skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Common people had almost no sports, no games (beyond precursors to Bocce or backgammon), no literature!

The activities of the historical poor and working class are rarely recorded except in fiction written by the wealthy that contains poor or working class characters. Also, your best evidence is a lack of evidence.
Yes and I agree that is why I only mention kernel. I dont think MS or Apple will open source their most valuable layer. But I also think Open Source NT Kernel could be a little more useful.
But you can only run one flavor of Linux on it, since NVidia keeps the specs closed.
Long-dormant Bitcon wallet comes online
Bessel functions are useful when you must solve the volume of the cylinder (or the volume outside a cylinder). If you only care about the surface of the cylinder, you must use the Fourier series in one direction and the Fourier transform in the other direction.

I (GGP comment) was wrong.
> What happened in the mid 19th century that labor lost the upper hand to "management"?

Previously, didn't they work for aristocratic land owners? Did they ever have the upper hand?
This strikes me as diluting the point to irrelevance. The vast majority of resources are abundant only provisionally when they are well-managed.

In fact, I can't think of any resources so abundant that they need no management. Even the oceans and the sky must be managed now, eh?
My wife was recovering from surgery and stayed in hospital for several days.

Every 4 hours, a nurse would bust in through the door so hard the door would bounce back almost like a western saloon, in they push their cart with computer, and YELL, "We are just gonna take the blood pressure!"

Occasionally, we did get one nurse who would do this with tact.
I have one of these on my shelf, kept as a memento after switching to SSDs.

All my other old HDDs are still here in spirit, stripped of their powerful magnets now decorating my fridge.
Not really - I travel for work in London, not just for sightseeing. It’s an alternative to the Tube.
Well, they would be (in theory) indistinguishable from the physical person. You’d be able to interact with them, and their thoughts, feelings, memories etc would all still be there. In many ways the “soul” is still there. Obviously this is very much a matter of opinion.
> F1 engines are rebuilt after every race.

Even if what you said were true, so what?

We're talking about a tiny spinning disc on a brushless hub motor. There's basically a single moving part, maybe a few more if riding on ball bearings.

Do you have any understanding of what is going on inside a many-cylinder internal combustion piston engine spinning at 20k rpm? We can view the flywheel as the hard disk platter equivalent, the real madness is at the reciprocating mass being flung back and forth at the same rate.

Edit: Here's another useful reference point to help put RPM numbers into perspective: a turbocharger's rotating assembly spins on the order of 200-300k RPM without flying apart. A minute is a pretty long time.
> majority negative HN opinion about crypto/blockchain/nfts

I find it amusing how I see both proponents and detractors of crypto posts on HN complain that they are in the minority. Feels like a pretty even split to me.
I mean, you know, except for the peasants..

Being part of the merchant class in feudal times was a very high class outcome
And foone hates HN and wishes his tweets would stop being posted here lol.
Here's what Bjarne (after decades) thinks C++ should some day be able to aspire to:

import std;
int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello, modern world!\n";
}

Now let's contrast what cargo gives you by default today for any new program (Rust's cargo automatically gives you a Hello, World program to begin with in your new project):

fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
}

Even all these years later, Bjarne is still happy with a main() function which claims to return an integer but doesn't bother to actually do so.

I believe this reflects the continued belief in the "subset of a superset" approach to evolving C++. Yes, says Bjarne, obviously some parts of C++ are terrible and must be eliminated, but, let us first grow C++ to include these other features I'm interested in.

Like a child who agrees that they ought to eat the vegetables, but, first they insist on sauce for the icecream on their dessert. Somehow it seems as though the vegetables are never eaten because more dessert is always desired first.
It just seems stupid not to learn from one's mistakes. We already know these kinds of activities are problematic and amount to theft, so it's comical to see people saying this is our financial "future" when it's hundreds of years behind in terms of the regulations and protections which make traditional financial and monetary systems safe and stable, all well offering dubious actual benefits and being incredibly inefficient from an energy perspective.
Confirmed. Depending on pvc's point in it's lifecycle, it's either offgassing hydrogen chloride which turns into hydrochloric acid when inhaled, all the way to releasing dioxin when incinerated, and dioxin is considered the most congeners. You can get the same effect when burning your pcb. One of the deadliest fires in US history was the MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas and iirc all of the fatalities were due to the fumes from the burning pvc carpet and none were heat related.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Grand_fire
Homeless people are dramatically better off than our ancestors
The only thing whatsapp has going for it right now are network effects and the low friction of getting less-technically-inclined users to install a new app.

Something like that that has no benefit to users is an absolute death warrant for them. The other apps only need to reach a tipping point and they will be absolute dead in the water, they're already creeping up.
The OpenGL 3.0 spec mandates support for 8 render targets, the RPi4 GPU only has support for 4.
All I care about is that VR is usable right now, I watch movies and you know what every week, not interested in gaming much. Also, please stop comparing VR to crypto, apples and oranges.
They're a Continuous Integrator at Backblaze, according to their LinkedIn.
I think you are right about this. Life may have had less of what we think of as "work" now.

The part that I think is interesting is, as we progressed technologically, where did that time non-conventional working time go? It used to take hours to clean your home, prepare food, etc. We have modern technology which made it easier. How are people spending that new "free" time?

I think the answer seems to be that technology has essentially freed more time for people to work for someone else. The "advancement" means you spend less time washing clothes, but more time flipping burgers or delivering food.

I think this points to something interesting about how much the lowest earners in a society get paid. While it is true that they get paid what the market will bear, the minimum value is always just enough to survive on. "Time saving" technology has effectively devalued their wages. The cost of staying alive is less than it was before. They must work more for the same outcome.

I'm someone who likes to think automation and technology can make people's lives better in the abstract, but... maybe technology alone cannot accomplish this
If work were leisure, you'd have to pay to do it, you wouldn't get paid to do it.
Reminds me of Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930) by Keynes Definitely worth a read. I also finished Trekonomics by Manu Saadia which was a good attempt at trying to explain the economics behind star trek, essentially a society where the economic problem (scarcity of resources) had been solved and people live to pursue personal goals rather than income.
Personally I was overly expressive as a kid and it irked me that people could so plainly read me, so over time I learned to tone down my outward emotions. Might have gone a little too far on that. Whoops.
> with no accompanying increases in wages for most of the population

Take a look at the median US household income over the last 40 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot and we ban that sort of account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can speak to Irish history. Long considered one of the most poor and wretched places for common folk, the rural poor had numerous issues in Ireland. While they had dance and a lovely folk music, they also had starvation, disease, lack of political representation, and a lack of basic economic ladders. They did have plentiful turf to warm themselves, in contrast to many other poor folk in other areas of Europe. They also had the gulf stream, like Iceland and the UK, which kept their climate relatively warm for it's northerly location.

There's no better demonstration of the decimation of the rural Irish than the potato famine of the 1840s. It wasn't just one year, multiple years, their monocrop of the Irish Lumper potato, which had led the widespread growth in population, failed them due to fungal blight. It's estimate 5% or even 10% died of starvation in some rural areas. Moreover, millions more left in droves for the UK and USA, recognizing the crushing poverty and lack of food vastly outweighed their love of the land and culture.

In my estimation, the rural Irish had leisure time for the arts despite their poverty and destitution. The abundance of time didn't help, they were too poor to own many games and objects. Yet, through music and dance and writing, they kept their spirits alive and, by some cheer, were able to Banish Misfortune.
Negative sentiment has been accumulating against the company for a long while, rebrand is a good strategy
Also accepted would be a world where they just add Vulkan support to their APUs already.
In so many ways...isn't that exactly the truth?

Today Facebook steals your time by locking your attention to their web page or mobile app. Tomorrow they do it by locking your attention to their VR headset or AR glasses.

And each time, the whole Facebook ecosystem comes with you.

This is exactly what they do and Meta is a natural extension that is betting in a cultural change as much as it is a continuation of everything Facebook is.
I believe this to be a misinterpretation of facts. If store A posts targeted FB ad, they will know when a person clicks it on FB to get to store A. Now store A knows user on their website meets targeting parameters.
Very cool. Going to play with this. Thank you! I couldn’t wrap my head around jq so this is lovely.
I think this method of teaching works well if this lines up with how the students are evaluated. The students willingness to accept this form of teaching is entirely reliant on how they feel this will impact their final grade. That's why it's important to align your grading and evaluation style with your teaching style if this is what you expect from students. That way, they'll be more inclined to go with the flow knowing that it won't bite them on the other end when it's time to take a test.
I know for me there’s something innately gratifying about the hardware actually becoming faster, not just the storage functions. It’s like a faster car, or some other machine actually doing whatever it does with more power and precision.

SSDs are totally better, yeah. But it’s also kind of boring from a mechanical perspective. Insanely beefy mechanical hard drives have a certain charm that SSDs will never have.
Neither of those are scarce, or artificially so for that matter.

1. A company can create more shares but the number of shares has nothing to do with the value of your holdings. The shares are not scarce, but the supply is controlled by the company in response to its need raise capital. It's not arbitrary.

2. Fiat money, by definition, has value by decree. It serves to provide liquidity to loans and other obligations within the economy. The amount of money relative to demand for payments, loans etc. in the economy determines how much a $ is worth. It's not scarce or printed willy-nilly, but rather to keep the economy going and maintain relatively stable prices. Again not arbitrary and therefore not artificially scarce.

Bitcoin is scarce because the number in existence is arbitrary/predetermined and doesn't change in response to demand, hence its extreme volatility.
Yes, async is using fibers as a concurrency primitive.

Async gem is starting fibers automatically. Fiber pausing and resuming is handled by event reactor (also called "event loop") from 'nio4r' gem.

io_uring support with asynchronous File IO is also on the way.
Yes, but the central bank influences the real rates. Real rates are a function of the nominal rates and level of inflation.

Tighter monetary policy will lead to lower levels of inflation, thus higher real rates.

Central banks are also doing QE and distorting nominal rates on treasuries by shrinking their supply in the market. e.g. Fed buys a 10yr treasury, now it sits on their balance sheet for the next 10 years, rather than floating in the free market.

If the Fed hadn't bought trillions of treasuries over the last two years, what would the nominal yield on treasuries be?

Beyond the mechanical, the Fed has created a psychology that the treasury market is no longer a free market, which discourages investors to sell or go short.

Similar to equities. People believe the Fed will backstop any turmoil, so valuations begin to matter less.

So current Fed policy pushes both variables in the equation towards lower real rates, both in mechanical and in psychological terms.
Today on the Jetson Nanos, you can just use the Fedora stock image. (flashed to a microSD card)

It’s much better than what it was before. nouveau works ootb, including reclocking too.

It’s also to be noted that all Tegras have an open-source kernel mode GPU driver (nvgpu) even when using the proprietary stack. However, that driver isn’t in an ideal state today.
Show HN: Revisiting Old Work – SOLI Sketches
You see all of the complaints about Facebook, including those launched by whistleblowers, as simply part of an illegitimate "conservative media narrative"?
Rubygems.org has the first commit at 2013. Unless the gem changed ownership.
Cover, a modular home builder modeled after Tesla, raises $60M Series B
Ruby's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) is applicable, and not "sidestepped" with Async.
I was just about to edit my comment: either that is the case or HN automatically runs a reverse DNS query to get the domain name associated with the IP address in the submission URL?
> There seems to be quite a lot of unfalsifiable assumptions lying at the bottom of economics, starting from the utility maximizing agent.

That and other elements of rational choice theory are not unfalsifiable. In fact, some of them were from the outset not merely falsifiable but known false but tentatively held as useful approximations over large populations. In fact, in the scientific part of economics (and other social sciences; rational choice theory has wide impacts), the debate has long been over whether the rational choice model is a still even useful reference point against which to mark variations, given the extensive degree to which it has proven false. (OTOH, a number of higher-level phenomenon predicted by they model have proven predictively useful even though the lower-level model is known false.)

Of course, some of economics (e.g., the Austrian school) is overtly driven by a normative ideological agenda rather than pursuing descriptive, empirical science.
Is the drug policy really the issue here? Singapore is so against various consumables you get jailed for vaping (nicotine). You are assuming its policy, but its more likely drug culture.
And if everyone had a flying unicorn that would also change cities for the better. So what. In most cities there's no prospect of widespread deployment of self-driving cars any time soon. The technology just doesn't work and progress has slowed way down.
The submitted title ("Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure") broke the site guidelines. Please don't do that. The rule is:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder how people would value openssl...
If it weren't for English colonization they wouldn't have been forced into such risky monocrop behavior.
Is there evidence they actually got scammed?

Maybe Evil Ape sold all the eth and intends to use it to pay people, and doesn't feel the need to communicate plans.

Are claims of future plans legally binding for Evil Ape, since people bought NFTs based on those future plans?

Would it be fraud if a 100k game was developed and released in 5 years?

Has a crime been committed yet?
Why should we “refuse to click buttons”
Never been the case? The US was about 90% white until the 90s. As of 2017 it was still the case[0]. I think the cognitive dissonance is more on the side of so called "anti-racists" who are cheering on the implementation of explicit institutional racism ostensibly to correct for perceived institutional racism. You can't literally fight fire with fire.

0. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2...
Wait until you see my US Robotics Palm Pilot.
When people say cities, they talk about them in the global context with functioning metro systems, not the sprawling monster american 'suburities' that require you to drive everywhere. If you want less suburities with their shit traffic, you'd support getting rid of zoning laws that force this form of city.

I don't like US 'cities'. I do like cities elsewhere in the world.

More about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54
Not as SATA or IDE? The Cheetah is SAS/SCSI I think. I have (somewhere) a 15k RPM 143GB SCSI drive which I used in a home built Windows Server machine for a while. At the time, I had never seen Windows boot that fast. Ahhh.. simpler times.
It means that tokens are one of the fundamental building blocks and foundational usecases of blockchain/web3. Are you even trying to understand, or just asking in bad faith? Because I know this website hates crypto which is just embarrassing.
Not the same, but this "DIY Hand-cranked Music Box Wooden Box + Hole Puncher + Paper Tapes" might appeal in a similar way: https://www.ebay.com/itm/182794446978
Article doesn't say anything about ventilation in the interior either. The building sounds like a covid spreading hellhole.
Wise to not have any of the stuff anywhere. The off-gassing from records is nearly instantaneous and reaches measurable levels where it's dangerous within minutes - having the extra surface area for off-gassing from the grooves makes it much worse. A vinyl collection is certainly better than other vinyl things like you mentioned since an album won't off-gas much in its sleeve, but playing one will definitely do a bit of liver damage if you're near it.
How about MoltenVK?

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
> the gem changed ownership

I think the gem did change ownership at some point. The first couple gem releases from 2013 were yanked.
I doubt anyone would really be happy returning to feudalism, but I imagine the goal of highlighting this stuff is to expand the sense of what is possible. It's easy to start thinking of the current state of affairs as some kind of immutable law of the universe and not a carefully negotiated political arrangement that can be altered as we see fit.
We got some giant disc drives in our office a while back and I hadn’t heard that sound in maybe a decade or more. It brought me back in a split second when I first heard it again, haha.

It’s incredibly nostalgic.
This is just not true. Working fields is back breaking labour. Old feudalism was similar to slavery.
Marc Stevens who broke sha1 has said he doesn't think sha2 will get broken any time soon. See https://twitter.com/veorq/status/1128273048367398912
Vulkan as an alternative to CUDA in scientific simulation software (2020)
It's worth noting that for all the festival days, they did not have our modern idea of a "weekend" either.

When the French revolutionary government created a secular approximation of the church calendar, they only gave off 1 out of every 10 days.
Well, number one, why would they? Apple makes money by getting consumers and locking them into their unicorns and rainbows ecosystem where everything is perfect which makes consumers comfortable spending boat loads of money, not by selling commodity hardware.

Ecosystems with great UX and paid subscriptions plus a 30% cut on all transactions are far more profitable than the margins you make selling commodity hardware. Just ask famous phone manufacturers like Siemens, Nokia and Blackberry why that is. That's why SW dev salaries are much higher than HW dev salaries as the former generates way more revenue than the latter. That's why Apple doesn't roll out their own cloud datacenters and instead just gets Amazon, Microsoft and Google to compete against each other on pricing.

Apple only rolls out their solutions when they have an impact on the final UX, like designing their own M1 silicon.

And number two, selling chips comes with a lot of hassle like providing support to your partners like Intel and AMD do. Pretty sure they don't want to bother with that.

Before they start selling chips I would rather they open iMessage to other platforms to eliminate the bubble color discrimination.
> Article doesn't say anything about ventilation in the interior either.

It doesn't say anything about anything the resigning architect couldn't come up with a complaint about.

So, that's probably not a problem.
Quite right.

I think we are seeing proof of what you are saying with the childcare cost crisis in most developed nations. A good proportion of early years childcare (and often later) was "free". Now that it is being transferred into wage labour in many countries with growing labour force participation amongst women, we are learning that this stuff was very costly. Similarly, all the household tasks then would take a full working day.

Also, they did have sports and games. Many of the games we play today have their origins in that period, but they weren't of the formal nature that we have today (and there were far more bloodsports). They had culture of a sort: theatre, singing, music. And they had more mass social events like festivals and market days (life today is far more atomized, back then this was a way for everyone to gather in a place and get business done). The rich didn't do organized sports either (as we conceive)...hunting of course was a huge pasttime.

The "innovations" of that period passed into irrelevance when the world changed. Our "innovations" will also pass into irrelevance too.

EDIT: btw, someone else has said that only the activities of the rich are recorded...this isn't right, there are lots of social history books which cover the leisure activities of workers in this period (if you Google social history or leisure history, you will find the period you are interested in).
A fully compliant Vulkan implementation for M1 would come with very surprising performance cliffs for a developer.

One of them: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/issues/1244
Even granting your point, many people work jobs which are tedious and/or physically tiring.
Your suspicions are incorrect - I'd suggest trying the AWS CDK as it solves exactly the problem you want it to solve in the sense of providing strong type safety.