skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But in answer to your question, I suspect the cliche will slowly die out when most of the 60/70/80 year olds we meet are tech savvy.

Most younger people are also really bad at using computers.

No, not because they're ruined by smartphones—because most people seem to find most current operating systems and computer systems in general unintuitive and hard to understand. They always have and seemingly always will, unless/until UIs and core metaphors in computer interfaces change significantly.

The typical experience of most non-nerds using a computer, no matter their age, is repeating some steps they memorized and hoping the right thing happens. They don't make connections between functionality (say, thinking to try copy-pasting a file, not just selected text), they don't experiment because it usually gets them in some state they don't know how to get out of without help, and any change to UI layout or any kind of pop-up notification confuses the hell out of them. Desktop computers are mysterious, frustrating things. Observe some workers in a non-tech office using their work computers for a while and you'll see what I mean.
You've implied that a bunch of gay people are anti-gay because of the gay organization they belong to that advocates for gays.
Having looked at that meme that got retweeted, all I have to say is there are graphics designers somewhere wincing in pain and going

>Ouch flag designer, you really should have seen that coming.
Editions only guarantee that old code builds with new compilers, not vice versa. New features are added to all editions unless they require e.g. new keywords that are available only in new editions.
I had this idea that now with all them blockchains, eventually favors will be tracked and traded like any commodity using a blockchain.

in essence, this is just tracking all that is exchanged using technologies.

on one hand, a lot of corruption happens over personal favors between powerful individuals. which makes me think this kind of thing will never take off.

this is part of a larger half-baked idea I had about anybody anywhere being able to 'emit credit'. doing a favor being a way to cash in on their emited credit.. or something like that.
Oh, maybe Chase will have to finally figure out why they send notifications about my account to an email that isn't anywhere I can edit, see or change. And why only intermittent notifications there, I actually get some.
I think this is the right angle to take.

Unlike a lot of breathless "engineering breakthrough" stories, this piece, as well as young Mr. Sansone himself, readily acknowledge that this is a work in progress and may not pan out. Even if it doesn't, what an incredible achievement for a high-schooler – and just imagine the great contributions to the field this kid is poised to make in the coming decades.
happens ;-) looks much better now
Property rights you're not prepared to enforce are meaningless. To start with: Put up a gate, it should be entirely effective against this kind of intrusion.
> Anecdotally, most of my family members who actively tried to stay healthy died relatively early (< 70 years)

I never tried to stay healthy until after I started having health problems (GI issues, mild concussion, etc). I wonder how many other people do the same and how that affects the statistics. Sort of like how "drink a glass of red wine a day" doesn't correlate to health but rather the money to have red wine handy and the circumstances to drink one and only one glass.
Intimately familiar. The culture is so beaten down by totalitarianism that no one even feels comfortable speaking out even to their friends. All of the tech you're mentioning was built during a unique period of access to western technology that is now going to be harder and harder to get. You're hitting the nail on the head that during that period it was the perfect moment for Russia to change and it was what the west was betting on. The tragedy is that without institutions to nurture an open society Russia became a totalitarian state yet again and that has now gone beyond oppressing its own people into living in squalor by western standards and now into violently attempting to destroy a large western leaning country: we're seeing a nightmare play out.
I mean, anyone who's willing to lie to themselves about everything they see around them in the world has to be dishonest, right?
No, it’s just the right amount, and makes perfect sense. This is the whole point of type inference: where there are multiple possibilities, determine types based on how you use them, and if you still have ambiguity after that, complain.

If you tried comparing it to something that wasn’t an array, or if you tried comparing it to multiple different-sized arrays, it would complain.
>we are offering this for free as a community. no guarantees

>we are offering this for free as a company. no guarantees

if you think one's criticizable and the other one isn't I don't know what to tell you
Absolutely. The problem is that diabetes type 2 is a lifestyle induced condition. People (most not all) get type 2 because of unhealthy diet so sure you can eliminate the need for medication by eating healthy.

Insulin dependent diabetes is type 1. Eating healthy still helps but you will die without insulin injections no matter your diet
Then why is their hiring geared toward brain teasers and Bigoh notation? If they want to keep people from building the next Facebook (costing them M&A money, because they'd have to acquire it), why not hire based on ability to get things done?
This is taking place in a different continent.
Sure, I guess all I meant was that the fundamental semantics of borrowing and lifetimes that were chosen at the beginning have continued to scale up to a better and better borrow-checker experience. They haven't found deep limitations of the language that prevented innovation without going back to the drawing board.
A reasonably charitable interpretation of OP's comment suggests they were not suggesting that at all.
I can’t help but think they’ve started a long, slow decline.
As always, Newegg link or it doesn't exist :)
Pwnie Awards 2022: Bad boys and shutdown of an anti-terrorist operation
Awesome article. If there is one takeaway for everyone from it is the myth of the "expiration date". Boggles my mind that food banks routinely reject *canned* food that is even one day out of date.
They also buy your old linkedIn data from brokers.. which is unfortunate.

I usually send a precanned speel if they keep following up - "If it would be rude on a dating app, it's rude in professional email. Take the no and stop contacting me."
At a product company, the lead engineer(s) and the product manager, who is a direct everyday member of the engineering team, collectively own what the product is supposed to be. There’s not someone else two departments away who is a more legitimate authority on what to build.
The “long march through the institutions” have finally come to fruition.
APIC/EPIC Intel chips leak secrets even the kernel shouldn’t see
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act is the relevant legislation.

This section covers it:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/section/24
Couldn't the grid install these somewhere for less than every home doing their own installation?

The net effect would be the same but might be cheaper overall.
Yes, back in the 60's my buddy and I asked our parents to buy us some powdered aluminum and iron-oxide. We got in trouble because the chemical supply company warned them about our requested ingredients. That was the end of our homemade thermite project. So it was on to another project, homemade lock-picks.
Right, the stick went on the base C6. A tradeoff for sure.

I thought the Activa Xantias all had the 3.0? What I don’t understand is how the “real” sports car companies are happy to let the Xantia sit at the top of the moose test ranking for decades! It’s not an embarrassment?

My other current car is a similar deep sleeper, although on a different aspect of performance. Suits me fine.
> Not much has changed dimensionally

Completely untrue. I have a 2003 GM 1 ton extended cab truck. A 2022 long bed, extended cab F150 is longer, hood is higher, has much larger blind spots, and significantly larger wheels. My truck is wider because of dual wheels but if it was single it would be about the same width.

Trucks have gotten unnecessarily large with ridiculous blind spots.

As for your other comments, my truck does get worse mileage unloaded but about the same while towing. I've upgraded the injectors and tuned it so it has a lot more power than it did stock. The $50k I saved over a new truck will pay for more than a lifetime of fuel.
A more accurate comparison would be a man being visited by the police for possessing ham that may have been illegally imported, or was stolen, or that he was prohibited by law from possessing for one reason or another. The police were there to investigate a potential violation of the law. The fact that some people find the behavior the law prohibits to be morally questionable doesn't seem relevant.
No Kindles actually support reading ePub.

All that's happening is Amazon is retiring MOBI support. Since Send to Kindle only supported MOBI, they are transitioning Send to Kindle to support receiving ePub which then gets converted to AZW3.

So the only Kindles losing support for the Send to Kindle stuff is the Kindle 1, Kindle 2, and Kindle DX. Since those ones never got AZW3 support.
Editions are orthogonal to compiler versions. It is perfectly fine if code builds with a new compiler but not an old one. Another example of this: you can write code in a 2015 edition crate that calls the new `std::thread::scope` function.
How much is that price though? A Ford F-150 in 1980 cost about $5800. Adjusting for inflation that's about $22000 which is exactly where the Maverick slots in. It's also still bigger than a Ford Ranger of yore.
Part of the resistance to the creative process is the current demand from the market that version 1.0 of something has to be 'near perfect'.

In the old days (80s and 90s), a software startup could release their first version that did something truly unique even if it was still really rough around the edges. People would buy the first version with the expectation that a good portion of the revenue would be used for R&D which would make version 2.0 way better. You could boot-strap some really great projects that way.

It seems that today, a new product never stands a chance unless it has great funding up front with all the kinks worked out and tons of bells and whistles built-in before ever being introduced to the public.

I created a new kind of data management system that manages unstructured data (i.e. files) completely different than conventional file systems. It also does some amazing work with structured data using Key-Value stores to make really fast relational tables.

When I demonstrate how it can do something like file lookups thousands of times faster than file systems or how it can do a query against a big table 10x faster than Postgres; you would think that would capture people's attention and make them want to investigate it further.

Instead, most just point out what your little startup project is still missing when compared to 40-year old projects that are on version 15. They say, "Get back to us once you have A,B,C,D,... features working, tested, and perfected". When you lack the resources to do that, it can be soul crushing.
It’s relevant for me.

If you tweet or retweet Nazi propaganda or holocaust denial material and live here in Austria then you may be prosecuted. I’m not a super fan of these restrictions on free speech but I do note that I live in a place where there are a few and they are important to us here.

Edit: There is some amusing irony to being downvoted for this reply which only states my own personal interest in hearing some information from someone and doesn’t tell anyone else what to think ;)
"Takes a long time to become progressively less harmful" is, if you think about it, an improvement over "never really gets any less bad".
And this fall, in Africa, I got to see him in action again. Over 16 days of “go, go, go,” my dad, who’s now 80, always seemed to be at the head of the pack. On most days we started at 6 a.m., crisscrossing the dry Serengeti, or climbing rugged rainforest terrain for hours before returning to our home base, where we ate and drank late into the night. We climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and traversed deserts. Dad was right there the whole time, pushing us all to our limits.

This sounds like superior genes more so than lifestyle . Some people's bodies give out earlier in life...stuff like heart disease, stoke, cancer, hypertension which may or may not be related to lifestyle.
>Notably, 'academic wokeness' doesn't extend to criticizing another trend in the USA, the destruction of the middle class and the economic division of the country into aristocrats and serfs.

Plenty of academics criticize neoliberal capitalism. They're just also materially fueling it and lie to themselves about it.
Common Tech Jobs Described as Cabals of Mesoamerican Wizards
I have no idea what I'm doing so it's a night-and-day kernel programming experience to be able to commit container state; conduct experiments; reset back to a clean state; in one command.

Another key element that makes this so useful to me is that I work on a macbook (gasp), and hacky stuff I have to do in that context is the first source of blame when e.g. a header gives weird type issues.

Thank you so much for putting this together.
Show HN: Linguistic Antipatterns
You can't reasonably equate anti-LGBT with consdering that the T doesn't belong with the LGB.
Nothing says sincere commitment to freedom of expression quite like organising a campaign to ban policemen from appearing at pride events and force churches to ordinate people whose views they consider to be unrepresentative of the church's teaching...

Also noteworthy that the UK has had "Malicious Communications" laws on the statute book since 1988 and actually jailed people for it, so the position that this is some new level of outrage perpetrated by the Woke Agenda because the person spoken to by police was a homophobe rather than a poppy burner isn't really one in favour of free speech per se...
Talking about getting caught in your own web, how do spiders avoid it?

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/animals/how-do-spiders-avo...
Show HN: Go to random locations, parks and restaurants around you
I created this page for my own use and I have been using it for the last few months.

And it's been such a blast. It has taken me to places I would have never visited. It amazes me how much beauty around us we miss out on by not having enough randomness in our life. 20-30 sessions later, I am still discovering new parks and restaurants around me.

Try it?

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Some tidbits:

- The page needs your location to suggest random locations around you

- No information is being saved at the backend. No cookies either.

- You can change the radius by adding ?d= parameter in url. For example https://randomlocation.xyz/?d=10 will suggest locations in 10 miles radius of your current location. Default is 2.5 miles.

- There is a "chained mode" which can be activated by adding c=1 to the url. By doing this, second location will calculated based on first location and third location will calculated based on second location, instead of all locations being calculated from the starting point

- There is a "hop mode" which can be activated by adding h=1 to the url. By doing this, you will be suggested a far off location in the first and then three nearby locations to that location. It's good for exploring nearby towns, villages or even countries. (h=100 will suggest first location within 100 miles)

- All modes can be clubbed if one wants

Caution: Please do not go to remote places alone. Be wise.
Thank you for sharing this. I always loved that song (and most Rush songs, to be honest) but I never knew this was based on a short story! This entire website is a great read as a Rush fan.
> It is noteworthy

It is NOT noteworthy.
The solution to bad speech is MORE speech, not authoritarian crackdowns based on how someone had hurt feelings. Better points of view will prevail.

A system where it’s okay to arrest someone for causing “distress” is one that will 100% be abused.
Ask HN: Have you been successful in cutting off social media?
If so, have you found any benefits? Where do you get your news and entertainment from, how do you see the world? Do you still have a way to connect with people?
I'm guessing you live in Moscow? the rest of the country is half way between a developing economy and a western state in terms of quality of living, and that's all on top of the fact that Russia is pursuing a violent war of aggression, by choice, against a large European-leaning neighbor.
Same here and I was super sad when the newest version was released windows-only. One day I'll build a gaming VM or maybe get a steam deck so I can play it. I still go back and play through all of those games every year or so.
No code is for mundane human processes and commodity development you want to get done cheaply, whether internal or outsourced. That’s already been disrupted by major platforms. These smaller platforms can only ever dream of becoming the next service now, appian, Salesforce, pega, etc.

Anyone who stays near to, or on, the bleeding edge of technology will know that no-code isn’t a real thing for them. Add some extra automation and boilerplate capabilities by all means, but software will always eat software.
NHTSA safety ratings measure the safety of the vehicle’s occupants and have nothing to do with Autopilot or FSD safety. The only data available to the public is provided by Tesla and presents a faulty comparison between vehicles of all ages and prices and Tesla’s expensive luxury cars.

In fact, NHTSA has multiple investigations open into FSD and Autopilot because of recent fatal crashes.

Plus, NHTSA was responsible for the misleading claim that Autopilot provided a 40% increase in safety after the Joshua Brown fatality, but that number was later torn apart by independent researchers after they sued for the data behind the claim, and NHTSA backed down.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/in-2017-the-feds-said-t...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-autopilot-idUSKBN1I...
The hell there isn't. I've had several people say things to me recently that, were the colors flipped, would be much less tolerated by the archetypical American liberal.

One example was a Hispanic woman talking to me at the bar about renovating her grandma's house that she bought, and she was glad she did it. It is in an old "brown" neighborhood and she didn't want some white guy coming in and buying it.

She said this without irony and also without any real anger, just as a matter of fact, to me, a white man who she presumably found decent enough to chat with.
No, he isn't saying that at all. There's a difference between saying something is morally reprehensible (OP's comment in my own words) and that an arrest is warranted.
Looks like June 2021 actually? [0] From the same page it looks like a bit under half at 44% are v1.5 birds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_launches
Magnesium diboride superconductors used in wind turbines and other generators
Editions promise old code works with new compilers.

They do not promise new code works with old compilers
Software Engineering Meeting Benchmarks – 2022
Hey HN, we analyzed more than 1.5M meetings, 80k engineers, and 5k companies to create the 2022 Engineering Meeting Benchmark Report. Some good stuff in here about how engineers and eng managers use their time.
Then British citizens should be absolutely terrified of their government, because they've given their government the power to arrest them for literally no reason at all.

The idea that the police can have the authority to detain someone because they have a reasonable belief that they hurt someone else's feelings is... well, if y'all don't see the obvious problem with that, I'm not sure how else to explain it.
Were bones of Waterloo soldiers sold as fertilizer? It’s not yet case closed
Reminds me of this Dirty Jobs episode about recycling the scraps from the Vegas buffets at a local pig farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTQtNuJ_0w
I claim that they're anti-LGBT, not anti-gay
2022 U.S. student visas for Chinese nationals down 50% from pre-Covid levels
You'd be surprised at how well all shades of grey, from super light to actualy black, can make a space.

I had a GF who decided to paint a major wall in her house as pure pitch black. I thought it was a horrid idea, until it was finished.

Grey is the way.

Its neutral to all of your bad interior design decisions.
A contributing factor is the belief that "everything graphical is easier."
> it's fine for them, you don't often hear clamour to repeal the law, they don't have the same issue with it that you do.

Why make all of this up? Just so you can call someone a meddling busybody for having an opinion in a thread that you're also posting an opinion in?
Zcash seems interesting to me in that it feels like Bitcoin without either ossification or getting overwhelmed into becoming a casino substrate like programmable currencies. It evolves but slowly and in a particular well scoped direction.
It’s clearly anti-trans activism, not anti LGBT, which is a distinction that is meaningful, whether or not I find it repugnant.

That your comment conflates the two is everything that worries me about speech policing.
Moral of the story: don’t use your real name on the internet.
Don't worry Rob. Freedesktop.org learned and spammed my home dir with Desktop/Document/Downloads/Music/etc/etc/etc...
> No it's not, it's literally not relevant (or at least shouldn't be). You are saying a person's political beliefs are legally relevant to if they should be arrested or not.

Isn't the idea that the intent behind actions being legally relevant pretty well established? There's a difference between different degrees of murder and between murder and manslaughter based not on whether the actions themselves differed, but whether the intent to kill was there (and not even that, but how _long_ it was held, e.g. "spur of the moment" versus premeditated). It seems like in any case where intent is relevant, looking at the context of the accused would be necessary to determine the scope of the crime.
Just wanted to say this was incredibly satisfying to read. Well said.
> behavior that's healthier

You presume it's healthier.

Suppose that 99.99% of the 80+ year-olds who try this end up breaking their leg, getting a heart attack, etc., and this one data point is from the 0.01% which benefits.

Likely not - but that's why we have double blind studies.
my father is the same way, he kills it in pickle ball and is a minor celebrity in Florida. He's always been at least somewhat active for as long as i can remember and probably in better health than i am.
FAA asking for public feedback on airplane seat size
Just the other day, we saw government tools originally promised to only be used against the Bad Guys (pedophiles, terrorists, and copyright violators) being used to persecute a 17 year old girl who got a miscarriage.

In the long run, bad precedents have a way of inevitably being turned against everyone, especially the most vulnerable.
We cannot control what is in our food,

Of all the things you listed, I think this is controllable.

But I agree genes play a huge role. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger do no exercise and have famously bad diets, yet both are fully productive and healthy at 91.
People are defending the guy because they believe you should be allowed to post things that some people find offensive. If you don't believe in that principle you should just say it instead of trying to discredit people supporting free speech.
Every time we get better instrumentation and revise that data, the share of emission from fossil fuel handling explodes. I can only imagine it will keep growing until we have satellite surveys of all sources on the entire world.