MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FilosofumRex | 2025-04-27 06:26:45+00:00
Men season, while women age - The media's portrayal of desirability of old people is a reflection of societal preferences, not the other way around.

Men become wiser, skilled, kinder, more patient and often better providers. Women tend to become argumentative, quarrelsome, bitter (especially those who date often) and rewarded for it. They also tend to dissociate love from sex and manipulate one for the other.
by tuatoru | 2025-04-27 06:27:35+00:00
Stethoscopes are an example where tech can help and is helping. Some sounds (a slightly leaky heart valve, say) are subtle and easily missed, especially if there is traffic outside the doctor's surgery or other noise. Even with good earpieces.

A stethoscope with microphone, analog-to-digital conversion, and digital signal processing can separate out heart sounds from lung sounds and amplify each separately, and AI analysis can learn to identify early stage problems that doctors can't yet hear.

Of course the downside of that may be a loss of skill, as we see happening with ECGs. The ECG analysis algorithms are so good now that lots of doctors don't even bother with anything more than a glance at the waveform, they just look at the text the algo provides. Understandable, when you're near the end of a 12-hour shift.

But potentially, AI based home diagnostic kits with these sorts of devices could save doctors' time.
by Animats | 2025-04-27 06:28:57+00:00
The Slinky antenna goes back to at least the 1970s.[1]

It's not just a dipole. The helical coils give it a much longer effective length than a straight wire.

Some preppers are into Slinky antennas. Compact in storage, easy to set up, reusable.

[1] https://www.kb6nu.com/the-slinky-antenna/
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-27 06:29:06+00:00
The +2.6% is hourly pay, not extra hours; it’s the difference between flat wages and one more year of raises. Every credible quasi-experiment, from Denmark’s refugee lottery to U.S. enforcement crackdowns, confirms that more immigrants leave natives at least as well paid, often better off, because firms invest, prices fall and natives climb the job ladder. Shift-share IVs have been combed over by three separate methodological papers and pass; drop them and refugee lotteries STILL give you the same answer. UK stagnation is a productivity story (zoning, anyone?), not an immigration one. So unless you have a better identification strategy that overturns all of these results, the weight of the evidence says immigration grows the pie, and natives get a slice (if you can't believe any synergy than at least just bearing a smaller share of defense spending).

I'm also going to flip it around for a second. As I said with the Mariel boatlift study, where a 7% increase in the labor force yielded more or less no impacts on hyperlocal labor force, even considering (possible? I know little havana right now is mostly spanish but idk what it was back then) language and skills barriers. How do you explain that? That is the most short term of local supply shocks with basically no short term employment or wage impact. Thirty-five years of re-checks (Card 1990 → Borjas 2015 → Clemens-Hunt 2019 → Peri-Yasenov 2019 → Lewis et al.) still show more or less zero effect on native wages or jobs (once you fix compositional glitches in Borjas’s sample). If a shock that extreme can’t push wages down, the `more workers = lower pay` story is busted.
by disambiguation | 2025-04-27 06:30:15+00:00
The "economy" is just a word for how a group of people decide to allocate labor and resources. How to do this fairly and effectively is a subject of debate - whether its free markets, central planning, pillaging, piracy, or anarchy, I don't think there's any version of it where you aren't doing some kind of "work" to make sure your needs are met at the end of the day. Of course the overly complicated and abstract nature of today's economy would make anyone question if the (alleged) "value created" still corresponds to "real value", and if all this complicated stuff isn't more trouble than it's worth. Growing more food and building more houses is value that everyone understands. Keeping the bond yield curve from inverting.. not so much. Still there's no immediate alternative and no obvious fix, so we have to work with what we got.
by gehwartzen | 2025-04-27 06:32:22+00:00
I came to this country as an immigrant and gained my citizenship while going through the appropriate legal channels. I have zero fear of being rounded up in the current political climate.

The reason? I’m a white guy from Germany.

The entire process was easy for me. No one ever questions where I’m from because I’m white, have a white collar job, and speak fluent English. That seems enough to be enough for any fellow American to not consider me a “foreigner”.

If everything else about me was the same except I had darker skin and an accent I would be extremely scared right now that I could get rounded up based on nothing more than someone’s vibes of me.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-04-27 06:32:36+00:00
> I have absolutely zero regrets about my relationship with my parents. They were amazing people, and we had an amazing relationship

Pay it forward, find a partner and be an amazing parent. It's not just rewarding, it's fun too!

Honestly, money can mitigate a lot of the harder parts of having kids (not getting a break, getting woken up at night when they're little babies, having to hire a babysitter if you want to see a movie at night etc).
by ookblah | 2025-04-27 06:32:45+00:00
mobile selectors, "group" selectors, hover styles... the list goes on and on. like all things, it depends on how your workflow. if you have a super defined hierarchy and naming scheme you can reference then sure, centralize all your CSS. if you have many components and multiple people working on them sometimes it's better to separate everything out and enforce with a guide.

i can't tell you how frustrating it is to open a component and have no idea what you're looking at because you worked on the thing months ago, or you change one thing in your centralized CSS and have no idea what the side effect are. with tailwind i can see exactly the styles i'm looking for.

FOR ME, works better to have a core style file and then move everything to something like tailwind per component for maintenance.

tired of seeing the same simplistic arguments against utility frameworks. if you can't see the merits of it then you obviously aren't working on projects that need that, but don't criticize it blindly. it's not for lack of CSS knowledge.
by schobi | 2025-04-27 06:33:22+00:00
I love the out-of-box thinking and clean execution by mitxela. But why not make it the other way round?

Downsides: you need enough magnetic knobs and store them when not in use. If this becomes popular, will all knobs be compatible? What if you loose some? If you buy a used module? This idea somehow creates a new set of problems.

Idea: Knob with a plug!

The outer dimension of a knob is limited by how easily you can grab it. Even if used as a socket, you need the sideways spacing anyway. But the knob face is not used. Why not have the socket in the center of the knob?

How to build this? You would need a hollow knob riding on a bearing surface around the socket. I vaguely remember magnetic position decoders that work off-axis? Or maybe have multiple magnets in the rim of the knob, in an orientation that creates a uniform magnetic field in the center? The current prototype would even be suitable for trying.

Benefits: no extra removable components. Knob and socket can be used at the same time. Can you still reach around a plugged-in cable? Is this even useful?
by zelphirkalt | 2025-04-27 06:33:51+00:00
I think you are on to something there. Already doing more than most people, I guess. Most people wouldn't even make the effort of going to the neighbors and saying hello.

I often ask myself, why some people, who are closest to what I would call friends, do not initiate any shared activity at all and how they can always be "busy". Do they not realize, that they are squandering the time they could have with friends?
by MostlyStable | 2025-04-27 06:34:17+00:00
I actually tried to do some back-of-the-napkin calculations about this a while ago and unfortunately, even if you made nuclear regulations sane, so that the cost came down significantly, I still don't think it would be cheap enough for ag use, which is the actual issue with droughts in CA. Municipal water you could likely supply completely with desal and it wouldn't even get that much more expensive, but 70% of water use in CA is for ag, and they couldn't support the price increase.
by Gibbon1 | 2025-04-27 06:35:24+00:00
I use embedded processors. I don't know of any that don't use 2s complement. There are only a handful of increasingly irreverent processors that are big endian. And x86 real mode processors are long in the tooth.

There other thing is the ratio of processing power vs memory size is very high for embedded machines. You have processors that can hold their own against a 486 but only have 16k of RAM. And the marginal cost of performance is low. A lot of devices spend most of their time doing utterly nothing.
by Glawen | 2025-04-27 06:36:10+00:00
My scariest hike has been in Scotland. You would think that you cannot get lost on mountains without any tree, and yet I did. Thank god I was near the sea and I knew the road was in that direction.

Google maps is absolutely useless once you reach a mountain, whether you have a car, bicycle or by foot. Yet we are losing map reading skills at alarming rate, replacing it with failed mapping technology. I also noticed we are not reading signs anymore once you follow your navigation system, which is treacherous in mountains
by Supermancho | 2025-04-27 06:38:32+00:00
Well, since my data comes from my wife and I (we have nobody else) and we didn't look up Deadpool (ever) because she doesn't care and I don't talk to her about it because I know she doesn't care. We see Deadpool advertised playing at a theater on the marqui, so I call it out

Me: "I would go watch Deadpool with my best friend Z if he was in town today".

Me: "Did you hear they have a Deadpool dog? Dogpool!" (saw the trailer from my desktop at work)

Wife: "I don't care about a Deadpool dog. You should definitely go see it with Z."

About 2 hours later. Ads for Deadpool litter her Facebook. Deadpool had been out for 2 weeks. Why now? Because we talked about it in the car while she was on Facebook. I've worked in Adtech since about 2005. It's the phone and or the app. Our Google TV does the same thing, except Youtube doesn't seem to be affected by conversation. So that's something.
by vhcr | 2025-04-27 06:41:17+00:00
Running the following snippets:

f = new Float64Array(1) dv = new DataView(f.buffer) dv.setBigInt64(0, -123n) console.log([...new Uint8Array(f.buffer)]) f = new Float64Array(1) new BigUint64Array(f.buffer)[0] = -123n console.log([...new Uint8Array(f.buffer)]) f = new Float64Array(1) f[0] = new Float64Array(new BigUint64Array([-123n]).buffer)[0] console.log([...new Uint8Array(f.buffer)]) f = new Float64Array([NaN]) console.log([...new Uint8Array(f.buffer)])

I get on Chrome:

[255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 133] [133, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255] [133, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255] [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 248, 127]

And on Firefox:

[ 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 133 ] [ 133, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255 ] [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 248, 127 ] [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 248, 127 ]

It looks like both implementations are buggy, Since both the DataView and buffer versions should be normalized.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393085
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-27 06:41:58+00:00
I am confused about what you consider “chintzy”.

Pre-tax subtotal has always been my starting point for calculating the gratuity. In fact, if you’re ordering drinks with lunch, I was taught to deduct the bar total as well, and go by food served.

15% a bog standard percentage and completely fair. Especially if it were “many years ago”.

I have taken note that many receipt printers now try to “cheat” us by displaying tip calculations on the after-tax. Even worse, once they run your card, they may withhold that itemized receipt, so you have no information but the grand total! It’s really unfair.

And don’t forget, a rich woman does not become wealthy based on her generosity. Think about it. It’s about how much she can hold onto.
by godelski | 2025-04-27 06:42:11+00:00
I'm trying to archive the comments. There's some really strange ones and definitely hard to argue that they don't cause harm.

I could use some help though and need to go to sleep.

I think we should archive because it serves as a historical record. This thing happened and it shouldn't be able to disappear. Certainly it is needed to ensure accountability. We are watching the birth of the Dark Forest.

I think in this manner the mods were wrong to delete the comments though correct to lock the threads. I think they should edit to have a warning/notice at the top but destroying the historical record is also not necessarily right (but I think this is morally gray)
by mjevans | 2025-04-27 06:44:20+00:00
1) I want all restaurant workers to just get a fair proper wage...

2) So that tipping is no longer subsidizing the restaurant owners.

3) Also, FFS, when demand is inelastic, the only way to lower prices is MORE SUPPLY (where it's needed). Build the housing, do not stop, just keep going until after we all die.
by hliyan | 2025-04-27 06:44:40+00:00
Some of the perpetrators: "Two former students from the prestigious Seoul National University (SNU)" and "a quiet, introverted student “someone you’d never imagine doing such a thing,”".

"...lot of articles and comments about deepfakes saying, ‘Why is it a serious crime when it’s not even your real body?’”"

This seems like a deep societal issue that cannot be solved through harsh criminal penalties alone.
by godelski | 2025-04-27 06:45:49+00:00
I'm pretty sure we saw LLMs in yesterday's thread about the judge. There were a lot of strange comments (stately worded and weird logic that were very LLM like, not just dumb person like) and it wouldn't be surprising as it's an easy tool to weaponize chaos. I'm sure there were bots supporting many different positions. It even looks like some accounts were posting contradictions opinions
by Yasuraka | 2025-04-27 06:46:50+00:00
> Web servers and services?

That's it, mostly. CRUD is also a huge part of the industry, unlike "Serialization/deserialization", which are a means to an end.

> Either nodejs, something static on an existing webserver, or rust for backends.

Horrendous choices, I daresay.

Why do people use Java and C# ?
by lodovic | 2025-04-27 06:48:23+00:00
This assumes that companies such as TikTok control their timeline up to the individual post, perfectly analyzed in order to extract your unique traits, and they have specifics ads lined up for you. Where - in my view - their timeline is just a bunch of random submissions. TikTik is just trying to sell ads and will try anything to match your profile to one of their active ad compaigns so they can bill their client more.
by mikhailfranco | 2025-04-27 06:49:32+00:00
Apart from the local housing supply/demand and NIMBYism there are 3 financial factors:

- artificially low interest rates (since 1990, and esp. since 2007)

- exemption from capital gains tax for primary residence, which is the main reason why property is used as a pension scheme

- mortgage interest tax relief which makes debt tax efficient; phased out in the UK, but still available in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deducti...
by Probuin | 2025-04-27 06:50:10+00:00
Misandry is rampant too, which is a big part of why men are checking out or even developing resentment towards women.

This article even touches on it, for example, in that just possessing deep-faked porn is punishable by up to 3 years imprisonment. There are many men who will literally never experience a woman's touch, are shunned, isolated, ridiculed, shamed, and even hated by society. They are not bad people, their only crime is not being attractive. Who are they hurting if they get their rocks off privately fantasising about a woman with the help of AI and image editors? It's downright cruel.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-04-27 06:50:27+00:00
To be fair, tipping on top of sales tax never made sense. Tip is always calculated from a pre-tax amount. And somehow the tip percentage has gone up - when I was young 15% was the norm. Precovid it was 18%. Now it’s 20%? Why is this being inflated? The prices have already gone up, so even at 15% the tip has ballooned.

I also don’t understand why we have to tip waitstaff that is paid minimum wage - places like WA, CA, etc cannot have wage that is lower than the state minimum wage.

I’ve worked many a retail job and have had to deal with rude customers, clean up after their mess, etc. Why pay more just because someone told me what the special is and brought me the food? Isn’t that what their job is?

I don’t understand it and I just don’t eat at sit down places anymore. Take out, counter service, or bust.
by janalsncm | 2025-04-27 06:50:51+00:00
I hate tipping. The last think I want to do after eating is math. And don’t get me started on the inefficient payment ritual we have to endure: flag down the waiter for the check, wait for the check, wait for them to take your cc, wait for them to ring it up and bring it back, then do some math. Unnecessary.

That said, minimum wage is minimum wage. If an employee doesn’t make that up in tips, the law is that the restaurant needs to make up the difference. So it’s a complete non sequitur that $2/hour isn’t a living wage.

If that isn’t happening, the article is burying the lede: the problem isn’t tipping, it’s rampant wage theft. And I don’t need the complete history of tipping to know that wage theft is bad.
by jruohonen | 2025-04-27 06:51:19+00:00
A couple of particularly good quotes:

"I've felt strongly about that. Often, when AI researchers predict that AI will take over some job, the basis for that prediction is an incredibly narrow and shallow understanding of what the job actually involves."

"One example I heard: Microsoft integrated AI into Word and other Office tools--and the first thing most users tried to do was figure out how to turn it off. That tells you something. These companies aren’t necessarily in touch with what people want or need."
by tzury | 2025-04-27 06:52:22+00:00
This site is old, and I mean it in a good way.

This site was a "culture" shock for me, back in 200x and made me walk away from Microsoft ASP.NET and start building apps on linux, realizing all those "server controls" with inline style parameters were basically the complete wrong way, the "anti internet way".

It was Alex Russell (creator of Dojo JS) who showed that side in one of the conferences, and I was shocked how much information I was missing while getting my technical news through Microsoft channels.

For many years, my toolkit was simply Web.py, HTML, JS and CSS.

We then got jQuery, and Backbone, and Underscore, till the React and then TS made new "Full stack" dumber again.
by breppp | 2025-04-27 06:52:31+00:00
I understood, however I do not agree.

The signal chat did not have anything that someone would try to hide. People want easy things, they want to manage an air strike using their mobile phone from their bedroom. They don't want to sit in their office for that or use some hardened government issued device that is older, uglier and an extra brick to take along, with no real support of IM (my assumptions on DoD devices)
by somedude895 | 2025-04-27 06:52:32+00:00
Another factor I'd mention is, ironically enough, government social programs. Humans were always social because they needed each other. If you don't depend on your community or your family, you'll be much less inclined to invest in those relationships. It used to be if you fell on hard times you might rely on your community to help you out, which would however require you to take part in it, and contribute to it in some way. If instead you just automatically get money or housing from some faceless govt institution, that incentive is removed. Black children growing up in one-parent households was 9% in the 1950s. Today it's 65%. It's controversial what the causes are of course, but it makes sense: Make it easier for people to replace their relationships with government assistance, and it removes any need for taking responsibility for your peers. I'm not saying government-provided social safety nets should be abandoned, but the devaluing of human connection – even if transactional – is an unintended social consequence that isn't talked about nearly enough.
by lazide | 2025-04-27 06:53:09+00:00
Thought experiment - what if it was someone making a really convincing painting of the same thing?

These are of course real issues, which is why this is going to be an increasingly large problem. The easiest way to ‘deal’ with them is to double down on them - aka [https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3jfqo9/til_t...] - but not very many people have the, uh, testicular fortitude to be able to do that.

Especially women.

Neo-Victorian’ism anyone?
by ljf | 2025-04-27 06:53:36+00:00
It is good they will continue to work at a basic level, in the home.

This is always my worry for smart tech in the house, that I'll end up buying three times - first I paid for the dumb light switch, then I swap it out for a smart one, then that stops working and I have to revert to a dumb switch, but have to buy one as I got rid of the original.
by raindropm | 2025-04-27 06:55:03+00:00
>They remind me of places where I have to behave, which makes me stressed out.

Thanks for putting the word for it. That's what I feel about many of those 'cozy' games. It's like when you meditate and you force yourself to be calm, which give the opposite results.

I love some of those cozy game of course(the latest is called "Wilmot's Works It Out") but it's nothing compare to the calm when I play older 90-early 2000s videogames again, or the time you walk aimlessly in Skyrim. Maybe it has things to do with the zero expectation(playing old, outdated games that no one play anymore gives you peace of mind that you don't have to be FOMO of being 'cozy' or anything..which make you ended up naturally...cozy)
by Squossifrage | 2025-04-27 06:55:15+00:00
10.1 was released in 2014 and reached EOL in 2016. The screenshot appears to show a 10.1-p45 kernel that was built from December 2016 sources in September 2019, at a time when the latest release was 11.3. However, the Subversion revision number in the screenshot (r272678M) does not match any point on the stable/10 or releng/10.1 branches. To get that uname line, assuming neither the version string nor the screenshot have been manipulated, you'd have to have checked out the head (development) branch from Subversion, synced it to r272678¹ (11.0-CURRENT, October 2014), then replaced some or all of the tree (but not the Subversion metadata) with the tip of the releng/10.1 branch before building and installing a kernel in 2019.

¹ https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e15d3f3c0978fad0ebbc...
by parrit | 2025-04-27 06:55:17+00:00
Even on one element you can combine tailwind classes. With styles you need to write out the final result.

Then you can also use @apply if you wish but leave that out of the argument as it is considered unidiomatic.

Of course if using React you can also use styles directly and then create your own utilities to determine how they compose. Which might give you much of the Tailwind edge without needing the compile step.
by Probuin | 2025-04-27 06:55:34+00:00
I understand the laws against distribution, but can anyone explain why creating/possessing deep-faked porn for private use is so morally reprehensible or even criminal?

I can't identify a victim in this scenario. Whose business is it? I genuinely couldn't care less if someone did this "to" me, but then I recognise that as a middle aged dude that's not ever happening so I may have a blind spot here. How would I even know unless, ironically, the investigation and prosecution publicised the fact that it exists?