skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but, as the Bishop Pilkington has noted, work was intermittent - called to a halt for breakfast, lunch, the customary afternoon nap, and dinner. Depending on time and place, there were also midmorning and midafternoon refreshment breaks.

Sounds like a typical day at a big tech company...
Appearing on a camera doesn't prevent the conveyance of information in real-time if we assume that both parties aren't deaf.
Have you looked into levant? Seems like it would allow you to do this. Now, with levant the developer machine would be the thing retrieving the vault secrets, but it may be a useful stopgap.

https://github.com/hashicorp/levant
I tried to order a v-raptor around 2009, IT wouldn’t have it, “they burn out at 30% off the useful line of a standard speed drive.”

Still wish I had pushed back!
Amusingly, iOS thinks the text “010.010.010.010” is a phone number.
- Async Ruby is much more performant than threads. There are less context switches, enabled by the event reactor. The performance benefits are visible in simple scenarios like making a thousand HTTP requests.

- Async is more scalable, can handle millions concurrent tasks (like HTTP connections). There can only be a couple thousand threads at the same time.

- Threads are really hard to work with - race conditions everywhere. Async doesn't have this.
I had one of these, same model as the author and around the same time. Was running some sort of desktop Linux, maybe Fedora? Either way, latency really is the key. It’s hard to grasp just how much quicker even a cheap SSD is for random I/O today.
Honestly you and people writing similarly small applications should gather and write a book.

I don't know if I'm an alien but whenever I see frugal yet non trivial application my brain rejoyces.
Yeah even these days the friends I have that are active in the agricultural sector. Pretty much still work those hours where it peaks in the summer time and there is pretty much no activity latter half of fall and winter. Maybe except preparation for the next season and some maintenance on machines.
It just hit me that I associate brutalist architecture with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, in particular the marina scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtRGeyznv7k&t=27s). I'm not even sure if that's brutalist architecture in the background, but brutalist architecture has a dystopian vibe that goes hand in hand with the film.
This has no relation with dividends, which are also capped but not by wages.
Software development is playing with legos for a living, except with a billion pieces and the ability to make your own pieces, with infinite floor space. It’s “thing-oriented” and only grey if you start mingling in the secondary designers, managers, and such external requirements. But it’s fundamentally “thing oriented” like nursing is fundamentally “people oriented” despite the variety of equipment and tools a nurse must be familiar with to do their job.
Seriously I had to pay 75$ to get one recently, which was painful but I needed it.
I think each country has different laws/rules/regulations for PhD. Where I live it's really common for the job to be tied to teaching hours for instance. It's also easier to do a PhD and live on it than going postdoc (it pays less and there are fewer positions).
> I sometimes miss good old HDDs, because you could tell if they were busy just by listening. But considering the godawful noise the really fast HDDs made, SSDs are a blessing.

Oh indeed!

I used to run my HDDs in soundproofed enclosures (a company was selling those back in the days) but of course it would make them overheat. So I'd cut a square hole in the HDD enclosure (and through the soundproofing foam inside the enclosure) and then I'd put a large but quiet fan on top of the HDD. This worked great, for years.

Having owned silent computers like the Commodore C64 / C128 and Amiga the switch to the early ultra noisy PC was particularly painful to me. So back when "silent PCs" weren't a thing I made my own: I'd run fans at 7 V instead of 12 (by using the 12 V and 5 V pins to create 7 V), I had my neighbor (electrical engineer) create me a device I'd put into all my PSUs that'd turn the PSU's fan off when the heat wasn't too high (back then this didn't exist: but I wanted one anyway so I had my neighbor "invent" one and I'd then replicate it in all my PSUs) and... When I found these HDD "quietening" enclosures, I ordered so many the company asked me if I wanted to become the official importer for the Benelux area : )

I'd have super quiet "panaflo" fans shipped to me from Japan and I'd replace all my PSU / CPU / tower fans with these quiet fans.

So basically I had quiet PCs before it was a thing.

Nowadays I just buy Be Quiet! PSUs / fans and a well insulated tower and I'm a happy camper. Things got way quieter : )
The problem with child mortality is that birthing 8 kids is a lot more taxing on women’s lives than birthing 2. Maybe that doesn’t fall under work but it’s not quite leisure either.
While I agree it's a scummy landlord tactic, I don't buy that this affects anyone's ability to purchase a home in any way whatsoever. If you can't afford a one month overlap of rent then you cannot afford a home, period. Further, most people overlap anyway so they can make sure the new home is situated before filling it with stuff.
I'm skeptical, but I can think of few use cases:

1. you could actually want to support the artist. Right now I don't think the popular NFTs are real artists, but there's no reason real public artists can't jump on board. NFT could be a flex

2. Social networks could build in NFTs. Dorsey from Twitter mentioned he wants to add NFT verification into the app, so that could be a thing. And they could give you more prominent placement. It's basically like non-commercial advertising. Kind of like a star next to your name.

3. VR could try to enforce that some objects can only be controlled by the owner. It would be difficult, but possible
That's the TED talk I had in mind, I just forgot Hans' name.

I understand his argument but I think it's a biased view, we assume modern leisure is better but I'm not sold on this.
You haven't given examples of financial innovation which started out as crimes. You've given examples of crimes which have since been regulated against and better controlled.
Around 1998 was a lot ofoptimism that VRML will bring 3D to the web. Now there is no 3D in web. When someone shows 3D is either a movie or js. On this page it says it was superceeded by X3D. This is the problem with modern SW - always reinventing the wheel.
Capitalism isn't synonymous with trade.
Light Through the Ages: Ancient Greece to Maxwell (2002)
This seems like a political argument, not a scientific one.
Central banks can only set the nominal rate of interest. The real rate of return on capital is independent from monetary policy. If the central bank sets the nominal rates below the real rate, it's possible to make a profit by borrowing money at the nominal rate and investing it in a business and earning the real rate.
Where were you taught that?

Fairly basic logic should indicate to you that it wouldn't have been possible for people to work as much. There was no manufacturing. The vast majority of people who worked, worked in agriculture. You cannot work in the middle of winter, you cannot work at night. I don't know how it would have been possible...and that is why people then lived in crushing poverty (it isn't comparable to anything that exists today, even third-world nations today aren't close to the poverty that existed then).

I think the surprising thing is that anyone would conclude that anything about feudalism was better. The reason why people didn't work long hours was because the economy was stuck in a Malthusian trap, and there wasn't enough productivity or work to actually feed people (apart from after mortality crises where close to a majority of the population died).

The only reason the argument is being made is so that it can support the OP's conclusion about work in the present. It has no real significance by itself, this isn't history (incidentally, this is why history is important...it is taught so badly in the US, so badly...but everyone makes these bizarre ahistorical comparisons, everyone looks at the past when trying to understand the present...it is unfortunate that we have the knowledge to inform the limits of this process, but people just ignore it).
FBI will make contributions that covertly introduce vulnerabilities so that it can track individuals connected to white supremacists.
Lets get more meta, does anyone ever need to live anywhere in particular /s
Afghanistan, Iraq, countless foreign bases and deployments all around the world, civil crisis response (think weather disasters and the recent Trump unrest shenanigans) and oh also actual "homeland defense" responsibilities somewhere in the mix too. a nation not officially at war and yet... thousands of combat deaths, etc
I visited Czechoslovakia and East a few times when the Wall was still up. The biggest impression was how gray and drab everything was in the cities. It seemed everything was gray and covered with a thin layer of dirt. Very depressing. The countrysides were just neglected and decrepit. Also depressing in a different way.
It looks like from a brief glimpse into the source code that the library is using Ruby Fiber's under the hood instead of Threads.

From my limited understanding, the programmer has to be explicit about starting and resuming the work within a Fiber as opposed to the Ruby VM.
There are only 2 stable fixpoints: meritocracy and sectarianism, with meritocracy being merely metastable. Trouble is, sectarian armed force don't win wars. At worst they engage in civil war. Your logic is unassailable, sadly few people bother to acquiesce the consequences.
Same here but with 10 units. Almost 100$ each.
How the Maestro Got His Hands Back
Younger generations have absolutely no idea how much noise a computer of that era made, even if it didn't have a 10,000 RPM drive. And most people accepted it.
I seem to recall that years ago, Terraform was touted as an abstraction layer for cloud providers meaning that you could write some HCL and move between them seamlessly. A solution for vendor lock-in. Maybe that was nonsense but that's certainly not the case today.
Texas is an outlier.
> It’s nothing for the FBI to subpoena any server you’ve connected to

I can choose to use a server outside the US. I can choose to run a server in my basement and still talk to all my contacts. You simply do not have this freedom with Signal.
Finally, I do not have to trust anyone about what (meta-)data is collected.
https://about-history.com/what-did-peasants-do-for-entertain...

>Music and dance
Music and dance is as old as humanity itself.

The peasantry could not afford to pay professional musicians but plenty of people knew how to dance and sing and enough people knew how to play instruments to have a jolly good time.

Occasionally, actors might come to town and put on plays and dramas.

>Decorative Arts
Decorative arts were applied to clothing, housing, religiously symbolic objects, etc.

Embroidery, pottery, basket weaving, carpentry, leatherwork and woodcarving were common skills, often with division of labor by sex.

>Sports
Sports, including martial arts were also practiced commonly.

There were many medieval tournaments allowing people to compete and demonstrate their physical skill in sports like running, log-tossing, or stick-fighting.

There were also team events such as kicking a stuffed leather ball.
100%. This is why when I ordered my home NAS I pick 5400RPM NAS drives (FreeNAS Mini). The WD Red drives in my current system have been spinning since 2014, 4x4TB in a mirrored stripped set for a whopping 8TB of space + 2x120GB Evo write caches (mirrored).

The key to speed is having lots of drives, RAM and SSD write cache.

I plan on getting the new TrueNAS Mini XL this year with 8x14TB.
"Code is law" is great till someone cleverly executes a transaction and empties it out. Then code is law is either broke or if they renege on the "rude" transaction then code is NOT law - violating their very own mission.
Open-source is eating the world: Ex-Firebase investor co-leads a $10m see (cont)
Some people may just like the concept and like collecting things and having a personal stake in projects.

Do you have the same anger towards people who collect baseball cards? Think of all the billions wasted in printing and shipping little slips of paper with images on them.
One piece of advice, the sun can shine a lot long than you think it would.
You can make stunning pictures of almost anything. I bet you could make stunning pictures in concentration camps full of starving prisoners if you processed them correctly.
With the proprietary driver, the GPU is controlled by their closed-source kernel module, so Mesa's GBM code wouldn't know how to talk to it. However, as of the latest version, NVIDIA is shipping a GBM back-end library that Mesa can load which is able to talk to their module.
Not a direct answer to your question but this was a great write up from the BBC (they use Capacitor): https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/shipping-progressi...
> It's not the same thing to write a piece of code as part of a whole system, vs rewriting that piece of code as an isolated part.

But, AFAIK, the new Terminal was new. Sure, it's 3 years old already, but Microsoft still didn't have the hypothetical "this is part of an old system" constraint when they started writing it.

> Microsoft programmers are not here to optimize for performance, but to push features, performance being one of them in some cases

Microsoft's marketing copy for the new Terminal cites "fast, efficient" in the first paragraph. It also cites GPU optimisation. Clearly performance was a goal.

Also, as been discussed ad-nauseam in other HN threads, Casey also added some extra features that didn't exist in MS's New Terminal. The "busy doing features" excuse also doesn't apply.
@dang at what point do we enforce the unsubstantive comments prohibition on crypto/nft threads? even if you are of a prevalent[1] negative HN opinion about crypto/blockchain/nfts you can still be vigilant about what comments objectively add to the discussion or not.

[1] fixed wording to mitigate an easy derail
He "invested" bunch of his money on digital tokens, and now needs them to be worth something by throwing words around
NFTs are for morons
License anyone who holds an NFT to distribute copies to other holders of the same NFT for profit. (Holding proven via cryptography)

This would allow legal torrent-style distribution where hosting generates funds like mining. (It'd probably just be a nominal fee like $.10, but hosts could choose)
How can you be taken seriously if your idea of 100 years different from everyone else's?
What a shortsighted view. So because one generation already got what it wanted, the following one is to be screwed? You're lucky that it was your generation that decided to ruin it for everyone. Had it been the one before you, you would have been in an entirely different position.
1. You can already donate to an artist you like through a platform like Patreon

2. If it's a feature of a social network, don't you already need a central authority? What's the value of an NFT then rather than just an entry in a database?

3. Similar: whoever is implementing this theoretical VR environment could just be the authority of who owns what. I don't see what an NFT adds here
> This gem is almost a decade old

Hm, the first commit to the gem was in 2017. The gem was not "advertised" so that the interfaces can be polished and done right.

Async gem is hugely improved with Ruby 3.0 release (from December 2020) when Ruby language added "fiber scheduler" feature just to integrate better with Async gem.
> most people voluntarily opt in to capitalism because life is better

I think this takes a good point too far. The society around you is not opt-in, it's a very difficult opt-out. People generally follow the religion of their parents, the career path of their neighborhood, etc. Opting out of the current economy would be a major, radical sacrifice (of status, friends, family, resources, opportunity) that would require enormous vision and courage. And then what do you do for health care, for example? How do you raise kids?

Peasants in the industrial revolution faced starvation, IIRC, if they didn't move to the cities. Much of their opportunity for their former lives had been taken away.
No one goes around saying baseball cards are the future of internet. And I really care because these "investments" are sold/marketed to some of the most gullible "investors", my dad lost quite a chunk of change on alt-coins and nft.
I don’t understand how it could be made profitably 50 years ago but not today.
In the US we always talk about salaries before tax, not after. If you want to compare affordability ratios, you'd want to use the same strategy for European incomes.
people also worked for themselves, which is intrinsically more rewarding. i use to order meat and baked goods from the butcher and baker, respectively. now it's the minimum wage employee that they hired to run the cashiers and the minimum wage employee they trained to work the machines.
Immigrants buy homes, especially ones who work in high paying fields.
>Before capitalism, most people did not work very long hours at all

This statement is only true if you don't count slaves as people
The Industrial revolution and who owns the means of production. My machines, my tools, my rules. etc etc.
I think it’s alright. This architecture mostly gets depressing if it gets dominant. One concrete house in an otherwise normal neighborhood may actually look quite interesting.
Horse Murders
Like Bitcoin, and I completely agree (not being sarcastic).
Ok, fair enough, thanks for sharing.
> NFTs are pure speculation and gambling.

I'd add money laundering to the list.
The original is very similar to a music box. It's likely doable to make your own disc for the original using 3D printing.
Show HN: MistQL, a mini-language for querying JSON-like structures
Education, literacy, political empowerment are not leisure.
”Then”?

I don’t know where these crypto people came from but I have a hard time believing “web3” (aka crypto bullshit) proponents are legitimate technologists. Who in their right mind looks at NFTs and crypto currency and says, “Oh yeah, that’s way better than the current monetary system.”

It’s all a bad joke.
> Once we reach the trough of despair, we're be able to build this stuff out with the high profile failures.

That is one option. The other one is that we realize that it's a worthless endeavor and we stop doing it. I predict they will eventually be made illegal, like pyramid schemes have been before it.
What if work is leisure? Jack Welch used to mention that he couldn't wait to get back to office in weekends. I personally feel that large part of my work is really leisure: researching new algorithms, building POCs, writing whitepapers and narratives, having brainstorming meetings, and etc. I don't think I can get such meaningful activities outside of work, either. That's because the work gives real use cases that demand scale and efficiency, which drives my projects. To me, an activity is leisure if I want to do it and I have freedom to decide how to spend time.
Anyone who does not like NaNs should remember that using NaNs is just an option, nobody forces you to use them.

It is enough to enable exception generation for undefined operations and it is guaranteed that no NaNs can appear in any results.

It turns out that most people think that it is too much work to write suitable exception handlers, so they prefer to mask all exceptions and deal with NaNs and negative zeros.

In practice this just means that you must be careful when you write conditional expressions where floating-point numbers are compared, because the order relation becomes partial, so there are 14 possible relational operations instead of the only 6 that are possible for a total order, and you also must write the compared values in a way where the sign of a zero does not matter (in most expressions the sign of a zero does not influence the result; you must make some efforts to distinguish a negative zero from a positive zero).
It's probably the majority opinion on HN that these NFT's are a total farce. A dismissive take is more substantive than the crypto "advocates" who pile into these threads and submit paragraphs of nonsense.
The amount of snub and ignorance from people who might have never put on a VR headset is insane. Can we put aside who owns the Metaverse, and just talk about whether it's something valuable to a wider audience than a large portion of HN who can just live with text only?

Quoting someone in this thread: "Metaverse is bullshit" is going to be the Dropbox comment [1] in 10 years!

And why did the Dropbox comment existed? It's because people on HN think if something doesn't fit their needs, it's then useless everywhere.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Tornado.cash
> Embroidery, pottery, basket weaving, carpentry, leatherwork and woodcarving were common skills, often with division of labor by sex.

Sounds more like work tbh. Basket weaving may be a hobby now, but unlikely it was in 16th century.
The one I'm referring to was the first person on the ship who saw the smoke. They then went back to sleep or something like that.
For me the link on HN is to https://dns.google/ but I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be to https://010.010.010.010/ (which redirects, for me). Did the admins change it?
did Vercel just silently lower their serverless function execution timeout??

hobby plan: 10s > 5s
pro plan: 60s > 15s (which is a HUGE difference)
enterprise: 1000s > 30s (what?)

Has this affected anyone on HN?? Kind of a strange thing to adjust for anyone without sending an alert to customers
I was wondering how a female generated male genetic data. Bird sex chromosomes are fuzzier than I expected. https://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news115
A rich black man and a rich white man have more in common, in thoughts and experiences, than a rich white man and a poor white man.

Class is so much more important than race yet the Western world, especially the US, is obsessed by race.
i'd have to download midi files for music. :-)
Texas Isn’t Ready for Another Deep Freeze
Can you call NFT buyers "investors"? I would call them something else...
Unless you’re developing for windows
In 1985, the average 30 year mortgage interest rate was 13.5%. A $150k house paid off exactly on time would have cost $618k total. This would also be a 41% debt to income ratio for a $50k income.

A $500k house today with a 30 year mortgage at 2.5% paid off on time will have paid $711k total. With only a $75k salary, this would be a 31% DTI.

Granted, taxes an insurance are going to be more now than they were then, but housing doesn't seem significantly more expensive.
I think they use air conditioning to keep my insulin from going bad while it’s in transit to me.
Amazon Open-Sources Babelfish for PostgreSQL to More Easily Migrate from MS SQL
Congrats to the team, what an amazing result. I especially liked what I think was a little Wrath of Khan reference in there. :-) Happy Halloween everybody.
In temperate zones winters were times of diminished activity probably because things were centered around agriculture and some hunting. In winter though you got to chores you didn’t have time for in the plant and husbandry productive months: fence mending, spinning, textiles, fixing thatch, cleaning house, making preserves, storing grain and other produce, etc.

In the tropics it was midday when activities ceased because it was too hot.

That said, I disagree that people had little in terms of leisure. They had many more days long festivities where people got together and enjoyed some down time typically they coincided with planting, harvesting (more pagan related) and then religious dates.