skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me: Standing desk has helped a lot with back/neck pain. Large monitors set to a more age friendly resolution. Turmeric for cutting down on inflammation.
> reached a record 71.1 million worldwide last year

> represented a 20% increase since 2021

> The war in Ukraine triggered nearly 17 million displacements last year

17 / (71 - 17) ~ 31%

So if Russia's invasion has accounted for more than the growth in 2 years, what are we to conclude?
Possibly it's just on mobile, but the French graph seems to be on a completely different scale to the other two. Their agricultural emissions are higher than the UK for example, but at least for me that is far from obvious from the graphs.
Year One Complete
First time founder here!

One year ago today, I quit my cushy job to pursue building a startup full-time (codedex.io). It’s been the toughest but by far the most fun and rewarding year of my career.

On to year two, y'all.

Happy to answer any questions!
If one exists, I'd love to be part of it. Many of these comments really resonate with me (in my 40s as well). I find that I'm more effective as a developer now than I was years ago – partly because I know myself better. I understand that I love building things hands-on while collaborating with other engineers, designers or stakeholders. I understand that, in the end, people are using these products we build and that I need to keep that in mind.

I also know the things that I either do not enjoy or am not good at, like management. I'm happy to keep coding for as long as my brain will allow it.
> Because the French couldn't give a fuck about making money.

citation needed. I have met a lot of French people and they just seem normal human beings like any other nation. So I disagree with you.
> how do you expect to learn anything if you won't read or watch a tutorial?

I wanted to follow a tutorial (or another guide) to learn about Pharo, but couldn't find any, at least in the official docs. That's the point I'm making!
Working through the links leads to photos of 19th century oarswomen rowing in skirts.

https://heartheboatsing.com/2023/03/08/iwd-2023-women-as-wet...

Gotta admire the will to persevere despite oppressive conditions.
I assume they mean one that does not dissent.
Nor me, but five will do the trick.
(HTH, WFM, YMMV)
Hello fellow Discordian! Ewige Blumenkraft und ewige Schlangenkraft!

I've also seen the fnords. Makes it difficult to drag my ass to work sometimes.
> sure, buddy.

That's an interesting response to a scientific study published in a peer-reviewed journal that says testosterone supplementation causes people who hold left-wing political views to shift rightward in their political compass.

It's likely not conclusive, it's just one study after all, but I think a less-dismissive response is probably warranted. You are responding to the parent poster as if they are entering the conversation with an agenda, but the way you are responding informs any third-party readers that actually you are the one engaging in this conversation with an agenda and not taking the charitable read of the other posters comments as aligned to the HN guidelines.

I'd encourage you to read the HN guidelines, read the studies they linked, and then respond with something less snarky and dismissive and more substantive.
Your bash history should be helpful here.
Then everyone has to spend more of their income on housing because the supply constraint hasn't been lifted but if you don't outbid your coworkers on nearby housing you get fired.
> It’s not like that’s the primary ad for iPhones

It's the ad they blast all over TV, so I'm not sure what you mean. It's also a month old with 20M youtube views.

It just seems a bit hypocritical to criticize Google's ad for lack of information while defending Apple's.
I'm not sure I'm following you here. At the very least I think the phrase I quoted is a poor way of making your point.

The reason why birth control is not inherently wrong is that we cannot at all predict the long term effects of avoiding any specific birth.

Indeed, I think removing reproductive choice creates a situation with negative utilitarian/longtermist outcomes because it prevents fine tuned decision making at the individual level by those with the most accurate understanding of the situation.

I do think we have a moral obligation to aim for a sustainable birth rate, neither too high nor too low, precisely because of the moral value of future lives. However, you need to approach this goal by making structural changes that change the optimal decision for individuals, not by removing that choice from them.
It definitely seems unlikely for there to be any part of the world where this isn't the case.

As a tangent, I'm slowly being convinced that the majority of these recent months old accounts with <100 karma are either intentionally trolling, are kids, or somehow using an LLM to write the responses. Or all of the above.
>how do you make people go along with your goals?

This is the challenge that "degrowth" or other scarcity-rooted environmentalists have. When you are pushing a promise of deprivation on the currently comfortable, your message is going to struggle to gain traction. For any movement, it is of primary tactical importance to have a message that is appealing to your audience.
I agree, with the caveat that the biggest danger that I see is that big corps are able to use the threat of AI to cow workers into accepting worse pay/treatment.
“He is not educated as a scientist though so I usually take most of his stuff with a grain of salt.”

As someone who was educated as a scientist, you should reevaluate this opinion.

There are plenty of brilliant professional scientists. There are also a lot of idiots in science.

There are also a lot of brilliant people who decided that the scientific path was too restrictive or outright false, so they (brilliantly) invested their own scientific life force externally

Having a science degree doesn’t make one less fallible to mistakes. If anything it makes people more likely to fudge to get ahead.
Unless you specify the hardware and compare with the OP your claims are meaningless.
>- The average hourly earnings of gig workers were £8.97, approximately 15% lower than the current UK minimum wage.

UK "real" minimum wage at the time was £9.5, so it's 5.6% lower, but this only applies to people aged 23+!

You could also say that they earned 31.3% more than the minimum wage of £6.83 that applied to 18 to 20 year olds at the time.

Or 2.3% less than the minimumn wage of £9.18 that applied to 21 to 22 year olds at the time.

I'm very surprised that a study done in the UK didn't go deeper on age, especially when they're going to write such lines compared to minimum wage.
I am interested in the airtable inventory system. Anyone else got good experience with airtable?
> valuated in the hundreds of millions with only a few engineers. And you just make like $150k

It's telling that you need to compare your salary to a company's valuation rather than their income. That company worth hundreds of millions is probably actively losing tens of millions overall. It's only worth hundreds of millions because capital owners decided that this type of cash is worth burning. Without them, your $150k job simply wouldn't exist.
JAX or torch.compile also do sth similar as Mojo, right?
Someone can be a totally awful authoritarian bad leader and be hated by (presumably also totally awful) foreign capitalists. That's a thing.
Shameless plug: https://yakshalang.github.io/

This is my passion project. (Less activity these days as I'm sick)
Constantly needing to “feel productive” after work by limiting hobbies is also enough to drive you crazy after awhile, unless it’s of real personal interest of course and not just to advance your career.
People eating ketogenic/carnivorous diets for autoimmune or blood sugar issues have much higher LDL volumes (although their LDL particles are also fluffier and less oxidized)
Yep, they're a communication and documentation tool that happens to have pretty-good machine readability and correctness-checkability. Sometimes the person you're communicating with is your future self, is all. Sometimes it's just yourself five minutes from now, even.
Iirc, the amount of cholesterol that is converted to vitamin D from your bloodstream is still fairly small relative to overall cholesterol levels.
I was the youngest engineer (by quite a bit ~ 10 years) in my team for a good decade. Which in hindsight I probably should have left earlier than I did. But from that experience what I did notice is that there were two types of older engineers. Those that continued to WANT to learn new things and those that were intellectually lazy and essentially said, "We've never done that before." Well the intellectually lazy all got laid off over time. The guys who wanted to learn new things generally kept finding ways to stay relevant and add value to the organization. I think it's simple as just - never stop learning!
In NC USA, even with regular walks, running and biking my Vitamin D levels were too low.
I think the point is that it's really hard to get those gains from "being compiled" when every function or method call, every use of an operator, everything is subject to multiple levels of dynamic dispatch and overrideability, where every variable can be any type and its type can change at any time and so has to be constantly checked.

A language that's designed to be compiled doesn't have these issues, since you can move most of the checking and resolution logic to compile-time. But doing that requires the language's semantics to be aligned to that goal, which Python's most certainly are not.

The achievements of Pypy are pretty incredible in the JIT space, but the immense effort that has gone in there definitely is a good reason to be skeptical of Mojo's claims of being both compiled and also a "superset" of Python.
I wear long sleeves or a light jacket for most of the summer, so it doesn't always matter. And it is pointless in winter - 4.5 hours between sunrise and sunset, with the sun at a low angle. I'm fairly far north.
Related. Others?

Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34599094 - Jan 2023 (260 comments)

Pop_OS 21.04 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27683738 - June 2021 (165 comments)

System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26798080 - April 2021 (414 comments)
Maybe but only if you're imagining completely new and inexperienced people who wouldn't be able to get anything done without AI entering the field - I can see how that can cause an emotional reaction.

But if you compare two experienced developers - one of them uses AI, the other doesn't - I don't see what's there to be reviled, one of them just found a tool that makes them more productive.
I am 40+ and came to the realization that I don't want to work for a big company ever again.

So, I am building a different kind of company. Currently, it's all pi in the sky with respect to revenue. I'm changing that soon.
> They lack class.

I think you're very much on to something here. There's the age old saying that "money can't buy class", and it seems to be held true by what we see in the public eye with the behavior of most of the wealthiest people in the world, almost all of whom are nouveau rich.
They didn't mention big codebases or working on a team, though. Also, you can just use JSDoc.
As someone that used to work for minimum wage...

Because I didn't qualify for anything better.
Americans make up 4-5% of the world population.

Is this about Americans owning 60% of the value of all the equities in the world, or is just that 60% of the value of all the equities in the world are listed on US markets?

Over half of my stocks were bought on US exchanges and I'm not a US citizen. Very roughly calculated, Norway owns about 1.5% of the world's equities so Norway owns a nice piece of that $40 trillion and they're also not US citizens (well, some of them are, I expect).
Paul Graham on the benefits of good writing is like Helen Keller offering her reflections on what makes a great Broadway show.
I'm really curious how much one should expect to pay to acquire a project that does $1200/month like this?
Actually, it's an unknowable chance.
"The Information Problem"[0] has always been regarded as the insurmountable poison pill inside of Socialism's command economy, so it's completely unsurprising that it attracts engineers.

The problem with solving the Information Problem, as Charles Stross notes[1], is that people will know that it was solved by other people. Thus a technical solution in a national context becomes a political proposition, where it's going to instantly die at the cash-laden hands of the rentiers.

Engineering isn't the problem. It's within human means to solve the Information Problem, now, with current technology. One could argue that massive, vertically scaled companies like Wal Mart and Amazon have been doing exactly that for decades, and have - as Marx predicted - been making enormous profits from the interchange with adjacent economies that lack central planning[2].

But Walmart and Amazon don't need to deal with political problems. For the solution to be practical, long term, at the nation-state level, it has to appear motiveless. Naturally this is going to rub the nubbins of the AI boosters hard enough that they'll need towels for their chairs.

A little note in closing. Beware anyone who tries to equate an economic tool with an ideological or - worse - moral position. Sometimes hammers are better than screwdrivers, and sometimes hex bolts are better than screws. They're all just systems tools to get things from where they get made to where they're needed. That's it. Nothing more. Anyone saying otherwise - that an economic system will make you gay, or will get you to heaven, or make people like you - is selling you something. Be skeptical. Just my $.02.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

[1] Via the character Gianni Vittoria in Accelerando, speaking as a former Italian minister of economics

[2] Hell, does that describe the entire post-1970s rise of the entire finance industry? Eh. That's a little much.
Why does SV pay so much? Can't we just cut pay down to what Europe pays? Why are our companies so charitable?
That's not obvious at all. At the time that the UK switched to gas, Norway was pushing resistive electrical heating and not heat pumps - and that only worked for them because nearly all of their electricity came from hydroelectric generation. The push for heat pumps is much more recent, with only a few thousand households in Norway having heat pumps as recently as 2005. The UK doesn't have the geography for that kind of large-scale hydroelectric, and there's a huge efficiency and equipment cost to using resistive electric heating rather than burning fossil fuels directly when your electricity has to be generated from fossil fuels. Also, the coal that cheap natural gas largely replaced in the UK was directly killing a bunch of people by causing pretty nasty pollution.

In general, a lot of comparisons with other countries that get published in the British press are like this - they ignore important differences between the UK and those countries or problems and costs associated with what they're doing because the goal is to make it seem like there were easy options that the UK missed out on because our government is evil, not to actually help people understand the world.
I assumed this referring to the recent Trump case, so it is actually about sexual abuse.
I didn't think about the heat. Yeah, a DSLR with a decent lens is quite heavy. And expensive, so it needs to be protected.

It's a tricky problem to do on the cheap.

I don't think I'm prepared to spend $3K, my idea was rather to spend some fun time on HW work as a diversion from the regular paid SW work - and to put some use to that expensive camera gear I'm not really using.

Thanks for your lessons learned; they have been helpful!
I'm sorry, but I'm really not seeing anything here you can't get from a quick web search. LLMs are not a panacea, and there's no way for them to mainline a Comparative Cultures class into you in 5 minutes.

There really is no shortcut to compassion and understanding... so much of it is simply taking the time to inform yourself.

You can get an LLM to summarize a wiki page on some culture's customs, but there is better content written, edited, and curated by humans on the topic.
If doing cool stuff at home is what drives you, there is only so much time you’ll spend aimlessly binge watching Netflix or playing games, before this drive wakes up and brings you back to do interesting things again.
See https://xeroxparcarchive.computerhistory.org/_cdcsl_93-16_/.... -- it's from a CD-ROM attached to a Xerox blue&white at the time.
http://books.pharo.org/
India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons
You want to ban people from programming and doing statistics and math? How would that work?

I'm more concerned about this kind of luddism taking root
> JS was a great prototype-based language

Maybe it's just me, but everything distinctive about prototypal OO falls firmly in the category of "please never actually use this in a codebase I have to work in".
This sounds interesting. I wish I could read it.
I made a up a word to differentiate the boilerplate/canned/whatever activity to the personal-growth oriented one:

----

Righting. verb.

1. writing to change the way the world is oriented

> I resolve to continue righting until the wrongs go away.

2. writing to change the way oneself is oriented

> I resolve to continue righting until I'm not wrong anymore.

----

Ambiguity in usage being more or less the point.
No, these two mistakes are not equal. Not remotely.

The CDC didn't think it had the political capital to press the mask issue. Until it did, and then the policy changed. It was a delay of weeks on one Rt reduction measure of many.

Trump, OTOH, placed all of his chips on "ignore it and it will go away in April," delayed all the other Rt reduction mechanisms for longer, lost the bet, and activated his entire voter base to cover. He could have pivoted and managed them (Wear a MAGA mask! Stop the China Virus!) but he chose not to. The FUD he stirred on basic public health measures swirled for years and we still haven't seen the end of it. Just look at this thread.

In terms of the public health implications, one of these is a 1x problem, the other is a 100x problem.
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? For example this one: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

I don't want to ban you because some of your comments are fine. But we have to ban people for the worst things they do, regardless of their best things, the same way that criminals don't get to plead that they helped an old lady cross the street.

We've had to ask you this more than once before. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737697 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083753 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20271667 (June 2019)
No, that was after globalization, not before. Exploiting the backs of other workers is at the core of globalism, and the core of evil (imo).

Yes, there was starvation, but if we're all starving, who cares, really? Better we all starve than to have a despot in power starving me while he eats fat. Eat his fat instead.
The extremely watered down version of the pants on head "they did it on purpose" theory I've heard is they didn't close outbound travel and did some other non-actions so that the rest of the world would be equally screwed in this zero sum game. Even that I find to be national-narcissism. Not everything China does is about you OK.

Its not actually zero sum. Some people just think in those terms.
If you ignore the subjective lines two and three of the comparison table, keycloak looks objectively better. And it has an Apache 2.0 license for the whole product.

Honestly, thanks for putting keycloak on my radar.

I see the supertokens team in this thread doing nothing to make me think that they intend to stop misleading people.
Top comments are in line with a movie I saw where all the kids were in Erasmus and it seemed like the ideal way to hook up/connect with potential lovers one might not have connected with in any other context.
To me that's the interest of the story. First sighting for me.
And yet you do not hear of normal people in the EU going bancrupt over medical expenses or not taking an ambulance because they cannot afford it. Funny, isn't it?
Every medium sized city, and above, in the mainland U.S. is serviced by multiple highways.

I highly doubt either any future city government would allow all the highways to be converted to privately owned toll roads.
I mean bro read some history.
My understanding of the research is summed up in this paper[1]. Which states:

> The most important changes in cognition with normal aging are declines in performance on cognitive tasks that require one to quickly process or transform information to make a decision, including measures of speed of processing, working memory, and executive cognitive function. Cumulative knowledge and experiential skills are well maintained into advanced age.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906299/
This is f** wild. I don't understand level of incompetence it took to trust him with that much money. People who trusted them with this much money are fools. Fools with large $$$.
So because the government is perceived to be bad at stuff, we should instead redistribute (an even greater part of) the wealth to rich people, because they do a really good job bring societal good with their piles of gold?
you see a welcome wizard when you open it.
it has pages, as the arrow show clearly (maybe this is not understood?)... and the 3rd page is literally a pointer to resources to learn pharo (including a small tutorial called ProfStef and an online MOOC).
> We run trillion dollar deficits… me and my kids will be burdened with this debt!

Your children aren't the ones paying for it. Numbers changing in a computer system is what pays for it.
Yes but there is a lot of waste in a system like that and after 10 years of spotless safety record the MBAs will start dismantling it, like re-using facilities instead of firebombing, and the re-fitting inevitably requires some humans on-site etc.
Delphi is most certainly not a solution that anyone is reaching for of any kind of regularity in 2023 but again, if you like it keep using it but I’m more than happy to put Flutter up against Delphi as a way of building user interfaces.
Ask HN: Getting started with DIY programming of electronics
Hello HNers, I'm looking to get into DIY programming of electronics. Starting with a small project to take a set of LED multi-color market lights and program them (inspired by a recent concert I've been to.

My ask: are there any good resources on how to get started in this space? I've got some tools and medium level programming skills but would love to get recs on Youtube channels, forums, or other resources.

Thanks in advance
Google Labs (2002)
Does anyone know of any projects to hack together an external E-ink display for reading documents? I will honestly print PDFs out to read them sometimes, and I would love to be able to drag big legal documents onto an e-ink screen to read.

But I don't need a whole new monitor, and this Philips display seems way expensive relative to the cost of the individual e-ink panel.

Edit: Thank you, everyone, for the recommendations - for the fun of the project I might give this a try, but I guess I can also see why this hasn't become popular yet. For the money I can print out a lot of PDFs...and take a color highlighter to them.
When layoffs happened in the past, they were laying off old school enthusiasts because the companies just weren't working.

Now, they are laying off people that went into tech because it seemed like easy money.

It's not the same caliber of tech person.