skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these domains show power law like earnings. 13% making $100K or more is actually fairly healthy and way more than I expected. Also, given that many of these influencers are international, the dollar goes a lot more in many countries and if one were to adjust for cost of living, this would be even more healthier.
If you think that is what will make it a cat and mouse game instead of understanding it has been a cat and mouse game since the beginning of time, then you're not compelling me into thinking you're very experienced in this space.
Reminds me of searching in confluence: search for 2 words and get results where only 1 is present.

I no longer use Google search, and I use DDG instead. But not always satisfied with the results.

I also search with keywords and not full sentences, else I ask an LLM.
Turns out frogs are smarter than we thought

https://web.archive.org/web/20240118204920/https://www.fastc...
Spread rubber, tea, and contracts wherever we went. I’d guess the Malaysians and Singaporeans are happy for the global leg-up caused by having English integrated into their education systems. And for the roads. And the sanitation. And the public health. And the aqueduct.
From the upstream article that the author cites:

> How does confidence in higher education compare to confidence in other institutions? According to Gallup, Americans report similar levels of confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court (27%) and banks (26%). In the extremes, though, Americans are far more confident in small businesses (65%) and the military (60%) than they are in colleges and universities. They are far less confident in Congress (8%), television news (14%), and the criminal justice system (17%).

A personal anecdote, on a Higher Education "image" issue which the article doesn't mention:

I know a rather aggressive and successful "Investment Advisor", in a quite well-to-do area. He'd graduated from the University of Michigan (on paper, a public institution) back about 2004. Last year, Mr. Success visited the U of M campus for the first time since graduating...and was absolutely flabbergasted by the spare-no-expense opulence of the place. Even his perfectly fine, rock solid old freshman dorm had been completely redone. With nine-figure budget for the redo.
While it has been a number of years since I last used Pascal (Delphi 5 or Turbo Pascal before that) -- I do like the language but I find the code syntax to be bloated at times. Maybe better to say harder on the eye when looking at large source code compared to C.

Of course - modern Pascal (Free Pascal, Delphi, etc) might have evolved a lot since.

// C
void some_func(int a) {
int b = a + 10;
printf("hello %d\n", b);
}

{ Pascal - Going by memory, so might be a tad wrong }
procedure SomeFunc(a : Integer)
var
b : Integer;
begin
b := a + 10;
WriteLn('hello ', b);
end;

I have been playing around with Odin for a little while, now. It may have been inspired by Pascal in a number of ways but it certainly isn't as cumbersome to write. I am liking the syntax much more.

// Odin
some_func :: proc(a : i32) {
b := a + 10
fmt.println("hello ", b)
}
That's naively optimistic. Many many jobs are only done for money and no gratification - think cleaning, serving, maintenance of many things (electric/water/internet infrastructure), bus drivers, security etc etc etc.

Nobody grows up dreaming they'll work at McDonalds, and nobody _wants_ to work at McDonalds. They want to have a decent salary to live on.

And in general, many people work to live, not live to work. For them the things they _want_ are things outside of work like hobbies, family, etc. and a job is just a means to an end - having enough money to live and do the things they actually enjoy.
Not surprising at all.

Now do PostgreSQL. :)
Are you sure you meant everyone? Countries fall into disarray all the time. And there are totalitarian countries …

It has some use and does prevent someone trying. But there is a downside to it that is too much. But for some cases like Taiwan or Ukraine …
For many, yes. Due to my high medical expenses and having great insurance, I meet my deductibles and out-of-pocket early each year, so most of my medication has a $0 cost.
I wonder how much of this is people feeling the pain of seeing the truth.

There are thousands of girls more beautiful than you. The math problems you struggle with are trivial for many. Your country is poorer, less safe and worse weathered than another. The moral belief system you grew up with is readily falsified. You've wasted tens of thousands of dollars using k8s when a single VM would host you app.

These things are readily discovered by many people on social media, true but emotionally painful nevertheless.
I'm deeply against advertising and the harms that social media cause, but if you just removed ads entirely it would not fix the problem (even if you could because where do you draw the line on what "influencers" do).

Unless you were home schooled or truly isolated, I'm confident everyone experienced or witnessed at some point the cruelty and mob behavior of children and young adults. Now couple that with the difficulty of scrubbing one's past online.
Definitely used to be more common, but it wasn’t as if everyone was one of those things. My point was more that people were a bit tougher then, as they had more difficult everyday lives.
Rhetorical question: Why not ban snooping without a warrant first, so that innocent people don't have to worry that the actual goal of these efforts to ban encryption is their surveillance ?
Great! This is long overdue; Social Media is completely out of control and it definitely is harming the mental health (and by extension physical health) of Children and Teens whose Brains are still developing. Just the other day there was a shocking HN submission on Moms literally pimping out their little girls on Instagram/etc. under the guise of product marketing influencers to the detriment of Society and nothing is being done about it.

Social Media as a communication tool/medium is just amplifying everything (all the good and bad in society) a bazillion fold and worst of all enables a single "bad" person to have a disproportionate effect on the entire Society. It is high-time we establish controls/checks/balances over this entire medium to save Society from itself.
At the core of this article is that these platforms are setup for you to make a living off them alone. You see more successful influencers shilling vpns, and setting up newsletters on YouTube to stabilize revenue. TikTok has the same problem vine did, the content is short form so it a bit difficult to put a pitch in without making a mini infomercial.
Systemd-Tmpfiles, Deleting /Home
Consciousness is your mental model of your environment. Dogs have theirs and we have ours. That does leave the question on the scope of consciousness. More processing power equals more, expanded consciousness it would stand to reason.
But it took 8 years to get there. It was basically law of the land for a decade.
Can you give more details as to when, and how, it was a "beautifully decentralized region"?
Vague notions of "inherited trauma" are a regular hobby horse of people in the broader political sphere of the guardian at the moment.
Genuinely asking, do you think that could be solved by having better orbital visualizations?
postmarketOS provides tooling, documentation and a helpful community ... at some point, you'll need to put in the work, or sell your used devices and buy other, better supported used devices to work around this.

Is it really unfortunate that there's no (known) mainline/close to mainline touchscreen driver for the Pixel 4a? Absolutely. But it won't magically appear without somebody putting in the necessary effort.
Will you be able to share an example code or gist ?
Yes, but AI will push this phenomena into many other fields.
Exceptions define an effect. Code with exceptions aren't actually pure in the sense that their return type doesn't fully describe what the code does, so it doesn't just map an input into an output: there is something else going on

In some pure functional languages, the pure fragment doesn't have exceptions, and you add exceptions as an effect (or as a monad)

(If you reify the effect with a type like Either or Result, then the code becomes pure: but that's just a monad like said above)
You can follow people on TikTok and if people mutually follow each others they are your “friends”.

TikTok has DMs.

Yeah, these things count as social connections IMO. Even though your FYP (the “For You Page”) is determined algorithmically to show you things that you might be interested in from any user across the platform.

(They also have a specific friend feed you can look at instead of the FYP. But if most people are like me then they still mainly scroll the FYP, not the friend feed on TikTok.)
It skips important details such as courts, juries, and due process. It's a cynical view that the US legal system must work the same way as in authoritarian Communist China.

It sounds like a view that someone living in such a system would have. That your system is equally bad but at least ours is across an ocean. Is it a false equivalence?
Show HN: Glideprompt- A Prompt-Testing tool for open and closed source LLMs
Hey HN.

I’m a 3rd year CS student and have been building internet apps from home since I was 15.

I’ve recently been hired as an engineer at a startup and had this recurring problem of not being able to effectively test the use of my system prompts on different language models, and see the difference in output and pricing.

I needed it for work, to be able to show evidence of an LM provider choice being the correct one.

As an engineer, I want to know I’m choosing the right LM for each task I deploy on an application.

So GlidePrompt takes an arbitrary task -> creates system prompt -> lets you message the popular open and closed source LMs.

Let me know what you think so far and what direction you want to see this going in. Thanks for the feedback, positive or negative.
This is unironically it.

Technology is evil. Specifically, the Internet is evil.

It's why it's got such a uniquely rich potential for dystopia, why all news is always bad news, why it's always getting worse.

Technology, as it progresses, is the enabling of power. So you'll find more and more power exerted over you because people can't resist. You'll have to assert power of your own to counter it, like switching to Linux or using a VPN. Or torrenting a media to escape the oppressive DRM placed upon it. But it's essentially a war you've found yourself enlisted in. If you've got the chops to fight in it, you're lucky; most don't.

I single out the Internet because it connects us with oppressors and makes us reliant on them more intimately than ever before. AI will be able to extend that oppression even in an air gapped environment because now the oppressor's intent can be packaged up and installed on the machine like never before -- no connection required.

And, in the limit,
I think it all ends with gray goo, Daybreak style.
The past 100 years of development are unfathomable already - even though some sci-fi from 100 years ago was accurate, so there was some imagination of what things could be like already. I like to believe I can vaguely predict what the next 100 years will bring, but that's based in a cynicism that the big scientific discoveries have been done already.

But 1000 or more years, unfathomable. It's the one reason where I wish time travel or suspended animation was real, just so I can see what the future might bring. Assuming it meanders on as it has for the past few thousand years, and there's no Great Filter event.
Yep, 2 months is "I've almost started"... Anyway, once people actually begin using it, the real work begins.
Much easier to fake, though. Which makes it look more attainable.

If you’re an actor you’re either in Hollywood movies or you’re not. If you’re an influencer you can buy followers, fake locations, etc. which makes it much easier for someone else to look and say “I ought to be able to do that too”
Loop: Open-source macOS window manager
Apple just made your app obsolete? You've been 'Sherlocked'
The most cynical and disenchanted answer (and most likely to be true) is that animals are just as conscious as humans and that we just made all this nonsense up to justify our actions.
I fail to see how one arrives to this conclusion. Nobody likes ads, back when I worked in adtech we ad such little engagement from ads we wondered why people even paid for them (it wasn't bad targeting and our business was very profitable)

Literally no one in the world browse instagram or youtube in the hope to see more ads
What if they did find it and that's why we don't send crewed missions to the moon anymore?

Think about it. The first manmade object on the moon was in 1959. The first pineapple on pizza was in 1962. Coincidence, or lunar monolith? You decide!
> The very first diagram that you draw in your kick-off meeting will be the point where they decide they will dump you

Maybe you and I are living in different cultural contexts? I lived in SF and hang out mostly with tech professional flavored people. I think the reaction of anyone I’ve dated in the last 10 years would fall somewhere between “amused and reluctantly playing along” to “enthusiastic/excited”. I’ve never really thought about my Percentile Of Men but I feel pretty mid except for my humor / personality possibly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> Empathy is a personality trait

Empathy is a behavior/skill and so it can be practiced!
B-Corps are for-profit companies that have to meet high standards as audited by a third party.

sounds they want all the benefits of looking like a transparent and ethical business without having to be accountable
“Comparison is the death of joy” and social media invites comparison to everyone everywhere, human ambition is great but I increasingly think many of us would be better off if we lived in a more local community oriented world.
Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century
New research studies why traveling in space ages astronauts so much
Is this the one technology used by Russia to bomb Ukraine. As it is so cheap the missile defend system is useless as it is just too expensive to fight it. The f16 is starting to prevent the airplane that throw the bomb with some gps guidance system.
The cost of making the consistency is too large and the benefit is too tiny.
LogViewPlus (https://www.logviewplus.com) is very similar to lnav and built for Windows.
I interpret the OP point as addicted to the result of ads (free stuff), not necessarily the ads themselves.

This shows up in a lot of threads about paid search engines and the number of people unwilling to pay $10/month when Google provides similar quality results for “free”.
The boss/worker relationship within our current mode of production seems to be another way we justify treating others like raw resources. Especially in lean financial times.
While ads targeting teenagers are a problem, it’s not the biggest problem with social media.

The issue is that algorithms give users a distorted view of the world that isolates them from alternative viewpoints. Social networks breed all kinds of extremism from political to body image. Not to mention the potential bullying that can occur.

It’s not just dangerous teenagers. It’s dangerous for adults.
> This looks like a flimsy story from a couple of months ago about something from many years ago.

"Here's me obediently following the rule (Oh, the world is so full of silly rules!), but let me editorialise a bit on why any story about how Sam Altman isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread should be disregarded..."

And you don't see how that undermines any "trust we have with the bulk of the community"?
Congrats on launching! Most people who have an idea for a project like this never build it. Most people who build their projects never launch them. You're doing great!

Something that rattled me several times when releasing my own projects like this is that once I released my thing I'd expect people to start using it. Most of the time, after I built things nobody cared. I felt really discouraged and would try working on something else to see if people might start using the new thing, but the same thing would happen.

What I've come to realize is that building things is its own skillset distinct from the skill of figuring out what needs to be built which is distinct from the skill of telling people about it. I wasn't (and still am not great) at the last two, but I've been working towards getting better at it by practicing things like:

- talking to customers like a researcher (ie: without asking leading questions like "do you like it?"). Deploy Empathy and The Mom Test were great resources for this.

- figuring out where potential customers hang out online, what their problems are, and how they talk about them. 30x500 was a great resource for me here.

- learning an explore/exploit system for marketing to figure out how to build machines that take in a dollar and spit out more than a dollar. Traction by Gabriel Weinberg is the best resource I've found here so far.

For a good overview of the whole system of building profitable SaaS businesses I've recently really enjoyed The SaaS Playbook by Rob Walling.
Just found about it on X[1], and I'm quite impressed for how well it looks and work. A great improvement over Rectangle and other options I've tried at some point.

1. https://x.com/JaceThings/status/1802996092616786259
An obvious example of platform enshittification

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshitt...
This will probably get a lot of hate, but for most of my questions where I'm looking for a simple answer on something, I just use ChatGPT. Gives me the answer much more hassle-free than a search engine would.
Revolutionizing solar plant prospection with automated viewshed analysis
Hi HN! This is first blog post ever, discussing one challenge I encountered working at Inicio.

Our company is prospecting suitable lands for solar power plant using algorithms and geospatial data. This article will guide you through recent work I've done find optimal locations that align with visibility constraints.

I hope you find this peek into our solutions insightful!
Many people will do art for very little. Trying to make a living as a musician is hard because of that.

People won't work on Google products for free.

This is one of the many reasons I'm for a UBI, it makes it easier to do art without having to be a "starving artist".
This is a useful addition. Yes, the above reasoning was assuming that we

(a) had located a bottleneck,

(b) were planning to vertically scale the capacity of that bottleneck, and

(c) in doing so won't run into a different bottleneck!

It is still useful for many cases of horizontal scaling because from sufficiently far away, c identical servers looks a lot like a single server at c times the capacity of a single one. Many applications I encounter in practise does not require one to be very far away to make that simplifying assumption.

> How close to half depends on the ratio of queue time to processing time.

I don't think this is generally true, but I think I see what you're going for: you're using queue length as a proxy for how far away we have to be to pretend horizontal scaling is a useful proxy for vertical scaling, right?
That's not right though. In the analogy, ads are payment for the cig, and anything that results in impressions is the nicotine. The fact that the misaligned incentives result in a bunch of tar, filler, and who knows what else pushed into cig/impression is just industry immaturity.

But here's the thing: like pure nicotine, it turns out that getting rid of all the other crap, while it might be an improvement, still doesn't make nicotine good for you. The addictive substance, in and of itself, even if was given away for free, is terrible for your body and your mind.
I have been using ChatGPT or http://kagi.com.

Google only for shopping or things related to my local city, which is very small.
I don't remember them all off the top of my head, but I do remember:

- Access to different parts of the database are limited in CloudSQL since it's a managed database. This makes some features of automated tooling (like migrations) not work on CloudSQL (i'm not saying migrations don't work, i'm saying some features do work, some don't). Sometimes elevated permissions can fix it, but some aspects are just walled off.

- There are schema differences from the stock Postgres (I don't remember specifics). No support for custom tablespaces.

- Import/export can often lock up a CloudSQL instance, whereas it might work fine on a local instance.

- You only get Read Committed transaction isolation.

- Operation is different (load, logging, replication, nodes, etc) and this affects performance, and performance can lead to bugs if there's an expectation of a certain run time or performance that doesn't match up with the development experience. Often times some job will have run faster on a laptop than in the cloud, and that leads to weird corner cases where production has an issue due to weird performance and it has to be triaged in the cloud and a fix applied to avoid it. Performance issues don't sound like a bug, but if you have to change your code to make it work in prod, it's a bug.

- To access CloudSQL they want you to use a proxy app, and that can have inconsistent results compared to a dev connecting directly to a Postgres instance. Even something as simple as handling reconnects is often not considered when all you have is a local instance that never needs reconnecting.

- There's a limited selection of Postgres extensions supported. And I could be wrong but I think the version of the extensions is pinned for each version of Postgres core used in CloudSQL.

To all of this you might reply "well none of that affects me", and that's fine... but it does affect other people, and that's important to note when you're telling people on the internet there will be no problems.
I have a dog and I know it is dreaming and having all kinds of emotions and wants. It can communicate with me in its own way and of course has needs for being close and attention. I got it from silly people who could not take care of it well and it was a lot of work to gain its trust so we could be real companions.

But my dog for sure is not pondering mysteries of the universe and is most likely not aware it is going to die one day and is not going to have existential dread thinking about it.

We are made from the same things and share a lot - but at the same time we are so much different that it cannot be just "humans are just the same as animals".
I would be more interested in knowing the percentage of those who are attempting to make a profit creating content but haven't earned any money yet. I believe on YouTube it's something like only 0.25% of channels make any money.
I'm probably the target market on both ends. I've mostly worked off a MBP over the last 15 years, though currently coding on a Surface Book for compatibility reasons and generally avoid walled ecosystems as it feels unhealthy.

My personal laptop is an i7 11" MBA that works fine but is in dire need of a refresh. I've been eyeing a 16gb MBA; but have been hesitating as I really like the 11" form factor and things like Framework look really tempting. Now; Snapdragon is looking tempting.

I'll probably buy something this summer, glad to have options. That Yogi looks interesting.
It's popular to point out how satellite visualizations exaggerate the size, but we never seem to notice how satellite visualizations shrink the duration of time. You only look at a visualization for maybe a minute, whereas these objects are actually out there whizzing around 24/7 for decades or even millennia.

Both effects are misleading dataviz artifacts, but at least they're in opposite directions!

A great ESA video, linked from Don Kessler's website, shows a time-lapse simulation that better captures the seriousness of space junk. In the simulation
@5:25, realize that each of those flashes represents an Iridium-Cosmos magnitude collision event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZ3Lr-Tj6A