skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So if you go to a person on the street, and ask them: "are you happy to live through something like the black death, but slighly better"? and the responce is gonna be "yeah, that's fine. We should not take action to prevent that"

It's not on the same scale, but 7 million people have just died to a pandemic and there is certainly no universal agreement that massive restrictions were appropriate to prevent that. So while the black death probably provides an upper bound, COVID provides a lower bound. Somewhere between, people will have a breaking point - but nobody was proposing "to solve COVID we need to roll back the industrial revolution and slash world population." I think we're agreed that would have been excessive? Let's say the measures for COVID, which significantly restricted civil liberties for two years, were a hundredth of that level; well, the deaths were a hundredth of the Black Death. It's certainly not obvious to me, at least, that the remedy isn't worse than the disease (pun not intended).

> And if it induces drounght, crop failures and famine, it could kill hundreds of millions, maybe two billion - and then it would be worse

I don't know, seems a stretch. You're kind of bridging an OOM here with great ease. :) I don't think it's plausible at this point to speculate that climate change will even reduce the food production capability of the world at all. It will certainly make the equator much harder to inhabit and create massive migrations; I think that's already dire enough, honestly. To be clear, I think it should be stopped. Just not at any price. I think spending an appreciable fraction of GDP on climate change mitigation and compensation while massively stepping up renewables is reasonable, abolishing capitalism and imposing birth restrictions, for instance, is not.

It feels a bit like some people here are only interested in climate change insofar as it provides a justification for enacting their preferred policies.
The Toyota ev had its wheels fall off
IMHO, as a gamer too, Stadia sucks not because it's streaming (the other streaming services are great for when I'm not on my desktop) but because Google totally botched its execution. Terrible pricing compared to Steam and other resellers, no crossplay, no mods, tiny library. And I think their architecture required specific ports from developers, vs GeForce Now's one-checkbox integration.

Game streaming isn't for everyone, but there IS a market for it. In that market, though, Stadia is by far the worst offering. They should've had gamers lead its design and development, but they run it like it's some sort of business cloud offering... just totally missed the culture.
I've replaced the baity headline with somewhat more neutral language from the subtitle, in keeping with the HN guidelines ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"). If someone can suggest a better—more accurate and neutral—title, preferably using a representative phrase from the article text, we can change it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I also added a question mark since the claim is obviously a divisive one.
It’s stories like these that keep me interested in physics
Why Adults Still Dream About School
I don't now what situation was Scala in 10 years ago. But the situation it is now couldn't be further from "free fall".

It is _the_ language where most of the Functional Programming in the industry takes place (that's not to say that Haskell, F#, OCaml or Clojure are bad, they just aren't as widely used). And that also means that there are lot of open job positions available.

I like FP and Scala comes with some awesome libraries for concurrent/async programming like Cats Effect or ZIO. Good choice for creating modern-style micro-services to be run in the cloud (or even macro-services, Scala has a powerful module system, so it's made to handle large codebases).

https://typelevel.org/cats-effect/

https://zio.dev/

The language, the community and customs are great. You don't have to worry about nulls, things are immutable by default, domain modelling with ADTs and patter matching is pure joy.

The tooling available is from good to great and Scala is big enough that there are good libraries for typical (if not vast majority of stuff) and Java libs as a reliable fallback.
Their secret sauce, at least according to marketing was composite materials and high bypass turbofans, which combined could make a drastically more efficient plane than the Concorde.
The most basic of features, like freezing the screen while switching context in a presentation, is not available. A request for years by all users and available like for ever, in GotoMeeting or Webex.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/freeze...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/pausin...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/tech-community-ideas/...

Thinking about it, what offers from Microsoft are not used just because somebody must use it...Or their company got it for free?
Hence the phrasing "Something like this communication" -- it's an example of how this person communicates.
Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
Regardless of what is "really" cheaper in the market, we absolutely need renewables to be cheaper if we are to survive. We can do this by making them cheaper or by making fossil fuels more expensive. This is totally within the rules and is not "cheating." The market is "real" in some abstract sense but not in the same sense that emissions are. Nature and physics don't care about Exxon's profits, and they don't care whether we have food to eat or air to breathe.
I thought noise was the issue with commercial supersonic flight not economics.
It's very unlikely any type of laser powerful enough to zap small beetles will be available for sale and use by the general public.

Or cost less than a few hundred thousand dollars after all the safety and liability costs.
So does Saturn. At least, maybe not exactly the same number, but a number just a large
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V702-4365.PDF (Linked to from the article):

“Affected vehicles may not meet certain automatic window reversal system requirements in FMVSS 118, Section 5 (automatic reversal systems). When closing in circumstances subject to FMVSS 118, Section 5, the window may exert more force than Section 5 permits before retracting. The window may also retract less than the distance required under Section 5”

So, yes, there is a requirement to have obstruction detection and reversal mechanisms.
This brought a chuckle .. there could be many reasons for this :D
In my experience, this was always very dependent on the forum. In some places this was too busy / spammy as everyone was allowed to post. The longer conversations always took place on IRC.

It's a bit different than your idea, which seems to be more focused on company/founder/owner -> user communication and not mainly as a way for users to communicate with each other?
Thanks but computing the time aint the hard part (modules are available for many languages). I'm more interested in how easy it is to fit this task into the scheduler.
Communication networks are the first thing to disable or compromise in any conflict. Whether it's banning African slaves from having Talking Drums or cracking the Enigma during WWII, it's always a feature.
Salesforce made me unhappy enough to quit a previous job. What a horrendous platform.
Install Briar from FDroid, it can comunnicate even over Bluetooth.
I’m posting anonymously because I have a justified lack of trust in HN’s moderation and don’t want to face retaliation for pointing out something inconvenient. I’ll admit that I’ve only been following MOC for the past few years, which seems to be after everything went down, but your “he must have done something to deserve it” argument is invalid. I’ve been in HN long enough to know that this place has a history of moderation decisions that are hard or impossible to justify.
Perhaps instead of granting inequal advantages to disadvantaged people, increasing access to self-improvement resources can help reduce the number of people struggling to operate in today's economy while maintaining equality
Right, so you only go where you know everyone and the entire landscape and where everything is, and everyone knows you, so you never look like a tourist.

Or, you are simply oblivious to the fact that when you travel you stick out like a clueless sore thumb.

They say "ignorance is bliss", and you are providing some nice evidence of that.

And no, it is not the slightest bit dreadful to have a bit of self-awareness and situational awareness and take a few trivial measures that take a lot less time than it takes to discuss it.

Enjoy your wilful obliviousness, and good luck with that.
The Strid's calm apperance is what scares me (calm at least from the photos, I imagine it's loud in person). Would admire from afar, avoid any off chance of slipping in.
Yep exactly there are different approaches right now but they don't solve the problem comletely.
Because Saturn has rings and looks cool.
I find it works extremely well. I can't remember a single crash, even though I started using it pretty early on in the pandemic, along with tens of thousands of other employees. It was clearly worse in 2020 though.

Edit: I do hate one thing, no way to share part of the screen! When using an ultrawide I always have to resort to lowering my resolution to a lowest common denominator 1080p to avoid people not being able to read what I share. Sharing one app doesn't work since I switch applications too much and want to share them all.
I got a 28 in college which was the predecessor to the 48 and also had the Saturn. The 48 was out when I got the 28, but I liked it how the 28 had a clamshell case, but the 28 would inevitably self-destruct by pushing the batteries out the battery door.

I replaced it with a 48g and later got a 50g (which my son uses) and more recently got an HP Prime which is unrelated to the 48 line, but is an absolutely excellent calculator

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/reviews/hp-prime-portable-graph...
I think the Hitchhiker movie suffered greatly from Adams's death. I think out of respect for the author, they didn't want to change the script too much.

But that was never Adams's style. The draft of the script they got would have likely not been the version of the script used to make the movie. There would have been changes and alterations all the way up to the point the cameras started rolling.

Adams tinkers. He writes something. Then reads it. If it's not funny, he rewrites it. Then reads it again. Then takes a bath. Then reads it again. Write. Read. Bath. Tea. Bath. Bath tea. Write. Read. A bit of the telly. Etc.

So I don't fault the movie for going astray from every other version of Hitchhiker. It would be weird if it didn't. The movie wound up being too average overall. And I don't think Mos Def is a good Ford Prefect.
>Seriously, use a faster language

Some of the best engineers at the world's leading tech companies need to "pick another language", obviously.
Users will be able to communicate with each other in threads that only company starts. And it will be used to see what most of the people are thinking
Distro maintainers are working on a problem (conflict resolution in dependency trees) and solving it. Use of containers is sidestepping of the problem.

Containers solve entirely different problem - how do you make conflicting dependency trees coexist in isolation. Layered containers solve this particular problem quite well. But it's a different problem than distros try to solve.
How would it compare to something like https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch? The main differentiator for me seems to be "Compatibility with Elasticsearch API".
There are many of us who grew up in the 90s and 2000s and used to have gaming PCs (because that's all there were those days). Nowadays we have jobs and much less time or space or money to keep up with that all the time any more, but being able to drop in for a couple of hours of cloud gaming here and there is awesome.

I was able to loan friends my GeForce Now account so we could play something together (they didn't have a gaming PC). And streaming doesn't imply lock-in; GeForce Now just uses your Steam library, Shadow just streams you a virtual Windows desktop (with whatever software you want to install on it, you essentially have root).

If you live in a city, fast (enough) internet is like $50/mo and you need it for your work/TikTok anyway. A good gaming PC is like $1500-$2000+ and is noisy and hot and Windows is a pain to keep updated, etc.

I'm not saying game streaming is the future or that it will replace traditional PCs, but it's definitely a useful service!
What a 52-year-old watch can teach us about UX and Digital Product Design
As I get older I grow more impatient with the effort of capturing my experiences with photos or other media. Organizing the media is a hassle and the real time effort diminishes the experience because my memories of the experience are interspersed with the effort to capture it.
Had excellent results in bedrooms with a device like this[0] that's much smaller. Very much the same concept though.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/ANINBO-Mosquito-Killer-Indoor-Insec...
The economics of supersonic travel using a plane and engine designed in the 1960s (which had a massively upgraded newer version planned in the 1970-80s which was cancelled due to lack of interest) are unworkable. The Concorde was designed before CAD, high bypass turbofans, composite materials, so it isn't that easy to extrapolate to today.
>Chainalysis software puts the lie to the idea that Bitcoin guarantees anonymity.

I, for one, am shocked that moving decentralized currency to a centralized service that knows your identity de-anonymizes said currency.
Teams is alright imo. But working on collaborative documents in other apps is brutal, especially compared to GDrive and Figma's experience. I guess there are little incentives for them to improve when they already have 100s of fortune 500 companies under contract.
Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health
I'd guess it's in here https://youtube.com/watch?v=iJOb9xHggS4
Well Epic does have the "super powers" mentioned towards the end of the article. They have Unreal Engine and Fortnite. The former brings developers, the latter brings players.

They also have unlimited money to bribe developers and players, with paid exclusivity and frequent giveaways.

So maybe they didn't score 100 on the test, but they definitely got a passing grade at least.
Not so much in anger, but in regret. Unemployment is the means to the end of taming inflation.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-26/read-fed-...

"Restoring price stability will take some time and requires using our tools forcefully to bring demand and supply into better balance. Reducing inflation is likely to require a sustained period of below-trend growth. Moreover, there will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions. While higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses."

"The labor market is particularly strong, but it is clearly out of balance, with demand for workers substantially exceeding the supply of available workers."

He is deliberately engineering a recession to reduce aggregate demand. With luck, the recession will be soft. The goals are reducing labour cost inflation via reduced hiring and increased layoffs, which then leads to reduced consumer price inflation via reduced consumer spending due to budget constraints and negative sentiment. Standard macro 102.

I'm sure if he could increase labour supply via monetary policy, he would. But he can't, so reducing labour demand is the plan.
Yeah. That Youtube video of the guy testing the depth with a fishing rod... builds my anxiety just watching him get that close. If that were a 2,000ft cliff instead of water, I wouldn't get half that close! Knowing how deadly the water is... one slip... anxiety building.....
> The issue lies with Sony’s PS2 on PS4 emulator — specifically, the just-in-time (JIT) compiler that turns the PS2 code into PS4-ready code on-the-fly while a game is running. Sony gave the compiler privileged access to the system, so the machine treats every bit that comes out of it as legitimate. CTurt managed to hijack the compiler to run games that Sony has not authorized.

Sounds like this emulator runs as root? Why? Wouldn't it at least be run in some kind of sandbox or hypervisor?
I recently got terminated for objecting to a company mass gathering next month where attendees fly in en made, socialize for 24 hours (with a 5k fun run in there) and fly back the next day because it sounds like a body stressing plan and while I’m vaxxed and boosted my underlying health condition could make long COVID really severe. Not a gamble I want to take.

The fact I questioned leadership and asserted it was exclusionary to those with health concerns by not having a virtual alternative, well, this is Texas and it would’ve been smarter for them to fire me for no reason. Have an appointment for a legal consult to figure out if name and shame is the next step.

As long as UTSW’s update last slide shows R anywhere near 1 I’m going to use caution. I haven’t survived this lifetime disability and flourished by taking medical advice or alternative advice too stringently. There’s quacks in both.
How about when your base rate is $300/night you pay your staff appropriately. Even a cheap hotel brand is $70/night. Based upon the quality of those places that money isn't used for room upkeep.

"She considers $5 a day for a room cleaning that takes 30 to 40 minutes is a fair tip and says housekeepers prefer tips to be paid daily.". The locations and hotels in the article are $150+/night, but this housekeeper feels that the guests should additionally supplement her income by $10 an hour. This is just all levels of wrong. Your employer should be paying your wage from the money they are getting from the customers. If you don't feel your employer is paying you appropriately for the work level go find another job. The problem is housekeeping is a zero skill level job so your next option is "do you want fries with that". Not all jobs deserve to be paid $25 an hour which is what you're expecting with your base pay plus tips.

It's time for tipping to just go away. It has had it's day and now that day is done.
As it seems, it has near full compatibility with the Elasticsearch API.
https://github.com/zinclabs/zinc/issues?q=is%3Aissue+elastic...
"lockfree"? You mean "heavy lockfree" I guess since atomic depends on implicit hardware locking for proper operations.

And those algos are so much critical and dangerous, a mathematical proof must be provided and peer-reviewed.

For example, as far as I can remember, reader-writer ring buffer with atomic read/write pointers. You have such ring buffers in USB xHCI, and AHCI and NVMe.
You can already get RTX 3080 @ 4k 120fps on GeForce Now for $20/mo. The 40xxs probably aren't too far behind, once they start mass production.
Had this on my website in ~1997 and a button to leave your sentiment. Everything is a rehash they say.
Noise is an issue for overland flying (which of course affects the economic viability of a supersonic aircraft).

But even if you assume there's a viable transatlantic market for supersonic flight, you probably can't charge all that huge a premium over business/first. If your premium has to be 2x to 3x, I doubt you have a market.

Handwaving away noise issues with supersonic flight over land gets you closer to something viable. But you still need economics that aren't that different from an all business-class subsonic. (And my understanding is that British Airways had trouble making all business work on the London to New York route.
> - The size of the text chat column in a meeting cannot be changed and is very narrow, forcing you to find the same chat in the 'main' window

So evidently chats CAN be narrow if they want but god forbid you want to shrink down any of the windows to park on the edge of your secondary monitor. Why is the minimum window size so goddam huge?
See there is a baby shark (doot do do do do) that also has a mama shark and a daddy shark. But the Grandma shark is also there. As is the ten hour version.
I might be exaggerating a little. However, that is one thing that we noticed when back in the office post covid. Small group (5-8 people) conversations flowed better. In small groups, low latency is very important. It matters less with one on one conversations and is unimportant for large meetings.

I want sub 50ms.
Or https://github.com/typesense/typesense
Good security and good security people cost money but don't generate any visible revenue. So if you care about your balance sheet, they make you look bad.

Optimism bias is also a thing. People assume bad things won't happen to them. (This is a psychological phenomenon not just an IT thing). So if you're an exec, you could advocate for spending the money or you could just pocket your bonus for cutting costs and go "pfft nothing is going to happen".

And there's the old "if it's cheaper to deal with breaches if they happen than to pay security staff most places are just going to assume nothing bad will happen and deal with the cost if it ever comes up".
Where's the template metaprogramming section?

What about the double bracket operator?

etc...

Or, to put it another way: very nice website for basic exposure but mostly demonstrates very basic stuff.
If you are spending significant time in your programming career modifying text. Not just code, but structural editing of text, heavy lifting text. You are making repeated modifications that confirm to a pattern, learning vim macros are something you must absolutely consider, they can make > O(n) editing steps happen in O(1) steps.
Looks like Pilosa mentioned in the article is now called FeatureBase and all the new activity is happening at https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/featurebase
>Valve definitely made Steam a value add. Friends lists, cloud saves, etc.

I mean, at launch these features definitely did not exist (cloud saves) or were buggy (friends lists). Holding Half Life 2 hostage behind steam was definitely controversial at the time, and Steam was kind of... not great for quite a while. Valve were in it for the long haul though and it really is a great ecosystem now, there are still some gripes to be had but like you say, compared to every other store on PC there really is no competition.

A fun article from the time it was released: https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/32981
I think it's a cool idea, and could be useful. In the best case it would be like a crowdsourced customer support, where the users will help each other. And a way to make the product more engaging.

Biggest doubt for me is that, I think this would require a lot of moderation, since surely there will be people advertising something, or recommending competitors. Or people impersonating as customer support agents and scamming your users
So according to this article big-tech fears the US government and do as they are told or at least react to cues about what and who should be censored. On the other hand - some fraction of big tech banned the previous US president, while he was still in office, with no such fears.

What am I missing?
what’s the seat-kilometre fuel burn on this compared to sub and supersonic jets?
Was it valuable tool?
I have a feeling that by "competitors" they mean any other company. They don't want people to have two jobs.
Have you ever tried GeForce Now? Similar or better performance than Stadia, but it just uses your existing Steam library.

It's a separate subscription (free to $20/mo) for the streaming service, but you can play many of your current titles without re-buying them (not all, due to publisher withdrawals).

To play ALL your games, Shadow.tech will stream a full GPU-enabled desktop that you can run anything you want in.