skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Readership

If you write a blog post, how do people become aware of the blog post? Relatively few people follow RSS feeds, so you also need a social media post linking to the blog post. With such a link, there's only one opportunity to go viral, one opportunity for each person on social media to see the link to the blog post. Whereas with a long thread of multiple short social media posts, there are many opportunities to go viral, one for each post of the thread.

2. Ranting vs. Research

Speaking only for myself, I consider my blog to be my "permanent record", whereas social media is my fleeting thoughts. Indeed, I frequently delete my social media posts, whereas I almost never delete my blog posts. I have blog posts going back to 2006. And I typically spend a lot more time writing a blog post: not in terms of the technical aspects of writing, e.g., typing, but rather in terms of thinking, researching, ensuring that everything I say in the blog post is accurate and well-supported, with external citations when necessary. Just look at Dan's own blog post here: you'd never see that same level of organization and citation in a social media thread.
Can you share a picture of this?
I did, but I had to click a lot to understand.
People who like to talk politics absolutely everywhere have ruined every single social network I know. "No politics" is probably the most intelligent way to go.
What standard library? ;)

There is a "turn code into object file using compiler" C++, that is much different from "committee vision" C++, and until recently (probably until initializer lists), -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -ffreestanding did not emmit standard library symbols, except maybe static initialization.

Current C++ is being glued to library like crazy, look at continuations...
> FB, Linkedin, Pinterest as well. All of these walled gardens are "built on the shoulder of giants", whose work pioneered the open internet.

Very true. Using the openness when it’s convenient and actively shutting the door behind you, it’s one of the most morally reprehensible things that one can do in a shared ecosystem.
Lucky you. In our public school district, English test scores are slightly lower, Math is at about 30%, and Science is below 20%.

Passing rate is 99%.
> There's no money in making a thing that works well, only in making things that look good.

I work in a company building vending machines and such and it's the other way around here. Most products are shipped with a pretty mediocre UI because it just isn't valued. The software has to run the machine, vend products to people and don't eat their money.
Israel is already genocidal. I am not in fact aiming at dismantling israel. What I am saying this will happen anyway, if West won't change its approach.
The only thing on the ASVAB the Army cares about is the GT score. When I took the test as a dumb high school kid I was only smarter than 79% of the population and had a GT score of 107, which is too dumb to become an officer. Many years later after almost 7 years programming full time in the corporate world I retook the ASVAB. Then I was smarter than 98% of the population and had a GT score of 129. The max is 130, so I may have had the highest GT score among test takers that year.

The GT score is comprised of combinations of several different segments of the ASVAB of which the most important is applied arithmetic. Those are math problems in paragraph form that requires careful reading and multiple steps of very simple algebra like calculating pricing for a retail purchase and deduction of the coin denomination in return. The challenge there is just finishing the test because they, by design, do not provide enough time.

EDIT

I just want to point out that I did not become more intelligent as I got older. My ability to read and instantly formulate logic substantially improved as I got older through practice. Those, reading and logic, are skills and the performance improvement is permanent.
Best joke I've heard this week.
Not every project is commercial.
If you're sending things to JLCPCB for manufacturing, easyeda.com is useful. I find the editor somewhat annoying, but the component library is huge, and you can easily order PCBs from JLCPCB and components from LCSC. (They're all the same organization.)

I personally prefer KiCAD, but use easyeda.com when I don't have KiCAD around. The new nudge router in KiCAD is pretty nice.
> Summer are very long, nights are hot, makes it hard to sleep well.
I don't have enough money to install AC. Mobile AC is too noisy.

Did you try sleeping in hammocks already? It's a solution that works reasonably well for me.
We have a lot of existing stuff ("political stuff" like cabron pricing, or "technological" stuff like double glazing or heat pump) that already make sense economically that we don't use fully. How AI deeply impact it ?
Except for 70th percentile and below down to the 40th percentile
Not sure that would fly with the likes of SH, Gaddafi, Turkmenbasy, Mugabe, the Kims or all those african tin pot dictators.
Do you have anything good to say about it?
> with Steam’s DRM removed

How is this done? Just asking out of curiosity, I thought it wasn't possible. That could open up games to being backed up in case of account loss. But it probably wouldn't work for games which are actually just going through third party launchers?
I grew up in Dublin, these are all over the place there. I particularly like the one in Loughshinny, there's a rope hanging out the (metres above the ground) doorway, and you can climb in to explore.

The floor inside has collapsed, but you can shimmy around on the ruin of an interior wall to get to a spiral staircase, which brings you up to the gun platform up top. No gun left, unfortunately :p. There is a murder hole* though.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_hole
For the most part, my views on migration are "why do we even have borders?" (And then I look at humans choosing to be all Machiavellian to each other and am sad for a bit).

Given we live in a world with borders where nations try to subvert each other to their own interests, I think training migrants to use weapons you give them is going to be a great way for, say, America to give Mexico a military for free. (As a European, I think this would be hilarious… but more as a plot for a Peter Sellers film rather than as actual news to wake up to).
Guess what? I've developed a web app that I'm super excited about.

Introducing HuberMind AI

This web application isn't just another tech creation; it's a journey into the mind of one of the most inspiring neuroscientists of our time – Dr. Andrew Huberman.

Why Dr. Huberman, you might ask? His work in neuroscience and biology has always fascinated me. His ability to make complex scientific concepts understandable and relevant to everyday life is nothing short of extraordinary. So, I thought, why not bring his persona and knowledge into an interactive AI experience?

Here's what makes this webapp special:
Personalized Responses: Using AI, the app mirrors Dr. Huberman's style and insights to answer your queries on neuroscience and biology.
Accessibility: Whether you're a student, a professional, or just curious about how our brain works, this app brings neuroscience to your fingertips.

This project is more than just code and algorithms; it's about making neuroscience friendly and fun. I’m really excited for you to try it and tell me what you think!

Github : https://github.com/arjun-ms/HuberMind-AI
More accurate to say FB and any platform that uses Like/View/Follower/Click counts as a Signal of High Quality to the entire population automatically has no control over what emerges.

People have been talking about this for 15+ years now, without proposing an alternate Signal of Quality.

It's probably not possible if you give everyone, as social media did, the ability to Broadcast to the whole planet. For free.

No one had this ability in the past. You had to buy spectrum or a news paper or TV studio or satellites etc.

So we have everyone broadcasting contributing massive noise and a highly unreliable mechanism to Signal quality.

We can crucify Zuck but it won't change the fact no one is proposing alternate info flow architecture for the net.
1. My motorcycle (BMW R1250GS) - Hoping on and going in any random directions you want, far away or close, on whatever road you choose, paved or not, it's the ultimate sense of freedom.

2. My Camera(s) (Fuji XT2/X-E4) - With my favorite prime lenses. I usually always carry one with me wherever I go, capturing moments with them beats any phone camera, and not just in terms of quality, but in terms of intent, it feels that there's a stronger connection with the photo.

3. My keyboard (HHKB Professional Hybrid (type-s)) - It is just so nice to type on (I've tried and have a bunch of other mechanical keyboards but I've always came back to it, 10+ years now)

4. Neovim/vim (+ tmux)- So fast and smooth and customizable (Although I think I finally stopped changing my config), I've been using it for more than 15 years now, still cannot let it go.

5. Airpods Pro - It took me a long time to press the buy button, initially I felt that they looked stupid and it was just another overpriced Apple product, but I bit the bullet and I've _always_ had them in my pocket. Just being able to pop them in when doing random chores, on quick walks, it has become a must have.

6. Sennheiser HD650 - for when I am in front of my computer, had them for so many years I don't even remember what I used before.
> Especially how many circles are today actually boxes with a large border radius.

HTML is all about rectangles. If you want circles, your choices are a straightforward CSS border-radius, or an SVG <circle>. And let me tell you, if you can just slap style="border-radius:50%;overflow:hidden" onto an <img>, or faff around with <svg>, <image>, <clipPath> and <circle> (or maybe you can even use clip-path="circle() fill-box" these days, can’t remember if support is there yet), I know which a sensible person will prefer.
It’s been 200 years and untold amounts of R&D money thrown at this incredibly lucrative, huge industry. It’s not budging much beyond what it is.
There are two explainationa for apple deciding to make checkboxes round:

- they don't know the difference between radio buttons and checkboxes

- they know the difference between radio and checkboxes, but don't care

I don't know which of those is worse.
I'd think, if you need rapid, real time response to external signals, you don't use interrupts, since then you usually need it to be deterministic as well. Either use 'nother micro, a spare core, given specialized hardware (e.g. the PRUs in TI's sitara MCUs, the PIO of RP2040, P8X32A) or roll your own (these days probably using FPGAs).
Yes, I have an old computer running my favorite Linux distribution as both a Plex server and a Samba file/print server. In the future when I am flush with cash I will do it right with a proper NAS solution.
>the world's ownership class is NOT going to allow any significant mitigation of petroleum use.

"We" - the Western voting public broadly, but also much of East Asia too - are the owning class. If you actually removed everything in our lives that depend on petroleum products, it would be a riot before the end of the month. I don't think people quite realize how much of our lives are propped up by the downstream products of oil. It's not just moving people in cars and most of electricity generation and wrapping our food in plastics; it's most of our food production (from fertilizer to mechanization), most of our biochem stuff (so much starts as natural gas), most of our infrastructure.

Without oil, the West is shivering in the cold, the shelves are empty, there's nothing to do, nowhere to go (or really, way to get there anyway) and practically no healthcare.

You square that circle, you let the rest of us know. But we won't (and should not) accept any future like that.
The original problem being that it should have been 2024 - 42.
It’s not even true that you can’t update an Apple Watch without an iPhone.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204641
reflect.app is better than logseq/obsidian
A kobo for reading (kindle was getting too restrictive) and a custom built gaming computer (same, off the shelf computers and laptops are also getting too restrictive).
> it's because the left has been attempting to make progress too fast

I think social progress is linked to technological progress (increased communication, education, etc.) and it is absolutely true that technological progress is on a rocket headed to the moon.
What does the 2035+ version of this look like? Seniors pushed to VR UIs?
Climate change is a catastrophe, but it's not going to be the apocalypse and if we keep working on mititgation, there is a good chance it will merely be a "normal" scale disaster.

For example - it's possible that tundra methane emissions in many areas could be mitigated relatively quickly by the regrowth of birch and pine scrubland whose increased evapotranspiration will reduce water tables and eliminate methane emissions. And aboveground carbon sequestration in woody tree mass could outweigh losses from belowground oxidation. This already occurs in fenlands in Southern Finland (paper I read)

We don't know enough about methane hydrates to assess their stability.

Many ecosystems will be reasonably resilient to climate change - maybe up to 2/3 of them, although some specific species groups like tropical amphibians are going to have a really bad time.
Toggles are better than checkboxes imo, but checkboxes are a lot harder to mess up design-wise. It's really easy to make a toggle that makes it completely impossible to tell if it's on or off.
Say what you will about the content of the rationalism movement, but they read and comment on each others’ long form writing- no twitter or reddit needed.
Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe
I never worried particularly much about climate change, but just to hedge my bets for my kids I moved to northern Europe. For the most part it's just equated to milder (= bearable) Winters and nicer summers up here.

I guess we also spend a fair bit on moving to renewables up here - Finland achieved energy self sufficiency last year thanks to a good combination of nuclear + solar + hydro. If I were an ideologue in either direction I'd probably say "that's the real reason I moved" or "can't believe they're waiting my tax money on this", but I'm not, I'm just a guy who likes hedging his bets. The nuclear is especially nice because cheap electricity is the true backbone of society, and we've seen the market prices go straight up _negative_ a few times due to overproduction.

Self recommending! Come to Finland and help us build a stronger democracy, whatever that means to you.
Yes, that is exactly the mistake that GP is elucidating.
What Good Friends Look Like
I'm a James Joyce fan, but I had no idea until now that Fort Denison here in Sydney Harbour is a Martello tower.
what if a barrel of oil becomes
the new engagement gift?
The video link was correct at the start. I believe that OP has decided to change it due to rate of doomism and rising depression levels.
> I think you gloss over one of the most important aspects of engagement - feedback and recognition. Publish a blog post, and a handful of long-time followers might comment. But publish an even moderately popular/contentious twitter thread, and thousands of likes and comments roll in.

Engagement was the #1 reason that Dan mentioned.
I'm not sure why they think Americans are a good standard of living. If we want people to be 30+ percent obese, unhappy with dating and the stuff we ordered to have shipped yesterday.

There's programs to give efficient LEDs from comed to people for changing it slowly.
I think you shouldn't equate "didn't graduate" with "can't graduate" - I feel that a large part, perhaps most, high school dropouts didn't drop out because of various social issues, and for a young person without a high-school diploma, very likely lack of money and potential jobs, and very likely a lack of a supportive home environment, the army can provide a stable employment and a community that has its issues but is likely less abusive than whatever home environment prevented them from graduating high school.
Is 1+ enough of a trend to disregard most of the models? Is there no other explanation for the "new paradigm" of accelerating warming? You're saying that extreme warming scenario is now the correct science. I don't think there is a consensus about this.
Aren't we hypothesizing a situation where there is no (or a much reduced) Greenland ice sheet? I'm imagining "hey, look at all this bare rock that's suddenly available, and it's gonna take a couple of thousand years for erosion and lichen to develop soil here, so lets take a short cut".

I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm saying it's a theoretically possible idea in the face of an extinction-level event.
This is not the exhaustive list of my favorite things, but lists a few of them.
I have not tried this with games that require Steam for multiplayer access. I use two commonly available applications to do it. One is to use Steamless to clone the games exe and another emulates the two DLL files Steam uses for drm.
Ah, you're right. I was too lazy to check. (I also don't know if the calculation of the coordinates is correct.)

Definitely not "southeast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia" because it's in New Brunswick and a few miles west of Nova Scotia.

Doesn't seem "deep into the northern wilderness" either, it's five miles from the sea.
Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)
By removing agency from humans.
The problem is not the CPU architecture, it's everything else: no standardised boot mechanism, no hardware enumeration at all, proprietary blobs everywhere, no mainline kernel support, no vendor support 6 months after launch, etc.

And yeah, I do in fact have an x86 router: it's probably going to last for a decade, with software updates and all.
The toolchain and OS I primarily target at my current job doesn't support exceptions. I can stil benefit from all the other aspects of C++ though.
> This way the market will solve the problem

Capitalism has shown itself to have a complete inability to correctly price in the value of ecosystem services and the costs of environmental externalities. The profit cycle also operates on too small a timeframe for these climate issues.

Thinking the market will save us is just a convienient pipe dream.
What'd you find restrictive about the Kindle out of interest? I quite like mine for reading, but admittedly I don't do anything very advanced with it
Let’s write the final score on the earth in giant digits so it can be immortalized.
I'm not really sure what is meant by "avoiding static typing" in Python -- it's just like saying "avoiding unit tests", which is done by not running them (or even writing them) in the first place.

Python is strongly typed, but it does not mandate static type analysis -- unlike most other typed languages, where it is mandatory at compilation time. But if you choose to use it, there are tools which will run it for you at any point in time (mypy being the reference implementation). You don't even have to write any special annotations for that: the checker will try to infer the type when possible, or use Any when it isn't.

The crucial thing to understand is that Python is still dynamic at runtime -- there are no checks that an argument is of the correct type defined for the corresponding parameter. So your program can fail the static analysis but correctly run in practice, unlike most other statically checked languages.

Another effect of the above, which is often overlooked, is that many developers tie themselves into knots to get the type annotations right on unit tests. This is completely missing the point, as unit tests and static typing are at completely cross purposes: while static analysis evaluates, as the name implies, the code in its static state, the unit tests only make sense when they are executed, i.e. at runtime.

So the practical rule of thumb, learned from practice, is:

1. Regularly run the static analysis on your application (and library) code, adding any necessary annotations, to weed out various problems that might arise from mismatched types.

2. Write thorough unit tests -- ideally with plenty of property tests with tools like hypothesis [0] -- and run them regularly.

[0] https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io
> (extracting oil -> refining fuel -> burning fuel -> sequestering carbon -> storing said carbon underground), the whole cycle probably provides negative energy

Very straightforwardly true. But if you add some steps: having an industrial revolution -> developing technology -> manufacturing solar panels or other renewables on a massive scale -> collecting energy for the carbon sequestration - you could imagine the human race coming out ahead.
There's lots of room in Northern US, Canada and Russia. Not sure why Greenland and Antartica would be the only living places on Earth. There's also the Rockies, Andes, Himalayas and other mountain ranges. That's some extreme doomerism. I doubt most of Earth will become uninhabitable. Some places will be harder to maintain larger populations and grow crops.
I'm a fan of the term "toy", in a similar lens as "executive toy"
What to expect from 2024's rare double brood emergence of cicadas
* Logseq for notes

* trydeepwork.com for focus

* Google Calendar

* Next.js for frontend

* My high performance PC

* My pixel 4a

* My MacBook Pro 13
When was your last flight and what's your usual mode of transportation? Transportation and heating/cooling use the most.
I really like keeping a knowledgebase full of notes and all the cool files I've come across. The collection is growing steadily at about 2GB/year. I'll never read all the PDFs I've saved but I just like having them.

I also really like self-hosting my own stuff on my own server/network. Feels nice to tinker on it for a while and end up with something nicer than you could get by using proprietary/cloud stuff.

Emacs is most definitely on the list. I'm using EXWM so I never have to leave Emacs.

I love designing and fixing stuff. I love carpentry, metal fabrication, programming, sysadmin stuff, and other more abstract forms of architecture like designing my PKMS hierarchy or standardizing everything for a company.

I love opposing social hierarchy. I think it makes the world a better place to help others escape their oppressive situations. Not that I'm in much of a position to be helping people escape domination, but it's nice to try when possible.

And finally, I love marijuana. It makes life manageable. Best medicine for me that I've ever found. I think I'm simultaneously addicted to it (because it's a nice high) and benefiting from it (because it genuinely helps mitigate life-impeding symptoms of health conditions).
> If you write a blog post, how do people become aware of the blog post?

There are other solutions to the readership problem with independent blogs. I am trying to start blogging this year and am using Ghost as the CMS. I pay for the hosted solution that is $11/mo and provides readers the ability to subscribe for email updates. This isn’t a unique feature to Ghost, several other platforms support this too. I can say Ghost makes supporting this trivial.
Well it's not an issue with IPv6 specifically, rather with companies not deploying it.