skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew a professor that loved getting freshmen classes because he could disabuse them their Yankee in king Arthur's court ideas about how easy it'd be to bring technology back to the past. He had a whole slew of experiments that would explore path dependence and the difficulties of creating technologies with the available resources. Nominally this was to help them not underestimate the intelligence of early humans, but I think he enjoyed it.

These things are easier if you have an idea ahead of time of what you're making, but that has to work in a cultural context and that still doesn't mean they're easy. For instance, how would you would you build a useful saw out of stone? Can you recognize the wild ancestors of wheat and convince someone to keep at the process of domestication for thousands of years?

It's likely that ancient humans were adept at many of these things, like salt preservation, warm clothing, contraception, spun fibers, and boats. Many of the others (agriculture, wheels, etc) simply wouldn't make sense outside their native cultural contexts.

In the meantime, you'd probably have to learn from them the basics of survival.
That is NOT a problem. Because which is an external program, it can't know about things like shell aliases and functions, and that's OK because users know it or expect it. Indeed, if you're writing a script then you already know what aliases and functions are in it, and you're only going to be interested in knowing what's outside the script -- which(1) does that just fine.

Stop looking for problems to solve where there are no problems. It's a waste of others' time, not just your own. Be respectful of others' time.
John Carmack Facebook Connect Keynote 2021
I'd like to see an alternative meta-study if one is available, do you know if a better meta-study exists?
This time zone difference can also be an asset if your business is 24/7.

"When things need to get done quickly or a problem can only be resolved by talking directly"... and that problem occurs at night in my timezone, a team mate who's awake can deal with it with a rested head and no burnout in her or his day.

Admittedly, there are many companies who don't need 24x7 business continuity and are perfectly content with 10x5. For them, this is unnecessary complexity.
Did 3D TVs ever get to sub $1k? I think remember my dad bought one almost a decade ago and I’m sure he paid way more than that for a Sony 3D tv.

I don’t know that we can outright dismiss anything based on 3D TVs not taking off. I’m certainly no fan of Facebook attempting to own this space, but to outright dismiss the whole concept because of the poor sales for 3D TVs seems naïve IMO.
`which` and `command -v` give different results when you have aliased a command, e.g., `alias ls='ls --color=auto'`.
At the end of the day, every database system can be reduced to a bunch of K-V stores :)
I can’t count the times how often i’ve heard this story in some variation over the decades. It never happened. You can replace Covid with any other catastrophic event, the story always read almost the same including the remote worker cliche.
Technical Advisory – Apple XAR – Arbitrary File Write (CVE-2021-30833)
Removing which(1) is NOT "minimal user impact". Evidently it's also not minimal maintainer impact. All this sturm und drang of which(1) is completely unjustified and far exceeds the work of including that BSD option or deciding to not include it.
The point system here is meant to help people find insightful comments. There was even a time on this site when it was used like that. But now it's used to show support for opinions you agree with and to find the confident idiots with grand theories of how the world can be modeled.
This is meaningless unless you start looking at deaths vs. case count, considering everything's open and there are no limitations.

You can't scream "DON'T LIMIT US!" while also saying "LOOK, PEOPLE ARE GETTING IT!" That's just malicious.
Doesn’t the father give the dowry?
I’m just not used to reading multiple paragraphs of text with large gaps populated with junk between each sentence.
Nvidia shield pro should be able to do all that with some finagling for airplay.
> Surely having sharper and more intelligent humans is an objectively better uncontroversial outcome

What if there's a level of intelligence above which humans decide not to reproduce?
Eugenics involved horrific deprivations of human dignity for arbitrary decisions of what seemed at the time to be “self evidently good” traits that are much less self evidently good now… if the traits were even retained.
I’m imagining it somewhere deep in the unceremonious middle. It’s unfortunate. Are they too big to die? I’m not super-rooting for that, but where is the reality check of the 90s? Where’s the actual disruption? The actual non-Facebook metaverse is a concept I don’t see them nearing. Huge tech != meaningful longevity. Are these companies surviving on market growth alone? Not actual market growth, but literally just access across the planet? Countries from the distant electronic past coming into digital yesterday? It’s free users for a system that is literally not innovating outside of FRL. Are they? What is the offering to humanity? On what merit dare they claim dibs on what they guess is the next plane of reality? Use Facebook messenger on Instagram? Now you don’t have to use Facebook? What a 2021 we’re having! I absolutely love the tech demos, but the ability to have a photorealistic avatar is not what is holding the metaverse back. Are we really just waiting around for a 1:1 representation of our physical identities? Think of the security you could have if we built the privacy in! Should I thank Facebook for having the money to fund the development that everybody else wants to have the money to do? Walkabout Minigolf is literally the most engaging and dynamic social experience I’ve had in VR. It’s low-poly minigolf. Did all the Facebook thinking stem from “how do we own the next App Store?” Because it really feels that way. Is that how we got the App Store?
Residential AT&T Fiber with their own equipment seems to work pretty flawlessly for me - stable v4 IP and v6 prefix even across hours-long disconnects.
It could have been done before COVID so it would’ve already been done. Business people aren’t dumb and if they could have offshores development, they would have (and they also have been doing this for years anyway).

So why would they hire workers in their own country? People in this thread already have said it.
Time zones, cultural business norms and understanding, native communication ability, tax and legal issues regarding employment (already annoying enough to hire employees in other states in the US for example), ability to connect with clients in the same locale, etc.

Now I’ll give you that this MIGHT shift things to a degree. I don’t think it’ll be the race to the bottom you and others are saying.
Reminds me of this famous Q&A "Why not use "which"? What to use then?" - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85249/why-not-use-w...
NetBSD is Looking for various WiFi hardware
I'm on Google Fiber, with the provided Google Wifi router, using a Google Pixelbook running Chrome OS, and cannot access google.com via IPv6 (or any other site for that matter).
But do you have any evidence of that? With our supposedly down regulated intelligence we’re achieving ever more and faster.
Thanks, this is enough for what I need to do right now.

Looks like Gmail doesn't like the [bar] solution though
This is a false statement, communities have found value in Bitcoin. El Salvador being the go-to example but we're also seeing adoption in other places, exemplified by the acceptance of Bitcoin at the Venezuelan airport. In addition to that we're seeing companies dedicated to the ad-hoc conversion of crypto to local currencies using specialized debit/credit card. This will effectively help facilitate the move to the ubiquitous spending of crypto.
I think it's fair to say that HN can be a bit myopic. Both about this and other topics, there is a lack of understanding of the mindset of "the general population".

There can be a lot of ideas that a stated in way that makes it seem like most people would totally agree, like that "socializing at the office is obviously a chore that's a waste of time", that "work is about maximizing your programming output", or that "managers want employees back at the office is because they feel insecure about their value and don't trust their employees to get work done". But I don't think the vast majority of the workforce would necessarily agree to those ideas. As much as HN types like to make fun of MBAs and their bean-counting, there's the feeling that in their own heads the primary directive is to try to maximize the throughput of neatly parceled work units and would deride those who disagree as "time wasters".

The risk with this kind of thinking is that you end up not being nearly as objective as you think you are, and worse, you will fail to predict how things are going to happen. If you were reading Reddit during the 2016 and 2020 democratic primary; you would have been sure that Bernie was going to be the nominee. My workplace surveyed whether people want to do full-remote, hybrid, or full-office. Reading HN, you'd think the obvious top choice would have been full-remote, since most of us could actually work fully remote. As it turns out, it was not the winner. (Before saying that management fudged the numbers: The outcome was supported by my informal questioning of my coworkers as to how they voted.)
> Maybe I'm in a bubble, but it seems while everyone uses Facebook to some extent... no one likes it.

Hey now, not everybody is on FB.
He's definitely not doing that. The man is sharp and doing a good job. But I do not have the same loss of respect that OP has.
> When things need to get done quickly or a problem can only be resolved by talking directly somebody has to work late in the evening or night.

On the other side of this, I feel like I'm seeing I'm seeing "leverage time zone differences to accelerate the development process" in hardware engineering job postings with increasing frequency. I can definitely see where there's an efficiency gain for heavily sequential tasks like PCB design bring-up to have teams working in shifts without anybody losing brain power by working outside of normal hours.
In Canada at least in two provinces I've been to recently the price of mj has approximately neared par with the black market, more or less. You can still find some thats more expensive but you can also find some that isn't. The catch is that you have to buy an oz at a time to get that price - if you buy smaller amounts you will probably pay more than the black market.
I've been looking for something low-cost with ECC memory for a NAS, the Xeon-D would probably work. Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_D#Design_Goals
> Based on a number of California stores they investigated, the cost for an eighth will now range from around $50 to $65.

> told The New York Times in September that the black market price for an eighth of an ounce is around $20.

Just to share some Canadian numbers, in Ontario, CAD$3.57/gram at the low end through the government store. Of course you could purchase $10/gram or $15/gram if you wanted.

On the black market (clearnet) side, you're looking at around CAD$250 for 2 ounces, or CAD$4.45/g for some mix and match specials. I suspect you can sometimes find $99 ounces which is still $3.53/gram.

Can't really speak to quality of course. Not sure why California black market is going for $5.71/gram

The biggest difference between the black market and regulated market in Canada is the potency of edibles, or so I hear. Government wants to make sure nobody can get high if they mistakenly eat a box thinking its candy, which is kinda a problem if you want to get high.
Wrong thread, and I can't seem to edit parent post for some reason; however I will add...

It's a synthesis of the core features of social media:

Misinformation, Enragement, Tracking & Advertisements

or perhaps a more truthful mission statement for tech companies:

Make Everyone Technologically Addicted
I work at a very small remote-only (purely as a result of COVID) company in the United States. We only hire people who live in our state because the burden of complying with tax and labor laws in other states just doesn’t interest us right now.

As long as we can find good enough people in our state, it’s just not worth the hassle to add more HR challenges than we have to.
edit: duplicate thread/comment and for some reason I can't delete this comment
Wouldn’t being able to retain maximal genetic diversity actually be a good thing species wide though? Because it also means we have ever bigger achievers in ever more niche but valuable roles.
I doubt it (even though I run a dev shop w/ Vietnam based engineers). US companies will continue hiring US based engineers. And when Covid is over people will go to the office again.
> This is different because Covid-19 has shown to everyone that they can do their jobs remotely.

Citation needed.
> This is a very simplistic idea of what brains are for.

Or it could be that my small brain is incapable of seeing how small brain can mean dumber
"Salaries are going to drop in the "rich world", and it's not just because people are now fleeing places like SF/SV to lower cost of living areas."

People have been saying this since the 1990's
I think some people will work from home permanently. But yeah, a lot of people will go back. Not 100%. Maybe 70%.
Closing the “Quantum Supremacy” Gap
For bash, it is documented with 'help command' or the bash man page, section SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS.
I think you're 100% right. I'll be laughing at all of the criticism in this thread ten years from now.
Yes he is, and the highlight of Connect for me is his keynote.

I posted the video somewhere else in the thread and I think there is an not-so-active submission of the video on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29032872

But the man is sharp and straight to the point and I just love listening to his insight.
I can imagine they’re using UPS Delivery Intercept, or another similar capability for redirecting in-transit packages within the carrier network.

Perhaps they automatically apply the intercept after the initial dropoff by the sender.

https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/tracking-support/deliv...
WebDAV is also an extension to HTTP. Its additional status codes and methods are added to the corresponding registries.

The entire raison d’être of such registries is to include any extensions; if you only cared about the core stuff, you wouldn’t define a registry.
Web3 VCs Need to Invest in Knowledge Builders
> I mean, it’s not exactly brain surgery.

No. It’s rocket science. :)
Is that objectively true or do you feel it’s true? Not being snarky, but I see this viewpoint a lot and it’s never backed up with numbers. Companies are quick to cite science when sending people to WFH, but the rigor is not there when claims are made about how being in an office makes for a more effective workforce.
> factorio is pretty complex for a video game, but trivial compared to a real world supply chain.

But Factorio is more complicated than what can be typically described in say... the 470 posts in this topic thus far.

As such, Factorio is "closer to reality" than the discussion (at least, than the discussion without Factorio being used as a crutch).

I'm using Factorio to elevate the argument closer to reality. Rather than using a crappier hypothetical example in the abstract.
> There was zero benefit to any of this outside of a solid handshake and getting to "meet people in person".

That’s a lot of benefit to me? I like knowing that the person on the other end of the camera actually exists in 3D.
Except it's not 10,000 launches, it's 170,000 (see other comments here).

So that's 850M tons, about a 10% increase (on top of the 2nd most polluting country in the world), so yeah, not happening.

I would personally rally against the govt. (and everything that allowed that to happen) if Elon gets a free pass on that.
You’ve just clarified a thought I hadn’t fully formed about NFTs (since I try my hardest not to think about them)… they could define a model whereby creators receive an ongoing cut from transfer of ownership. And this could be applicable in the broader sense you are talking about in your last paragraph, eg many copies (mp3 sales) or licensing (streaming services). Time could become an NFT, giving all the contributors to a film or workers at a company a share of profit. I mean that would be truly revolutionary.
I’m fine with people rotating on and re-training

We do it through college then stop. Think of it like term limits.

How much of this is really actually technical work and just data entry, sexed up for cashiers that got older?

Isn’t this what automation and division of labor are meant to do?

Good job, we achieved the goals. Go do something else.
I guess is faster than memcpy because both are memory bound but this only has to write to memory whereas memcpy has to both read from and write to memory?

Edit: actually it sounds like it’s more cache efficient because it can always use the same block of cache memory?
nice! shots fired.
Once it becomes Somebody Else's Problem, and not NASA's, then NASA can quietly abandon it. Since nobody else will want to pay for even a single launch, it may then die a final death.
Author argues that a wealth tax will encourage short-term over long-term growth. But a wealth tax is also a disincentive for public ownership. And some argue that short-term thinking prevails to satisfy the whims of the public market.
Yes, GNAAM. It’s just more memorable and fun.
Is Bitcoin hiring?
> we developed elaborate speech. We also have advanced culture

I’m surprised there was no speculation involving memes in the article (“meme” as in the original meaning coined by Dawkins).

We’re running a complicated and evolved software suite now. The idea that we have less raw computing to do than our bare-brained ancestors might be worth exploring.
Play Splatoon 2, they nailed motion controls. Every time I read people saying they’re not accurate enough I get confused.
>> Use among 15-24 year olds fell throughout the decade,

>This implies that use among other groups than 15-24 year old had not fell throughout the decade.

Within the context of logic, that is not an implication.
I didn't know this about Canada -- it's interesting.

It's not clear to me how the black market should go for more if you can just go into a legal place and buy there. What am I missing? Perhaps you need a prescription or something, and people can't get that, so they pay a premium on the black market? Or maybe the legal market limits how much you can buy? Something has to support a higher black market price, since after all it is more legal risk for the participants, and possibly things like risk of buying something unknown.

Or maybe the black market operates in places where there is no legal vendor and so can just charge more? Or they offer home delivery?
P2P synthesis was the standard until it became hard to get (controlled) and that's when ephedrine and pseudoephedrine reduction became popular, despite much higher precursor cost. The reduction pathway is also easier, but because it's so much easier, It's likely much dirtier, since so little care is needed to "succeed." Now that Sudafed and ephedrine Diet pills are controlled, and can't be bought retail by the 1,000 lot, the balance has tilted back to the original precursor.
There could potentially be a bash-<builtin> man page. For example, bash-command or bash-mapfile.
outsourcing has been going on for two decades, what's this so different other than more difficult to manage?

big company will not find individual one by one, an employee overseas is hard to certify and might steal IP then disappear so there is more risk, language barrier, management challenging, time zone difference, not a total rosy picture for me.

but yes for those really outstanding developers they will land a job with USA pay-scale easily, but will this turn into a trend for a global workforce(for ordinary developers) in a flat world remains to be seen.
> You seem to be referring to a buffer as a process which requires large inputs to get start producing.

No.

> I think of a buffer as a system that slowly fills up due to excess capacity greater than demand, which can be drawn down in times when demand exceeds production.

Yes. That's what I mean.

The steel furnaces __use iron__. This means that during the buffering process, the steel furnaces are "saving up iron", and preventing the rest of your factory from using iron.

That is to say: the 35,000 iron you put into the steel furnace __COULD HAVE BEEN USED__ in the yellow-belt portion of your factory, and could have instead made 23333 yellow belts.

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Its not worthwhile to save up 7000 steel (aka: 35,000 effective iron) when that iron could have been used to make _OTHER_ parts of your factory do important things.

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It doesn't matter if you "buffer up" that 35,000 iron slowly, quickly, all at once or over anything. Any such buffering means your "steel portion" has arbitrarily decided that the iron should be saved here, in a box unused. While shortages propagate outward to all the other parts of your Factorio where you __COULD__ have been using the iron instead.
Anecdata, I know, but I've yet to find a solution as good as a whiteboard for brainstorming ideas / events / architecture collaboratively.
Genuine question: how important is the launch window when you start thinking about bulk transport to Mars? If you build thousands of starships, how much does it matter if some of them are slower to arrive?

It's not like flying to Mars is impossible outside the launch window. It takes longer and probably needs more fuel, but by how much?
> Citation needed.

We're on HN, a technology site.

Many of us have realized we can do our jobs the exact same way as we did before.

I'm not talking about construction workers, police, fast food, etc.

I'm not sure this needs a citation.
Feels a lot like digital cameras from circa 2000. You had cameras like the Nikon D1, an expensive piece of kit which barely did what it needed to do. But it was getting better.
I don't see that there's a POSIX way to provide the same functionality of 'which' without searching $PATH yourself.
That would make sense if I were a liberal, a jackass, or living in rural Japan. Is "projecting" your pseudo-intellectual "no u"?
> You're good to live off that and work on that project full time.

What if they don't want to work on it full time? What if they don't feel like they are tied to their work or obligated to serve "customers"?

Software is not just about creating tools for a trade. Software is also self-expression and leverage for creating other things of worth.

Your issue is with FOSS developers who are amateurs (in the good sense of the word) and thus "fail" at supporting themselves and their "customers" with their work.

This is a not only an incredibly myopic view - I really don't even want to imagine what would be the state of the industry if FOSS projects like GNU, Linux, Apache and many others who are successfully funded didn't exist - it is also one that serves only the big corporate world that you think "should be paying". It reeks of a Protestant worldview that acts as something is only worth doing if you can make money off it.

Anyway, your problem is with "amateurism" in the industry, not with FOSS. For every "hassle" you find in FOSS projects, there are plenty of others who are successfully managed, with developers who know to answer "This is Free Software, but it does not mean you are entitled to free work or my time. If you want me to solve a problem you are having, you have to pay for it".
from faang to Manga?