skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From a human psychology POV it's absolutely fascinating (in the sense of being an open puzzle that compels one to ask deep questions).

That's exactly what I mean! :D

Some other poster pointed out it's "terrifying" too ... and he's not wrong either. lol

Great post! Thank you!
> hardware

The person said GNOME is like Mac OS. They didn't say their laptop is like a Mac.

> software

Insomuch that GNOME is not Mac OS, and Mac OS is not GNOME, yes that's true.

> user experience

Is a personal preference. There are a lot of completely asinine choices on both GNOME and Mac OS, and it usually comes down to what you are used to and what you are willing to tolerate.

> design

see above.

> ecosystem

this is definitely a huge thing. I personally prefer to stay without any ecosystem because I consider it putting all my eggs in one large basket, but the convenience is undeniable.
To vroom or not to vroom? Automakers craft new sounds for EV performance cars
Please tell me what else it's a contraction of. :)
I made Kubuntu my main OS a long time ago, and I play a lot of (thanks to Valve, Steam, Wine and Proton...) games, and I never experienced a game freezing. My experience it's so good, that I only touch Windows to play Fornite.

The only annoying bug/problem that I have actually, it's that Dolphin could have a erratic behavior if I had mounted a SMB folder via an VPN and I end the VPN before un-mounting the SMB folder.
We manually verify all the startups & as it happens, 60% of the startups on our lists don't have crunchbase profiles.
As a farmer myself, I agree that there are too many people in the industry, if you want economic efficiency. Frankly, it provides really great money per hour, making software look poorly paid in comparison, but you quickly run out of work to do because there are so many other farmers trying to do the same. Thus, incomes tend to be low when observed on a yearly basis. I don't know many farmers who wouldn't love to take on more work.
The unreasonable effectiveness of data-oriented programming
> life was harder back then, which made people tougher

Unintuitively, harder lives don't make people tougher. Intuitively, they make people more exhausted and traumatized. Look at how functional people were back then when they were elderly (though that could be due to other aspects of health). Look at anyone who has had a hard life; they wear down.

Similarly, children, contrary to some pop politico-psychology, generally grow stronger if they feel safer. Unsafe kids are scared to face the world and often never develop an inner sense of security. Trauma leaves wounds that sometimes never heal. Safe kids feel like they can brave the world, and they internalize that sense of safety that their parents model and give them.
>Get someone to build a VC only Twitter clone, put their garbage opinions there and satisfy the need to post.

Already done (LinkedIn clone, but close enough), by an HN user too:
https://www.shlinkedin.com/
kdiff3 is my preferred tool, although homebrew doesn't offer M1 compiled binaries yet.
I’d say it’s more like - people who are trying to convince themselves that they want something. They try to pitch you a lower price - you work with them on it. Maybe find a more reasonable ground… then they’re like, “well actually I live 100 miles away. Can we meet halfway?”

And maybe you work with them on that and they’re like, “ok but I actually have a commitment tomorrow and can only meet at 3:30am and if there’s a waning crescent moon hovering above us…”

The demands get longer. It’s clear they’re not actually interested. They’re just testing their own waters and are time wasters.
(e.g. "Gy" -- is it giga-years, or gray)

In my opinion this is not a real problem, since ideally no-one should such meaningless abbreviations in code. Just write giga_years or GigaYears or whatever your style is, problem solved, doesn't get any clearer than that.
I don’t know about you but I find it extremely hard to watch this video as the guy is constantly screaming and faking emotions.
And that's exactly why OP asked for GPU encoder, those are low-latency and if the resulting stream requires less bandwidth it means that there can be fewer packets on the network, meaning lower absolute re-transmits (the networks relative error rate is the same independent of the data transferred) and faster transmission for slower networks, i.e., in general also lower latency as by-product; latency, available bandwidth and packet amount are often coupled.
Well, no. There are language's default unit is milliseconds.

The foundation of web, javascript is one of them. Send seconds in api to a frond-end without documenting is just confusing and hugely ambiguous.

And it makes more sense from the GUI's perspective. What did you mean paint next frame after 0.016s? Isn't it much easier to read when write it as 16ms?
I’ve used vast.ai many times over several years. I use the “top up” approach. Never any unsanctioned payments.
Didn't know ivermectin was antibacterial as well!
Weight barely matters for top speed. Air drag is the real factor.
That really sounds like worse to me.
Got it! Will keep an eye on it, and post back here when there is a Nuclear explosion...
Tbh - I kinda prefer this sometimes. I will set an ambitious price and then slowly lower it over the course of 3-4 weeks. Eventually someone bites and I’ll usually get higher than any email I’ve been sent before.

I get a lot of low effort people who want you to drive everything to them and pay bottom dollar (even though I’m very centrally located). Super annoying.
200 years is a lot. To put it in perspective, the Industrial Revolution started 250 years ago in England.

But feel free to disagree, of course. The evidence doesn't care if you don't agree with it. It's still there, for everyone to see.
The bible is the story of Israel, the life of Jesus, and the birth of the new testament church. It is history, teaching, prophecy and songs. The penny dropped for me many years ago that because it says it in the bible doesn't mean God is happy about it. Just as I am not happy about my own mistakes or many of the goings on in the world today.
It will be interesting to see if Google will include AV1 encoder in their Pixel Phone and eventually give away hardware AV1 encoder IP.

But Google has never been a coherent company.
Spinning LED Hologram
Russia maybe loses-ground battle for Mykolaiv: Seeks to Crush what it can't have
Considering Apple's love for proprietary everything and their large market share, I wouldn't be surprised to see them roll out their own codec in SW and HW, same how they developed Metal instead of using the open Vulkan.
The thing that happened, which you astutely pointed out, is not related to universities at all. What happened has been called cost disease but is perhaps better known as inflation. The trouble with talking about inflation is that the most commonly-reported figures are based on a consumer basket of goods which have seen skyrocketing leaps in productivity which has kept their prices down, relative to everything else. This productivity increase could largely be attributed to advances in technology due to the tech industry. However, if you look at other parts of the economy which are proven to be resistant to automation, you don't see those same productivity increases.

And that's the problem! Go for a haircut and you can see the effect on a micro scale. Hair salons and barbershops have remained almost entirely unchanged for decades, yet the price of a haircut has skyrocketed. Why is that? Because you wouldn't be able to hire any hairdressers at $2/hour. Haircuts are more expensive because hairdressers need more money to live. Rent has gotten more expensive for hairdressers, just as it has for everyone else.

Increases in productivity due to automation have generated vast amounts of new wealth. It's the overall increase in wealth which has driven up real estate prices and the cost of rent. Replace the hairdresser in the above example with a doctor or a lecturer and the situation remains the same. The services of these jobs/professions have become dramatically more expensive because:

a) They cannot be automated to achieve the productivity gains seen in other sectors.

b) If wages in these sectors were to remain flat then they would see an exodus of workers to other sectors.

c) Some costs in life, such as shelter, are fixed by the availability of land. Land is finite but the demand for land continues to grow. This issue has been discussed extensively here on HN but all of the solutions I've seen are temporary. Ultimately, we could turn the entire planet into Coruscant and we would still see rent prices going up!
Not a domain expert but the depth of the water / depth of bedrock is going to be factor
M1 Mac Mini. It's like 2-3x cheaper, and already great.. (I don't understand how the OS and apps on M1 are so much more responsive than a equivalent-multi-core Intel)

Don't game on macOS though, so use the leftover cash to buy a decent gaming PC (or get in line for a Steam Deck)
Show HN: Nuxt-speedkit 2.0 – even faster and easier to implement
Interesting. Maybe a reputation system where you pay a significant escrow that will be lost with spam reputation? But it must be optionally set by recipients, otherwise no one will use it.
Getting a talent visa in the UK for mortals
Installation is utterly broken and hopeless on Linux. Let's not pretend like it's in any way ready for the general consumer. Including Ubuntu, the "flagship" poster boy for widescale adoption of Linux.

We're more likely to see people going back to dumb-terminals with GUIs being streamed to their ChromeOS from a server running linux than we are to see people using Linux.
> Unit tests should test behavior.

Yes, they should but often they do not. The likelihood to get it right is higher using an outside-in approach.
Just live in GMT+0. Easy!
Thanks for replying, much appreciated. I admit that my interest primarily goes towards desktop application and my comment was made from that angle. Regarding conditional instructions on in-order microarchitecture: I neither have a strong opinion nor am I familiar with the discussion. Intuitively at least, conditional instructions do seem like a useful tool for simple in-order CPUs, but as you point out instruction fusion can be used to solve a lot of things. It’s a question of tradeoffs, and it is not obvious to me what cost these tradeoffs bring. It does seem that RISC-V will need to more heavily rely on operation fusion to achieve better performance and efficiency (as opposed to something like ARM where some patters are already “pre-fused” in the ISA). The time will tell. I don’t think that any of these are trivial.
This statement made me think: "The database should be part of the tests. Do not stub it".

Databases are both 1) complex piece of software and 2) hard to stub.
5-10 years ago having a database for testing was expensive.
Today you don't need to pay licenses for most databases, and you can spin a disposable one in a container. Easier than mocking the DB itself.
> And lots of applications still don't support it for screensharing (looking at you slack).

Good point. This is the only issue keeping me from using Wayland, because OBS just won't work with it yet.
Iirc steam only bans porn games with real people due to legislation regarding keeping track of the actors in the material.

It's been a long time since they blocked any other legal porn.
There is a workaround for screen sharing but I couldn't find any for the drag n drop issue.
There is no reason for ms to care about any of these issues while users keep paying for Windows, either through new PC builds or directly. It doesn't help that in many cases there is no viable alternative for users.
Works really well together with the stock YouTube app.

It would be nice if one of the alternative apps would be able to cast to SmartTubeNext as well.
> humanities are fun but for many people getting an education it's not worth the cost-benefit analysis

Humanities are more important than STEM. Humanities deal with the world and yourself on issues that aren't quantifiable, which is most of the issues in life and in the world, including at work.

> if our goal is to improve the earning potential of young adults with the minimum financial burden

Again, life is much, much more than jobs - you are much, much more than what you do for some corporation - and early jobs are the least important ones. It's all so absorbed in the corporate perspective: your only value, your existence, is for serving the corporation. And it puts people permanently in that class, as servents rather than as the powerful - the citizens of a democracy, to whom the corporations report.

I think if more people studied the humanities, it would be brazenly obvious. It's craven on the part of the powerful and corporations.
> It baffles me that our markets are so inefficient that it’s 125% more effective for me to take time off my ‘highly skilled’ engineering job to do ‘low skilled’ renovation/repair work myself.

I don’t think it’s particularly baffling. A large class of jobs, including the trades and so-called “low skilled” professions, are in very high demand - which indicates that what they do is valuable to a lot of people - and while you could theoretically do their job yourself, many people simply don’t want to “get their hands dirty.”

In my opinion that’s a good thing by the way. People who do jobs that are important for us and few people want to do should be paid accordingly.
The alternative, ""holistic"" admissions process was conceived for the sole reason that colleges were becoming "too Jewish". Today, that same system is being leveraged against Asian Americans, and is now even less transparent and straightforward. It is full of hateful biases and overt racism
No body is saying it does not work per se. But how many test suite have you seen which are less helpful?
This die includes RAM. On a traditional motherboard the ram is further away from the cpu than in here. Same story for GPU.
Those sort of shenanigans will be illegal in EU soon hopefully.
Me too. Watch it without the audio =) The hardware is interesting, his opinions/emotions not so much.
AFAICT, there is no particular reason to believe that locality is the way things actually work, so the whole discussion is kind of irrelevant.
What type of industry/product do you work in/on? And what sort of languages do you work in?
This is one of the reasons why I love F#, baked in support for units of measures. So instead of having to rename the function to include the unit I can just declare it to take the type `int<second>` and the compiler will complain if you try to pass an `int` or an `int<minute>` unless you declare an explicit conversion between the units.
There are multiple linked studies, the first BMJ infection article at least seems to be positive in its conclusions about it.

("CONCLUSION: A trained dog was able to detect C difficile with high estimated sensitivity and specificity, both in stool samples and in hospital patients infected with C difficile.")
It's essentially a pitch for the Wolfram Physics Project. How useful is it to work through a system which has some probability $p$ of modelling the basic nature of the universe to some degree $d$? Reasonable people may reasonably differ on the answer depending on $p$ and $d$, and on the values of $p$ and $d$ in any given instance.
I'm not sure I have any specific anxiety but I find out that I'm really really easy to be distracted.
Please give an example. Plenty of religious beliefs overlap with the beliefs of the non-religious, not to mention non-Christian beliefs.
Another project recently sabotaged intentionally is node-ipc. I'm surprised the article didn't mention it.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/sabot...
No, you are right. It’s just frustrating that there is almost no information on this topic. The only data I was able to find is a very short paper from 2017 that compares code density for some simple use cases. The results suggest that Aarch64 and compressed RISC-V are in the same ballpark. I would like to see this looked at over larger and more complex code bases.
Hm, I'd hire a RTWH, Saclay or ETH graduate over a graduate from every single US university anytime. They seem better grounded in reality, look for solutions instead of 'visions' and actually understand math. But that's just me.
Don't worry, they will catch up and exceed the others. Everyone has to start their adult life experience somewhere, and there is prize for doing it sooner. Note who runs the world for the most part.
> Now you’re just arguing in bad faith.

In what way? I'm just characterising you argument from the point of view of the victims of the crime, who you appear quite happy to throw under the bus.
I started using it (about 4 or 5 years ago, I think) mostly because I really don't like tearing. I never got a completely tearing-free Xorg setup working for me.
Isn't the problem this is trying to solve fan noise?
Being able to teach is very different from the troubles of grading. I do enjoy teaching. But grading is draining and extremely time consuming. The only way it isn't extremely time consuming is to do it in a half assed manner. Which is why that is likely so common. Honestly, being inside academia I think one of the big reasons for grade inflation is simply because the effort it takes to grade seriously (and other academic politics that couple with this create bad incentive structures where you aren't focused on teaching nor on research).
Lynx? Lynx still works for a lot of sites I frequent.
I don't think the parent meant to exclude hecto-pascals from their hypothetical type system.
With respect, OP isn't talking about hobby farms here.

Five acres is a great lifestyle and some nice tax benefits, but not a career.
Nah, your processes are just terrible. They might be “industry standard”, but so was storing plaintext credit card information.

>This is doubling down with more poorly considered assumptions and demonstrating an overwhelming lack of knowledge about security process

Sorry, but no. I’ve worked in this field for two decades. What you’re describing is meaningless security theatre meant to appease the people paying your salaries.
> “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

To this end, I find it somewhat funny how people still believe Microsoft has a redemption arc.
> just because someone is doing a menial work it does not mean that they should not have a access to higher education

I agree completely, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
It put me off Windows years ago. Though it was the constant battle with alert boxes, popups and other windows that stole focus that put me over the edge. If my computer doesn't let me type text undisturbed, why do even use that tool?
Out of curiosity, what is the big difference of AV1 vs h264 and HEVC / x265 ?

As someone who mainly cares about blu-ray / large movies, I was under the impression that HEVC was becoming the gold standard. Is that not the case, and/or is AV1 the next iteration, and/or do they solve different problems?
No, it's not your fault and that's not what I'm saying. I also think people often fall victim to selective amnesia for what doesn't work well on their Windows or macOS machines. Off-hand I can recount an Xbox app that will fully freeze my system often enough to be annoying and a macOS work machine that would completely freeze when waking up from deep sleep while docked to my monitor.

What I am saying is that most people looking to make comparisons should start by comparing Linux-shipped machines for a baseline standard. I've just told you that everything on my XPS 13 Developer Edition shipped fully working, without any user intervention. Am I the lier and your Medium article the true arbiter? That's up to you to decide. But maybe go out there and give one a shot yourself that isn't ancient, like a Framework (Framework is Linux-supported but not shipped; other alternatives include the Star Labs' line, System76, and Tuxedo) and tell me your experience. You can always install Windows after.
Everyone can go to FOS or the BOS to get further educated.

I went to Realschule, made a 3 year apprenticeship as a software engineer and went for 2 further years to bos.

I'm now able to study.
Of course it's constantly in flux, but that doesn't mean the flux is always in a "good" direction.

I mean, the belief system of Germany in WW2 went off the rails and a good portion of the population agreed, but I think we can all admit it didn't evolve into a "better" system.
I think any developer that could long moved from their ecosystems by now. You can see that if you try to get technical knowledge.

I can imagine that there are many departments that have to continually justify their existence and management tries to find the one-hit wonder that gets users engaged. All these departments try to have their dejure product integrated into Windows to have a chance to pump up their KPI.

You should be able to tell an operating system that it is not allowed to phone home. That is not possible in Windows, on the contrary, they have increased their spying dramatically. It has been a adversarial relationship for a long time by now and I don't see any attempts to change course or anyone that really cares for the platform. Their corporate integration and PC gaming keeps Windows relevant for now, but people will look elsewhere.
It doesn't, unless you want to construe it in an extreme, argumentative way. There's an HN guideline about this.
It took me a while to see "Advanced, without the ad(s)"
The direct comparison today would be the Mac Pro which has both a very well designed (though not super bespoke) interior, and is accessible to users too.
This is a very valid argument. Go has this time.Second duration type that is used often and it helps a lot understand things. But things like Js/Pure Ruby have just raw numbers where you have to either check docs or just remember that sleep takes miliseconds or seconds etc.

It seems types are useful piece of information. Who would expect?
"... puts a pro-evolution spin on ..." was a red flag.

Ontogeny really does more-or-less recapitulate phylogeny, albeit with lots of alterations and varied rates for different body parts. So, you can't really conclude very much about phylogeny from details of it, but that doesn't matter, because nobody does.

You can still understand, from the concept, about the nerve to your larynx looping around under your aorta: during development, it's a straight line, like in a fish, and the nerve grows straight across, but then everything moves around afterward, and so ends up looped under. It's a bigger problem for giraffes.
> Unemployment for migrant workers means they won't come so that isn't a problem.

It is a problem for them. They wouldn't come if it weren't economically advantageous to do so. Losing those jobs leaves them worse off, at least in the short term.
“Vaccine effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines to prevent COVID-19-associated hospitalizations included: 85% (95% CI: 82 to 88%) for 2 vaccine doses against Alpha; 85% (95% CI: 83 to 87%) for 2 doses against Delta; 94% (95% CI: 92 to 95%) for 3 doses against Delta; 65% (95% CI: 51 to 75%) for 2 doses against Omicron; and 86% (95% CI: 77 to 91%) for 3 doses against Omicron.”

Less effective, but not ineffective, especially after a booster.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8845432/
Sway works pretty much perfectly for everything I throw at it (which is mostly alacritty, emacs, firefox and chromium). If you can stomach minimalism, give it a try.

In my opinion, it represents a significantly better UI than Gnome/KDE/MacOS/Windows paradigms. So much that it's probably the largest reason why I live mostly in Linux land instead of Mac right now.