skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An SSD nowdays has something like 3500 megabytes/second, a 1gbit connection can (roughly) provide at most 100 megabytes/second, so we are not even close to use SSD write speed at full capacity.

That being said, downloading from Steam is incredibly different with a gigabit bandwidth.
I haven't gotten anything yet.
Hand brake?

Can't you use the clutch and foot brake smoothly enough to take off on a hill? Even a slippery one? Hand in your manual transmission driver's licence!

[Tidbit: where I live drivers are issued with different licences for manual and automatic cars. You have to pass the test in a manual car for that licence, otherwise you can only drive automatic cars.]
I don’t see how it’s any different for EU long term, even if they haven’t caught up to the US/other markets yet. Automatic ICE vehicles are more fuel efficient, since they can have significantly more gears. And electric cars (usually) only have 1 gear, completely getting rid of the need for any gear shifting at all. The combination of electrification and the continual march to higher efficiency and more performant powertrains naturally leads to a reduction in manuals, looking 10-15 years out.
Have you gziped it? The website of in OP is 30k uncompressed of HTML.
Somewhat related https://www.thedrive.com/news/43086/new-cars-will-have-to-de...
Patent offices aren’t full of specialist in every single area, and they don’t pretend to be. You need to meet few fairly simple requirements and patent is granted.

If patent is invalid the way to prove that is to challenge that in court.

That system, that makes filling patents easy, is a whole reason why patent trolls exists. But it’s not a fault of patent offices, that they’re mandated to work that way.
Even native programs are moving towards web tech, for eg GNOME shell is written in JavaScript and the PolicyKit component of the GNU/Linux desktop world uses JavaScript as a scripting language to define policies in. Of course there are Electron/Tauri apps for wrapping web tech in a native porting layer.
Has there ever been a society in history that was so bad that "women afraid of bringing a child into such society." was a thing? In the very short term, sure, but forever?
I quit FB a couple of years ago when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out. I quit WhatsApp when they unilaterally changed their privacy policies to share within the Meta group of companies and migrated to Signal (most of my friends group that kept in touch on WhatsApp moved to a Signal group).

I continue to have LinkedIn (somehow, it seems to be a professional network, although of late it has become a dumpster fire with incessant sales pitches and motivational posts. The only reason I still have it is to keep in touch with former professional colleagues I have interacted with over 25+ years who also are on it).

Everyone who needs to get hold of me has my phone number / email. They know how to reach me. So, I don't miss soc-media. It has freed up an incredible amount of time that was previously wasted.
geohot is a known powerful hacker.
Those cell radios might be buried deep in the circuitry
Is Neil Gaiman a comic book artist, a graphic novel artist, a novelist, a writer, or a TV producer?

It is, occasionally, useful to have a broad umbrella term.
Missing the point. The point was that yes house prices are accounted for in the calculations because it’s the percent of salary. So Californians pay less as a percent even though they have more expensive homes because they make more money at every income level.
This is interesting, this friend of mine has had issues within our organization and has told me there is people who want to remover her.
> reasonably sized as in the 50s and 60s. Fire all your designers, go back to whatever your models were in 1965

What alternate dimension are you from? My older brother had a 60's Ford Fairlane when I was growing up. My first car was a 67 mustang. I had a friend with a 68 Camaro. I knew someone else that had multiple Thunderbirds from that era.

These were not small cars. The Mustang and Camaro were the size of a full size sedan today , if not bigger. The cross sections of the doors were very large, they just aren't very space efficient at all. They're only small relative to the other cars of the era, and I wouldn't call their size reasonable in any real way.

Those are the coupes. The sedans, such as the Fairlane and Thunderbird? Those were about as big as a modern full size crew cab pickup.
Yea ... it's weird to talk to some types of neuroscientists who speak as though a particular neurotransmitter is an actual psychological phenomenon (beyond just short hand, IMO).

So focused they are, it seems, on the therapeutic development angle (receptors, agonists, drugs, etc), that they've forgotten that the brain/mind is a processing network of neurones that can exhibit phenomena of multiple levels of complexity. Sure, a particular neurotransmitter or receptor may be involved in a particular pathway, but that's just signalling, not the process itself, let alone its totality.
I’m from Philippines I wonder what your e-commerce does. But I agree there is no decent web hosting here.
> just keep asking it questions and maybe its reasoning would check out for most of them.

But the AI isn't reasoning... is it? Perhaps it could give an explanation, but you couldn't (currently) conflate that with any actual understanding of why it did what it did?
The badge of honor is knowing how to drive a manual in the US. I say this as someone who can drive a manual, but it has become overly nostalgic for some.
I’ve been married for 10 years we manage our separate accounts. But they are all joint accounts. She has “her” bills and I have “my” bills. Those are just bills we take responsibility for.

When she was working, I transferred money to “her” account when needed to pay “her” bills. We also have a separate account for “household” spending like groceries. I deposited money into that account when I got paid. But she manages it.

If she wants me to pick up groceries out of the account. She would give me a list and either she or I would transfer the money to “my” account.
Yeah, don't use Steams streaming system, it's buggy and so low quality. Personally I've had allot more success with Parsec. Even when playing with others across the internet.
What would convince me to have kids now?

1. Financial security, I can barely afford putting food in my own mouth let alone a wife and baby.

2. Community support, having a kid would mean no more working on my startup in spare time, which also means less money.

I don’t feel like I have a village to raise a child with, I’m a rootless cosmopolitan floating about the planet from one yuppie opportunity to the next. It’s not really satisfying and I’ll likely pull the trigger soon anyway.
When ICE vehicles are banned, I'll just do an EV conversion. Keep the whole standard drivetrain with manual, pop out the engine, pop on an EV motor and battery pack. I don't plan to ever own an automatic car, or gearless.
(3 lane, 476 north) What's happening is, they're on auto cruise, they're always a set distance from me (i speed up, they speed up). I go left, they speed up.
At first I disagreed, but after reconsidering I think absence of other evidence the increased child death rate and child birth rate are coincidental. I haven't seen data actually supporting the evidence that more children were born because more children died. I think it's plausible that the increased rights and health of people within our society both lead to decreases in child births and child deaths, but I've seen nothing to suggest that the death rate is causal to the birth rate.
Not to detract, but "one kid" would only make the problem worse because a woman needs to give birth to at least two children in order for population counts at large to maintain parity.

That is, one kid per woman halves the population. If the axiom is at least maintaining, ideally growing the population, every woman needs to give birth to at least two and ideally three or more kids.

Of course, this isn't to say I'm telling other people what to do regarding offspring, because I hate that kind of intrusive attitude. I've already decided I'm having no kids, because fuck the human world; and anyone who comes bitching at me about it one way or another can take a hike and pound sand. So I'm not going to be hypocritical and turn around and tell other people what to do in the bedroom.

But if the purpose for all the noise behind childbearing is to take population count trends out of the negatives, advising "one kid" not only doesn't help solve the problem but actively makes it worse.
It certainly is still done in the US. The Dr. may prompt you to ask and then feign concern about complications to CYA.

Source: I'm a dad of 8yo fraternal twins.
I'm all for this sort of marketing. NASA needs popularity because it drives funding. Most people don't understand sound like you do, so they wouldn't understand the truth anyway. It's not that most people are too dumb or uneducated, it's that they don't really care to know. However those same people get a sense of connection to space exploration by hearing something like this. If that connection comes from a slightly misleading over simplification but drives NASA funding then I'm all for it.

My wife used to work in communications within a university. I got to witness how that worked. She would interview academics about their research. She and most of the population don't have enough background to understand the research so they would have to come up with some kind of approximation to write about. I'm sure to the researchers it was absurd and misleading but it gave the lay person a window into what was going on. I suspect that is how the text on that article came to be. I think it was written by someone who's job is to simplify things, things they might not understand themself.
Even on 2 wheels the automatic transmission is coming. Honda’s been perfecting a DCT for over a decade, and by some accounts it’s pretty sharp.
The tires, really?? I figured maybe the wheels but the tires?
Since every consumer fiber plan is best effort, I'll get better speed by using faster plan even though rated speed isn't needed. I get about 700-200Mbps on my gigabit fiber for download. I'm fine with 1Gbps but 200Mbps is sometimes slower. Hopefully 2Gbps is constantly available on 10gigabit fiber.
Minor nitpick - Sam is not the one making these points in the referenced episode - it's the guest who wrote a book on the topic. In fact Sam brought another guy onto this show to act as a backstop, admitting up front that he didn't feel he knew enough about the topic to have a deep conversation without some help. The other guy pushed back on various points that Zeihan made and it's a pretty interesting discussion.

As for immigration, no arguments there. But that point leads back to the question of why a society hits population decline in the first place. Presumably the same things that cause your "native" population to stop reproducing eventually affects your immigrants after a generation or so, so while it can definitely slow the population decline, it's not a full solution.

To your point about the loss of deep expertise - I think the problem is still worth thinking about. Yes, we can make new experts. And those experts might even be more productive than the last generation of experts. But at the end of the day, it takes longer to make them, and you still have less.

I'm not sure how much I agree with Zeihan, but he makes some interesting points which I hadn't previously considered.
Or really anything built before about 2012
the fact that a few corners of the world are declining in fertility

Every corner of the world is declining in fertility, from South Korea to Niger.
Chevy Spark: https://www.chevrolet.com/cars/spark

Nissan Versa at $15.5k: https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/cars/versa-sedan.html

Kia Rio and Hyundai Accent aren't too far off at $16.5k: https://www.kia.com/us/en/rio

https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/vehicles/accent
Don’t sell yourself short, aside from some select Italian brands, motorcycles usually have wet clutches (clutch basket bathed in oil) and are quite forgiving compare to the usually dry clutch in cars.
Doctor Emmett Brown managed to transfer 1.21 Gigawatts in a second down a cable no bigger than a telephone wire. I'm sure it'll be fine.
Fair point. Though the 7ms I mentioned is broken down into:

- 5ms network latency

- 2ms display latency (includes decoding + vsync latency)

I'm assuming that the mouse/keyboard can begin processing as soon as the network call is done. If true that's about 5ms.

Keep in mind that different mice vary in their latency. Even wired mice can vary from 1.5ms to more than 25ms in click latency [1]. So if you use a low latency mouse over the network, it could be faster than some mice that are plugged in directly.

[1] - https://www.rtings.com/mouse/tests/control/latency
Show HN: Eclipse: Python-fire inspired library to simplify creating CLIs in Go
I'm a Go noob (coming from Python) and was missing python-fire's simplicity when writing quick CLIs in Go, hence this project.

I know this is not idiomatic Go (with magic methods and what not), I tried to minimize the magic as much as I could while still bringing most of the features I was using in python-fire.

Any feedback is appreciated!
It's all relative. If you have a 3D printer and are just a hobby photographer, this is great. Super cheap. Mixes your hobbies.

But I agree that the real world uses of 3D printers are endless. Although often you need to know how to use CAD.
How feasible would it be to put together a DIY solution? Could I for instance spin up a GPU EC2 instance on AWS with SteamOS and get a similar experience? I would love to give Nvidia my money but until rent seeking game publishers stop ruining it for everyone I'm reluctant.
I used to patronize a gym that had music and thought I was better off without it. That gym closed and I started going to the local YMCA gym, which has no music of any kind. Now I get the pleasure of hearing:

- the people who grunt at the top of a rep

- the people who grunt throughout each rep

- the people who mutter the lyrics to the angry rap-rock in their heads

- giggling teenage boys who gather around the bench press and never do a rep
I have manually edited my /etc/hosts to redirect some distracting sites to localhost. It has worked wonders to my productivity. Of course my brain seem to find new places to procrastinate so no silver bullet here either.
It was disastrously unreliable, and they knew it, and got sued for fraud over it. So they don't use a cheap DCT anymore.
I believe people are imagining the automatic transmissions from the early 2000s and before. They were terrible.
Apologies for ranting but this topic resonates too much.

Housing prices are 9x salary vs 4.5x salary in the 70s and it takes a while to save up. Personal data point: it took me winning an IPO lottery to start thinking about having kids for real. Having kids while earning minimal wage? Terrifying, especially in the US where getting yourself or your kid sick could bankrupt you in the blink of an eye - and if you want multiple kids you increase the risk.

So we think we have to have it all before we start trying having kids and have no sense of community whatsoever. Societal focus on hedonism and career leaves little to no time to raise kids. And at the end of the day you end up having no support from the society that slowly but surely ages.
We do the same thing. We have a main account for bills and any essential items. Then we each have an account (still joint, but separate) and we put money in both every pay. Think of it as an allowance :)

I don't care what she spends hers on, and she no longer comments when I buy a new tool. Win/win/win
This happened to my sister. She dislocated her right shoulder and among her friends:

- Two didnt know how to drive

- One didnt know how to drive stick

- the guy who ended up driving her to the hospital, didn't have a drivers license.

I told her next time to get it rolling on second, leave it there, and drive then herself.

But a good argument for autos is engine longevity. The autos really pamper it
Tether is already under no obligation to redeem Tethers for dollars according to their own terms and conditions [1].

They are only obligated to redeem for people they at their sole discretion deem to be 'customers,' ([1] § 3) they can then arbitrarily delay that redemption for as long as they see fit for basically any reason ([1] § 3) and they can substitute the redemption for any assets they may or may not have on hand ([1] § 3). Most assuredly at any value they deem fit. On top of that there's a final blanket ban (net of 'exceptions') for any and all US persons ([1] § 3.3).

[1] https://tether.to/legal
It offers three markdown mail composition options: Markdown (text/markdown), Markdown as Plain Text (text/plain), Markdown as HTML (text/plain and text/html). Doesn't seem to be a way to have text/markdown and text/html though.

It also renders incoming text/markdown emails in a HTML-like way using WebKit, rather than showing the raw markdown data.
Do you have a prenup? If not, I think it’s important to understand that half of what she earns is yours and half of what you earn is hers. If you don’t have a prenup, you should really be pooling your money. If not, you’re asking for trouble later. Like if you get divorced and she conveniently forgets about the buyout money during the settlement. Also, she could be spending it or investing it in things you might not be comfortable with.

If you have a prenup, then just keep doing what you’re doing.
Yes and no. They'll throw a big wad of cash at some provider to get some badly hacked together SSO auth and endpoint monitoring solution but then release insecure garbage running on an ancient copy of android, debian or whatever.
What you're missing about the cost is that engineering cost is amortized. If you spend $10m on the engineering for the manual, and $100m on the engineering for the automatic, the manual will be way more expensive if you only sell 10 of them.
Very misleading title. They are not even talking about the glass.

f/2.5?!

Heh - this is a remarkable feat of intentional engineering; but it’s absolutely useless as a functional camera.
> retirees dying alone surrounded by robots

You’re describing modern Japan, FYI.
There is still someone living in one https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/26/last-iron-lu...
In Europe is common for elevator to use zero for ground, even if language/culture has a specific name for it (piano terra/piano rialzato here)
For those not familiar with ownership concepts, it does apply to many things beyond just memory management. Most obvious example of this is file handles. In python you have to close() them or scope within a context manager to auto close when the block exits. If you need more complex logic around, such as transfer the handle into another function, the context manager is no longer sufficient and you quickly loose track of who should call close(), is it the caller or the callee.

Rust keeps track of this, no matter how deep you twist your logic and it does so for every variable, no context manager blocks required.
Regarding the idea I’m taking a blase Attitude. My arguments allow for two separate defences against this argument. Both that humans are not very genetically different so a change in genetics should hardly affect culture, and that culture isn’t dependent on genetics. How blase can I be while preparing two different defences against your allegations?

Regarding argument 1, I will say there is no problem with the supply of people, global population is growing. It doesn’t need to grow everywhere simultaniously, insisting that it must will inevitably lead to a bias towards population growth. The population HAS to shrink somewhere for things to stay stable, since it will invariably grow in a few places, and at this point the growing countries outweigh the shrinking ones sharply.

With 2, I’ll expand on this argument. Unrestrained pollution will lead to a future where the earth warms which can rapidly leading to famine and population decline after an era of sharp population growth. You are worried about a decline in children in a set of countries, but that problem is a lot less of a problem when it’s happening in a few countries, than when it’s happening in every country at the same time. Then things go worse for every individual country involved, as immigration is not an option.
8-Bit Binary Adding Machine in Minecraft
I made an implementation of the 8-bit binary adding machine described in chapter twelve of Charles Petzold’s “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software” (1st edition) in Minecraft and JavaScript.
> I doubt I'll never buy an automatic transmission vehicle.

That certainly seems like the way of things.
Who needs a >1Gps bandwidth for work from home? I worked from home using a 4G SIM.
when i checked myself into rehab last year, it was solely based on the self-realization gained by a shroom trip. i shared this at rehab and nobody was shocked.
This made me check my own site[1], the page itself is tiny(3kb). It's the images that get me, and they're svgs. Gotta be something wrong there too, an svg shouldn't be 75kb.

edit: nevermind, svg is 13kb, don't know what I was mistaking there.

[0] - www.reciped.io
This is why weight is a concept used in the Netherlands to determine liability. The more weight you put in motion on public roads, the more liable you're going to be. In a collision, drivers of vehicles that are significantly heavier are going to be assumed at (partial) fault. Kinetics are not complicated.
They introduced a real vulnerability throughout the entire system to deal with a perceived future vulnerability in part of the system. It might have been a good idea, depending on the details of the outlook at the time.. but the plan itself was a compromise and possibly not a particularly well modeled or tested one.
The metadata of who and where I am can't be encrypted away, unfortunately, it's available on the physical layer and obviously unavoidably a target of hacks.
To me, it’d be pretty weird to enter a lifelong agreement with someone to share everything, but then as soon as you hit the lotto you start to squirrel things away on the side.
My current cars are 24, 22, and 20 years old. After reading through all the comments on here, I think I’ll keep driving them till I die. No touchscreens, lots of manual knobs, no way for them to be remote accessed, etc.
Note that it can both be true that the rate of inflation is going down and that the student debt relief adds to inflation
> government is utterly unable to remotely turn off, monitor, or impose distance quotas

This is reality already? I'm starting to think maybe computers were a mistake. I mean how much more screwed up can our world get before it turns into a cyberpunk hell?
In the end when most vehicles are electric, I wonder if manufacturers will continue making niche "mechanical" cars for motoring enthusiasts, not unlike how mechanical watches survive to this day even with digital and more accurate ways to keep time.
Why tall hierarchies slow organizations down and how to fix them
Those content creators often stream or upload on multiple platforms. Twitch, YT, Tiktok etc. So it's easier to just say "content creator" rather than "streamer and video creator".
The Commodore 64 at 40
The only content I like is Parental Advisory, Explicit.
Ask HN: How to contact a human being at Google AdSense?
I'm trying to sign up for a Google AdSense account but I get this error message that "You already have an AdSense account".

I'm 100% sure that I don't have any other account. This is my first one. I don't even recognize the email address that they claim is associated with my duplicate account.

The frustrating part is that there's no way to appeal this. Not a single email address or phone number is provided on the website.

Is there any way that I can contact a real person at Google AdSense?
There are hesitant people and there are anti-vax people. Unfortunately discourse here seems to lump both groups together. Why can’t we see nuances?

Edit: Actually, it’s not just HN. It’s quite unfortunate.