skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wait, "generally considered a right-wing talking point" is this real?

Yes, at least within the US and the UK. In the US, it's definitely an issue that, if talked about at all, is 100% within the realm of the GOP, and in the UK (as far as I can follow its politics) a Tory thing. The issue is big in Japan and South Korea (China too), and I don't know how it maps to their politics. Would be easier to tell in places like Germany where they have a well-defined "right-wing", but language barriers make it difficult for me to determine.

> but I assumed everyone understands it's a bandaid solution that won't last once everyone experiences population decrease?

Have a conversation about it sometime. Here on Hackernews, elsewhere. Everyone is in either some strange form of denial or maybe ignorance about it, and refuse to acknowledge it. Apparently there is this magical, infinite well of people that we can just import to make up the difference that will never, ever go away, and if it does go away... aw well shucks, that's not so bad. And if it is bad, I'm glad the human race is going extinct anyway, they've harmed the planet.

> Regarding normalizing low fertility - I mean, it's not my place to tell anyone whether to have kids or not.

I'm a father. It is my place to say this, and I have. Since the very first day, well before they understood what the words were saying.

I don't just love my children, I like them. I want them to go out and make little half-clones of themselves someday. And anyone telling them they shouldn't is a monster.

> But yeah, was hoping I could find more reading where real work is being done

There are some instinctive reactions to this at the collective level. Various groups are withdrawing from society as much as possible to (in my hypothesis) quarantine their families from the contagion of these ideas. Homeschoolers, those trying to get away from cities and run off to the wilderness. I do not think they'll find much success. The biggest culprit, electronics, can't be easily taken away from children without crippling their economic success in adulthood, which is necessary if they are to become particularly fertile.

This is a complete shitshow. It's a slow motion train wreck that is, somehow, still too fast to escape. I do not know if it is a human extinction thing, or if we just end up reverting to some pre-tehchnological subsistence thing, but if they're still around your descendants 1000 years from now might look like cavemen.
Can't wait for the inevitable cases of people in extremis trying to drive themselves to a hospital from far out in the country dying on the roadside because their car decided that their driving was erratic or their behavior inside the car was unusual.
I wonder this too. Few hypotheses

1) great learning experience because you get fast feedback in terms of fidelity to the original, vs. the more amorphous goal of “good game”

2) nostalgia

3) creating an open source rendition is step 1 to the free-for-all modding utopia that people really wanted in the first place
> No TSA.

Yes.

> No license plate scanners.

Yes.

> No fare gates for trains.

Sure. A lot of places will do the fare check on the train.

> No locks on doors.

Well, no mandated locks. I hope I'm able to leave my front door unlocked if I choose. It's my door.

> No anti-shoplifting tags.

Ok. Again, I don't see why these should be required by law.

And mine:

> No compliance surveillance built into my possessions.

Yes.
Very insightful read, thanks for sharing!

I remember many cases when I was cherry-picking things on a slightly changed (with overlaps) HEAD and it just worked. So I had this intuition that it's smarter than a flat patch, but had no idea that it is a legit 3-way merge!

Slightly OT: I noticed that the git source code links in the article are referencing master branch. I think it would be better for longevity to fix a commit hash.
From T2 to Pebble: The Challenges and Lessons of Building a Twitter Alternative
I wonder this as well. I've never come across a real-world implementation of PASTEO.
That's the thing, I am pretty sure sure it's entirely evolutionary, without knowing anything about the project. B-2 with better stealth, engines, software, and hopefully lower maintenance costs.

Still more than any other country accomplished, but this is built on a solid foundation, without much departure. If anything, it's a mature, modernized B-2.
If you go back to phone calls only, you need a person earning a wage to sit on the phone instead of doing something else.

And then you’ll get AI bots making calls anyway (Google already does this)
I really try to understand what is new about that?
Isn't this the status quo for years now?.

They wanted to implement at scale warning system that identify alleged pirates through ISPs but failed. Then they now have to sue ISP for refusing to share information about individuals and will have to do this case by case so no large scale automated system. And this is very expensive. If I understand correctly then in such situations the ISPs will not send individual warnings. This means that my ISP can be sued to reveal my identify if I torrented Linux distribution iso files!! [1]

We live in a strange world!

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/nkztyv/copyright_not...
The thing I'm curious to see is this font feature being used while typing. I feel like the characters kind of "jiggling" behind your cursor as you type is going to be kind of weird, no?
The core difference between crypto and tradfi is that crypto is open and hackable (in the creative sense) by anyone without having to receive the permission of the gatekeepers.

To believe that that is a bad vision of the future betrays something of the exact pessimism about humanity and authoritarian bent that this article complains about.
Is there actually strong evidence that social media harms teens' mental health?

From what I can find, the correlation between social media use and mental health problems is small [1] or nonexistent [2]. There are few causal studies, and their results are even smaller, eg: halting Facebook usage for a month decreased depression by 0.09 stdev [3].

[1] "We found a small but significant positive correlation (k=12 studies, r=.11, p<.01) between adolescent social media use and depressive symptoms."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01650...

[2] "There was no association between frequency of social media use and SITBs [self-injurious thoughts and behaviors] however, studies on this topic were limited."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02727...

[3] "A study using an experimental design measured the effects of abstaining from
Facebook for four weeks in an adult population and found that there
was a slight decrease (SD=0.09) in depression."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01650...
> OnlyFans doesn’t have its on recommendation system

This is by far the most mind-blowing thing about OnlyFans to me. I’m a very open minded person and I would have been so sure that a site like OnlyFans would absolutely require discovery. Like, so sure that if I was making it, I wouldn’t even question including it. The fact they just offloaded this to every other site, and then took all the monetization is amazing to me. Twitter, Reddit and Instagram can barely get money from these users, but they’re super popular, and they just link to their OnlyFans on their profile.

I seriously wonder what other opportunities like that are out in the wild.
I'd think that a modest fee (like, five bucks ?) would filter out most of the robononsense.
The FCC voted to reimplement net neutrality. Now comes the hard part
Untitled Goose Game

Grab two USB SNES-style controllers ( 15 bucks / pair is available ) and put it in two player. My 5yo has been playing with me for about a year and we ( mostly on my work ) have reached the endgame lists, but he still wants to do funny things with the items you can move around and play silly tricks of people.

His latest thing was to take the bag of soil from the gardener and take it all the way up the creek. We were off doing some other silly task, and saw it floating down into the lake, and it made us really laugh.

I like that it has text and non-verbal cues. I have to read the lists to him, but he's starting to get that part. That part draws us together, and puts him on a track to make up his own "to-do" list in his own way.

Even though it is only one or two player, it's a solidly funny game to watch and becomes a family event.

https://goose.game/
Saving you a click: This seems to be about a court ruling in the Netherlands, and the "something worse" is that pirates' personal details can be revealed if the BREIN anti-piracy group makes a valid legal claim.
This is due to the fact that the intelligence & character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the community.

We could have a world without cashiers, you just take what you need from the shelves and throw the correct amount of money into a box. We could have a world without locks on houses, cars, and bikes. We could have a world with no trash on the ground. A world without police. I wonder what percentage of the masses prevents such a world.
What are you going to do about it? Nothing. You can do nothing about it. People are going to keep buying it, and "voting with your feet" does nothing. You don't matter to Apple. There is nothing that is going to be done, and this is going to continue.
I wish I could get paid, like as a job, to mint the headlines
Sorry about that--always a few bugs in the first rev. It's working now!
Neuroinflammation: An Astrocyte Perspective
There's an app called Dorsia, which lets you purchase seats at sought-after restaurants. The purchase is usually in the form of a per-seat minimum spend. They start at $75 per seat, but some go into the hundreds. This app solves a few problems at once: customers get to buy their way out of the seat-scouting process (keenly watching the apps for open reservations, walking in and putting their name on the waitlist, bribing the host, knowing someone with pull, etc), restaurants guarantee some of their seats go to high-spending clients (you could walk out with spending $35 at a good number of these spots), and companies have something to offer to their customers as a perk - Dorsia membership (the fancy gym chain Equinox gives their customers Dorsia access, for example). None of this is democratic, but that's the nature of luxury.

https://www.dorsia.com/
> with that dollar amount applied to your bill

that's smart, that way you get tricked into including yet another line item in your tip
How much simpler is a MIDI controller than a Sequential synthesizer?

By “simpler” I am thinking of making the actual hardware and software. Not thinking about making a lifestyle business out of selling them.
Clink: Bash's powerful command line editing in cmd.exe
The word "fertility" strikes me as a odd word to use for the average number children women in a population have.

"Fertility" relates to how capable something is of reproduction, not its willingness. It's not that human fertility is dropping (as this article implies with the use of the word), it's specifically that our desire to reproduce is dropping and our ability to prevent unwanted reproduction has greatly increased.

"Declining reproduction rates continues" seems like a far more accurate description here than "declining fertility continues".
That fee would just be passed from the scalper to the buyer of the reservation.
Pilot Accused of Trying to Kill Plane's Engines Recounts His 5-Day Shroom Trip
> IPv4 conservation charge

It's stunning, the hypocrisy that permeates Amazon now. I left AWS Lightsail for Oracle Cloud. When they announced Prime members would be shown Ads in movies and shows, we cancelled Prime.
I always make a reservation, because it really sucks to show up and not be able to be seated in time to eat while still doing something else that evening.

There are a few restaurants in my city that don't take reservations at all. I've given up on going to them because the wait for a table is always at least an hour long, and you can't plan any other activities around it.
Bureaucratic states are corporations too, brah. (Arguably more like AI than joint-stock companies, as there’s no one person in charge — just the collective incentive structures)
I’m trying to build that already personally. My plan is mbsync to Maildir storage, then process all emails using Haystack. Then trigger a pipeline on each new email with the goal of proposing some actions.

Still bouncing around various approaches in my head, but all seems very doable already.
people that reserve at restaurants also do what you just described

this has nothing to do with the crowd that is entangled in job and family?
Honest question - does git have to be as complicated as it is for most usages? The number of times I got stuck fixing (mine and other people's) git issues is way more than seems necessary. I have not used a merge at a workplace for so long that I forget how it works, because rebases make so much more sense. Git provides a thousand features and I find myself using only three. And yet mercurial (which I remember having a more streamlined UX) went the way of the dodo.
I live in downtown Reykjavik and unless you’re paying attention you miss most of them even the strong ones. Definitely more of a thing in Grindavík and I don’t envy the people living there although they’re probably used to it by now. The big earthquake a day or two ago did cause an exodus of tourists from the Blue Lagoon Hotel though.
I'm not IMDB.

Seriously, it's a matter of taste, which things/themes are interesting to you, and how they have been put into the product which 'occupies' your screen ;->

While Okkupert's technical production values were excellent, the pilot and first few parts were interesting because of the novelty of the EU sending the Russians to occupy arrogant Norway to ensure continuing streams of oil and gas, the rest wasn't IMO. Some some police procedural, some secret agent, polit crime thrill thing with some personal/family trouble under said occupation at length. Yawn.

What's blowing my mind? Not much TBH. I'm rather bored and jaded by most of it.
I think I’ll need to work up to it over longer than a week, I find it super hard to sit still. But I shall take on board your advice! Thank you!
That means you still need the original then? What am I missing? Or what's the material difference between downloading the assets and downloading the entire executable?
These are all barely layoffs.
You can get 64gb for less than $100 if you can use DDR4.
I think this is actually common now. I'm often asked to make a deposit on a reservation when using Resy.

I'm not aware that there is variable or dynamic pricing component to it, however. That's a great idea and something I bet they are considering.

In practice, dynamic pricing it is not a panacea. You still need to beat the arbitrage market. Charge too much: customers don't reserve. Charge too little: brokers snap it up.
See, and I see it quite differently.
I don’t do other people’s job without being payed.

You are supposed to run the whole payment process yourself. Become an expert yourself over time how to navigate all the issues and fineries of the system. You are doing a cashiers job. But no advantage for you.

Human tills have been removed and only because of that the queues on the self checkout are shorter. I am sure for some tasks self-checkout can actually be quicker but more often than not there is no difference or it can be longer.

So now you are standing there and have been good and done their job, for no reward.
And once a food price crisis comes up, will the supermarket remember your unpaid contribution to reduce their cost?

Really, don’t do other people’s job.
I can see that argument. If it wrecks these reservation scammers, it'd be better in the long run. But maybe restaurants aren't in the position (or of the mindset) to play a game of chicken like that (chicken is no game at a restaurant...)

But in general, the restaurants which are most affected by this scheme are the ones who are likely in the best position to do something about it. They may lose some customers who bought fraudulent reservations, which seems like not much of a loss. They may also lose some people who get mad about being questioned. But, in the long run, I think they'd win more fans among people who couldn't go to the restaurant at all when all the reservations were scooped up by bots.
It has been years since I heard any kind of positive take on working at Google.
> no show must pay

Out of curiosity, how does that work? When making a reservation do you have to provide your credit card? I highly doubt that given that it's Germany :) Seriously though, how do they make people pay?
In New York, reservations are often necessary. A lot of restaurants don't do walk-ins.
> At which point you won't have issues like kids being born out of selfishness because you need someone to take care of you in later years.

I want humans to exist 200 years from now, 1000 years from now. This means it's selfish if I have them for that reason too.

If people (on average) can't have children for that reason, then humanity will become extinct. It's not as if people have them for the reason of "aren't you supposed to have them!?" anymore.

Which, if you think about it, makes the "you're selfish to have kids" a sort of species-wide suicidal ideation. But then, non-suicidal people are sort of selfish, wanting to continue to keep living.
I've heard people joke that if a Finnish person just spends enough time in Estonia they start to understand it :)
"the masses" => "masses"
NB: git apply knows --3way, but the patch being applied has to record the hashes of the blobs it applied to when generated (which it will if it was generated by git).

git am also knows --3way transitively.
That’s pretty cool. If it were an auction it could do price discovery even better.
Feels like a little too much engineering for an MVP.
We who remember altavista and having to ask librarians for information do know.

Google search specifically transformed society in a way comparable with railroads. Impossible became easy. Days of planning turned into minutes or seconds of googling. It really changed the world.
Business questions worth asking
Which field will tell you that it's actually a perfectly fine idea, as long as you take correct precautions, and that taking them is literally what makes engineering a profession?

Jurassic Park wasn't a "don't clone dinosaurs" movie, it was a "don't be an idiot" movie with a dinosaur theme.
I really like SSM, and for specifically for Windows RDP, the port forwarding feature. When combined with SSO, proper policies and tagging, you can do away with SSH keys, bastion hosts and VPNs.
Meant as a derogatory remark against hot takes from constancies.
the secret is to already have a viable business and constantly sprinkle in the latest tech. trends to maintain the illusion of being something fresh and new.
Most automations are just lists of steps with very occasional branching/looping.

I think freeform graph is the wrong UX for that.

A vertical list like in Power Automate Desktop or MIT Scratch seems much better fit.
Now the Ambient mode toggle is also grayed out, along with the Loop video toggle, which still is.

Great. I need to find a better alternative to YouTube.
High end restaurants in my city and a few European cities I've been to recently required reservations with payment up front. At worst, the restaurant still gets the money if someone (like a bot account) no shows. This would be a pretty high risk endeavor to use a bot to reserve at these restaurants.

Maybe restaurants should go back to requiring reservations over the phone or in person. Or require an ID to match the name on the reservation.
Na, cause if it's scarce and you charge a lot it becomes desirable - is a psych trick.
JWT finds an 'extreme' glow coming from 90% of the universe's earliest galaxies
No don't do this.

Once I asked chatgpt to make some obfuscated+minified js readable for me. It did. I was blown away by how well it chose the variable names.

I started looking at this code to find the prod bug, but I found other bugs that I wasn't expecting...

I took a closer look and realized that the code it made was almost right, but also 5% wrong.

I wouldn't have noticed the incorrectness if I wasn't debugging for several hours before and had some general idea of what the pretty printed code did and did not do.
What's the US's take on it? We don't import much oil from Norway, and we're not historically big supporters of Russian aggression.

Let me guess -- Russia successfully lays the groundwork by co-opting one of the two major US political parties?
That will be a problem only for poor countries with old people.

Rich countries could easily import people from all over the world.
The first small modular reactor project in the US is dead
That would be too good to be true. It's in fact a smaller airframe with less range. Medium strategic bomber, not a proper one. Will still be good to go because new tankers will provide it with enough range and are available in large numbers.
Yeah, I'm using my own terminal, and my own editor. The terminal also relies on a font-engine I have heavily modified (I converted the original from C to Ruby). So I "control" the whole pipeline from the editor to the actual pixels, and on one hand it has all kinds of quirks I wouldn't wish on someone else, on the other hand they all have bits and pieces that are custom-written to fit exactly what I want, and which features gets implemented are decided almost entirely based on which little change feels like it'll immediately improve my life right now (and I'm not joking - I spend enough time in front of my terminal that fixing small aspects of the terminal or my editor does feel like it is making an actual improvement in my happiness).
Thanks! We have a few improvements to make around copy/paste stuff, array printing, etc. Thanks for the feedback!
A. E. Van Vogt wrote a lot of super-beings with psychic powers that in his "utopian" fiction were destined, biologically superior ruling classes and in his "dystopian" fiction were misunderstood superior beings who would have been destined, biologically superior ruling classes and instead killed for their psychic powers because they scared ordinary humans to much. In almost all cases, Van Vogt's much storied psychic powers were generally genetic and defined a new race more "elevated" than baseline Homo sapiens.

Also, I think Stross overlooked another Campbellian thread that tied A. E. Van Vogt to Campbell's publications: A. E. Van Vogt wasn't as central to Dianetics as L. Ron Hubbard, but did play a major role in pre-Scientology Dianetics (per Wikipedia that was including early involvement in some of the "alternative accounting" tricks that kept the company/franchise out of a couple of bankruptcies and eventually led to Scientology though he was semi-retired by the time it started to turn into that).
Probably lots of countries and people still doing business (and trading) in russia who needs RUB. So p2p crypto exchange or cash
23 people at Zillow? I don't understand why that made news. But man that sucks for those 23 people.
That doesn't fly as much as it used to. Our favorite places where I live mostly require a reservation; they literally stay pretty well booked. We know the owners (two joints, same ownership), and ONCE or TWICE we called him for help on a special occasion. Sometimes he can help. But that's not a card you want to play often (not in the least b/c, if you get a table because you're friends with the owner, my personal ethics dictate a fairly significant spend).
Please don't whip out your laptop in a restaurant.
I have similar issues with sleeping hot. I bought a similar open-knit weighted blanket from yaasa this year and really like it.

Having a small fan blowing air over me also helps quite a bit (the Vornado 5303DC has a remote and can adjust in 1% increments which is very nice for adjusting temp a bit during the night).