skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than 'close attention' in Chinese languages - every term of address is a signifier of your relationship with that person, with the rule of thumb being that you can only address people by name if they are equal or lower in social hierarchy, which is essentially based on age. Anyone who is 'superior' to you in hierarchy must be addressed by title, which is contextual to your relationship to that person and often times only used in that relationship.

i/e my (younger) cousin addresses me as 'second-older-brother-cousin'. She is the only one that does, or can
> Just like cryptocurrency mining, it certainly drives shortages and high prices.

The prices for state of the art graphics cards which are only required for mining or gaming are high, but these products actually -subsidize- or lower prices of more generally useful, simpler tech. Please look into the price history of RAM, simple graphics cards (now builtin to many CPUs, which is very economical!) or any other basic computing components.

> Most people who want a car/truck/tractor want a reliable mechanical device

Please find me any source or other evidence that tractors or cars have gotten any less reliable. All studies done indicate the exact opposite of what you are saying. This sounds like a made-up narrative that you happen to want to be true. See: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/cars-reliability-higher-jd-powe...

And I think you are losing track of the original claims you were making about taxes here. For example:

Do the countries in question actually only tax new products, or ALL tech products?

Tech may be a polluter, but again, your claim was that this is what drives the tax policy. Tell me, do these countries tax oil by the same or a greater amount? It's obviously true that environmental concerns _do not_ drive these tax policies.

Are you going to provide an example of tech hardware being used to "control" people? Would love to see some evidence of this outrageous claim.

And I'm really begging you, when you are about to advocate for very high taxes in this area, to consider the effect it has on small businesses.
As most geeks here, got an Apple //c and learned basic from the manual. Tried to create a 3D vector game of a robot that explored a house, dreamed about someday building an AI assistant in my computer. Later on got an IBM PC and a copy of a page from some Polish magazine with the Pascal code of a simple virus, didn't understand the Polish text but the self replicating Pascal code was eye-opening.
I'm hardly an expert on gold aesthetics, but I would have guessed you could get all or nearly all gold's aesthetic properties from other cheaper materials. Like what's the cubic zirconium of gold?
striking data. thoughts on the basket of public sector causes?

+ people leaving for greener pastures?

+ govt belt tightening...trying to operate with lesser staff.

+ (lack of) speed to rehire for positions cut during the height of c-19?

+ other

is the data similar for other countries?
Most hackers nowadays are extremely conformist, particularly within the SV startup culture from which Hacker News originates.
I'll put this as simply as possible: you didn't understand what I wrote, but chose to respond anyway.
This is dumb, and I am in love with it. I'll have to use some of these... :)
> The Ethereum Merge is tentatively scheduled for August, but could be pushed back to September or October.

I think the biggest reason to look forward to the Merge is that it might noticeably reduce the number of people complaining about how much energy is "wasted" by cryptocurrencies (where "wasted" means "used for something I don't think is valuable").

On the other hand, it might increase the number of times people complain that proof-of-stake is just a codified form of oligarchy, but I don't know what testable predictions either side of that debate would be willing to make, or on what timelines they might be proven right.
> Sure, a file sharing service is not going to practically allow this

Well, as the author points out here [0], it doesn't actually translate to exorbitant cost increases when almost all the cost is in bandwidth rather than compute. A file sharing service rather seems like an ideal example (assuming you can derive additional revenue from the privacy promises).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31673122
This surprised me, but it really shouldn't have, given the figures look similar for other essentials (food, energy, school supplies…). The cutting back of the welfare state has had a horrifying impact on the number of people in the UK living in poverty.
In the ideal case, you stamp them out using basically the same docker/terraform/etc you use for managing production.
Urdu even has words to describe your exact relationship to different cousins:
- "cousin brother from my father's sister's kids"
- "cousin sister from my mother's brother's kids"
- and even "cousin brother from my father's oldest brother's kids"

There's also a word for "wife's sister's husband", which is "hum zulf". But I spent almost a decade thinking the word was "hum zulm", which literally translates to "co-victim"
Well that's fair, they send us their coal fumes all the year.
@Godel -- look!
Thanks for the tips below.

I never would have guessed that a key press was involved.

I’ve used a smart phone since they came out.

I have never played a video game in my life, however, but do use gui computer software too, and am familiar with the changing web idioms…

But this one is new to me.

Press and hold space bar. New trick. Cool. Thanks
Pasting bits of other people's comments out of context to sneer at them is plainly less helpful than not doing that, whatever you choose to meta-call it.
The device has a matrix mixer, so there's a gain level for (at least) every input to every output. More than that, however.

Yes, Windows and macOS won't show you those controls, and neither will Linux (for the most part). However, ALSA provides a standardized API to access them, and utilities like alsactl and amix can be used to set them in a device independent way.

You seem to be using the word "proprietary" in a very different way than most people in this world and on HN use it. ALSA in GPL'ed, part of the Linux kernel, and part of most typical Linux run-time environments, and has been worked on by hundreds of individuals. OSS4 was developed by 4Front Technologies, and they made money by developing non-GPL, non-open-source device drivers under contract. There are no such drivers within ALSA, and there have even been some attempts to port ALSA to other posix-y OS's, generally but not entirely limited to the user-space component.

OSS was not portable to anything except a few other Unix-y systems that also used OSS. That did not include Solaris or macOS/OSX, and at the time OSS was developed for Linux, it was not available for any of the *BSD systems (that came later). The only sense in which it was "portable" was that it provided /dev/dsp as did several other Unix-y systems, which is useful for doing party tricks on the command line, but very little else. ALSA still (or used to) provide that too, for back-compatibility with a tiny number of toy applications that used it.
It’s real. Not that System Preferences was blowing anyone away, but System “Settings” is Apple answering the question no one asked: what if we had iPhone Settings but on the Mac?
Framework for building distributed services with Web Assembly
I don't think it's psychopathic or fascist to expect that individuals be able to sustain themselves. Nor do I believe it's right to enslave the collective in order to provide a cushion on which those who fail to do so may land. I don't think it just to mandate the protection of people from the full consequences of their own misfortune, failure, or inadequacy. This is the domain of (voluntary) charity.

If you take a harder look at the disproportionate contributors you mention, you'll find that they were motivated to persist at problems for very long hours, often for many years without respite, and for very little reward beyond satisfying their own impulses. None of this indicates poor work ethic, or a reluctance to take responsibility for one's own actions and their consequences.
> Manderin has non-gendered pronouns referring to a person (something missing in English)

English actually has a complicated gender neutrality history. For instance, it used to be that only women had a specific pronoun while what we regard today as male pronouns used to be neutral [1]. We also have "they"/"them" which have been historically baked into the language for these purposes.

1: https://las.illinois.edu/news/2020-01-29/tracing-history-gen...
Is there a term from economics where a portion of the population do less and less because they can't afford to travel, properly eat or heat their homes? And who have no chance of educating themselves due to their circumstances?

People talk about the UK productivity gap and I wonder when society realises that people who can't afford to eat are not going make great workers.
1MB is really too small a unit to be useful today. 1GB/month might be enough for some things. No video though.
I'm not equipped to provide the sort of evidence you're seeking. In fact, I don't know where to start. If I cited examples in recent memory, they would likely (and possibly rightly) be dismissed as anecdotal, or potentially unrepresentative (along the lines of: so and so isn't actually a progressive). I'm not sure a there is a peer reviewed study available out there, somewhere, that relates to my observation. And I don't feel like hoping on JSTOR to find one!

More broadly, one of the things I am feeling dismayed about is the increasing expectation of 'evidence' on personal observations. I have formed an opinion based on what I have seen, and I wasn't keeping track of everything that informed my perception. Indeed, even if I had, it would not be in an acceptable format because it would be too easy to dismiss for lack of academic rigor. There's something demoralizing about having ideas that you share dismissed so readily because they're not presented with a myriad of citations to back them up. Especially considering I am not sharing them in an academic setting. It also feels stifling because I want to write a few sentences without having to compile a bibliography in an attempt to rout potential naysayers.

I hope this doesn't come across as an attack - I'm just feeling very worn out.
2->Z as well. I've been a h4x0r for 25+ years and "21663D" looks nothing like "zigged" to me.
Yeah, it's sad that there's no way to signal boost this. There's no way to convince people on this board to understand what is going on in New York. When you say "gifted program" people think that they are giving the smart kids opportunities that challenge them, but in New York it's not that at all. The screening process happens primarily before kids step into a classroom for the first time, and the divide between kids who get in and ones who don't is not innate intelligence, but rather preparation. The G&T program is the means by which the most motivated parents build a system within a system in which they can have good classes for their kids while neglecting the rest of the students, covered by a thin veneer of supposed meritocracy.
Based on your theory I'm calling the shots but somehow my kid's elementary school still starts at 8am... What gives?
> That doesn’t make any sense and those two things aren’t related at all

Sure it does, if you have a normal sized house, then you have space in front of the house, on the street where you can park. You also might have a driveway.

And there are no "giant surface lots" needed.

> you’d see tree-lined streets, beautiful large houses

And in front of those houses is a place to park. If the house is properly separated from the neighbor you can even park along the side of the house (if you always put two driveways together from neighboring houses, then driveways save space relative to parking on the road).

> It’s funny because we would literally have more space if cars and their infrastructure took up less of it.

The car is far to useful a tool to get rid of. Why do you think that even people in dense European "utopia car-free cities" still have cars?

I've tried it both ways - I'll never go back. I'll never live in a dense city.
> De facto, it is a cache server, with the associated performance decrease. Isn't the main purpose of caching to improve performance?

Polaris only receives cache invalidation event, and doesn't serve any client queries.

> so then, to synchronize among the service instances

It doesn't synchronize among the service instances. It's actually basically stateless. It pretends to be a cache server only for receiving invalidation events, and acts as a client, and assumes no knowledge of the cache internals.
Americans are majority obese. 10 minutes walking could be too much.
Sure you can ask . Another way is lookin for the company through crunchbase , they often show in what series is the company currently.
It's more like owning an NFT...

The value of history is the story, which doesn't need to be attached to the object.
I like it better actually. Cleaner, less cluttered, everything related to an option is clearly grouped and visually associated.
CDC raises monkeypox alert as global cases surpass 1k
how interesting. the same case in most chinese languages
The default for people who couldn't remember seems to have become typing it into google. It helps that most browsers support omnibox type search
> Have you actually tried running Windows using Parallels on an M1? I have, and it's hardly worth the effort.

Yes, I have. It works very well, what's the problem making it hardly worth the effort?

What I mean is that I develop Electron apps on an M1 Mac, and I use Parallels to spin up Windows so I can test the apps on Windows too.

Not the latter of what you suggested.
Similar, yeah. Reports to it used to go completely ignored, but the city has recently been ramping up its efforts to pay attention to it.
It's not just nostalgia, go play Fallout 2, GoG has a copy that should work. It holds up extremely well, because it's just a much better game than the Bethesda versions. The writing, the humor, the world building, it feels a lot more alive and real than the much more technically advanced iterations. Fallout 1 is less polished, but also great. Fallout 3+ always felt like a reskinned Elder Scrolls to me.
Can confirm. Also that git integration that everyone talks about in Atom is built right in.
Nothing make me more happy than programmer nerds bitching on HN
> How does Europe do it? Do you believe the way they do it suppresses a person's right to vote?

Not sure, I assume lots of ways? Europe is a whole continent full of countries that have a long history of disagreement. I wouldn't be surprised to learn some of them do suppress votes.

> If we did it the same way as Europe would you be fine with ID laws in the US?

"Europe" is not itself a compelling reason for me to do anything so, no.

2A WARNING. My words relate to my interpretation of the Second Amendment and do not indicate support.

> If requiring an ID is suppressing voting rights then requiring and ID and a background check (that you may even have to pay for) to purchase a gun is a violation of rights.

I think the Second Amendment says I can call Boeing and buy an F/A-18 Super Hornet, with missiles. So yes, I think asking for a background check or a name or literally anything other than "paper or plastic?" is a violation of my Second Amendment rights.

> Do you support removing the background check cost and ID requirement?

I think it is unconstitutional to impose a background check on the purchase of any weapon of war.

> If not then I don't really care if you think requiring an ID is suppressing voting since you support suppressing other rights with ID requirements.

Please don't put words in my mouth. Let's keep this civil.

> There are two hardships currently

You forgot "you have to actually get to the place to get the ID". This may not be the DMV but it may be deliberately chosen to reduce your personal likelihood to try. You may be harassed on the way. The reasons for this may be racial, religious, or political. There is a long, established history of this behavior in the United States specifically. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite... for inspiration.

You are still overlooking the part where the voter ID doesn't actually do anything useful. Making it easier to get doesn't change the fact that it provides no meaningful benefit while also infringing constitutional rights.
Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow
Yeah, 1MB often isn't enough to load a single web page.
They address this and find the same gap in the normalized subset of rural vs metropolitan areas. The gap goes from 5 point to 66, which is slightly less.

democrat
143 counties, n=91 809 974
to
156 counties, n=133 796 619
And republican
292 counties, n=61 407 202
to
280 counties, n=46 244 883

So overall health is improving, but it is improving more when increasing sample size. It is normalized, but still different things are compared.

Thanks I didn't know all that about democrats and counties, seems more involved then I thought.
Webb Telescope hit by micrometeoroid but sustains no major damage
Interesting choice to make it with Clojure. Any particular reason why?
The real risk with a replica is that you might later discover it is actually flawed in a functional way.

That's why Amazon.com counterfeits are bad.

But this risk doesn't really apply to video game boxes.
By that same logic, comments are inflating the bundle size. Both can be stripped out using a minifier or bundler.
>>Would I get severance?

Severance is almost always an agreement between the employer and employee. It is not mandated at the federal level[1].

But certain states may mandate minimal severance under certain conditions.[2]

[1] https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/severancepay

[2] https://www.hrdive.com/news/new-jersey-becomes-1st-state-to-...
I think the first thing in design to have sane (sound) type is to separate effects from pure stuff. Browser engine is complex but API shouldn't be, right? It would be great if those compile-to-js lang authors folks also get involved. (those ML based and some others)
As a side note, when John Carmack was asked why he always started a new engine from scratch, he used to say: "to fight code entropy"
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. Which part of the risk/reward equation I've presented do you disagree with? That the reward is higher than I think it is? Can you be specific as to how many votes you think you'd be able to swing with a scheme targeting e-day voting? Or is it that you think the risk is lower?
I think you're assuming that schooling completely removes the capacity for intrinsic motivation and independent goal-setting from students. To me, that seems more an indictment of how school works than a flaw in gifted children.
Why did you skip over Louisiana and Mississippi on the way to mention California and Massachusetts?
UK fibre scene has been pretty good to me. You give us money we give you 1gbps symetric with no serious gotchas. (Hyperoptic).

And I suspect communityfibre will be more of the same generally honest proposition (or better). Plus they're promising last mile fibre and 3gbps. So I have high hopes for these guys.

I can't help but notice the disconnect between that commercial proposition and this article's tone. I've been primarily been receiving 3gbps ads from these guys. Not quite on the same mental wavelength as connect the poor so rather surprised to see this...let alone on hn

edit: One area where community fibre will need to up their game is static IP. Hyper has static ipv4 at ~6USD and you get a ipv6 block by default. When you consider that the 1gbps is symetric that static ip starts looking pretty good
It'd be funny if it weren't so tragic. Germany really should have shut down coal (i know it's easier said than done and there's a significant industry around it, all the more reason to start with it and not postpone) before nuclear.
Interesting that this is so complicated in a big Bay Area tech company.

At a fruit-themed Bay Area company I can register a domain name behind a load balancer, issue a new cert, kickoff a VM to host it internally all in the same day without any approvals... so long as it is below a certain scale suitable for testing, skunkworks projects, etc. Approvals and meetings only become necessary if I want to deploy a production service, a large-scale service, or both.

Requests for a new repo or Confluence space are fulfilled same day and give me complete admin control over it. I can kickoff custom OS builds and generation of installation images via a self-service portal. I can create new email-enabled LDAP groups via self-service. I decide if the group itself is self-add or not, etc. Anyone else in the company can do the same. Many other things are as simple as direct manager approval.

You don't have to put up with bureaucratic nonsense, it just happens to be common in corporate America where management doesn't trust the peons to make decisions. Or perhaps where everything is driven by division P&L so no one wants to be responsible for spending money outside their fiefdom?

I prefer an environment where individuals have responsibility and yet where we accept mistakes will be made. As long as you learn from a mistake and don't continuously repeat it there is no need for a new process in response to it.
I love BBEdit, but its package ecosystem isn't well-developed compared to most other editors, and it doesn't have any kind of package manager -- it's more like Vim's native packages, e.g., "download the package and put it in this folder, and check occasionally for upgrades when you remember and re-install when appropriate."
But the only ways to give money for VRChat is the subscription for extra avatar bookmarks and a fancy nameplate. And from what I understand, the deeper into it people get, the more likely they are to stick to one avatar.

This is a pretty good deal for the users, but it's not going to pay for a Meta quantity of developers.

Yet if they put in all the mobile money extraction mechanisms into it, why would people choose Meta's product over VRChat?
It's extremily frustrating how little thought many dev teams give to the idea that users won't always have super fast internet available. It really undercuts the grandiose corporate talk about inclusion and equity when users in rural and poor areas are effectively told to pound sand.

One example that gets me is that Google Maps broke the ability to save points on the map without internet. It had worked fine for years since it could easily be saved locally, but now the regression has been around for a year+ and they clearly don't care. If you live your life in a modern city it's no biggie, but it cripples some of the main functionality for everyone who lives or travels to areas with poor connectivity.
What makes you think that? Are the fees excessive for the amount of infrastructure they require and negative externalities they cause?
We do not deserve Rosenzweig.
Karmem: A binary serialization format even faster than Google Flatbuffers
Meta will be taking approximately 50% of all sales on their metaverse platform IIRC.

Seems a bit much.
Sure, it's just that very few companies are probably going to be doing this outside of very early prototypes/toy examples. Load time is just too important
>This person did this with 2 separate judges. Why is it so easy?

Why does a conspiracy involving only 3 people seem so impossible to you?
You don't have to make people up. There there plenty of dead people on rhe registry. Although they are supposedly doing better about that lately.
Or even gamedev!
Beijing-backed baddies target unpatched networking kit to attack telcos
That's a really interesting idea. There would be costs - We'd potentially be less discoverable for people forking the original. I'd have another place to check for interest potential forks (and therefore contributors).

I'll give it some thought.