skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was giving a pervasive example of how "looking after everyone in society" has often not really been the main goal of societies. This is consistent with what you wrote, "The idea that governments acting on behalf of society have the goal of supporting the poor is a relatively new development."

> Humans are inherently tribal and a banded together since before we existed as a species. This wasn’t for the advantage of top animal.

Modern governments are not tribal societies, though. As I've observed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25997576 , the Communist Manifesto Ch. 1 opens with the sentence, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles," but adds a footnote about this referring to written history, i.e. history of post-tribal civilizations.

> I would posit that most historic human societies serve the same function.

Perhaps to some extent, but to help disabuse yourself of the notion of the benevolence of the ruling class in this respect, some of the references in my comment linked above might help. In particular, what Chomsky has to say about the elite "guardian class" in the US: https://truthout.org/articles/us-guardian-elite-rulers-date-...
Ask HN: What newsletters/blogs are you learning the most from?
My top two right now:
- https://danco.substack.com/
- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
I read my daily updates on technology, i.e., HackerNews...

Totally different meaning if you replace i.e. with e.g.
Sorry, let's try again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25997544
The recent spike in homelessness, the health insurance coverage gap, rising economic inequality, we are facing many major urgent crises. But there is a severe lack of imagination to suggest that our problems as a society or species can't or haven't been far, far worse.

A homeless woman today in any major American city (which generally require hospitals to provide emergency care even to people without health insurance) is safer giving birth than a queen a few centuries ago. A homeless person today in any major American city is safer from cholera, tuberculosis, any antibiotic-treatable disease than a king a few centuries ago.

Society and technology have made us much better off overall, it's not close. The fact that we still have major problems today does not contradict the fact that we have also solved some major problems, too, thanks to science and technology.
Show HN: My 10 yr olds SoundCloud music creation
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There's a lot more to Pigntype than just the front page - check out the links along the top. Particularly the blog, with the link to ways I've tried and failed to learn. [0]

Speaking, listening, reading, writing, and typing are all different parts of "learning Mandarin". All of them are hard.

Pingtype (translator) can help with reading. Pingtype (keyboard, at the bottom of the page) can help with typing traditional characters. Listening can be done with music, check out the Lyrics for some bilingual Christian songs (audio is on YouTube). Singing is kind of like speaking, and can be done in church without other people looking at you weirdly when you pronounce tones wrong. Writing will make your hand hurt, and many native speakers don't know how to write their own language [1]. Speaking is pretty much impossible without a tutor, and I'm still not conversational after ~4 years. I can understand some of what other people say, but talking is hard.

[0] https://pingtype.github.io/docs/failed.html

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxHskrqMqII
A "collaboration" led by Jan Jambon, the guy who says that about collaborating with the Nazis:

"The people who collaborated with the Germans had their reasons. Me, I was not alive during that time."

I don’t trust GAFAM to protect my privacy, but I wouldn’t trust this government either.
Bonobos, ModCloth and Vertical Integration
You're separating the fact that Android is OSS from the fact that google running Android allows them to run the Play Store which made billions last year. It also lets them have Google Search be the default on all those devices. Google themselves account Android this way, attributing some amount of the profit from those things to the fact that they run Android
Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking
Google is highly incentivized to show profitability to shareholders. It will drive stock value. If they are purposefully choosing to hide YT financials in quarterly statements, it’s probably not because they are good. Just search for YouTube and profitability on Google. It’s a loss leader.
It was very relevant to me a couple days ago, so I think it's not the case that Go programs that look up names link by default dynamically to libc, just for whatever that's worth to anyone.

(Our company, Fly.io, runs container images for customers on Firecracker microVMs around the world, and I had to build a DNS-dependent service, in Go, that runs directly from our (Rust) init and can't assume a libc exists).
Do your airwashers make clicking noises? I had one that did, but was kind of old and beat up. I bought a new one and, sure enough, like 2 months later the clicking was back.

I’ve tried replacing the... little walking thing that moves the discs? (not sure what to call it) that makes the noise but it didn’t help.
Huh, interesting. I was imagining GH would be the worst place to put code considering the existence of immoral vacuum cleaners, but the platform is such a firehose, and the apps you're publishing sufficiently domain-specific, that it seems to work. Interesting.

And yeah, wow, the scammers could give classes... with the only irony that the once out of the "game", as it were, an individual ex-player's info will literally become outdated within 30 seconds :/ - or at least that's the impression I get.
Guess they finally saw sense and realized that the when platforms say the syscall ABI is unstable, it really is unstable…
AMD wasn't going against Apple in the performance silicon space when they were behind.

In the coming years, any fab process innovation will see Apple buying up most or all of the fab capacity for the new process in the supply chain, locking other vendors out, meaning that in order to keep pace with Apple Silicon, Intel and AMD will have to build bigger, hotter, more power-hungry chips -- and then they're not really competing with Apple, just retreating into the enthusiast and high-end server hardware markets.
GCP caught up with AWS? From what I've seen GCP isn't close to catching up to Azure, let alone AWS. Maybe I'm looking at wrong or out of date figures?

https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/worldwide-cloud-market-q320
I have been using the format used by gtimelog[1] for years. It has the benefit of adding one entry per line, so processing is extremely simple.

[1]: https://github.com/gtimelog/gtimelog/blob/master/docs/format...
Most people on Earth don't live in European cities. I grew up in the suburbs I couldn't go anywhere myself. Public transportation just isn't a thing around me. Not to mention all the stuff that has to be done around the house.

As for parenthood its not just about bringing your kids places. They want to play, they need to eat, they need diaper changes. Kids are a ton of work I love every minute of it, but man is it difficult.
Surely they meant to drop the high bit instead of the low bit... ?
It's not that long ago people were playing with 300+ ms delays on 56k modems.

If you design lag-prediction into the game it isn't so bad. People even used enjoy working the "lag shield" (be erratic, change direction frequently).

It's the dropped packets and consequent stuttering that is really frustrating.
>If VideoLAN were a startup, it'd be a unicorn.

Isn't VLC useful precisely because the interests of the devs and users are aligned? If it were a startup, they would have had to ruin it to continue
I was temporarily under employed and called up a contracting firm. (Robert Half, experience was fine.)

I had an income 48 hours into the experience. You’re expected to know what you’re worth, but there’s a certain freedom and nearly none of the job hunt bullshit.
Is there a way to create a REPL?
The Trouble with GameStop Is That the House Still Wins
I went to an Italian place in Kaohsiung a couple times many years ago. I was surprised that focaccia was really good. The pasta dish I ordered was a bit odd. I remember they put baby corn in it and the tomato sauce was much sweeter than I would have expected.
Same for macOS and iOS since Go 1.11, it all goes through libSystem now.
All the Prime Minister’s Men
Madagascar reckons with an invasive crayfish
Previously discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22141719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16729408

I still use The Wirecutter, but in combination with other sources. I try to ask myself the question: do there appear to be competing products that wouldn't provide the affiliate revenue and therefore potentially be left out of the recommendations?

If I'm just deciding between a bunch of stuff on Amazon, then I assume there's no thumb on the scale.
Yeah we're just likely to cruise along operating as "ABoringDystopia" until we hit some kind of fairly hard stop.

I don't know what that is going to look like though so I'm not taking any concrete bets. I certainly don't know what comes after.
Nvidia has a monthly subscription costs if you don't want the free plan limitations like a queue time and a one hour session limit. Stadia's free plan limitation is only 1080p and stereo instead of 4K resolution, 5.1 surround sound, and HDR.

If you're just buying a single game, Stadia comes out ahead on price when you're only paying $60 for the game rather than Geforce Now where you pay $60 for the game and then a monthly fee for every month you're playing.
If you actually wanted a fair(er) comparison, you can filter your benchmarks by Python. People choose FastAPI if they want a Python web framework, there is little use in comparing it to Rust and C++ frameworks or whatever...

That said, this list looks pretty bogus anyway, many of the tools listed here are not really frameworks to begin with. uvicorn for example is an ASGI server (you can run a FastAPI application ON uvicorn) so I'm not sure how this benchmark is "comparing" uvicorn and FastAPI.
I am not qualified in any way to answer that question, but my amateur opinion is that as long as we are still so tribal as to have a number of different governments all serving different priorities, we'll never see humanity advance beyond our abilities to destroy each other and ourselves.
Deleting DerivedData the Right Way
Project Specific Expressions from Nixpkgs for Sphinx Documentation
I would give my...Stadia...to be one!
If Intel can disable a feature and sell something at a lower price, then they could also sell the same thing at that lowered price without the feature disabled. The only reason they don't is because they exist in a patent encumbered, (very) competition light environment.

(Binning because of imperfect production yields is different though and I don't have a problem with that. It's hard to tell how much of the K/non-K split is legitimate binning, and how much is just a bool in the microcode).
When I read the following from the article, I wonder,'how can this be constitutional? In prison for nearly 20 years without charges or a trial?!

"... President Biden is a man who speaks of the importance of family. I wonder if he can imagine what it would be like to have never touched his own son. Mine will soon be 18 years old, and I have not been there to help him or to guide him. I have been locked up for his entire childhood, without charges or a trial..."
Now, wireless CarPlay... that's a game changer!

Our new car has wireless CarPlay and keyless entry and start.. and it's great.

Walk up, open the door, sit down, press start and drive off. CarPlay appears on your dashboard automagically.... No need to fish anything out of a pocket.

I hope someday I can get wireless CarPlay right from my watch and I can even leave my phone at home.
Filmulator – simple raw photo editor based on the process of developing film
Interesting. So one personal observation on Wirecutter (which caused me to stop trusting it).

It does reviews of portable air conditioners. A couple of years ago, it went into painstaking detail on how single hose AC is bad. They linked articles from the Department of Energy and so on. Their message was that single hose were easy to install but were absolutely not worth it. And recommended a dual hose system

I happen to agree with that. Portable AC units are already incredibly inefficient, so you don't want to make it any more inefficient than it has to be. I bought their recommendation, it was actually a decent one.

Next year, the completely backtracked. Not because new research came to light that contradicts the previous one. Not because new models came out that massively improved the losses (not even sure that's possible). No. Now they say that the difference is "minimal". It is not minimal, and their previous argument is that it wasn't minimal and they should only be used when there was no other option. They did not provide updated efficiency figures.

Here's the new text:

> While dual-hose models have been shown to outperform some single-hose units in extremely hot or muggy weather, the difference is usually minimal, and we don’t think it outweighs the convenience of a single hose.

Sure, one can reverse their position and that can be a healthy thing to do. But to take major pains in arguing one position one year, just to reverse the position and provide no new data, it's very fishy.

And, of course, the recommended models tend to be pricey too.
You don't need to buy a high-end graphics card. Those are for hobbyists who enjoy buying the latest kit and fitting water coolers etc. for its own sake.

17" Dell with a GeForce mobile whatever-it-comes-with will let you play everything fine for 5ish years if you're into the latest shooters, longer for other genres.
Golgi developed the staining method used by both, but it is Cajal who really make the study on brain anatomy shine. They shared Nobel prize, and Cajal is viewed as founding father of Neuroscience.
>though mine just doesn't need cleaning very often.

Do you have carpet where you use it and do you have pets?

From fairly limited observation on computer fans, those two factors make a huge difference in how messy fans will get. Apartment with hardwood floors, air duster once a year is fine. Apartment with carpet, monthly minimum still leaves the fans gunked up.
PHP never looked this tempting.
It's completely nobbled! This project had the potential to be really great but it's blown before it's gotten off the ground. For starters, its specs are worse than the phone I owned 5 or 6 years or more ago.

- Pathetically inadequate CPU

- Bluetooth 4 (dark ages Bluetooth)

- Tiny 2GB RAM (OK for 1980s-type games I suppose)

- Only 16GB eMMC†

- Only 802.11 b/g/n (now as ancient as hieroglyphics)

- Doesn't seem to have FM radio (why the hell not?)

- Screen too small

- Screen too Lo-res

- Super Lo-res cameras

- Mono speaker it seems.

It may be cheap but it's no good if you can't use it (except perhaps as a mantelpiece ornament). Why are all these type of projects always so damn inadequate/behind the times (I've yet to find an exception)?

We urgently need a REAL Google/Android replacement and we've ended up with an old fashioned toy! What's wrong with these designers, have they been in a time warp for a decade or more?

It reminds me of USB 1—stillborn and totally useless, Microsoft running 8x3 filenames a decade longer than it ought, and Bill's famous 640k disaster/fiasco (even at the time I nearly fell over with laughter at his announcement).

It seems some people never learn.

P.S.: At least it has one good point—a headphone jack. That isn't retro, it's just sensible. (But I wonder if that was by design or accident.)

__

† As it is, my current phone uses 256GB/SD plus 64GB internal and I'm desperately running out of space!
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Second Generation. I worked for 12 years in my dads accounting firm and built a custom app for the firm while I was there. Dad couldn’t let go so eventually I knew I had to move on. It was very painful to leave but I left on good terms in the end although it took a while it was worth it.

I’d recommend the book ‘breakthrough companies’, the first concept in the book is the importance of ‘crowning the company’ which separates all successful businesses that outlived their founder/s. Especially relevant in family business.

If your parent does not want to hand over the reigns, and you’ve stayed for loyalty, often it’s very healthy to leave (even just for a while) and reset expectations.

Consider doing a family vision document, the Coopers Family in Australia which is a major brewery and something like 7-8 generation did this earlier and the values defined later helped stop a takeover when some extended family members were open to a major corporate buy-out.

I love arrested development (netflix) couldn’t watch it until a while after I left.. too close!

Nice movie ‘Kinky Boots’ -
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat. Lots of feels for inheriting Gen.
Collective Action in Tech
Probably according to someone from 25 years ago
I’ve tried following the “take a break once in a while” advice and it does not work for me. I started to write daily and was able to realize being inconsistent with medication led to inconsistencies for me.

I was hesitant to take any medication. I was concerned it would make me anxious or similar.

Instead, my anxiety was greatly reduced. I had the thought, “is this what normal should feel like?” I don’t like the idea of being dependent on any one tool, but I’ll use a tool if it helps.
I wouldn't use an ultrasonic humidifier with non-distilled water in a living area. Those minerals will end up in your lungs and I'm not confident it won't accumulate and cause long term problems. The body can't eliminate at least some of them like silica. I don't know if you can actually end up with silicosis from that but that does not seem worth the risk.
> required actual poker skills, [...], and had an element of danger to it.

These are claims made with nothing to back them up. I think you've just watched too many movies.
Algicide also works. Benzalkonium chloride. You can get it as a 60% solution as a pool chemical and that will last forever. I use like 0.005% iirc. I make a 1% stock and dose that in, but I haven't used a humidifier in a while (prolly should)
Google's attention span is so short that it can't not throw the baby out with the bath water.
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What makes you think that Apple needs to care what ARM thinks? All signs point to Apple having fairly strong influence on what is allowed by licensees, and obfuscating and hiding their proprietary security features is something that Apple does literally all the time…
Inaccuracies and bias in food frequency questionnaire reporting (collectively termed “measurement error”) are well known and can effectively be quantified via validation approaches (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404419/ ) and remediated by well-established statistical techniques such as regression calibration (see https://dietassessmentprimer.cancer.gov/learn/regression.htm... ).

Furthermore, when regression calibration is performed, the magnitude of the calibrated effect is often shown to be greater than the uncalibrated result, so that 1.11 hazard ratio is likely to be larger in reality.

Finally, “small” is clearly relative. I’m certainly quite interested in knowing about things which increase or decrease my risk of having a heart attack or stroke by 10%.

Certainly a blinded randomized controlled feeding trial is preferable, but is not always feasible, particularly when it would entail controlling participants’ diets for long periods of time.
This sounds interesting. Can you share more please?
It sounds like there is some multilingual input text on the basis of which you make recommendations, but I think you would have called that a search engine rather than recommender.
The "security issue" you're talking about was that the URL used to determine if there is a new version available was HTTP-only. People felt like this was a security concern because it was susceptible to a MitM attack. The author felt like this was a none-issue because Keepass did not self-update at all, the URL was only used to inform the user of a new version. So a successful MitM attack would merely inform the user of a new version.

New version of the software were served via mirrors and digital signatures for all versions were made available.
Standard security practice for the era was to verify the digital signatures of software before installing it because so much software was served by third parties.

Also, this all happened before HTTPS was ubiquitous (the patch to force version checks to use HTTPS came in 2016). Most sites still served traffic over regular HTTP, with only logins and purchase pages using encryption.
Sounds like a regular kid with free access to a good computer.
IMO the only outstanding part there is that he gets up at 7am
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