skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth mentioning that at the time we were working on this, there were a few other startups doing similar things. Quite a few more have come and gone since. It’s a really interesting space, but one in which it’s clearly hard to succeed.
Async Ruby is colorless!

It's obvious from the examples provided in the post. For example, you can use the method `URI.open` both synchronously and asynchronously.

It's something I didn't want to mention in the article because it's a relatively advanced async concept, but yea - Async Ruby is already colorless and it's great.
I didn't see it mentioned...why? What happened in the mid 19th century that labor lost the upper hand to "management"? If the tradition (of less work hours) dates so far back, what triggered its disappearance so quickly? And going forward, as if it never existed?
It's not just Cordova in a different suit. There are a lot of similarities, but there are some pretty big differences. For example, Capacitor has first-class support for Progressive Web Apps and can be used as a library you link with that comes with an abstracted set of APIs for accessing native/device features on iOS/Android/Desktop/Web with the same codebase. There are a ton of small decisions that all add up to a pretty dramatically different experience and our Web Native moniker represents our focus on building an app that is native to the web and then running it on all the platforms you care about with full access to the native features you need on each platform.

And don't just take my word for it, the feedback from actual users is that the experience is dramatically better than Cordova. For example, see the 2020 State of JS survey results: https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-us/technologies/mobile-desktop...

Also on the Enterprise tab, the other way to look at this is we have a sustainable revenue and funding model for the project that is aligned with actual users of the project (as opposed to this being an internal project we just happened to OSS for goodwill/hiring benefits). I'm really proud of that and consider it a huge advantage of the project.
Yeah, the sad fact of baby toys is that they are fundamentally selling to the adults, not to the tots.

The tot phase is pretty fast, so parents don't really seem to get a feel for what is a "good" baby toy in time.

I really wish there would be more general study of this rather than being at the mercy of a sales market that fundamentally doesn't have the baby in mind, mostly just the parents buying the stuff.

But then again, "learning acceleration" in babies is probably bunk anyway.
Oh, well, you can :P

Can you go into a bit more detail about your setup?
>>Because text is asynchronous, and persistent. Text is a weak medium, but with specific strengths which can beat others in certain situation if they can played well.

It is indeed async & persistent, but those are not it's only strengths.

Text is ALSO highly searchable, and skim-able. I can search and jump right to the point I want, I can rapidly skim through parts I'm not so interested in and then focus and examine deeply and repeatedly the part that is of interest. Or, I can read it sequentially like a video/audio stream. In contrast, searching vid/audio is cumbersome, frustrating, and time-wasting at best.

Text is ALSO has a much higher information density than video, except for situations where moving pictures actually add to the information, as in video of a specifi event, mechanism working, etc. Most of the time, just listening to a talking head is far slower, and harder to remember than reading (where I can read rapidly forward, then back and re-read key bits, often without even thinking about it; w/ video, I'd need to interrupt the train of thought, hit [back], try to go back just the right number of seconds, then re-view, etc. - useful ONLY when the vid id of an event, not of just reading info.)

Moreover, text is more direct. To make a really good video usually requires a well-thought out script written in advance, from which one reads - I'd rather just read the script. And when it is something like an interview with a noted expert, I'd usually rather just read the transcript, for the above reasons.

You actually highlight the problem with video:
>>There will be a high chance of 90% of the content just being halfassed trash.

Absolutely correct - most of it will be rushed out without the solid base of a test-based script and screenplay, which would in most cases be preferable...

Text really is —still— one of the key defining inventions of humanity, and I have no expectations that a "metaverse" will beat it soon. (Now if it can start reading text directly out of my brain without typing/dictating, and I can edit it on the fly — THAT will be really something...)
The only thing preventing ebook resale right now is rightsholder's fear of piracy. An NFT-based system wouldn't help in that regard.
people tend to have well thought out reasons for doing something. So if you see someone doing something obviously stupid, you are probably not seeing the whole picture

I used to think this, until I read more about advertising and how it's designed to trigger an emotional response. More and more, I think it's really emotions that motivate most behavior. There are many people, when asked "Why did you make that decision?", will respond with some variant of "I don't know, I just felt like it."

It implies to me that most people don't really know what they feel, or why they feel that way. The corrolary to that, which I find fascinating (and a bit sad), is that it means most people really have no understanding of why they do what they do. This as true of actions as trivial as picking a brand of gum or selecting a parking spot, to choices as monumental as deciding to get married or have children.
Gamblers Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed
Just ran into an interesting scam landlords are pulling. It used to be 30 days notice to vacate. Landlords are pumping this up to 60-90 days in their rental agreements. They hide this in a 20 page leasing agreement then hammer their residents when they try to move.

In a free market, this wouldn't be an issue: renters would tell landlords to eat crap and walk. But there are two major issues: first, housing is a tightly regulated market controlled by a cartel of realtors who have lobbied to pass multiple laws to prevent people from selling their houses "without a realtor". The second is a series of leasing Cartels that all collude to use the same lease, giving renters very poor choice.

Here's the thing: in this market, there is no way in hell you can tell a buyer we'll close in 60+ days. This further exacerbates the housing market traffic jam, meanwhile the landlords and realtors are the only ones winning.

The only way out to is de-regulate the absolute crap out the market and releasing the market from the cartels that control it.
For context: The article is an excerpt from the book, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor, published in 1991 (though maybe there are later editions). Here's a review:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/business/9...

I wonder what later research adds.
Yeah I’d be curious to see how much of that short workday was because just staying alive was so much harder than today that you simply didn’t have time for more work.

Like when dinner takes 3 hours to prepare instead of 20 minutes, that’s quite a difference.
You're not wrong. If you have external services that are accessible via HTTP, there is some potential to get some performance gains there. You're just limited in terms of some of the core Rails utilities.
This guy was unable to replicate his result and casts some aspersions on the accuracy of the metering technology, however he did find lead residue on one record: https://youtu.be/gx5B44YeRpY
I really like Pulumi, and have done some really interesting stateful infrastructure work using it in the past. Because you get a full programming language, you can definitely code yourself into a knot that is difficult to debug, but the saving grace for Pulumi I think is that the output of the program is a simple declarative object describing the target state. So you can almost think of Pulumi as a generator for Terraform files.
No, he though capitalism would end because of its "internal contradictions" which, in his opinion, led to an ever growing divergence between the haves and have-nots.

In a post-scarcity world capitalism would make no sense, because there would be no need for an economy, since everything would be infinitely abundant.
This is 100% not true. The engines are sealed by the FIA and replacing parts of the engine incurs gird penalties. You have a limit of 4 engines a year you can swap without a penalty. In the last 2 races both Lewis and Valtteri took penalties for swapping out the ICE part of the system. When Max had the crash at Silverstone with Lewis, RedBull was not 100% sure of the state of the engine as they are not allowed to disassemble it. They had to use fiber optic cameras to look inside. Even then they got it wrong and Max took a new engine in Turkey.
Agreed. Crypto has just been a fertile ground to replay every innovation in financial crime and fraud which had already been regulated against in other markets.
Think of all the things you can do in the metaverse: fitness, watch sports, watch a movie, work-from-home, virtual cafe. I think they will buy all these entry-points and stitch them together, might just work.
There are confounding factors in figuring supposed historic misery: Fewer clothes, washed less frequently, for example. Average life expectancy being pulled down by high infant and maternal mortality. That's obviously not good, but it also means that survivors lived longer than averages suggest.
By 1990 I was in university with 10BaseT available.

So my peak modem experience was probably 9600 baud modems with Zmodem for transfer protocols. I think there were 14.4 modems available then but I don't recall that I owned one.
That's reductive. Dogs have a surprising degree of individuality, intelligence, and personality. There are dogs with anxiety disorders, psychological disorders, attention disorders, and other issues that aren't necessarily the blame of the owner (or even might be the fault of previous owners). Trying to reduce it to that is like blaming every problem behavior on somebody's parents. Dogs aren't simple machines.
> I assume all of us here on HN are the type-of-person who as a child would have been fascinated about how mechanical and electromechanical toys and gizmos worked - and probably disassembled the thing to our parents' chagrin and figured out how it works (and hopefully put it back together correctly!) and ended the day with a sense of satisfaction from learning something new.

Yeah. But no, that's a stereotype.

I hated my mecano things, it was too hard to play with. I enjoyed storytelling with my LEGOs much more, my creations were just bare bones scaffoldings for the flesh my imagination would put around it.

I still work in IT and tear stuff apart every day.

With that being said it still saddens me they are digitalising full mechanical toys. It's surely rose-tinted glasses but it looked so much cooler.
same, I had these for a decade, and it was great. a little noisy, but I miss the trattatatatata of them seeking.
It's all in the name of efficiency. While efficiency is good to some degree, it comes at a cost of robustness. If you are working at 100% capacity, if anything goes wrong you are screwed!
Yeah, it's unclear to me whether you'd have to "join" to get the result from an operation, or if you can have some form of "await" expression
I'd like to hear why you think that comparison makes sense. I don't see any way in which the two represent similar functions or parts.

If your argument is based around a token being a sort of domain, then that's like comparing owning real land to owning land in an MMORPG. If your argument is around functionality that's like comparing a car to a parking spot.
Very true. Also: the last time I studied feudal times was in the US 10th grade... in the early 1980's.
> Text is a weak medium

You state this as fact while it's extremely debatable. What is your measure of a mediums strength?
Thanks for the comment. I wish I could upvote you more.
It is more nuanced than simple denser cities are more expensive than less dense. Some parts and some dwellings of denser cities are more expensive, but it also depends on other available options for the population.
Tokyo as a localized market has the same demand pressures as places like other super cities since it has a constant net immigration into the city and is where all the economic activity is. This is pretty much a guarantee for rising housing prices, but it has not happened. So you look at the differences and see how the zoning laws are different, and how housing units are built at a far higher rate per year than other super cities and it starts becoming pretty obvious what the difference is.
No not at all it was just an easy joke
The point of the article is that wages should inflate too, yet increasingly fail to do so. And this needs to be acknowledged and then addressed.
"An important piece of evidence on the working day is that it was very unusual for servile laborers to be required to work a whole day for a lord. One day's work was considered half a day, and if a serf worked an entire day, this was counted as two "days-works." "

Presumably because in the other half of the day, they'd be working to harvest and grow their own food. I'm not sure what the difference is between working 8 hours, and getting enough money to buy food, and working 4 hours and then another 4 hours to make your own food.
Ask HN: Hiring managers of HN what are you looking for in candidates?
In self learners especially.
Mine as well just let the officer sniff. Yeah, human smell isn't up to the task and will be wildly inaccurate, but that's not a problems for dogs, so why should it be a problem for humans?
What is the alternative
Ha, I would say all, the actions just weren’t initially considered criminal until they were.

There is almost nothing that the Dutch East India company did that we would call “above board” now. Criminal negligence, collusion, foreign corrupt practices, domestic corruption, pillaging, slave trading, shady accounting, and god forbid if those securities were registered or not.

More relatable, the book Flash Boys goes into the history of Wall Street regulations going back to the 1850s and finds something similar, every regulation is some kind of reaction to a novel way that some form of brokers are trading ahead of their clients.

“Finance” only very recently was a respectable or attractive entity, sure everyone knew there was a money shuffling place that resulted in potentially having a lot of money for yourself, but there was nothing inclusive about it nor did this really bother anyone because this wasnt the aspiration either (and because nothing was inclusive, many other issues to be honest). Just a small club with no national/federal oversight. Rife with scams.

1920s wall street isnt so different than the entire crypto space today. A stoic onlooker would say “why bother its all a scam” an insider would say “there are a lot of scams but there are ways to distinguish” and a person hungry for opportunity would look at them both, chuckle at how they talk past each other, and buy a random asset on margin because distinguishing didn't really matter. Their opportunities either improved or it didnt.
Thank you for that Link. Supra FaxModem v32bis was what got me into BBS scene back in the early 90s
CRT Royale running 60 fps in a sub 15 W machine would be impressive. 1080p would be nice, 1440p would be great, and 4K would be best. The pi4 can output 4K60, but I really doubt it can shove through that many simulated pixels.
Before there were artificial lights and other things there really wasn’t much you could do when it was cold and dark.

Factory workers at the end of the 19th century definitely had a horrible life. They had to fight for 6day weeks and often had to work away hours a day under very dangerous and unhealthy conditions.
Management might diverge but I meant central planning of schedule and equal distribution of resources.
I'd be interested in other places too, but I expect a wide variance by locality, trade, etc. I wouldn't expect, especially back then, England and Wales to be the same, or possibly not different regions of those countries. Groupings as large as 'Europe' and 'Asia' might not be meaningful.
It's never been the case, but those sorts of made up talking points are the only things these types complaining seem to have to attempt to justify their frustrations at society, or something.

There seems to be a lot of cognitive dissonance or just ignorance about the fact the U.S. has singular counties, essentially close to singular cities, that have the same population of 13 states combined.

And, statistically, those in the lower population 13 states are more and more unable to meet the simple physical requirements of the U.S. military. To my knowledge, the past 5 or so years, the military has had serious recruitment issues because of things as simple as obesity metrics.
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He probably was just responding to my 1MB limit. Don't be too harsh.
This analysis is solely focused on the "job" aspects of pre-industrial life and includes almost none of the domestic considerations. I'm not sure if it would be fair to call all non-wage time "leisure". Once work was still over there were still things to clean, fix, prepare, butcher, etc.

Although, I think it goes without saying that before affordable lighting and heating, we all underestimate how lazy winters were for the average peasant, whether idyllic or not (accounts I have read make it sound incredibly, incessantly dull).

And I think the best evidence we have that we are overrating the quality of pre-industrial leisure time is that people developed almost no leisure activities! Common people had almost no sports, no games (beyond precursors to Bocce or backgammon), no literature! They supposedly had half a year of doing nothing, and perhaps singing and drinking was sufficient to fill the time, but you'd think they would show lots of other innovations. Or even steal the activities of the rich (organized sports)!

Instead you don't see leisure activities develop until the rise of the 40 hour workweek and the availability of consumer appliances.

Edit: I hope people understand that the argument the article presents is largely a romanticization of poverty.
I was on a grand jury and we were all a very cynical bunch. They presented a bunch of cases that boiled down to "person we don't like talked back to the police" and our jury refused to indict them. In one case, it was painfully obvious that the police officers testifying were flat-out lying. Their story changed from sentence to sentence. I think even the prosecutor thought that continuing to prosecute this particular case would be a career killer.

Eventually the ADAs caught on that our group asked too many questions, and just carefully ran out the clock on our two week grand jury session. Cases we were halfway through hearing mysteriously disappeared. Apparently the other two juries that met during our two week cycle had to stay late every day, while we got dismissed early.

It's one of those things where the system is designed to be good (23 randos get to decide if the cops are full of shit before you even get indicted, and you don't have to be very smart to see that sometimes the cops are full of shit), but The System turned it into something bad for no good reason. I guess if people aren't committing felonies, we don't need assistant district attorneys, and then the people that already do that job have their career progress reset. So they are forced to play into a broken system and make up very tenuous felonies for their own personal career gain. It's sad. Someone should do something about that.

(I wonder if there should be an after-the-fact non-binding review board. Look at all the cases that were prosecuted over a given year, and just have a group of experts gut-check them. If a lot of cases seem like bullshit, dock the numbers for the DA's office so they suffer at election time.)
Apparently the tasks are "joined" automatically before the enclosing "Async do" block is allowed to finish.
Not like surround sound kits aren't available easily and cheaply. Consumers simply aren't interested. Huge 4K television despite very little 4K content being available? Yep. Surround sound? Nope. I've seen playback stats for a large streaming service, very few people bother.
Fully self-driving cars can, and will, change cities for the better. The whole parking space paradigm changes if cars can fully drive and park themselves.

For instance, in my personal case (medium size European town) if I had a fully autonomous car I could go to the train station or town centre for commute, shopping, etc without needing any parking space there: my car could drop me there and drive back home.

If parking space is needed it can be located out of the way and be denser because cars will be able to deal with it themselves.
I definitely remember redialing multiple times to try to get both a modem from the 56k bank (my ISP had a mix while switching over), and a connection going as fast as possible. I don't remember whether the max speeds I got were, but when downloading a "big" multi-MB file it was worth it to get a faster connection.
>Why do we need to care how moral the man at the helm is? A leader is temporary

It's interesting that you raise that question in the FB context, because Zuckerberg has very specifically structured his company such that this isn't the case. He can't be removed.

More broadly, we should care because such leaders accrue outsized power and can thus have outsized influence/impact on large numbers of people.

>If end users can exercise their moral choices themselves,

End users don't always have the info they need to choose not to participate in immoral schemes or to know that they are victims of the same.

>a leader can be moral in such a way that you would wish he wasn't

That argument vaguely evokes nihilism. Societies organize themselves around generally accepted moral principles, many of which are codified. Largely, we can quantify morality.
Here’s a great talk about clothes washing.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_mac...

Hans Rosling argues that washing machines are magic because clothes go in and books come out. Women education, literacy rates, workplace participation etc directly correlates with automation in the home. The less time it takes to keep a family running, the more empowered women get in a society.
Just a Command Runner
This gem is almost a decade old (although looks like it's been updated to work with fibers?). There's a bunch of gems that allow for asynchronous/concurrent and/or parallel execution for Ruby. It looks like a nice enough gem but it's not particularly novel. Seems like it's just trying to ride JS' popularity with the name. Ruby threads also allow for non-blocking operations.

Edit - this isn't some new paradigm for Ruby. It's a gem... A bunch of others ("Parallel", "Concurrent-Ruby", "Eventmachine", etc...) have been around forever and do similar things.

Edit2 - https://rubygems.org/gems/async
Disagreed because the actions didn't start as regulated against in the other markets. We are operating on the same information and made a different conclusion. The other markets also started with the bad activities and then called them criminal. Kind of a stretch to say “well it wasnt criminal at first so crypto is the outlier here”
Owning houses is a ridiculously profitable opportunity. Ridiculously profitable opportunities don’t get left lying around. That’s rather the point of capitalism.

What “you” did is oppose higher-density construction, which means the homes that exist today are the homes everyone in the future has to compete for, if they want to live near population centers. NIMBYism makes the profit that attracts the sharks.