skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obsession about equality as a central tenet in Christianity? You may want to read up on the crusades, slavery, the 30 year war, how even other Christian immigrants (Irish, Italian, etc) were welcomed into the US etc.

You may want to read up on slavery. Abolition in Christian societies was mainly a religious movement. Arab societies practiced it extensively as well, but kept going until the 20th century, and only really stopped because of international pressure from Christian countries.

The crusades? Both Muslims and Christians engaged in offensive military campaigns during the crusades. Only in Christian countries do any appreciable number of people feel bad about it.

Likewise, the speed at which Irish and Italians were integrated into American society is pretty much unparalleled by anything in any non-Christian society. I’m Bangladeshi on both sides back into the the dim reaches of history. But if I went back I would be “bideshi” (foreigner) because I was raised in American. My white wife and mixed kids would never be considered Bangladeshi, no matter how long they lived there. (It’s an ethnostate: a country for people of ancertsin
4000 in the USA? No it did not. Apples and oranges.

Edit: I just looked up the numbers and it’s 102 deaths/day average in the USA. I think it’s a horrific problem and support many initiatives that will take cars off the road and calm traffic.
You’ve got to give people a way to live out their lives with some minimal amounts of dignity, self respect, and some basic life necessities like those. If they can’t find those they’ll turn to all the evils of humanity to obtain their semblances or numbness.

Society was formed because it was better for all members than all members being left to do it all themselves. Fail to fulfill the basic needs of its members and those members lose their incentives to abide the social contract.
Aha, thanks. I suppose that in theory you could avoid actual merging if you had disjoint key ranges, in which case random writes could conceivably have less write amplification than mostly sequential writes, but does anyone do that in practice? Does it make a difference in practice?

What do you mean by "You just hamstrung your B-tree for conscience to implement a single model"? I'm not sure what you mean by either "for conscience" or "to implement a single model".

It's probably not an extremely fair comparison, but I'm not sure which databases it's slanted in favor of, and it wouldn't be very surprising if I'd overlooked some easy speedup. Like, maybe by deferring index creation until after ETL you could get a significant boost in Postgres speed, or by changing the Postgres tuning numbers. I do think it was running long enough to incur a significant number of compactions and vacuums, though. Feel free to critique in more detail. The Postgres and SQLite numbers come from http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/exampledb.py, but for LevelDB I inferred that the Python bindings were the bottleneck, so the 300'000 figure is from http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/leveldb-62m.cc.
Others in the article are running for Senate in Arizona. I suspect Thiel will run the 2024 campaign. People will expect to see him leveraging his power over the dissemination of information.
This was certainly not a water is wet moment. I was shocked how it looked like the female word list didn't even look like real words or at least not english words. I would expect to not know so much about some of the words but not to universally not recognize any of them at all.
> And a lot of marxist economosts read [the FT].

Marxists, Keynesians, the Austrians, “neoliberals” and Friedman all base their vocabulary and fundamentals on the labor theory of value and an economic model based on the Victorian industrial economy, which we no longer have and which was already visibly on its way out 25 years ago.

I haven’t seen any good writing (not that I’m steeped in the literature) that rethinks these fundamentals. MMT is pretty bogus but to its credit nodes at least revisit some of the fundamentals.
"Sworn off" ?

Do you mean "sworn at"?

I've sworn at Microsoft many times.

I still have to use Windows and Office at work.

I use RHEL for software development work, but the Windows 10 desktop environment is better than Gnome 3 desktop environment.

We don't always get to choose what we use, so it can be hard to swear off anything unless it is entirely personal use
Keep in mind a 10x salary isn't even that much - you won't be able to solve everyone's problems, but you can solve a lot of problems. I don't work at a FAANG but I make about 5-10 times as much as my wife's family.

Get in touch with the community. Have BBQs. Most people can't afford meat. If you're lazy, buy pizzas for everyone every now and then.

A cousin once bought a lamb for my wedding back when I was poorer. He buys air-conditioning for some houses with bad heat insulation, and pays for water filters in some places. That's the kind of thing that people will be grateful for.

Be careful not to look cocky though. Putting effort into things is appreciated. I've given expensive gifts, with a handwritten and drawn card. You can make nice homecooked meals (with butter instead of margarine).

There's often a mindset that with high salaries comes a lot of bad stuff (responsibility, instability, long hours, debt, tax, etc). Play up to that stereotype for those who want to believe it. There will be some people who look to you for inspiration, help them out. HNers complain a lot about the work, but honestly, many people would be happy to work twice as hard for half the pay we make now.
Hutspiel and Dr. Dorothy Clark
It's a form of modern institutional racism. See the AP's argument for capitalizing 'Black' but not 'white' https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-cultures-race-and-e.... It's obviously nonsense, done for political reasons and a misuse of the English language.
I just learned about scroll snap after fighting various JS-based libraries for hours, it makes it really easy to build slideshow type UI's

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Scroll_...
Dan! OP was a 2 hour old account! Demons? LOL. I'm not experiencing the shock of discovering my fellow HNers don't think like myself - that ship sailed in 2016, believe me. I'm experiencing the suspicion of the site getting astroturfed by God knows who for God knows what. I think being skeptical of any China stories during the Olympics isn't being overly paranoid!

Anyway, as always, we appreciate your hard work!
* Stand up desk.

* Set goals that require being active (summer backpacking, winter xc skiing)

* Organize activities with friends. Instead of meeting for a beer, go for a walk or hike.

* Try to set and forget it (add recurring event to cal).

* Buy home gym stuff. You don't need to go big, just a few dumbbells can be the start.

* Walk/exercise for a break in the day.
Yeah my tone was a bit off. Wasn't targeting you or your augment.
> you need to go out of your way to find someone who shares your taste in film, music, art, games and ideas.

You may as well just be with yourself at that point. Someone else bringing new experiences that you don't share, to learn and involve yourself in going forward, is where interest is found.
As other people mentioned, it's per vehicle, so they multiply the maximum number of vehicles the bridge can hold at once.
BTW Taki was a regular in the Spectator of the 90s.
It's not the signal that's causing the issue, but the crap software interpreting it.
Weibo deletes 41000 posts, bans 850 users for ‘creating trouble’ during Olympics
Hi, this is Navin, I work with Sonal on Zingg and would love to hear your feedback on our work.
Emulators?

That’s pretty huge, alone.
Reminds me of Soviet Union, from where my parents escaped to avoid religious persecution, where anyone who spoke against “The Party” was called the “enemy of the people”
Thanks for clarifying, it's a fair point. Especially since lots of folks who don't have the upfront costs will finance it on a credit card and end up paying even more in the long run. (Hoping they wouldn't also do that for the monthly charge too, but lots of people finance normal living expenses every month, beyond their monthly income, until their credit breaks under the load)
Oh no! Well, it gets easier as the kid gets older. But they say every kid is different so YMMV. I only have the one, he's 4, and he's pretty easy.

Suerte.
Housing Is Popular
> How so? I am genuinely curious.

A tiger escaping a zoo is unusual. A previously unknown species of tiger escaping a zoo is substantially more unusual.

> Unfortunately they will never publish that database.

This one? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/science/coronavirus-seque...
I wrote a PostgreSQL extension years ago that visualises pages (as text): https://github.com/hollobon/pagevis
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/21/online-dating-popular-w...

39% in 2017. I'd be very curious to know the numbers over the past two years as in 2017 bars/restaurants were at 27%, school/college at 9%, and work at 11%.
Happy to help!

It might make sense to take a different approach now than we did 20 years ago when we were mostly using MySQL and starting to adopt InnoDB. Caching reads and farming them out to readslaves is an easy performance win but probably introduces a fair number of bugs, and there's an enormous amount of powerful database software out there now that didn't exist at the time.
> DB constraints can be a hindrance if the business rules are in flux, and you already have them in the app layer

What you here mean as "DB Constraints" if not FK and etc?
I mean, sure anything's possible -- but WIV had the biggest program to sample coronaviruses because there are so many coronaviruses in China and they've had epidemics caused by zoonotic spillover in the past. The reason there were funding proposals of all sorts to study bat coronaviruses is because literally everyone in virology was terrified of a bat coronavirus like covid19. I don't think "the west" fully appreciates how much SARS changed research in China.

> I'm not sure how you'd distinguish between a novel naturally-evolved virus and a laboratory chimera of two such viruses, though.

BLAST sequencing against known viruses would do the trick. (https://www.viprbrc.org/brc/blast.spg?method=ShowCleanInputP...)

You could come up with a conspiracy theory to say they were hiding their most dangerous pathogens as part of a defense program so we wouldn't have access to the sequences of the progenitor viruses -- but the fact that we had staff helping in WIV and literally no intelligence has come out to that effect blunts the theory in my view.

I'm 99%:1% confident it was natural spillover and probably 75%:25% that no lab had ever seen the virus before the first people got sick.

Sars cov2 was a bat virus -- so it needed an intermediate mammal host with human-like ace2 receptors to spread to humans. So WIV would have had to have developed this unnaturally, which we would be able to "see" in the DNA or it happened naturally. Those two things don't seem remotely 50:50 likely to me.
I didn't notice a huge difference, but your comment reminded me of something my grandma said in her later years (she died around 2018 and was well into her 90s, so she grew up in the 30s). "All the young people these days are so gosh darned good looking" as if it blew her away, lol. So maybe there's something to that, I don't know.
"Moore's Law" isn't like gravity. It's the trillions of monies invested in fab tech that kept transistor count growing.
This is incredibly accurate. Once I learned OpenSCAD my entire process of thinking about physical design via computer aided tools disappeared. Gone is the process of memorizing dozens of shortcut, hundreds of menus and painstakingly selecting items and entering values into fields or dialog boxes. Instead I can create in just minutes what would take a huge breadth of knowledge to do using conventional point-and-click interfaces.

There are some places where the point-and-click UI makes sense. For example I like how I can layout the parts on a simulated baseplate with Cura. But there is really no design or thought into that process. Just slap them onto the plate in a way they won't overlap and I'm done.
This is basically the brainwallet concept for Bitcoin private keys. e.g. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet
Unfortunately, there are many many more examples of real world violence. If you peer into the abyss that is the online world - it seems like there are an endless amount of shooters waiting to happen in the US. It's no surprise that it happens so often. A lot of men in pain who want everyone else to experience the pain they've been feeling before they themselves commit suicide. With access to guns - it makes it so easy to do.

The biggest surprise for most women out here might be this tidbit: most men are incels until they're not. It's that some men never get out of that horrible rut and a small amount of those are the ones you see end up doing the shootings. The rest suffer silently or just kill themselves.

It's sad. Most of my female friends are completely unaware. All of my male friends are painfully aware because almost every man who ever went through that phase to any significant degree will do almost everything but forget it. Someday we'll get to the point where we acknowledge this but part of me thinks we don't ever want to. If we did - then we'd have to really change things and no one likes to change shit.
Interesting, I didn’t realize that the headlines were being edited. But yeah the original headline is definitely clickbait.
Football (soccer), both indoor and outdoor - and mountain biking. I've worked remotely for several years now and it definitely helps to be able to get out of the office and talk to other people, especially those not in the web / tech fields. Not just for mental health but for making new friends too.

I realise team sports aren't for everyone but they can be great motivators especially when the weather isn't great or you aren't in the mood, and you always end up feeling better for it at the end. I find it's easier to slack off when you're the only one accountable.
Mobile, Open Hardware, RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) Development Kit
Going by James Nestor’s observations and research in his book ‘Breath’: he relays that a Victorian dentist notes “the better the school, the worse the teeth”. Teeth straightness and overcrowding are ‘upper-class’ issues. Poorer people, in the authors claims, are exposed to tougher food. The increased chewing they do actually causes the palate to grow correctly and without crowding. Soft food does the opposite.
Well done Jerry, well done.
Not really what I had in mind.
Says the website with 13 social trackers, among 40 total trackers that Firefox Focus blocks by default.
It certainly was compared to natural causes and our evidence for particular sacrifice is even more scarce. I've surveyed and excavated many ancient graves, but very few (1, possibly 2) had anything to suggest human sacrifice, both of which were for ideological reasons that don't make sense for Anzick. Quoting Porter's "Mortal Mirrors" from the standard book on archaeology of sacrifice, Sacred Killing:

But the evidence for human sacrifice is actually very rare in the period when cross-cultural comparisons suggest it is most likely to occur—the formative stages of complex society—and when it does occur, it is very individual in practice.

Dr. Porter goes on to talk about how this is of course the result of our ability to detect and recognize sacrificial activity in the material record and so on. The book is worth perusing if this topic interests you.

And of course, in context we should expect it to be essentially irrelevant on a population level because population growth for most of the Paleoindian period is close to flat. A significant difference in infant mortality rates from culturally-specific factors would probably lead to pretty quick population turnover during the millennia of competition with everyone else that has similar technology and resources.

So while it did occur, there's little reason to think it occurred at rates anywhere near that of non-sacrificial mortalities.
(and now I've lost the last 4 hours building a fortress in Minetest and defending it against attacking golems)
Your italics seem to be indicating an “appeal to incredulity”. But you don’t present any actual logical argument for why anyone should not believe it was leaked intentionally.
Any word on how it will be distributed internationally or does it just say “torrents” between the lines?
it was the same author’s “Apple iOS [every version] Has A Nasty Surprise” headlines that made me drop them
If I build a gun mount, that uses a basic computer vision algorithm to identify people out a window. It then randomly select a target - “true” random so no claims I set a seed - and then shoots them.

Do you think there is an argument that I should not be responsible?

If “random” is too independent, or you want it to be systematic, we could do something else:

* the person with the highest “red hat” score according to a 20 year old copy of opencv

Or we could do something modern and “AI” and give it a completely random neural net that’s super deep and has three outputs: angle, pitch, and whether to pull the trigger.

Or we could go all out and just replace this hypothetical machine that acts like an independent person with the next best thing: a regular human.

If a government, or a terrorist group, gives a group of people (or soldiers) a bunch of weapons and drops them off in a city, and they start shooting, do you think that the government would be responsible?
Mh, that makes sense. And what, the new Winamp owners are into NFTs? I have no words.

It will never close (unless you click "shut down anyway"). Maybe I'll dig into that some day - after a quick google, maybe it just doesn't honor the window messages to close the program.

I use a portable install anyway, so that hopefully won't be an issue (if I ever get around to testing)!
DIY brain-computer interfaces have arrived – why that’s cool(and why it isn’t)
Thanks, I’ll look into this!
The statistics for what it is worth is 56% (kids) vs. 39% (no kids) women chosen "homemaker" option i.e., perhaps diapers are not as important.
The pilots of the A320 may not have known there was a tail strike.
More interesting question is if the spacex risk management didnt hear about it or hand waved it
Sun damage is probably responsible for most of it.
https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood
Another thing that was lacking back then is digital cameras, or even affordable chemical film. At the time, photography was a lot more expensive, and you probably only got one shot of a person.

Today, we can get a preview on a digital camera's screen and we can take as many photos as we want, and then edit them afterwards. That just leads to better looking photos being presented.
https://youtu.be/3RMr5RiFJTI
I didn't know licenses had stopped.

They still offer the latest version for download, no hints of discontinuing it, so it will likely "morph" into something else.
Notable because this was one of the first descriptions of hacker culture when it appeared in 1976:

"Wherever computer centers have become established, that is to say, in countless places in the United States, as well as in virtually all other industrial regions of the world, bright, young men of disheveled appearance, often with sunken glowing eyes, can be seen sitting at computer consoles, their arms tensed and waiting to fire their fingers, already poised to strike, at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems to be as riveted as a gambler’s on the rolling dice. When not so transfixed, they often sit at tables strewn with computer printouts over which they pore like possessed students of a cabalistic text. They work until they nearly drop, twenty, thirty hours at a time. Their food, if they arrange it, is brought to them: coffee, Cokes, sandwiches. If possible, they sleep on cots near the computer. But only for a few hours—then back to the console or the printouts. Their rumpled clothes, their unwashed and unshaven faces, and their uncombed hair all testify that they are oblivious to their bodies and to the world in which they move. They exist, at least when so engaged, only through and for the computers. These are computer bums, compulsive programmers. They are an international phenomenon."

The author, Joseph Weizenabaum was a computer science professor at MIT. He was the author of the famous Eliza program. This is an excerpt from his Computer Power and Human Reason, one of the best books ever written about computing.
> Many boys are thus often growing up raised by single mothers, the share more than doubling between 1980 and 2019, from 18 percent to 40 percent.

The study he sites at https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-... is titled "Percentage of births to unmarried women in the United States from 1980 to 2019"

I think it's quite dishonest to present this data as "2/5 men are raised without a father." I simply do not believe that claim. Maybe my perception of the country is detached from reality so please correct me if my intuition is wrong.
On the one hand, it's funny that you put "wellness" in scare quotes, but on the other hand my wife is into "wellness" and I absolutely get it.
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The thing that baffles me about this is you can fetishize basically anything. Yes, we're all familiar with common fetishes depicted by Hollywood. But I mean, the entire premise of it is that a fetish is something you uniquely appreciate. So how do they draw that imaginary line of "this could be a fetish thing!" in the sand?
Bank robber thought being covered in lemon juice would help him get away with it
There are non towered airports in Europe as well.
Time block on my calendar for physical activity. I lift weights, walk, and run.
It'd be neat if they gave the content creator a chance to administer their own turing test to the reviewer in an attempt to "prove" they are human.

Of course one could argue asking "do you really think having a prosthetic leg is unacceptable content?" is a Turing test all on its own.
happens all the time actually. Especially seasonal locations like areas surrounding ski resorts
I also think it's ridiculously expensive as well but it's not uncommon for several siblings from the same parents to attend the same public school and the fee alone can be USD200K for a family.

For my mathematics class, about half of my classmates were non-UK citizens. It seems that people are not emigrating away from the UK but they actually immigrating into UK because of the public schools. According to article this type of elite expensive education is only for less than 5% of the population that can afford to pay. Their top public school (Eton College) is virtually impossible to join even if you have tons of money and the prestiges (foreign royalty family).
Show HN: Watch Random Movie Trailers in a Loop
I made this in 2020 for myself to watch or listen to random movie trailers in the background while working from home. It'll automatically play the next trailer when the current one is done. Sharing this here in case someone likes watching movie trailers too!
Yep, I distinctly remember the last time I had to use a Microsoft Office product and have genuinely enjoyed not using windows since I don't play video games anymore. Occasionally I plug in my SSD with windows to edit video with Adobe products but otherwise, around 30% of the time windows breaks for inexplicable reasons.

I genuinely have no issue looking down on people who work for microsoft - sure they have a monopoly on certain industries but their product is basically shit.