skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re 1.5 (I’m the .5) with school-day daycare (absolutely no screens there).

I will cop to allowing him to watch a playlist of nature videos I’ve downloaded and watched through beforehand, on an old laptop, at times when I need to do something urgently without toddler assistance.

Otherwise, he can spend a good hour at the sink “washing” dishes with a trickle of water or attempting to sweep (ignoring his actual toys entirely!)

My husband grew up without a TV in the house in 70s-80s West Germany. His parents eventually got one, but it sits in a side room and is usually just turned on for the 8 o’clock news.

I asked my mother-in-law about this sacrifice on her part. Her answer? She didn’t think she’d have time to watch everything her kids were watching to make sure it was appropriate, so she took Alexander’s solution to that Gordian Knot - they simply sold their TV once their first child was a few months old.

My in-laws’ generation was glad to get enough to eat as children in postwar Germany; a TV was an unimaginable luxury until they were in their teens. She didn't feel like she was depriving her children of anything important.

My husband and his sister weren’t forbidden to watch TV at others’ houses, or to go to the movies. Neither of them ever wanted to buy one for themselves as teenagers or university students, and today, they both keep very quiet houses.

Result? They talk a lot when not sitting around reading. Guests at my in-laws are offered the contents of the decently-stocked magazine stand, a rotation of coffee table books, or if they’d like something from the bookshelves.

I grew up in a stereotypical American house with the TV on all the time, but started escaping it early to hole up in my room with a computer long before most people had internet access at home.

In some ways, I feel more at ease visiting my husband’s family than my own, despite a bit of a language barrier.

One might say there’s less of a lifestyle barrier.

My husband's family has much less money than my American relatives, so privilege has nothing to do with the fact that my German niece got her first dumbphone at 11, puts her school laptop away when her homework is finished and picks up one of her craft projects, and my American nephew has had his own iPad since he was 3, his own TV and AppleTV since he was about 6, and now a Roblox addiction.
> Low GPU utilisation is a serious issue.

Maybe? Maybe not? If you have a low GPU utilisation while loading a new level and only displaying a loading bar, that's not a serious issue. If a CAD software has a low GPU utilisation after loading that's not a serious issue. (It just means that the software GUI is written efficiently and can handle complicated assemblies.) If a chat application has a low GPU utilisation that is not a problem, it is simply not the application which calls for full utilisation of the GPU. If your inside-out-tracker has a low GPU utilisation that is not a problem, it just means that you are leaving more space for the user's applications.

But this is not the issue with the analogy. This conversation between you and me, whether or not 5% gpu utilisation is bad or good, or it-depends doesn't just happen here. It happens in everyones head who reads his post. He wants people to think about the organisational inefficiencies of Meta. And a significant portion of his audience is thinking "what is a GPU?". Because you can absolutely be a useful member of the Meta company without knowing that. And then a smaller portion of the audience is thinking "Is 5% GPU utilisation bad?" You could totally understand his points about organisational inefficiency without having to have any understanding of GPU performance metrics.

He lost clarity, for no good reason.
I think all jokes are explainable why they are funny to be honest. I find it odd when people say that explaining a joke removes the funny part. Sure, it can in some cases, but I think it's just a generic thing to say rather than what actually is the case. Sometimes a joke is so clever, that you don't get it at first, but then someone explains it and you appreciate how clever the joke was, which is still a positive feeling and in addition can make you laugh retroactively.
From his complaints, I can deduce one of two things:

1. Carmack isn't a good leader. It takes a lot of "soft skills" to lead a large organization, and while Carmack has proven to be an unpaired engineer throughout his career, I haven't seen him build outstanding engineering organizations.

and/or

2. Carmack was fighting for influence with others at Meta VR, and couldn't get his goals take priority over others (Zuckerberg comes to mind).
That's the issue isn't it?

I simply wrote that the root cause of our problems is the population level. You replied that I implied the most monstrous policies. And now not only you try to deflect but you ask ME to come up with a counter argument...

F that.
You should check out prodbump.com, they only charge 1% (plus stripe fees). Seems like they have a pretty clean interface.
> It doesn't have any of the above in the standard library, apart from threads, and it seems to be doing fine...

Keep in mind that Rust has a package manager (+ registry) and build system as part of its distribution. The whole mentality of "small, reusable crates" is what makes a small standard library reasonable.
I’m not an Economist, but doesn’t such a tax lower a firm’s ability to pay its employees (by hiring more or increasing wages) or decrease the firm’s ability to pay dividends to shareholders or force the firm to raise prices.

Generally, it seems like a way to collect more revenue from the population while hiding it as an indirect tax. And it seems a bit like a regressive tax that hits everyone. The fact that they want it to be global makes me feel that they don’t want to compete with other countries that may have “better” economic policies -— whatever that would mean.
You know, maybe he just has a huge blind spot when it comes to optimization: Because he's so good at it, he overestimates others' ability (and possibly appetite for - I personally find optimization grueling and soul deadening work though of course needs to be done)
> Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired. — JS
That’s fine. But the book is definitely not just for “anti-modernists.”
Yeah, that's pretty much what I mean. They aren't some new thing that either has to launch into orbit or crash and burn. The likely path is in between.

VR headsets have improved immensely since I first tried it in 1991 (Dactyl Nightmare) and I suspect they will keep improving. Where we are at today is not necessarily a plateau but it might feel like one if you were expecting a growth curve that looks like a hockey stick.
Believe it or not, UNIX isn't quite dead yet -- it's just resting. In certain embedded environments, we use things like what was once called BSD/386. WindRiver took a UNIX and worked to make it suitable for real-time requiremewnts.
No. "AI" isn't creating new information complexity. (In fact it's making the world simpler, by regurgitating smooth-sounding statistically average statements.)

Information complexity is the true test of intelligence, and the current crop of "AI" is actually making computing dumber, not smarter.

But yes, "dumber" is often more useful. But the industries "AI" will revolutionize are the kinds of industries where "dumber" is more profitable (e.g., copywriting spam, internet pornography, casual games, etc.) so the world will be poorer for it.
ChatGPT also has areas where it can recognize the truth. I agree that some people can hedge their confidence in some areas, but it's not a universal trait that everyone exhibits all the time. I think this shows we're only sometimes generally intelligent.
I've been running PortableApps.com on Drupal for 17 years now. Still running on D7 because the D8/9 upgrade path was always messy and a number of modules I use were never upgraded. Still debating between powering through a D10 upgrade and degrading some of the site due to lost modules, switching to Backdrop, and switching to something else entirely.
I’ve been dealing with this recently and it’s a mojor headache, but the issue of things not lining up is primarily one of using coordinate systems correctly, knowing what things were measure in and what they are shown in
These kinds of threads are always so hard to decipher. Without disclosing the terms and details MIT is allegedly providing, you just have to assume the one side complaining is telling the truth when there's almost certainly two sides to this problem.

That said, don't get me wrong, I'm always down for a quick pitch fork roast on the internet.
Requiring that Twitter not ban Person X is tantamount to requiring that they carry Person X’s content. Which is why people have no “right” to use something like Twitter - making that a right would infringe upon others’ rights.

At least that’s how it works under US law. I get the impression you’re not so familiar with American law though?

Yes they can ask and suggest removal. They cannot coerce but we have no reason to believe they did. I already linked to a long list of case law establishing this. Have a good rest of your weekend!
True, but as written it has advice applicable to non-linux environments like MacOS, which don't have /proc.
You ask the seller or you research the product. Or more probably buy whatever is on the shelf and has the right price. Surprises are left for later on but people will learn again how to deal with that. Repairing was common not to many years ago and we were no more geniuses back then than we are now.
No need to bash millennials here. He also admitted he could have pushed more but decided to code instead.
that wasn't the case 8 years ago.
Depends on the device... phone vs tablet.
Would have never guess it was meant to be a joke.
You are totally right. My comment applies with free market, in a mono- or duo- poly it just will not work.
That outlook has severe limitations though. Specifically that self-custody has very high barriers to actually using those coins without having them pass through some more centralized system at some point. There’s no cash equivalent (as yet) that is as frictionless as actual cash.

Maybe the next gen of tech tech that grows from these ashes will address that problem more directly, and get more traction than prior attempts by users learning from and demanding better than what they are getting now.
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You recommend any projects that are similar to this and up to date?
Understandable concern, as documented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
The crypto community displays many traits that are very religious in nature. Not just "religious", as in someone's preferred computing ecosystem, but religious in a far more literal sense fueled by blind belief in something greater than oneself. Coins are churches and founders are pastors.

To keep "believing" in crypto at this stage requires something approaching religious devotion.
Totally agree. The ability to read on my phone has been such a boon. My close up vision has degraded to the point where I need readers for a paperback, but readers make me ill. The OLED screen on the phone means I can read in the dark without lighting up the room, which is handy since I often read in the middle of the night if insomnia wakes me up.
Sorry, puny human, you couldn't solve the squiggly license plates fast enough.
This is interesting.

MIT is playing hardball with people's jobs and W3C assets.

W3C is playing hardball MIT's reputation.

I think the fact it's reached the point they're publically talking about this means they're is very little chance MIT is going to be backing down. The real question for me is would US officals allow W3C to move aboard. Could they prevent it? I have a feeling MIT's lawyers have thought alot of this out already.
Similarly partisan websites are treated the same way on all sides: the milder ones are downweighted, the hard-core ones are banned.

This is a consequence of what we're trying to optimize HN for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... The milder ones still produce a few interesting needles amid their haystack of fluff, while the hard-core ones mostly just lead to flamewars.
Moon Reader seems to imitate it well enough.
The version 8 file contains 847,223,402 hashes which gives 29.7 bits, that is where I got the 30 reads from. And I assumed the most naïve approach, always just seeking and reading a single hash, but admittedly this would almost certainly not read the final page over and over again. And then I just subtracted 10 taking into account that you would read the final page only once, with 10 being a rough approximation of 12. How many bytes you actually read per read could be affected by all kind of things - sector size, cluster size, page size, read ahead, ... - so 10 bit was good enough for me. But you are right, the number of reads would almost certainly be in the vicinity of 20, not 30.
The most shocking thing in this thread
There is a lot of talk about big-tech inefficiency. It's not clear what the 'inefficiency' number is, maybe it's 50% (as suggested by Carmack) but it's also not clear other industries are much better. I think, just generally, it's hard to get a group of humans to do anything collectively. From my experience working in 'small', 'medium', and 'big-tech' is that 'big-tech' is probably above average even just due to the general emphasis on using good internal software/tooling.

It'd be interesting to see larger companies experiment with more radical organizational structures. For me I'd try to reduce the number of layers of management and automate/decentralize the more manager-y tasks. Things like expense reports and performance management can be better orchestrated by dedicated roles + software with peer reviews/committees/calibration. Coaching can be handled by a mix of more senior peers for technical issues or dedicated performance coaches for less technical issues (rather the one person who is maybe good at one of these). Interviewing/hiring can be done by ICs, again orchestrated by software and dedicated roles. Similarly workplace issues and disputes could be remedied by dedicated HR/arbiters and peer committee if needed. You could make this extra work opt-opt for those that want to focus on just ICing. The hardest part is a way to do effective resource management outside a free market- fundamentally it'd be nice if you model an actual free market where multiple internal teams can organically form and make proposals for projects to fund or bid for funded projects. Sill if you did the first few things, I think that'd strip away at least two layers of management which would be pretty good.
Not to mention the lack of top and bottom bevels that we only still find on the iPhone SE (3rd gen) now.

Maybe I’m an outlier, but it’s been over a year and I still don’t like how in accessible the top and bottom of the screen on my 13 mini are for one handed use. I swipe to text one handed, but pressing the numbers its emoji button requires serious contortion and dexterity. Maybe the fact that I tend to use my left hand (despite being a righty) contributes to this.

Anyone else agree?
> iD tech used to set the standard for the entire industry, but long term its totally lost out to Unreal and Unity.

Unless you fault Carmack for selling id to Bethesda, this isn't so much Carmack's fault. He always proposed more sharing of id tech. Look at the older versions of the engine that are available under GPL. Unreal really took over when they started their cheap licensing with source available. Bethesda was asleep.
Yeah I find the thing you generally want but which many languages don’t support well is to have a struct-of-arrays or data frame layout rather than an array of objects. Then you can do one of:

Sort one array and rearrange other arrays the same way

Compute the array of indices into another array such that array[index[i]] < array[index[i+1]], I.e. the sorted version of the array is then [array[i] for i in index]. If you have a vectorised index operation (eg APL, R, …) getting the sorted array is one line of code.

I think with simd you’d want to sort your array and simultaneously permute either a second array or the array of indices 1, 2, …, n so you can use that to do accesses to corresponding elements in your other associated columns.
From the article: “None of the animals inside the saltwater aquarium, which contained clownfish, teira batfish and palette surgeonfish, survived.”

:(
Francis Collins and Fauci specifically targeted those two doctors.
One more in the same theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prora

What I've never understood with these projects is, what's the supposed benefit of a single stupidly large building over a large number of reasonably sized ones? It doesn't feel like this would bring any meaningful economies of scale to the building process. It seems unlikely to actually use land more efficiently.

Like, is it really just some kind of an authoritarian fetish for giant projects, or was there at least some attempt at justifying it?
The Labour vote was a popular vote, it just happened to include union members and 'registered supporters' who weren't party members (but would have had the same outcome in 2015 without them). The electoral college system was abandoned by Miliband, and Starmer has given up trying to bring it back in some form.

The Tories haven't got to worry about having self-styled radical socialists on the ballot but have had exactly the same problems: candidates that appeal most to the Tory selectorate like Iain Duncan Smith and Liz Truss are neither in touch with the public mood nor competent.

Not sure that a presidential system with a public vote would necessarily do better though. The public loved Johnson and liked May at first.
> Not labeling people who disagree with you as “part of a professional managerial class” / people who don’t want to work (propaganda)

I see, you get to label others with pejoratives like "propaganda", but others are not allowed to respond in kind with labels of their own. Seems a bit one-sided.
If they’re negative sum then so are traditional payment processors that charge transaction fees, which is not an argument I’d be prepared to make. Unless you see something fundamentally different about the nature of those fees in crypto?
"Obviously the best way" is probably too strong, though for me I do much prefer scroll mode for reading novels. And I like reading on my phone, because then I can read a few pages anywhere I want.
The larger concern is that the manufacturers would change how you ‘purchase’ hardware - one possible circumvention is that they make it so you don’t purchase your electronics any more, you’re just long term leasing them.
Secretive trading firm Jane Street uses OCAML: https://www.janestreet.com/technology/
Could you make the argument that the carpenter should be given the option to be paid in equity or in cash, if both parties agree to it? Is there any argument against giving people the option to choose the sort of compensation risk profile that works best for their individual situation?
Yes, I got this wrong - but a number of actors, including the casting director is/from HBO.
The idea that manufacturers would raise prices simply because a product lives longer flies in the face of Econ 100. Any time you raise prices you increase the opportunity for competition. Any improvement without raising prices gives you a competetive advantage.

It may be that the longer life comes at some cost to the manufacturer. That can safely be added to the price because any competitor would also incur similar costs to add similar value. However, if the additional cost adversely affects the price per unit of life it could very well hurt the manufacturer. A $10 wrench that lasts 10 years could be perceived as a better choice than a $15 wrench that lasts 12 years. And of course it would be a better purchase than a $12 wrench that lasts 15 years for somebody who loses their wrenches about every 8 years.

So single-factor Econ 100 homework might be over-simplified, but the principle should not be ignored.
It depends on what your definition of "being yourself" is.
Even older. "Cadillac Desert" was published in 1986 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert .
It's closer to 4 hours a cycle, not including procrastination and stress, and it's usually at least two cycles a year.
R u sure?
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8240463

For that matter, the laser controlled by other means will not be switched at total discretion, but at a fixed rate. Not different than an oscillator.
Ifixit has repair ratings on devices. You can look at things like LEED certs on some as well
My understanding is that ivy league schools have impossibly huge coffers, and this seems to boil down to money.

Or perhaps MIT is offering a bad deal on purpose to sink negotiations?
In the context of authoritarian states and surveillance technology that definition matches. But this is specifically about language and jargon. Even if we decide that my definition is nonsense, it is clear that using terms like "escalation" internally isn't "a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda."
Cory Doctorow: Jack and the interstalk (2010)
Slack is right. Calls only work in app and huddles work everywhere including Firefox. Make you coworkers' day sunny by never using calls.
You can't attack others like that here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. Since you've mostly been posting flamewar comments and ideological battle comments (all of which is against HN's guidelines), I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
What the heck! We were participating in it before? I had heard of the terrible practice and had no idea that the US was doing it too.
This. I am content with this. I’m interested in an extremely minimal browser for MacOS that is just a box that renders HTML and CSS just to view notes inside of. Min may foot the bill.
Earlier, there was a large discussion on screens and kids, internet usage, etc.

I'll present Cory Doctorow's approach: Use the computer with your kids and talk about the media they are consuming.

You can easily find places where Cory's talked about what others have said about raising kids in a world where content is everywhere around us at all times, such as a puppet show about media literacy [0].

[0] https://boingboing.net/2015/11/19/hacker-puppets-explain-scr...
U. of Illinois (Urbana) had steam tunnels when I was there. You could tell where they were, because the snow on the ground above them was melted.
How is that possible without page fault exceptions or equivalent?
Stating facts is not hate speech -- especially if you're trying to force society to go along with your unreality for political reasons.
I mean, we're going on close to 30 years or so that Linux has had parity with Windows for the kind of driver we're talking about: loadable kernel driver for a weird accelerator core that takes firmware but doesn't really fit into a driver model otherwise.

On Linux this is a module that exposes a character device with one off ioctls.

On Windows this a kernel mode driver that exposes a Device object with one off DeviceIoControls.

I really don't think the reputation is deserved in this case, both kernels added equivalent support for this workflow back in the 90s.