skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about WW2 USA, but 1970s USA was wealthier - wages have not kept up with house prices [1], car prices, education, gas [2], or rent [2,3]. But GDP is up...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/lostgeneration/comments/fgkb83/its_...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/439mr8/e...

[3] https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rent-growth-since-...
> I guess the first version of office that we all hate is the first one that came out after we were kids and learning new UI was fun.

It's not (just) that. It's that the "ribbon" didn't simplify things, it just lowered the number of clicks to get to some things. But one of the reasons you organize things in submenus is to organize things.

It's easier and faster to find a particular thing hiding within a few dozen labelled boxes, each filled with another few dozen labeled boxes, than to find something when all of the contents of all of those boxes are dumped out onto the floor. Even more, within a hierarchy it's easier to find other, closely related things to the thing that you were looking for, if the thing you were looking for turns out not to do the job.
Super Mario Maker 2 Players Use Pipes, Mushrooms and Luigi for Time Travel [video]
The main advantages that these “we don’t provide a service, we provide an app to connect you to a service” companies have is that they can dodge local regulations and the don’t take the full reputation damage when they have a bad host.

There’s no way they can compete with hotel chains in terms of scale and having sorted out best practices.
The Greeks (or, more precisely, the Eastern Mediterraneans, since a ton of these guys were Phoenician) were jaw-droppingly awesome at this stuff. I wish I could have seen it. It makes you wonder how much knowledge from other places - places with wetter climates, and/or further from the colonial powers of the 19th C - has been lost. One of the contributing reasons heliocentrism disappeared from view was that a large quantity of the Pythagorean and Neo-Pythagorean texts were systematically destroyed. When the texts from Umayyad Spain were translated back in Italy, there were simply very few heliocentric-themed writings among them. It's somewhat remarkable we even got mention of Anaxagoras and Aristarchos.

There's a growing suspicion among some in physics, so far as I can tell from my layman's chair, that many qualities like distance (i.e., the spatial dimensions) could be emergent phenomenon, resulting from a sort of bulk degree of freedom exhibited in macro structures (aka "Space from Hilbert Space"). It's an evocative notion, along with MOND and LQC and suchlike; it sometimes does rather seem like we're looking with the wrong set of eyes, or, rather, assuming things we perhaps shouldn't assume. I wish I had a time machine to, say, 2523, to see how this all resolves. How does it interact with the measurement methods cited in this presentation? Whether the cosmos is far larger than we think, or far smaller, or - perhaps most likely - that the thought of a cosmos being "larger" or "smaller" was an absurd starting point to begin with.
I shouldn't have to clarify. The nature of SA's history of exploitation - at the hands of numerous countries, companies, organizations, and influential individuals - should make the nature of "true reconciliation" obvious. It's on you to be well-versed enough in the subject to follow.
Still lots of problems (more in middle and high school) but it’s easier to today to discover and move to where the schools are better. Homeschooling in areas with poor public schools tends to be focused on academics and a better environment although the desire to provide religious education exists everywhere. An area where few homeschooling families exist would probably have high graduation rates and low crime rates in its public schools.
Random web apps that aren't the worse offenders. Heck, half of web apps use bootstrap and at least make buttons buttons.

It's the big "professional" players like Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc which appear to think that turning random text into indiscriminate buttons is a good idea. It's the worst of fad driven trends.

For example everytime I open up Apple TV app I have to button left and right to figure out which show is highlighted because the highlight is so subtle and I'm not 20 anymore. All the other TV apps are just as bad, much less the phone apps.
These are all interesting thoughts but I think that if society lasts another 10k years AND it has somehow lost knowledge about nuclear waste sites it seems pretty unlikely that it will then have the ability to dig up those sites.

We still have roman government records over 2000 years old. It's hard for me to believe that the current digital archiving of records wouldn't survive with society (barring catastrophic problems spelling the end of civilization).

If society doesn't last that long, I really doubt we'll get to a level of sophistication that allows us to dig up nuclear waste while somehow also losing access to old records.
We might be the last generation with a largely shared monoculture. I don’t know if that is better or worse, but the future will be different.
Ah, I misunderstood then.

Even risk mitigation isn't that expensive, though. 0.4% seems to be a common fee for insurance against chargebacks.
I wouldn't say most. And I'm no fan of echo chambers. We have to expect a certain amount of industry support in any mainstream social context.

The notion that the problem is the "academic/philanthropic complex" comes directly out of the same industry imagineering and is a common misdirect providing talking points that lead away from industrial disruption.

In other words, it sounds to me like you (or to be fair and more accurate: people who use similar arguments) are critical of mainstream misdirection but possibly unaware that they've also been just as duped.

In basic terms this point works, otherwise it wouldn't be a good ruse. The academy is easily corrupted and non-profits are mostly total shit. These are not trivial points to make in the picture. But they aren't paramount at all. They are not the cause and changing them will not solve our problem.
Microservices is one reason you need cells. If you haven't, the second talk I linked to might interest you.
The fact that a single car can even cause this much harm is a sign of a much larger problem: car centric transportation is NOT scalable.

They are testing this crap in TX and the roads here are shit, worse after/during rain events. Have seen multiple times where a traffic light goes out or the lines are not legible and the “autonomous” vehicle just sits there with its hazard lights on.
It's unfortunate for the potential purchaser of the business.

"Unfortunately, my friend ate his entire birthday cake." It's not unfortunate that my friend ate the cake (though it probably actually is, that's not why it's used there). It's unfortunate that I don't get to have any of his cake.
I have already before pointing it out, what more do you want?
You don't need to be a drug trafficker. They just need to plant evidence and off you go.
yes in the long run, claiming that reinforcing skin through diet and overall lifestyle is better than creams
I don’t program in Go, but this is the first I’ve heard of it being unsafe. I thought Go was a GC language implemented via the Go runtime and properly handles memory safety (memory corruption and OOB access). Are you using a different definition of safety here or is there something else that I’m not aware of?
> How much time does homeschooling take for you? Does it roughly equate to one full-time job?

It depends. I quit my job to homeschool my daughter so that she could practice and pursue her violin studies without the encumbrances of mainstream school. I suspect some could have done this and maintained some kind of a job; I couldn't. We spent much of the day either in school work, or practice, and then I'd prep tomorrow's material. Neither time nor energy was left at the end of the day.
Not sure when the cutoff is in your opinion, but FWIW they’d booked the place in 2022. AirBNB just apparently managed to yank the victim around for a year.
Tell HN: Easy and Effective Gmail Cleanup
My Gmail was nearing the 15GB free tier limit. I tried a few things to try to pinpoint the largest emails to delete, from searching for large attachments to writing code to count emails by sender. The problem was there were no large emails, just many thousands of often daily marketing emails. Identifying and deleting emails from frequent senders proved quite labor intensive.

In the end, the simplest solution was the most effective. I searched for the word "unsubscribe", selected all results across all result pages, and deleted them. I searched my Trash for a few senders I wanted to make sure not to delete email from, moved them back to the inbox, and I was done.

Easy.
I'd ask my friends to come and see an octopus' garden with me
So, no support for plugins. What's the upside then, considering that building static jekyll pages is a solved problem, even if it takes 500ms instead of 90ms?
CVE Numbering Authorities. Not quite a recursive acronym.
I do not like that they make open plans to slow down traffic, per the linked site.
You read too much into my initial post. I would not have been so blunt if it wasn't to point out the great irony of public schooling and its inception coinciding with modern nation states. I pose the hyperbole question because I see the greatest opposition to public schooling from Americans and religious peoples.

"everything sucks. And there is no cohesion between peoples."

Because at the same time I understand the brutal truth. The nations of today where this process of state centralization did not occur, or occurred under coercion from colonial powers are much worse off. And there people viewed as backwards or uncivilized unable to compete in the modern world, even though they admirably continue to resist modernity.

>"Given that you believe you learned the American national identity in a public school..."

I'm not American. I'm Canadian. And no I did not learn the national identity strictly through school, it was through the people I met at school. My peers, friends, etc. It was those interactions that were facilitated through the public school system.
So in this case it did work as intended :)
There's bias even in that wording though. They're not "artificial" diamonds. They're real diamonds, grown in a lab instead of in the ground.

Agreed with your broader point though. IIRC there's an economics term for this—goods that don't follow the standard supply/demand price curve, but where increasing price actually increases demand over some range. Ah, "Veblen" goods, apparently.
Just visited two nights this summer (from Denmark), and I must say it is a very nice place to visit either for a daytrip or weekend getaway. The Hven distrillery is worth a visit either for the resturant it self or for the tour of the distillery tour combined with a dinner!
It's a dark pattern to constantly solicit the user the same offer with no option to turn it off. Ie my windows machine constantly suggesting I switch to windows 11, using vaguer language than normal so that I may accidentally select yes, and having no opt out option so I may eventually concide out of exhaustion rather than real consent
Once there's feature parity, it'd be great to see more functionality added as first class features so that so many additional plugins aren't needed for seemingly common and basic needs. It's sad that Jekyll development pretty much all but stopped and any wanted features need to get shoehorned in via plugins.
i mean you could also just spin up a reeeeeally big compute node and just do it all there.

fewer things to monitor. fewer things that can fail.

just log in from time to time to update packages.

see, cloud doesn’t have to be complex.
>I don't know about WW2 USA, but 1970s USA was wealthier

You mean the average american was wealthier in 1977. The USA of today is wealthier than the USA of 1977, just that the wealth in more unevenly spread. Maybe fixing wealth inequality is something to look into, but who am I kidding, we both know that aint gonna happen.
The latest reply in this GitHub issue links to documentation and a example repo showing that tailwind is supported though
Yeah, that’s an easy thing to say. Try saying that to the love of your life and see how that works out for you.
Recent and related:

A place where no humans will tread for 100k years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37258178 - Aug 2023 (205 comments)
it is trivial to obstruct a camera, hidden cameras are a slam dunk for voyeurism [sex offense] charges.
Yes, immediate mode is supposed to be slower because everything is rebuilt / rendered every frame, this is a kind of brute-force simplistic approach.

A retained mode GUI could technically be much faster, even if I have yet to see one in the wild.
(a reference to his age, 99, and a common tactic on his game show, "The Price is Right", of bidding some dollar amount and 99 cents -- bids exceeding target value were disqualified)
Email client:

Thunderbird

What more do you need? Mutt is good for terminal usage too.

Or are you lamenting stuff like integrated calendar and what not?

>- Very messy to install software. The native "App Store" wouldn't work or connect, so had to resort to shell commands.

Software install is A) fundamentally messy if you refuse to read what is being installed, B) nothing to complain about given that the level of friction a developer has to go through for say, bloody Mac software releases is insane. For linux, a tarball download, path update, and linker path update is generally sufficient.

>-- Lack of suitable productivity software (which you mentioned).

I have immense difficulty taking this at face value.

>That's the problem with OSS, everybody wants to blame each other and nobody wants to take responsibility and deliver a complete experience to users.

Ya know what, maybe I've gone to the dark side in that the problem there is in the expectation of the user.

Most tools arise out of "it solves a problem for me" and we share. Maybe some distro builder has the passion to integrate things... Good on them.

You will never have a great experience using a tool you refuse to become proficient in, and computers are no different in that. The most toxic thing that happened to our industry os we suddenly seem to have drawn a line between Users and developers when in reality, there is only users.
There's also the problem that what's scary depends a lot on culture. Really hard to believe that somehow cultural traditions making a marking scary would somehow survive but the actual knowledge to know this site has nuclear waste wouldn't.
If mom & pop doing the labor wanted to retire by selling the business, they can't. What might have been an asset isn't. So they either keep working even though they are of retirement age, or they close up shop with a smaller nest-egg.
"Dark matter" didn't predict anything. Dark matter is always and every time an exercise in begging the question. Show me a single dark matter theory from first principles, that doesn't start with assuming the conclusion, and you will show me a dark matter "theory" worth considering.
A software engineer only needs to make those judgement calls in a bad environment. In a good environment, such situations can be discussed in the open.
First, we need major educational reform in this country. That said, the problem is that school must (in order to scale) by definition teach at the middle kid of any and all classrooms. This means some are always lagging behind and some are always somewhat bored. At home, a dedicated parent can teach any child more effectively because they are getting individual attention and level setting. However, I'd argue the point of school and college is far far greater than the acquisition of knowledge. I'm fine with parents having the right to choose but like most things in life there are pros and cons and one size doesn't fit all.
If the unmanned vehicles with multibillion dollar AI can be impeded by a $12-15 traffic cone.

This might be a sign that autonomous vehicles in highly dense, and urban areas is a huge fucking mistake.
The demands are provided "as is," too, so you have no right to complain about them.
UTM works much better if you can install the Hypervisor version via TrollStore. Unfortunately you can't do that with M2 iPads since they came with iOS 16.1 from factory and TrollStore only works on iOS 15.0-15.4.1

Luckily I have an M1 iPad Pro with iOS 15.3.1. Managed to install Oracle Database 19c ARM on Oracle Linux Arm 8.8.
(I have written you a long response, since I did not make time to write a short one)

First to say, the land across California is split in ownership and management between US Federal Agencies in total, the State of California, private companies for commercial use - importantly timber and electrical power, and other uses. Historically the slow-moving majority-owner Federal Forest management emphasized the value of forests as a crop by charter, leading to the now-infamous density and fire-abatement policies lasting well into the 21st century.

Things changed quite a lot legally in the aftermath of the 2017 catastrophic wildfire season that wiped out a third of a city, Santa Rosa, just North-East of San Francisco. The 2017 year's wildfire totals were +1.5 million acres. Only later to be exceeded in 2021, including the Dixie Fire "in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties started on July 13, burned a total of 963,309 acres, destroyed 1,329 structures and damaged 95 additional structures." (oddly, part of which was via arson by a CA college Police Criminology professor named Gary Stephen Maynard )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubbs_Fire

A legal document was drafted and signed, that resolved the cost and authority imbalances between four Federal and State Agencies under Governor Newsom. Next, by order N-05-19 from the Office of the California Governor (among many such orders), State Agencies and stakeholders are required to respond in writing, and on a regular basis, on what is being done.

https://wildfiretaskforce.org/

https://energysafety.ca.gov/what-we-do/wildfire-safety-advis...

The political document in effect now from Gov. Newsom / Sacramento is called:

california wildfire and forest resilience action plan_2021.pdf

There is more to say on the topic of management and liability, but let's move on..

High-tech constantly seeks to sell products to government, but actual progress is sometimes backwards in practice. This time, real advances were made.. for example:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/how-the-...

Please recall that the largest wildfire in the history of the State of New Mexico,
was a controlled burn gone wrong.. very wrong..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/17/new-mexico-...

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/20/1099625787/new-mexico-wildfir...

https://losalamosreporter.com/2022/05/05/rep-leger-fernandez...

The reigning academic heavyweight for Forestry and California Forestry, is Dr Scott Stephens, with well-over 100 publications on the topic. Reading a little more deeply, you might find a man who knows how to navigate between the powers that be, as well as do science.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nlwR8igAAAAJ&hl=en...

Current firefighting policy for public consumption might be found (somewhere) here

https://www.fire.ca.gov/our-impact
while richard spencer is a violent nazi thug, punching richard spencer has nothing to do with violent thuggery, it's an exemplary show of civic virtue
Why Meta’s SeamlessM4T AI model is exciting
So MIMI is a server-server protocol... even worse than what I thought, it is a "interop" client-server protocol which should be worked on.

Because signal or whatsapp, same same to me, I don't want them, but I would need to interact with some people there: namely create an account, and use a light open source client (not using any of those grotesquely and absurdely massive and complex web engines... and their SDK).

I have a very bad feeling about this. EU regulators seems to miss the point: in this very case, it is the client protocol which should be open, stable in time and super ez to implement by even a normal individual dev (not the TLS part ofc).

Then, there is the account creation or guest account, etc. A friend told me EU started to emit user specific certificates.
I missed it because the header to me looks like

> Something about ads

> Title

> Something I skipped

> Something about patreon

I dismissed it as "yet another part of the headers" and not as "part of the article".

I mean, to be fair, I was already aware it was removed from serde, but I'm pretty sure I didn't notice that box in the article the first time I read through it.
The last time this idea was re-floated in the 2010s was in reponse to Panama increasing their transit fees. The fees decreased, making the project financially infeasible again.

It's interesting that its an unnamed Chinese company who seem so keen to keep this concept alive and possibly influence the transit fees still.
If you’re interested in more about ‘math circles’: https://www.msri.org/people/staff/levy/files/MCL/Zvonkin.pdf
Ask HN: Good Tools for Photo Restoration?
I got some old undeveloped film digitized for my Mom’s birthday, but much of it is damaged/of poor quality. The resolution is low and the images are pretty “washed out.” I can’t help but think this is one thing GenAI should be super good at, but I’ve tried a few tools and been unimpressed with the results. Does anybody have good recommendations for this? Doesn’t have to be Gen AI, but I figured that would probably be the most advanced. I’m willing to pay a little money if it’s a good tool! Also willing to get my hands dirty and run something locally if that’s better.
Past the window where I can edit the comment, but Emmett (like Matthias) has two T’s.
Thanks for the response. That's an interesting study, but is it implying that we spend less time on websites because our attention spans are worse, or our attention spans are worse because most websites are more easily scanned, digested, and moved on from? Obviously the web itself has changed a lot in the past 20 years, not just people's supposed attention spans.

Honestly, ignoring that entirely, I don't see why we would have to measure attention span through a metric like duration spent on websites. Is it really so hard to measure it just by giving people a task and paying attention to when their focus shifts from it? And, supposing people are generally just as good at sitting down and doing a task as they were 20 years ago (so long as they don't get interrupted by their phones), is there something else people mean when they talk about attention spans getting worse?
The top of the article looks like a screenshot of a chat, where someone said something, then some text and then the same person said something. I basically skipped that whole part to look for the article beginning, and when I didn't find the title, I skimmed back up.

The title is kind of hidden as it is right now, and the "notice" on the top doesn't look like a notice. Maybe try making it more different than other elements on the website, and put it below the article title rather than above?
another good one thats even smaller:

https://github.com/piranha/gostatic
Sure, then we can also say Germany had another 250k. It doesn't change anything about what I said. https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Popula...
There aren't that many countries.

You could serve a static page, and the lookup could be done in the webbrowser itself.

Extra points for not using javascript, which is definitely not required to solve this problem.
It is a matter of time when some subsidized/national labs get some hefty grants to pick up the challenge, e.g. EU https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/i...
Python’s type annotations carry the same information, but explicitly. If fetch_users() returns a list of users, you know exactly what “users” is and whether it can be None.

Really, though, list.empty() is canonically spelled “not list” in Python. That’s the idiom to learn, read, and write.