skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we can stretch the metaphor to a number of frogs in the pot, and the frogs need to work collectively to escape the pot. It is hotter in the middle of the pot, the frogs there are already in the panic, while the frogs at the sides are like "I sincerely hope you get the help you need. You dont have to feel like that."
Non-paywall: https://archive.is/3P0c6
The Plot Against Einstein
We had OG Einstein and Mozart and Erdős and many others before we hit 5 billion.

People are having fewer children, as living conditions, education, and acces to TV increases the reproduction rate falls.

Ideally we'll level out at 6 billion or so.

You haven't given any good reason why the earth should squeeze as many upright aquatic apes on it as possible yet.
May be, in fact terrible, ot may be, in fact, absolutely normal.

Those are emotional definitions having absolutely nothing in common with the situation
A lovely freshly washed butt is your favorite thing.

This is why I read hacker news.
Habr IMHO has become shit because lots of Russian IT, the very best ones, have left Russia since 2022.
> put chemicals in the air 24/7

That is super funny to me. That people obsess so much about food while they are living in the city and various poisons have direct contact with their blood on their every breath.
Say thank you to the advertising industry ("is this video long enough so we can slap a midroll ad in it?")
Covid was no joke, 3 million people died despite the entire world grinding to a halt and hiding in their houses for months. Sea levels are up 10 cm since Gore was VP and it's accelerating.
What’s not true? Fossil fuels are and will be the best energy source for a long while.
Not a biologist, but won't the tropical amphibians migrate away from the equator? It seems to me that polar bears and penguins have bigger problems
Or rather, it was simply designed correctly.
Not having to use all sorts of NAT traversal hacks or use relay servers means P2P communications like video calls will be faster, but only if both sides are on IPv6, so yes, it’s a bit of a chicken and egg. Most mobile phones are dual-stack now, and apps like browsers do “happy eyeballs” where they attempt both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously and pick the best.
Ok, but... your post did specifically mention "likes and comments", not session length and repeat visitors.

Besides, Dan also talked about "Revenue", which I presume is what digital marketing folks are concerned with.
People have different ideas about life. If you can get a 9-5 job that pays the bills why join the military and be deployed overseas for months on end not being a part of your family?

The civilian sector has the same problem with truck drivers and maritime shipping.
I've worked with many that have retired and entered the private sector. My understanding is that they continue to make their tax-free enlisted salary (via their pension) after retirement on top of whatever they're making in their private sector job. For high-ranking officers, this can be >$100k!

Many of these folks have second homes, a small RE portfolio, and more!
> fully open hardware phones are coming too.

Do you have any reference? Not that I don't trust you, I'm actually curious because that would be the #2 conquest of the century, right behind AI.
- my cat. Absolutely best investment of time and money ever. Highly intelligent and equally stupid at the same time. Endless hours of happiness and laughter

- 1440p 120Hz led monitor. Right balance of FPS for gaming and high resolution & color accuracy for work

- adidas stan smith white shoes. Absolute workhorse and great for my previous disc back injuries. Donate old pair every 6 months once worn and buy a new. Goes with everything and all occasions.

- google home mini next to my bed. Use it for light music at night and morning. But mainly for waking up “hey google, set an alarm for…” (don’t want to pick up phone first thing)

- Obsidian. Been using it for last few years. Bought Sync. Since spot for my notes and thoughts. Work or personal. Habit is more important than tool (which has been pointed out by many here too)

- casio f-91w. $22. Have one at home, one in my travel backpack and one in office. Cheap enough so I can distribute keep. Faster to see time than phone and chimes at every hour so I know my next meeting is starting (was always late for meetings in the past)

- flighty. I travel a lot for work and this is consistently better at telling me when flights get delayed, all my info and sharing with family and loved ones where I am in the world. And vice versa. UI is beautiful.

- Libby. Singapore National Library is a goldmine for books, international papers & magazines and audiobooks. At $10 initial registration fee for library membership setup (annual fee is $0 for residents and $40 for foreigners), this is the most value add item in my life.

- a bookshelf. Crammed with more books than what I can read. Mostly sci fi, fantasy, graphic novels and special editions. The colors make me smile everytime i walk past

- omnidesk standing desk. XXL version. The extra large size gives a lot of space for me to put stuff and a generous space for my cat to spread out.

- Hacker news. First webpage of the day usually. it’s the best implementation of what a “online community” is and delivers to its members. Please never change anything in it. Its perfect.

- Katong. It’s the area I live in Singapore and best implementation of what an “real world community” is and delivers to its members. Great folks in the neighbourhood, great bars/restaurants/cafes/unique shops, great shop owners who are super warm, great community meetups (tech, artists, foodies,etc), great weather, next to the beach, no high rise buildings, near to city center, near to airport

- a daily 5 min phone call from/to mum to see how I am we are doing. Been a ritual for the last 6 years and counting.
Mass extinction events have happened many times before. The tragedy here is that it is the first preventable mass extinction event. If speaking about it in self-centered terms gets people to act then we should do it. Pragmatism is essential.
"Who signs off on such crap?"

Cynical me: people who benefit from the deal and don't have to use it themself.
Do you mean the exterior door beeping (officially known as a "hustle alarm" in the rail industry - now you know)? There has been a wave of adapting or replacing train door controllers to comply with the latest disability regulations recently. But all motorised train doors that I know of in the UK have had a hustle alarm.

I don't much care for the new "compliant" controllers though, not least because the sounds they emanate are quite unpleasant and often much less nice than the ones emitted by the door systems they replaced. Older hustle alarms, etc. sounded like they were produced by something at least slightly polyphonic, whereas all of these new systems seem to produce all of their sounds via an ear-piercing piezo buzzer only.

Besides the hustle alarm there's the sound to notify you the doors can now be opened (often not present on older, non-compliant systems, but now seemingly deemed required). I was always fond of the sound the Class 365/465 Networker used for this - an actual mechanical bell, which produced a pleasant sound. Of course it's now been torn out and retrofitted with an awful piezoelectric tone of the most ear-violating variety. It feels like nobody even tried to make these sounds pleasant, and probably went with a piezo buzzer rather than a mechanical bell because it costs less, and what hardware designer even knows how to integrate a mechanical bell these days?

The closest to not having a hustle alarm I'm aware of in the UK is for London Underground and DLR stock, which basically starts to play the hustle alarm at the same time as the doors close, making it a bit of a token affair.

Those interested in this sort of thing might be interested in this TfL report which actually studied in minute detail whether they should change the delay on the doors closing after the warning sounds. I encountered this once and was fascinated by the details. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

BTW, the applicable safety requirements standard for power-operated passenger train doors is GM/RT2473 (or its predecessor on older rolling stock, GO/OTS300). Don't ask me how I know this...
We don't expect or desire (or IMHO even consider it acceptable) for these places to stay poor - the less developed countries on average have had steady improvements, a major reduction in poverty and the associated increase in consumption. The growth in emissions of China are not caused by some population growth but by the increase in prosperity of Chinese people, and we'd also expect places like DR Congo to steadily grow their consumption-per-capita.
Great idea, but watching it makes me feel terribly anxious.
Sam is Silicon Valley personified
Including changes to life expectancy can be an argument for cycling if you are middle aged. What it takes in terms of accidents and pedal time it gives back in less heart attacks.
Free PostgreSQL Playground
I’m a very occasional rclone user; I use it for one-off uploads of many files to some cloud, or syncing from cloud to cloud. Sometimes this is over shaky connections which can lead to many failures, so I love that you can just keep issuing the same sync command and it will continue from the point the sync broke.
I have been thinking about regexps lately. This is literaly a programming language. To point I said to myself: just have programs hardcoded for very simple "regexps", and just write an actual program for the more complex one (which is "rare" and each time solt of pain to tune and make do what I really want), just need a "quick to use" software SDK for that. If I end up with brain time and energy to do just that, I plan to do it with ~C99 and assembly.

Namely, instead of relearning the complexity of the regexp language each time and spend a significant amount of time, I end up with a quick and easy to use SDK, probably a small set of commands.

I think I am going to eat the bullet.
I knew 927 was gonna be the top one. It's so useful I sometimes refer to it verbally at work during meetings to great effect.
> I do not really understand what is the problem with flexible <select> implementation in browser.

There isn't a problem. Your flexibility is just in the wrong place—the flexibility is on the side of the user and user agent, e.g. to manifest and interact with a "<select multiple>" input method however best for the device that the user is looking at the form with. The fact that it's not actually codified anywhere exactly how "<select multiple>" should work is a good thing. Your approach does away with that.
I only got around to replacing a 2013 MacBook Air with an M1 MacBook Air last summer. The M1 is better when performance matters, like AI… but most of my experience isn't performance limited anyway. The improvements the M1 brought used to be the normal rate of change each year, and their absence since 2013 was how I was able to keep using that machine all that time.

Now, the phones? Those have improved significantly. The cameras, the on-device AI, and where those two things were blended together - night photography, and translating text within images (even though image translation was first demonstrated on phones in 2010, it's a much better experience now).
> a lot of remaining bloggers are technical people

If "nerds like you and me" are not the audience of these writers, who is?
If climate change didn't affect humans we wouldn't care. Did we care when the skies started to glow at night due to air pollution and destroyed the ecology, or the importation of European honeybees, or effects of toxins on fauna. No it was "marvelous" a "triumph against nature".

The ONLY question to most people is: what will happen to me from it, if it will, why me changing anything will help?
Societies become more right when they see how left destructive policies and actions. People are not stupid, they can be fooled temporarily by high moral stances, but once they see all bs, they move away.

“Times are not good” not because of some unknown force but because of policies/actions creating those “not good times”
I'm not saying it's aliens...
This is pretty standard cooking stuff, I thought. At least in Australia I haven’t seen pasta sauce served on top of pasta in a restaurant for decades.
'Sci-fi instrument' will hunt for giant gravitational waves in space
"Nitter is dead." on issue "nitter.net certificate expired on 15:08:30 GMT"
'Eno' Review: A portrait of Brian Eno that is different each time you watch it
Steven Sinofsky talks about the DMA, Apple, and compliance to regulations that go against brand identity and might not achieve any favorable results for anyone
Yes. Works very well in hot climate. Doesn't heat up like a mattress, and is thin enough that the airflow from a fan in the room can help cool both topside and underside at the same time. But beware it may take some time to get used sleeping in it. When installing the hooks to set it up in the walls, the separation between them must be large enough such as the person is not too bended while sleeping, otherwise you may get back pain in the morning. The best position to sleep is semi-crossed in relation to the axis between hooks (~45 degrees), that allows you to lie almost straight.
This Nomadic Eccentric Was the Most Prolific Mathematician in History
These aren’t my favorite physical items but favorite things in life. The only physical things I particularly like are my vintage computers. And books.

The internet and the knowledge it lets me access… when I grew up you had to find books or mags to learn computer stuff from.

Coffee

Computers

Software development

Vintage computers

Thinking about the universe

My friends

Alcohol

Making stuff, creating weird techno gadgets
Maybe I could say something good about some aspects of their coding style, but that would only distract from my main point that I find it pointless to imitate a C++ API in C, when that API is modeled carefully to take advantage of C++ features, and you lose all of that in C. (Not only that - their C API is designed in a way that adds overhead even where none would be necessary in C, by allocating all structs on the heap.)

There are lots of plain C container libraries which are probably suited better for C, if you really must use C, or prefer C for whatever reason that escapes my imagination.
Yep, that's how the world works.

Politicians only starts caring about peoples problems if they are either personally effected or one of their close friends/benefactors are effected.
Ex owner of a Pebble (which was fantastic). Have tested (for work) a variety of watches and health trackers, loved the Apple ones and the Fitbit watches, but ultimately the Withings ones were the ones that stuck. Battery life, minimalistic look and core functionalities are the best.

Also own a fossil (gift from wife recently) but whenever I can I always use my reliable and less power hungry Withings Scanwatch
https://archive.ph/eaPXU
> We had OG Einstein and Mozart and Erdős

Oh good, we don't ever need any more then. /s

> Ideally we'll level out at 6 billion or so.

I doubt there's any single ideal population size, because the impact of each individual varies so widely. In the future, when we're all living 100% solar powered regenerative net-carbon-negative lives, the problem will be that there aren't enough people to offset warming caused by volcanic eruptions, meteor impacts, and overpopulated wildlife.
This is an illusion. There is no safe place, you can’t escape the reality of global warming by moving to another place.
The IPCC 6 says "It is very unlikely that gas clathrates (mostly methane) in deeper terrestrial permafrost and subsea clathrates will lead to a detectable departure from the emissions trajectory during this century".

Your pessimism may be trendy but it isn't supported by the bear available evidence.
Now I want to try this on my Commodore 64. I should already have some code I could reuse as I was already working on a breakout type of game. So the “clearing a block and bounce the ball back in the right direction” should be somewhat reusable.
Indeed. For all the shit fossil fuels (rightfully) get, they are pretty damn good for storing energy. When you look into this, it really isn't a wonder that it's so difficult to transition away from them.
The word "suspected" does not appear on the report you linked. Rather it says it is a "possible" carcinogenic. Moreover

> The committee therefore reaffirmed that it is safe for a person to consume within this limit per day. For example, with a can of diet soft drink containing 200 or 300 mg of aspartame, an adult weighing 70kg would need to consume more than 9–14 cans per day to exceed the acceptable daily intake, assuming no other intake from other food sources.
George Orwell – A Nice Cup of Tea
US foreign policy for the second half of the 20th century was basically: "Communism is real bad and causing millions of people to suffer and die, so let's go start a war that will cause millions of people to suffer and die. Except now a lot of those people get to be our people! Hurray!"

Left alone, communism eventually fails in almost every case. China being the main exception but that's because we pump a half a trillion dollars into their economy every year buying cheap goods.
It's the fan after the shower for me.
No, the model has probably diverged over time to what you're used to. Imagine if Google search suddenly had new quirks to get the searches you want (actually come to think of it, maybe I need to delete my account and start fresh because it never gives me results I want anymore).

It's the way you're prompting your model. Additionally, I've been training my own toy models to understand the workings so I can also state that they're sensitive to WHERE in the conversation you're asking the question. Some have even pointed out that they're more belligerent depending on the day of the week they're provided.

It's a fuzzy computer program that changes its abilities based on instructions and prompts.... just because it's communicating doesn't mean it truly understands, it's more like: surface as much of the similar features by mentioning the most appropriate keywords and suddenly it can perform the tasks...
Oh... How many mass extinction events have humanity survived as a species so far? I would also like to see this data... pretty please?
I would have guessed "Dependency" https://xkcd.com/2347/, but it did not even make the top 10
You can say a lot of negative things about it, but it's most definitely not a "micro" bubble. The ideological influence of the US West Coast on the world at large during the past century has been de-facto defining much of the global culture, even if you limit it to just Hollywood and the Silicon Valley.

A world that were to shrug off this influence would be, for better or worse, fundamentally different.
> The problem with these "minor changes to their lifestyle" is that they need to accommodate exponentially growing population that already is a magnitude or more higher than persons who need to adjust.

It was approximately exponential up until around 200ish AD, fell below exponential for a few hundred years, then was above exponential for around 600 years (the growth rate was going up approximately linearly), had a period where it varied and even was slightly negative, and then around 1500ish entered a period where the growth rate was increasing almost exponentially. That lasted to around 1960, and since then the growth rate rapidly.

Here's a graph of the growth rate from 4000 BC to 2023 [1] from the data here [2].

I was curious what it is called when the growth rate itself is going up exponentially, but utterly failed to craft a search in Google that worked for me. I then tried ChatGPT (the free version) and at first it was just wrong. I reiterated that I want to know what it is called when the growth rate is going up exponentially, not when the growth is exponential. It apologized and told me it is called "exponential growth of the growth rate" or "exponential acceleration".

I tried to verify that it is called "exponential acceleration" with Google, but failed.

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/GRPBVg2
Apple has its Musk moment, and it's ugly
Self-hosting should not be a privilege
GenAI tools 'could not exist' if firms are made to pay copyright
I've often wondered about this chicken and egg problem. It seems that IPv6 is only really useful once we aren't forced to also provide IPv4.
Ask HN: Thoughts on relocating back to the US from the EU?
I find myself at a crossroads and would love to hear your insights and experiences on a topic that's been on my mind lately. I am currently based in an EU city, enjoying the stability and peace of mind that it has to offer. Over the last 10+ years, I've been comfortable in the tech world, working my way up and securing "better" roles over the years. I have a background in backend, devops and management.

We (myself, wife, and son) are contemplating the idea of relocating back to the US, and I'd love to tap into the collective wisdom of this community for some valuable feedback. We've already gone through all the red tape and will likely have permission to enter the US under Green Card immigration rules during the summer. The Green Card is for my wife. Myself and my son are US citizens.

--> My reasons for moving to the US are the following:

- Closer to family. Parents are getting older, and I would like to spend more time with them.

- On that note, I would like my son to get to know his grandparents and cousin (also around his age).

- Stronger earning potential.

- More welcoming culture (I'm looking to move back to the South). This is a very important topic for both myself and my wife.

- Cultural barriers, although now very minimal, will be removed. Now that I write this, I realize there will be new ones introduced for my wife.

- Speaking your native language feels....natural.

--> Speaking against moving to the US are:

- The worry of high healthcare costs.

- Emotional distress on my wife while being separated from her parents, as well as needing to "start from scratch."

- Tech job market. Where I am located, my career is going well, and I fear that moving to the US during this bad wave may cause financial and general stress.

- Comfort of our current life.

At the moment, I have 2 options in mind:

1)Enter the US to secure the Green Card, then return back to the EU until, if ever, we feel confident in the move. This way, we don't lose the green card and we just need to keep an eye on how many months out of the year we spend away from the US. I will need to dig deeper into this, as it seems like it isn't a long-term solution. However, it may buy us an extra 6 months.

2)Sort of a hybrid on the 1st option, but using the extra time to secure an offer in the US before making the move over. My current job is wonderful, but I fear that I won't be able to work remotely from the US.

For those of you who have made a similar move or have considered it, what influenced your decision?

I'm not looking for a solution, but rather more perspective. I tend to get fixated on ideas and have difficulty taking a step back. Before it was a fixation on moving to the US, now it is the opposite, not moving.
Security and Privacy Failures in Popular 2FA Apps [Android TOTP apps]
Mass conscription for what? The most dangerous bottleneck of western forces is supply of advanced weaponry, which is already taxed by the war in Ukraine. Even if these supply bottlenecks are fixed, it will continue to be a severe strain on public finances. And as you hint at, the draftees have to be trained to be more useful than being static targets. 21st century battlefields are very fast-paced and deadly and often asymmetric; all that stops an enemy from blowing up a target is air defense and missing knowledge about its precise location. The latter can be easily leaked by careless troops in a number of ways.