skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even so, we're getting more educated than ever and with the advent of inflation, it's hard to say that collectively we're getting ahead of our ancestors.
this point you make about interoperability being fundamentally opposed to capitalism is _really_ quite key. and this isn't a fruitful balancing act like many dichotomies.

the internet is interoperability. and commercial attempts to defeat it are weakening the infrastructure as well as the technical culture required to evolve it.

the community gave the world a truly marvelous thing, and not only did they use it primarily to sell trash, they took the keys too.
This is all new to me as well, but the project mentioned the Falcon web server(https://github.com/socketry/falcon).

The documentation for Falcon mentions using it with rails: https://socketry.github.io/falcon/guides/rails-integration/i...

I imagine something more "native" to rails will happen eventually though. But would need to be after this makes its way into core ruby(which has not happened yet apparently).
Can you point to an example of what you would consider a legitimate NFT project?
I'd say since the pandemic not really I guess, most companies accept remote, however since 10 years or so SF really became the center of the Silicon Valley (while it was more south bay/peninsula before).

It's going to take some time until tech workers stop flocking to SF and price become less ridiculous, if ever. I don't see it dropping below other world big cities like NYC however.
Age difference is important here. Physical labor jobs will work better for young people than old.
Is the scheduler only using a single OS thread? It's not M:N scheduling?
I don't think that is the reason. I think they are just tired of working abusive jobs and struggling than that not work and still struggle. There is a shortage of social safety nets though so anyone thinking of quitting without some savings please make sure you have a plan. Sometimes just getting temporary short term assistance can be a full time job in itself, and if you had a descent job before be prepared to have to interview for entry level crap jobs to keep your assistance. Unemployment isn't like it was at the start of the pandemic. They took all the supports away while COVID numbers are still high.
That seems mostly like the question of "Does this HTTP framework support HTTP pipelining". While I don't know the answer, it doesn't seem highly relevant. Most clients went away from using pipelining, since follow-up requests on the same connection are subject to unknown latency (stuck behind the first request) and a connection failure can impact all of those requests.

The better approach is to use either more connections, or proper request multiplexing via HTTP/2 or /3. In the latter case a server framework would just see multiple request invocations in parallel.
Tarps are expensive, and hay bales are comparatively inexpensive.

That said, I’ve seen farmers use old billboards as tarps in the past. Otherwise, it’s usually either a barn or a plastic sheeting.
Unums and posits are ingenious and interesting.

For low precision applications posits may be a good choice, sometimes the best.

However it remains to be demonstrated that for high precisions they can be implemented in hardware with similar cost and speed as traditional floating-point numbers.

Regarding the actual advantages of posits, the papers of Gustafson et al. do not inspire much confidence, because besides some correct arguments about genuine advantages of posits, the papers are also full of BS claims, e.g. the claim that posits have the advantage of not generating NaNs.

They do not generate NaNs, because they generate an exception, which is exactly what the IEEE floats also do when you enable trap-on-undefined-operation.

There are also other very dubious claims. While it is very likely that for low precisions posits should be superior and that they might have been a much better alternative to the proliferation of various 16-bit FP formats for machine learning, I have yet to see a single example with posits behaving better than traditional FP formats at high precisions.

For low precisions, there is also the alternative of logarithmic numbers, which allow very fast arithmetic operations but which require look-up tables for addition and subtraction. It is not clear in which applications posits are preferable and in which applications logarithmic numbers are preferable.
Maybe it’s just a matter of time until the next iPhone has its cameras separated similar to the width of human eyes.
So who cares that a network nobody uses exists where only people that have an Apple device can login?
Well, it might not be true for the tech workers roaming HN, but there are still people who are forced to live in a big city to get a job!
Having lived in semi agrarian societies, can confirm for women too

Also once the sun goes down, the work stops -- nobody aint cookin once they cant see the food, not even washing up
> I tend to think that higher education is not as interesting as it's said to be. And people who used to work hands on (woodwork, metal smith) had a lot of deep knowledge too, it just wasn't seen as evolved.

It's not necessarily your fault, but I hear this trendy claim often, but nobody can support it. No one book can teach you everything and not every problem can be solved with knowledge, of course, and there are things we learn from experience, but the track record of learning from books is pretty unimpeachable - including, learning from other people's experiences. (And higher ed is much more than learning from books.) It's hard to imagine humanity without literacy.

Anyway, I'm not adding a heck of a lot at this point ...
Can someone with expertise in the topic weigh in on the reasoning of using tau and amyloid-beta to assess disease progression? It seems to be mixed/unproven on cause and effect, but can those markers be trusted for measuring the state?
> Does it come down to fundamental language differences?

No, I don't think there's anything fundamentally different.

Ruby 3.0 implements a "fiber scheduler" feature that enables "colorless Async". Fiber scheduler is an obscure Ruby feature, but the end result is brilliant. It was also a huge amount of work.

Side note: Fiber scheduler was implemented by the same guy who created Async Ruby - Samuel Williams. This guy is the mastermind (and master-coder) behind this project.
Food cycling (guide on sustainable fasting)
It's not "capitalist propaganda". There's a reason humanity moved in this direction, away from feudalism and subsistence farming. It sucks. More people today enjoy a higher standard of living than even the wealthiest could have dreamt of in the time period discussed in this article. Your life does not hinge on a good growing season or getting mysteriously sick with no cure. You don't have to know how to hunt, forage, clean a carcass, construct shelter or clothing, on and on and on. It's remarkable that people today can survive without knowing _anything_ about where the means for the survival came from.
This is impressive. This should also not be necessary to discharge a student loan debt obligation. While I respect this dude's discipline, I worry the takeaway might be "millennials should spend more than half a decade saying no to all happiness to have a chance at an economically viable life" -- as opposed to "you should have a debt payoff plan and also advocate for structural changes that make colossal student debt unlikely if not impossible"
I would instead call this "vastly underestimating the complexity of physics". Again, protein folding is a tiny tiny subset of physics and is famously extremely computationally difficult.
Word. They could be a similar comparison.

ReactOS is cool though. Thanks for showing me that. Does it use wine under the covers or is its own thing?
Indeed! They even have Windows!

http://www.microbizz.nl/themanfrommicrosoft.htm
How likely do you think this is?
None. But I think you won't feel the need to maximize all if you use screen space efficient apps. When you use a tiling WM, you care about it much more. Old applications like winamp and even old skype had to fit inside resolutions like 800x600 or 1024x768. But UI designers and programmers started being lazy, just like they no longer care much about CPU/memory efficiency so we get lots of Electron and badly optimized websites(JS). And if tiling WMs became more common, developers would make fewer apps that waste screen space.
Thats too romantic - physical labour isnt funny when its repetetive and continuous, which most are. Also not using your head is frustrating / degenerative.
What helps me most is keeping a balance, making mid day breaks for long runs outside or a nap does miracles. But I agree, it also needs mental relief to regenerate, but doing sports gives at least minimal breaks.
How would that benefit them? The major game companies already have robust systems for making digital assets and selling them to people, does it really seem likely that they’d jump to give a large fraction of that revenue to someone else for the privilege of having a slow, cumbersome intermediary which would still require custom integration work for every game?
Mild nitpick but the headline read like he was spending 150 per meal vs the per year for the pass.
Cooperative scheduling means that every function call is potentially a scheduling point, so it isn't really a significant change from threads. Sure, if you are careful and only call functions that are not guaranteed to preempt then you are safe, but critical sections make this explicit.

And if you are running code on multiple cores then lack of preemption doesn't help anyway.
That’s pretty thrifty! Neat.
> I regret that, while many developers believe it, this is generally false.

The strongest evidence of a golden hammer is a lot of red thumbs.
I always click hide stories from X when a story in the my android google feed is paywalled.
Capacitor puts all APIs in the same context and thread as the UI. Something that Electron did a long long time ago before realizing the security implications.
Metal was released a year before Vulkan. Apple just didn't want to wait and decided to design their own better than OpenGL API.
I don't subscribe or follow any NFTs. I'm generally pessimistic but I don't write it off entirely. I know a few people that bought NFTs and I don't think they're scam artists or naive. They're just having fun and playing around with some money. Maybe using it as an excuse to learn about Blockchain and feel like they're a part of a community. No different than my aws bills for apps that no one uses
I would hardly call this food. Even my trash smells better. One must really have no self-esteem to eat this.
The wild part is that a human being surviving in much of the world today has to know essentially nothing at all about how to survive in actuality. They just need to find a way to get money in one way or another.
I am not sure why you think you can compare to a rural place.

One, the number of children then was far higher, and there was no school.

Two, I don't think you understand that incomes were so low back then that they could not afford even basic machinery. The furniture that most people had was a few chairs, tables, and things to eat with. Even basic household machinery (for example, a mangle) that was common in pre-20th century rural society, didn't exist (these machines also weren't produced in large volume).

Three, no most women didn't work...I am not sure why and how you came to this conclusion. But women didn't commonly start working until proto-industrialisation. I think what may be confusing you is that women did work in agriculture during harvest times, this was not the case for most of the year.

Four, the definition of household tasks isn't even comparable. Household tasks included things like gardening which would only make sense in the context of a society with a non-existent market economy. Again, the comparison is...non-sensical, it makes no sense.

Five, you can just Google this. There are ample historical estimates of this kind of thing. It is not like this information is totally unknown.

I would suggest reading a book about social history rather than attempting to compare with some other period of history that you think you know better (your views of pre-20th century life are also not correct but that is a whole other story).
I think Americans are realizing they have more leverage than they thought they had, collectively. We’ll see how long it lasts though.
plogging?
Absolutely, interop will be just as janky as it is today, if not more.

It will probably be a combination of "works but with problems" and explicit deals between some companies for certain things where they explicitly put the work in to allow some things to carry over.

But my point is the whole Metaverse is marketing hype. The premise is really just that if the real world is one 3 dimensional surround universe you can experience, the Metaverse will deliver other such 3 dimensional surround experiences for you to go from one to the other.

The amount of things you can also move between all these "real"/"virtual" worlds is probably gonna suffer from all the issues we have today as well when moving from the real world and all the various 2D worlds.

But again, take out all the expensive hyperbolic terms. What we're talking about are just very obvious logical next step.

Assume a very good VR setup, now assume a scanner that can take a 3D surround image of say your favorite teddy bear. What do you do? You make a feature that lets you bring that 3D scan into VR.

This is the same as bringing a 2D photo of your teddy bear into your current 2D computer environment.

In my opinion, nothing here is far fetched, even though people will probably have patents for these ideas, they just logically come out as obvious next step for this new technology.

And it'll go the other way around too. You will be able to carve some 3D cup in VR, and then 3D print it into the real world. And that's the same as drawing something in Photoshop and printing it.

The only change here is that when you add that third dimension and make it surround, everything starts to feel more "real". Which is where people are starting to hype it up with mental hyperboles like a Metaverse, or calling things New Worlds, Other Universes, etc. But the only change from today is adding the 3rd dimension.

Think about a Zoom videoconference call with 5 of your friends where you make the background a photo of Mars. The only reason we call that videoconference and not: "Jump into a parallel universe in the deep landscape of Planet Mars with your friends and experience a new reality" is because it doesn't have the 3rd surround dimension.
Out of sheer curiosity, how does one go about reserving an IP address like this, or the ones CloudFlare and google dns use?
Counting a 50 BTC wallet as a "whale" seems a tad exaggerated to me. I was expecting to see a wallet approaching 10,000+ BTC before clicking this headline.

To be clear: as someone with negative net worth, 50 BTC would still be great to have..:).
Apparently teens and even some adults in the US where they'll miss out on social activities or be mocked or ignored due to not being on iMessage.

That doesn't affect me though as i don't live in the US and am too old for that kind of stuff but I do remember how easy it was to be mocked or bullied as a teen for not having the same stuff as the herd, even before smartphones were a thing.
I did exactly the same thing in 2010! Reinstalled over my wallet. I had about a dozen bitcoins that I'd mined on my PC. Calculated they were essentially worthless and hit install...
Too bad this news article will likely end it, it wont last when more people do this.
Wild.. the definition though is that the owner outlives the house. That’s what I disagree with.
> If inflation is 2%, then your house rising at 1.5% is a terrible investment, compared to a stock market rising at 5%.

I don't care if it's much worse than the stock market. All a house has to do is hold your money pretty steady against inflation and it will be an acceptable investment.

If the intent is "houses can't beat the stock market and remain affordable" then that's what people should say, because that's very different from just being "an investment".

And for what it's worth my intent was a number slightly below inflation, because it doesn't really matter if it's half a percent over or half a percent under.

> Remember, inflation is basically measuring how much purchasing power we have... So if the price of something is rising faster than inflation, by definition that thing is becoming more expensive, which means less people will be able to afford it.

That's only true if you assume wages stay steady with inflation, and they don't have to do that.

If house prices would grow faster than inflation but slower than wage growth then everyone could be pretty happy with the result.
I don't want to completely write off progress, because there's been a lot of that and I don't envy medieval peasants, however I think there's a tradeoff.

They were bored most of the day waiting for the bocce-precursor or cock fight to begin, while we've got something to play with constantly that appears to give us anxiety and insomnia.

Boredom isn't usually fatal and may even protect against other problems.
That's true for stackless coroutines where you can only yield from the top, but I understand that ruby has full coroutines/fibers
Dangerous Logging in Swift
The denial of reality may be something, (clearly in the trivial cases, denial of facts, it is a common fault) - but more interesting is to ask the converse question: just what exactly does it mean to "accept" reality? As if there was a given relatively unique inevitable response, such as reason could articulate? (in other words, beyond basic common sense, there is really no "rational" way to accept reality at all.)
I recall a talk by Jeff Bezos regarding starting the 'Prime' business model. He said something like: 'What do you do about people who abuse the all you can eat option?'.

My take is that there will always be a few outliers who take advantage of the 'all you can eat' model. But I imagine most of the time they are just outliers and those people don't affect a business' bottom line that much.

If anything such a model is ethical if it means people can save money. I mean, the business still gets to make money, just a little differently than other businesses.
The Cooperites of New Zealand have an even more secluded lifestyle, very religious, they seem to put on a lot of skits, plays, singing, things like dunk tanks for fun. There’s a lot of working and time for seriousness but they definitely seemed to have a good sense of humor and find time for fun. Plus working communally you’re always around other people socializing.

I think our modern lifestyle is astoundingly isolated compared to pre industrial people, even hunter gatherer cultures have hunting parties rather than a lone wolf hunter.
Probably this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6079240/
Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues (2020)
Roughly 60% of accountants are women. What is the biological argument for that?

65% of realtors are women, but in commercial real estate it's only 35% women. Is that biologically driven? Seems like it's just socially harder for women to break into commercial real estate compared to residential real estate.

While I am sure there are some biologically driven preferences between men and women, I think it's absurd to assert that these choices are "clearly biological" and that people who disagree just "don't like that it doesn't match their world view".

Can you seriously claim with a straight face that accounting more nurturing/social/"faces and dolls" than software engineering? I think the social dynamics are just more welcoming of women in accounting than software engineering at this point in time.
Sorry, I needed to add a sleep to get the behavior I wanted. Now it just prints nothing.

What I mean is I assume any real program is not going to be creating and destroying event loops any time they want to do something Async and that they'll essentially run main in a top level Async do. In fact it seems like that's the only safe thing to do with this library because the following snippet changes semantics depending on whether it's nested in an existing event loop or not.

results = []
Async do
sleep 10
results << "Hello"
end
puts results

So it seems like you'll pretty much always have to have an explicit wait before you can get your results in 99% of cases.
Seems like the CCP was "right" all along.

All of our governments are simply playing catch-up at this point. Unless the western-influenced can prove their superiority with growth and progress, I think everyone here has to acknowledge they have a better overall governance model (elections are a small but significant part of this)
You can also blame things that were actually your fault on systemic problems. People will believe you.
Except you don't wash them, you load and unload the machine. That's substantially less work (literally, in Joules) no matter how you dice it.
Every engineering manager who works with juniors should read this.
It all cumulates eventually into a race to singularity, which is a zero sum game. Whoever gets there first wins. I promise to make mine mostly benevolent.

I think emp warfare (actually already quietly a thing) is going to be the in between for stuff like drones...

I hope the new generations of children are being taught old school survival skills, because they are probably going to need them.

One of the best books on the post nuclear world that I reference often is The Shield of Achilles, and one of the conclusions that sticks with me is that there will be a rise in corporate power and a fall of nation state power.

Fight club was right after all... "planet Starbucks" indeed.
Our software follows redirects now. Obviously that's not correct in cases like this; but it's so much of an improvement in other cases that I don't want to roll it back. Not sure what to do yet really.

I've changed the URL above back to https://010.010.010.010/ now. Thanks!
Doing some quick searching[0], it seems that DNA has a half life of ~500 years, which is much longer than I originally would have guessed. Still, I imagine being in contact with metal might significantly speed up the degradation. Metal and metal ions tend to catalyze all sorts of reactions.

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555
>> remember what happened during the COVID lockdowns

I do remember. There were massive shortages of goods and services. It sucked.
I stopped feeling shame for my code after a couple years in business. Every line out there is someone’s little piece of shit. We are just little shit machines producing ever more shit. Sometimes we even use shit to patch up the gaps in existing shit. We are also known to get bold sometimes and start fresh shit piles usually because we have realized flashier shit gets you promoted.

All code is shit.
I understood - and appreciated - that reference.

The next time I decide I need a straw bale for whatever reason, I’m sending my wife to make the deal :)
How would that be enforced? The problem is cheating and the blockchain has no way for me to prevent you from buying a copy for $10 and giving the epub to all of your friends, letting them pay you some other way. The current systems wouldn’t even require that first payment — anyone on the internet can just download it - so it’s unclear why any author would offer their works this way at all.
Point taken about sitting around drinking still being an activity of choice!

But many of the listed activities were either only available for royals in the medieval period (fencing, racquet games, table games, a deck of cards in the 1300s was reportedly worth a small herd of sheep), or simply weren't recorded until that flurry of leisure innovations in the 1700s.

Perhaps this is all due to that pronounced rise in literacy that came at the same time. But I suspect literacy is one of the things that coincided with the huge material gains of normal people, and not unrelated.