skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two very simple answers, which I won't bother to back up with any science.

1) Many office workers spent some 50-80% of their work hours on overhead (meetings, email), leaving very little time for actual focused tasks, things that actually need to get done. When you work one day less, you just optimize the overhead part whilst still outputting the same net productivity.

2) The human mind cannot be cognitively productive 5 x 8. Consciously or subconsciously, you'll bleed downtime into your day, quite a lot of it. Pretending to be busy, sitting out the time. Not because you're a slacker, you're just human. Office work is deeply unnatural.
Plenty of people protested during the summer of 2020
The US has near universal health care. Most people have it through their jobs, old people have it through Medicare, and people without jobs, in most of the states in the US have it through Medicare expansion.

There is still a coverage gap, it's small and shrinking.

Using that as some sort of explanation for why people are dying on the roads in the US compared to the rest of the world explains nothing.
Musk says user signups at all-time high, touts features of “everything app”
How TikTok Is Changing Language
Maybe I’m missing the point. Random offsets feels like an inelegant solution in the space of elegant solutions (read: CRDTs).
I've always wondered, but figured that there must be, others who find this type of UI quirk (and find it humorous). "Self-oscillating" I like it. Thanks.
Paintings are nice to look at.

Stamps and other collections are fun to collect and to have, regardless of their monetary value. (After all, people collect otherwise-worthless things like bottle caps, too.)

Cryptocurrencies have no substance to them, they are not interesting to look at, and while I suppose one could get a thrill out of simply knowing one has them, I very much doubt that there's more than a tiny handful of people for whom that would remain true if they were worth $0.
Do people only do meth in America?
https://archive.ph/wkm57
Your communism is showing.
The Anandtech forums back in the 2000s we're awesome. The off topic forum was my main online hangout.
Truly strange that there's no mention of the Obama admin "reforming" CAFE standards in 2012 so that the larger the vehicle's footprint, the worse fuel standards it needed to be compliant. Every single automaker went the route of making their vehicles larger, that is, compliant. You can no longer buy a new small truck in the US which is very frustrating.

The timeline for CAFE standards making America's most popular vehicles enormous tracks with the uptick on their graph. Though maybe it's something else. Someone down-thread suggested "meth" but vehicle size seems an awful lot more likely, especially since its motorcyclists and pedestrians that are dying.
The growing unchecked power of state legislatures
Here's what I think you're missing: Most people who answer telephones for a living are not paid to answer telephones. They're paid to answer customers.

If I'm speaking to someone who's worked too much for their capacity (whatever that is) and I get a curt, wrong, or bad-mannered answer I'm very likely to take my business elsewhere. In fact I've done so, to the tune of a few good thousands, a few times. Off of a repeat bad experience with customer service.

Would it be better for the business for that same position to be filled with someone whose energy were better at the time I rung?

(To give you credit, some positions do need to fill shifts and it is what it is, but you can always split them between more people)
Facinating how this sounds - to different people - like event sourcing, functional programming and "software transaction memory".

Are people interpreting using their own experience, or is there a big overlap?
Some Unreal Engine demos:

- 2013 - The Valley [1] A nice, explorable forest with weather. Requires a reasonably powerful PC and graphics card.

- 2017 - Superposition.[2] A very detailed lab scene. Requires a good gamer PC.

- 2021 - The Valley of the Ancients [3] The first UE5 demo. Requires a really good gamer PC.

- 2022 - The Matrix Awakens [4] The high-end UE5 demo. If you have to ask what hardware it requires, you can't afford it.

The Valley is from 9 years ago, and it still looks good. Try it first.

From a metaverse engineering perspective, hardware requirements limit what you can do. What's possible today is incredibly good. What you can run on the average user's laptop in the browser is way, way below that level. This is the era of the $1000 phone and the $100 laptop. GPU price/performance hasn't improved much in years.
NVidia doesn't market anything below US$250 any more, although some old cards are sometimes available.

The average Steam user has an NVidia 1060, released in 2016. It cost $250 back then, and it costs about $250 now on Amazon.

Yes, there's cloud gaming, where the GPU is in a data center. Now look at the pricing on cloud gaming. Many cloud gaming companies have gone bust, including Google Stadia, because the economics don't work. To get a mass market, you have to sell at a loss. To run at a profit, the pricing looks like Shadow PC.

[1] https://benchmark.unigine.com/valley

[2] https://benchmark.unigine.com/superposition

[3] https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/valley-of-the-ancien...

[4] https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/introducing-the-matr...
I think far fewer people care about "whitelist" and "blacklist" (and likewise, "master") in the general population than they do about swastikas. The former is largely isolated to one faction of the tech bubble.
For those days, find something less, like light stretching, outdoor walk, skipping rope etc.
I know that naming is hard, and almost every short name has already been taken, but “Mach” is really already taken:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

Mach is still quite relevant on Apple’s platforms, very visible in public APIs, and you’d be ill-advised to try to claim symbols with a “mach_” prefix.
Nigeria SEC to Avoid Cryptocurrencies in Digital Assets Push
Is North Korea's Internet a better alternative?
I'm actually part of a founding team of a for-profit tech & other consulting cooperative. Not because of any altruistic or idealistic thing, but because we have a good team that has fantastic ability and wants to try doing some independent work, but having shared systems, and a centralized umbrella to do C2C under is nice.
I have seen so many non-technical people getting treated like wizards for knowing intermediate spreadsheet functionality. I always thought it would be interesting to enable people like that to do more powerful things with spreadsheets.
VictoriaMetrics core developer here.

Intetesting paper! It mentions VictoriaMetrics, but doesn't compare its write and read performance and scalability to Mach. It would be great performing such a comparison, since VictoriaMetrics should scale better than both Prometheus and ImfluxDB (the systems used in performance comparisons) with the number of available CPU cores according to [1].

It looks like Mach maintains an in-memory append-only buffer per each active time series with 4KiB size. This means that its memory usage can be estimated as 4KiB * active_series. For example, it needs at least 4GiB of RAM for a million of active time series. This is 4x bigger than VictoriaMetrics' memory usage.

A 4KiB in-memory buffer may contain up to 4KiB/16=256 (timestamp,value) samples. If a time series receives every new sample every 10 seconds, then 256 samples may cover up to 42 minutes worth of data. If per-series in-memory buffers are persisted when they become full, then Mach may lose up to 42 minutes of data on unclean shutdown such as out of memory crash or power off. This looks like not very good tradeoff for higher data ingestion speed.

It is also unclear how efficiently does Mach compress data stored on disk. Production stats from VictoriaMetrics users show that the needed disk space is the most expensive part of their monitoring stack. That's why on-disk data compression efficiency is very important here. VictoriaMetrics provides better on-disk metrics compression than other monitoring solutions at the cost of slighlty higher CPU usage [2].

[1] https://valyala.medium.com/measuring-vertical-scalability-fo...

[2] https://faun.pub/victoriametrics-achieving-better-compressio...
How many times have I tapped the lower-left icon in Android and then have the recently-used apps shuffle themselves ahead of opening the desired app?

Copious times.
I had never heard of this feature before but I'm having a hard time seeing why it's useful. It doesn't seem to add anything substantial beyond what a commit message already allows.
People who can predict things will ALWAYS be in demand, especially in Marketing and Sales. ML & DS aren't perfect predictions, but with good math and good data you can be right a lot.

What I'd say is since everyone is shedding employees that the next 6 months - year or longer, however long the recession is bad lasts, will be bad for all tech people. But as the economy improves and the recession recedes, good companies are going to want to know where to spend money to capture that growing market.
I remember seeing something similar a long time ago.

If memory serves me, something similar was very briefly a feature of Internet Explorer.

Except with the IE version, everyone else using IE (which was everyone, even Mac users) could also see everyone else's notes.

The project was discontinued over concerns about intellectual property and defacing other people's web sites.

It was a long time ago (as illustrated by the reference to IE for Mac ), so I may have some details confused.
This is my guess. Everyone just drives like a psycho. 65 in a 40 zone, 90+ in 70mph highways, after a light turns red you have to wait 2-3 seconds for that car or two that run it.

Then you have people pulling out into traffic, turning left from the right lane, stopping for no reason in the middle of the road...

Combine that with 1 in 8 drivers not even having car insurance (it's over 20% in some states), the amount of irresponsibility is mind-boggling.
Centuries, plausible enough. Thousands? What are the most salient historical events to you over a thousand years old? Would you really bet on last century's Big Thing being so uniquely great that nothing will compare for another thousand years?
It was just a note to the author should he feel afraid to share it due to copyright reasons.
On the left side of the page, click "Introduction to Ada" and then "Imperative Language" for some syntax.
What if we just reimplemented the entire github ui but everything is just stored in git?

Git notes allows comments to be attached to any line for PR.

Issues can just be a well known branch and schema. Issue comments are just git notes.

Ditto for wiki, project management and releases
Hitler managed to get a 66% supermajority to change the constitution. The enabling act had 444/647 vote. It's actually much, much worse than people realize. They got 68% voting in favor of becoming dictatorship. Wikipedia enabling act.

The overcame supermajority obstacles. Pretending they didn't represent the majority is detached from history. Nazism resonated deeply in Germany. He truly got most Germans willing to follow him enthusiastically.
> it looks like an early 20th century 1920s Craftsman style home

As you're likely aware, American Craftsman is an architectural style inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement.[1] In an historical double entendre, "Craftsman" can mean something else entirely, and yet can still be American Craftsman, as this home is. These particular style American Craftsman home in particular, among the many types of American Craftsman, with the front covered porch on the short end of the rectangular shape, were sold out of the Sears Catalog.[2] Sears Craftsman... get it? Sears sold various architectural styles, such as Cape Cod, but I think far and away the most popular was their American Craftsman home kits, which the OP's home appears to be. Not all Sears kit homes were American Craftsman, and not all American Craftsman homes are Sears kit homes. But a lot of them are both.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_movement

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes
Almost every night I pick up 3-5 pencils around the main living area at our house. Somehow there are always dozens of pencils around, but finding one with a working eraser on the end is as rare as finding a unicorn.
For those who don't read the article, it was fixed in January.
I feel like you may have missed a salient section in the blog post. Here's one sentence from that section:

> Once a commit cements itself in git’s history—that’s it. It’s impossible to amend a commit message buried deep in a repo’s log.
>(Pretty sure it’s been standard on every car since like 2005?)

Only have had adaptive cruise control the past few months.

I had regular cruise control for ages. I mostly stopped using it. On roads with any amount of traffic, I found it encouraged driving in a way that prioritized maintaining speed no matter what including getting close or changing lanes when it really wasn't necessary. And if I just constantly overrode it, why bother using it?
The problem with folks in America is they’ve lost their entrepreneurial spirit. If people are given a shorter work week—great—they’re nice and relaxed. But I’ve witnessed folks getting more-and-more lazy these days.

There needs to be a better method of incentives put in place that coincides with an extra day off.

I would propose not an extra day off, but perhaps an extra day of personal development instead? Something relaxing but related to work maybe?

People are simply too distracted with all the crack social media and Netflix’s auto-play algorithm. So I’d wager that sometimes people will use that day productively, but maybe 7/10 it’ll be wasted down some rabbit hole.

In fact, you could probably argue that people are so distracted these days that they’re productivity and happiness would both go up if they were no longer wasting time online and you ADDED another work day.
The World Needs Processed Food
> building your own CPU architecture is part of curriculum

I don't think it is any more. I did my BSc there and didn't have any course where you build CPU architecture of our own.
The magazine is in storage, many miles away; from memory, 1927-1932 is the date of printing.
I assume you'd loose the ability to work with them as tags though?

git checkout v0123

git difftool v0123 v0158

are quite useful. Didn't know it had a performance impact.
Could an octopus reproduce a second time if their digestive tract remained open?
It seems like an octopus that could breed multiple times would have a selection advantage in the form of more offspring.
I don't mean to deny your experience or sound rude, but it genuinely baffles me that you would have difficulty installing Java. I do not understand how it is different than installing literally any other programming runtime. How is installing the .NET SDK any easier than installing Java?
Amazon doesn't accept cash. Is cash not money? They don't accept $foreignCurrency either, is that no longer money when you cross the border?

Or do you mean "money is what you can use to pay your taxes"? That works to exclude crypto, at least for most of the world.
Hi, I created the application from scratch for my own site.
Thinking about improving and opensourcing it.
The theory is that the weekend is not enough to "recharge" and that productivity wanes over the week.

Now, I can buy the theory of very unproductive fridays when nothing gets done, but I think a better model would be to just work 6 hours instead of 8.
How to handle a reorganization as an engineering manager
The gold standard for the web should be: Craigslist

Fast, functional, responsive.
I mean, you said you were allergic to the JVM, not to Java syntax. Those are clearly different things, and especially nonsensical in this context as Clojure is not Java (indeed Clojure tends to be one of more terse languages in practice).
Care to enlighten us how the satellite failures of Galileo are worse than the satellite failures of the other systems?
zero added value.

let me be the opposing voice. this is a pure nerd add-on with zero value for regular users. i went through all the usage examples. even those from this thread. there is zero added value. you can link, point, store, etc. to your commit and get the same thing.
That sort of stuff is outright user abuse.
How common must a symbol be before it’s immune to the stigma of murdering millions?

I’m curious how one calculates that.

Also: don’t mistake an observation for an argument. I’m not implying anything. I think it is an interesting thought.
6502: 3500 transistors. 80386: 275000 transistors. It would have been a big board ;)
But why would you do that? I think it's just calorie density and behavior. You might just as well have eaten a bucket of ice cream as fast as you could. I.e. before your rising blood sugar has a chance to stop you.

Though I do think the public would be better off if they replaced the bread with lettuce or something. It seems like they're willing to do that anywhere I've gone.
This is definitely very cool!

But the circuit topology here can't meaningfully be called a discrete implementation of an LM386, unless by LM386 we just mean "a two-stage op-amp capable of driving a small speaker." The two circuits may have the same goals, but they're completely different designs (and the LM386 is a much better design---no shame in that, considering it's professional versus hobbyist).

The simplified diagram of the LM386 shown on Hackaday's website (which appears to be reproduced from the TI datasheet [1]) shows a few distinctive features that the discrete circuit lacks, and which result in better performance; and we can guess at some other details that are probably lost in the simplification.

- The LM386 input devices are a differential pair of PNP Darlingtons [2]. The Darlingtons are there partly because PNPs have worse current gain than NPNs, but they're also a conscious choice that allows the amplifier to be powered from a single supply while taking in a DC-coupled signal that's referenced to ground: the signal inputs (pins 2 and 3) can safely go below ground by roughly a diode drop, by design.

- In contrast, the linked discrete implementation uses NPN transistors for the input diff pair (Q1 and Q2), which means that it requires a separate R-C biasing network (C2, R7, R11, R12) and also means that the bias current in the diff pair depends on the power supply voltage (making power supply rejection tough).

- The LM386 uses a pair of NPNs in the first stage to effect a differential to single-ended conversion. The simplified diagram doesn't show it, but I'd bet that the real circuit matches the bias current in the output stage (the current source above the two diodes in the middle-right of the simplified schematic) with the current through the input stage, in order to hold the collector of the right NPN transistor at roughly the same DC voltage as the collector of the diode-connected NPN [3] on the left. This minimizes mismatch due to finite output impedance of the NPN transistors [4].

- In contrast, there's no differential to single-ended conversion in the discrete circuit. Q2's gain is essentially thrown away, the signal is taken from R4, and there's no attempt to match the collector voltages of Q1 and Q2 (adding a diode-connected device between Q2's collector and the supply would improve matching).

Again: I love when folks build and release their discrete circuit designs! I've done the same multiple times (here's a fun one [5]). It would have been better for the author (and Hackaday) to leave the LM386 out of this.

Finally, it seems like the author didn't actually build the device, just simulated it. I probably wouldn't build the discrete circuit as described. It's going to have some performance issues (poor power supply rejection is one) and will be quite sensitive to temperature, device characteristics, etc.---all things that one should try to minimize in a design.

[1] https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm386.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlington_transistor

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode-connected_transistor

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_effect

[5] https://web.jfet.org/gilberd/
Talking like a pirate will probably flag you up more than anything else lol
Related to this, here's a pet peeves of mine. When YouTube is buffering a video, it shows a spinner and you can't press play or pause. Usually if something is buffering a lot I'm in a place with spotty internet, so I'd like to pause until I'm somewhere with better Internet. If I say pause, you should not continue playing the video under any condition. I have made my intent clear.
Someone at my work actually suggested, with a straight face, that we do just that. I think specifically they suggested we stop referring to "gen-z" because there was a letter Z in it.
One problem is that C++ wants to (eventually, at least as an ambition) deprecate the pre-processor. So it's embarrassing to add features which people need to this system which you claim you're deprecating. Which is it?

I think C++ would have been better off with a closer equivalent to include_bytes! (Rust's compiler intrinsic masquerading as a macro, which gives back an immutable reference to an array with your data in it) - but the C++ language doesn't really have a way to easily do that, and you can imagine wrestling with a mechanism to do that might miss C++ 26, which is really embarrassing when this is a feature your language ought to have had from the outset. So settling on #embed for C++ 26 means it's done.

I was concerned that maybe include_bytes! prevents the compiler from realising it doesn't need this data at runtime (e.g. you include_bytes! some data but just to calculate a compile time constant checksum from it) but nope, the compiler can see it doesn't need the array at runtime and remove it from the final binary just as a C++ compiler would with #embed.
Hi,

(It's my site). Thanks!
That's a pretty big caveat, woops. I'll check it out.

Would love to hear some ideas about improved functionality.
This was a pretty weird experience.

I've would preferred a simpler and more traditional design.
The unfortunate reality for many Rust fans is that a lot of people would prefer to use a less complicated language when performance doesn't matter.

That Rust program you spent a day golfing to make beautiful use of iterators? Your friend wrote it in go in 15 minutes.

They also get static types, good dependency management, and singe executable deployment. Cython + mypy basically gives you that with Python.
Interesting to see this on hackner news, but not surprising! Several friends (and exes…) of mine who are npd read this site daily..
I found several interesting ideas in the book:

- coloring the sea to increase albedo

- pumping the water below ice layer to reduce the ice melt speed

- the incentives to reward carbon capture

Some actions (terrorism) introduce society changes:

- drone attacks on plane/ship using fuel to limit carbon transportation

- announcements of the contamination of animals with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to reduce the meat consumption
Indeed. If your threads are new you're not supposed to use any teflon tape, you use pipe dope. Teflon tape is for worn threads when you are out of pipe dope.
I've always noticed my Garmin watch gets a fix extremely fast except for the first time I use it after traveling somewhere new. That first one always takes several minutes.
Yes, but new england is tiny. It only take four hours to drive across the width of the length of it. (As the crow flies, no accounting for road geography here)
Its rather too late now, the cat is out of the bag.

I think there are many other archives such as one posted above hosted by Google's bigquery.

a better strategy would be to divert your writing to something new and different, defeating simple stylometry analysis.
And as far as we know no tracking/propping up anything for attention regardless of ramifications.