skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think we've entered an age of hypercapitalism:

- this price-surging is a good example

- companies raising prices because they can and blaming inflation

- corporation buying up housing to rent out

- small investors/flippers buying up homes to put $10-25k of "improvements" (vinyl flooring, new paint, new MDF cabinets, quartz not granite countertops, cut down trees, etc) then jacking the price $100-300K

- apartments illegally using price collusion, they are in somewhat trouble but will just do things manually if need be to raise rent as much as they can

- apartments adding as much as they can for fees - required cable television service, required trash valet, etc...
dont think you need to give it up, there is a description on how to do that in https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/1751
Well, you don't need incremental compilation if you have a fast compiler. I can't speak for the other points, though.
I think the hostility is understandable when you consider that blind and other disabled people, like myself (I'm partially blind) and the poster of that comment, live every day having to work around widespread indifference toward our needs. I'm not immune to it myself; see some of my older HN comments on GUI toolkit accessibility, before I started AccessKit.
Unicode, primarily.
I think a lot of "smoothing" algorithms don't work at the ends of the data. Smoothing usually takes in past and future data. At the end of the graph there is no future data. (Maybe that's not the case for this type of smoothing?)

I've always thought the smoothed line should be truncated (so that it doesn't show present-day estimates where data is lacking.)
Looking at a single blip on a population graph and assuming it will continue ad infinitum is flawed thinking.
A few years back the then-prime minister of Norway (Solberg) encouraged women to have more children. I’m not sure if there were some actual incentives. Well in any case, women writers started responding to her about how they can’t have children because X, Y, and Z.

What stunned me about that was that they took the admonition seriously to begin with. That a statesperson telling you to have more children or have children at all “for Norway” was worth responding to.
Nice to see wezterm on the frontpage! For anyone giving it try beware that link detection doesn't work super well for links containing a `)` character which is something you run into frequently on markdown documents. More info in https://github.com/wez/wezterm/pull/4212 which has a workaround.
To keep the next person from having to look (or ask without looking): it supports browser-side persistence via IndexedDB and OPFS: <https://pglite.dev/docs/filesystems>
I've had similar issues the last few months and have had to switch back to alacritty on every machine I own.
Dietary advice is one thing. Woo peddling and fringe medicine is another. The original question didn't even ask about rheumatoid arthritis.

I'm not overreacting. There are many people who will read my comment and know exactly what I'm talking about. This is simply a "you get it or you don't" situation where you're currently on the "doesn't get it" side.
`Waiting for fonts.googleapis...`, pax website was blank for a couple of minutes, might want to reconsider making third-party fonts non blocking on your website so it doesn't appear broken/empty when a third-party CDN edge is slow.
This study was a followup to one that just used signs [1], which yielded performance no better than chance. If the summer/winter correlation held, then that study would have shown positive results, which it did not.

There's nothing to say that these star charts or seasons of birth cannot correlate with personality traits or life outcomes. But Astrology, as a practice, is not useful for unwinding those correlations. If you have some alternate system, feel free to propose it -- pump the star charts and personality charts from this study into some AI and see if it can come up with some kind of super-astrology, and then try to replicate it.

I doubt you'd find anything stronger than predicting the answer to the question "were you born in the summer or the winter".

[1] https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/we-tested-the-predictiv...
That's the 2 trillion ton kid fallacy (a joke on Twitter of a guy holding up his infant son and projecting forward his growth rate).

The birthrate will change dramatically after a few generations of low growth.
I can give one perspective...

I worked in the communications part of a lender. We couldn't delete anyone's texts or other correspondence for a number of years due to compliance requirements.
Maybe because "Google Map" is actually called "Google Maps" (with the s)?
did you measure latency? Curious as to how big the difference is
The gems are always in the comments. Great find! Would make a great comedy, like Tropic Thunder. "Guano Freedom?"
Now in Baseline: animating entry effects
The snake oil part comes from the business people, not from the physicist. And anyways, it's not that hard for the physicist to learn that there's no future in QKD, and indeed, the physicist wants to know that to avoid wasting their efforts. Being a physicist does not preclude knowledge of classical cryptography -- and vice-versa.

The credentialist approach we take to all specialty knowledge has its limits, and we must acknowledge that. Credentials do not limit one's expertise, nor really do they prove it.
I know that I can achieve anything I put my mind to. I feel like I can shoot lightning from my hands and I wield 2 lightsabres.

However, as a primarily computational and business-oriented founder, I am trying to disrupt an industry that is dominated by scientific PhDs and institute spinouts. So even if my science is really novel, I'm still an outsider.

I'd imagine that most founders are, to an extent, outsiders. You kind of have to be in order to develop a radically new thing. You have to be dissimilar to the status quo.
It's not clear to me that this is something that should be genericized, nor that providing a generic HPKE to IETF WGs and then tweaking it as needed is any less work than just composing the correct primitives for each WG use case. As it stands already, IETF WGs are relying on properties that, e.g. DH-KEM only provided by accident. In practice, HPKE is not something you can just use off the shelf, and I personally wouldn't try to write an IRTF standard like it is.
yep, it is his project. Those that like his opinions will like his software. those that do not will look elsewhere. The beauty of open source
Not sure if it counts but the suckless project (e.g. st or dwm) use C (its source code) as config :)
I predict: people will be warning warm jackets on your birthday
Yours and Roys work on WASM SQLite VFSs has directly influenced my work on this. Thank you!
Agreed, but if we build an economy that maximizes extraction by artificially threatening basic needs, we could stay in the exponential decline for quite some time.
A good summary for why I flagged the submission on this open, free, and otherwise useful project:

> I wanted this to be good, but upon close inspection of the "source code" you can find various executables, archives as well as a lot of scripts that download files from various urls at runtime, not to mention the atlas themes, background, oem/bios settings, etc. which don't appear to be optional. I don't think they would intentionally compromise your machine, but at least they're very susceptible to supplychain attacks. That said, there is a lot of good stuff in the scripts and registry tweaks that I wish could be made available independently.

So Atlas guys, if you hear that, please split it into safe and potentially problematic parts so that the user can have a choice.
Synchronous Flowering
I've made some improvements to shortwire, including support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 in addition to AES.

It may not perfect, but I think it's a lot better.
Cosine scores 30% on SWE-Bench
Float is necessary for some layouts, particularly documents where you might have a lot of text that wraps around a handful of images. I don't believe it's possible to implement that without floats (at least not without some clever shenanigans).

I think most attempts to simplify CSS are going to fail in this way. Almost all of CSS right now is useful for something or other — there's actually not a huge amount of cruft in there (in comparison to, say, JS, where a lot of built-in APIs and functions should not be used, or need to be used in the right way). It's just that CSS gets used for everything from applications (where grid/flex are mostly enough) through to documents (where floats and tables become more important).
I mostly work on Swift and macOS, so SwiftUI.
To be fair, it's only that hard because the author wanted to do it without KVM. As they note getting KVM access for a Hetzner server is only a short message to support away. Last time I requested it (to change BIOS settings) I got it within 5 minutes.
> It is entirely plausible that babies born during the Summer months share something in common, and babies born during Winter months share something else.

This would not account for reversal of the seasons in opposite hemispheres...

... or do the northern and southern hemispheres practice a different "western" astrology (!).
By "unsustainable growth rates" you mean an ever-expanding population on a planet that cannot realistically offer up the resources for this population to live in moderate wealth, right?
The economics of space tethers – by Sam Harsimony
My comment explained what he is, with a small note of what he usually does and a summary of his points, what more could you conceivably want answered?

Click on the provided link if you can't understand what I wrote and take notice of his username.
I think the hype has already peaked for Go. When we switched to Go 8-9 years ago I already felt the hype had died down. We were late to the party. And I saw that as a good thing. To me it suggested Go was going to stick around.

And now, almost a decade later, we're still using it.

Note that at my company, we're a bunch of grumpy old guys with about 30 years of experience each. If you dangle a new and shiny language in front of us, our default instinct is to tell people to get lost. We don't do "fashionable". We tend to make investments in learning languages that we expect to get at least a decade out of.

And I don't think Go is succeeding Rust. From what I can tell, people are going in both directions.
> Ghostty is still a private project. I plan to open source it one day and share it with more people but for now this is a private personal project.

https://mitchellh.com/ghostty
It's "Ponzi" if it requires an ever increasing future population. In reality we don't, the population can stabilise at some time in the future, there may be some economic shock along the way, but we'll be fine.
I agree with this take. I find Rust a more exciting language from a personal project perspective—and it's what I go with even when it doesn't make 100% sense.

Go is fine, though, and works well in a team environment. It's just clunky, but clunky in a productive way.
>The image below, created with NASA data while using a 1903-1924 custom base, illustrates that the temperature anomaly through July 2024 has been above 1.5°C for the past 13 months.

Surprise to no one.

The way things are going I believe we will hit +2c by 2040. No one wants to sacrifice their standard of living, it is human nature. Because of that, many of the young will be forced into a bad condition.

The only thing that could probably stop this, but will be just as bad, is a Yellowstone Event :(
Civilization isn't a Ponzi scheme. But our current financial system that has never-ending growth as an axiom, where we borrow from the future to pay for today might be.
Amogy and Yanmar Announce Ammonia-to-Hydrogen Fuel Plans for Shipping
Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All
I wasn't joking - I've been in two top floor flats in the UK in older buildings (central Edinburgh) that had ceiling plaster collapse due to roof problems.
> Yours and Roys work on ...

(blush) But to be 100% clear: the AHP-based VFS in the SQLite project is a direct port of Roy's, so all of the credit for that one truly goes to him!
This is a great policy but I think we have seen that the actual implementations of privacy preserving sentiments seldom play out in the favor of the public.

I think it's a better pattern to normalize decentralized identifiers (DID), wherein the process of unsubscribing is actually just the user revoking the unique identifier/alias that a company uses to communicate with them.

Lots of other cool use cases and benefits to this technology as well.
The signal is very noisy, but there is much more past data that is not shown on that figure, supporting the trend line. The trend line is not just fitting data visible on the time interval of the figure, but also fitting past data.
Ghostty will be open source once it is stable enough.
From 1975-1985, they were selling 500,000 Oldsmobile Cutlasses per year. Insane.
This is the kind of statement that the Appeal to Authority fallacy was made for. Just because someone is an expert in one field doesn't mean their opinions matter in every field.
Can it just be a frequency illusion, where you tend to notice a new-to-you phenomenon again and again at first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion?wprov=sfla1 ?

Eager isn't an especially uncommon word (eg "eager beavers" is a somewhat common saying), even though it's not used in most convos.

I feel like "delve" is a YouTube phenomenon (as in "let's delve into this topic") as a weird proxy for "deep dive". Maybe a side effect of D&D's resurgence over the last decade, where it's often used to describe small adventures/dungeons...?
This theme is very nice! Any way to get it into JetBrains editors?
Judging by your comment history, I doubt it's worth engaging further because you're not arguing in good faith. There's a compiled category of russian dissidents on wikipedia if you're genuinely interested.
Show HN: Xylect – AI-search for Mac that works in ANY app
Xylect is an AI-search app for MacOS, that you can use in any app. It has with multi-language support, no API key or prompting required.

Imagine you're reading something using a PDF reader, but encounter an unfamiliar terminology. You want to Google it, but are just too lazy to copy, switch to Chrome, and open Google. With Xylect, you can look it up with one click, without switching between different apps.

I have big plans for it, and will post more updates on my Twitter: @laike9m_studio
It looks like you are smart, but you are hiding by aliases and not showing us who the creator is. People want to buy from people. It's okay if you're just starting out--everyone was once! Make a website. Provide a link. Use your real name as your user accounts.

Here's my user test: https://www.loom.com/share/16cf5da226e048b0a494031987af7b71?...
He obviously didn't mean "ever expanding". And current population can be sustainably supported, if we get off fossil fuels.
> In that sense, civilization is a Ponzi scheme. Let's just give up.

I think this is incredibly disingenuous. A steady state population that lives within the means of what the sun and planet can provide, without exceeding planetary boundaries, is an ambitious yet reasonable goal. A planet with a population that must grow forever to pay off debt today incurs against tomorrow without tomorrow's consent is simply not realistic, a "spherical cow."

When women are empowered and have agency, they delay having children and have less children. What does this tell us? It tells us that the global population boom was driven by lack of agency and contraceptive access for women. What did most socioeconomic systems do with this "demographic dividend"? Capitalism, leading to wealth inequality, and also incurring substantial debts to pay for the future (both financial and physical system). And now this system is in material structural peril.

So, should we listen to the pro-natalism harpies that everyone should have more kids to continue to allow a suboptimal economic system predicated on returns and debt to continue to trudge on unimpeded? Or should we continue to empower women and force the economic systems to serve humans instead of using them as a resource? Managing a rapid total fertility rate decline resulting from self determination of a population cohort isn't giving up; it is living within our means as a species and respecting human rights.
More discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183795
Where to Draw the Boundary?
I don’t see why we would expect plentiful resources to lead to more kids.
People today have fewer kids than they did 100 years ago, despite having many more material resources.

I’m also not sure that population decline would lead to plentiful resources in a sense that matters. Do people in Detroit feel rich because houses are so plentiful after the 1950s population high?
This works very well here. Just visit the website of thing you want canceled, scroll to the footer, click vertrag kündigen and you get a form to cancel, I have done it a few times now and it's 1000x better than searching in some customer portal or even worse calling. Good for the US.
What part of his comment implied "unlimited growth"?
Funny, the article proposes just that.
> A good astrologer won't say with precision that X is going to happen

> Does it work? It's a bit like the weather, I can say this range of things under this archetype will happen on X date at X time. That's pretty much it.

If it was like the weather, then it would predict the odds of specific things.

Sitting on an archetype is like saying "it's summer" when you want to know if it's going to rain.

> Anywho, I expect a good roasting and some down d00ts for my interest in t is subject.

This line in particular deserves downvotes.
There is a reason to invest in this, the rationale goes as follows: Some of my customers will legitimately need to cancel, unsubscribe, stop using, or whatever, but they like the product. If I piss these customers off, they may recommend against using it, and refuse to ever use it again so I should accept that they're leaving with grace and maybe they'll return later. You can offer to "pause" a subscription for example, "Posted to Amundsen-Scott† for six months? Alas Swim Fun Inc don't have a pool there, but when you get back just hit resume and you can keep the same pricing, meanwhile we won't charge you".

But far too many "business leaders" are focused on short term gains at any cost and so this doesn't compute for them. They don't care that you currently like the product and would resubscribe when you get back from the pole, because that's a year or more away, they care about next quarter, and if you aren't income next quarter you're irrelevant to them, fuck you.

† Amundsen-Scott is the name of the base at the South Pole of the planet. It's a cool place. But lots of services aren't available there or would make no sense. You can't live there permanently, so those people are coming back.
Yes 100%. This is a superb UI/UX feature once you see it in action.
Both are so awesome!

Looking at the weavescape patterns for whatever reason, I had a glimpse of an opportunity - A script to convert QR codes to Weave Patterns to load as presets in the preset menu. Make them in sectional swatches then Quilt together as a QuiltR Code.
The Dept. of Unaccountable & Mysterious is too interested protecting their perks, turf, and traditions - vs. the longer-term welfare of the whole organization.

Clever disrupters aren't automatically right ("Rule of Cool"?), either.

Timeless.
Supermarket vs. Farmer's Market Apples: The Hyper-Standardisation of Software
Huge fan of PGlite.

It's the perfect solution to have Postgres without the need of Docker. With just `npm install`, you can have a Postgres instance on your computer. So, it's extremely easy to onboard a new developer in your team.

And, the good news, PGlite works perfectly with Next.js.

I'm using PGlite in local and development environment with Next.js Boilerplate: https://github.com/ixartz/Next-js-Boilerplate

With only one command `npm install`, you can have a full-stack application, which also includes the database (a working Postgres). And, no need to have/install external tools.
We have the regulation in Germany, but afaik it's not EU-wide. The "Gesetz über faire Verbraucherverträge" basically says that if something can be subscribed to easily online, then the company also has to provide an easy unsubscribe. It goes into detail how such a button should look like, how labelled, what data the confirmation page has to list and how fast the confirmation has to be (immediate).
Thanks for that. I will suggest that we modify it to:

"anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity even though most of us think it's bunk."

That will avoid a lot of problems!
no sane person would start a company ;)
Meanwhile zellij just supports this natively if your terminal supports the right OSC thingy. Which it does if you're in this thread.

edit: rough, my bad. missed the via "in irc" part.
I know it's not what you're asking for but looking at who bought something I like, finding a few users with interesting looking collections and following them works quite well for recommendations for me. Sometimes I'll search for a specific DJ's user account to follow.

There's also the Discover tool at the bottom of their homepage which includes 'artist-recommended', a new and notable section, and they have regular blog posts for various genres.

You could also try https://bc-explorer.app/
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
> which is about topics that you learn about in your first weeks of English lessons could indeed come from me.

There's a difference between prescriptivism and descriptivism. Languages are something people, not what grammarians make up in their books.

Please do have a look at the Emonds paper. It's interesting, I promise.
Well, one of the things that's changing is the creation of pro-natalism movements....

But there is reason to expect the trajectory to change. Currently the expectation is that, even if most people died out, there are very fecund (and very religious) groups that would repopulate the world. So the pro-natalism movement isn't needed to save humanity, just to save the 'normal' people.
I think it's most likely that most of the other commonly used alternatives (most significantly Google Maps but also Apple Maps, Bing Maps, Maps.me) use the plural.
I love Ghostty. On my old MacBook, it was by far the fastest terminal emulator (yes, I tried all of them, also WezTerm and Alacritty). Now on my new Mac it is still the most beautiful terminal emulator.
I recently changed from Alacritty to WezTerm due to bugs in the former and I don't have any complaints so far. It is part of my daily professional workflow, works well with Tmux, under WSL. Great piece of software.
I'm not following why this is a spam ring?
OpenAI is worried that ChatGPT-4o users are developing feelings for the chatbot
Exactly. Making policy decisions now for what the world will look like in 600 years is absurd. Humanity has proven to be quite bad at making good policy decisions for the current generation, much less 5 or 10 generations from now.
The feedback mechanism used to be that societies with inadequate birth rates were conquered and replaced.
How do people keep linking to an anchor that doesn't exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Speedscript_3.2_for_Commo...