skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: “code” or “codes”?
There seems - subjectively - to be a recent (years) uptick in the use of "codes" referring to source code. But because the terms are generic, it's hard to get data (e.g. google trends is unhelpful.)

What's others' perception on this? Is there an increase in use of "codes"? Do you see any cultural/regional correlation?

(And, perhaps controversially, does "codes" still sound wrong? - it conflicts with the grammar of an uncountable / mass noun)
> Toyota is probably only company who understands that poor people can't afford BEVs and will be left behind.

EVs have vastly less total parts and therefore will soon be more affordable.
Why don't you google "EV maintenance costs compared to gas cars" and see if you can answer your own question.

Also, one luuxury car brand is not relevant to the discussion of "can poor people afford to maintain an EV?"
It works well for people who

1. Have fiber.

2. Live in a major city that has a direct line to their datacenter.

You can literally get 1-2ms latency from your home to AWS/GCP/Azure with such a setup, as it's all fiber from your home->ISP->IX->datacenter and there's no additional inter-city routing. This is compared to DSL/Cable which pretty much has a ~10ms delay to the exchange in perfect conditons, and the even larger delays involved in routing a packet over multiple hops across the country.
I get email all the time for a Jason Fruit in Chicago who uses my email address as a dummy. I even called him once to ask him to stop. He didn't.
Modems used to cost a dollar a baud.
I intentionally steal nicknames I've seen. I'm an asshole as well, so sometimes it works out. I have 13 different nicknames so far that I use/have used since 1997, though I tend to rotate between all of them regularly. I DO hope they try to use "AI" to track me. That will be fun.
You can start a new exchange that does this batching.

Btw, you need to be careful, because people might still race to be the last (or first) to contribute to a batch.

They'd race to be the first, if tied prices within a batch are resolved in favour of the earlier bird. Otherwise, they would race to be the last, so they have the most information available when deciding on their price (and so that they can change their mind until the last nano-second.)
> And of course, the strike package would have been accompanied by the EA-18G Growler to jam SAM radar.

Well it should have been preceded by a Wild Weasel mission to take out the SAM radars and launchers. The Growler mission would just be extra SAM defense. There also should have been a counter-air element to deal with the enemy fighters flying CAP.

There was enough intelligence available for the mission every fixed SAM site should have eaten a couple Tomahawks in addition to the airfield. It's also a mystery why the whole facility wasn't just leveled by some B-2s loaded with GBU-37s.

There would have been fewer dog fights but that probably would have been ok.
I can't speak to security, but I bought a Mi Mix 2S some time ago and put LineageOS on it. Definitely check that the frequency bands the phone supports are utilized by your carrier.

(The fastboot screen on that phone has a wee little bear wearing a People's Liberation Army hat. Take from that what you will.)
A lot of arbitrary complexity in our stacks and it can be totally overwhelming for young people just moving through the drudgery.

Look at an Android project: there are maybe 12 different kinds of files! For a 'Hello World'. You have manifests, gradle (which is yet another programming language), snippets in Kotlin and Java, and entirely different xml 'language' for view definition, massive APIs, massive complexity and 'weight' in the simulators.

It's hard for people to focus on the problems space when were are overwhelmed with layers of tooling and abstractions.
Without a baseline, your numbers are both meaningless and uninteresting.
How about build a product people love? There are so many reasons listed in the article, and there are so many counter examples where companies did the opposite and still built a rabid fan base. The only unifying thread is that people will deify products they love.
Thanks for the detailed reply!

I can't really say much about this. It's typical vague bullshit. Kendi projects everything onto white people. (This argument/rant that "white person does X and now they think racism is no more" or "white person does X and now white person is automatically a hypocrite" is typical in radical social justice texts. Here he hedges it with "too many" white people have this belief.)

That said, I don't see where they say that fuck poor Asians, or where they say that being black entitles someone to more social help/justice than being a poor Asian.
The parasocial intensity is something else.

Stans (who take their name from Eminem’s song “Stan”, where it wasn’t a positive association) get quite intense, to the point of breaking and entering private property, stalking and causing road accidents, writing messages in their blood, even poisoning them, and that’s just the “selected incidents” on Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaeng_fan
It might happen but it might not happen as quickly as they would like. Recent geopolitical issues have substatically harmed supply chains for EVs. There's a reason Tesla has abandoned their plans for a mass market vehicle and are instead sticking in the $40k+ vehicle business.

Many of Toyotas competitors have de-emphasized investments in their ICE products to pursue EVs that they can't produce in large enough volumes for longer than anticipated. Toyotas strategy is going to work well at least in the mid term.
No it's not, not unless you have Tesla style massive DC chargers. And they are not putting those in every supermarket. Regular chargers will barely give you enough charge to get home in that 30 minutes.
And yet the cost of gas is cheaper than the current electric equivalent in many European locations at this point.

See: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63029226
There are polls that gave 50% and other polls that gave 40%, and error margins are often 3-5%. The polls are all around the target.
Doing the search and looking at the company is time consuming, but works. You have to do the research. Some of the larger companies are like Accenture, Neudisic, and ThoughtWorks. Some of the better-known recruiting companies also do project work and hire full-time (as well as contract). An interesting surprise is that some companies like Amazon and Microsoft also have consulting arms. What's might be easier though is to find a local or regional company that does consulting/project work and they might take more effort to find - more research. Sometimes, if you find a consulting company, they may take your resume and keep in touch in case they have something for you later. So, it's good to reach out even if they don't have an exact match at the current time.
“We can’t build an infrastructure for people to walk or bike more because everyone is too fat!” Add this to your standup routine, it’s truly the stuff of parody.
IANAL, but it makes perfect legal sense to me just like it is perfectly legal to run an open-source app on a proprietary OS.
In the US*
Nice to see more than just ad-blocking covered.

The switching from capable, interesting Background Pages to ServiceWorkers is an issue so big you could drive a supertanker through it, it's so huge. There's a world of APIs that pages have, but ServiceWorkers don't, and the list of use cases not being served is epic[1] without even trying, still just barely a surface read. It's a vast reduction, a huge constraint, and it just doesn't seem like there's recognition of how nonsense this downgrade is.

There's some movement on supporting userscripts, but it's really hard to understand what the proposals really are, to me at least. One commented in the new set of proposals pointed out that the Google proposal wouldn't allow interacting with DOM elements[2], which just seems like a: hello, where are you? What are you doing? Earth to Google, what planet are you on?

[1] Use cases not served by service workers https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72

[2] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/279#issuecomment...
> It’s like that here in the NL.

We’ve gone from “ubiquitous” to one spot on every block.
Canadian doctors and nurses do fine financially, but there aren't enough of them because Canadian healthcare is a command economy. The government sets a total cost it is willing to pay for healthcare and then sets the number of positions for doctors and nurses based on that budget, not market demand. That's how Canada is in the insane position of being a first world country where 15% of the population doesn't have a family doctor.

Retirement or nursing homes are a different story, and aren't particularly flattering for GP's point. Those do heavily rely on temporary foreign workers (TFWs) or recent immigrants paid around minimum wage, and the quality of care reflects that. There have been numerous scandals in the last couple years during COVID regarding substandard care, with seniors not receiving food/water or being left in their own feces for days. It shouldn't be surprising when bare minimum pay results in substandard outcomes, and the ability of employers to bring in TFWs prevents wages from rising according to market forces.
A large part of the form factor is for aerodynamics, and facts about the human body dictate a lot.

Without needing a radiator there is room for some change up front.
I remember someone did an analog British Telecom. At the time, BT had a market cap of something like 30 billion pounds, and the estimated value of all their copper wiring was around 50 billion pounds. The (amusing and not thoroughly convincing) argument was that take away the copper, and BT was worth -20 billion pounds. Maybe with all that legacy copper, someone will start a copper mine in the UK.
Explanation of Australia's RCV: https://fairvote.org/ranked-choice-voting-and-australia-s-up... (although this is from 2013).

I think they are doing it wrong. RCV is usually "rank the candidates that you know/care about."

In any case, as you say "at least to pretend to have (an opinion)", Australian voters probably just rank the ones they don't know/care about in the order that they appear on the ballot. And since those are probably little-known candidates, it doesn't matter, they aren't getting high votes anyway.
This was the old Japanese supergroup model with AKB48 etc, but it never worked outside Japan and is starting to fail there as well.
Move every chance you get.
I feel like K-pop is not actually as popular as every K-pop fan I've ever met wants us to believe it is.
You'd never have to visit a "gas" station. You'd charge at home, at work, everywhere the car parks. Every parking lot in every building will be a charging station. You plug in your car wherever you are, and get a bill from the electricity company at the end of the month. Just park the car, and the lot will charge your batteries for you.
The rural -> city hasn’t stopped and modern economies have the vast majority of their citizens in cities. Even for the US rural population is less than 20%

[0] https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/about-us/what-is-rural
I've been trying to press that button for my own Google Apps account. It simply doesn't work.
And then place persons in Faraday cage underground.
It doesn't: the controller uses Wifi, not USB or Bluetooth. It communicates directly with the Stadia servers. It only has it's own internal lag + Wifi.

https://stadiafever.com/why-does-the-stadia-controller-use-w...

Note: if you want to give your Stadia controller a second life after the service shuts down, you can do that using USB. Reportedly rumble works on Steam and Xbox. Bluetooth does not work, even though there seems to be a lot of demand for that.
The annoying this is, my email address is based on my name, which is fairly unique (no relation to my account name here), to the point where I'm nearly 100% certain that it is intentional (gotten from a leak of emails which have signed up for some service or another).
I'm mostly asking this question out of ignorance, so forgive me. But I'm a web dev and it's always been my understanding that browsers mostly use the CPU to render CSS, only utilizing the GPU in certain scenarios. Is Muon stating that they're entirely leveraging the GPU? If so that sounds super interesting.
> yes there was small study in Minnesota that said exactly that. https://www.lrrb.org/pdf/200550.pdf

Again, a citation to a specific passage would be helpful. But the executive summary seems to say exactly the opposite of what you claim:

> Generally speaking, the results support the notion that people value bicycle facilities, in that they are willing to incur additional time costs in order to use higher quality facilities. In particular, people value having striped bike lanes. The incremental value of this improvement is much greater than the incremental value of moving the facility off-road entirely. The presence of facilities also appears to be associated with higher amounts of riding, although the precise nature of the impact is still unclear. From this research, it appears that a facility can increase the amount of riding in an area even up to one and a half miles from the ends of the facility, but it is not clear whether the effect is larger for residents that are closer than this.
I wonder how well this works when some (many?) people don’t move their cars for days or weeks as a time.
>Inalienable rights are about as objectively real

The concept of Inalienable or natural rights stems from the Philosophy of Self Ownership

If you deny the existence or objectivity of natural rights, then you also deny the concept of "self" and that humans are self aware actors that objectively own their own bodies.

that is a very dangerous thing to deny
Not as bad as I expected to read.

- Keep in mind these bands are disposable. They're typically tied to a generation, a slice in time, and then they fade away. Perhaps that's by design because sustaining such a high sugar diet isn't possible?

- That said, ultimately it's about connecting with your audience. Marketing is typically about awareness and/or driving sales. But these bands go further and connect with their audience. They give the audience what they want *and then some* and do that on the appropriate platforms.

- But easier said than done. There's a connection I have on LinkedIn. She's always posting - nearly always video - about her (SEO) agency. Dogs in the office, someone's birthday, etc. I don't remember a single time she's posted something of use to me. Maybe that would work if she was a K-Pop band? But for who I suspect her audience is, it often feels off target.
Ask HN: Have GNU C++ compiler ignore shebang
Any Guru of C++ so solve this error below making GNU c++ ignore shebang?

m.cpp:1:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive #!

1 | #!/usr/bin/vim

Please do favor solve it, thanks so much
Yeah, but afaik most educated and intelligent people are the ones with least amount of kids. At least in the west, though i suspect rest of the world is not much different and/or copying west.

So it's not the same.
Today I learned: don't bring radioactive material close together...

I know about criticality. But I always thought you needed a conventional explosive to kickstart the chain reaction.
Photonics was supposed to be a big part of Thunderbolt, a long long time ago. I'm still intensely excited for this tech, well over a decade latter, even if it's for a totally different market.

I keep imagining a future of highly integrated chips. Some on-package ram, then some optical interconnects on the side, and then basically the whole chip might be able to run fine if all the "motherboard" provides is power.

Patrick always does a good job on his write-ups. He wisely talks to CXL at the end. The recent 3.0 drop really elevates it from a peripheral interconnect to a fabric, & looks amazing. The only wrinkle is that CPU makers need to implement some way for CPUs to be able to also be devices, if this fabric is to prove it's value. Nothing stops anyone from adding CXL.mem to their CPUs for CXL RDMA, but adoption is probably gonna lag, and CXL will probably be for fabric-attached peripherals for... a significant time.
RSA, Step by Step
Most comments here are about how painful eye-tracking as a mouse replacement is.

What if instead it was just used for the 1-2 most often used buttons on a site. For example, here on HN - to go back to the main page. Or, on gmail - to press compose. Once gaze in the general area is detected, the affordance can be highlighted, at which point press Enter would cause navigation.

I feel that <4 buttons are the ones that are pressed 80% of the time on most sites.
Whataboutism at it's finest.

You asked for an example, I gave you a clear and unrefutable example, and you refused to address it.
DeepFakes versus Deep Understanding
>There will be $20,000 economy EVs

The mindset of the group of people that think $20,000 is economy (and that it "will" definitely get done) reflects everything that is wrong with a lot of recent ESG propaganda and policies. That is, ignorance of the state of most of the world outside of rich, first class bubbles.
> And the article said that after those criticality events, those in charge of the facility and safety of personnel just had people keep working instead of evacuating.

And how exactly did they convince those employees to keep working? The employees are not making extra for not following rules, do people really just not care about their lives?

(I don't for a second believe someone working in a nuclear lab would be unaware of criticality, so ignorance can't be the explanation.)
Kpop is a bit different.

Kpop has “generations” in the sense that mandatory Korean military service for men puts an expiration date on them all being present, and they fade away in popularity if only some of the members are present.

Also, the contracts are long, but idols don’t necessarily stay around if they think they can get a better deal elsewhere, or if they want to move onto another chapter of their life which idol employment doesn’t allow (like dating).

It’s Blackpink, BTS, and Twice now. Before them, it was 2NE1, 2PM, Miss A/the Wonder Girls, SNSD, etc.
The point isn't to add new parking spots for EV charging - it's to making charging available at places you normally park anyway.

A trip to the grocery store takes 30-45 minutes. If even 20% of the existing spots had a charger (even a modest rate charge), you'll get quite a bit of charge. Or if 20% of the parking spots at your workplace had chargers, you could leave it on the charger all day one day a week and charge very slowly (which as a bonus, low-rate chargers should be easier to provision than superchargers).
The Biology of Endurance: Energy
Hi HN,

A few months ago I was training for a marathon and learned some exercise physiology to try and improve how I train.

I wrote an article to synthesize that learning and "relaunched" it on a Bear blog today. Wanted to share it here to get some feedback and hopefully spread some knowledge. Let me know what you think!
I think people are just angrier and I don't know why this is. it,s not just limited to politics...angrier about everything
New ICE cars are also $20K these days. That's also unaffordable for a lot of people, but they don't buy new cars.
I've also been in this space recently and settled on trying Ory which is a kind of headless auth solution. I'm using it in Phoenix/Elixir which lacks an SDK for Ory but it all seems fairly straight forward.

I'm using the Ory cloud solution but might dive into hosting it myself at least for local development against it.
This is a newsletter as opposed to a mailing list, but I came across it recently and found it interesting -- https://tldr.tech -- it's a daily email with small blurbs and links to sources covering latest science, AI/ML, programming, tech industry, etc. news!
> No, your disingenuous characterization does not accurately describe my offered policy.

Then what is your policy? Your policy says to make it expensive for Russia to annex further territory.

But Russia has already annexed territory in Ukraine, what happens to that?. Can you directly tell me what you want to happen in Ukraine?, does Ukraine get to keep all its borders?.

> So your policy is to leave the ball in Russia's court whether we end up in a nuclear exchange, based on the belief that Russia will ultimately back down? And you think this is a wise policy?

It’s better then appeasement which is your policy. We cannot let Russia do what it wants or it will continue to annex territory from countries. For evidence of this just see.

- Moldova

- Georgia

- Chechnya

- Ukraine (2014)

> How can you be sure Russia will not respond with nuclear weapons to a direct kinetic response from NATO? Or a continuing and escalating response designed to push Russia out of Ukraine?

How can you be sure that Russia will?. Hell at this rate there’s a decent chance that Russias tactical nuke just wouldn’t work, which would be hilarious but also not a point I’d like to get.
I'm beginning to suspect The Monkees might not have been a completely spontaneous and organic situation, either.
Borders of Russian-annexed occupied territories are announced
I get where you’re coming from and empathize. I’ve been in that place for most of my life.

I believe the “food and shelter” argument to be a straw man though. My point is not about throwing yourself into destitution or even a situation in which the financial stress probably just replaces the job stress. That gains you nothing but more misery. There is plenty of middle ground between a good tech salary and starving homelessness.

However, if you permanently value living in a house of your own, driving an upper-class car, owning lots of tech gadgets and whatever else the millions of things are many people feel they need to be happy, over your mental health, this is not going to make much sense. Effectively, you don’t just sell your body for work, you sell your soul. This can even have disastrous results in retirement. I have met very well-off retirees who wouldn’t stop complaining about the “idiots” they had to work for and with.

It’s surely nice to be able to afford shiny things. It's certainly better to cry in the back of a taxi than having to take the bus in that condition. But if you’re willing to cut back and shrink your whole footprint, it is absolutely possible to find a different lifestyle and real contentment. I advocate for the Dieter Rams guideline of “less but better”. In fact, we need less of everything to keep living, with the sole exception of love – for ourselves and others. Everything else flows from that.

If you treat yourself well, others will too. And treating yourself well has very little to do with the amount of money you make or what you can afford. Treating yourself well flows from deep within. More money makes this easier and harder at the same time. The more stuff, the more distractions.

For me, it has become quite impossible to work on useless products and results. Most of what gets built, especially in software, is needless busywork. Just imagine if this energy could be channeled into solving real, hard issues facing us all. For now, that's a rather absurd pipe dream. Living in the real world, we have to adapt to what it is today — and ideally work towards a different tomorrow. So I for one am moving towards new horizons now, earning less than a quarter of what I made before. For me, that’s fine, because I cannot be different. That being said, I totally understand that many feel there's no alternative to the status quo.
EV enthusiasts' arrogance and cult-like devotion to dismissing the very real problems with EVs and lack of infrastructure will only hurt, not help their cause.