skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Declining church membership suggests organized religion is no longer the community builder it once was.

This is all they have to say about this, which is unfortunate, because it dramatically understates just how important religion has been as a community builder and just how much of the loss of the third space is actually just a loss of religion. In 1999 70% of Americans were a member of a formal organized church/synagogue. In 2023 that number was down to 45% [0]. That is an absolutely staggering difference.

Some commenters have noted that it's hard to find a third space in suburbia. This is true if and only if you ignore churches as an option. In your average US suburb or small town you'd have a hard time finding a home that isn't within walking distance of some church or another. These were the third space for most of America for most of history, and they were very accessible.

No matter your opinion on what the future of organized religion should be, it's weird to have a discussion about the disappearance of third spaces in the US while only giving a token nod to our single most significant historical source of community.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/358364/religious-americans.aspx
how is the GUI done for cross platform? not familiar with Pascal ecosystem
Ask HN: Why is HN becoming a DEAD link graveyard?
*Social engineers built freeways because it was a convenient way to raze minority neighborhoods while subsidizing suburbs that were care-dependent largely in order to limit who could move there by class.

It's important to tell the full story because similar dynamics drive our current stumbling blocks.
Show HN: I have built a tool to automatically Edit Videos
Hi,
I built a tool in which you upload a raw video it will automatically edit it.

It will do things like removing silences, adding zoom at certain portion of the content, automatically adding the titles on the top and adding sound effects.

I hate when people without sufficient knowledge gain lots of influence on social platforms because they put lot of content out.
While people with knowledge are not able to put content.

One of the reason is friction in generating content so I want to tackle the editing part of content generation.

Do try it and let me know how you feel.
Here is the youtube demo https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hU6fbimeiMs
>> At one time, before urban neighbourhoods were demolished for freeways, Americans more commonly lived in denser neighbourhoods.

Before freeways, there was a huge rural population. 60% in 1900, still 36% by 1950. If your theory was correct there should have been a massive mental health crisis in rural areas during that period.
Do you have an specification for your protocol? 41 is already assigned by rfc493
The best way to sell Angel's Egg to the people predisposed to seeking out anime is to mention its influence on Dark Souls 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wSol7JdG0
Apparently if you could get up in the mountains it was visible as far south as San Diego last night (https://www.instagram.com/reel/C60uGNiuf1y/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWF...) unfortunately too cloudy for most others in the area to witness
If the capital needs returns, how come they don't need to keep it KISS? Seems like they wouldn't only if it helped them get the returns.
I’m not sure you think the word “cannot” means what most people think it means.
I think what would make LLMs much more viable is if they had more of a sense of credibility. They've developed a reputation of being very confident generators of bullshit, and that's completely fatal in compliance-oriented environments.

If I ask Zesty Autocorrect to generate a snippet for me, but then I have to carefully inspect and review it to make sure it actually does what I wanted, I may as well spend the same amount of time just building what I wanted in the first place. Trading off 30 minutes of coding and testing for 45 minutes of code review and testing isn't a win.

I will admit to having found a use case for an AI model; I spend a fair bit of time using Stable Diffusion locally trying to roll some new desktop wallpaper, but if my anime-style vampire prince has a hallucinated third nipple, nobody's going to die or go bankrupt.
You backup the yubikey seed (whatever it's called) separately from the password db, so that the attacker still has to get 3 separate pieces of information (db, password, seed) to get the full access.
In NYC Starbucks where this was done, square footage (rent) is unchanged. People now stand around.
Someone with the keyfile but without the password cannot decrypt?
similar to how you parse the cell's input variables, it would be cool if you parsed the files being read (e.g. `pd.read_parquet` and `file.open`) or databases/sources. you could show metadata about the sources next to it.

this UI setting could be turned off if every cell i/o from the same file
Brick construction during an earthquake is an absolute nightmare. Steel tensioned stone sounds like it could potentially work around that?
First-Mover Advantages (1988) [pdf]
The keyword filter is live on techinterviewexp.site
Kind of interesting actually. In the 2000s/2010s it was quite normal that distributions provided modified packages. Maybe not necessarily function-wise but theming, config files to a degree that interoperability wasn't the best. Even more funny that this is done now by Debian which always had a reputation of providing vanilla packages... But I guess after the xz debacle this is getting a new kind of attention
Why? Were you planning to use it on mobile?
It's the "repro the bug" that's hard...

When I worked on static analysis of codebases, the error handling codepath was the most likely source of problems.
I’ve never met anyone that self identifies as autistic that didn’t have some obvious behaviors (in the tech world there are a lot). This seems like a strawman.
Even the title architect doesn't really exist in large software companies.

I think Systems Analyst current title might be closest to TPM, where someone would use data to propose a behavioral change to a system or process (opposed to simply a technical one).
Generally I go by desirability (which includes jobs, amenities, etc.) then population size, but as others have pointed out it's a loose metric that doesn't measure anything objective. To give some very subjective examples:

Tier 1: LA, NYC, SF, Chicago, Seattle

Tier 2: Denver, DC, Austin, Minneapolis, San Diego, Houston, Philadelphia

I'm in Madison, WI which is barely a city but ranks high in desirability pretty consistently and has housing prices to match.
One of the nice things about Wikipedia is that you can use it as a time machine, instead of just blindly throwing about accusations.

If you look at the first page in 2014, the time of the article, you'll find this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arithmetic_deriva...

> E. J. Barbeau was most likely the first person to formalize this definition.

This suggests to me that Shelly's earlier definition in 1911 was not generally known. Indeed, Wikipedia has been a significant driver in rescuing earlier results in mathematics from obscurity.

But you can't cite what you don't know. So I wouldn't expect an emeritus professor, or anyone, to have either a time machine or a crystal ball.
> Third places are few and far between.

Or is it that the places are too common?

When I lived in the big city, there were all kinds of places that could have been the third place, but with so many options to choose from nothing ever established itself as the place to be. People would just aimlessly bounce around to them all instead of settling on one place to consistently show up to.

Now that I live in a rural area, where there are only a few places to go – period – everyone seems to congregate around them, and thus finding that third place is quite easy.
Fresh installs and resets according to the article. Although I had to help a family member set up a new computer in January. I set it up with a local account and device encryption was "on" but checking with command prompt revealed that with local account it wasn't actually encrypted since a Microsoft Account hadn't been submitted, and there was no Bitlocker key.

There are so many problems with this that are stupid but that's par for the course when it comes to tech corps these days, they have all the leverage, so their fuckup is your problem, and what is this customer support you speak of.

Don't hold your breath on Microsoft actually improving any of its offerings.
More feelings of misinformation lead to more news avoidance, study shows
GHC 9.10.1 is now available
I remember how easy it used to be to drop an entire firestore collection with one click. Yes, when deleting your production data is one click away (the delete button was right next to the filter button!) it’s very natural to be afraid. Thankfully Google has improved a lot of these interfaces with a deletion confirmation prompt but can you see where the fear originates?
I forget the details, but I recall this video on the Colossus- a very secretive program that resulted in arguably the first programmable digital computer (iirc). I think we only relatively recently learned of it's existence?

https://youtu.be/g2tMcMQqSbA?si=bW059oO6B4H1GR_R

It was very worth the watch, lots of fascinating tidbits including some stories of unsung heroes / geniuses. It was kept secret even after WWII but the people involved went off to kickstart the computer industry in England
> And there's no direct competition between bird brain architecture and mammalian brain architecture

By and large It’s not direct competition but we are stamping our species at an alarming rate and birds are taking a hammering.
I'd guess that the drastically different laws and norms around alcohol explains this difference.
Adults that get diagnosed later typically have developed very good ability to mask so casual acquaintances probably don’t suspect they are autistic. So it’s not surprising they would downplay it.
I too was surprised that Robotech didn't appear in the article.

It played during my school summer vacation (U.S.), and I was rivetted. It's nearly [0] the first Japanese animation I ever saw, and I was absolutely rivetted.

I have no idea what viewership numbers were like at the period, but I was certainly hooked. And I was entering my high-school years where I'd have spending money from part-time jobs, so I was definitely an untapped market.

[0] Another commenter mentioned Battle of the Planets, which I'd forgotten about. I liked that too.
This is like asking where to draw the line when somebody is bald. Are you bald if you have 1 hair? Yes. 2? 3? 137? There's of course reasonable room for discretion in saying what is or isn't bald. But it isn't reasonable to say somebody with a full-on afro is on the spectrum of being bald.

Literally some of the most high functioning and successful individuals are being diagnosed as "on the spectrum" of what is, in its "real" form, a completely crippling and disabling condition that yields individuals who would have simply been classified as mentally retarded in the past. This is just completely nonsensical.
I don't understand how people can either be this naive, or this malicious.
A lot of things at play.

1) We actually can sense "coldness" or "hotness" as separate tastes. Think about mint candies or pepper for example.

2) Our receptors have different sensitivity based on the temperature. For example cold sweet drink feels much less sweet. That's why warm cola is disgustingly sweet for example.

And water does contain a lot of dissolved salts which have a taste.

3) More than half of the taste we feel is actually coming from the smell, and warm water contains more vapour, and therefore, more smell.

So our brain takes all these inputs from different sources and synthesises the feeling of taste in our brain.

Source of this knowledge is from:
https://www.cookingforgeeks.com
Realistically only about half an hour. There are instruments at the L1 lagrange point that can measure the properties of the solar wind and/or CME as they pass and allowed real informed responses to events.

There are also very, very simplified CME propagation models (WSA-ENLIL, etc) that can start with some assumptions and give a reasonable idea about when the CME will arrive within ~12 hours.

But for every time the simulations succesfully predict severe geomagnetic events or the like they give false positives a couple dozen times. The simulations cannot predict the geoeffectiveness.
This is nice. I am building app.blinkcuts.com and trying to add b-roll functionality into it.
Let's connect over mail bansal.rahul 14 @ g**l.com
I remember Jaron Lanier describing this vision of learning through VR, where a student in class would "become the triangle" in learning trig, etc.
"known to" isn't patronizing; it indicates jargon, and in this case likely indicates a scientific term used in those studies. I agree that it would've been nice to link to the studies.
Better than spending it on minting NFTs and shitcoins though.
I'm sure that plays into it, though the laws really aren't all that weird anymore, and the same people that can't drink alcohol in Utah also tend to not drink caffeine.
maybe the layout just messed up on the resolution I looked at it with, there were boxes all over the place, the spinny thing on the main page scaled out of its bounding box. also I think it would be helpful to have some consistent design cues for which elements are interactive or what you can do with them.

if nothing else I feel each interactive canvas should have some kind of description of what you can do with it so you don't have to trial & error
Ive had a similar experience but looking at massive forest fires outside and noone in the cabin caring in the least bit. Its a strange thing.
I remember a friend reviewing some math before starting grad school was stymied by a typo in her textbook for an inordinate amount of time. It’s really vital that instructional materials avoid errors as much as humanly possible. AI right now ain’t it.
Particle physics works in a similar way, but instead of attaching electrodes, you shoot at them with guns and then analyze trajectories of the fragments.
In what way did we solve peak oil - by continuing to burn more every year? Climate scientists are going out of their minds.

Is PFAS rain that much better than acid rain? Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth.

As for the whales, that's nice they got a reprive... But we're still extinctifying species at 100-1,000x the background rate.

And the people responsible for all of this are not strung up, nor even imprisoned. They're fucking around on mega-yachts and private planes (environmental atrocities in themselves).
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: MLP vs. Kan, Math, Universal Approximation Theorem [video]
Drug users can include people from a homeless addict who can barely stay conscious to Elon Musk. Does that mean the concept is absurd?
Is it fair to say the definitional confusion bothered you more than the interesting aspects (I'm presuming that part "b" above is more interesting) pleased you?

If I were to guess... I'd say you (and many people, including myself, often) are weary of people redefining words in a way that seems wasteful, distortive (such as 'stealing' words that formerly had clear technical meanings), purely commercial, or self-promotional.

For me, at least, the intent of the redefinition matters. But I detect no self-interest or obvious neglect in the case of the arithmetic primes.
I've seen the same protests among certain deaf communities and it baffles me that someone would oppose a cure to what is obviously a medical condition.

In the same vein, I wouldn't oppose a cure for autism, despite my own diagnosis. Why go through the pain and suffering that comes with autism in a world of non-autists? I've seen more than enough of the lives of people with non-high functioning autism to realise the absolute living hell a cure like this could prevent.

I'm wary of the "cures" people have tried, most of them based on fake psychology or pseudoscience, but I have no reason to expect the authors of this paper to be in it to show how their kid is "normal", like most people looking for "cures" seem to be. I expect this article to be quoted many times in the terrible Facebook groups that will also recommend things like bleach enemas to desperate parents, but I also expect good developments from the real scientists trying to understand and perhaps cure (the worst cases of) autism.
Having never heard the expression before, I thought it meant it wouldn't be forgotten, like learning to ride a bicycle kinda thing.
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#36)
AFAICT the overspending would have been on the US side. At the margin, offense was going to be cheaper than defense. Unless you'd be satisfied with, say, a 99% intercept rate.
Coffee prices in general have been falling for decades. The 2011 price peak was unusual and resulted in far higher prices than in 2001 and makes the current price spike less noticeable. https://dripbeans.com/coffee-price-history/

More efficient farming has largely offset inflation just as with most other agricultural commodities resulting in fairly flat prices over time barring occasional spikes.
it's not stupid because it can't do smart & useful things, but because it works on fractions(1) of locale-dependent(1) symbols for meaning

(1) instead, it should do whole symbols

(2) instead, it should be language-agnostic, i.e. it shouldn't need to remember both 'king' and its French translation 'roi', just a vector that represents the concept
Show HN: I made context-aware AI chatbot – PageGPT
I want to open up and share the journey that led to the creation of PageGPT. It all started with my frequent use of ChatGPT while browsing web in parallel, where I found myself constantly switching between tabs and having to reiterate the context in order to ChatGPT understand my questions.

Feeling the need for optimization, I envisioned a tool that could seamlessly understand the webpage I was on and provide relevant assistance tailored to my needs. This vision laid the foundation for the development of PageGPT, an AI chatbot that prioritizes context awareness and effortless conversations.

Key features of PageGPT include:

1. Context-Awareness: AI assistant that understands the context of the page you're browsing, delivering tailored and relevant responses without a need for you to explain everything.

2. Focused Context: If you don't need whole page as context, or just want to zoom in on specific page sections for targeted assistance that meets your requirements.

3. Saved Prompts: Save frequently used messages/prompts as shortcuts for quick access with a single click.

Also, with PageGPT you use your own OpenAI API Key, giving you the freedom to chat as much as you wish without artificial limitations, such as number of queries, tokens, chats, etc. However, this means you're also responsible for the costs of your OpenAI API usage.

Privacy first! Your data is your business. PageGPT prioritizes your privacy and does not store your conversations, but uses openai API directly to generate responses.

I'm thrilled to share this project with you all and welcome your feedback and thoughts as I continue to refine and enhance PageGPT.
That was not intended as a riddle, so I have not prepared stickers, unfortunately.

Personifications of the sun and moon in ancient German lore had better make them respectively female and male, because otherwise the assignment would clash with the grammar, which has them as "die sonne" and "der mond".
I think it's because many important people still think that ADHD is some kind of imaginary disease.
The article references four books including "The Great Good Place" which originated the term along with the classic "Bowling Alone", which documents the decline of social connections in the United States. Additionally they interview four university professors who have studied the topic and they link to at least five academic papers, three surveys and several more newspaper articles. It seems to me that the article offers quite a bit of information on where the studies are.
Adding a video codec sounds expensive, how many concurrent users can an app server support that way?
It’s a quote about how some people stop living their lives long before their body dies.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/11/03/not-buried/
I really like both the animated series and the movie with Scarlett Johansson.

I am well into my 70s, and GITS appeals to my memories of Barberella and Flash Gordon comics.
I use Apple devices and 1Password heavily. I’ve decided that passkeys sync to iCloud for me and passwords remain in 1Password. I think Apple’s built nice integrations across their devices for passkeys and they’re the future of authentication. 1Password is trying to build them in to stay competitive. Given that my 1Password experience continues to decline (they don’t really support safari profiles - autofill still broken over a year after safari launched those), I’m okay with using both tools until hopefully passkeys win
a wise man once said, art without aesthetic appeal is just commentary.
The video is also excellent.

https://youtu.be/9w3Zl3KBDpI
Thanks. The funky distribution of b has to be exactly the one that results in uniform (or the desired) random distribution of the real coefficients of the 3rd order real polynomial that is the resulting polynomial when you multiply your example polynomial by the linear term with conjugate b. And if this hold for the resulting 3rd order polynomial with real (random) coefficients then I think that the double induction works.

(Edit: the distribution of b has be to such that the distribution of the resulting 3rd order polynomials together with the distribution of 3rd order polynomials with 3 real roots have the desired random distribution of the coefficients.)
I read about the viscosity difference in hot/cold water a while back. Every time I think about it while drinking water, I put my water down. I don't know why it bothers me so much but it does. I feel like I peered into the eyes of God and can never return to normal life.
There are bunch of open-source tools to help you with that.For example https://github.com/irgolic/AutoPR

What are things you are looking into for the review assistant to perform?
The SAC series were also intensely thoughtful and well-written, with softly stated political intrigue and philosophical musing that somehow doesn't ever devolve into navel gazing.

Really a must watch anime series if you like anime or even just sci fi at all.
> I strongly suspect that, over the next 100 years, we are going to find that we’ve been waging war on the human biome through food preservatives and environmental contaminants. And that many common chronic disorders/illnesses (including ADHD, Autism, weight gain, etc) in our generation are actually attributable to a disfunctioning microbiome.

I suspect you're very right, and I further suspect that there's already research proving this that has been shelved and hidden behind NDAs by the people profiting from this, just as with big tobacco and big oil and big agri etc.
No — it was from whichever messaging app they’ve sunsetted this week.
When people talk about third spaces, they usually mean a place you can casually show up to at 6pm (with or without family members), take a seat, and maybe chat with some familiar faces. As someone who grew up going to church, I feel like my church was neither my parents’ third place nor my own! It was simply a place we went to on Wednesdays and Sundays to worship our God. We would hang out afterwards, but that was limited to 0.2857 of our free afternoons/evenings.

I think the article gets it right in that the collapse of American third places goes beyond just church attendance. Ideal third places are things like guild halls, bars, parks; places where you can show up and no one asks why you’re there or what you did today. The leveling and inclusive aspect is key: you need to be able to bring anyone who might otherwise need a third place, and they must be greeted as just another conversation member.

This is how high school Super Smash Brothers days were at Blaine’s house: unlocked door, say hi