skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the general population sees the ones dug out of the ground as "real" right now. I think the story being paid for is the DeBeers story though, of diamonds and marriage being inseperable, I don't think many people consider much where they came from, or consider the "rare thing dug up out of the ground" part of it particularly important in itself.

I guess I'm splitting hairs, yes there is definitely a cultural hangup about mined diamonds being "real" and made diamonds being imitations, fake, whatever. I just don't think many people care that much about the actual backstory, they just want a 'real' one. As such I think the synthetic diamond industry has a bit of an uphill struggle on its hands, but not an unwinnable one if they can convince people that theirs are 'real' too.

And to my (very literalist in many respects) mind, they are.

(edit - I will add that I have gone out of my way to source lab-created stones and silver settings to make jewellery for my partner in the past, so far mostly using star-sapphires, and she seems to have loved them. I find the idea of lab-recreated gems pretty fascinating, and I think that enthusiasm helped.)
I think the question might be a bit misleading. "Would you rather have X?" isn't the same as "Would you rather your spouse buys you X?". I'd prefer having a natural diamond too, for the same reason I'd prefer having a piece of ember with an insect that was trapped there naturally millions of years ago as opposed to a man-made one that was produced last month. By no means would I buy a natural diamond or support the mining system behind it, but there's no denying that I'd find it more interesting and somehow awe-inspiring.
Ohh, that's nice thanks. Uh what is it exactly? (I don't know reddit well at all)
When I was in university IT ~2008 our main concern was people accidentally serving their own DCHP onto the network and colliding with ours, generally by plugging in a router LAN port out. I could imagine a decree with this goal saying "no personal devices" to keep it simple.
What’s n-gate?
This argument is as old as time. There even was a satirical text on the matter 2 centuries ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat#Eco...: The Sun, being an infinite source of free light, is unfair competition to candlemakers and should be blocked to allow the economy to grow and people to make a wage.
What is so revealing about that Obama quote, the way I see it, is how dangerous it can be to "teach what not to do". There's a significant risk the student ends up just remembering the wrong way and none of the right ways.
Sure: https://www.the-sun.com/news/1487147/social-media-suicides-s...

This pertains to the US, I'm not sure if the same trend exists elsewhere.
The ads are not part of the encoded video AFAICT, they are probably served as a separate stream which the client requests alongside the regular video stream, this means that videos and ads can be cached using traditional techniques.
While I am skeptical about the finding of this particular study, I also think social media gets blamed for lot of cultural problems unjustifiably. Being an immigrant, one of the culture shocks in North America for me was how much narcissistic the culture is. In a very weird way people are encouraged to have grandiose self-image in the name of high self-esteem. Social media has definitely excerbated self-centerdness. But the self-centeredness is a cultural issue, social media just made it more visible.
Hopefully this isn't the only possible outcome...

Someone at Bose may also be interested in this kind of development.
What's the reddit link of that one?
/r/SubredditDrama is occasionally useful for figuring out what the hell is going on…
Sounds like we are moving the goalposts now?

In any case, have a look at https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-dutch-economy-in-the-golden-...

Agriculture has been important for the Dutch for a long, long time.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio... which arguably allowed Britain to become the wealthiest place on the planet for a while.
> many people seem to like unified look and feel

All else equal, sure. But they'll sacrifice that in a minute if it means elimination of other toil.

> many people complain about per-app auto-update

Facts not in evidence.

> many people love to complain software is getting worse

Okay.

> I work on distros...

Well, there you go.
Father of four daughters and five kids. Of my five kids, two have attempted suicide (both tried at school). In both cases, they missed a concept in school and the teachers clamped down on what they saw as laziness. Being a middle-school kid is tough, and that extra negative interaction was the trigger (suicide is complicated, and there was a lot more going than the academic problem).

So many of the parents I met as my kids went through counseling and group were quick to blame tech. As they would talk through what had happened, it would become apparent that it wasn't the tech - it was the people. The tech was just where the kids were communicating. It was a lot like blaming the highway for a drunk driver's behavior. All I can really say is LISTEN when your kids are struggling. It's hard because kids will hide their problems. It's hard because there's no manual for being a parent, and every child very different.
I’m hardly the one to hold HN in some sort of high regard and have mountings of my own criticism. I used to browse subreddits like this (and other prominent ones which I won’t name) and sites like n-gate.

There’s still occasionally something funny but they’re mostly boring to me now. They’re always the same strawmen with the same jokes and insults and never touch on what I see as the bigger issues with HN are.
A free and open platform for real-time optimization of flexible energy
>How dare they make fun of us.

I guarantee it's more like "how dare we make fun of us."
No. This species is invasive everywhere outside Africa, constitutes only a tiny fraction of the mosquito population where they exist, and doesn't fill any meaningful ecological role anywhere.
Thank you! That explains why I couldn't find it; heard it in a history of philosophy class ages ago :)
Just google it. Nothing good comes of linking from here. Well worth a look if you like comedy (at HN's expense).
Not every society in the world requires a diamond on the wedding ring. In large parts of Europe, the wedding ring is just a golden ring, maybe a bit bigger or nicer, but doesn't cost an arm and a leg compared to other jewellery.

I always found the stories that middle-class people are expected to pay 20+K for the wedding ring quite hard to believe, but it may be it's true in some parts of the world.
My country has life imprisonment. And we are not woke: you don't get out after 20 years.
You get thrown in jail and you will rot in there while society forgets you.

The death penalty is completely unnecessary. Hell some of those in prison after 30 seasons with no future probably wish they were dead.
uLisp
The caption is search spam. SEO is a thing for stock art.
I simply didn't care - bought a meteorite ring instead. Everyone is impressed as few know such a thing exists. I even tell them it's rarer than diamonds (I don't know that for a fact, but it makes a good story for the wow factor).
> Of course you can ignore tradition but then why marry in the first place?

Taxation, adoption, power of attorney, inheritance taxes, etc.
but buying from the middleman who is "buying cheaper from a country that does not have labor laws protecting its workers" is ok?
Along with being a visible symbol of my love and commitment to my wife, I also use my wedding ring to open beer bottles - so, you know, not utterly ridiculous.
So Melinda's HW is old and cannot run the latest and greatest MS OS. Also she does not enjoy the fact that a lot of Bill's assets were reppaced by Universal Bill Platform (UBP) and suddenly she is no longer in control of Bill's feature. Also Bill is updating frequently, changing his behavior without Melissas control. He also talks a lot to his mom, behind her back, making her wonder what is going on really.
She finds it strange that Bill is suddenly friend with a lot of Open Girls and they are sharing some source code together. Some say that this is only to get them in his bed.
One more rule. Proofread your document.

question marks go inside our outside

should be:

uestion marks go inside or outside
IIRC, the keyboard “Restore” key on the Commodore 64 also generated its own interrupt.
Homoiconicity is a start. But the killer feature is simplicity. In Lisp, only symbols and parentheses. In prolog, only predicate head, body and atoms. This is what makes those two languages so suitable to syntactic macros, while other languages claiming homoiconicity with more syntactic irregularity make syntactic macros impractical (although certainly possible). IMO, semantic AST-level macros are certainly a better choice in non homoiconic and syntactically irregular languages.
Video games are issue for families still. The 10 years old did not adapted that much, their parents had to build knowledge and strategies on how to deal with related issues. It is not like you could allow your kids to have unlimited amount of playing any game they ask for.

Same with tv while kids watched tv. It was primary parents who had to adapt, make decisions about which show to allow at what age, what not and how much of it to allow.
A giant piece of space junk is hurtling towards Earth
Yeah Canadian salaries are a joke compared to their American counterparts. Their tech companies need to offer much more competitive salaries if they want a remote chance of preventing further brain drain of their talent to the US.
I got a ring with a different stone.
Show HN: This lets you create characters with star wars voices
Yes, the UK is somewhat special here.

They also apply the same treatment to foreigners coming to the UK.

So if you've been living with your boyfriend for long enough, the UK will extend him a spousal visa without you having to get married.
The US has a bunch of land. A thought occurred involving the US's surplus military personnel spending their days, after waking up from their barracks in some state in the west, tending to a massive bamboo garden, including cultivation, pruning, and disposal into giant pits. The Wikipedia article for bamboo even mentions its use in carbon sequestration prominently. Having looked into this before, though, I turned up a few sources that said bamboo alone has no net negative effect on atmospheric carbon, and might actually increase it.
> and never touch on what I see as the bigger issues with HN are

Please write a blog post about that and submit!
No. That's just how this works.

Because modified males can't have offspring down the line, only females who mate unmodified males produce offspring, selecting for females who would mate with such. This might even hurt a company selling such a solution, because if they released a second batch, nobody would mate with them.

Obviously this only works if modified males show any external characteristics.

But even without all that, at some point the modified populace is going to die off, since that was the point, leaving only unmodified ones, before finally recovering.
"Cancer as a metabolic disease" has been known since the 1920s when Otto Warburg discovered that shift towards "aerobic glycolysis"; that is, glycolysis even in presence of adequate oxygen for fatty acid oxidation. It's the basis of some treatment and medical imaging approaches – e.g. 18-FDG PET images the extra uptake of glucose caused by cancers' voracious thirst for glucose.

I agree that interest in diet is an increasing vogue – and I would never recommend replacing a medical therapy with dietary modification, but some of the citations I linked to above indicated that it may potentiate the effect of some other chemotherapies, particularly those that themselves have a metabolic effect. I agree with you about the difficulty in funding such trials, and the difficulty in both monitoring patient compliance with them and obtaining a robust and reproducible readout of their effects. Cancer is a heterogenous disease of life, and its response to therapy is too.
Wasn't the Atari Portfolio used by John Connor in the Terminator movie to hack that ATM?
Many good and prolific writers of the past used ghost writers who prepared drafts and idea lists for them, in effect making their work more like that of editors (it is said Alexandre Dumas worked like this -- it's one of the only reason to explain his spectacular productivity).

So if AI is capable of doing some prep work, why not?

When writing fiction, my struggle is usually not in the writing itself (making sentences) but in figuring out what to write about (the content of a scene). An AI that would generate scene ideas from an input of, say, a list of characters and plot points, would be very helpful.

Outputting sentences and paragraphs, not so much (I think).

Also, the article seems to conflate Sudowrite and GPT-3 but it would be interesting to understand the difference between the two; is Sudowrite just a wrapper over the GPT-3 API that forwards requests directly? If not, what is its added value vs hitting the API directly?
Oh wow, owned mine for years... never knew that.

Often been annoyed when despite nothing playing on one device, it wouldn't switch. Great tip, thanks!
Why Nearsightedness Is on the Rise in Children
Let's Encrypt issuing production certificates from ECDSA root and intermediate
TBH 32 or even 64 cores does not sound all that impressive compared to the thousands of cores available on modern GPUs and presumably even more that could be squeezed into a dedicated ASIC.

In any case, wouldn't you run out of memory bandwidth long before you can fill all those cores? It doesn't really matter how many cores you have in that case.
> that was a very good analogy by your prof.

Sounds like it wasn't because it didn't convince many people!
Here is the study:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01061-w

I have my genetics through 23andme and I have Bipolar Disorder. The one thing that stuck out at my in my genetics were my SNPs in SLC6A4, which is one of the markers they look at.
Most websites work quite well.
Deine eigene Lisp Machine (2016)
As far as I can tell, the verification is basically an annual email that registrars send reminding domain owners to update their contact information and for which no actual follow up is performed.
That biodiversity loss is primarily species in the shrinking rainforests. These mosquitoes are released in major cities and don't have measurable impacts on populations far outside those cities. It is easy to imagine something going wrong. When the scientists are saying don't do something, we all say "trust the scientific consensus", but when that consensus says "nah its fine" we distrust them.
Quick reminder of options for men looking to get married and looking to avoid getting exploited by De Beers:

1. Man made diamonds. Better clarity and color and larger gems for the same price. Or the same gem for a smaller price.

2. Second hand mined diamonds. Better jewelers, deceased estates, auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's etc.

3. Other precious stones which are not diamonds.

4. Not buying a stone or a ring (eg if she doesn't take your surname and you don't wish to have traditional gender roles it would be unreasonable to expect a gem to be provided).
Also, a weird TLD like ".catering" usually means you're trying to use a generic word in the domain name, "burrito" in this case, which makes it even harder to remember than something more unique + ".com".

The effect is that people have to now remember two generic dictionary words. "burrito" and ".catering", or wait, wasn't it "tacos" and ".food" or something? And like you said, I'm sure most people don't even recognize that ".catering" is a TLD, whatever that is, and the domain name just looks like `<genericword>.<genericword>` making it all the more confusing and arbitrary.

It's like having to remember where the periods went in "del.icio.us" and, if you couldn't, googling "delicious" (until it caught on) was incredibly unhelpful. Just like googling "burrito catering" doesn't necessarily take you to "https://burrito.catering".

I think even a random brand name + ".com" is still preferable to most of these new TLDs.
CVE-2021-30665 and CVE-2021-30663 in macOS Big Sur Exploited in the Wild
But wouldn't that be trivially explainable with that since everyone uses technology all the time these days those who use it to escape their issues stand put less? Meaning the study essentially just measures to ubiquity of tech.
Dutch researchers are training bees to detect coronavirus
DNA copying is kinda similar.

Also look into fractals, since they are self similar.
It had a bit of that for the bird songs.
I've spent already a lot of money on that site :-)
Next, let’s look at a $100 bill. Or a diamond.
uLisp/ATmega1284-based Lisp Badge looks similar http://www.ulisp.com/show?2L0C
Apologies to the general audience -- this is going to get very low-level in terms of Jewish technical practice:

I agree that all historical attempts to associate electricity with particular melachot were not based on a full scientific understanding. Pinning the "fire" label on incandescent bulbs didn't really address the fundamental issue for all other appliances. As you mentioned, Rav SZ Auerbach would likely not have associated smartphone or laptop usage with uvdin d'chol.

However, I'm eminently thankful that the standard Orthdox practice has evolved to prohibit electrical appliance usage. I can see what Shabbat would have become otherwise, based on what Tisha B'Av is like. On Tisha B'Av, I make an effort to get into the spirit of the day, which means that I use my laptop for listening to (or watching) kinot and reading appropriate material. In the afternoon, when I'm worn out, I'll just "peek over" bat email -- and by then, the Tisha B'Av effect is shot.

If laptop usage were not forbidden, Shabbat would sadly become almost like every other day (at least for me).

On the flip side, I have enormous sympathy for the youth who keep "half Shabbat", i.e. they don't perform any major melachot, but they will use their smartphones. For many of them, social networks are an essential element of their daily life.
I argue against life imprisonment for the same reasons.
Some people get upset when others buy or like BOSE. You're not supposed to!

Pay no attention to the hivemind or the audiophile cult. I've had plenty headphones in my life and BOSE are among the best I've had at their price point. YMMV.
One thing that's really interesting for me is that on websites with a lot of US users, there's a LOT of talk about ADHD

basically whenever any not-physicall problem/illness is being discussed, then probability of somebody mentioning ADHD goes to 100%

but why?

or maybe it's that my country is somewhat backwards and is not used as the reason this often
Because giving money and power to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Politicians and bureaucrats spend other people's money spent on other people. Too right I'm only going to pay what's legally required of me.

Today, here in Australia, and I believe the story is smiliar in other wealthy nations, government spending needs more scrutiny in an effort to be more efficient, rather than more tax income.
Of which only one site is operational and two are in construction. Given the amount of coal power due to be shutdown in Ohio in the next few years, it will be important to have these projects up and running quickly.

To put it into context, the approved solar projects (not yet operational or under construction) is ~ 2200 MW of power covering 23,000 acres. There are two major coal plants outside of Cincinnati that are due to be shutdown by 2027. Combined, they produce 2300 MW by themselves [1]. And that is just those two plants.

It is nice to see the shift, but we still have a way to go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Ohio
until a few minutes ago i was a skeptic. now i think about it... this gpt business is not only AI but it might be a way to AGI. why? it mimics us perfectly that each of us can fill books about the things we have zero understanding of.
Ask HN: Would you be ready to pay a fee to get a fully remote job?
If a website offered to find you a good fully remote(all year round, not just during the pandemic) in 2-4 weeks (or else you're fully reimbursed/not charged), would you be ready to pay for it?

I want to make a website that propose that kind of service for maybe $49 or $99.(or maybe a price adapted to your country or your expected salary, for example $9 for indians, $99 for americans...)

Does that seems reasonable to you?

I'm an expert in lead generation, automation, human-like bots, scraping... As a freshman student I made a script that got me 30 interviews in 24 hours, it's definitely possible to do this on a larger scale, not for millions of people, but I think I could find jobs for a few thousand people every month.
Ask HN: How to deal with managers who set a hard time-limit on fixing a bug?
What would be a good and not career-destroying approach to deal with managers who set a hard time-limit on when a bug will be fixed?

For some context, this arose in a pre-release application-critical bug that several people had attempted to solve, but which we had no insight into the cause. As it turned-out, the external partner for whom we were building the application had supplied one wrong piece of configuration - but this information was confidential to their setup, and we had no insight into how it would break another part of a complex flow (or even that it existed).

The essential problem, is that the management simply sent out a mail to the whole team saying the bug should be fixed by the next day at 'close-of-business'.

Question is how to deal with this sort of management behavior without ending your career?

I'm aiming to find some constructive way to help them in the future to see why bugs can't always yield predictably to time-boxed developer effort.
I always thought of reference frames as like the sampling rate, so in that sense, is it how few reference frames can it get away with, without being noticeable?

Would that also depend on the content?

Aren’t panning shots more difficult to encode?
You can make or buy your own custom SNES cartridges with whatever ROM you like. They’re about $20 so clearly there’s more at work here.
The paper linked in the ARS article (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3445814.3446723) seems to be how they developed it. I find it interesting that they went from C++ to hardware in order to optimize the development and verification time.

In my past experience working with FPGA designers, I was always told that any C-to-H(ardware) tooling was always quicker to develop but often had significant performance implications for the resulting design in that it would consume many more gates and run significantly slower. But, if you have a huge project to undertake and your video codec is only likely to be useful for a few years, you need to get an improvement (any improvement!) as quick as possible and so the tradeoff was likely worth it for Google.

Or possibly the C-to-H tooling has gotten significantly better recently? Anyone aware of what the state of the art is now with this to shed some light on it?
That's a good point, the difference doesn't have to be in the item itself, BUT -

Does anyone, other than geologists of course, really care about the back-story of the diamond, how it was created and how it was mined? Or are they just hanging on to an idea that some of them are "real" and some "not real" for the purposes of social signalling?

If the latter, I would consider this much more changeable over time.
"now" being 2015. They are talking about the new 2nd generation chip here, which is a bit faster.