skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought the achilles heel of Oceania's government was the economy. Pretty much the one thing they couldn't really place into their 'subjective reality' philosophical framework.

The way information passed through the Outer Party technicians was extremely compartmentalized. It was a command economy, did anyone actually know how things were going? The statistics were basically all lies. Eventually the gin and cigarettes would stop flowing.
I'm not sure if the ghost of Netscape Composer is laughing or crying.
>> One of the cofounders being named after an antisemitic caricature is "numerology"?

Serious question: was there public backlash or protest of this character when the cartoon was on television for eight or nine years?
What percent of revenue is from iPhone?

This is what makes me nervous. They struck absolute gold with the iPhone, what happens if they don't catch the next wave?
Kudos to them for listening to users.
I don't think you understand the difference between being good at math and being at his level. Good parents can make the difference between being good at math or mediocre at math, but not knowing higher level concepts at the age of 15 or so . Or PhD at 22 or something. There are thousands of professors in the US even in math, how many produce super genius math kids with similar ability? Two 120-IQ parents a more more likely to produce a 110 IQ kids than someone with a 170+ IQ like TT; that is something else.
We would all be better off if this were actually true.

Tragically, in C, a string is just barely a data structure, because it must have \0 at the end.

If it were the complete absence of a data structure, we would need some way to get at the length of it, and could treat a slice of it as the same sort of thing as the thing itself.
The article is about object lock
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Correct. This is Apple competing unfairly and deciding to make all third-party clients as bad as iCloud.
I feel like the issue with the post you mention was the absence of recourse rather than the locking out itself.
Ok boomer. :)
Question: How impracticable is the following:

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you have a machine with micro-thrusters (of whatever fuel-source)

It is driven by modern drone tech for stability.

How driven, super simplistic maths for establishing thrust.telemetry.balance...

How the FUCK has this not been solved?

A belt of jets. They fly you without killing or burning you.

We are significantly evolved for this to happen...

Seriously. This is a solvable thing. Do it.
Re: HN rsync.net discounts. Is that basically the Borg specific product? Or is there some discount on the normal rsync.net service? The Borg product misses one important thing for me and that is sub accounts. But the price difference between them is pretty large. I don't need the hand holding service, I already use the Borg service you provide but definitely would prefer having the sub accounts and possibly the ZFS snapshots might be useful.
Probably getting to his level is highly genetically dependent but that’s not what watching a Masterclass vid is about. Probably really interesting but I would likely forget to cancel and i am planning on living forever so I’d end up paying an infinite amount of money for this.
How?

They can take whatever measures they need to keep themselves safe. I assume they are not going into restaurants now since the mask situation is just theater.

Their unfortunate circumstances don’t mean they get to control others. If there was a concrete ask with end date that would be one thing but asking everyone else to live as if they are immunocompromised just because they are is not sustainable.
It doesn't, if your L1$ predecodes at fill time and stores instruction length.

Something, somewhere does have to do a serial length decoding of course. But when you look at the L2 access latency and throughput (which is the minimum L1 fill latency), it's clear you could afford to do that part of the decode over more cycles.

New designs are not just predecoding lengths but entire uops now into the first level instruction cache which is the same concept they just call it a L0 and L1 rather than L1 and L2.
> I mean 99.5% of Americans will never spend even the lower end of that range on a single garment.

Wedding dresses?
Context matters. In this case it is in the context of spending multiple hours in close proximity with a virus as contagious as Omicron.
I wouldn't say so. Designers tend to forget about low contrast screens. Developers tend to take liberties with bandwidth and CPU usage.

I see those things as part of the craft.
What is the cost of masked students, it's the cost of the masks.

It's much more than that.

The other problem that i've been hearing from my public school teacher friends is that there are so many staff absences due to covid

Sure, and that's happening in schools with and without mask mandates. Unless you go into full hermit mode, you are going to be exposed to Omicron. And if you're young or vaccinated, that's very unlikely to be a big deal.
I wasn't saying I agree with them either, just pointing out Orwell wasn't telling stories about "good and bad" in the way 1984 was written. A lot of his essays actually show there's a lot of grey, much less shades of it.
Most people don't die from covid, they die with covid and their multiple comorbidities. I think it would bring up multiple issues. I have many questions about the approach. Would you turn away someone who is asymptomatic but covid positive? What if they were turned away due to false positive covid test? What if they contracted covid from the hospital? What if they are vaccinated and still get covid?

I suspect it could easily lead to broader exemptions and eventually bring up the issue of other infectious diseases not being treated.
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Because regardless of which service they choose to use, Apple controls the platform they’re running on in every case. They actually don’t have a meaningful choice in that area.

Imagine it was Amazon in this situation. Or Microsoft. Or Google. Or, gasp, Facebook. Where 90% of teens were using a hardware and software platform made by one company. Seems like a problem, right?

Imagine how much people would be freaking out if Facebook came out with a phone and OS and had 90% of teens using it. The wailing and gnashing of teeth could be heard from the Moon.
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Ask HN: How did you switch to part time?
I currently work a full time week for a small ~10 person dev agency. I want to switch to a 3 (or even 4) day work week - reduced hours, not compressed.

I’m unsure how to best pitch this. Would love any advice, stories about how you made it work (or failed to), etc.

I’m most interested in people who’ve just reduced their existing full time role to part time, but would also love to hear other solutions - switching to contracting, switching jobs, increasing holidays, anything really.

As an agency we bill hourly so it’s hourly salary * markup - I.e me working fewer hours = less cost but less profit. That’s why I’m struggling to see how to make this appealing.
NIST has made this recommendation for years. Sadly, I work for another branch of the Federal government and despite the NIST guidance I still have to rotate my password every 60 days. (Actually, the starts sending me daily emails warning me 15 days out, and the date is based on last change, so practically it's more like 45 days.)
> What were the poor people wearing?

Dollar analysis like 'how much did X cost in a pre-industrial economy' is incredibly unsuitable for answering these kinds of questions.

The answer is - most people weren't wage workers. Most people didn't have money. Most people were subsistence peasants, and they paid taxes, rent, and for many services in goods. What money they had would usually go towards buying things they couldn't make.

Most people wore homespun. Clothing a typical Roman peasant family[1] would take ~3,000 hours of domestic labour a year - every year, most of it devoted to spinning flax. Being domestic labour, done by the family, for the family, most of it, was, of course, unpaid. Being the kind of labour that you can do on-and-off throughout the day, as you are waiting on other tasks, it was mostly done by women. [2]

[1] https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-t...

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/distaff
> There’s a reasonable chance it exceeds USA in nominal GDP it if it grows at 5+% till 2030.

The US GDP grew 5.7% last year.

> China is already the worlds largest consumer market.

No it isn’t.
It's a failed state. The taxes don't go to schoolteachers or whatever, they go into the offshore account of the local boss.
25.1% Mac growth. For professionals and enthusiasts, you either just got your M1, you’re saving for one, or waiting on the Pro Desktops.

I’m curious to see if there’s any change to the replacement rate of Macs. It seems normal for people to use the same laptop for four or more years — a far sight longer than the two-year life expectancy of laptops twenty years ago, but about half of the replacement rate of smartphones.

There's one benefit of these DIY designs that seems under-reported: Apple can now develop stuff like the "neural engine". Chips that aren't just faster or more efficient than Intel offerings, but also do different things.

I think there's almost no chance that I'll be upgrading to an M2 Pro next year or the following, but there's every possibility that the M3 Pro won't just be a faster Apple Silicon chip. If future Macbooks are more than just "the same thing but faster," dorks like me will be retiring our computers a lot faster.
From my understanding (I may be wrong), rent-seeking in the economic sense is not literally about receiving payment to loan another party an asset (e.g. car rental), but about engaging in zero-sum or negative-sum economic activity.

For example, patent troll companies would be rent-seeking because they don't create any value for other participants in the economy (except for perhaps lawyers!). Amazon's primary retail business could also be seen as rent-seeking to an extent because their massive market share essentially forces businesses to sell through their platform and give them a 10-15% cut of the sale.

AWS, on the other hand, is (or at least was) a genuinely innovative solution to people's problems. It gave small organisations access to supercomputers at affordable rates, in a non-monopolistic way, and in turn created much more wealth for the broader economy than Amazon themselves extracted through AWS fees.
Although I understand its been critiqued, I always liked the visual depiction of "amusing ourselves to death" from Postman [1], by McMillen [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

[2]: https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webc...
The first line reveals the most important question in the article:

>"The Danish state is moving in an authoritarian direction by charging whistleblowers under sections of the law that should only be invoked against traitors."

The question of who is a traitor is (somewhat) answered later in the article, but I see the answer as unsatisfactory. The real question is that of political authority: does the government have a right to coerce, and does the populace have a duty to obey. It is my view that Michael Huemer answered these questions best: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Autho...

edited to clarify question
Later discussion happening over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30105932
> Revert back to interviewing things relevant for the day to day job, look at what developers actually employed there did over the last few weeks, and interview on that.

`async` questions are the most day job relevant questions I can imagine for a javascript developer. It is so pervasive, a such a simple piece of syntactic sugar over basic asynchronicity, that not knowing it is damning along a number of axes.
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No, it’s more complex than that. A Segway is counting on the fact that it’s sitting on the ground. The force vector on the rider is purely a function of angle. A jet pack has the issue that there is a moveable center of gravity and moveable sources of thrust that feed back into each other. It’s doable, I’m sure, but it’s also much more complicated than a Segway + another direction.
You are not going to go from high school math to graduate level competency with this course, obviously.
I honestly don't know. They're overrepresented on Hacker News for sure.

However my website is just text on a page and I see no reason for it to break when JS is turned off. Only the calculators and other widget will stop working.
Hitting "Home" in the content preview clears any markdown you've written. Is this by design?
Would you? Maybe it depends on how hard you have to struggle merely to survive and how much freedom you have. If you were a helot in ancient Sparta you'd have to be careful not to draw the attention of the Spartiates; they'd kill you for sport if they thought you were too virtuous.

What is this about drilling into granite? The Egyptians were drilling into granite a thousand years earlier using copper tube drills and quartz sand, which they probably could have drilled a lot faster if they'd known about emery, but I don't understand where granite drilling fits into the steel supply chain.

But with freedom and some way to survive you can get pretty far. In only four and a half years, apparently without using modern materials other than a video camera and writing instruments, John Plant was able to bootstrap from sticks and stones up to celt axes, coarse pants (spun of course with a drop spindle), a centrifugal blower, iron smelting powered by it, fired bricks, several huts, ceramic tile roofs, underfloor heating, cob construction, bow and arrow, atlatl, lime cement, wood ash cement, crawfish traps, rock-heated soup pots, charcoal burning, a pump drill, and a monjolo.

He hasn't yet been able to smelt enough iron to make so much as a fishhook, though, and Australian law doesn't allow him to hunt animals for sinew, leather, catgut, bone, and bladder.

A thing he's missing so far is metrology, which is very important for chemistry and for muskets and other machines. He also doesn't have much in the way of chemical resources on his land: no saltpeter and no concentrated salt, though he could perhaps purify them from urine.

Still, imagine how far he could get in 40 years with all the knowledge from the present and without those restrictions. It's an amazing contrast to what most of us have achieved in modern life with much more resources.

https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_Technology
> > analyze your locally-stored photographs for child photography

> Nope. Only the ones on iCloud.

Nope. Only the ones your device intends to send to iCloud.

They’re already scanned on iCloud, this was on device scanning before upload. Likely it was a requirement for them to add encryption on the files they store and not have the unsealing keys.

Sort of a pre-emotive avoidance of certain political conversations.
This kind of thing always cracks me up. In the minds of the Don Quixote's of the internet, neo-nazis are an erudite brotherhood of studious skinheads who sit around reading the skinhead handbook, memorizing the "37 different ways to say 'heil hitler'" and committing racist propaganda images to memory. You know, so that they can communicate with other neo-nazis through NFTs, and gaslight people with cartoon monkeys.

Or the windmills are actually windmills.

> I know the point is to fly under the radar and gaslight people into second guessing things

I think you're right, but in precisely the opposite direction. The point is to convince people that there are secret, evil nazis out there, working to subvert our society. To convince you that they are subtle and sneaky, that their symbolism is complex and their references oblique, so that even though things might look perfectly innocent, like an NFT of a monkey, you never know if it might actually be dangerous--even evil! Luckily, there are people who are willing to tell you when seemingly normal things are dangerous and evil! And when one of these people point and shout "Nazi!", be sure just do the right thing. Don't think. (You've been gaslighted. Your eyes deceive you!) Just shut up and grab your pitchfork!

The fact that this so closely resembles literal witch hunting should be telling.
If someone is running with your idea, then you should feel flattered -- someone else agrees that your idea was good. Unfortunately, even the most brilliant ideas have almost no value on their own. Execution is everything.

If you believe you could contribute more than a single idea, and provide sustained value over a long period of time, you could always ask to join your colleagues in their endeavor. Be aware, however, that starting and operating a new company -- especially one based on an untested idea -- is an arduous and high risk activity.
People have been presuming this very loudly for basically Apple's entire lifetime.

I'm not saying I think they'll keep going forever, but I really don't think you should hold your breath.
I moved from a broken society to a first-world one. I’m supremely lucky in this.

There are many interlinked systems that have to work for a society to progress. It’s nearly impossible to line up all the required factors at the same time. Makes it rather frustrating when first-worlders shit on their own cultures.
1% effective is better than 0% effective. The best defense is defense in depth.
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I’m not following your point.

You say this is expensive and hard, but so what? Isn’t that what you do when a pandemic occurs?

You also point out we have a nursing shortage currently (we did before the pandemic as well). Isn’t that a reason why we should do this? Kill two birds with one stone … solve the prior nursing shortage with a training and hiring blitz.
Am I the only one who read Brave New World and thought "That doesn't seem all that bad?"
You and your friends are well off and it looks like you dont have children and can work remote. Thats great!

Unfortunately most are living under wildly different and much more difficult circumstances that they are being asked to bear month after month with no end and with dubious effect.
Apples moat is simply enormous. From SoC design to camera design to manufacturing to software and compiler engineering.

Competitors could spend 10 years catching up. Cook simply needs to keep the machine going till he retires.
> Demographics can be topped up using immigration. Without immigration the US would also be in demographic decline.

There is a reason people move to the US. Good luck to the CCP attempting to reproduce that.
I strongly suspect the parent to which you are replying was saying that there are no uses for blockchain outside of "money."
Just finished building the first version of dono.at. It's built with the Streamlabs API and the Strike lightning API.

You can view the code here: https://github.com/neb-b/dono.at
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I'm not even 30, born to poor immigrants who didn't graduate from school, and I own my own property that I paid for with my hard work >;)
Just add the captcha only for requests coming from the problematic ASNs, like AWS.

edit: Actually, since you use CF, just make a firewall rule that forces the captcha for those ASNs before it even gets to your app. They have a field named "ip.geoip.asnum" for that, and an action called "challenge" which will force a captcha.
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The cost of masked students is not just the purchase price of the masks. It’s that plus the reduction in learning (academic, linguistic, and social) from wearing the masks (and the masks being fussed over).

That total cost may (or may not) still support the decision to have a mask mandate for kids, but let’s not get confused and think the only cost is measured in dollars.
Are you implying that the poster you are replying to is feigning uncertainty? In other words, lying?

I think that is just a bad faith assertion. What evidence do you have for that?
Part of me thinks its the "working towards" part, independent of the family/marriage bit. I can't prove it though.

I think if you drop off the rails of a traditional lifestyle, you need to be ready to stand on your own two feet a little more when it comes to intrinsic motivation.
Intractable problem, like houseflies. Not worth wasting time. Delete and get on with your day. Taking mass spam emails personally seems unhealthy.
It's UK, but check these out.

https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1483778776697909252

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/terry-pratchet...

Their ONS agreed to make changes.
humorously, on my local machine, I only see the string "us", and was rather confused when he was asserting that it was a single character :D
He also said "We use the POWER that we have to limit the spread of that misinformation." These are extremely hostile and dangerous words from a US Official, no?

But the thing is, Rogan did not say something super irresponsible like you are inventing and instead has actually has hosted medical and world renowned vaccine experts that had very intelligent things to say, backed with data, fact and logic. So why are you saying things or inventing scenarios that are completely false?

Just a reminder for you...

"Censorship and Propaganda was another important factor to the success for Hitler's dictatorship. Everything that was going to get in touch with the public, including Radios, the Press, the lessons they teach at school, the art works people paint, the movies they play at cinemas all had to be censored first before audiences could watch it."
In the movie humanity was technologically capable destroying the comet, the solution just got jammed between politics, the media and corporate idiocracy.

Our tepid response to another existential threat called the climate crisis suggests that this may be our reality.
as other comments have said, why are we so obsessed with minimizing transmission as much as possible, seemingly regardless of cost or any other incidental negative outcomes, at this point in time? these are all things that made sense early on when we didn't know much and everyone was kind of panicky and the death counts were higher and the misinformation from China was prevalent.

but now in twenty twenty two, we can't just mandating things in order to reduce transmission of a respiratory virus, without considering what other nth-order effects said mandates will have. it's pure irresponsibility as the result of prescribed dogma.
> Extremely minimal?

compared to hospitals being overrun, people getting seriously ill and dying (2,200+ US deaths every day) continuing economic harm and disruptions in education yeah it's pretty small thing that it's a little harder to communicate because your voice is muffled and you cant watch people's lips form words.
It was of strategic importance, yes. Get more people using their version of BASIC.

BASIC was a fairly competitive bullet point for platforms, at the time.
Does that mean you also rally against video games and movies that depict violence? Would watching a documentary about the Holocaust also be a bridge too far? Keep in mind this is the curriculum for eighth-graders.

> hiding that fact behind a veneer of “you’re trying to suppress information about the Holocaust” is shameful.

I think the veneer goes the other way. That is, the parents are banning something that illustrates an important and painful part of real human history under the pretext that it contains bad language and difficult themes. Well yeah, that's the point.
Sounds similar to htmx[0], which I like!

I wonder if someone has worked with both htmx and Hibiki, and can compare the two experiences?

[0] https://htmx.org