skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people developed almost no leisure activities!

This is clearly not true. They didn't have modern leisure activities, but they had a vast array of activities to keep them from getting bored when they weren't working or doing the arduous, nearly continuous preparation of meals.

> Common people had almost no sports, no games (beyond precursors to Bocce or backgammon), no literature!

No literature, sure, because they were illiterate (and it took the invention of the printing press to create a market for leisure books).

But no games/sports? How about boules, bowling, prisoners' bars, blind man's bluff, table games (chess, checkers, backgammon, alquerque, three-in-a-row, mill, the fox and geese, tablut), dice, card games, variations on golf, hand-ball, kick the can, cockfighting, cow-tipping, bull-baiting, a form of rugby, wrestling, fencing, racing, and an innumerable array of local games often surrounding festivals with cultural/spiritual significance? They also did activities like swimming, fishing, hunting, playing music, singing, story telling, dancing, even ice skating.

I'm tired from just listing them all!

The most common leisure activity for men was probably drinking in the tavern. This shouldn't be understated; this took up a lot of time. And it wasn't because they had nothing else to do, it's because drinking and socializing is often preferable to the above activities, even today. A lot of people today don't play any games at all, but spend hours every day sitting around shooting the shit over cans of Bud.

I'm not as familiar with womens' lives, but I imagine they had more responsibilities and less leisure time. Cooking, cleaning (such as it was), sewing/needlepoint, and raising children all takes considerable time, so they mightn't have had as much time for leisure. A lot of the above activities were also intended for men.
I wonder if you realize that "cross-platform standard like Vulkan" was announced two years after Apple had already released Metal v1 (after investing significant resources into it)?

Why should Apple invest in supporting Vulkan, exactly?
The industrial revolution did give us a lot more leisure time if you're willing to live with at the same standards as people back then did. But we don't find those standards acceptable.
I think the legal theory of personhood has nothing to do with successfully recreating interacting with that person.
Perhaps because politics is more of a mechanism for group totalitarianism than productive governance.
I had to check Smoldesu's post history to understand this comment, as Apple loves people writing native software, even if they don't care if devs can make a profit and the store is a mess.

Smoldesu is mad that Apple will not support Vulkan.
Apple is pretty clear about wanting people to use Metal, their own 3D API so I think expecting them to support anything else is optimistic. Personally I am still using OpenGL on Mac and iOS, same code works fine on both. OpenGL is deprecated but still works great, plenty fast enough for my one 3D app, FlagWaver (Mac/iOS).
txid or it didn't happen.

[EDIT]: never mind, found it:

TX hash is 26ddd5cab88562188a6407c69642d72024eb99342830ebe2981bdb344622da60

Fees were 84 satoshis - quite cheap.

Original 50BTC Coinbase was deposited on 19h7oPeqkQeQAqKcNTGKkKr1Xd2AZ85xL2

Block was mined on May 25, 2010, 1:00 AM UTC - something a half-decent laptop could pull off fairly easily back then. The miner likely mined other blocks.

Miner didn't even bother cleaning the corresponding shitcoin addies:

https://blockchair.com/search?q=19h7oPeqkQeQAqKcNTGKkKr1Xd2A...

The 50BTC has moved quite a fair bit since the initial spend, but to mostly old-style addies, such as this one: https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/1Kr6QSydW9bFQG1mXi... which seems to be a bitfinex wallet.
And that analogy applies to macOS and the M1 CPU how, exactly?
I can’t speak for the person you’re replying to, but I suspect the idea may be that the students are able to “make it” in the sense of holding down a job, but not in the sense of being particularly competent / productive.
Our tooling for communicating ideas and finding good ones is equivalent to mob rule, same as a hundred years ago, just amplified. More at my older comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29051178

> Pop onto stormfront and try convince a handful of posters there and see how far you get.

I've actually done this - it's far easier than you make it seem. I haven't really started collecting metrics on success, but that's kinda what we're missing - messengers who construct a pyramid of truthy statements and go back up the chain to whoever convinced THEM to a particular viewpoint when they find resistance to change from the opposite side. We're missing tech that incentivizes such behavior.

Of course this requires that everyone has a set for themselves a threshold for when they would change their mind about a topic - which I find is far more prevalent among US conservatives (at least online, as they behave to me), than when you try to establish the same among US liberals. Of course, ignoring the obvious field that doesn't have a threshold by design - supremacist religion.

My working theory is that supremacist religionists who converted out of it simply replaced it with liberal ideas (and were being supremacist about those), while there are both religionists and non-religionists among the conservatives.
Seems cumbersome and yet another layer of app to manage with teammates, addressing a subset of functionality that more complex apps already offer in a more integrated way. We don't more tools, we need few tools that work well together and integrate amongst themselves as much as possible.

Question: where do you see this fitting in the traditional productivity stack?
> I agree with you right up to how exactly does the M1 chip affect the final UX?

It allows apple to focus on what they want without being limited by and two their hardware provider’s strategy.
They're still in use today though and I'm unaware of them being somehow much more dangerous as a result.
Getting a shock is much more dangerous than doing a random car trip. Orders of magnitude more. Switching the power off takes a minute or two (how large is the building?).

Looks to me the OP's friend is just rounding the risk on his life to zero due to normalization of deviance alone and you are keen on defending it because "well, if a professional does it, there may be some good reason". Rest assured that plenty of professionals die because of the that kind of thing. (Normalization of deviance is the large cause of death on every dangerous profession, and mostly done by professionals.)

By the way, the safety gear for working on life wires is more than insulated tools. Insulating yourself from the wire and the ground are just as important.
> The biggest drag on Oculus right now is the need for a Facebook account.

Maybe within the tech circles and HN crowd. But outside these circles nobody even feels like something is off.
Yes. Depending on what features are important to you, choosing an android phone can be quite difficult, especially if you're on a whitelisted-only carrier like Verizon and AT&T that only activate certain models and completely rule out major brands like Xiaomi.
Seems doubtful. Last i heard Zillow was selling houses at loss
The money are coming from the FB app/site though, trying to sell ads in WA would probably kill it.
I'm guessing the Rails implementation for the webs sockets part is thread-based and if that's the case fibers can make a big difference. But I'm also a bit out of my depth here.
Tesla is a high profile customer. They have separate policies for them.

Normal accounts can offload 25k/day last time i checked.
Honestly I think the work-leisure dichotomy is kinda bust regardless. Do more years of education mean we have more leisure years than previous generations? Maybe the monks' prayer days should count as work.

In any case, before industrialisation, wage labour employment was a lot rarer. Peasants were mostly self employed, self sufficient and most work was defined differently. In a lot of cases, medieval people "owed" work as a tax or rent... They were expected to feed themselves.

My grandparents were born in mid 20th century Ireland. They grew most of their food, made most of their furniture, harvested fuel. Etc. They also had cash jobs, cash crops and such. But, a lot of the economy was non monetary subsistence even then. Hard to quantify the workweek, in a meaningfully comparable way to our lifestyles.

>>comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century

Those seventy hour industrial workweeks of the 19th century probably was" normative for domestic servants and other low class workers. They weren't expected* or sometimes even allowed to have families, homes or domestic duties.

IMO, instead of taking medieval "data" and defining it in our terms, we should understand their ways in their terms. Renaissance europe ran were "rights and privileges." Those related to being a maid, miner, landlord or artisan. There were guilds that had ranks. These things were referred to as your "station," "position," possibly even a class. Those things dictated a lot about your lifestyle, how much and what kind of work you did.
> You feel like you own something that the artist can only sell once (assuming they're honest). Also, I don't know if there is a credible receipt for a donation on Patreon that you can use to flex

Yeah I mean I understand the appeal of ownership, but it's just so abstract in this case. If you "own" a picasso, you have something nobody else has. If you "own" an NFT, anyone with a copy of the file has exactly what you have.

> I guess a social network could leverage the hype behind existing NFTs rather than rolling their own. Sure there will be some that will try to have home-spun NFTs, but Twitter indicated for now they just want to use existing NFTS

What would this feature/integration actually look like?

> NFTs could also be transferable across platforms. Obviously platforms wouldn't like this, but as a user if I buy a virtual house, it would be better not to be tied to any one platform. So new or existing platforms could try to lure me over by saying I can bring my house with me

Yeah but why would they? So what would my NFT "house" be? I guess this is a 3D asset, with a model, some textures, and a collision model that can be rendered inside this VR world. Basically every platform which wants to make this asset usable has to bear the costs of supporting and rendering this asset, while the NFT issuer reaps the profits. What is the incentive here?
> A black man that went to Harvard and is now working for Goldman Sachs has more in common with a white Goldman Sachs employee than with a black factory worker.

Probably not when they're pulled over, but ignoring the difficulty getting to that point is a bit silly.

https://fortune.com/2021/04/20/goldman-sachs-reveals-black-w...

"Inside Goldman Sachs Group Inc., 1,548 U.S. executives, senior officials and managers run the bank. Of that group, 24 are Black men and 25 are Black women."

3%, versus about 15% of the US population.
If you run ubuntu, disable all the call-home functions in /etc/update-motd.d to speed up your bash login session
This new version of the Fisher-Price Record Player is heartbreaking. I learned so much from trying to understand how it worked. Concepts like stored energy: experimenting with trying to over-wind, under-wide, a few turns, many turns, slowly adding pressure to the winding knob until it would start playing and try to maintain just enough pressure to play. Physically slowing and speeding up the turntable to change to the tempo. Trying to intentionally misaligning the head to play out of tune. Turning it on it's side, upside down, trying to peek at the teeth on the head and manually play individual notes. All at an age before I could read. That toy was indestructible, because if it weren't I would have torn it down to individual components (just like my very expensive 6 million dollar man action figure, to the great chagrin of my parents). It wouldn't be until much later I'd have to tools to dissemble one, and by then I was taking apart real record plays.

This toy is a good analog for a real record player and with grooves that move a needle and play sound encoded on the disk. Leading to understanding of sound waves.

This new toy is a mix of new and old tech. How can a per-literate child be expected to decipher binary encodings and how they map to individual songs? What deeper understanding of how things work are within the grasp of a child that cannot yet use a screwdriver, wire cutters, and a volt meter?

This new toy is boring. Once you learn how to turn it on, it can have no appeal to a child exposed to much better music players all around them: cell phones, iPads, computers, tvs. This is just a piece of plastic and e-waste destined for the landfill, purchased by some sentimental old timer who has fond memories of the original F-P record player.
Your guess is wrong, physical Apple stores have no problem with large amounts of cash. :-)
This is one of those garbage narratives being pushed recently. It falsely portrays a world where people were warned and knew of an impending global catastrophe RE: carbon.

First, a warning is nothing. It has no proof or evidence. It's just an opinion of one person. For almost every single major issue of our times, there exists a warning that was ignored. How can there not be? Most sides have two or more positions, and someone takes each position and says what that position believes out load. Then, in the future, we look back and cherry pick that piece of data, give ourselves a pat on the back for being smarter now, and look back at the dummies.

In actuality, the story presented here should have been ignored, and was ignored.

Let's examine it:

"Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect [....] It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered, and since a considerable percentage of the human race lives in coastal regions, I think that this chemical contamination is more serious than most people tend to believe."

Ok. Earth has gone from 325ppm to 411ppm. Thats about a 25% increase.

New York is not under water, the IceCaps have not melted.

Anyone claiming this person should have been taken serious is just out of it. He got exactly what he deserved: no response.

Seems like Al Gore isn't so original after all.
Would expect a whale to hold thousands of coins.
Don't forget 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 (aka 1.1) [Cloudflare]
Finding the answer in the docs is itself a skill, so even these simple questions might best be not answered directly.
Google: forks the web with AMP, rams its own poorly desinged, Chrome-internal APIs through standards processes, continuously gaslights other browser developers through a multitude of talking heads.

Safari: is more-or-less on par with Firefox in the number of web apis shipped Firefox continuously takes a stance together with Safari against Chrome behaviour.

Web devs: why is Apple killing the web?
NIST Dataplot
Environment variables are defined in multiple files. most desktop environments launch in a systemd user session, so one option is to use that[0]. Then are .xsession, scripts specific to the DE, /etc/environment and a bunch of other stuff I am forgetting.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd/User#Environment_va...
Is there a good IPv6 option?
In the essay: “There’s a remarkable study where participants were shown a video of a hand being stabbed, while their empathic response was measured by fMRI.”

I am astounded that such claims are made on the web without references. It was what the web was made for. I would have enjoyed following a link to this study.
Google also has info boxes, and this would be a very good place for one.
I know it's not. Im talking about long term survival. They are gonna be like Yahoo: Years in decline. Except a little worse. Yahoo was incredibly diverse.
Seems like that was the plan all along :)
Polyphony monkey-patches Ruby core methods... this has always prevented me from experimenting more with it.

Source link: https://digital-fabric.github.io/polyphony/faq/#why-does-pol...

> Polyphony “patches” some Ruby core and stdlib APIs, providing behavioraly compatible fiber-aware implementations
I have two guesses:

1. someone forgot they had it and (re)discovered it.

2. someone spent a few recent years figuring out how to use the current value without being subjected to significant taxation.
Yes! Also pre-industrial work was a lot more physical labor, which requires more "rest" time.
One incentive might be that the game/environment wants to compete against other games/environments on being a platform which facilitates NFT trading. Taking their pound of flesh off the top of course.

I’m not a big crypto guy at all, but I do see the analogy with the very real digital economies you see on platforms like Steam.
I’m sure vinyl records off gas, but I’m extremely dubious about the liver damage you propose. With all substances the poison is in the dose; you’d need a huge vinyl collection to match the amount of vinyl typical in a typical home with a shower curtain and vinyl windows, let alone one that uses vinyl flooring.
your comment shows little knowledge of history. wars, historically, have been won by the parties with the strongest economy. that's even true for pre-historical conquests, as far as we know. ww2 was won by the midwest industrial base, and (mostly), the soviet's. check out the ussr industrial growth in the 30s. (they didn't have the fed wrecking havoc.) today there's no match for china, this is not even controversial. thankfully they're smart enough to understand that war doesn't make sense.
That's exactly what Im talking about. They thought they can win this round by copying features of TikTok into Insgagram, just like they did with Snapchat.

They were wrong. They should've gone after TikTok by acquiring it. Just like they did with Instagram.
This is the kind of drivel that ruins institutional trust.
True! Would be even greater with rolling released based distros... Is there smth similar based on arch or similar maybe? :D
still looking for the optimal work distro
Besides the case of floating-point numbers with NaNs there are many other cases of partial order relations.

The problem is that most people know how to handle only total order relations, for which only 6 operations with Boolean results can be defined (equal and not-equal, less and greater-or-equal, greater and less-or-equal).

While it is possible to handle partial orders using ternary logic, it is easier to handle them with operations with Boolean results, so this is what all programming languages either provide or they should provide.

The difference is that for partial orders you no longer have only 6 operations with Boolean results (3 plus their negations), but you have 14 operations (7 + their negations).

One operation pair is ordered / unordered (ordered means either equal or less or greater).

The other 6 pairs correspond to the 6 well known relational operators from the total order, which now no longer are each other's negation, together with their 6 negations, which now include the possibility that the 2 operands are unordered.

For example, corresponding to the negation pair less and greater-or-equal from the total order, for a partial order there are 2 negation pairs, less and not-less (i.e. greater, equal or unordered) and greater-or-equal and neither-greater-nor-equal (i.e. less-or-unordered).

In the education of the programmers there should be more stress on the possible relational operators for partial order relations, because they appear in many situations, both for FP computations and for databases, and handling partial orders is only slightly more complex than handling total orders, but many people are not accustomed to this.
Can you please make or link to one example? I'd be interested to learn more.
Foone has noticed this submission and is not pleased https://twitter.com/foone/status/1454524960488132614?s=21
I was wondering why Ububtu logins were always that slow. This is ridiculous.
My goal was not to refute you, it was to offer a broader perspective based on decades of experience caring about the same things you seem to care about.

The words I used were "overly reductive". Yes, what your manager thinks is important, but so is the broader company culture and what you believe to be right. If the entire company doesn't value something and you do then you're fighting a losing battle and you should get out before your internal motivation is replaced by cynical survivalism. On the other hand, if the company does but your boss doesn't, then the trick is to keep your boss happy and work on the stuff that matters to you with the people that do care.

Keep in mind that managers come and go, if you subvert your own values and judgement simply to align with your manager, you may get a better performance review in the short-term, but in the long term you lose yourself and won't gain the kinds of leadership skills that are key to long-term success.
I think wars in the future will be about who's better at computer science. It will be programmers vs programmers, and computer literacy will become the new military service and a national security interest
They won't. Their margins on the services side are obscene so getting people into that ecosystem is worth much more than the sales of some processors.
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for a full reading of last year’s Armenian/Azerbaijani conflict but haven’t seen anything that runs down the full event. Any links? Thus far I’ve found some YouTube or other video clips. Looking for a more technical exploration of how that tech was used.
Fair. I’m hoping for a “portable” headset even if it goes into a backpack and may have layers (like an astronaut helmet) where you have transparent for AR and then blackout for full immersion.
Epic - you should mint those emails.
> Which means that you can just write a whole normal Ruby program, that just uses Task::Async.current.async(...)
> All without having to pass the current task down the call stack everywhere.

Yes, you can also use `Async { work }` instead of `Async::Task.current.async { work }`.
It doesn't help that Apple bought the entire manufacturing capacity for 5nm silicon from TSCM right before the chip shortage hit. I think the next few years are going to get very competitive though, and I'm excited to see how Intel and AMD respond.