorblind friendly. Many/most tile matching games are color-based, making them difficult if not impossible to play!
Thanks for the feedback. Could you tell me what kind of information do you think is missing?
Bioshock!
https://gpt3demo.com/apps/openai-codex They claim the current version has 37% accuracy, they may have continued to improve it, I assume thats on the original dataset they used but I can't find a source for that
This is impressive, but the loud music over the video's commentator was very frustrating. Still, amazing to see the pilot's quick reaction in milliseconds.
You didn’t ask for feedback but based on context I think you might appreciate it. I’m also assuming you’re going for a standard/midwestern American accent. If not, this won’t apply. The only phonemes that stand out to me in your stand up are the “r-colored” vowels like “ar” in farm, the “er” in “New Jersey” and “nervous”, and the “or” in “for”, the “ir” in “shirt”. (Actually “ir” in shirt and “er” in “nervous” are the same phoneme /ɝ/ and you did pronounce it at the end of “power” at one point.)

https://youtu.be/wBuA589kfMg In this video at 4:28 she demonstrates these “r-controlled” vowels (I was wondered what they were called).

This one has a fuller explanation of “r-colored” vowels and even gets into what makes “ir” in bird even more unique. https://youtu.be/GbLcJ1G6Fiw

But then, these are the types of sounds that are different by region, like the “paak the cah” example you said for Boston, certain southern accents, let alone other countries (England RP etc) which are often non-rhotic.

I enjoyed your standup talking about pronouncing emoji and banana, and about emoji finally letting us let out our feelings. :) I checked out your other clips. I guess the one you linked here is unlisted.
We're back to doing websites now? I thought these days everything had to be an app...
> In that environment, the plants you turn to for such rapid on/off production are burning fossil fuels.

This is the exact opposite of the truth.

The problem you're vaguely referencing, the so called duck curve, was a problem because fossil fuel plants can't ramp as fast as renewables.

One of the many existing solutions to this solved problem was in fact to ask the gas plants to ramp a bit faster, which they actually could do, they'd just never had to before. Still not as fast as renewables though.

The real reason we turn the fossil fuel plants off when we can and only turn them on when we really have to is because burning fossil fuels is expensive and polluting.

But luckily we can quickly minimize that, and save money, by building lots of renewables. And, as an added bonus, renewables and batteries ability to turn on and off so quickly provides many grid stability benefits that earn them money on top of the electricity they sell.
The “number of tries” metric might be out if anyone else solved it like I did (ie going back to see if there was some smarter solution).

As for your comment about nontrivial puzzles - absolutely! 100% agree - the joy in a lot of puzzle games like bejewelled is unexpectedly clearing half the board with a clever move!
Does it matter how they would have seen themselves, for the modern outcomes I listed above?
> Every time I rewatch the Sopranos

Those are Americans, not Italians.
I think you meant column and columns, not row(s) (for those who need mnemonics: Rows Run to the Right, Columns Climb)

I think whether to do that is a design choice, though. The current setup puts a penalty on clearing center columns early, effectively splitting the game in two.
UK wants criminal migrants to scan their faces up to five times day using watch
Ah, think I misunderstood you originally. Anecdotally, it took me a couple tries and some thought, and I felt quite satisfied when I figured it out!

I also find it takes me a few tries on puzzles like this to see if I really like them, so hopefully if you try some harder ones in the future you’ll enjoy it more.
Sorry, I want to be clear here that this is not intended as a snide/asshole question, what do you mean by

> Delphi's workflows for AOT deployment (they killed .NET Native), nor C++ Builder (they also killed C++/CX).

Specifically in this context what is ".NET Native"? Just the period where they started favoring .NET vs real compilation* - and honestly I never used C++ Builder to think my views or experience of it as a product are super useful for anyone interested in them.

My original "real" language was Delphi, and I basically stopped with Delphi 4 I think? (this was a long time ago) - I recall there being a bunch of reasons, but the core fast is that I simply stopped using it.

* I personally think as a VM and runtime .net is pretty great, however back then I was using inline assembly for terrible performance stuff and losing that was very sad.
Which is why forced birth is making a comeback - the only way to ensure local production now is to ensure you have a permanent underclass you can squeeze for your profits.

As globalism unwinds, there will be an open desire to roll back child labor and environmental laws as well as birth choice.

We'll get factories back in the USA - and wish we hadn't.

Or we'll see a massive expansion in prison labor, even worse than we have now.
The government is burying the anti-Asian violent hate crime crisis
the main reason illegal immigration exists is because it's better for our country than not having it. increasing legal immigration is politically unpopular currently, but immigrants are (on net) a massive benefit to society. add a result, Democratic policy is try to expand legal immigration and don't try too hard to stop illegal immigration, while Republican policy is spend a few billion dollars on an art project (a giant wall) that won't stop pretty much any illegal immigration because almost all illegal immigrants enter the country legally.
> According to the documentation I needed to explicitly import my nix file from the top-level list of all packages […]

Can you elaborate on this? I don’t follow.
> see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32376016

And a reply to that comment states: […] it does not appear to actually show a per-mile statistic. Where are you getting that from?

And as the tabloid paper itself states:

> Since 2011, bicyclists have injured more than 2,250 pedestrians — including at least seven who died — according to stats from the city Department of Transportation and published reports.

So 6 / 2250 = 0.002666666667, or 0.3%. What percentage of car-pedestrian incidents lead to death? I'm guessing it is >1%.

> Nobody is saying cars are good, but at least cars don't run on sidewalks, they stay on the roads and pedestrians don't walk in the middle of the road "just because they can".

First off, they do not "stay on roads". See "Car smashes into Toronto bike shop and the metaphor is lost on no one":

* https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/05/car-smashes-toronto-bike...

* https://driving.ca/auto-news/crashes/toronto-motorist-drives...

Also "Why Cars Rarely Crash into Buildings in the Netherlands":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_0DgnJ1uQ

And pedestrians walk/cross the middle of the road all the time, at least where I live. This has been dubbed "jaywalking" as part of a campaign of anti-pedestrian propaganda in the earlier twentieth century:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
There is absolutely a technical reason - Firefox doesn’t support the speech recognition API natively.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...
Snapchat had a similar filter that works in realtime 2 years ago. Is this based on that work or new and separate?
For reference, this is much bigger than 1996 —- exercises coinciding with the Taiwanese President visiting USA.

https://archive.ph/Oggc4
What I have learned so far structured water is not same as ez water by Pollack.

With structured water the idea is that single water molecules are somehow capable of forming clusters. These clusters are said to be able to hold electromagnetic charge. When “structuring” by physically forcing water through spiral geometries etc (various methods) these clusters are said to get broken.

As far as I have seen the claims of water having memory are based in these clusters, which supposedly even look like neural networks.

But I haven’t seen any real evidence for this stuff. Just wanted to say that in this article they seem to confuse two entirely different concepts.
Would also highly recommend the HousingWorks Bookshop in Soho - they have a really incredible selection of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as art books. I am a fan of Book Thug Nation in Williamsburg, Molasses Books in Bushwick, and Mercer St. Books right near Washington Square Park.
That's a good point indeed, so the illegal activity is not that great of an argument

It still is something that facilitates it

And is the reason why some countries banned the use of cash after a certain amount

Wich again validates my argument about lack of regulation, or lack of actions from governments (ban), if we follow the logic for any other kind of currencies, including local/regional ones, specially the ones that are supposed to be competitive
The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest climate investment in US history
The second link refers to the "black economy", which includes, for example, a housekeeper getting paid in cash without reporting it to tax authorities. The first link also includes "using cryptocurrency to hide financial activity, such as evading taxes or operating an unregistered MSB", but I doubt many housekeepers are using Bitcoin for that. In my opinion, it would be more interesting to compare the statistics on payments for activity that is itself illegal (regardless of whether it's taxed or not).
It isn’t, it’s a feature to keep the website relevant for a longer time. I’d be really happy to see this one break the mold, considering the rest of the development seems really reasonable and user-friendly.
Fatigue Across the Lifespan in Men and Women: State vs. Trait
Good game, and great writeup. I'm clearly in the grumblers' camp but will try to take your example as an encouragement to move ahead.
The solution to this is simple.

Remove the need for people to work for their basic and advanced needs.

Guarantee everyone a medium standard of life, with or without a job, and suddenly talent becomes expensive and efficiency rises.

We do not need to all work. Mass unemployment with strong protections that the Industrial Revolution and computers promised us would actually be a good thing.
I do longevity/healthy aging research and sleep, nutrition, and exercise are by far the most important factors in healthy aging. Everything else can be considered a rounding error to those three. It's a little disheartening in fact when ones job involves looking for therapeutics to extend healthspan.
> were run by Apple's board, we would all be paying 30% of our income for the privilege of using modern computers

This was IBM. For fundamental, structural reasons, they were dethroned. TSMC doesn’t have the option of eating Apple’s cake without giving up the scale that makes it competitive. Again, it’s similar fresh-MBA thinking that tanked Intel. (TSMC wouldn’t exist hadn’t Intel given it the neutral market space.)
Haxe's transpiling helped me in a project once. The client needed a small-ish web app written ASAP, but they didn't know anything about their backend/stack when asked since they were non-technical and using an external provider for everything. The provider was not responding to emails for some reason, and the deadline was approaching, so I decided to start writing the thing in Haxe.

I figured they were either running PHP/SQL or Node, so I wrote a simple backend in a way that would make it easy for to deploy to either one with minimal changes. By the time the provider finally replied, the project was nearly half way complete. It turned out that they were using a standard PHP/SQL stack, so had I gone with Javascript there would've been problems. Instead, all I had to do was change one flag in my build system.

I don't know if this is a big selling point for Haxe since it's such a highly specific situation... but it's probably at least worth mentioning :P
China has an indigenous 7nm production capability - no EUV, so more multi patterning, but it still works.
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There's a lot of bad practices out there. Android dev is actually a bit ahead of iOS development. The problem is that bad practices are commonplace, and most apps are greatly overengineered. So you end up needing 2 Android devs per 1 iOS dev, when the ratio should be closer to 0.8:1.

Google normally has good advice, but they tend to build to scale to a hundred engineers, and that includes "deprecated" stuff. You can go many times faster when building for only 1-2 Android engineers.

My rule of thumb is that if the example looks more convoluted than without it, it probably is. If it's good technology, the examples should make you think, "Oh shit, this is genius," not, "I'm too stupid to understand this."

Pick things up once something is actually a problem. Things with a fast ROI:

Kotlin: write 40% less code than Java

ViewModels: cleanly separates lifecycle stuff and reduces crashes

Network (Retrofit, volley): no more custom async and no crashes when the API changes a little

Compose: cut down all "recyclerview" code by 50%-80%, and have much more maintainable logic

Things with a negative ROI (feel free to argue for them):

Most architectures, e.g. MVP, VIPER, "clean". Architecture isn't a fixed pattern, it depends on what your app is trying to do. Most of the time it's like an apartment trying to emulate a hotel.

Butterknife: Replaced by Kotlin

Event bus: Replaced by Flow

RxJava: Replaced by Flow

Data binding or view binding: Replaced by Compose

Robolectric. It breaks for obscure reasons, takes forever to run (effectively locking you out of TDD). Espresso works. You shouldn't spend more time fixing tests than fixing code.

Android debugger. Idk, TDD catches plenty of bugs and plopping logs everywhere catches the rest.

Looper/threads: Replace with Coroutines

Some of the older UI things like animations, which might be obsoleted with Compose.
Indeed, looks like most of the PM sensors are focused on PM2.5, a few detect PM1.0, and only the Dylos Pro attempts PM0.5-2.5, http://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/evaluations/summary-pm

Workshops and garages are concerned with fine dust from cutting or milling metal and wood.

2020 paper reviewed 50 PM sensors and discussed calibration, https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/23/6819/htm

> We present an extensive review of the LCPMS currently available on the market, their electronic characteristics, and their applications in published literature and from specific tests. Most of the reviewed LCPMS can accurately monitor PM changes in the environment and exhibit good performances with accuracy that, in some conditions, can reach R2 values up to 0.99. However, such results strongly depend on whether the device is calibrated or not (using a reference method) in the operative environment; if not, R2 values lower than 0.5 are observed.

2021 Lawrence Berkeley paper, https://escholarship.org/content/qt2fm3s5zv/qt2fm3s5zv.pdf

> End-users should be made aware that the PM data from the current low-cost sensors needs to be understood as an indication of a state change or a rough estimation rather than actual concentration in indoor environments.