skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is Gen Z, along with the other terminally-online older people going to do with themselves if there actually is ever another recession? Gen Z'ers entire teenage and adult lives have been in a period of huge economic growth which continues today. They have no concept of how bad a recession actually feels. I suspect that this is a contributing factor to the vibecession: younger adults don't know what recessions feel like.

If this is the level of complaining happening during an economic expansion, what are they going to do in a contraction? When wages drop precipitously? When they send out hundreds of resumes and hear back on none of them? When having unemployed friends becomes ubiquitous?

Or maybe the vibecession isn't real at all and virtually everyone saying we're in a recession doesn't actually believe it and is just virtue signaling support for poorer people?
Even as a fan of Microsoft, rephrasing that as "the entirely legal thing they did that drove a competitor out of business" doesn't make me feel better about the outcome.
I’m surprised this is surprising or insightful.
> Your approach doesn't apply to the semantic web.

Not sure which approach you are talking about.

> Two dimensional non-tree graph are neat but in most cases at best a debugging tool or whirlygig.

That is what I was saying. Layouting and rendering general case graphs is a mess.
The development of lethal autonomous weapons utilizing artificial intelligence poses an unprecedented threat to humanity.

As algorithms and vast data enable machines to identify targets and make life-or-death decisions independently, with minimal human oversight, the world edges towards fully automated cyber warfare.

What are the strategic, ethical, and technological dimensions of this AI weaponization?

Can unrestrained arms races towards ever-more sophisticated killer robots be prevented before unintended consequences unfold? How could AI destabilize geopolitics or empower non-state actors?

Should autonomous targeting systems be banned like chemical weapons before use expands?
What’s deezer’s standing in all this?
Blue LEDs were deemed a huge breakthrough at the time; they enabled full-colour LED displays (think large panels viewed from a distance) by adding the long-missing B in the RGB.
A point I didn't notice in the comments is that Nestlé have replaced the previous biodegradable cellophane and foil wrappers with biodegradable paper, so this hack is no longer valid.
I think we are saying the same thing. I am not calling for California to end its state income tax either. I am suggesting that prop 13 was a disaster.

Hot take: One possible compromise is limit prop 13 to a single property maybe two bed two baths for the owner and each adult state resident also gets this "credit"?
I mean what the owner and every adult living in the household can help keep the property tax low but only for their own primary residence.
but beyond that raise the property tax every year based on property value.
> The article almost acknowledges this, but if taxes really are chasing away people, even more taxes gets you into a death spiral.

Maybe for a city like Detroit but California has something that most people, including most rich people, really want: great weather and lots of accessible nature. The other problems are solvable but geography is destiny.

This is the first article that has enough concrete data to make me worried but we've been through this before and the state is in a much better place than it was 20 years ago with Davis and Schwarzenegger.

All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
it's absolutely similar to file sharing, a bunch of free riders who rationalize that an extra copy of spider-man never hurt anybody
The pulp mills must run, that capacity is already paid for. Let us convince the chattering classes of their value to the human enterprise in putting words down to keep the presses running.

"Romance" literature is honest in its own provincial way. No pretensions to much besides entertainment and consuming printing capacity.
Books just take too damned long to finish for me to care about a progress bar. And I say that as someone who has played and leveled many characters in MMORPGs over the years (to my regret).
You're massively underestimating just how much wiring is in a modern car. The car industry has been trying to move to 48V for decades to save money on wiring and Tesla just succeeded with Cybertruck. High consumption devices like electric power steering, electric A/C, and active anti-roll bars all require huge amperage to run at 12V and are only becoming more common on cars.

Car makers project big savings in moving to 48V and it's going to become a lot more common.
That's one argument, another is they're filler to make people think paying huge sums is reasonable for what they get. If these classes were teste for and only given to those who need it, I could believe it was for student enrichment. This is rarely the real case, and many administrators will admit it.
Open Source = a Microsoft property... I don't want it to be true and I will act like it isn't true for things I have influence over - i.e. it's not the first choice for hosting a repository.

Some people don't even know the difference between Git and GitHub...
Cool, but once again it turns out that real life is not like a Dan Brown novel. No Illuminati, no antipopes, no buried treasure, just everyday activities that apparently needed some level of protection.
Is "fullstack developer" just "web developer"?
Jerry Weinberg mentioned that a filter he uses for choosing what to read is whether three people he trusts have recommended the book. I think his plan was more comprehensive, but this seems like a useful quality filter and it's one I keep in mind.
I left CA in 2016 and experienced none of this. I assume there is some specific trigger, or taxpayer ghosting, needed to trigger this?
ScheduleSort
A humorous take on sorting algorithms inspired by a programmer meme. This repository contains the ScheduleSort PHP class, a playful simulation of a sorting algorithm, It's a fun educational tool to demonstrate the importance of efficiency in algorithms and the amusing misuse of process scheduling. Includes the original meme for context.
>The page <title> for collections could stand to lose the "Browse free ebooks in the" preamble.

That looks like it might be search engine optimization.
What else would you suggest? Maybe “new” and “toil”
There's another article about it here:

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/science/earth-scie...

An academic paper with the solution here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2023.2...

The initial blog post about the piece of paper in the dress:

https://commitmentocostumes.blogspot.com/2014/02/bennetts-br...

For me this raises as many questions as it answers in some ways. I have no idea why it would be hidden away like that.
We watched the London countdown and fireworks on youtube and I felt annoyed by the fireworks a little bit and wanted to see more of the drone art. I agree, fireworks are archaic.
Ignoring other (obvious) issues, it’ll be interesting to see how people respond.

Do they seek different entertainment?

Does it lead to more or less socially desirable/adjusted behavior?
On the other hand, I learned a lot as a newbie.

Make mistakes, get messy, etc.
If I had a nasty rebase of A, then git isn't smart enough to figure out that the new A' commits are similar enough to the old commits to know to skip the old-A commits.
You won't be able to call Jenny with a typo'd number like that.
Yah it’d be great to combine the two and run it locally.
> you will have to remember scp flags. this is also bad. probably worse

Worse? How?

Hrm... If I don't use commands for a while, yes, I may have to remember them. If that's the tradeoff for one extra layer providing even a modicum of security... why is this a bad thing?

We have things like bash scripts... where you can just store the common flags you use for common things.

I wonder how often the author port tunnels over ssh? I usually have to go search for the syntax for ... 30 seconds. Then I have it. Or it might be in my history already.

"You might have to remember something" seems about the weakest argument against changing ssh ports I've ever read.
There’s a lot to unpack there, but TN has no income tax, a moderate sales tax and low property taxes.

That said, they don’t offer much (which is fine). Infrastructure is not really expensive compared to social programs. Maintaining infrastructure is often way cheaper than building new infrastructure. Where as maintaining social programs are massive year-over-year.

Look at California's expenses: https://open.fiscal.ca.gov/transparency.html

Most is healthcare (>=50%), followed by education (~25%)

Compare that to Tennessee https://www.tn.gov/transparenttn/state-financial-overview.ht...

If you look at Tennessee education is (>=40%) and healthcare is second (~25%).

From what I’ve seen the massive church network in TN combined with targeted social programs work well for TN.
This is a great addition to the conversation! I didn't know about the Peelian principles and had only a passing familiarity with the entire concept of 'policing by consent.' Living in the US, it is not surprising that this concept seems foreign to me.

Personally, I still take issue with the idea of locking other human beings in cages. I think a police force that strictly follows the ideals laid out by Sir Robert Peel is about as close to ethical as it can get while still having people whose full-time job it is to enforce society's collective will on others. I believe there will always be better conflict resolution techniques than violence. That being said, the Peelian principles do lay out a seemingly ideal compromise in a society haunted by trauma and violence. Maybe even a path to a society where we don't lock anyone in cages anymore.
I'm surprised you assumed that's what it was intended to be.
Some people already maintain some lists that you might find helpful [1]

[1] https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist
DC power never went away in serious ISP/telecom applications. It's more popular than ever. And things like the DC power distribution within an open compute platform standard rack, for large-scale numbers of individual small servers.
For me it's the alarm clocks or in-room tablets. So much annoying ambient lights in hotels. It's gotten crazy.
what do your prompts look like?
I guess I feel like there must be more going on though? It's not clear why a weather message would have been hidden away like that. What I read about it suggested that the weather code system was more for telegraph message "compression" reasons than secrecy, although I don't know anything about it so could be missing something.

My guess is that the message must have had some other meaning in some way, even if personal, or that there's something about putting paper in the pocket for tailoring reasons?

Maybe she just needed a place to put the message and forgot about it.
a combination of a 60" TV and an xbox series X or a PS5 is probably the most power consuming thing in a living room, an xbox of any type when actively rendering a game puts out a decent amount of waste heat. Nowhere near as much as a more costly desktop gaming PC, but still a fair amount.
So, speaking as a former Californian (albeit briefly, 1989-1992) and current Texan (over 20 years), I think that, while there are many substantive and important policy differences between the two states, none of them are the core reason why people leave California to come to Texas (or other states).

The core reason is that, even compared to places like Florida and Texas that have seen property prices go up a lot lately, California's urban areas are hideously expensive. The only way that I know of to fix this, is for a bunch of people to leave those high-density, urban areas. They could move to inland California, but if they're leaving the city they're in, they often decide to go to another (less expensive) city, in another state. This is the most direct solution to the problem of property being too expensive in California.

Not saying that California has perfect policies or anything, but their biggest problem is the runup in property prices caused by past successes.
Upward Earthquake Swarm Migration in the Northeastern Noto Peninsula, Japan
I agree completely. Listing to Art Bell as an adolescent likely factors into why I’m a skeptic today. I went deep down the rabbit hole in the early dial-up days thanks to Art’s inspiration.

I never found anything truly convincing.
Ask anyone in Austin, Frisco, Highland Park or any other remotely desireable area of TX about their “low” property taxes.

Those 6A schools don’t build themselves. But you can get Spain’s pension funds to build your tollways. God forbid WFH becomes a thing in TX.
Related Trivia : France stands out as one of the select countries that enforce a music quota system, which appears to be among the most stringent : a minimum of four in ten songs broadcast by domestic radio stations to be in the French language [1]. (link : it is this same french music that will be further supported by the new Tax)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_quota#France
It seems like maybe it's for SEO.
Square wave would be very noisy in terms of EMI
They certainly have a nerve to dilute and add an extra layer to an important public system.
Also the name is somewhat fearmongering, so many might prefer to sign up to this than the real thing.
Off topic, but tangentially related:

I was trying to use a modified Dijkstra / A* algorithm for this year’s Advent of Code Day 17 problem:

https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/17

I never got the right answer though because there was some issue with the way I was tracking visited nodes. I was trying to use north, south, west, east rather than row and column direction values like other solutions I read, but I’m stubborn and it seems to me I should be able to get it work storing cell (as a (row, column) tuple)), direction, and distance travelled (1-3).

If you did this day, how did you do it?
Very interesting. Are any of your lectures available online?
Show HN: Hook – a simple graphical C/C++ runtime editor
While helping one of my students create and iterate on a game in C using raylib, I realized there was quite a lot of time spent on experimenting with level design and colors, how the player moves, gravity, etc. and a lot of time was wasted making a change, exiting the game, recompiling, running the game, deciding his change wasn't right, and going through the whole cycle over and over. I could tell it was demotivating, and this process was creating a barrier that prevented him from experimenting to his heart's content.

I started this project to solve this problem by giving a simple gui to a few core features of lldb through the lldb api. Experimenting with changing colors, where blocks in the level go, how tall the player is, gravity is all now just a simple toggle or text field edit. The variables are modifiable while the program is running.

The project is still in its early stages, and so far only targets macOS.
Challenger was inevitable. The risks were known and there was an estimated loss of two missions.

I remember this being reported in New Scientist in the early 80s.

The Shuttle was - unfortunately - neither well-engineered nor well-managed.

I had a friend who worked on one of the early design iterations of the ISS. When I joked I'd get her a shuttle flight for her birthday she said "You'd never get me up in that thing. I've seen the plans."

Whether Apollo could have continued with no missions lost is an open question.
Spotify's balls are in the vicegrip of European music producers. They can never escape it. Hence their profits will always be capped.
Well said, excellent advice! Also when in doubt what could be of interest I think is not a bad idea to look at classics, at the moment I'm finishing "The Miserables". Can't remember why I picked it but I wished I read it before.
That makes sense. For example, with curl, I have been redirecting the output from stderr to stdout with 2>&1 and grep to filter.
Now, I am seeing the dots connected why apps like curl sends the output to stderr!
This does not fit my observations, in particular with respect to the aspect "they're all posting on social media platforms big and small, just like everyone else".
> I'd also advise against letting friends and family recommend books to you.

Family, sure. Friends, no, those are some of my most valuable book recommendations. My friends generally share my interests in at least some categories
Oh that would be unpleasant if you wanted deterministic behaviour - for example multiplayer RTS.
I just keep a ChatGPT session alive and ask it questions. I tell what I’m reading, eg, “the Prince by Machiavelli”. And then i ask it things like “what’s the context of the book” or “what other books deal with the topic in chapter x” or “I don’t understanding chapter y, can you break it dow for me?”

It’s like talking to a partner who’s read everything in the world.
Why 2023 was the year of the e-bike
Ask HN: Why is crypto wash trading legal?
The data on public attention and the latest run up in crypto are totally out of sync so it just seems to be a large crypto holders trying to restart the hype they saw before the previous crash. Why is this allowed?
> I can't listen on a different port.

And the author insists you shouldn't change ports any way. But seems to have no trouble just saying "use the security in your applications". Well... what sort of security is there in an IMAP server beyond "validate credentials"?

My other thought, reading the author's post, and having seen enough of this type of attitude, is that this type of person would be the one to say "just use... <external mail service>" or similar. "You can't ever do better than them!" Well... I have to suspect that techniques like fail2ban - blocking network access after X suspicious access attempts - get employed at the big service providers too. Possibly not fail2ban specifically, but the same ideas.
River: Streaming Remote Procedure Calls
Eh, I disagree. $10 to be able to have it this second on my Kindle vs. waiting to get the physical copy feels like a good value.
Definitely. There is no way a city like Tokyo or NYC leaves absolutely no evidence civilization existed 100 million years into the future if geology continues to change at the rate it has changed.
If it was $3 would you buy it today?
As a counterbalance, I'm very familiar with PyPy and have never heard "PyPI".

> one can argue it is bad name

I suppose one can, but it's a python interpreter written in python, so I think it's pretty good.
I mean semantic web is designed to turn the entire web into a semantic database. You could treat "your" parts of the web as DSLs in the simplest possible RDF/linked data and then link it to semantic web concepts (and other people can link it as appropriate), but I don't think you can create anything like a semantic web with standalone DSLs.

> That is what I was saying. Layouting and rendering general case graphs is a mess.

Yes, unfortunately and somewhat ironically since the web is a non-tree graph.
Some of the units in Brood War are legendary due to their bad pathfinding like Dragoon.
Recent related discussions:

Small joys of programming in Odin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36812175 (61 comments)

A Review of the Odin Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799499 (142 comments)
Who gives a fuck what Spotify wants?

These big platforms always threaten to “pull out” of markets when regulated. Facebook has pulled the same shenanigans over paying publishers and so on.

I think we should take them up on it. There are many alternatives.
This seems to work well for me when I only have a single (highest priority) project for the next couple months.
But as soon as I have competing priorities, the context switches (or scheduling overhead) kill all the momentum that I could build up with small increments.
Huge fan of Odin, true C successor. Much better ergonomics and fun to program than say Zig. But needs the following in my view -

- A way to generate bindings automatically from C Headers or even better - not having to generate bindings separately and just import C headers directly.

- Better tooling and standard library improvements.

I think Odin & Nim are my two favorite "modern" languages but they fill different niches. I see Odin as mainly replacing C while Nim is more a C++ replacement (but with Python like rapid development). I'm always amazed at how productive Nim is but the language has many areas that I'm not familiar with (the AST Macros for example). But Odin mostly fits in my head.
Absolutely. But with the voltage 10x as high, the current goes down 10x, too, and the power loss goes down, too, while the power stays the same. That's how things run on AC normally.
E621 isn’t even mentioned in the article, but of course it comes before pornhub in the title on HN X3
Propane
tex's metafont format might be simpler or more complex than truetype, depending on your utility function. sdf fonts are clearly in the range you want, as several commenters have said, and likewise for proportional and scalable bitmap (and grayscale, or color) fonts. also worth mentioning are stroke fonts, especially hershey fonts, and polygonal outline fonts without beziers

finally, an approach that's conceptually simpler that i've never seen used (though metafont comes close) is to represent the font as a subroutine in a turing-complete bytecode that takes a glyph index as input and produces an image with font metrics data as output. something like the universal machine from the cult of the bound variable is only about a page of code. this requires you to put the bezier rasterization and polygon filling code in your font file instead, so it doesn't simplify the total system
This is essentially my problem. I started writing programs at a young age and was introduced (unknowingly) to many more advanced mathematical concepts from that perspective rather than through pure mathematics. What was it that helped break this paradigm for you?
John Deere built one as an experiment. https://youtu.be/OJ9xKxAtDa8?feature=shared

deere employee, but not speaking for the company.
how was Hawaii?
Better user experience and many styling options are counterproductive for the UX.
Found it!

https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-17630?focusedCommentId=925...
Personally: Yeah, I think that would be a good use of tax money. I'd love to see systems like this (as well as ones like covid contact detection) built by governments, in open source, and I literally mean goverment__s__. I'd love it if they had strong encryption and privacy preservation.

Practically: they aren't doing it, so does that mean it shouldn't be made? Government also seems pretty captured by industry (not just US) who are more interested in profits than utility. Sadly that's supposed to be where governments should shine the most as they are supposed to have different incentive structures.

Best note(?): Seems when incentives align and there isn't strong capture that the two can work in tandem pretty well. But that seems more and more rare these days. In fact, this particular app works with JMA (government).

Additional note: But couldn't we also say the same thing about texting, calling, and even email? Are these not social goods? In fact, even in some ways the government does this. It's why the USPS exists, which is not a profit seeking entity and services places that UPS and FedEx don't. Also, the US gov donates to Signal (and Tor and some others) under the Radio Free Asia program. The intent is to get people under oppressive regimes encrypted communication so they can organize against tyrannical rule. But this also causes conspiracy around Signal (and Tor) because there are larger factions of the government that want to destroy encryption. This also creates a lot of distrust, especially among Americans, so would we/they have trust in such a system?
Brilliant.

This is my dream

How did you go about achieving this?

any suggestions for a novice e.g. programatic SEO & affiliate income