skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also feels like there's one pretty damn critical building block of modern society and space travel that would be galactically rare: hydrocarbon fuel.

If we didn't have oil, coal, etc in the insane quantities we have it in, we'd be nothing. It singularly enables global transportation, which has enabled global information sharing, which enables everything else. Its critical in the production of plastic, which is the most important material humanity has developed, period. Its the only way we know how to get into space. Its unlikely that planet-scale deployments of renewable tech like wind & solar would be possible without oil; to enable the manufacturing, mining, deployment, and tertiary required systems like batteries.

If we had evolved in the first hundred-million-year phase of life on the planet, there would have been no significant life before us to rot underground for a few hundred million years to make the hydrocarbons we use today. Or, there would have been so little that the reservoirs of it would be used up after a few decades or a century of burning it in lamps (every planet gets dark!), before the intelligent life realizes its true value (propulsion and plastic).

Another totally unrelated aspect of the problem I think about: Take the IQ spectrum, split in half at 100, and kill all the humans on the >100 side. The humans that are left (<100) would be very unlikely to leave the planet's surface in their lifetimes, and because genetics are a big factor in inherent intelligence, their ability to get to space has been delayed possibly indefinitely.

Put this another way: Space travel is on the razor's edge of our intelligence capacity. And its not enough to have a three standard deviation genius come along every couple generations; that's just a Galileo being born in the 1500s, they'll discover and document things for sure. But it takes many highly intelligent, motivated, and enabled (see: Oil) people to unlock space flight, computing, nuclear power, etc. Its easy to imagine even a human civilization that sits with a median IQ of what we'd say is 60-70, and they literally never pursue these kinds of high technology. But you can get really far with 60-70 IQ. You get nearly all of the evolutionary advantages a 100+ IQ person would have, you can make hunting traps, outsmart prey, you can farm, even smith and mine minerals; but you probably aren't sending rockets into orbit.

My take is: The universe and even our galaxy is probably surprisingly full of bronze-age era civilizations; and they've probably been that way for centuries. The Great Filter is most probably a combination of Ultra-High Quantities of Hydrocarbon Fuel, plus widespread median Academic-level Intelligence.
Clearly you've never had to build anything. It takes a long time to identify sites, get permissions in place, co-ordinate between utility provides and local governments, pass environmental assessments, health and safety etc etc. We're talking about installing very high voltage chargers here. You can't pick a spot on a map and install one the next week.
I’m a fan of the ‘95 movie but one funny thing I always notice when rewatching it is how many different Human Computer interfaces exist in the movie’s world. There’re the robot secretaries, humans with extra mechanical fingers similar to the secretaries, three or four different neck and head and maybe eye(?) jacks, and others I can’t remember now. Makes for a fun drinking game.
Imo hn isn't just for people posting open source, but also for sharing what you've built. As long as someone isn't spamming I think this kind of thing is fine.

I do think it's a little off that they're posting from a new account, whereas ideally they'd already be involved. Maybe they didn't want to associate this with their actual account for some reason?
Alan Kay on Learning [video]
That's true, but the problem is that they don't have much money :(
"Not available in your region." You're saying it's because of data privacy laws. I'm in the EU, so it's not available in the whole EU? Why even is it so privacy sensitive? Do I have to share any private information to use the app?
Is it real if they just buy the flowers instead of growing them? If they take you to a restaurant where someone else cooks the food and not them? It's not like this app is taking anyone by the marionette strings and forcing them to be romantic - they're still seeking out romantic ideas to make their partner happy, picking one, and carrying it out. Sure, showing personal creativity might be more romantic, but I don't think seeking out fun ideas that your partner will enjoy is particularly inauthentic.
I must say, I'm really skeptical of all these apps. I've tried pretty much all of them (well, not literally all of them, but a lot). I've had to move/travel quite a lot in my life, and I tried to get a "head start" on learning the language, with a different app. Every time, going to the country, I quickly realized that I could not speak the language. At best I could read it and produce with effort some sentences that natives have trouble understanding themselves. And then, after immersing myself in the language for a couple of weeks, I was much, much better than anything I could have achieved with the app.

Most apps focus too much on impeccable grammar (even if they usually restrict you to a few tenses/moods) and rote, non-contextual vocabulary learning. Both are, well, useless. Having perfect grammar but not knowing when to use which verb in which context won't get you far. It's like trying to learn how to code in some programming language by studying the formal syntax and rote memorizing a bunch of core functions from the standard library. You miss out on everything that actually makes a language.

All in all, it feels like this post was written by someone who mainly communicates (or learns to communicate) in foreign in writing.

> Forget intonation if it’s not entirely necessary. Especially in French, there is no need to learn if a word takes a ` or ‘.

I can't let that one go, sorry. You don't need to learn perfect spelling, but it's going to be obvious most of the time if it's é or è when you hear the word. And if you pronounce it weird, you will get confused looks. In English, do you "need" to learn if a word takes "o" or "u"? People who were raised with certain native languages cannot even hear the difference anyway, so why bother, I guess? I hope this makes my point clear.
I hope my partner never finds about this.

Getting random "prank" tickets sounds like torture :/
Here's an explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1coi2kq/comment/l3fblu...
This referenced paper seems like primarily a theoretical modelling paper (almost all of its figures are simulations?) that contains as far as I can read 3 (!) actual experimental measurements in bulk on a fluorospectrophotometer. The claim is that the observed increased fluorescent quantum yield (QY) of microtubules over tubulin can be explained by the ideas in their simulations.

It's hard to buy that their proposed stories are the simplest explanation for these few measurements. Much more boring phenomena can influence QY. e.g. simply occluding fluorophores from the bulk solvent can have a huge influence on QY and spectra. (I used to design biological fluorescent reporter reagents...)
Putin sacks Sergei Shoigu as defense minister
What is this again ? You mean that you are not GDPR compliant for an app that generates random phrases ? It feels like there is something shady.
New college graduates are overestimating their starting salaries by $30,000, report finds

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/09/college-graduates-are-overes...
No; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building says it cost $40M at the time, or $661M in 2023 dollars.
IMO that painful transition is already in progress in Europe. But I am not sure there will be civilization to speak of after that transition is done.
> Being spontaneous requires energy. A lot of people lack energy but still loves their partner.

The point is that you have a limited amount of energy, but you chose to dedicate some of it to something your partner would like.

Optimising by reducing the amount of energy you use to do that defeats the purpose.
Yeah, it does count. I don't remember all my friend's birthdays off the top of my head. I write them in Google Calendar. It definitely gives people a better, and more appreciated, experience by having their important dates remembered via the use of technology vs being forgotten entirely.

It seems fine to extend this rationale out further.
Yeah, weird. It should be just a set of suggestions and yet it wants so much data from the users.
Indeed. The problem is that the word "free" has different meanings when talking about free will and freedom in other contexts. What you talk about is value freedom, while ppl denying the existence of free will refer to "physcial" freedom. Few ppl notice the distinction though which makes the debate somewhat strange.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08435
It says not available in Canada, just pointing it out in case that was not intended
> This item is not available in your country

United States on Android?
Now it just seems anti-progress.

Granted, I’m graciously giving companies the presumption that paying more actually means faster, not “pay more or get slower service.”
Former US Marine pilot arrested in Australia worked with Chinese hacker
Plus, the opportunities to double your salary or even get a +20% bump plateau pretty quickly. You might be able to do it early in your career, but let's say you're 15 years into your career making a great $200K/yr salary. You're not going to just suddenly find a company willing to pay you $400K/yr. My last job hop was for +0.5%. Even assuming an average year-on-year bump of 5% (taking into account job hops) is ridiculously optimistic.

The key is that first job. Compare someone whose first job pays $50k/yr to someone whose first job pays $80k/yr. Assuming both average that 5% compensation increase every year, their outcomes will be totally different. After 30 years, the first person will be making ~$200K/yr and the second one ~$1.2M/yr, and their lifetime earnings will be $3.3M/$12.6M respectively.
You’re correct, I was thinking of a specific software architect when I wrote that.
Done, the noisysockets CLI is now available under the AGPLv3 (and NSSL-1.0), pick the license of your choosing with no legal ambiguity. If it turns out the FSL-1.1, and by virtue of being a derivative the NSSL-1.0 is legally sound, after four years the code will be available under the MPL-2.0.

But you don't have to trust me, the AGPLv3 starts immediately.

I'll update the source headers in the following days.

Thanks!
JavaScript one made me spit my drink. Thank you for making my day.

Funny but not untrue!
Move to Europe?

Government needs to be an adversary to big business, not its puppet. An idea that's not likely to take root in the USA, whose political philosophy is oriented around toxic individualism (and racism).
_sigh_ the backdoor was found because Debian also made those patches. Nearly all major distros were affected. The reason why Debian made the news is because the researcher who found the issue was using Debian. Had he been using Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora... those would have been in the news instead.
Literally listened to it today in the car (I have a soft spot for Elán). Also, as someone who lives in Prague, I don’t really go anywhere near the clock. That’s tourist land. It doesn’t feel like home.
Depends.

If someone defers their decision making process to an app and blindly gets flowers when it tells them to, I wouldn’t like that.

If someone uses an app like this as an inspiration or a reminder, then I could see this working well.

And then again there is the gray area where things get mixed.
If there's a reason for it, that's still deterministic; if there is no reason for it, that's still random.
Every day, Ted Unangst is vindicated more and more[1] for his work forking OpenSSL.

If you do a little digging, you'll see that there was no real technical reason why your distro of choice has abandoned implementing LibreSSL[2][3], or just never implemented it at all[4]. They just somehow wanted to keep using the faulty software with exploit mitigation countermeasures[5][6]. Totally organic.

1. https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/analysis-of-openssl-freelis...

2. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LibreSSL

3. https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935

4. https://lwn.net/Articles/841664/

5. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139698531410614&w=2

6. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139698608410938&w=2
> The second is they had higher standards for attendance than they do now.

Citation needed.
That's a 10x lover!
Yep. I also got really excited thinking this is homoiconic python I might be able to make my coworkers use (without having them buy into lisp). But no, it's just lisp.
Quality of Service support is still allowed. It just can't be associated with favored apps.

Being able to get better latency on a few percent of your bandwidth would be useful for gaming.
The EU rules are essentially that if you give them information for a particular purpose, they can only use it for that purpose and no other. So they obviously want to break this.

Doubtless if you use this you're training a model that understands what kind of interactions romantic partners find meaningful and sentimental.
There was the software “pattern” hype back in the 90’s, people began to think of the word “pattern” as meaning “good”. So there was some discussion of what to call a bad pattern, and people decided they liked “anti-pattern”.

So, not the opposite of a pattern, but the opposite of good. There you have it.
Also, on the internet, you can't tell who's a teenager. Social groups in real life are usually divided by age. If a much younger person has an overly extreme or overly argumentative opinion, it's kind of expected.
> We could turn it around: How do you -know- that freedom of speech is some kind of absolute good? It seems this, like any proposition, should not be simply taken as axiomatic. Maybe reasonable people can disagree.

Fair enough - but surely you can answer this for yourself?

Do you prefer to be able to speak your mind or not? And if you do speak your mind, are you causing harm? You may then turn around and say 'define harm'. Fair enough again - but I would answer while words might offend, stir trouble, no physical harm is occurring - ie no harm done. And sometimes, what is being suggested, although unpleasant, will be closer to the truth (or at least sincerely believed). Which is a fair basis for social interactions. Sticks and stones and all that.

The alternative is highly conformist and surely satisfies no individual.

In general, people ought to develop themselves, developing a thicker skin perhaps whilst maintaining their sanity, in response to other people's words.
Please remove the need to create an account
"It is difficult to predict, especially the future" - (I think) Niels Bohr.

The long-term future is hard to predict.
If you are giving me money today, how much should I give you back 30 years from now? 4% annualized? 5% annualized? 1% annualized? or -1% annualized?

All of these are valid numbers based on reasonable assumptions that might be encountered over those 30 years or so.
IMHO, "defined benefits" where certain benefits are guaranteed by a public or a private plan decades into the future are a bad idea.
First impression matters: no iOS sso and pw policy intransparenten, had to retry x 4 without any useful feedback
It might be unfair to focus on this, but that "perceived unfairness" just jumped out at be.

My first reaction was to think "it's not just perceived"... but after a little introspecting, I couldn't help but notice how grim that statement actually is. It means that any mistreatment is fine - as long as the person can be distracted from it.

And thinking about that reminded me how every new tech since the internet/90th has been increasingly distracting. There is a reason we've started calling it the attention economy after all...
There’s always more context to a choice than a simple question, but we aren’t limited to vague questions.

What you ate for breakfast January 3, 2024 could be what you always eat with those memories, that body, those resources etc. So saying yes once could very well mean you would say yes 100% in exactly that context without meaning you would always say yes in similar but not identical situations.

On the other hand if it’s random in identical contexts then it’s just random not free will.
I have to admit it was somewhat amusing to see so much incompetence bundled into a single person. He wanted to make it easy to fire employees for protesting. Best way to encourage protests.

What do you expect to happen if you suddenly render large numbers of people without income? Sure, you can take away grandpa's pension if you must but you have to do it gradually and slowly. Increase the retirement age, make the pension smaller for new pensioners, create elaborate pension pyramid schemes, cut healthcare etc etc

What does anarcho-capitalism look like without capital? For an anti-establishment party he really did well. Everyone is anti-establishment now.
I dont see why one cant have both. Give it names and translate them down to the base symbols so it has a readable syntax.

Id just call it something like exceptLast, lastOf, or endOff or something.
Or NZ
Lots of comments are saying this is disingenuous, but they are missing the fact that you have to care enough about your partner and relationship to get this app, and actually follow through with the suggestions. There is nothing disingenuous about that, and, frankly, most people wouldn’t care or couldn’t be bothered enough to actually do it.

As a busy adult with ADHD, a young kid, and a demanding job it is hard to remember to regularly surprise my partner and keep things fun, interesting, and unpredictable year after year. I always want to but can’t always remember to. I think this is a great idea. Personally, I would not follow the suggestions directly, but would add some personal creativity, or just use it as a concept to trigger my own ideas. I usually do already do surprise/ mystery dates and things like that when I remember to.

That said, I won’t be trying this app because of the account requirements mentioned by others. Deal breaker for me.
The US is kind of like two separate countries overlaid on the same geography. Violent crime is heavily concentrated in a small number of cities.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-ci...

Outside those cities, violent crime is very low and comparable to other "western" countries. It's something that people see on the news but don't personally experience. In my relatively affluent city, the homicide rate most years is zero.
I think someone downloading an app to help them be more spontaneous for a partner who wants that is extremely authentic, it takes someone seeing that they have a blind spot.
Account creation process is unnecessary. Biggest issue with the app
Broad conscription solves the kind of problems that are best solved when an large army and the soldiers have been trained for a only few months. It's not clear to me that Germany has that sort of problem.
How is this much different than the US? I know a lot of people who are screwed in retirement. All it really takes is one misstep such as divorce or bad financial decision in your 40's and your done for. SS is very difficult to live off of unless you can somehow relocate to dying ghost towns.
I think the idea is you could still have a page in the UI that shows archived data but you wouldn’t do that normally with a soft delete. The lifecycle thing makes it up front with the user instead of hiding soft delete as an implementation detail.
Meh. Just use C# and its cross-platform SIMD API instead.

These will guarantee you the performance, might even be terser, certainly easier to deploy, and actually open-source.
What helped so much with them that other attempts/methods lacked?
A Language Without Comments
I'm talking about e.g. within STEM where a gap of both pay and position remains.
Hey, not to take anything away from your work here, but if it's all client-side... why a browser-based thing?

Gotta love how someone downvoted a simple question...
How big of a deal is this? Isn’t it basically a 10/10? Seems like it could open up MRI’s to everyone.
That's literally impossible. Imagine trying to learn Japanese by talking to a Japanese man on the phone, with neither of you being able to understand or see each other or what you're each doing. Without shared context communication is impossible. Best case, you and the Japanese man would create a new context and a new shared language that would be neither English nor Japanese that would allow you to communicate about whatever ideas fit through the phone line. Maybe words like "sound", "word", "stop", etc.
None of that is what I'd call "a lot" of intelligence, not even in aggregate.

(Evolution itself can be described as a form of intelligence, but evolution is as different from individuals as humanity collectively is from a single thought).
Uh huh.

Try having a couple kids and then apply this kind of reasoning. There simply isn’t enough time or energy to do everything you want for your family.

If you can leverage technology and good ideas to enhance your experiences and relationships, do it.
Can't you just use a partition too?
Found this particularly tricky with hobby projects around cost. I can spend a bit more time on clever engineering to fit it into free tier but that saves me what. Price of a coffee? For loads of extra complexity and time
The choices are:

A. Move deleted data to (an)other table(s): users, deleted_users

B. Read from a scope, view, or materialized view but update a raw table: deleted bool or deleted_at datetime

C. Sprinkle conditionals everywhere live data is desired: deleted bool or deleted_at datetime

There is no one "the way" for all use-cases.
Why wouldn't I? I'm a native English speaker. But, I won't be updating any wikis as I don't enjoy it.
One of the ways you become authentic is by practicing something you want to become. It’s doing the thing consistently that leads to character development. Also, if you and your partner value different love languages (my partner is meh on flowers, I spent time in high school doing floral arrangements) then having a guide to help you translate could be super helpful. Disappointed this is EU and USA only for now but will see if it shows up in my country soon.
Today, are doing the opposite of your stated goals. They’re emphasizing specific beliefs (eg Cultural Marxism or feminism), dogmatism over discovery by evidence, feelings over facts for topics like gender, and canceling those who dissent. It’s best to avoid colleges or most of them to develop the skills you mention.

Do any debate colleges still exist that have people with a large number of views fairly represented in both student body and faculty? Whose political donations would likewise be across the spectrum? Is there anyone maintaining a list of those that didn’t go totally dogmatic?
Circled or parenthesized kin also means kinyoubi (friday), so it's not surprising that Unicode only includes maru-kin.
I think that's two very different things - a complete set of features done poorly vs. an incomplete set of features done well. In general it's best to err on the side of the latter, it's going to give the customer a better UX.

What exactly was the original iPhone missing? The only thing in the OS I recall was copy/paste. The other things we'd take for granted today likely weren't conceived then, including the App Store. The main issues was that it was a frustratingly slow experience, so OS/proc performance, and EDGE which was the best widely available at the time was insufficient.
Android app not available in my country, France.
A plywood back would be prone to water damage, however