skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think war is necessary (and looking at things like the "war on terror" that spawned a lot of rules, it might even do the opposite).

Societies can do "de-sprawling" of rules, but it isn't a frequent thing (the German civil code is kind of a reduction of lots of several codes into one, for example).

There is probably also an element of aging societies becoming more risk averse, hence more rules and regulations.
I used to be severely arachnophobic, but accidentally cured my fear through a prescription to propranolol which I was taking for general anxiety, not arachnophobia, but I've since learned it's been successfully used for treating arachnophobia along with other phobias.

I was hiking with friends one day, then my friend pointed out there was a spider on my shoulder. I let it crawl on my finger, and then it dawned on me that I wasn't afraid of it at all. The feeling of no longer being afraid of something that I previously couldn't even be in the same room with was so thrilling I started seeking out spiders to handle. I've since learned a lot more about spiders in general, so I know now how to handle them in a safe way. I now have a pet Western black widow spider (which I never handle without gloves, and only handle to clean her enclosure), and delight in giving the spiders in my yard some water to drink during dry spells.

I know phobias can't be rationalized away, but in the interest of giving you a reason to work on your phobia: spiders generally don't have any interest in hurting us. Even for the medically significant ones of North America, bites rarely kill -- a black widow hasn't killed anyone in a few decades out here, and antivenom is rarely used when patients seek treatment.

It's pretty difficult to induce one to bite, since its venom is mainly for its prey. When endangered, their preference is to run, which makes sense, because biting won't be enough to incapacitate most things trying to eat you fast enough to save you when you're that small.
This is for German media. Does anyone know of good similar research on US media?

I first noticed sexism in the US business press around the start of dotcoms, in how Kim Polese was sometimes portrayed. I mentioned it in a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29062715

I even saw it around then with how a popular science education program treated a female colleague. For all the other scientists featured on the show, it was about the work, until they got to her, then they switched format, to having the show's host in practically a romantic candlelight dinner with the female scientist. (I think there's probably a place to affirm that people can do science and embrace whatever other aspects of human experience that they choose, but this particular show's context I think might've sent an unintended message to kids, that a woman's looks are more important than her work.)
Can you elaborate or is this just an uninformed rant?

The article that you are commenting on explicitly mentions the focus on performance while considering this feature. They even state to have been able to achieve "fantastic performance, even in the presence of large DOM trees and large numbers of :has() selectors".
it's great for digital artists who wanted to cash out some of their existing works.
You could also get a second-hand PinePhone (just buy postmarketOS CE or later to avoid bad hardware bugs).

Regarding other postmarketOS supported devices, I quite like the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 and the OnePlus 6 - but be aware that bootloader unlock on the Xiaomi is a bit painful and charging on the OnePlus 6 is really slow (although that might have been fixed lately/be fixed soon).
My favorite thing from this thread is that this is the first time I've heard "layouted" as a verb used by anyone else since design school in 1998. Also, "layouter" to describe the
practitioners of Dutch or Swiss modern design. "Layouted" is not standard English.. a native speaker would say "laid out".. but it is perfect because there is no English word for "layouter".
2500 years in the future, archeologists will wonder if it was meant to be a follow-up to the Nazca lines...
the ground is not paved , definitely not good for skating.

you could maybe do an offroad skateboard though
> What would be this persons incentive to own all this land under this model?

It would lower their taxes.

> This doesn't follow from anything. Land would have very low costs only if it is land that nobody wants, just like today. And selling your land will not lead to higher taxes on your remaining land unless the land that you sold gets improved in such a way that it increases the value of your land.

Please don't bother responding if you have no idea what you're responding to.
China built around 50 reactors to date - they still have less generating capacity than France and wind power has been producing more energy (in terms of TWh delivered) than nuclear in China since at least 2013.
Software Developer Day
a day in the life of a software engineer working remotely no FAANG
it will do far less damage to society than facebook and tiktok
> Second, Tainter proposes a very simple and general mechanism leading to collapse: declining marginal returns to complexity. Over time the benefits of complexity diminish and its costs increase.

This makes me think of the US Federal Tax code, the pure opportunity cost of the entire tax industry and legislation that could be otherwise spent if we just had a flat tax with it's full regressiveness accepted. Any charity, favoratism, etc from the government should come in the form of grants etc from some other agency--keep the taxes simple.
because json format is better for client server communication instead of html text.

lots of things to do when your data is a js object.
The blog post linked in required reading (https://aaronhertzmann.com/2022/02/28/how-does-perspective-w... ) was fascinating.

It also had the line

> Even more confusing, there’s some evidence that people with very different cultural backgrounds may vary in perspective perception in some cases.

Which sounds fascinating but they didn't expand.
Ask HN: Auto Generated API (REST/GraphQL) for SQL Server?
It feels like a huge step backwards going from Postgres and PostgREST to SQL Server where it's common to write the API by hand in C#. I see that Hasura has limited support for SQL Server, but important features like stored procedures are low on their list of priorities and postponed until at least 2023.

Are someone out there using a tool for auto generating API's based on a schema in SQL Server?
> and the vast majority of that real estate's value is in land

Is that true? Most of the value derives from the location - if you doubled the floor space over the land, the value of the land+improvements would double. The land isn't contributing value.
I'm using Migadu and I'm pretty satisfied by it
For real, that's a very "ok boomer" phrase

What is "the real thing?" Vinyl? The other day the audiophiles were aghast when they found out their vinyls had digital intermediate steps. Yawn.

The hiss and popping of vinyl definitely has a nostalgia aspect, but digital is much better. Get a good digital source though
Scale is important. Artists used to try and represent things, the invention of perspective was mind blowing, Skill up to hyperrealism stage. But the camera did away with a lot of that endeavour and artists began trying to explore emotion, sensation, paint for paint's sake, the ACT of painting and mark making itself. Jackson Pollock is a great example of a road marker along the way. The act of the brush, the removal of 'the artist', the canvas size growing. In 1970 the year this was started Robert Smithson created 'spiral jetty' - artists making statements more grandiose and more timeless. In some ways there's similarities with the more ancient works like the Nazca lines, but I think this work is best described by the term Magnus Opus in the article - The greatest single work of an artist, writer, or composer. It's an endeavour, a feat, and literally great in scale.
TWh used should be the standard, nobody cares for produced energy that isn't used.
I don't mean understanding the database format; I'm talking about understanding the security model.
the difference is that there were perfectly good distros for the PinePhone, but then it was decided to start shipping it with a half-baked one. It's as if Apple went back from those later iOS releases to the earlier one.

The original "Why I left Pine64" article adds more info about what went on.
Heaven is high, and the emperor is far away.
The author was a guest on the Omega Tau podcast back in 2015 [1]. There is a sort of follow-up podcast with a different guest on the same topic [2].

[1] https://omegataupodcast.net/184-societal-complexity-and-coll...

[2] https://omegataupodcast.net/238-societal-complexity-part-ii-...
Congrats on the launch and hitting HN's front page.
Do you mind if I ask how your example site (multiplayer.dev) scaled?

I'm super curious about realtime multiplayer solutions (and I don't think I'm alone). But I find a great lack of info on what running this kind of app would cost. I come from the old-school hold-no-state, request->response->gtfo mentality, and I always have the _feeling_ that it'd be expensive to scale.
Not just holding the websocket open, but how much effort do you expend parsing the WAL? How chatty is that kind of persistence mechanism? What other 'gotchas' are there etc.

I'd love nothing more than to dispel that vague feeling with data.
I know it wouldn't come close to a full performance analysis, but throwing a few datapoints on a chart would help get a ballpark idea and tune my hype->action conversion.

I could nail down a pile of questions, but I'm sure you know better than I how to measure your own systems. But roughly I'm wondering:
- how many users did you have?
- how much traffic did you get?
- how much would/did it cost to host on supabase?
- how much resources did the database/realtime components consume?

Congrats again on the launch and have a nice weekend.
Go Generics in API Design
>> Google also faces a perhaps impossible problem of how to detect good content on YouTube

Perhaps, but only because Google is being small minded. Define the "problem" in a certain way, and come up with certain solutions. A broader minded frame would define the problem(s) more broadly. Presenting users with UI. Creating a good, or at least respectful, commercial incentives framework for creators. The litmus for this is the content. What content gets created. Mitigating or avoiding bad consequences, like spiraling towards pointless blather.

Yes, this would require subjective decision making, but at least it doesn't require dim witted, corporate delusion. Call the dog by its name.
Hey! I'm a big fan of the Boox Nova C Air. It's my favorite purchase of the last year. But to anyone reading this... do not try to buy it through goodereader[dot]com. They seem to be the front retailer for Boox, but they are an extraordinarily shady company with no physical address or phone number. After a lot of lies and shipping delays from them, I had to actually cancel my credit card and do a charge back after they failed to even ship the device... and it turned out they only had to put an order in, which they failed to do after taking my money.
I had no problem once I ordered directly from the Boox website, and the product is great... I love it. Just watch out for the website linked here, they're scam artists.
There are a million "creators" in the middle that Apple and co. serve perfectly bar none. Just look at Procreate and similar music making apps.
I thought the same for about a second, then I realised the small dots surrounding it are trees.

Well, small trees and large bushes, but still.
How is energy efficiency degrowth?

You build a well insulated home with heat pump HVAC, Vs a shack that you need to constantly heat with imported fossil fuels.

Why are we supposed to celebrate the latter? Doesn't seem to benefit anyone but the people selling fossil fuels and asthma doctors.

As for massive energy deployments, go look at a graph of solar and wind deployments (it's sometimes hard to find them without hydro, which totally obscures the trend), then check the sober predictions of expected rollout.

We've already escaped the trap, and people like this were keeping us in it for no obvious logical reason, just tribal politics.
Yeah, as a German, I can say it works flawlessly. Cough
France with its old, neglected reactor fleet is constantly more green(less co2) than Germany.
You are really not getting how "a professional" has changed. Apple does, kaching kaching.
The "war on terror", like the "war on drugs", is a misnomer though; it's not really a war (although a couple of wars were waged as part of it, or alongside it).
"So anyway, I updated my blog so all referrers from the orange website are redirected elsewhere.
Because fuck those tech bros, and doubly fuck the mods for not just banning these fucks.
They didn't ban them in the beginning, so now it's all full of crypto nazis."

How is this site full of crypto nazis exactly? Like seriously dude, how does this "accurately" describe the content on hn?
In an anarchic society it would not be possible to write this book about anarchy. You used a computer. Where are computers going to come from? The Great Volunteer Computer Industry? How will materials for computers be mined? Which land will be used for that?

No one who has ever owned a home or had a family— no one, that is, with much to lose— supports anarchy.

The moment you come into life, you immediately begin to die, unless someone saves your life… And that continues for the rest of your life. This simple fact is why anarchy cannot work.
I hoped Apple would have had the design sense to keep them separate like they should be

I don't think Apple lost their religion. I think Catalyst/SwiftUI were created as an answer to desktop applications moving to Electron. Moving to web-based applications significantly reduces the value proposition of macOS and to some extend also iPadOS/iOS. Most likely, a SwiftUI app will still be a better macOS app than an Electron app. And if you can use a single framework across Macs/iPhones/iPads, it might entice developers to use SwiftUI for Apple platforms instead.

IMO, Catalyst and SwiftUI (at least so far) are a regression compared to good-old AppKit apps. But the world has changed, and I'd rather have a Mac/iOS world with SwiftUI apps than one with Electron/Ionic/whatever apps. At least the SwiftUI apps will look somewhat consistent and provide stronger platform integration.
I think it’s mostly linked to what you are used to.

I never Alt+Tab on macOS because I am used to using Exposé and the Windows equivalent frustrates me to no end with its extremely slow animation, same things with virtual desktops which feel very clunky on Windows but works fine on macOS.
In every complex societal collapse prior to the present day, subsistence agriculture was either the most common occupation or well-known to a substantial portion of the population.

I caution against turning doomerism into an intellectual fetish - unlike past societies, we don't know how to feed ourselves without "the system".
I think there’s a lot to learn from the UK’s rail system so thanks for sharing this.

> In fact, any large infrastructure project in the UK is government planned (federal - in the US?)

California the state is more comparable to the UK than the UK is to the US.

California is about 60% of the population of the UK in 170% of the land.

California: 40,000,000 people in 163,000 square miles

UK: 67,000,000 people in 94,000 square miles

US: 330,000,000 people in 3,800,000 square miles

So I think UK rail modernization is probably actually pretty comparable to California HSR.

Federal dollars and regulators are involved in California HSR but it’s a necessity in the United States that the states do a lot of this for themselves.
Meh, that's just the standard composition vs inheritance dichotomy. In reality, those two concepts are orthogonal, and you can use one, the other, and both, as suitable to the situation.

Using multiple inheritance to implement certain common functionality, using mixin classes, is possible in Python; it's another powerful tool in the arsenal, but doesn't mean that you have to use it.

Inheritance works best to denote "is-a" relationships, i.e. for defining subtypes, especially when using type annotations and checks. Sometimes - albeit very rarely - you need a class that belongs to two separate type hierarchies; multiple inheritance comes very handy in those cases.
At least for now, the cost reduction stopped.
I noticed something similar recently when watching women’s football during the Euros. The commentators - who by the way aren’t sexist, this isn’t a conscious thing - would make comments that they would _never_ make about a male player. My (least) favourite example, among many: “her mum is in the crowd tonight and would be so proud”.
I think what they are suggesting, to invent some syntax, is this:

:hover:parent()

So it’s a post fix to go back up the tree.

I prefer the flexibility of :has().
> So what you're saying is that the app store is just as good as the government in this case?

No part of my comment said this.
Do you donate all your money to building sustainable homes?
Once you reach the concept of differential forms in physics, a lot of these seemingly "ad-hoc" rules suddenly make sense. The issue is that outside of theoretical physics grad students, few people will ever encounter those, since they basically only allow you to re-learn Maxwell's equations on a more fundamental level. But then again a lot of this directly translates into other field theories, including QFT, so there's that. For undergraduates, this seemingly wrong notation is mostly just taught out of convenience and readability. For example, you can do separation of variables more formally in undergrad notation by simply applying the integral as an operator to both sides. In your example that would be Integral(1 dy/dx dx) = Integral(f(x) dx), which works exactly the same, but the mnemonic "separation" of variables is no longer obvious at all.
> unconscious bias

How much unconscious in journalist's understanding that it'a a man or woman is in front?

From what I see, women usually talk differently with women than with men. Probably it's natural (or not?).
I'm a Ubuntu user but always install the PopOS shell for the wonderful tiling window manager.

It's such a convenient way to manage the desktop space and credit to System76 for making it available to other Gnome-based distros.

https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-shell/
This whole rant touches on the true topic at the heart of this. Software developer a.k.a the programmer used to be the key person behind everything. Just like brick layer or road builder. But now that the roads have been (mostly) built, or so it seems, what are the professions in the spotlight, and even more importantly, in the shadow?
In reality, I think the scenario plays out a bit more like this:

A bunch of poor people buy some cheap land with very low taxes because its a run down scruffy mess with no facilities.

The land stays a run down scruffy mess with no facilities because the local property owners have strong financial incentives to keep it that way

Incremental increases in the land value tax would make low income landowners hungry long before the land rose in value enough to make anyone millionaires, and land isn't exactly easy to sell quickly, especially not if it's marginally-less-shitty-than-before land with an uncertain future.
I love their aggressive privacy choices.
"What journalists has to do with job interviews??"
> I’d say everyone is for people of both genders being treated equally.

But this is not true, historically, and still today. Most people in (in some cultures) may be for treating genders equally in a lot of aspects, but I don't have to go very far on the web or IRL to find people who are not for equal treatment of genders.

But for everyone who does want to treat genders equally, learning about unconcious bias should be helpful. Learning about unconcious biases enables you to question your behaviour in order to actually treat genders equal instead of just agreeing that they should be.
Google/Azure should compress and pass the savings back to the customer..
In fairness to the parent, research doesn't work that why, but they're not conducting research.

"What are the remaining unknowns that would need to be solved to do X and why are they difficult?" is valid question to ask experts when trying to further your own understanding.
I’ve been using Xrdp (xorgxrdp) on Linux for years and thoroughly recommend it. It is stupendously efficient, and has evolved a lot beyond the ICA-based mapping of Windows primitives (current RDP streams owe more to video streaming than to any direct mapping of graphics calls).

It has also become a very efficient protocol on the client side: only last week I set up a dedicated terminal using a 512MB Raspberry Pi 3A (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/08/14/2030), and I can stream a Fedora desktop to it at 2560x1080 with audio (i.e., good enough to watch windowed video) and very low latency over Wi-Fi.

On the Mac, there is no equivalent because Apple pretty much neglected anything to do with remote displays — Apple Remote Desktop is a variation of the VNC protocol with extra authentication but no real encoding improvements (and designed to manage Macs in classrooms or small businesses over a LAN), so it completely lacks any real ability to work over real-world remote connections.

There have been a few attempts at jerry-rigging an RDP proxy on top of the built-in Mac VNC server, but I haven’t seen anything working in years. And NoMachine is just plain useless in most scenarios.

(I’ve been using VNC, Citrix and RDP over the past couple of decades and am quite into all the details - I’ve also streamed desktops over H.264 and various multicast setups for electronic signage, so I’ve explored plenty of hacks)
It's not going to happen, the production costs alone don't permit that.
This obsession on here with 'productivity' is depressing. I thought the HN crowd was beyond all that. Frankly, to suggest that this man should have given up on his dream so he could.. what? be an office drone for 50 years?... is lame.

99% of us will live un-noteworthy lives and then die. This man has built something that will be inviting thought and discussion for potentially hundreds of years.

Humans have always built monuments. Should the Hopewell peoples have not built their burial mounds because there were more productive things for them to do?

If you don't understand this piece (and I sure don't), that's fine. I just think it's a pretty callous thing to dismiss someone's life passion as "jacking off in the desert."
If someone from MS gets the wrong idea reading this, I can attest than Teams is absolutely awful to use on my 2k EUR Windows 10 machine.
A lot of people feel this way about modern art in general. At some point along the way, art stopped being about trying to bring beauty and happiness and clarity into the human condition. Since then, art has become a pure signalling death spiral.

What passes as “good art” these days is completely relegated to the art community and utterly unintelligible to regular people. Is there any wonder that people dismiss it as a waste of resources? It’s every bit as bad as NFTs, academic turf wars, and Twitter purity spirals [1]. It’s yet another warning sign of the impending decline of civilization, if Toynbee’s thesis is to be believed.

[1] https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a...
Many musicians play musical instruments and sing and so forth.
I think it is something you can only really experience in place. The scale, the desolation and the absence of anything commercial while being in a human-built landscape I think would be an unusual experience.
Fines, even that high, do not stop this, as we all see in no change in Meta actions.

Also, cannot avoid thinking that Facebook was accused of (somewhat similar) web site spying long time before Tiktok existed.