skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240223214515if_/https://www.ny...
The one stat so far is how many times a thing has been reposted. Problem is, it's very hard to market an app that's only useful to a whole group of people. Someone random joins and knows nobody.

I read about how other companies overcame this, and even Tinder, which only requires users to be in the same area, had to be kick-started by hosting large college parties ($$$) and getting all the attendees to download it.
They may not consciously confirm it, but I suspect someone figured out "learned helplessness is good for business."

New users can be steered through every dark-pattern install process, and upsold into every service since they don't have existing preferences.

They can't directly revert power users to that state, but by keeping the UI in a state of constant flux, they might get some accidental traction from them.
> Can we trade iPhones and TVs for retiring at 40, with healthcare, housing, and food for life?

No, because we don’t have enough people younger than 40 to support half the population being retired, let alone the productivity loss from the absence of later career workers, nor the loss of capital and tax income from those age groups. The only alternative would be autonomous robots and they require the skill and capital those age groups provide and autonomous robots are way harder than iPhones and TVs!
> Nekoweb is a free static website hosting service, created in 2024 by a group of coders, programmers and artists, passionate for the old web and personal websites.

> Join us on our discord to chat with the community and the developers!

Gating discussion of the open web in a proprietary service is an interesting decision. Shows that we're still far too reliant on closed protocols for even smaller nontrivial tasks like making a message board.
You are spot on.

I have been living in Japan for the last 5 years, and the construction quality is absolutely abysmal here. Thermal and noise insulation is almost non-existant (very funny here in Aomori), and the overall layout of the cities and the houses is a complete mess.

I read recently that the government passed a new law forcing higher construction quality standards, but let's see what happens...
that's why all those companies are using putty instead of their own ssh client; they're organizationally incapable of writing software of putty's quality
Ask HN: How come pass-by-reference is not the default in C++?
I recently learned the concept of pass-by-reference where instead of copying data into a function’s parameter, you simply give it the address of where the variable being passed is located in memory.

In C++ you have to explicitly define that you want to pass by reference instead of value. Would it not be more efficient to use pass by reference by default since you’re not duplicating data in memory potentially for no real reason?
I think a big part of the problem is the inherited collective ego of software being birthed by computer science. If you go look at early software, early Unix, whatever, there is such a tremendous volume of really clever things going on. Little DSLs, weird experiments that bled into POSIX. All the effort devoted to grammars and compilers and making Hard Problems look Easy.

I sometimes get frustrated that my colleagues don't know how to read an awk script, or that they think it's just a fact of life that they have to delete their git repository and perform a fresh clone because that's just the way npm is sometimes. Am I asking for too much? But then I remember that we have built all of this on impossibly tall ivory towers of complexity. It's almost unfathomable.

Almost every project is someone's vice in this vein form of worship we call software development. We tell ourselves that we've moved past this phase, we've seen what complexity really is. But can we actually? Ever? Are we just fooling ourselves?

It always seemed to me that it's ideal to use sophisticated tools to build mundane and interesting solutions. But every solution is just a tool for someone else. So much of what I love about what we do is hopelessly couples to that very complexity I despise. How can we reconcile this?

Out of sight, out of mind, I suppose.

I think the real problem is that we consider this all one big profession when in reality it's as varied as the crafts: electricians, plumbers, metalworkers, laborers, carpenters, mechanics, engineers, architects, painters, roofers, landscapers...

We just do it all.
Yeah I disagree. I guess it kinda just depends on how you define "generally".

In my opinion, the only country that acted rationally was NZ.

China hid the outbreak until it was already endemic in many countries.

Brazil shit the bed. Every other country seems to have let the virus in and then done very little to prevent spread.

I would say individually we did pretty well generally, but as a collective pretty much every institution failed to adequately address the situation.

Masking was never mandated in public spaces. Business owners could refuse you service but there was no "radicle measure" that made that possible. The vast majority of restaurants were open for sit in dining.

The "radicle measures" that spring to mind when someone mentions Covid are the bad ones. Like the fact that restaurants were allowed to serve food on the sidewalk (good) but then a bunch of restaurants in NY built walls and put up plastic to keep the people dining outside warm, thus negating the effects of being in open air.

But yeah, I agree with OP. Watching covid nuts attack children just for existing in public with a mask on was not a shining example of our humanity.
A drone that calculates coordinates using a camera and Google Maps
>The international community does not recognize "Judea and Samaria" as a jurisdiction. So the question is moot.

Judea and Samaria are historical names and predate establishment of state of Israel and it administrative division. This naming is also used by UN and going back for example to 1947 UN Partition plan: "the boundary of the hill country of Samaria and Judea starts on the Jordan River...".

and i am not talking about sovereignty. i am talking about self determination per us charter. can jews do it there ? can samaritans do it there ? can palestinians do it there ?
Isn’t addiction an “excessive” form of any craving? If it can be curbed at a craving stage, why should it still be called addiction?
I use an alias to oathtool to generate OTPs.

It seems like this method at least keeps the secret key inside 2FAS backups, so it's probably slightly better opsec.
Welcome to HackerNews, a proprietary service
The gradually reducing approach may work for some, but not for me.

I had a massive health scare before Christmas (the C word was a strong possibility, luckily turned out being nothing) and after that decided to change a lot of things for my health including dropping coffee. I just did it overnight and went from 8 cups a day to nothing.

For me it was just important to find a healthy substitute ie a warm drink I could have in the morning and after lunch. I think the mechanic act of drinking something at these 2 moments of the day was more meaningful to me than the actual caffeine.
This is just a test launch for Innovatize, a service that ultimately aims to take aspiring entrepreneurs from idea to startup launch. As of now, there is an AI driven ideation helping system on the landing page.
It's easy: I don't
Nitpick, Israel is just barely on the Red Sea via the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, not that it changes your point at all.
Ask HN: Who is using 1Password for secret management?
I just recently discovered that 1Password has a cli and support for replacing GitHub secret management.

Is anyone using it? Are there any caveats? Service account or proxy setup? Which is best?
You don't have to be "in tech" to do well here. There have been lawyers and school teachers and doctors on the leader board.

I've done tons of blogging over the years trying to find some kind of constructive approach. It gets no traction.

I've mostly moved on from that. Men don't spend all their time examining their belly button in public about their social issues with work. They talk about their work.
Please don’t leave out Verizon, 100% Verizon does the same.
Personal diary that's been scraped. I stuffed up robots.txt for a few months and so it got scraped. 100% my mistake.
There's nothing sensitive etc there, I'm fully aware if I publish something I can't unpublish it.
I would like it removed though. It's my content and I'd like it to not be archived without my consent.
Authorities of whom, the tweet is lacking a source or even information about the accident. Not to mention jumping to a terrorism case without any other details.

I don't know how this is on front page.
Chemical Species
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/nyregion/nyc-lifeguard-dr...
Terrorism[1] is committing crime for political purposes, rather then for personal gain, and this definition is well recognized.

Terrorism has never been exclusively categorized as mass casualty attacks (and that's a relatively recent phenomenon, compared to the 70s and 80s with hijackings).

[1] https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority...
For many systems the optimal PD can be seen as the right answer (LQR)
I hear what you’re saying. What I guess I meant - and I was not that precise - is that such clocks are usually small, a little display at the bottom of the arrivals/departures board. I should just be able to look up and know what time it is. Perhaps I am just unusual.
For others reading the comments here... please ignore this comment and don't engage with whatever this is.
This makes sense. (If it is indeed the case - see the sibling comment to yours, it’s possible I’m mistaken.)
One could forget how many drinks they consumed. Although, I guess, probably not that one is drinking in general.
Spot on. Saying today's poor are better off than before is a distraction from the questions we should be asking:

1) Why are there so many poor?

2) Why are their ranks increasing?

To say something is better than before is not the same as saying it is as good as it could be. And yet no one is trumpeting the latter.
Check out CloudQuery (https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery) for the cloud version :) (Maintainer here)
Assuming your own intentions are to see the truth of course, even if they may be uncomfortable for you. I find most people, especially the well-educated don't. They're much more interested in confirming their own biases.

In that way the clueless "normie" does listens to MSM without any weight is sometimes more reliable to believe in.
Great reporting. It's sad the state of affairs and I need to remind myself that those cheap seafood we get from the supermarket maybe coming from these labors.
There's plenty of wealth. The issue is the concentration of wealth at the top.

Since the current system is deeply unfair, I'm not sure why adding additional wealth to the system would make it any more fair. The majority of every extra dollar goes to the ultra rich.
The idea of a Polymath is actually more relevant today than earlier years.

Each field has grown into a silo with "experts" in one field barely knowing about the cutting edge of another field.

Before what was the cutting edge was knowable to anyone who really tried. Because the total body of human knowledge was extremely limited. And that's why we see so many "gentleman scientists". They were people with passive income from property and enough time to tinker where they liked. Robert Brown of Brownian motion wasn’t exactly a genius. Yet you find his name in multiple areas of Science.

Nowaday, the edge of human knowledge is far more spread out, and it is harder to be a polymath. Polymath aren’t people who can "talk about" and "hold intelligence conversations" about different fields of Science/Social Science, they are the people that do multiple areas of academic study/engineering.

EDIT: And knowledge gained in HS is extremely shallow. They don't know even one field enough, let alone multiple fields.

And High Schoolers of earlier years actually knew stuff more in-depth, because stuff weren’t diluted for "inclusive" education. I have seen the Curriculum of British Indian HS, and it was much tougher than today's curriculum. 200 marks paper of two, as opposed to one of 70, more advanced topics each year as opposed to easier topics to bump scores up and make the provincial government look good.

Not exactly relevant to Polymaths, but everyone here knows that one who was educated in 1850-1970 years, knows much more than one educated in later years (as chosen randomly among those who have a degree). I believe education dilution has happened everywhere. Even today HS Physics, Math, Chemistry in India is much harder than US. I have seen curricula and books from both.
I'm skeptical that economics has so much more prior art than say physics.
https://discord.gg/hKx3FJJgrV
Why are you bullshitting people? Straight from your referenced link:

"The calculated use of violence or threat of violence to inculcate fear. Terrorism is intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological."
How can it possibly understand physics when the training data does not teach it or contain the laws of physics?
The homeownership rate has been remarkably stable at around 65% for the last 50 years. It generally stays within 2-3% of that number, even though it does have periodic, temporary upward and downward trends.

I wouldn't call it an actual trend unless it falls outside the typical range and stays there for more than a few years.
You get conscious about plugging into or creating community, and you don’t wait around for it to happen. That’s a skill that can be developed. You pay attention to how things are done differently, take notes, and try to be ready to incorporate the best of all worlds.

And hopefully you learn to appreciate all the incredible advantages to be had in staying somewhere longer. At least that’s how I feel, moving between 7 different cities in the last 10 years.
I'm making this a separate reply because I just realized that this is one of those language confusion things. If Germans think a desert is a place without plants, regardless of water resources, they will wander out into places that Americans and Australians call deserts, which are insanely dry, thinking that of course there must be water somewhere. In the US and Aus, if someone says "that's a desert", you should be carrying 10+ liters per day per person and some extra if you get into trouble. Do not assume that you will find water anywhere.
No.

Terrorism is when people use terror for political purposes. While it is often synonymous with crime, the "terror" part is rather critical. Most often, the terror is over the target's personal safety, or that of the target's loved ones.

Having an undersea cable cut does not terrify a sane person without extenuating circumstances. Therefore it may be an act of war, but it is not terrorism in the slightest.

Redefining "terrorism" for the purposes of treating lesser criminals under harsh terrorism laws is unethical, immoral, unjust, and downright awful.
> I'm sorry, cutting undersea cables is not terrorism.

Yep. This is vandalism, not terrorism.
I had ISDN in 1996 and my ping to a server in the same city was something like 8 ms. ISDN probably contributed 1 ms each way. The simple Web pages of the time loaded so fast.
It's categorically terrorism by that definition.

Objectively intended to coerce or intimidate governments: do as you're told if you want to have a viable economy, because so much of today's economy relies on communication.
> But can we actually? Ever? Are we just fooling ourselves?

I don’t have any hopes of the deepest theoretical complexity problems will be solved. However, let’s not be too defeatist. Look back 10-20-30 years. The things that survive in the long run (longer than a ~5y hype-cycle) are almost always an improvement compared to the past. Some genies can’t be put back in the bottle - good ideas, models and abstractions fit that bill, in my view. I’m hopeful.

> Out of sight, out of mind, I suppose.

Yes but this isn’t always bad. Things like schedulers, compilers, query planners should be out of mind. Or at least it’s the best way we can compartmentalize complexity today. It’s a last resort, so you shouldn’t pick immature and highly complex deps at the same time. Fortunately, we have mature tech that does a lot of heavy lifting, even if magical.
> They can't reason about it - they just need to see enough data of people handling books.

I'd like to see you reason about something before you've seen any data about it. What a silly argument. LLMs understand the world as presented to them via the training data, and the training data to date has been biased in unnatural ways and so sometimes produces unnatural results. That does not prove they cannot reason, it proves that they cannot reason in a vacuum, and neither can people.
Hardware-X: Replication. The sincerest form of flattery
ISO-NE is heavily dependent upon natural gas and to a lesser extent, coal. The new transmission line has a capacity of over a gigawatt, and that energy is going to be entirely hydroelectric which means it will shift power generation off of 3-4 coal/oil plants as well as help with the region's severely constrained natural gas supply; during the winter, there isn't enough natural gas for heating, industry, and electricity generation.

The line is estimated to bring a reduction of about 3 million tons of carbon a year. So yes, cutting down some trees for 50 miles is a fair tradeoff to decades of pollution reduction.

> offering very little to Maine people and businesses

Reducing oil/coal pollution in the region is a pretty big benefit.

Slowing global warming is a pretty big benefit.

Everyone (claims) to be for doing something about global warming until it means something happening near them.

The same BS is happening with the Cape Cod wind farms. The locals are screaming about how the power being generated is going to be "sold" to Connecticut and trotting out unfounded claims about environmental and species impact.
Hey Dostoynikov,

theres no real answer here, but I will share with you some solidarity.

It can be comforting to believe that moving around a lot is a source of your loneliness and lack of belonging, I am here to tell you that unfortunately you can have that feeling even if you stay in one city as I did.

What I have found has worked for me is finding external groups that transcend physical proximity. In the early 00’s I joined an IRC net and throughout my teens and 20’s it was, at times, my only support.

It got me through multiple country moves and friend group resets.

However, one thing that is your superpower now: you have had the means to reinvent yourself and wipe your slate clean many times over. You might find that you don't feel that you belong anywhere but you fit in most places, and thats a very important first step into feeling belonging.
I'm working on https://figma-to-react-native.com and a companion UI Kit that targets React Native (including Web)

I will have a service soon where you can publish your Figma design as a package to consume in your React Native app.

You can find more functionality and updates here: https://x.com/theultdev
casual reminder for US readers: this is all pretty common fare in US prisons as well. the 13th amendment to the US constitution does not cover prisoners. As such, most are forced to work, given a token salary to keep up appearances, and punished with solitary confinement if they do not comply.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/05/31/how-the-newest...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape_in_the_United_Stat...
It's all about backwards compatibility. C++ was originally a modification to C, which does not have the concept of references. In fact, while C++ was created in 1979, references were not added until 1985, so there's no way that they could have been the default anyway.

There's no way that it will be changed, either, as changing language behavior would break tons of production code.
This should not be perceived as an insult, many people underestimate the technical knowledge and mastery required to be decent at coding.
Most likely https://github.com/finos/perspective
The question is what percentage of my friends have more than 50% of my interests? I read plenty of interesting stuff on HN that isn't interesting to a lot of my non-programmer friends. So I post it in the "software-dev" channel of my dev friends' Discord. I don't post it in the server I share with the folks I play video games with, or my friends I cook food with.

Channels of info are only as valuable as the signal/noise ratio is. That's the whole point of RSS in some ways. You follow a lot of specific curated news sources that may be low-volume but high relevancy. "All the stuff my friends enjoy enough to repost" is likely below 50% relevant to me, just because I have a lot of friends who do a lot of stuff that I don't also care about, or don't care about that much.
> “If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare” by Robin Hanson, Daniel Martin, Calvin McCarter, and Jonathan Paulson, September 7th, 2021.

Does he write anything not in the format of "If x early then y late"?
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Take any advice you see on HN with a grain of salt.
Surely there are a number of resolvers who have a cold cache.

But yes, even taking down every root server (temporarily) has a limited effect.
...and funded by the fossil fuel industry. The same thing is happening with the wind farms on the east coast; there are a slew of "save the whales" and "save the beaches" groups popping up and the press have found strong financial ties to fossil fuel industry groups. The groups are funded by equipment manufacturers to power plant operators to the fossil fuel processors themselves.
>"It's categorically terrorism by that definition."

Another BS.

You are forgetting "violence" in that definition. Bar that
any attempt to influence government is a terrorism.
I was on one of those robotics teams, and I recall this document being passed around as suggested reading on that team. It’s probably worth considering that this was written in 2000, when it was a more niche topic, and was probably itself a part of what made PID programming more accessible in the first place.
IIRC many cruise missiles do a similar thing, except with radar and topographical maps instead of cameras and photos. Obviously the cruise missiles cost a hair more as well.
Just like Tomahawk missiles (see DSMAC).
archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240226020725/https://www.theat...
I stopped using (German) Amazon as their search gives me so many Chinese shit products and no method of removing Chinese sellers from the search results.

It's not that I dislike Chinese as such, but there are so many bad products that I've given up.
The linked PDF appears to be an older version (2000), there's a newer one (2018): https://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/pid/pidWithoutAPhd.pd...
https://archive.is/a6498
Closest mall to me.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alykat/179446667
> Anyway, here’s the moral of my story: there needn’t be so much conflict between ethics and profits. Carefully consider your constraints, and use design thinking to make the world a better (and possibly uglier) place.

I really hope the author the best, they seem to be working on trying to figure out some way to monetize their project without doing anything evil. Which is a rare and admirable attempt. But the moral of the story here seems very contingent on whether or not their plan works out, right? And I think it is not a very sure thing.
I mean, cutting cables is a violent act, property destruction is violence. Unless we're going to go with the weird reddit anarchist definition in which you can destroy whole structures and it isn't violence if nobody gets hurt because property isn't real, man
"null string" or "nil string" or "empty string" are all the same thing.

IDK why we're even talking about this though.