skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We’re talking about 18 year old kids who are absolutely not well-informed and their knowledge about the military will be what the recruiter tells them.

I mean there weren't front-page news stories about the US bombing weddings and schools in the past few years? I am not sure we should be underestimating 18yos that much.

They don't need critical thinking skills to know that America has bombed kids and schools and weddings and stuff in the past willy-nilly. Also, 18yo won't be going onto a drone the day after. This happens after years of training and remaining in the military, is it really fair to plead ignorance after all that?
A friend of mine has more or less developed a niche for his business on handling cancellations via verified digital signatures (Lawyers of the companies on the receiving end tried to put up roadblocks and deny this initially but all of them seems to have relented afaik).
As far as I know - 3.1 Gen 2 is what 3.1 would have been called if they named it properly, 3.1 Gen 1 is equivalent to 3.0. (the 3.0 line is 3.2g1/3.1g1/3.0, the 3.1 line is 3.2g2/3.1g2, and 3.2 is 3.2g2x2?)

At this point I'm certain the confusion is intentional
> I don’t know, I’ve been laughing at him for 20 years and nothing bad ever happened because of that. How is it unwise?

[anecdotal]

luck has nothing to do with being wise.

anyway, I think unwise in this context means that RMS has been right more times than he's been wrong.

And very few of those laughing at him have ever asked for forgiveness for laughing at him or recognize that we owe to him some of the benefits of living in the modern computer era.

https://banksyexplained.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/LAUGH...

> The average teenage gamer does not care

that's why kids have neck beard parents to care (by law) about their future and safety.
"Writing for reader to NOT asking more questions" is my way of communication now.
That’s why there are efforts like the Uniform Commercial Code to harmonize basic laws across all 50 states. Unfortunately many aspects of it are stacked against consumers like UCITA that enables abusive software licensing practices.
Try Uber in Stambul. The driver will send a message asking where are you going and ask for double the Uber fare or will cancel the order. They don't care about their ratings.

Uber in California and Russia (it's actually Yandex.Taxi for quite some time here) works great.
> around the world

I am curious. What conflicts or wars is the Chinese governemnt funding around the world or is involved in? Who are the Afghans or Yemenis of the Chinese government?
However, as has been a point of discussion here for the last several years, the SaaS services themselves are often as much "leeches" as the users when it comes to open source.
draw.io - open source and also available as software to run offline
People in the comments are so quick to be snarky, but this is all really good advice.
> I can't understand why they did not put some kind of capability mark for cables/ports into the spec.

You're talking about a completely different thing from cables that claim to handle a certain speed but aren't built well enough to actually do so.
Sure, software of the past wasn't that much better, but relative to hardware it ran on it was much more performant.

I think the main point of his view is that with current hardware advances we should be able to have a cake and eat it too. We can have both the features and the speed, but we don't care about that. The only thing that matters is to be first.
IQ doesn't peak at any age, since its defined so that you can't really compare between people (or if you believe in such things “races“) with different (average) ages. I'm not sure why such a measurement would become the standard one for intelligence as it seems a bit useless by design.
He was vindicated by modern science.

His "delusions" were that epigenetics exist and are heritable. (His opponents took a polar, more hardline stance that only genetic information is relevant for phenotype expression.)

See more here: https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=heritable%20epigene...
> Data shows that if you don't eat breakfast, you're going to eat fewer calories overall that day.

Interesting that that's 'science', because that's definitely my experience. I generally have 2 meals a day, skipping breakfast (maybe a late brunch), but if I do for some reason have an early/'normal' breakfast I find I'm really hungry the rest of the day, want an early lunch, want supper at a more normal time (otherwise left to my own devices I shift quite late in the day).

> "In the 1950s breakfast becomes how we recognise it today: cereal and toast. Prior to that we were happy to eat a piece of bread with jam."

An odd quote? Quite a generalised personal preference?
Self help is a bit like fad diets. It's a painkiller for a burning problem. It works instantly, and often for a few months, but suddenly you're at a point where you're no better off than not following it.

It's still useful to have all the comments around to judge the pros and cons of a technique, but HN leans cynical, so it's often not that useful either.
I'm always down for this kind of science. We actually did a similar experiment with rum a while ago, I was of the opinion that spirits denatured a little after they'd been open a while and didn't taste as nice, others disagreed and so we did an experiment.

Two bottles of rum were bought and stored for several months, one unopened and one opened with a modest amount imbibed from it. Then a brand new one was bought as a control. For each round of testing, while the rest of us were out of the room we had a volunteer pour out and label a sample per bottle per tester and record the labels before randomizing their order. Each tester then tried each of their samples and wrote down which bottle we thought the sample had come from. Afterwards we cross referenced the guesses with the original samples.

The end results were inconclusive but indicated that there wasn't much if any difference. My new hypothesis is that the effect I observed was actually due to the coke I was using as a mixer getting stale but much more data is needed.
I understand money and material wealth is very important for some people. Well, not everyone think this way. You can't buy happiness with money.

Traveling and learning new languages may help to see things from another perspective.
perhaps reading speed?
> and I question life experience formed in the cold war,

It's not like russia is a nuclear armed threat actively leading a war that everyone is afraid to intervene in right now...

The rest of your comment here is just nonsensical name calling and assuming anyone older is automatically homophobic and racist. This kind of childish behaviour is why there are minimum ages for offices.
Convince me you care about the answer. This is a Turing Test.

EDIT: You're doing pretty well so far, your delay is quite human. On the other hand, leetcodesucks replied to you quoting you as saying “Who hurt you” did you post and edit it out? You actually need to speak on your own behalf there, accusations in response to accusations are like questions in response to questions. I'm thinking of ways to flag you for human review, get the operator on the line. You can call that the Cussen Test, can a human reach the human behind the bot. It involves judging correctly if there is a human behind the bot, and giving up if there isn't. Bots are a myth, if you write with code it's not a bot writing, it's still a human, the man behind the curtain. Automated slander is still slander.

We're both flunking our tests.
How Sequoia’s Shailendra Singh Pushed Out Zilingo’s Ankiti Bose
For me stoicism was more of a stop along the path, and for now zen buddhism is where I'm at.

The main issues I had with stoicism was that 1) it struck me as a bit too much tied to a particular type of person (that I am perhaps not), and 2) while much more practical than the faith I grew up with, it still often felt a bit too much stuck with aphorisms and not enough of an entire 'system'.

I found zen, even without the support of a community, to scratch a bit more of that itch I felt every since I left the comprehensive religion that I was part of.

That said, I do love the stoics.
CentOS was popular, but Red Hat still made billions of dollars in revenue.
If they actually thought that, they wouldn’t have adopted a poison pill policy. The only purpose that serves is to prevent what you say won’t happen.
The deal with these devices is they have the compute power of a Pentium III from 1999 or a Raspberry Pi 2 from 2015.

It’s enough for an embedded system, but vastly underpowered for desktop computing or web browsing.
Even further off topic, but you may be surprised to learn how much culture the imperial powers erased within their own countries. Take a country like France: it's hard to believe that French wasn't the majority language until almost the 20th century. Now look at it - many of the regional languages are extinct or endangered with French overwhelmingly dominant. Think that this was a peaceful and consensual process? Think again!
People seem to be prone to settling on a set of beliefs because they give them predefined answers and relieves them of some cognitive load.
I didn’t think the article debated the ‘goodness’ of Uber. I thought they were debating the inflated market cap (valuation) compared to the business model. It’s an old argument- should you value it like a tech company where costs are minute portion of revenue and price/earnings multiples are high 30-100 or as a staffing company where you’ll always only make a small cut of the driver fees- where valuation multiples
Are usually 3-5 times earnings
Show HN: Personal Website with Rive Animations
I have been learning JavaScript for over a year now and thought I'd try combining my new skill with animation/design, so I made this personal website with interactive animations made with Rive.
> Some people get their first reading glasses at 40 other’s 60, that’s a huge range.

It's a lot wider than that. I'm 66 and don't need glasses yet, neither for reading nor driving, but one of my children, aged thirty, does.
Hey! You should check out Zillum- a family email and collaboration service, with a custom domain. https://www.zoho.com/zillum/
I work for Zoho, and I am obviously a little biased towards an offering like this from them, but honestly it works great for my own personal family accounts, with the same robustness and security of the business apps.
A Few years ago I started getting migraines. A whiff of perfume or equivalent can in seconds give a massive headache that lasts for a week.

I have more tolerance since I’ve found and addressed the dozen other triggers. But a random whiff can cost me a week of work.
> (or cable!)

Recently, I tried to find a Displayport-compatible cable and went through three (admittedly on the cheap side) cables that claimed to support it but didn't - in the end, I just bought a certified Thunderbolt 3 cable to avoid any ambiguity in whether they included all the wires or not
I am 61 and due to a nature of my job (creating products for clients and my own company) do nothing but constantly learn and invent things. I see no signs of slowing down and my clients seem to be happy with my solutions.

I am however lazy for example to learn some things that are valued by many people but what I consider useless. But I was like that as long as I can remember myself.
Given the context of our whole conversation surely you knew what I meant
On leaving Turkey (2021)
I'm old enough to remember parity bits and FEC, so I know that the number of bits per data byte might be 8, but the number of bits required to transmit a single byte might be more than 8, and the number of bytes needed to transmit a frame of data might also be higher than the number of bytes of payload within the frame.

I know next to nothing about modern serial protocols, but nevertheless as a rule of thumb, and absent any other information, I tend to use 10 bits per byte when converting bits per second to bytes per second.

Saves disappointment if nothing else.
I said absolutely nothing about government.

Millions of small business owners, me including, make these kind (and other) mistakes all the time for various reasons. We are all very much fallible and don't go out of business because most of the time our mistakes don't have huge consequences and everyone else makes their own mistakes too.
Ask HN: Why don't podcast apps fix speech impediments (e.g., lisps) using AI?
This could be optional so I doubt anyone will mind.
Cities Skylines have a good walking and cycling modeling alongside an excellent public transport system. You can totally create a city with really little trafic. Even industrial trafic can be done essentially via rail or via seaway. It seems that most (all?) actors in the game will prefer your infrastructures over the road as long as they are more efficient. You can now even add toll gates on the road to make the incentive even stronger.
I don't disagree that these things should be acknowledged and taught, but only in the proper setting. Constantly hammering every existing racial disparity into a child's mind is what I'm concerned about. Math isn't a place for this, history and social studies is.
That's my conclusion, too. Our sense of time is defined not in seconds but in terms of events, and our perception of the passage of time is defined in proportion to the total number of events we've experienced.

It reminds me of that statement in Starship Troopers (the book): "The death rate's the same for us as for anyone. One person, one death, sooner or later."
Seriously, how can the most used game engine not add proper multiplayer support in 20 years. They announced Netcode for game objects this year which seems OK but even that has "Clientside prediction" in "under consideration" category, any proper realtime multiplayer game on the market has this feature and rollback netcode isn't even under consideration. So if they achieve their goals, they will have a system that is good for at most indie games after 20 years.
Lithium Sulfur Batteries
> Taxis died because it's a horrible user experience

And in small cities/towns, getting a taxi was nearly impossible a lot of the times. And if you did get one, you had to have cash. In my 20s I had the personal phone numbers of a couple who ran a car service. I would only ride with them after another taxi home (probably unlicensed) where the driver was drinking smh.

I wonder how many DUIs have been avoided since Uber came about.

People always point out big cities, but forget how abysmal taxis were in small towns.
> Tho, those unreasonable men also fairly often cause quite a lot of damage to their own causes and to world in general

did they?

I think that in history those that caused quite a lot of damage to the World are those that laughed at unreasonable men, thinking they could not achieve anything substantial.

Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead or wearing toothbrush moustache, is purely coincidental
Yep. My dad did this when I was young. as I got older I found I had to do the exact same. One of my kids is the same. Autoimmune issues are so much fun.
You are underestimating the capacity of the human body. A healthy human body can perfectly well maintain blood sugar levels with or without eating food regularly.
Again, using your definition, savings must be limited to cash, physical cash, in a mattress. It cannot be even in a checking or a savings account as those are technically variable-coupon perpetual bonds. [1] CDs are bonds too. The only reason they're not listed as bonds is there is a carve-out in securities law that if they're issued by banks, they're exempt from registration. They're not really zero risk, because in theory, the FDIC could go under. They won't but for the purposes of our discussion, a bond or bond fund in a brokerage account is the same as a savings or checking account. So then why is one "savings" and one "investment?"

> From the saver’s perspective, it’s idle.

That's just a fun illusion, not a useful or meaningful distinction.

> If you are holding more than 100% of your total net worth in assets, the cash in your bank account isn’t yours, nor is anything else above that 100%.

Nope, it's mine - because the margin loan is collateralized by the contents of my portfolio. The cash that comes out is separate. Nobody has a claim on my cash but me - if there's a 90% drawdown across all markets my portfolio will be liquidated to cover, but the cash will remain mine.

According to investopedia the only real difference between savings and investments - as they view them - is liquidity, risk profile and time horizon. All of which you can achieve in a brokerage account by constructing your portfolio to meet your goals.

The thing is, saved currency will go down in value unless deployed because the point is to save your value. You can save your value in all sorts of ways, but currency ain't it. One keeps a small cash cushion in the event of emergencies, but you're paying a premium for that liquidity (inflation - interest).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QgKM8MtbBQ
It turns into a terrible thing when you sense an arrhythmia. Suddenly your brain tries to tell you that you're dying and then a panic attack ensues, which just makes you feel even worse.
Ask HN: How did you learn a new programming language as an experienced dev?
Hi folks,

I'm a JS dev and I would like to learn a new language. Probably Python or Go.

How did you learn a new programming language as an experienced dev? What was your approach?

Do you know an interactive website that explains different language features or design patterns using JS code fragments and their Python / Go equivalents?

It seems like a good approach to shorten my learning curve.
Unfortunately, I didn't find a good one so far.

Thx.
Does anyone have any insights on this apparent discovery?
I believe that their pricing will keep their potential customer base too small to remain commercially viable. I'm sure you've seen a supply and demand curve before. The optimal price point isn't where the price is highest, because then no one buys the product/service. It's actually where sufficient customers can afford the product/service to maximise profit. There are very few people willing to pay $30/month for a search engine. Even if Kagi can convince 1,000 people to do so, I do not believe $30,000 a month in revenue will even keep the lights on.

It is highly likely that $5/month, for example, would attract millions of users, and $25 million/month would certainly keep the lights on.
I read or heard somewhere (maybe some Schwarzenegger speech?), that only 25% of the people are happy with their jobs. If the rest of the people drags themselves through the workday ... I guess you get used to the frustration at some point and have to completely separate/compartmentalize that from private life, otherwise you get into a life crisis or something. As a society we definitely owe it to ourselves to find better jobs for people and create less frustrating work environments. As to how to achieve that though, I do not have the answer.
FWIW it's actually 500MB theoretical (ideal), because USB uses a 8/10 encoding[0], until 3.1 Gen 2 which switches to a 128/132 encoding[1].

So you have a 5Gb/s physical signal, then a 25% encoding overhead, for a raw data throughput of 537MB/s.

Once framing and protocol overhead are taken in account, mid-400s effective is probably a good result.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b_encoding
people getting a slight glimpse of korean work culture, top-down old school butts in the seat type stuff. it's changing but there's a long way to go.
Can lawyers be trusted with this? Do they also properly manage their own death and other events? I don't have any experience and I'm genuinely curious how all this works.
On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to Be Impressed
I'd like to see the ALGOL group writing "we're faster and leaner than fortran" while writing their spec and no compiler to run tests against. I struggle to follow.
If only he did not resort to using political means instead of science to push his views, he could have been considered a visionary (like Vernadsky or Oparin).

Instead, he's just a criminal and a fraud.
I think intermittent fasting is way more sustainable. You are also achieving roughly the same thing, because your body does ketosis anyway as soon as you stop eating for even a short amount of time e.g while sleeping. "keto" diet is just trying to find a way to allow you to continuously eat without breaking it.

I only do IF in terms of eating one main meal a day, i've never intentionally done this, i'm just not a morning person, and lunch always felt optional - However I've noticed quite clearly that even a small sugar-laced high-carb snack will destroy this for the day, e.g if I decide to have a croissant one morning as I occasionally do (not because i'm particularly hungry but because it looks damn tasty), then I have to accept that today i'm going to be more hungry and want to eat more - it's these big sugary carbs outside of meal time that keep everyone's hunger up by switching off ketosis. For comparison, having a few nuts is a much better snack, it doesn't make you more hungry because you are able to continue burning fat afterwards.
> Imagine making the same argument for 7 year old chimney sweeps in Victorian England, and the flaw in your argument becomes more obvious.

It doesn't make it any more obvious to me. That 7 year old Victorian chimney sweep still has to eat. If society doesn't have the infrastructure to take care of them, then the other alternative is to starve, possibly to death.

Refusing to hire these workers only makes things better if doing so also results in a real pressure to provide said infrastructure. It seems unlikely that would be the case both with the chimney sweep and the rickshaw cyclist (at least in the short term).
You're pretty much on the dot: what you're thinking of is 8b/10b encoding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding) and it's exactly what USB uses historically.

Recent standard revision (USB 3.1 Gen 2, as well as USB 3.2 Gen 2x2) switch to a more efficient 128b/132b encoding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b_encoding), with ~3% encoding overhead rather than the historical 25.
> maybe some problems with schools will actually get addressed

You're basically saying you mostly care about problems you have experienced, while complaining that other generations don't understand you (without any basis, I might add). That's pretty self-centered.
You seem to already have the assumption that covid is worse than isolation. I'm not sure if that's true. Would you want to bet that 5 years of isolation is better than a covid infection for cognitive function? I certainly wouldn't. Where I am, many people have been isolated for quite literally about 2 years (and many are choosing to isolate further despite the official rules mostly being relaxed). I don't think it's good enough to think of isolation as a secondary effect here.
> The main problem is that RMS lives in a world in which people care about freedom, when they only care about brand recognition - and that is in fact related to marketing and thus "millions of dollars".

There are other reasons than licensing and marketing that makes games cost hundreds of millions too. People expect games to be on the scale that they are, so the cost of developing these games will be astronomical.

It’s ok to care about freedoms of course but I don’t see how it’s a meaningful to argue that the most popular section of games should simply go extinct rather than work for making those more free or privacy conscious than they are.
Do you have examples of this? What __linux__ && !__glibc__ should mean, in my opinion, Linux but without glibc extensions. This does not imply musl, but does happen to also be what musl aims for, so there is going to be users where either would look the same.
Many people solve it by giving a friend a key. Whether people would pay for a key store service instead of this I would suppose on how close you trust your friends or being geographically isolated.