skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> unless they find a ton of oil under their ground

And even then...

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691159638/th...

[edit] better link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse#Enclave_effects
The last time I seriously used Java, JNI was the only way to access code outside of the JVM. I haven't kept up much, but this does seem cool. Anything that lets me use code I didn't have to write in Java is a feature of Java I'm excited about.
All these comments (and I guess the article too) seem to only focus on men, and completely ignore whatever is happening with women. Obviously, there's approximately as many women as there are men (in fact, at older ages, women outnumber men since men tend to die early).

I'm not female, so I can only offer limited insight here, but what I've observed with single women over 40 is that they basically don't need men, though many of them lament that they didn't get to have children, and many even keep talking about having some up until about 50, which seems to be the point they usually give up. However, aside from that, they seem to have healthier social lives than single men in the same age group: they're much better about cultivating friendships (normally with other women, but not always) and pursuing extracurricular interests. At some point, they realize that finding a partner is actually not in their best interest, because if you're a 50 year old woman, it's likely only 55+ and usually 60+ men will be interested in dating you, and for a woman that means a guy who's probably very conservative (likely a Trumper), which doesn't appeal to as many women, and worse than that, a guy who she's basically going to have to take care of pretty soon since he'll be older and likely in poor health. So it's really not worth it unless he's got one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel and has a lot of financial assets that she stands to inherit in exchange for becoming his caregiver for an indeterminate amount of time. So what I've seen is basically a lot of women also opting out of families and marriage (by not settling), and leading individualistic lives with their female friend groups, enjoying their independence, traveling, etc.

>if it's not enabling me to do what I want (buy a house, raise a family...you know standard human things)?

I think, pretty soon, "raising a family" isn't going to be considered a "standard human thing". The current situation is simply unsustainable: not enough people are having kids to keep the population level stable and keep the economy going. So something is going to have to change, in a big way. I predict the society of "Brave New World" is going to become the norm, where the government mostly handles procreation and child-raising.
No, ancient Egyptian civilization was always been dependent on the Nile not just for water but for the flooding that brings eroded trace minerals and deposits them along the basin. That's why we have so much material on ancient Egyptian civilization: the desert is so arid and has been for Egypt's entire history that the normal processes that would break down papyrus or other organic matter were significantly slowed down as long as they were buried far enough away from the Nile.
I don't like the term identical twins, it confuses some people and invites the kind of anecdotes described in the article. People are different individuals even when they have the same DNA. I prefer the term monozygotic twins.
My very, very first exposure was probably when I was about 5 years old, so that would've been about '68 or '69. My dad worked as a computer operator on a military base and they had a bring-your-kids/family-to-work day. They were printing out Bugs Bunny & Wile E Coyote pics on the line printers and passing them out to the kids. My dad also used to bring home discarded punch cards and we'd make Christmas wreaths out of them (with added silver and/or gold spray paint)
Yeah, I think those are exactly the alternatives: Either the wealth keeps getting transferred[0], or it doesn't.

But if it keeps getting transferred, how can that last forever? Over time, the gaps between countries shrink in that system. So "labor cost exploitation" puts itself out of a job.

[0] globalization is corporations more than "countries" voluntarily transferring wealth, sure, but... I don't think you can argue it hasn't increased wealth in those countries
I found (no hard evidence though) that zswap behaves even more nicely, at least on a Raspberry Pi (and on top of that is easier to configure, it's just an on/off setting that can be done via procfs or boot argument, zswap.enabled=1).
New style switches as expressions are pretty nice as well.
Blazars are some of the brightest objects in the sky, and some of the furthest from us (think the furthest object I studied was at a redshift of 6 or so). They can also be difficult to pinpoint in terms of distance due to their flat spectra.
I think the context is important: this was a political event where the US president made an appearance, and all the tech CEOs lined up to say the age of China is over.

There's little evidence that new fabs won't run into the same problems they ran into in the mid 90s. What's different this time is there is political will all the way to the top in keeping this chip making capacity on-shore. It remains to be seen whether that political motivation translates to on-the-ground differences (cynical view: unlikely).
The proposed scanning was on-device. They could have done it regardless of iCloud encryption.
They will ship them to India.
> I've never understood why FAANGs are so fond of leetcode

Is part of it the recent frenzy to avoid bias?

If you can't take into account how smart or personable the candidate "felt", maybe leetcode is what you're left with?
I think of the dialogues between Achilles and the Tortoise in the Godel, Escher, Bach book. They would have tried adding a classifier that can tell when it is wrong and when it is right, but that is of course undecidable.
Identical twin here. I know me and my brother were very similar academically despite being in different classes and never studying together.

I imagine if these twins happened to study together, it seems plausible they scored similarly, and if you factor in pace, they probably think and work at a similar energy level. They dont get into how they got to the 10^38 figure, but to me that seems like the most fishy part. To prove cheating you need more than odd movements and similar scores in my opinion.
Are the women you're basing this on also in their 40s? Or even 30s?

The dynamic changes a lot with age. Women in this age bracket - especially if they want kids - are of course not in a position to be nearly as selective as they were able in their early 20s.
Exactly. The “cold fusion” debacle wasn’t their fault it was everyone around them, they were following a simple chain of research, incrementally developing their theories, following in the proud tradition of discovery after going “huh that’s odd” … and because it challenged established orthodoxy they got buried.

We had a partial repeat of this with the whole faster than light neutrinos, with lots of partially informed commentary, but for the most part these researchers were lucky their situation was obviously instrumental error soon enough, had it continued to be a discrepancy much longer, I have no doubt the conversation would have devolved.

We also have the Venus phosphene research work which gets a lot of pushback because it doesn’t fit so it much be a mistake, and it’s taken a lot of hard methodical work just to get the consensus to “this requires more research”.

Then we have the complete debacle around the emdrive … which is simply summed up as, no it didn’t work, but it should not have taken years to prove that. When someone has a theory that doesn’t fit, based on some (albeit weak) experimental evidence, you don’t refute it by simply saying “your wrong because existing physics is correct”… you do it by proving your own theory about why the experiment shows the results, or by performing alternative experiments that eliminate more variables… what we got instead was a tiny community of true believers, an tiny community of open minded scientists trying to do good experimental scientific research and didn’t care if the end result was the device doesn’t work, because it was good scientific work to develop better metrology techniques to measure the effects that were claimed… and then all the other scientists falling for the circular reasoning fallacy. “It can’t work because physics says so”… as if that somehow negates the possibility that we might have found some new physics, by doing an experiment, finding conflicting results, and diligently performing experiments to understand what’s going on… which is deeply ironic to me as one of the favourite headlines in the particle physics world is a variation on “hints at new physics” … the physics community wants new physics… just not this new physics. (Once again, I do know it didn’t work, and never worked, I’m angry about how the physics community reacted to this)

Essentially it seems like how shocking/surprising the new results are, the more push back they get, so publicity stunts or high visibility publication or press releases is correlated with the level of push back from the wider scientific community. Effectively the acceptance of the scientific community is like a non-Newtonian fluid.
upper classes always win. if now system offer too many social mobility, they will change it.
The fb and ad-tech argument will be that "non-customized" ads are bad because of the low match with user interests.

So one ad will cost you a lot more displays for getting a click/worth view.

But this is maybe not a bad thing in itself. When you see the benefits that google, Facebook and co can extract from ads, you can see that the 'pay per views'/'pay per click' rate is probably way too expensive compared to the marginal costs of running the business.

So, contrary to people saying that this will kill all the business financing with ads, I think that it could be a good reset to still be effective but just with less margin for big ad techs.
The commitment from OpenJDK to continue to support the LTS release for a number of years longer than the non-LTS releases is pretty significant to a lot of companies using Java.
One wonders what CIA could still be embarrassed about, 60 years later. I mean, it's not like they'd relocated Karl Wolff's SS men into the US to use for NOC work abroad, right? (even if they had done anything of the sort, there can't be much that could possibly be connected to Oswald?)
A recent HN comment implied that camel herding was a significant factor in aridification of North Africa and the Middle East. The context and tone made me wonder if the comment simply reflected anti-nomad (i.e. anti-Bedouin, anti-Berber) prejudice, but there could just as well be something to it. I'm trying to avoid rabbit holes so I put it out of mind.
Not everyone is interested in doing investment fund things.
Inflation is mysteriously seemingly the opposite of the very rapid gravitational collapse leading to a black hole, ie inflation is sort of like a white hole.

I tend to think we are a hologram generated from the surface of a black hole, and yes, probably black holes all the way "up".

Of course, it still leaves the question of the first black hole, and why anything at all instead of just nothing.
This is a very short-sighted view. Globalization requires certain level of operational efficiencies, such as speed and cost of communication and transportation. We have just recently reached a level where governments and corporations can support demands from billions of population. Technology will keep on progressing unless we end up in an extinction scenario, and at certain level globalization will be just another step in humanity's perpetual drive towards centralization.
You can just tell make to use a different character instead of tab. Literally.* It works fine.

What could go wrong?

* this may be a gnu extension, not sure. I did test it once and it works perfectly.
And now you know how to properly use his analysis.

The service he provides is to brief US-centric companies on potential geopolitical trends, risks, and opportunities. You'd be misusing the information if you had little business with the US, or expected a crystal ball.
> Assume good faith

One of the HN rules, and one that I think would vastly improve on line discourse if others followed it. I have to go on FB from time to time (since that's where a community I follow is based) and it's horrifying how quickly and often things spiral out of control, when the protagonists are probably pretty OK people IRL.

Even if someone is being a jerk, responding in this way can often make them pull their head in.

I wish I was better at this.
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> A Department of Building Inspection official told the BBC's US partner CBS News: 'We need to make sure the building is being used as intended."

Whatever one's opinions on Musk and Twitter, petty bureaucrats inserting themselves into the situation like this is pathetic

(Not unlike the EU regulator losers. Attacking Musk for his behavior or political or treatment of workers, sure, there are lots of valid criticisms. Attacking him because you think he encroached on your pathetic regulatory fiefdom, you need to get a life)
No one knows that, it’s not falsifiable.
"Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains." - Paul Harvey
Just a random note but LSP (language server protocol) support in e.g. vim/neovim allows IDE-like features in a "plain old text editor"
10 or 1k is a huge range
Speaking as an idiot trying to get hired in the depths of the dot com bust for programming in javascript that I did not yet know two that stumped me were:

Is javascript case sensitive (I got the answer right purely by guessing, but the hesitation gave me away) ?

What is a closure?
Yes, the desert hasn’t always been desert, though the shifts aren’t attributed to human activity.

https://www.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populate...
People need to demand sources for some of the stuff said on this site. Unless you can provide an example of that incident of an activist having a file deleted, you're just spewing stuff.

It's not inconceivable, but you need to source it.
It is hard to see how China would have had the economic growth that it had over the past 40 years without globalization.

Illustrative example: the population of Shenzhen increased nearly 42-fold from 314 thousand to 13.4 million between 1979 and 2019.[1] The opportunity to produce for export has pulled many millions out of poverty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Shenzhen
The headline really does not read well.
So your solution is to ban trade, right? No more coconut unless you plant coconut trees in your suboptimal environment (i.e in Norway).

I can't wait for that small and poor country to manufacture its own modern chips (perhaps in 100-200 years) so that it can enjoy the technology available today(i.e cheap smartphones, TVs etc). I thought HN is smarter than that. The future is multi planetary not self sufficiency.
I might try approaching companies & services that target senior citizens. Having a developer who understands the target audience is a huge bonus.
Aren't those the "pre-agricultural erosion" rates that are lower than the current rates?
Google combines Maps and Waze teams as pressures mount to cut costs
> Technology will keep on progressing unless we end up in an extinction scenario

Surely it’s “until” not “unless”. We’re going extinct at some point, even if we make it all the way to the heat death of the universe.
> Apple’s VP of advertising platforms Todd Teresi has been asked to bolster annual revenue into 'double digits' from about $4 billion today" (Aug 2022)

Double digits isn’t a major player. Google and FB are already making nearly 200B ad revenue each. If every Apple app and device showed ads constantly it still wouldn’t come close to the views that fb and web pages get to display ads used by Google and Facebook.
Just because the US might be able to manufacture something high-tech again doesn’t mean the death of anything… like maybe globalization will get 5% less extreme, before turning around or doing whatever it does next? I don’t see how the existence of some small trend or force going against some huge dominant trend amounts to it being almost dead. Globalization is like capitalism. Calling it fragile is just mock victimhood or whining. Proponents push it forward regardless of the human cost. Democracy and human rights are fragile.
It would be both the drivers and consumers.
I have twin girls and they’re not similar at all. I don’t believe the hive-mind hypothesis.

TBH they do a lot of shenanigans to screw with people who aren’t familiar with them, like going by the opposite name. An elaborate cheating scheme seems like something they’d enjoy.
Correct, and it's when users feel those hiccups that they're going to speedtest.net - so the results are not representative.

Terrestrial broadband doesn't have hiccups as frequently, so the speedtest.net results would have a better signal to noise ratio for terrestrial ISP's vs for Starlink.
Capitalism will ensure that globalization will bounce back if only for that fact that resources (both human and natural) are not evenly distributed across the world. AI is not going to change that. It's people's attitude towards the resulting cultural shifts that's causing a local snapback
Similar functionality is provided in nftables for linux ('inet' filter applies to both ipv4 and ipv6). But, outside of the most trivial use cases of just block/allow a port, it doesn't really work out to be that useful because of other restrictions. E.g., if you are collecting IPs that have e.g., created new connections to some set of ports greater than n times within a time period to rate limit them, you are out of luck and will need separate rules for ipv4 and ipv6 since you cannot save a mix of ipv4 and ipv6 addresses to the same list.
Performing your job of trying to enforce laws about safe residential accommodation and building codes is pathetic?
Also, in India the dominant digital payments mode in 4Q 2016 was digitals wallets, not UPI. UPI was small fish, but rapidly grew to devour digital wallets (because you didn't have to preload money).

Damg, Sorry. Made a mistake again in the parent post: 150m = 15m, 1B = 100m^.
> My assumption would be these are safe and don't change often.

Go take a trip through the GNU userland tools and you'll find a lot of dodgy code that hasn't been touched in 30+ years.
was drexler just bullshitting or is this actually achievable?
> but the writing is on the wall and Fortran's days are numbered.

They've been saying this since the late 1980s. Not that I think it's particularly lively, mind.
The best part of Julia for me is just that it has numeric primitives built in, so the different ML etc. libraries don't have to implement their own (incompatible) versions. So Julia code can be 1/10th the length in Python, because you literally just plug libraries together, instead of having to pipe distinct data structures together.

It also means the libraries are short and easy to understand, instead of having tens of thousands of lines implementing said primitives etc.
- Cash flow positive in a down economy.

- Increase in direct registered shares.

- Steady inventory on hand, ready for Q4.

- Over 1 billion cash on hand.

- Less debt than 450 of the 500 S&P companies.

- Unwavering retail investor support.

- Cutting bleeding leading-edge NFT and blockchain developments.
> Abstraction done poorly is where technical debt/bad technology comes from.

I agree, but it is not the only source of technical debt. I tried to work on a batch job that ran a company one time, it was just a top to bottom script, if-statements, loops, etc... nested 17 (!) deep in places: an if inside a for loop inside a while loop inside an if inside an if inside a while loop inside an if inside a for loop inside a while loop inside an if, etc. The guy who wrote it didn't know what a function was.

Believe me, you can have technical debt even without abstraction.

One of my frustrations is that it takes a lot of skill to rise above "big pile of if-statements" programming, and it's so easy for a good abstraction to crumble back into a "pile of if-statements" if even one developer working on it doesn't understand the abstraction.
>Perhaps the most interesting question to emerge from the review process for this article was why, if the economic analysis is correct, people are reluctant to acknowledge the exchange processes overtly? This reluctance extends from the refusal of dating partners to talk specifically about how much the man should spend to have how much sex, to the low prestige accorded prostitutes (who explicitly trade sex for money) in nearly all cultures, and even to any widespread reluctance to entertain the theory and analysis we have proposed. Even the most obvious examples are concealed: For example, these days most single people are aware of a supposed obligation that a wedding engagement should be marked by the man giving the woman a ring costing 2 months’ worth of his salary, with no corresponding gift from her to him. Believers in gender equality are rightly offended by this practice, but in our
view it simply indicates tacit acceptance that underlying all the fancy rhetoric about liberation and equality, the man is still essentially paying for sexual access. No one wants to acknowledge this, however.

Of course not. If this is how relationships were commonly portrayed (specially in mass media), what would the consequences be? How many more men would be demotivated, and quit? How many construction workers and so many other insanely important and usually dangerous professions are occupied almost entirely by men desperate to financially support their family? I like electricity and running water, I don't challenge the status quo unless I have a reasonable alternative.
>Thank our government's restrictive policies around the diagnosis and medication for that.

Quite to the contrary I don't think ADHD diagnoses/prescriptions have ever been easier. They literally have online pill mills that will get you an ADHD diagnosis and an Adderall prescription within a week.

I went the more traditional route with an actual psychiatrist office, but after the initial appointments and testing, I just have one appointment every 3 months with my psychiatrist which basically amounts to "hey is everything still going alright" "yup life is good" and they write me the scrip for the next 3 months. It's literally a 10 minute televisit most of the time unless we get sidetracked talking about some tangent like we do occasionally.
The nice thing is being able to use the IDE or a simple text editor and be productive. There are times where a text editor is just right. There are times where the IDE is just right. And with Java... well, very rarely does the text editor fit.
I wouldn't say that is clear at all. Perhaps there is a trend of growing larger before collapsing spectacularly into a bunch of smaller nations, but that is about as far as I would ever be comfortable saying anything is clear on this topic.
> Vitamin D2 and D3 fills were associated with reductions in COVID-19 infection of 28% and 20%, respectively

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24053-4

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33648827
Intel is using DXVK for their Windows Arc GPU DX9 drivers