skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the neat visulizations of the baby names is a "Bubbled" one from a number of years ago.

Girls: https://youtu.be/qVh2Qw5KSFg

Boys: https://youtu.be/WQv99sEPDsw

The thing about this is that it shows that its not some other name becoming dominant, but rather that names are becoming more distinct - fewer children born with a certain given name each year.

For example, 1997 (the last year of Michael being the most common boy name) it only had 1.88% of total births - while in 1967, Michael accounted for 4.63% of total births.

Girl name popularity changes more rapidly than boy names.

The other "this is kind of interesting" is that similar names (e.g. names that start with an L) have similar popularity.

https://namerology.com/baby-name-grapher/

You can see the "less common names are more common" with the shape of the graph there since the SSA data is only for the 1000 most common names. That the total is smaller indicates that there are more names beyond the 1000 most common that are becoming more prevalent overall.

That tool lets you clearly see that "Luke" and "Lucas" have a similar shape. Michael and Michelle (F) had a similar peak too.

Another interesting one to look at is the name "Leslie".
You can also call it an artificially created need. Many functions exist, but have a different name.
It simply isn't capable of anything like this. What is Microsoft thinking?
No, not really. T-Cells don't "eat" stuff. You may mean macrophages, neutrophils and so on. And those actually get their energy mainly from glucose, while they actually expend energy to destroy the stuff they take up.
Watched a video recently with a similar situation in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qApr4UmCGY

It seems that sometimes clients who have enjoyed the business for a long time will offer to take it over. But they usually need to have that "passion" to do it.
It's a breath of fresh air to see honesty about the good and bad from those at the company. Thank you for the transparency, I really appreciate it.
They "attack" them usually in the form of passing a message like "please destroy yourself".
Is this really valuable documentation?

A common advice for documentation is "why not how", I'm not sure you can do "why" by looking at the "how".

You can do javadoc style params, and there's some value there,but not much.
depends on the capacity (and hence torque) of the engine, a sensible person would always wear a thick glove! besides, kids back then were pretty impervious to injury.
Disclaimer: I am the author of this article.

Not really. With C++, you don’t have to use manual memory management. In the typical scenario, C++ objects take care of memory without the developer having to think about it. And you have all kinds of smart pointers for the more complicated scenarios.

That doesn’t mean of course that there are no buffer overflows in C++, or use-after-free bugs. There is still plenty of room for mistakes. But C++ code following best practices tends to have far fewer vulnerabilities than comparable C code.
Will we ever get those structural vacuum balloons that enable more floaty things, like the mites in Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age?” Or like the giant floating geodesic ball proposed by buckminster fuller?

I was reading about early Royal Society proposals for flying machines that were based on vacuums in copper balloons. Can any material at any size support a vacuum that can displace the weight of the material? (ie, and thus support lighter than air flight via vacuum)
It will be an interesting arms race, but I'm hopeful for truth there.

I can imagine good enough AI being able to spot truth even better than what humans do - by veryfing sites and commenters with sources of real information to estimate their credibility.

E.g. in a theme similar to Page Rank, you could have an AI that has some sites as a source of objective truth (Wikipedia, science journals, reputable sources of news etc), and then use that as a basis of estimating trustworthiness of a material.

Also, AI could find, for a given subject, opposing opinions, and estimate which ones are possibly fake, and which ones are real.

In essence - do what current fact-checkers do, but for every single website and comment in existence.
Eh, the model you're able to query through chatgpt is trained on data from 2021. It fundamentally can't answer up-to-date information like that for now.

That might change with this partnership. We can't say at this point in time.
Okay I’ve been trying out your suggestion for a week. I think I will keep it.
The 70s really were another country - see also: chemistry sets. These are pale and anodyne things now with a mere handful of bland household-level chemicals - assuming you can even find one in a toy shop at all. But as a lad these were both readily available and full of dozens of intriguing substances that would send a modern health and safety wonk into apoplexy. Who among us did not incinerate all of the supplied magnesium in a short series of pyrotechnic orgies? Merit was the go-to brand in the UK, but I also had a set from an American company that contained, among other exotica, potassium ferrocyanide. This is decidedly non-lethal but the very name never failed to send a poisoner's frisson through my teenage brain.
At least MagSafe is better for the environment (minus the magnetic e-waste), as regular wireless charging is highly inefficient from a wall-power to phone efficiency standpoint.
Paraphrasing a quote I read on HN: "What a technology can do quickly becomes what it must do"
> Aside from the language issue, it is also difficult to integrate socially if you are a foreigner.

So, I do not live in Japan, but I've visited multiple times now. I don't speak Japanese more than a few words here and there and mainly get by usually with Google Translate.

I've had a not-too-difficult time making friends (who I even stay in touch with from here in the US) by finding people there who participate in the same hobbies (car culture and baseball, specifically). Generally, most people I've met in those communities are very friendly. Not everyone enjoys the Google Translate back and forth but many still do.

Anyway, like I said before, I don't live there so it may be different as a long-term resident. But I just feel like based on my experience so far, the "way in" may just be a matter of finding people with similar interests, much like I would here in the US.
The insidious part about chatGPT getting things wrong is that it is a superb bullshitter.

It gives you answers with 100% confidence and believable explanations. But sometimes the answers are still completely wrong.
Excellent story, mildly terrified!
Thanks! I forgot to mention I am currently a Solution Architect for a company in Open Source Infrastructure products, both on-prem and in the cloud. I currently live in the Netherlands, which is mostly Azureland, but pursue a remote job and move to another country so my choice is not really country related. The mention of the mandatory headcount is a valuable one, did not know that. I read somewhere worldwide marketshare is ~50% AWS and ~30% Azure.
Create chaos so employees will concentrate on goals instead of process
Notably, Japan had previously enjoyed a very strong middle class. With age demographics and economics changing I suspect the spending capacity of the middle class as a whole might be dropping.

Small business struggles when people can't afford more than the cheapest as the cheapest usually comes from the big corporates.
That one and much more here:

https://michaelbach.de/ot/index.html
Neutrophils for example take up their "prey" in vacuoles and then merge those vacuoles with vesicles containing acid.

In some form there is a "digestion" happening. It's actually a non-trivial question to say if there is any form of energy that "escapes", for example in the form of keto-bodies, lipids, whatever, but it's certainly not very significant and certainly not the point of the digestion.
Show HN: Jcb – A terminal-based personal budgeting program
This has been a project I've been working on to learn Golang and nurses (which I eneded up replacing with cview).

It's still young but I think it's ready for some uses. Please let me know what you think, especially if you find rough edges or are confused by anything.

Thanks.
I didn't know anyone was using it as a descriptor like that, but in that context it seems to mean eating foods that have been around long enough to prove they have staying power and aren't harmful over any measurable time scale, or somesuch. Not sure I agree, but I sure understand the motive.
Ask HN: Would HN be open to more transparency in story ranking metrics?
"If HN were an art house theater, those principles would look like this: (1) don't show the copycat movies; (2) do show the interesting movies; (3) when the theater catches fire, stop the movie and deal with the fire." -dang

This seems fair and reasonable as do the links to the ranking explanations below.

I am requesting a consideration to open source the log (or logs from a point in time going forward) of weights used in the downranking of specific topics on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34020263
I'm impressed by the documentation. Commonly used options with examples fairly high up, then a complete overview of all the options below that.

Definitely going to give this a try.
That wasn't known when the original story broke, and it's a legitimate question whenever a Tesla has a severe collision. If you make yourself the poster child for self driving - this is part of the deal. The positive attention can only be had at the cost of the negative attention.
demergi works great to open blocked sites
I'm not so much interested in how this applies to Twitter, but the idea that actively destroying processes so that one works exclusively towards actual goals intrigues me.

I had not come across this idea before and it strikes me as a useful framing.

Obviously there is a place for process, but perhaps a bit of chaos is not as bad as I thought.
Scalability is not a feature. If you "need" to scale but don't then you're not delivering to your target market, not delivering is not a lack of a feature it's a net loss to the organization. If you're Twitter/Instagram/Uber/whatever you cannot tell your users to not post or like or request a ride because "right now we don't have the scalability feature"
I remember these as a kid! I always wanted an RC version, but couldn’t afford one until I was an adult.

The minibee ? Microbee? I can’t remember what the engine was called was so small!

I still love the smell of castor oil to this day.

If you built one from a guillows kit, it really was more emotionally painful when it crashed than anything else.

The little engines were really pretty safe - even hand starting with a stick.

Once you got to an 0.25 or a 0.46 you might have a bad time.

My favorite plane though, wasn’t control line, it was actually a much much much later hanger 9 alpha. Technically a trainer. But I put a much larger engine on it. (Though the evolution .60 on it was amazing in an Escapade .40 …)
(Actually the escapade .40 might be a good second…)

I still have a control line somewhere… though I think it was cloth covered.
Does this mean that if I set my default search engine to bing that I can search stuff like “write a seinfeld scene where jerry and kramer talk about circumcision” in my address bar it’ll return chatgpt results?
These airlines are around and offer busfare-comparable flight prices for a decade at least
https://archive.ph/HXbpH
Openshift does something similar (though you need to annotate your deployments). But yes, the simplicity is refreshing.
> As your conversation evolves with the bot, targeted ads could be shown

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords: https://future.attejuvonen.fi/
It seems to me (or I hope) this isn't really much different from the current situation: we already have a ton of useless quasi-content made up only for search engines, just look for something like "best android phone" or whatever.

Search engines will have to rely more on signals outside the content, such as links from other authoritative sources, but it does not look like a qualitatively different world.
Yeah I've been really enjoying the passthough as the homescreen background feature they added, it also works on WebXR pages too now which has been fun for the small experiments/toys I like to make on my downtime
Why are people here saying things like "everyone will use chatgpt"? How do we know that this isn't a fad?

Chatgpt gives us answers, but so do the top linked articles in a search engine. Why bother adjusting to something different if we already have something that solves the problem?

For most people, the marginal amount of time saved by using chatgpt instead of a search engine is borderline meaningless. It might be useful for lawyers to quickly tl;dr dry legal documents, but general use seems far fetched to me
Right... well the number of times I've seen the ambulance ride out to that field tells a slightly different story. The problem is that every time it goes right your risk tolerance goes up and after a while people stop seeing the risk entirely. Same story in machine shops.

I think the real issue is that these are not toys, some of those motors pack an awful lot of punch, much more than the size of the motor would convey to a casual observer. Likewise for LiPo packs, those things are extremely impressive from an energy content perspective and yet, the number of idiotic things I've seen people do with them just baffles me.

After a long history of making, building and using all kinds of dangerous stuff I still have all my fingers. But I did manage to break my leg on an experimental bike so even the cautious can get caught out.

Oh, I just noted the helpful little table on that article I linked above:

Ultra Micro- Micro= Break the skin/ light bleeding, can cause serious eye damage

20"- 25" wingspan= Deep cut requiring surface stitches

25"- 35" wingspan= Deep cut through muscle, damage to tendons requiring multiple layers of stitches and possibly even surgery.

35"- 50" wingspan= Can cut to the bone, cut tendons, surgery required to fix damage.

50"- 70" Wingspan= Damage to bone, broken fingers, cut tendons in arms hands and legs.

70"- Large Scale= Lost fingers, serious deep tissue and tendon damage, cut arteries potential death

Giant scale= Dismemberment, can take off fingers even arms or legs, can likely kill especially if it hit you in the head.
Korea will not change unless it is fatally affected.
Someone needs to shake it off.
> but it sits at the middle of theoretical computer science, economics and finance in a novel way that responds to a lot of shortcomings of attempts before it.

The problem here is that the creator of Bitcoin was following a philosophical motivation, not a scientific one. The 'economics' behind it are completely misguided and appear to be based on the notion that taking power away from powerful entities and distributing amongst individuals will remove the problems associated with capitalist systems. It does not consider that people created these entities and removing power from systems that rely on it creates power vacuums which society abhors. Things just end up getting to the same place a different way, but redoing all of the bad outcomes that had to be painfully learned and many times almost led to humanity scrapping capitalism and free markets altogether because of the damage done.

When you approach problems thinking you have the answer before you start looking for the solution, then you get things like Soviet Russia and you get things like eugenics and you get things like Bitcoin.

I am sorry but by saying 'it has critical flaws' and then also claiming that it it is some work of science and can be used for progress in economics and technology and finance, you neglect totally that it's first and most critical flaw is that it is the product of a dogma which is completely removed from reality in two of those areas.
Currently, Bing has about a 3% market share. It will be interesting to see how it affects its usage in six months.
Assoc. Of Habit. Checking Behaviors on Social Media with Funct. Brain Developm
Seems like the model has some kind of a USA centric worldview bias? Why would it consider flights to the USA, LA in particular? Was this where you were located when you did the query? That would be impressive :)
Guessing it's actually this:

https://twitter.com/lindydiet/status/1297211546934939651?lan...
> I’m joking of course but somebody is going to this

Already done :)

https://future.attejuvonen.fi/
What’s the model of the 42? Thank you.
2 monitors is the only way for me. I could never go back to just one, unless the software could split it in half for me.

I prefer to use Linux with Xmonad, where any virtual desktop can be displayed on either monitor at any time. So I don't really think of any monitor as my primary one.

Lately I've been forced to use Windows for work, where I use Win+Left/Right to make a window take up 100% of vertical and 50% of horizontal space of a monitor. With two monitors this means 25% of total horizontal space, which is perfect. With one monitor... FML
Still don't know what the fuck it means in regards to diet.

Probably this:

https://twitter.com/lindydiet/status/1297211546934939651?lan...

The wikipedia page shows a bunch of equations.

That's about the Lindy Effect, which is something else entirely (the only food connection is that it was named after a NY deli).
What are you talking about?

The goal is not to prevent a heavy storm. It’s to try to retain more of the water when the state does actually get some.
Can you expand on the inconsistencies between what the model predicts and reality? I'd love to learn more and see some examples.
Your comment is the first time I heard about these glasses. The $379 price tag seems quite reasonable and I was really thinking about buying a pair. After looking a bit closer at the specs I think I will wait for a 90hz+ version.

But else, they seem great. It's cool that they draw power from the connected device, one battery less to have to worry about.

Maybe to explain why I want more than 60hz - I wouldn't buy them to be productive, but for gaming. I've been gaming with 120hz for quite a few years now, and don't really want to half my framerate. Even when gaming in VR I'm experiencing between 60 and 90fps.

I guess gaming is the only thing which prevents me from buying these glasses, for work 60hz is enough and most movies are 24fps anyways...
I meant general societal stability. Our society is problematic, so there's no escaping that!
Something not mentioned is that these things were pretty messy. At least mine was. It burned a mixture of oil and gasoline, and the plane got coated with a film of oil.

I only used mine a few times. I found it rather tedious just spinning around in place. Much more exiting were the model rockets that used solid fuel engines.
Downloadable text:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.30.485982v2
Not having the battery be on the device but plugged in the phone or on a waist strap, and using more expensive, but smaller pancake vs fresnel lenses can make the effected perceived weight a lot.
that have been identified.
What's status of static typing checking ?
No, for those you want relatively slow run off.

The reduction of flood plains, and the removal of natural dams (beavers!) means that what you mostly get is high speed run off that is high in sediment and low in oxygen.
So the US isn't doing capitalism anymore? If your system is based on the idea that "those with more money have more power", then those people using that power to stop competitors sounds like an entirely logical outcome to me.
"Doing capitalism" means running your company with profit as your goal, and if the best way to profit is lying, bribing, preventing competition, exploiting workers and destroying the environment, that's what a capitalist will do.

That's not to say that capitalism can't be, to some extent, prevented from doing those harms by strong regulation. But as long as those writing the regulation live in and benefit from that same system, that regulation will never be particularly strong - and that's by design.
It’s difficult, but doable and nowhere near as hard as the synthetic chemistry need to produce small molecule therapeutics to fight novel pathogens. The hardest part in my opinion would be getting accurate predictions of protein-protein binding free energies.

> create novel drugs rapidly or even prevantatively.
On your final point I’m skeptical. Drugs are difficult to design because you need to account for off-target effects among other things. That’s not a concern when designing a harmful agent. Furthermore I presume one could intelligently harden the pathogen so any potential treatment might be as harmful as the pathogen itself. But that’s a strong assumption and I know of no way to formally verify it.
Instead of parsing isolated sentences like someone without the capacity to connect them, try reading the whole thing and reflecting on the meaning before responding to independent quotes without context.
There's been an 'AI Chat' feature on Bing since at least 2021, that gets triggered for some searches (seems to be arbitrary).
> Many words of French origin were borrowed twice or more. There were at least three periods of borrowing: one that occurred shortly after the Norman Conquest and came from Norman French, one in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries from standard (Parisian) French at the time when English nobles were switching from French to English, and a third one during the sixteenth to nineteenth century, when France was at the height of its power and international influence. Examples of doublets from the first and second periods are catch vs. chase, cattle vs. chattel, and warden vs. guardian. More recent borrowings are often distinguished by maintaining the French spelling and pronunciation, e.g. chef (vs. chief), pâté (vs. paste), fête (vs. feast).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_(linguistics)#Norman_v...
Should we learn why it exists and how to exploit it? Absolutely. At the same time Nagle himself showed up in the comments about the previous article saying disabled by default (what Go was doing) is probably the better approach these days so I don’t think it’s accurate or helpful to claim calls for it are just a result of people that don’t understand it.
Maybe before he got senile.
Kids back then were not "impervious to injury". Accidents and injuries did happened in the past. So did fires cause by kids.
Yes - it is one way to do it and it will work and be reasonably efficient. Everyone[1] who knows x86-64 asm today learned 32 bit first. You still have 32 bit instructions, and 16 bit, and 8 bit. The instructions will translate. You get more registers. You need to update the function and syscall calling conventions. There's no reason there can't be "learn x64 asm" books but there aren't many last I looked, but maybe someone can link us up to show how wrong I am?

https://wiki.osdev.org/Calling_Conventions

Richard Blum [2] after Dunteman.

[1] At a reasonable level of approximation.

[2] https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Professional+Assembly+Language-p...
Not in 2021.
Amazing! Ride the wave, MSFT! Push the industry full of coasters forward!

It surprises me to read criticism on HN about how this can be "misleading". Are you kidding me? This is the internet. Even with regular search results do you blindly trust them or conduct your due diligence?
Scott's writing is well-liked because most of it is similarly clever and humorous.
This is only a "Bay Area party" in an extremely small bubble of tech workers with insufferable personalities. It says more about the author than about the region.

The bay is a diverse place with all kinds of communities and parties.
Definitely no shortage of house music and ketamine for those that are interested. Or metal and biker bars if you prefer. Smoke a spliff outside the craft brewery, drink tall cans at the street fair, hang a piñata in the park for your kids, etc.