skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's completely orthogonal though.
I think he meant more that natural selection is essentially summarized as how many children various groups have. And for some weird reason, natural selection is biasing away from "smart people".
The other guy didn’t start anything. The plain fact of the matter is that Musk did absolutely nothing to help, and the sub was nothing more than a publicly stunt.
Depends how good you are with an encoder. It's not compression, the grain does change, but since it's just random anyway, the human eye can't notice so long as it's the same type of grain.

Encoders generally have a few options to tune the grain that gets added back in to get it as close as possible to the original source.
We were all 26 once. Professionalism builds successful teams long term. Calling out toxic behavior that worsens things, like others imposter syndrome, is part of how we help things get better.
> we check for MX records of very well known DEPs

This is one of the most pointless anti-abuse measures you could implement, since a Gmail account can be created in about 20 seconds with no identifying information.
> hunter-gatherers adjusted their populations depending on whether there was lean or bountiful food

I almost feel like that's self regulating. Scarcity of food results in malnourishment which if it doesn't kill anyone directly, will result in other sickness being more likely to kill people. Same with children surviving to adulthood.
Apple has a strategy where they don't compete on price and it works well for them. They've been able to get fantastic margins while other hardware manufacturers have struggled. Their higher price reinforces their premium brand identity too.

Apple does build high quality products so the brand identity is earned to some extent. Of course, they could sell these high quality products significantly cheaper, but why mess with a successful formula?
How we built a VS Code extension for IoT prototyping
He's an older british man retired to Thailand, this could very easily be another Milkshake Duck...
I actually wrote my own jrnl command as a shell one-liner:

pushd $JRNL_DIR && git pull && echo "##### "(date) >> (date "+%Y-%m-%d.txt") && vim (date "+%Y-%m-%d.txt") && git add *.txt && git commit -m "jrnl "(date "+%Y-%m-%d.txt") && git push && popd
> like any other bug they are outside the scope of dependency specifications

Known relevant bugs in particular versions of dependencies are not outside the scope of what non-vgo dependency management solutions address.
The substance of this article can be sumarized as "I talked to a bunch of people at a convention, and some had concerns, ohh, and I wrote a book about how I'm skeptical of driverless cars."

Regardless of how you feel about the future of driverless cars, this is a safe article to skip - there's no content.
I think comparing this culture to open source is doing a disservice to open source.

"Open Source" in the West has developed a code of ethics around transparency, crediting authors, and contributing back. A lot of it is done without compensation out of joy.

Fly-by-night companies that just scrape together a bunch of ideas and parts from competitors and ship an MVP are not "open source". They're a proprietary startup. Moreover, some companies are deliberately selling fraudulent products, including those harmful to human health.

Secondly, while the scanning of cards and displaying of Facial database entries might be impressive to you (the author), you know what's impressive to me? That the Japanese operated the first Shinkansen in 1964, and since that time, there's been effectively zero accidents due to manufacturing flaws or human error in routine service. When the Shinkansen is late or early by a few seconds, it is national news.

Copying technology is easy, copying safety culture is much more difficult. How likely is it that all of the fancy investments in surveillance databases and wireless entry for China's trains, will also have deeply invested in the same quality assurance that the Shinkansen has?

One of the problems the author doesn't mention is the 差不多 culture that leads not to just copying, but lazy copying of the originals. I once looked at buying a Chinese brand of Louboutin-like shoes for wife, until I read dozens of online reviews about how the stitching or glue came out after a few weeks. However, the manufacturer bragged about how they studied in Italy and adopted Italian techniques of hand stitching.

There are a few brands these days that have evolved and have adopted a safety or quality culture, DJI for example, is a standout example of a Chinese company innovating on brand, quality, industrial design, fit-and-finish. I think China may need a much stronger domestic legal tort system and a few class action consumer lawsuits under it's belt, before a lot of the snakeoil is cleared away.

(And yes, there are a lot of snakeoil companies in the US shipping MVPs and broken products. It's a matter of degree though. This is present in many countries, but for example, I would trust a Japanese manufacturer over an American or Chinese manufacturer.)
We had games for that for ever. We can't get gladiators anymore so we have football, races and ring fights.

"Panem et circenses" is hardly a new concept.
Martian Chronicles, Crystal Express+Cysmatrix, Neuromancer,Hyperion, Portico...
That automatic display makes me think about the bad experiences I have with the hardcoded adaptive contrast on my XPS-13 9350. It makes it unusable for pro grade photo editing since the features can't be turned off and the monitor therefore can't be calibrated. In addition, when trying to use the nightlight feature of the new gnome stack, the color temperature swings wildly with subtle color changes on the page caused by things such as scrolling, or highlighting text.
I’m gonna go against most comments here and say YES. But you’re not gonna like the method.

You have to get someone kidnapped. Or do it yourself.

Then see if it gets paid out.

In other words, when push comes to shove, do they pay out? That’s how you are able to find things out that they won’t tell you. See for example Sherlock Holmes yelling fire and Irene Adler revealing where her treasures are.

Just um, pay some people to hide an existing employee for a while, treat them well, in fact provide a budget for them to be in on it and not try to escape, but instead help make everyone believe they were kidnapped against their will. If a person agrees you go with that person.

Then hope no one reads HN religiously at that company.

Of course, this is all theoretical. But - you asked.
Faster and farther: Bulls Cross E8 electric bike review
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Browser extension? I know Millenials to Snake People caused this at one point.
Ask HN: Aside from Emacs/Clojure, how/why do you use Lisp?
I'm interested in learning what sort of problems are being solved "in the wild" with Lisp dialects–if Emacs Lisp and Clojure are removed from consideration—and why you choose a particular variant?

While Racket is an obviously popular dialect (and I'd love to hear what you're doing with it if that's your poison), I'm particularly interested in how Common Lisp, Scheme, or other Lisp dialects are being utilized these days.
It is a bit of a problem inasmuch as core values/ideas are often (not always, but often) transmitted by family connections. So paradoxically, concern for the planet leading you to not have children could reduce the relative number of people who share your concern.

Then again, there are other memes that lead not just to lack of reproduction, but directly to the death of the memeholder, so maybe it's not such a big deal. Still, just another thing to wonder/worry about.
Would the fact that they're in a protected box not have more to do with the reduced concern for the safety of others that you observe?
Some things I have in mind:

- fuel cost

- disgust for changing driving states (stopping/redlight)

- some social relativism (I'm paying attention and optimizing my driving for me and others, you MUST do too)

- bubble effect: being in closed space makes me believe it's a bit like internet comments, people just boil up freely

- maybe the bliss of speed

More generally something that gets done for you makes you irrascible faster when it doesn't happen.

My slow transporation point was larger though, as said beside, it's our relationship with space and time. We're maximizing some forms of 'pleasure' when in fact, it's all around us, you just have to walk out and pay attention.
Behind the Obvious: years of reading in nudges sent each week via email
HN, I've been reading for eight years, ~40 books a year. For four of those eight years, I've been collecting ideas and learnings on .md files in a private BitBucket repository.

Every book I read had a folder containing two files: [0] Ideas [1] Learnings.

In `ideas` I wrote the core fundamental ideas upon which the book is structured. Ideas included either author's ideas and others' ideas that he or she might have referenced (directly or indirectly) in the book.

In `learnings` I collected my own learnings.

Ideas are descriptions. Learnings are prescriptions.

I decided to progressively go over the repository, unfold most of the books in it and make it accessible to the public.

While going through this process will help me re-discovering those ideas through a pair of new lens, I thought that others might genuinely enjoy those learnings.

I've framed this project into a bi-weekly newsletter called: Behind The Obvious [0] (about page [1])

[0] https://behindtheobvious.substack.com/welcome

[1]https://behindtheobvious.substack.com/subscribe#about
For Macs, in my opinion they used to build high quality products, but they're losing their lead. macOS hasn't improved in ways that matter to me in years and some things got worse. The hardware used to be untouchably good, but the new MacBook Pros are worse for me than the original retina MacBook Pro I still use -- performance hasn't improved much (the latest upgrade might have changed that) and keyboard, ports, power connector all got worse.
> Some shops will literally buy from the same vendor even if perf/$ is 3x higher going another route.

How many is "some", though? More specifically, what portion of the market do they represent?

I'm actually genuinely curious as to whether anyone has a feel for this, as, if the proportion is particularly high, it would explain why even AWS's prices seem competitive to some managers who I would have otherwise thought would have an idea of how cheap commodity hardware is.

Previously, I thought only "enterprise" shops suffered from this, where the multiplier can easily be 10x for the most vendor-locked-in enterprisey hardware like storage, network, and support (where the multiplier can be infinity!) even if they pay no premium on the commodity compute.
i hope he'll try to make the sub work. not much of a chance of success given the cave conditions the kids were under.
The most computationally efficient encoding algorithms can do hundreds of frames per second at 720p even on mobile. The price you pay is quality and filesize - it'll be large and look awful.
Interestingly enough, both of my parents came from families with even numbers of children, and it was a lot.

BTW, 1 is also odd, so I'm not sure if you're just trying to say "used to have 3 children" or literally an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 23, etc)
It is, but some foraging societies used infanticide as well.
While driving on California freeways I have seen: pedestrians, complex traffic controls (law enforcement rerouting traffic or running moving breaks due to incidents), cars going the other way (drunk or confused), and terrible visibility (fog, snow, dust, heavy rain). It's going to take decades before automated freeway driving is perfected. Those edge cases can't just be ignored.
Yes nobody is activily discouraging smart people directly from having children (this is why it natural and not artificial selection), but it is still selection.

Where did I say smart people having children is the only way to create smart people or that intelligence is only affected by genes? Please read what I actually wrote, not what you think I wrote.

Smart people are the people that have the ability to solve the hard problems we face. We have a huge number of very hard problems in the world and not enough smart people to solve them all. We need more smart people.
The guy told him to shove the submarine "where it hurts". He definitely "started it" if that matters
I can't understand how computers with that bad coil whine can pass QC, especially at this price point.
I bought brand new XPS 9360 for my father and when I first used it I thought that there is regular HDD inside because of how loud coil whine was.
> For example, if I'm receiving an advertisement for a product that I "freely" trialed but subsequently rejected, I perceive it as spam.

Agreed. I understand that marketing people perceive getting an email address once as permanent consent to basically anything. But I think this is pathological. People who behave like this in any other context are obviously abusive. That even includes some marketing contexts. If you try a free sample at Costco, nobody follows you around the store badgering you until you explicitly tell them to leave you alone.
For the life of me I don’t understand why most developers who work for a company - and get a company supplied laptop - buy a MacBook or any other laptop for personal use.

I don’t do any personal development currently. But when I start back on my personal projects, a 27 inch 5K iMac is much more appealing. You get more for your money, a nicer, bigger display, more ports, faster processors (at least for single core tasks), etc.
I don't know man, I would pay $500 a week in Uber if I used it to travel to and from work, let alone anywhere else.
The only issue I've had is the large touchpad area. The keyboard has been fine for me - different and in some ways better.

And it looks like they may have fixed the keyboard issue...
It's fascinating to me that Dell STILL hasn't fixed the bloody coil whine on the XPS. I have the top-of-the-line XPS 13 from few years back and had the motherboard on it replaced 3 times because of the whine, and it's still there. In comparison, my 2012 Air was perfect, absolutely no issues.
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Since everyone has an opinion, I think the keyboard is utter garbage.
>So if you're going to say the Ribbentrop Pact green lighted the invasion of Poland, you could say Poland green lighted the invasion of Czechoslovakia, which ultimately led to its own invasion.

Wow. That's one interesting interpretation of history.

Soviet Union presented an existential threat to Poland, a country that only gained independence from Russia (amongst others) post-WW1 and fought off an Bolshevik invasion a few years after. And with our 20/20 historical hindsight, it is only a few years later that the Soviet Union annexed the eastern half of Poland (which lead to mass murder of civilians and of course the Katyn massacre), and followed by 50 years as a Soviet vassal state ... but yeah, if only Poland had trusted Stalin's good-will.

Honestly ...
Some people value being able to move their computer.
You can turn true tone off in the settings.
Because i want a laptop?
Gladiators are 2000 years old, moreover, they didn't represent anyone.

And 'international sports' don't really go back that far, surprisingly.

The 'oldest currently active international sports competition' is actually the annual hockey game between the Royal Military College (Canada), and Westpoint - or so I'm told. There are arguments for America's cup, but that's a different kind of representation. Those are 1870's vs. 1850's respectively.

So it's really kind of a new thing, and Olympics, World Cup, Commonwealth Games are definitely created in part to build fraternity and collegiately between nations etc..

I think it's also fair to question the term 'violence' because maybe it's really a matter of 'competition' at a physical, visceral level, i.e. 'dominance'. But it's a good point.
It might be flagged by people just tired of seeing Tesla/Musk threads period, which is understandable. But the posted article is more about the Silicon Valley mentality.
Yes, that's a good point. Multiple namespaces arose in Lisps before things like FLET and LABELS, so this particular issue is likelier to come up in Common Lisp nowadays. I think there are several historical considerations in play and https://www.dreamsongs.com/Separation.html (as mentioned) is probably the best source for more information.
My bad, I understood "more recent work in ml" as being recent in ml terms, not as work in ml which is more recent than the initial use (and abuse [1]) of thermodynamic concepts in information theory.

[1] Shannon, according to Tribus and McIrvine: "My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, ‘You should call it entropy, for two reasons: In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage."
Like I said, I’m not claiming to be normal or abnormal, meaning I don’t know if it extends to others. You’re not providing evidence to the contrary, either, so you’re word is as good as mine.
Construction zones also occur in areas without good cellular data coverage.
I haven't owned a desktop computer in almost 10 years.
> macOS hasn't improved in ways that matter to me in years

What ways matter to you?
I used to log into Datalink BBS in 1994 in the 904 area code. Were you the sysop of that by chance?
This isn't "oh they shifted where the arrow keys are" they removed an entire row from the keyboard. Sure you can adapt, but why bother when there are plenty of competitors.
> Although perhaps the situation in Python could have been mitigated somewhat if a protocol was defined early that implementations could have adopted?

Yes. That's one thing the rust community has to get right.

async/await was supposed to be that, but it's only a protocol to define what blocks/doesn't and when you allow context switching. An event loop also has the notion of scheduling, getting a reference to what is scheduled, request the result or error on said scheduled thing, or cancel it. And even loop must bridge different implementations of concurrency (e.g: asyncio.run_in_executor). An event loop also has a life cycle, which includes at the very least a setup and a tear down. An event loop must integrates in an environment, like what do you do when you have several loops, or if you run one loop per threads ?

So you need to define a general behavior for all that. Then let anyone write the implementation the way they want.
It's become comedy at this point.

Many, many developers: "We hate this keyboard. It is atrocious! Give us back the old one please!"

Apple: "We have listened to your needs. The keyboard is now 8% quieter, and the touchbar is mandatory!"
Hey, nice patchouli!!

On topic, I always prefer getting an aftermarket lid case before putting on all the stickers. Easier to change.
Are you under the impression that all families exactly hit their target number of children? Some people cannot have any children, but desperately want them. Some have one or two, but want more. Some people... well, not everything is planned. I know a woman who wanted one more child, and had triplets. And that isn't even getting into people who foster and adopt children.

In short, while I can see the logic in your stance... it has little bearing on the reality of creating a family.
> Xeon is still better for complex workloads like databases since its inter-core latency is lower.

Has that been demonstrated to be true, though, especially in light of Epyc's much wider PCIe bandwidth?

For example, would a high-concurrency OLTP-type workload suffer as much from increased inter-core latency as a single-query OLAP workload?
I feel way too constrained doing a lot of work without at least two external monitors. Preferably three.

But the real estate of the 5K monitor kind of obviates the need for a second monitor.
Ask HN: Should I quit my dev job at a startup?
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I was hired as a lead engineer two years ago(remote).

At the time the PO was amazing, had both our and the company’s interest at heart and everything was great.

Around January this year the PO left abruptly and a new guy came in who has zero clue about tech, management or social interactions, but talks his way into everything because he has the advantage of being in the office.

Ever since the PO change, the company started doing shady things - kept other tech project hidden from the dev team, outsources work to previous developers who screwed up and left the company at an awful state, don’t consult us on how should we architect the process and questions everything we do. Now, being remote, we lose on a lot of communication, whether it’s small talk or something big, but no one is making effort to keep us in the loop either. As a lead, shouldn’t I be the part of the decision process or the dev process? I feel betrayed.

Due to us pushing on a deadline and breaking it they said they’d like to pause with the tech development until we get to the states in October (h1b). The worst part is they brought on another developer without my approval/interview or a formal intro meeting on Friday. That’s just bad.

My work was also previously audited by a former team lead at Amazon and eBay, and the guy had zero remarks (don’t know why the whole audit was made).

October is coming fast and I have yet to see a formal offer letter and whether that letter will hold any equity on it as it was promised originally.

I’m unsure whether I should go. There’s been a lot of red flags and the management process is awful and I’m afraid it will get worse.

I’m afraid that I won’t be able to find a remote gig that pays around 100-120k while allowing me to continue to be in Europe.

Is there anyway I can find out about the offer letter from the immigration lawyer or find docs online?

Should I quit or stick through?
I like the idea of SJWs voluntarily halting their genetic lines.
>> I too touch type, and simply remapped escape to caps lock

So what about the function keys?
Because I want to work on my own stuff on the go and your company owns 100% of everything you do on their laptop.
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That’s all of this: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/task/
At worst, you'll have to explicitly wait for all your async calls to have completed and produce results. I suppose normally the implicit wait occurs on attempt to access the result. I also suppose you have to do it anyway in a multi-processor system, and you can't be doing it on a single core.

At best, some of your CPUs would be able to run calculations for two especially fast-to-compute pieces of volume space, while some other CPUs would be busy computing a particularly gnarly block of the volume space.
> need for slow transport

I've recently read Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society) and somewhere towards the end of the book/essay he mentions that we don't really need vehicles driving faster than 15 kph and that we should build roads so that that speed won't be exceeded.
Can you really not comprehend that people can spend $2300 on a computer, or are you just being facetious?
It's almost as if Apple aren't even basing their hardware strategy on what developers are complaining about on Hacker News.