skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to watch that get better in each release of Autodesk Inventor.

A useful test is to model a bolt. Make a cylinder. Make a 2D cutting tool that has one thread profile. Extrude the thread profile along a spiral. Subtract that from the cylinder. Now you have a threaded rod. Now make a 2D hexagon for the bolt head. Extrude. Union with cylinder. Now chamfer all edges of the bolt head. Also chamfer the end of the bolt.

Now take a close look at where the threads meet the bolt head, and where the threads meet the chamfer. If those are all correct, then you have a usable CSG CAD system for machined parts. Inventor started getting that right around 2012.

Admittedly, you don't usually model threads at that level of detail. Inventor has "cosmetic threads", which are just textures, which is what you use for ordinary bolts.
This is mostly an exercise for CAD operators. It's like whiteboarding for programmers. You sit the applicant down at a workstation, hand them a bolt and calipers, and say "model this". Sometimes you do need that kind of detail, because you're going to have a machine tool machine the thing.
Do you have a link to a study etc? V interested
It appears that you're defining masculinity in and of itself as toxic. Masculine and feminine function as yin and yang, as dualistic complements. The masculine is simply structure, force, or closure. The feminine is flow, softness, and openness. Each human moves with a balance of both.

What's toxic is when the masculine is out of balance with the feminine. When structure, force, and closure crowd things out because there is not enough flow, softness, and openness. Simply making a decision and acting on it is not in and of itself toxic. It's the inability to adjust later that is toxic.
If it was a lab leak, presumably the people at the Wuhan lab would have DNA sequences on the coronavirus strains they were experimenting with. Even if they weren't doing this on a regular basis one would have to imagine that they would have inventoried and sequenced the coronavirus samples they had in their lab soon after COVID-19 was identified in the public.
As a tech/sci-fi nerd and avid crafter, I accept your collective awe at my knowledge of the majority of these words
Yeah, sure, on some theoretical level sideloading should be a user's right. But we all know what will happen. The only way to install essential platform apps like Facebook, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, etc. will be through the vendors themselves, bypassing all of Apple's privacy protections. In the end this will be a net negative for the user.
I respect you for writing the first substantiable conter in this whole thread. Signal-Noise ratio isn't good for me today.
I did netflix dvds, then added netflix streaming.

Then something happened, my time got more valuable and streaming wasn't as interesting. So I doubled down on dvds and eventually netflix unsubscribed me from streaming because I didn't use it (kudos netflix).

I now am exclusively netflix dvds and love it.
You don't need to be competitive, just reasonably productive and have a spine.

Find a role that works for you. Ideally in an area of interest. I'd say put in the interview prep to land something good that pays well. There are a ton of high paying jobs out there, there isn't a reason you don't have one. There isn't really a need to be competitive, just keep producing code and leaning into stuff that interests you.

You need a spine to be able to step away when the situation around you is going bad. Don't get trapped in a job you hate, don't work with or for assholes. Make sure you go get a job with good benefits.

Good luck!
I've put countless hours into OpenTTD over the years but once you learn how to maximise profits (move your cargo over a longer distance than necessary) you can basically print money.

Simutrans appears to work a bit different on that front, I'm going to have to take a closer look.
But it's a time bomb when you do that, your app'll expire and stop working after a short while. My dev friends who've never used an iPhone think I joke when I tell them that.
1 sq km = 100 hectares = 100 GWh of energy produced per year in northern Europe.

29000 sq km = 2900 TWh

Which is 10x the current electricity use of UK.

I think they may be overestimating the numbers by taking the petrol, oil and gas verbatim - whereas they should consider that electric cars have way higher efficiency, and electric heating can be done also way more efficiently than gas heating (because heat pumps).
Because science proved to be correct. We have vaccines and various treatments for it because of trusting science. The ones who wanted ivermectin suppositories and bleach injections were proven wrong in the long run many of them dying unnecessary deaths painfully and on ventilators. I do have some respect for experts who have spent decades studying things over an orange president and infowars.
I've seen more advertisments for major brand products, targetted at kids through Tik Tok than I have seen political propoganda. If anything, Tik Tok just reinforces the current "western" status quo than anything else. It probably reinforces what ever the advertisers in any country can pay for.
How can civilization cope with the fact that those jobs might never come back?

A cognitive surplus [1] can be dumped into projects like Wikipedia, but where does the physical surplus go? Supposing we are omnipotent deities who want to make people happy and free and avoid unrest.

Encourage people to build henges and pyramids for the hell of it?

We can't pay them to do that without a global welfare system... Russia would just race us to the bottom.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Surplus
Sounds like flattr.com would have worked for you.
The causes yes, Bill, not so much.
Yes, I understand the point of the physical equivalent. I was asking specifically if there was a specific point in doing "double-entry bookkeeping" digitally, in the sense of having two transfer-event rows to represent each transaction in your database, rather than one. (Which is something that people do do — I've seen it in some ledger data-models — but it's always felt redundant to me.)

My understanding aligns with the GP's sibling comment: in a digital ledger, having one {txid, sender, recipient, value} row for each transfer of value, is strictly equivalent to having two separate complementary {txid, party, value_delta} rows.
Indeed, I was referring to the idea of viruses and bacteria escaping from research labs and then, occasionally, spreading within a community. I provided evidence of this claim. I wasn't saying that I believed that COVID-19 specifically escaped from a/the lab. I do not have evidence of that. Apologies if that was unclear.

I was pushing back on the initial out-of-hand rejection of this idea.
Check out the Darknet Diaries podcast if you don't already. There are some episodes that reveal how top hackers were taken down by the FBI. It's the randomest stuff you would never expect too, usually not related to tech stack.
There are folks streaming security cameras onto youtube.

I think you are limited to 12 hours / 250 GB per clip?

The bandwidth / storage demands of video are not insignificant.

Someday someone will do something - ie, insure you are paying for some kind of service.
My point is that notifications are a basic part of apps in general. We aren’t talking about some esoteric api that will let you do 3d gaming and isn’t useful for anything else. There are huge numbers of categories of apps that are impossible without notifications.

* todos

* reminders

* calendars

* chat

* phone

And the list goes on.

There are many others where the app might be possible, but for many people in many cases those apps are useless without notifications. Stocks, forum apps, etc.

I’ll tell you what, I’ll offer you a smart phone that doesn’t ever allow you to get notifications for any reason. Then when you object, I’ll just tell you that there’s no such thing as a standard feature set for smart phones.
> iOS developers are sideloading their apps hundreds of times each day…

Exactly. Want to sideload MAME? It's not a big deal. Go to https://github.com/yoshisuga/MAME4iOS and follow the "Building / Installation / Sideloading" instructions.
If that's your experience then that's your experience. Mine is different. I validate your experience, and see it as true. I do the same for my own.
Such a dope and useful tool, gonna be using it a bunch :)
Most of the words I "know" from the female list are ones I've encountered in articles or novels that I didn't need to look up to get the gist of what I was reading. Same for a few on the male list, I've never needed to do anything with a thermistor or servo so I can only assume I recognise those words from SF.
This argument comes up a lot, and while I ultimately don't agree with it, I still am sympathetic to it and I do think it has a grain of truth embedded in it.

Here's a question though: isn't that also a reason for Apple to hobble web browsers? Everything you're saying about app security and developers refusing to follow Apples rules also applies to progressive web apps unless Apple commits to making its browser meaningfully less powerful than native apps, and (importantly) meaningfully less powerful in ways that Microsoft/Amazon/Facebook actually care about.

That means you've kind of got to commit to the idea that web apps on iOS never get notification support, they never get intent support with other apps or the ability to handle opening resources, they never get support for good background audio or timers/alarms, they never get reliable clientside storage for offline usage without accounts. It's not just that you can't do low-level complicated sensor/GPU stuff, Apple has to hobble browser capabilities that make it good for reading news or setting timers.

Is that a world you're comfortable with? I know a reasonable number of people on HN are comfortable with that idea, just because they don't want the web to have application capabilities in the first place. But a lot of other people bring up the web as an alternative to the app store (Apple itself is fond of making that argument), and it makes me think -- if the web ever is a viable alternative for good apps on iOS, then the situation you're worried about already exists, doesn't it? Instead of the NYT distributing a native app that you subscribe to with Apple's system that gives you easy cancellation, instead you would get a PWA reader app that you pin to your homescreen and you subscribe through their web interface. The only way that doesn't work is if the experience of reading the NYT and getting notifications about new articles and saving your account details is a worse experience inside of a browser.

If what you're describing about companies removing user choice or forcing users to accept worse alternatives -- if what you're describing is an inevitable result of any serious, alternative user-facing app platform on iOS, then the only way Apple avoids that situation with the web is if it consciously commits to Safari being perpetually behind on standards and perpetually systemically and deliberately made worse as an app platform. That could either be through making sure the browser always lacks features or it could be achieved through other UX designs like blocking PWAs from showing up in app lists, making them unreliable to install, blocking their installation entirely in some cases, etc...

Is that an outcome that Apple users are comfortable with?
Indeed they shouldn't be able to know that without deliberately bypassing the phone's security features using vulnerabilities. Maybe confirmation bias is at play here?
Windows has the largest selection of desktop software among all OSes. In that sense is the more open.
My parents are tech illiterate, and very scared of being scammed. When I mention like “you can listen to any song you like, amongst millions” because I set up family sharing on their iphones, and ask them to use Apple Music they ask what does it look like. I then send them screenshots of my screen where I point out what Apple Music app icon looks like. Then in a few weeks I have a video call with them where I walk them through the interface.

I. I do want to be able restrict what they can install on their phones and it gives me a small peace of mind that nothing they install would outright steal their bank app’s credentials or all their passwords.
> completely divorced from all the details leading up to the conclusion

You seem to be the one completely divorced from anything that has been shown in these reviews. Hot, barely acceptable performance, abysmal battery, what?

Have you seen the competition, or are you just comparing it to some idealistic pipe dream of a handheld that just exists in your mind? I've seen nothing but cautious optimism and surprised at what Valve has managed to achieve with current tech and that price point.
Induction stoves do not offer that much of a precise temp control at all…

They all use PWM at a fixed stepped setting depending on the stove and most importantly they are far more dependent on the cookware.

Induction on 5 out of 10 can produce very different results when using different cookware for example steel vs cast iron not to mention the crappier induction ready aluminum cookware with a steel plate you get these days from various brands.

Gas has far more precision since it’s an analogue control from 0 to max and it outputs the same amount of BTU on the same setting.
This is a really good article, and I am confident that programs like these are one of the best tools we have to combat homelessness, just from personal experience. With that being said:

> Out of the group of nine people who were unhoused, six now have a place to live.

A sample size of 9 people is too small, especially when small programs like these might self-select for a certain kind of a homeless person. The kind who might be more recently-homeless, someone who is undergoing temporary battles and has a lot of fight left in them.
It may, and dare I say, does not work well with people trapped in a long cycle of homelessness and addiction.

I say this because this solution seems dangerously idealistic. All our politicians have over-complicated this, right? By creating shelters and food banks and benefit systems with complex bureaucracy? Surely, just handing money to people who need it should, on average, help people out, right?

But on a large scale, that is hardly ever the case. People addicted to drugs, living under terrible conditions, have far deeper problems that can be fixed with money and self-motivation. It doesn't mean these people are lazy, or made a choice to be there. But it also doesn't mean they have the capacity to self-start to get them out of the situation they are in.

I've always believed that things like UBI can only ever help prevent homelessness/proverty, or help out people on the edges of it. Which is definitely a huge upside, but it isn't a complete cure.
They Fought and Died for America. Then America Turned Its Back
Way to shoot the states in the foot that adopt this. Making companies/banks pledge to not divest in oil in exchange for the potential for contracts with those states just makes it easier to find who to avoid on a state contract level and who to sign contracts with to further future developments. Holding people at gunpoint just makes you look worse. EDIT: What a stupid hill to die on.
> Because it immediately led to an increase in anti-asian hate crimes.

I'm asking the following as seriously and as respectfully as I possibly can, and let it be known that I abhor all crime.

Was this anti-Asian hate crime story ever real, or was it a media narrative designed to bash Trump?

Just to play Devil's Advocate: what if crime rates in cities where many Asians tend to live are going up in general? How would you be able to distinguish between anti-Asian hate crimes increasing, and crime in general increasing? Is the rate of crimes against Asians going up relative to the rate of crimes against say Latinos or Whites or Blacks? Is the rate of crimes against Asians increasing more or less in say Red regions that might tend to be influenced by Trump's rhetoric versus Blue regions that might be less likely to tend to listen to his rhetoric? Has the media even bothered to ask this question and analyze the data, or were they quick to instantly rush to blame Trump for any Asian that was a victim of a random crime in order to score political points.

I don't know myself as it requires a lot more research than I can do right now, but what I can see as factual is that there are probably hundreds of stories about crime going up in the last couple of years for every big city.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/major-crimes-up-38-in-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/opinion/new-york-rising-c...

https://gothamist.com/news/why-are-shootings-and-murders-ris...

Just my 2 cents. The data might not indicate what the media says it does and I would say that we should recheck all of our initial premises about the last 6 years.
It’s xenophobic for the same reason that any ethnic or national joke can be: it takes an incidental fact (we believe that COVID originated in China) and mixes it into a stereotyped ethnic or national identity (kung fu is from China and Americans think of kung fu when they think of China).

Put another way: it takes our laziest view of a ethnicity and uses it to make light of a disease that we think came from there, one that everybody is unhappy about. It doesn’t take much to see the latent xenophobia in that.
I suspect the answer here is politics. Eearly into the pandemic, the lab-leak theory was being conveyed mostly by conservative voices.

This time article dives into this idea:
https://time.com/6051414/donald-trump-wuhan-laboratory-leak/
That use case is tough for this model for sure. You're not tempted to remote to some other box with more memory? It's not hard to buy / spin up a box.
Kind of sounds plausible but if Netflix can continue making good content it will survive in one form or another.

My fear is that eventually we'll get back to a cable model where some aggregator with enough power will combine all these offerings and sell that as a subscription.
In a chip shortage no less!
Anecdotal, but I had this problem for many years, I stuck to my existing (small) social circle which included no single women, and that social circle got increasingly small over the years as people moved away, settled down, etc. I moved somewhere where I didn't know anyone at all, and after a few months of just spending every waking moment alone, I just started going to the same place where people are and doing the same thing every day.

I think all it takes is going somewhere where people are and being friendly, somewhere that doesn't include existing friends and acquaintances, just sticking with it and not really caring who thinks what about you. Anywhere but a bar would be my criteria, and ideally not a commercial establishment. For me it was the local swimming pool in my community.
Unix was originally designed and developed by two men!
"This isn't some fringe crackpot theory - and it shouldn't ever have been treated as such."

A big concern was the bloodlust against China - and that by humouring this theory, there could be fatal consequences for Chinese nationals across the world, and a potential public desire for retribution.

I can understand why the theory was shut down - a large chunk of society isn't capable of understanding that "this is just one of those unfortunate occurrences. I can forgive this lie.
Yeah, and libraries are suckers too. I mean, they don't even try to check my bag to see if I'm walking out with a bunch of extra books.
a guy in his thirties dating for the first time will have troubles IF he didn't have good friendly social interactions BEFORE that with both women and men.
Here's a few:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/41065-reddit-auto-load-mor...

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/433321-comment-expander-fo...
I haven't django'd much, but to me a postgrest interface is very much different than having a bespoke app. With postgrest I can think of my app as interfacing with sql over a http translation layer, and things like authorization, data models, etc. are actually in the database.

I'm sure bespoke apps can be written to be as predictable and "database-like" as I found postgrest, but I haven't seen any.
I won't hold my breath. Still waiting for that IPv6 adoption and look where that's got me. ;)
I'm under the impression that movies are actually competitive. There are lots of studios and production companies.

Couldn't streaming be competitive too? (assuming "the internet" stays open)
Hi. Dad here. I don't care much about emotional or whatever support.

I do care very much about very practical things. For example right now I'm trying to figure out a way to protect my kid from all the insane and stupid things on the internet ... while at the same time allowing them access all the brilliant knowledge on the internet.

Current plan is two wifi routers one for kids one for adults. And the kids one has a firewall I maintain .. and I'll whitelist whatever sites they request (so long as they are good sites). This maybe is difficult to maintain though.
As I wrote elsewhere last week, there’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to be notified by the apps I do want to be notified by just because there are 10,000 websites I don’t want notifications from.
A dual-income family isn’t necessarily evidence that you need two incomes to survive. Rather, it just means there’s a lot of things out there to buy, so it's worth paying for childcare to earn more money.

It’s also a sign that the gender income gap decreased, because it’s worth both people’s time to work. It’s not worth womens’ time to work either when the family is poor (because they can’t earn much and might as well do home/childcare labor) or rich (because the amount one partner can add with a job effectively doesn't matter).

This means the easiest way to get back to a one-income family is to lower womens’ wages again, so you probably shouldn’t wish for it.
Ask HN: Calorie Expenditure During Coding?
Does anyone have any literature on software engineering tasks like coding and calorie expenditure?
I just want New Pipe, firefox with ublock and emulators on my iPhone/iPad. Put the side loading toggle behind a thousand warning screens, make me run 3km in 12 min to prove that I’m worth it.

But please allow it already or I’m out of the apple bandwagon on my next purchase.
For a small, low-speed single-purpose device like this, a self-test function can determine if the whole unit is a reject. There's no assembly into a larger system, where you want to detect bad parts before you build up a board. For a pure security device, the less internal access, the better.
You don't get adapted to human via spreading through hACE2 expressing mice.

You get adapted to humans via serial passage through humans.

> none of hundreds of millions of wild animals that could have brought this about have been found.

Based on the headline article it sounds to me like China has found them but they're not releasing that information publicly.

It is probably an important factory farmed animal in China and they do not want to shut down the trade or have international pressure force them to shut down the trade. It may be as politically attractive to them as the idea that Obama should have shut down pig farming and ban bacon and pork chops if the 2009 H1N1 pandemic had been 10 or 100 times worse.
> Speaking personally, the only thing I want to sideload is Mame (assuming an iOS version exists).

It does, and you can sideload it by following the "Building / Installation / Sideloading" instructions at https://github.com/yoshisuga/MAME4iOS.