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I wonder if at scale this will lead to mosquito farms or to mosquito extinction in nature.

Of course I suspect it will be the former but the latter is way funnier.

We've been stuck with these insects for a while. It would be so funny that the solution to get rid of them was in fact the same that wiped out many species before: over exploitation of natural resources.

cc https://tornyol.com/

OP here.

Sharing this for the philosophical questions it raises, as well as what it means for politics in general. The discussion was super interesting to me, so I figured it might be to some other people here.

I'm not sharing this to discuss short term political subjects, neither to judge wether China or the West is better/worst.

Did AI help at any step in the process?

After seeing this, I (or rather, v0) created https://hnhell.com for the joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946932

To be fair it is really not great, but it works for the joke and I'm impressed by how good it works for how little time it took.

I would have liked to get the specific HNers pov.

Actually I just shared an example of the type of tips I had in mind. Limestone in the shower was pretty time-consuming to clean up, and using microfiber cloth and white vinegar made it much easier/better/faster.

Removed the optimizing part from the title. I shared an example of what I meant in a comment.

OP: White vinegar for limestone. With microfiber cloth it's very effective.

Damn! After reading this I was surprised by the fact that this sounded very familiar.

I actually "practiced" a lot like this because I was always amused to notice how we could basically "see through" objects with this double-image thingy (see experiment below).

So I decided to film myself... and I was actually already doing a divergence! Not convergence!

Thanks a lot for your comment which made me realize that.

Experiment:

1. place your phone (handy size/shape for the experiment) in front of one eye (X), at about 20cm.

2. close the other eye (Y) and look at your phone

3. Open Y and look straight without focusing on the phone. By blinking Y, the double-image should appear/disappear, as if it was unveiling what's behind your phone.

4. By closing X and with Y open, looking at your phone, you should see it displaced from where it was when X was open and Y was closed. The size of this displacement is equal to the size of the double-image transparent part.

Do you have a training method for divergence?

Similar to the finger moving closer and closer to the upper nose technique, for convergence.

This is incredible! Works unbelievably well. Thanks for sharing!

What's the state of the art?

What do you mean by "connecting" them?

(b)

I think dang's answer about this is on point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411843

I could see it as a nice way to meet like-minded people while traveling [...] it's nice to meet some locals.

Exactly what I had in mind as well!

A lot of good points here, thanks a lot!

Email-chain would be the easiest.

It would require users to share their emails to meet.hn, am I right?

creating a some form of very simple forum board

Might be a good idea as well. It would require more work and maintenance but could be valuable.

If you want, I can display something similar to this at your location: https://meet.hn/city/43.6534817,-79.3839347/Old-Toronto

Hit me up if interested :)

Yes, I had to make a change about urls in order to support locations from all around the world. lat/long ended up being the only unique thing in common.

To do so, I implemented a search using OpenStreetMap. The thing is, OpenStreetMap can give several results for a given location (and rightfully so). Example with Paris: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Paris%2C%20France.

When I updated the way meet.hn handles location, I migrated all city ids like the one you mention "gb-London" to a new one using lat/long.

The problem is: when users select a location, they can end up at another (close) location suggested by OpenStreetMap. To mitigate this pb, if locations have the same full name or OpenStreetMap id, I don't display them in the location selector.

Also, I put locations of type "city" first to nudge users into selecting cities more and hopefully end up with less problems of this kind.

Code about this is here: https://github.com/borisghidaglia/meet-hn/blob/808143d36841b...

There is something to be done, but I only had overly complicated ideas to fix this.

Very open to suggestions. Don't hesitate to open an issue/PR for this on GitHub.

A monthly "Meet HN" post– for each area (per city might be too small?)

Per city would definitely be spam! There are 720 cities as we speak.

Or it could not be, but it would require locating them under a specific route like news.ycombinator.com/meet or something.

why would it be compulsory to have a profile on some social networking thing?

It's not! In fact you have several other options if you prefer.

How would you know this person is located in your area or in the area you might visit some time?

I guess you would have to dig, right?

Well, with meet.hn:

1. You don't have to dig

2. People are more willing to meet on average than a random person on the internet

3. You can also check other locations and other people super fast

What do you mean by "a specific reason"?

Personally, I like meeting interesting new people for the sake of it.

Btw, your socials are not displayed on meet.hn because you modified the text you had to paste in your HN description.

Just reporting, in case it wasn't expected.

More info in the note here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411640

Yeah that's the case for some locations indeed.

But next time you go on a trip, have a look at the map! You might be able to meet someone interesting there.

For me the biggest issue is to connect with people

Could you elaborate? what is painful to you?

automatic email chain or private chat

Any more ideas about that? I think it's similar to the suggestion I made in the post about creating Telegram channels for each location, but I'm not sure.

Also, someone already said they wouldn't join a Telegram channel and would prefer Signal. That really illustrates the kind of challenges I'm facing in trying to bring the HN community together.

multiple locations

Not yet! Might be wrong but it does not seem to bother people much as you are the first to suggest it iirc.

I like the idea though! It's just that I'm still at the stage of trying to push people to add one location first. So several locations per user is not on the menu yet.

It's true that some people don't add any socials and don't have any info in their HN description.

But sometimes they modified the string they pasted from meet.hn and it broke the parsing, causing their socials not to be displayed on meet.hn.

That's why I would suggest to check their profile by clicking on their username.

Note: I'm not parsing socials across the entire HN user description because some people want to keep some data outside of meet.hn. By having a clear start/stop of meet.hn data, it allows me to parse only socials users actually want to display on meet.hn.

Thanks for the perspective!

I think I have a communication problem with meet.hn.

People seem to assume it has been created to setup these kinds of large meetups.

In fact, I created it for small or even 1-1 meetups in the first place. Meeting a single person or a small group of people seems much more interesting, easy and valuable to me.

Of course I'm not assuming everyone thinks the same way, but don't you think there is an audience for that in the HN community?

That's one kind of meetup indeed.

But imho (large) group meetups are the least interesting/valuable. Ideally I would like to boost small or even 1-1 meetups first. If larger meetups emerge later, great!

The attribute wouldn't force you to accept a meeting in any way. It would just be used to display some kind of marker next to your posts on HN.

Then, if readers feel you are interesting to them, they would check your HN profile and contact you using the info in your profile (if any).