skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not up to date on the science, but my dad was old - born in '43 - and worked as a teacher, so he could see several generations grow up. He was tall for his generation, but by the time I was a teenager, he was tiny even compared to his teenage students. I was a head taller than him even before he started "old man shrinking".

He always pointed at food, that the generations after him had access to better stuff and more milk. The shortest member of my family is my niece who is totally anti-milk, but that's just anecdata.

So it might be some other macro-factor influencing growth, with milk being the most glaringly visible item on the table. But it does kind of make an intuitive sense, and the dutch are freakishly tall while they have some of the best dairy products in the world
Just the opposite. Look at all the hardware that requires a subscription to keep running that is ultimately obsoleted, causing existing units to become instant trash as the company forces everyone to replace it.
It was probably just a RDP connection, which either signals how old this insight is, or how far behind Uber is on these new ways to remotely code.
That reads like fiction to me.

Someone pseudonymously posting on Tumblr about being an early SpaceX intern is not in anyway a reliable source. The story sounds 100% made up.

At any rate, "managing up" is a normal thing for people in the management hierarchy everywhere.
> If every house rented or sold were to require an efficiency rating the market would work a bit better. There are passive house tests with air pressure measurements that can already do this.

I love the idea but I don't know how practical the efficiency ratings will be in real life.
For example, the "patio" door on my apartment has a wheel that has never worked ever since I started living here early last year.
This means there is a small gap which lets heat in (?) in the summer and heat out (?) during the winter.
I have reached out to the management several times.
They make promises every time but have yet to fix the issue.
Why would they when I keep paying rent on time every month with auto pay?
In my defense, what other option do I have?
I don't have a lot of free time as most of my time is taken up by my own work
and I can't afford to spend my free time fighting apartment management.

edited for clarity
Pretty sure most people with block heaters have these, they run off the same power source https://pic.beely.crasman.cloud/BVC-228/BVC228_11.jpg

Almost all ICE cars I've seen sold in Nordic countries during the past 30 years have an outlet on the passenger side to power these. I think these have been a thing since the 70s though.
On that pan, are you able to filter your search by Blu-ray vs DVD?
I think the UX of large suggestions will require a lot of thinking and experimentation. That's because the longer the output of such model, higher the risk of it making some mistake. For short completions, it's often easy to identify mistakes from useful suggestions (though sometimes subtle bugs slip in). But for longer completion, it'll get tedious and we might start accepting wrong suggestions.
> The writing of history (historiography) is not meant to be a minutely detailed account of everything that happened. History is a narrative, a story about how we came to be here, and sees the past with a particular lens.

Of course I get all of that; however, the author also chronicled the influence of these languages and certainly Objective-C use of Smalltalk's object model, a language that provided macOS and iOS such a competitive advantage for many years, it's probably worth a mention.
Sure, but I think the question is what we mean by "active." I think "has anyone written code in this language recently" isn't a great metric, because by that measure pretty much any language that ever has had adoption is "alive" by virtue of being used in Advent of Code, as the OP points out. This just seems contrary to my intuition about what it means for a PL to be alive and have a healthy community. What I meant by "first language" was more about community growth, and there being people willing to mentor newbies, new projects being started for new users to hack on, etc.
I don't have a ton of experience with any of them, but I've had a few run-ins with COBOL. Most notably, at my last job I was working in a team that was actively working to replace a large legacy COBOL system for retail supply chain management. I never worked with the COBOL applications directly, but the stakeholders on my projects overlapped with users of that system. Less personally, but with more data points, there's a large employer in my city with a substantial code base in COBOL who actively recruit career changers and teach them COBOL. I've met several people who went that route while doing outreach and trying to mentor new developers in my community.

My general impression is that the large COBOL codebases are used across a lot of different parts of industry, and for a lot of different things. The most common feature is that COBOL applications continue to be used in organizations that are so dysfunctional and bureaucratic that they can't successfully agree on how to replace it. The general shape of the problem seems to be that business decisions were made decades ago, and written into the codebase. Replacing the codebase would mean that someone at some level would need to sign off on requirements, which would mean taking responsibility for something, and the organizations that can't move off COBOL are so toxicly risk averse that nobody will make an affirmative statement about any requirement. Instead, they manage to just barely get by with a combination of very experienced developers who can retire comfortably and DGAF and make decisions, and very junior (and poorly paid) developers too naive to push back or ask too many questions.
Ask HN: How do you overcome irrational fear of failure?
Right this moment, I am faced with an unfamiliar task that I have no exact prior experience in[0], and it scares me. I don't think it should scare me, though. I have sufficient experience in 90% of the steps involved[1], just not this particular combination, or particular circumstance. Also, for various reasons the project as a whole carries a perceived high cost of failure. Those perceived high stakes cause me to procrastinate, and suffer from analysis paralysis. Consequently, these kinds of projects take me far longer than they really ought to.

I know from prior projects that I am usually successful at this kind of thing, and thus quite proud of my results. But that doesn't seem to make my fear of failure any less potent during subsequent projects.

I'm wondering if others on HN suffer from this kind of paralyzing anxiety, and if they have any strategies to share for overcoming it?

Footnotes:

[0] In this instance, it happens to be a DIY home improvement project, building and installing a support frame for drop-in jetted tub. However, I'm asking this question generally, because for me this question applies equally to situations in my technical career.

[1] basic rough carpentry, 120v electrical, mixing sanded portland cement, connecting PVC waste plumbing, etc.
Can't one just remap the zero page?
As you know from reading the link, electrical signals and light are both EM waves and both travel at the speed of light in the medium they're propagating in.

The copper isn't the medium. The EM waves are almost entirely outside the copper. The medium is the insulator (for a cable) or the glass (for an optical fiber).

Sorry to repeat all this material from the link, which you've definitely already read.
I've flown through the windshield a couple times in my life WRT malware.

I've lost so much more time to work computers where I'm forced to use retail Win 10/11 and have to deal with intrusive update policies than I have due to malware.

Having to nuke a few computers from orbit once a decade is a small price to pay for having systems that I can trust to work the same as they did yesterday, systems that never interrupt my flow.

EDIT: to expand on this a little bit, I think a lot of cybersecurity concerns are basically forced upon us by SaaS as a model. Attack surfaces become much smaller if you can just block things from communicating with the outside entirely. Not to mention the wonderful technology known as a "hardware power switch" good luck remotely turning on my SSD full of tax documents and embarrassing photos.
Question: has anyone actually encountered a Nazi on Twitter first-hand?

The way mainstream journalists go on about them, you’d think they were everywhere!
I just do not trust new stuff being stable enough for a daily driver, but I still use it because I have to. As a developer I do not feel that this is an issue for me. I understand why it can be an issue.
According to my search Musk has 10 kids. According to him he works something like 18 hours a day. He seems to maybe spend a lot of his time browsing and using Twitter.
Qatar owns the PSG. Also the UEFA implemented compensation caps and other measures to prevent the Qatari/Saudi/Emirati from buying out their clubs.

Another point: You can have the best team in the world, but it won't be the best team unless it plays against someone else (preferably many other teams). The game is interesting because the winner is uncertain. If the winner becomes certain at all times (or worse, all the rankings) then there is no reason to play the game anymore.
I appreciate that. I don't think looking at the truck is sufficient to conclude that it is an inefficient airflow design. Especially because many parts of the design appear to be there to improve airflow compared to a normal truck – like the tonneau cover. Also, all of Tesla's other cars have quite good coefficients of drag.
Care to share what you mean here?
That assumes a free market. The UK where I live is planning to ban new sales of ICE cars from 2030 and hybrids from 2035. At that point, you either buy an EV or nothing at all (of course, the used market won't transition until later, but that will effectively be on a deadline too once new sales are stopped).

Personally I think 2035 is a more than realistic deadline for affordable EVs and the charging infrastructure to go with it. And the pre-announced deadline should hopefully give companies the confidence they need to invest in these technologies ahead of time.

There will then be another tipping point when ICE/hybrid ownership declines to the point that starts being uneconomical for filling stations to remain open and they start disappearing. At which point ICE cars will be decidedly inconvenient.
What are his political views? I used to follow him way back in the TechTV days and the very early TWiT.tv days and I can’t say I have the slightest clue what his political views are. A quick Google doesn’t reveal anything either.
Not everyone who looks like an adult is an adult mentally. Some get stuck in college, some in high school, some in kindergarten. I believe that most of the woke types are the kindergarten type: they are doing the right thing, but in their local coordinate system.
And he could still be that person. Using votes and drama to attract clicks is completely viable, but doing it in a polarising way doesn't seem shrewd to me unless you want to instantly turn the so-called public square into another Fox News type social network when they tend to already exist. If he wanted to make money, this was a weird way to go about it. If he wanted to improve debate in the public square, this was a weird way to go about it. And if he wanted instant political influence, this is an expensive way to do it and I'm not sure these recent moves support that this tack in any way.
We also dont know if some bad actor has already found that vulnerability and are building/already built and exploit.
IMO the EU has great potential for solid startups, however if you'll note about the areas where they are looking to invest (much like it was the case with the Horizon 2020 program), they are chasing unicorns (in unproven futuretech).

And I doubt the EU area can catch unicorns with 1.3 billion euros (for the entire program), when the US VCs might as well throw as much money in a startup on a whim. What will likely happen is that they'll invest in some startups, get some development but no additional funding, and the tech/IP will be sold to US companies.

I really think that they should focus more in funding startups that act/target locally, than "big ideas". Let's not forget about their last endorsed big idea; Gaia-X, while it has no EU funding (as far as I'm aware), it is this large revolutionary data sovereignty project that has all the buzzwords, from IoT to blockchain, and the complexity of nightmares. Endorsed by Ursula and most likely to remain vaporware.
My feed only showed analysis of the last pass. In your feed, did they review the previous pass too?
That's like saying "Postfix isn't scalable like Gmail", comparing two completely different things. and in fact the fediverse is far more scalable than any single service like Twitter can be.

The fediverse is based on a protocol called ActivityPub, just like email is a based on SMTP. ActivityPub is designed from the ground up to allow any number of federated servers to share posts. Email servers can run Postfix or Exim (or others), and the fediverse servers can run Mastodon or Pleroma (or others).

One of the joys of the fediverse is that it's possible (and easy) to move your account (posts, followers etc) to another server. So when a particular server gets too busy, people simply migrate to another server, or even set one up themselves. Universities are already setting up their own fediverse servers for their staff and students, and I think we'll see companies following suit soon - again echoing the growth of email.

So that's the theory - what about real world? Thanks to Elon's unique management style, Mastodon active users (a good proxy for load) have gone from 370K to 2,500K in two months. I use it daily, and it's no slower with all those extra users.
I would also argue that you shouldn't put peanut butter on pizza, but it's your pizza, so I have no leverage.
37% of American adults have passports. [0]

[0]: https://today.yougov.com/topics/travel/articles-reports/2021...
> the ideas around AI, consciousness & free will they wanted to explore

I haven't seen S2, but with that description, and as an avid fan of the various incarnations of Ghost in the Shell, I want to see S2 to see how they explore those concepts.
I think the problem with most building codes (that I've encountered) is that they focus on process (use this material, this way) vs outcome (require this much energy, this resistance to fire). This makes building predictable, but stifles innovation. Personally, I live in a passive solar strawbale insulated house that reclaims greywater for an indoor garden, which is very awesome but was quite expensive to build. I bought it for below the build cost after it went into foreclosure after the 2008 crash (so the 2 acres it's on was essentially free).
I'd be willing to bet a lot of money people would jump at the chance to buy Toyota EVs if they actually put effort into making them for the mainstream market.
Yup, I totally forgot "long" and "short". Although I'm not sure that counts as a lesson learned given that C still came up with "double" for what should have been "long float".

Typed pointers were an ALGOL-W thing originally, though.
I've found, through experience, that LEDs aren't a drop-in replacement for incandescent bulbs due to thermals.

I've cooked three LEDs until I realized that the decorative aluminium housing they're put in is close enough to both disrupt the airflow and reflect failure-inducing amounts of heat.
I don't want to dunk on Lucas specifically here. I just want to underscore that this kind of "I did it all myself" mentality can infect anyone - even our most creative and talented human beings.

The technological achievements of ILM and Lucasfilm stand out to me here. Lucas himself is not an expert in any form of VFX whatsoever, but he left the storytelling to himself, and trusted in experts to execute on his vision at a certain point.

No one doubts that the prequels were technologically impressive (Jar Jar included) even if the storytelling was lacklustre, but here Lucas stepped back an enabled his team of experts to do what they did best.

When you're young and ambitious you may be more likely to ask for help, and folks may be more willing to give you help. When your in your 50s and a billionare, it just seems that as a society we make it culturally improper for men to ask for help. Sadly, this is also a demographic with a disproprotionately high suicide rate...
Yes, when you are openly genderqueer on Twitter like I am they tend to sprout up like weeds constantly. It requires constant vigilance and continuous pruning of things to avoid them shitting up your feed. It also helps to add their shibboleths to your ignorelists so that they just get hidden automatically.
No, but the app migrated from purchase to “life supporter” to subscription with each prior tier getting less. Now, “buy version 1.3.0” I can get not including updates post 1.3.x.

But “life supporter” faded to “subscribe” after more time went by.

Much like the mirc thing really.

I kinda miss the days of “buy version X. Get X. X always works… tease with upgrades to get user to buy upgrade.”
I wonder if the ageing population combined with weakening currency are big factors here.
> I don’t talk to them about why I don’t travel, not to burst their bubble or to, you know, be the party pooper amidst all of this celebration

Does the act of traveling, the waste of my little slice of airplane fuel, maintenance of airplanes and all the staff and food handling, use more resources than someone paying for tourism with buying all kinds of services to help employ local hotel workers and their waste of the endless tourist rides and destinations.

Come to think of it, he might be onto something. Perhaps only long-term traveling with minimal impact would be more beneficial to locals than the harm of the travel itself.

I wonder who is studying this stuff, who can teach me to have such strong affirmations has Mr. Chua does.
For sure most europe doesn't and won't have enough electricity to keep up with EVs, I think EVs should be limited in places like central italy where 90 % of electricity is made from natural gas anyway.

It's so inefficient.

Hybrids are the least polluting option out there, unless most energy in your region comes from renewables or nuclear. Also don't forget producing an ev is insanely polluting too.
Ask HN: What makes a great movie theater experience?
If you're someone that enjoys seeing seeing movies in theaters (and are reading this), I need your input.

I'm working on a side project - and am looking to create a list of the most important factors that go into making a great movie theater experience... great.

Things like:

- Screen size
- Sound quality
- Popcorn quality
- Bathroom cleanliness
- Seat comfort
- Bonus offerings (food delivery, bar etc)

What would YOU say you care about most when visiting a theater? Any thoughts / feedback would be greatly appreciated.

BONUS: What are some of the nicest theaters you've visited where you live?
I’m in the US and have never heard of such a thing. If you’re sick on vacation then that’s not eligible for sick leave.
The Finale of the Great Internet Grievance Wars Is Here
Developers aren’t the problem. Landlords and existing homeowners who are protecting the value of their actual land (not homes) are the issue. And a very, very powerful political body.
At a quick glance, this sounds like a pretty poor insight. Their main takeaway is the 7 million that have walked away are all (basically) "playing Call of Duty stoned". This seems like a classic reactionary conservative take that this is situation at play (as opposed to any number of other social/eco situations). They only draw their conclusion on this on one fact that more males are getting prescribed painkillers. Yep.
man, just finished. don't know what i expected, but def.. more.

tho, the last line makes it worth it. but only if you can power all the way thru the middling content, first. no gain without pain.

my takeaway is...

SF. Meh. What comes next? Who knows. Salads. Another rich people salad chain, Mixt. SF seems to be coming back a little, but maybe only 50% of pre-covid levels. Richard Florida, wrong about everything all the time, which is why we still quote him extensively. Great last line.

https://www.mixt.com/
Closer to 45 or 50% of Americans. 152 million valid passports in 2022 [0] vs 333 million people[1], of which ~93% are citizens [2]. The “Americans don’t have passports” idea seems to mostly be a holdover from the early 2000’s [3].

[0]: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/about-us/reports-...

[1]: https://www.census.gov/popclock/

[2]: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-ci...

[3]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42586638.amp
There's is also this similar project from 11 years ago. https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch
Yes in Australia. Look up the labor laws they are required to change it to sick leave. I did it last year when I got Covid over Christmas.
I have been proper caving twice. Once, in Budapest, I got stuck in a little hole called the Winnie the Pooh for about 15 minutes. That was nerve-wracking, but I could see other people so it wasn’t so bad.

In Georgia, I went with well trained cavers from my school. We belly crawled through a slot so small I had to turn my head sideways to fit. It was cold, wet, and very scary. I have rarely felt as much relief as I did upon emerging.
This. A large number of businesses which built out around "Japanese spoken here" swung to Manderin in the last 4-8 year window and a lot of that isn't coming back because of both Covid, and AU-CN trade/politics concerns. That said, there is a huge chinese mainland diaspora based in Australia this last decade, so I suspect family reunion will encourage more of this tourism/travel back, given time.

(Australia is 40% direct migrant, or children of migrants. There is often a lot of tension over which non-anglo community now has financial muscle, buys homes, sets cultural trends. It's been about Italy, The Balts, Greeks, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese. The New Zealanders mostly sailed under the radar until a recent government started cancelling residency visa left right and centre for crimes of one kind or another and ANZUS as a political belief in unity across the tasman sea died a bit.)
The post clearly shows they're not using RDP.

That said Projector round tripped all the key strokes to get new draw commands (unlike VSCode) which also results in lag. The new IntelliJ remote architecture is much better, and it seems Uber is moving that way too.
I already did as of last week.
Waited 3 years, the software is all riddled with bugs and nothing got fixed. Insane
Why wouldn't it be updated?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34043936
What we call diving is likely not what someone who doesn't watch soccer would recognize as diving. It's pretty common to overdramatize fouls to get the ref to stop the game, and it's pretty accepted (although obviously extra points if you don't). This isn't actually diving but is sometimes colloquially referred to as such even by people who know better. What's actually a foul is diving when no one fouled you, which is what one of the French players did this game inside the penalty box. He got a yellow for it. The ref, besides spotting that in a split-second (impressive), was also very good at keeping the action going and only stopping if he saw an actual foul.

One does wish for less dramatization overall but you have to remember that if you keep playing the ref can rule that you did not wish to take the free kick. This is allowed since it's sometimes more advantageous. The rule is quite literally called advantage, and you don't want to take it unless it makes sense, although the ref usually makes a judgement call after a couple seconds. Still..