skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, given the choice of two explanatory models:

1.) Even in cases of extreme poverty, people will put in significant effort and sacrifice to secure some degree of privacy, because it's a basic human desire (a desire I've seen in nearly every person I've ever met.)

2.) ULTRA-METH PSYCHOSIS

I'm strongly inclined to favor 1 over 2 until I see some very, very compelling evidence otherwise.
This is the romantic side of physical labor. The downsides are evident to anyone who knows someone who has been in the trades for 25 years. They walk kind of funny, their knees and back are wrecked, and they've spent decades breathing in materials that have devastating effects given prolonged exposure.

It's really tough on your body to do physical labor day-in, day-out over the course of a lifetime.
I think what's being talked about here is the back end implementation for ActionCable. By default it uses ruby threads to push over open web sockets. There's at least one production quality drop in implementation (https://anycable.io/) that address the default scalability issues you'll have with ActionCable. The async support would seem to allow one to go much further with default rails before needing to move to something more performant.
Hodgkin-Huxley neurons are fully functioning neurons as far my understanding goes, furthermore, if not mistaken openwarm simulator has ability to simulate hydrodynamics on cellular levels.
I'm more curious about the technology behind this survey. How do they do it? What's the range? How high can you be and get a decent result?
yes, Amazon doesn't have the cheapest prices. Their (Prime) shipping is generally the fastest
Was Google's implementation closed source or was it just not integrated into existing libraries/distros?
Many indigenous cultures. The Iroquois native Americans might be one example. There was no notion that a minority got rich off the labor of others.
Couldn’t that just be because you were young and now you’re less so? A long career of physical labor definitely takes a toll on the body. Young people can just take a lot before it catches up.
Almost all of the parent has no foundation. Describing the mindset of the author, with no evidence, is incredible (or, not credible).

It's a 'good exemplar' of criticism that, most of all, fits perfectly in the cultural trends and moment, pressing all the 'right' buttons, triggering all the currently well-conditioned emotions, like a great piece of marketing.
Oops, easy mistake to make!
If you look at a chart of the labor force participation rate, it did drop to a low, and has only partially recovered to a rate last seen in the mid-late 1970s. That is significant. Certainly very different from the rate just previous in 2019. Though to really understand it, I think you might have to pick apart the data among different age ranges.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART/
Carbon emissions are 'too high' to curb climate change (2012)
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? I had to ask you this just recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28900495), and you've unfortunately been doing it a lot. Personal swipes are particularly bad.

We ban accounts that keep behaving this way, so if you'd please https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this going forward, we'd be grateful.
Tested: AMD's Windows 11 Patch Wins Some, Loses Some
Oooh, thanks. I added a footnote to it and gave you a shoutout
Do you know what the Army Commendation medal is? To my knowledge, it's mostly something that is given after your first deployment/duty, fairly common but you have to have done something meaningful.

A friend of mine got his commendation medal in what I believe was Basic training (and this was just national guard), or training slightly after basic. This, from his understanding at the time, was fairly uncommon/unheard of.

Why he received the medal? He was the singular person in his platoon/training regiment that shot a perfect score/sheet in their rifle marksman class. For some reason, very few others came even close to perfect, most more towards the (lol) average of what was required, or worse than that.

He got a lot of questions from his peers as to what he was doing differently to have so seemingly easily scored perfectly. He said he wasn't really sure... asked "did you zero your rifles?"

By his account, he was quite literally the singular person, of a group of people all having military training and fucking around with firearms and live ammunition, that read the actual manual, instructions, and properly zeroed his rifle.

So, while you may perceive "comes from the most advanced civilian gun culture in the world" to be true, I somewhat disagree on its merits and propose that if the Taliban infantry are indeed goat herders, they may have more hands on experience in properly using firearms, as animal husbandry in areas like Afghanistan has some livestock preditors they must be wary about. That and the whole growing up in a completely unstable place constantly in some form of war/conflict.

I have however heard reports from the tales of General Butt Naked & Co, that down in West Africa and such, that the child soldiers know nothing other than the idea of "big number equal good"

And so, they set the windage sights on their AK's to the highest number, and end up shooting completely over the heads of people 20 feet from them. Perhaps these are the types you're thinking of when you say Afghani goat herder? No, you may be thinking of African child soldiers.
This is Foundation API, not Swift stdlib. One thing Swift probably can do, is to have the first parameter typed as StaticString. I am not sure if the header for NSLog has enough annotations to do so.

OTOH: https://github.com/apple/swift-log
UPI in India handles > 1 trillion USD (46 Billion transactions) of instant payments per year for free. With UPI, you can make P2P or P2M payments, govt subsidies and business payments can come to you directly and instantly. Bank account opening with KYC is fully digital, online and instant. All Indian banks give basic free savings account with zero fees. Credit landscape is rapidly changing. Overdraft was never really popular in India.

This is real change enabled by technology and brought about with really stunning cross-functional collaboration between some really good techie volunteers and bureaucrats behind the scenes and politicians through appropriate regulation, good consortium partnerships and just really good timing luck.
How do you open the transcript of a YT video?
I see. Kinda. The 'lambda in the first line isn't quoted. And the eval itself seems identical to JMC. So this is just the substrate level and only when evaluating args? Does that seem right?
The quality of the schools depends more on the amount of parental support the students receive than the quality of the teachers.
They have cash pile to do it but $8bn-$12bn a year only for Apple is a lot of money.

I always thought big tech companies are super competitive. Paying Apple to be default search engine is like surrender without fighting. Android was and is huge success for Google but it seems like they want iOS users too or in another words the whole mobile userbase.

I think Google still pays Mozilla to be default search engine on Firefox and this shows their monopolistic tendencies. I have nothing against monopoly it is the goal of every for profit company but you need to compete not pay to be default.
Feels like next somebody should setup a DNS system at 2.0.
There's no rule against profanity on HN. It's maybe loosely correlated with breaking the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - for example the one asking people not to fulminate), but obviously not always. We're not Bowdlers here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
An Artist’s Journey Through a Thousand Mythical Creatures
For me personally, I don't care about surround sound if the visual material is not itself 3D surround.

So I only found it important in VR and AR, and sometimes in 3D games it's nice too, but not as much as in VR games.

> they want to append to their existing one in an unintrusive way

That's what AR and mixed reality is about.

You really need to think, what if there was hardware that could provide high fidelity mixed reality and be super comfortable to integrate. Maybe it's as thin and light as normal sunglasses. Maybe it projects things directly in your eyes, or in the air around you.

Like obviously all of this is premised on hardware that reaches this level of comfort and quality to be mass produced. But I think companies think that's just a matter of time, just like for radio, television, computers, smartphones, etc. before it.

If I'm wearing some glasses that make it look like my friends are sitting on the various chairs in my living room, then it matters a lot that the sound feels like it's coming from where they are.
Don’t windows that open give you LEED points? Why would open windows cost you green cred?
Of all of the monopolies and oversized tech companies out there, Amazon/AWS should be the first one to split. It's feels bullshit that Amazon retail can undercut the entire industry because AWS is essentially subsidizing it.

Last time I checked, Amazon retail breaks even and AWS has ~20% margins.
Plant gene editing through de novo induction of meristems
This debate -- noble, enlightened savages vs. modern culture -- comes up again and again on the internet.

To me it seems to miss the point. Modern life is not something that was intentionally designed. We're talking about the emergent output of different complicated systems, with wonderful things and horrific things enabled by both.

Undoubtedly we've sacrificed some of the best aspects of the past for dubious gains. Undoubtedly we're better off in deep, fundamental ways. Meaningful self-actualization is harder than ever, because finding meaning is hard and we've studied the problem enough that fooling ourselves has gotten harder.

One of the problems with an increasingly global culture and economic system is the erosion of diversity. If we had drastically different systems and experiences, we could try and marry the best aspects from each. Instead, we get some semi-stable equilibrium that emerged by happenchance and the only path out towards something different seems to be by some kind of central planning or massive movement-- both of which have tended to make things worse in practice because of unintended consequences and institutional inertia.
There's still 5nm silicon for sale, but just not at TSCM (the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world). Companies like Samsung are just now getting around to mass-producing 5nm, and afaik there were a few domestic Chinese manufacturers who claimed to be on the node too.

As for Amazon specifically though, I've got no idea. They're a large enough company that they could buy out an entire fab or foundry if they wanted, AWS makes more than enough money to cover the costs.
I don't think you can really judge dogs in general based on statistics like this. We can't read a dogs mind and don't know all of their motivations. You can try and do standardized training and testing, but any particular dog might not "get" the training properly, or might decide to do something a little different one day for reasons we don't understand.

I'm thinking, it's okay to have a dog to guide you to things, but ultimately, the thing is either there, or it's not, and that's what any convictions should be based upon. If a dog guides you to an actual body, fine, do all your analysis and charges based on that. This whole business of the dog claiming that a body was there months or years ago but we have no idea where it is now seems like bullshit, and I don't think anyone should ever be convicted on that alone. Ditto drugs - search dogs may be imperfect, but ultimately the drugs are either there or they're not. If the dog guides you to actual drugs, charge away I guess. If there aren't any drugs and the dog was wrong, then no charges. It's a little bad that someone got searched based on a false indication, but not nearly as bad as an actual conviction and sentence.
Thinking back it seems as if the user's needs were much less central back then, and as if each component was trying to win the contest for your attention.

CD-ROM: wrrroooooo

HDD: sssrrrrrrrr clankclankclank ssssrrrr

PC-Speaker when pressing too many keys: MEEEEP

Modem: booooob, boop beep boop beep boop boop bli blu bri bru brrriiiiii BWANG BWANG BWANG KCHHHHHHHHH
Wrap the example in a `Sync` block to get deterministic results. Now you don't have to worry if the code gets nested in an existing event loop.

Sync do
results = []
Async do
sleep 10
results << "Hello"
end
puts results
end
It will be the year of the Linux desktop when we convince Dell, HP, and Lenovo to ship and support all their computers with Linux cheaper than their Windows counterparts.

Almost nobody changes the OS that came with the machine.
Arguing that the statistics provided do not (or are insufficient) to support the article's main thesis, seems like a very reasonable criticism to me.
Better power efficiency
Project Cybersyn – Chile's 1970s big data experiment
"Encroach on your ability to WFH" - you perfectly summed up the reason for the vitriol from remote-only people, IMO:

They are fearful that people with your stance will give companies a better argument for less remote-work. It's one thing when executives talk about it, because they're "not on the ground" and "just want control" or "don't understand individual contributors", but when peers like you support non-100% remote, it's a real worrisome prospect for them.
Problem with this is that the application I have in mind doesn't provide anything but perceptual feedback. I'd rather have some cold numbers that are to some degree reproducible and would give at least rough idea of the performance of given HW+drivers+other-settings combination.
Some past related threads:

MIDI 2.0 Specifications Available for Download - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22411765 - Feb 2020 (35 comments)

MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22180731 - Jan 2020 (105 comments)

Details about MIDI 2.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20007638 - May 2019 (147 comments)

MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946222 - Jan 2019 (195 comments)
I absolutely do not want a big house with a garden, and I despise the idea of dog ownership.

Maybe your statement is true for the American society though
> Mortgages currently dominate the average person's life.

It looks like ~65% of households own a home, and about the same percentage of homes have a mortgage; the average household doesn't even have a mortgage.
There is a huge difference between Probably and available.
Next > next > finish vs gazillion configurations for 90% of PC users.
I'm a huge fan of Stephenson, but: William Gibson's Neuromancer (trilogy) is probably more deserving of credit for initially popularizing the idea of a virtual shared environment. Wikipedia gives credit to Vinge's 1981 "True Names", but Neuromancer alone has sold more copies than that book and all of Stephenson's novels combined, not to mention that it won the Hugo and Nebula.
What do you mean exactly? Could you give an example?
Came here to make exactly this post. Thank you.
This isn’t a dig against you, but isn’t this just an idealized view of a communist society?
Yes I had a 52x drive in the early 00s shatter a cheap writable CD (I think rated at 24x or something along those lines) and I was picking bits out of the drive to get it working again. But then again, a CD is an insanely cheap piece of plastic, so how fast should we expect it to reliably spin at?
I'm not sure what Foone is going on about. There isn't a single comment about the twitter format here except for someone linking to an unrolled version. It's just praise about their tweets and content, and shitting on fisher price for building a crappier product.

Actually makes for a nice change for once. On-topic conversation!
It's ok if you do things like that for clarity. We might (or might not) edit it out if the post makes the front page - that's a judgment-call area*. But we wouldn't post a scolding for it. We only do that when the guideline was broken in an obvious or baity way.

For example, the OP was clearly editorialized when it didn't need to be—and in a baity way, which ended up lowering the quality of the thread. I'm sure that was unintentional, but the guidelines are intended to guard against that so we want people to be aware of them.

The title guideline is necessarily worded in a generic way. In practice there are lots of nuances, details, etc.

* One informal practice that works fairly well is that we often leave edited titles (assuming they aren't egregious) in place until/unless the submission makes the front page. At that point it is guaranteed a certain amount of attention, so the downside of reverting to the original title is lower, and we'll often do it then.
If people aren't working, they need money from other sources. Where is it coming from? Is there any serious research on that question?

If it's spending savings, then the effect is temporary - savings will run out and labor supply will increase again. If it's spending less, we should see other negative economic effects.

If it's working for themselves, then what are the economic implications there? What is the economic impact of a major shift to new forms of employment and work? Is it sustainable?

> The burnout of startup culture is common

The article describes many people starting their own businesses - that is startup culture.
> and the harvests aren't any more arduous

they are, in some ways. Efficiency gains can mean you work less, but they more often mean you have less people doing the same work. Back then one peasant had much less land to cultivate, a third of all fields were fallowed each year, and 90% of the population worked in farming. Now it's more like 10% and in some countries even less than that.

The problem with being a peasant wasn't the hard work - it was the constant risk of starvation or sickness killing you and your family. So they optimized for lowering the risks instead of optimizing for better profits or more free time.

> even by the people who left the village for jobs in sweatshops

Sweatshops are harder work but less risks than farming.
This is the future of the metaverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eix7fLsS058

Jokes aside: at some point, we all thought the future would mean transitioning from audio calls to video calls. But for a lot of people, it transitioned from phone calls to texts. I feel like metaverse is just the next video call -- a niche that isn't really gonna be mainstream. (Although who knows, when Covid-25 hits, maybe we'll all be happy to have metaverse instead of zoom.)
Wow.

I feel like it is almost to the discussions here to post an opinion article that feels like a slightly more articulate rant than you would get from your second cousin Ned at a reunion. You love Ned, he's a great father and volunteers at a homeless shelter. That being said, if you were JFK in October 1963, you aren't calling Ned for advice.

What makes it especially egregious, is that someone who has had their own history of public inciteful remarks come back to haunt them in RL, somehow manipulates the _actual_ situation so that it only applies to himself and his perceived peers in the "Aggrieved Coalition". The amount of hubris it takes to say you stand for the Constitution while engaging in soliloquy of this nature must be staggering.

Zuck and FB have broken the law many times (I'm only counting the US here), on record, way before the "Facebook Papers". The most insanely sad bit, even the State of TX (where author resides), has already provided documented evidence of conspiratorial criminal behavior.

Author decides to turn the whole thing into some kind of party affiliation fight, instead of just acting on his (hopefully) innate humanity and moral compass to just call out Zuck and Co. for not valuing anyone else's.

This is the kind of sad commentary I expect to see elsewhere, but definitely not here.
Right, but that instant drop was lockdowns. Basically the whole nation went into lockdown, then partially re-opened. Now you have a partial lockdown situation. E.g. restaurants limited to X people, etc.

If she had written a piece that said "the labor force may not recover from the lockdowns", then she could gather this piece of data and other pieces of data and make a case. But that's not the Great Resignation thesis.

FYI, I am not saying that we should not have good labor reporting -- now is one of the rare times when labor reporting is actually interesting. But not this Time piece. I could spend 10 minutes googling and come up with a more interesting, more fact base piece of journalism.
M1 is WAY faster than a cortex A78.
Yes. I think my memory may be failing. I'm almost sure I remember having typed mount and seen cdromfs on the list. Maybe it was cdfs (https://nixdoc.net/man-pages/IRIX/man4/xfs.4.html) and mixed things.
A few years ago, it was normal for Panasonic DECT handsets to use the AES-based DSC2 cipher. Though a downgrade attack is likely possible; I think under normal circumstances with weak reception, they'll stop encrypting traffic.

The VTech/AT&T ones (same thing) on the other hand, I still don't think will encrypt call content.
The argument goes far beyond that.
Citation or explanation of “most”? And was that the case pre-industrial revolution?
Show HN: An extension to show random NFTs from your collection
In that context Forth was quite practical. That was its heyday.
I have never tried to measure the startup time for interactive bash, because my .bashrc only has a large number of environment variables and of command aliases, so I do not see any visible delay at startup.

However I have tried to benchmark bash against zsh, to see if one of them is faster.

The benchmark was inconclusive, because I have tried 2 scripts, but the execution times were essentially the same for both bash and zsh.

The 2 scripts invoked a small shell script on each of about ten thousand files and various file attributes were tested and compared in some shell conditional expressions.

Because the times were the same for bash and zsh, it is likely that the file operations dominated the execution time and not the shell startup time or the script interpretation, as I expected.

The shorter benchmark corresponded to an execution time of about 10 millisecond per shell script, so this is an upper limit for the bash startup time in non-interactive mode on my computer.

It is likely that the startup time was several times less.

In conclusion, the startup of bash in non-interactive mode, when it does not source .bashrc or other scripts, is no more than a few millisecond.

It is clear that someone who wants bash to start fast should be able to reach a startup time much, much less than a second.
> Consciously taking breaks throughout the workday to pause, stretch, and think about what emotions I'm feeling and why.

+1 on this. If I'm not careful, my default mode is to get in the zone for hours, and then eventually realise my body is tired and hungry and cold (or whatever) and I have to do some big intervention like collapsing into a vegetative state for a while. Expanding your awareness, learning to maintain a general sense of how your body is doing while you're absorbed in the actual fun stuff, is a chore; but it's one which pays off when you can notice you're hungry after an hour and fix it quickly (rather than after four hours, at which point the problem is much worse and you might lose an extra hour just recovering from having no energy). And the easiest way to get to a constant gentle awareness of your physical state is to practice by consciously interrupting yourself every so often to do the checks, until the habit gradually fades into your background processing.
Thankfully, the article reminded me of the fact that I wanted to enroll for the CS50 today. Still I couldn't reproduce how to leverage that enrollment into an .edu mail address like the article purports. Any pointers? :D