skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lower ridicule by like 20% and you could sell that to investors year or two ago
It's not easy for me to figure out. I'd guess it's at around 25 wpm. (Anybody know?) At that speed with an absolutely clear signal and when I'm totally relaxed I can copy maybe 50% of what I hear. I can barely get a letter or two from that song - there's a lot going on on top of the Morse code.

When code was required for US ham radio licenses, it took passing a 20 wpm test to get the top license (Amateur Extra). Commercial Radiotelegraph Licenses used to require 20 wpm for a second class license and 25 wpm for a first class license.

Unless someone was in the equivalent of the Signal Corps, I'd be surprised if they could copy the message.
Are you intentionally referring to the use of vibrating water baths to emulate quantum behavior? https://news.mit.edu/2014/fluid-systems-quantum-mechanics-09...
because if so that's a pretty funny joke.

Mentally I picture a quantum annealer being a lot more like spontaneously finding the ising model that optimizes the objective function through the use of quantum fluctuations.
If you're into the kind of emulation where the 3DS is a contender, the Steam Deck is miles behind so many other options.

There's a cottage industry of retro emulation machines that all have much better battery life, more faithful control schemes, etc.

The Steam Deck shines because of all the other things it can do, but those mostly come at a cost to how great of a retro emulation handheld it is.
> that's surprisingly recent

Cellulose in wood is contained in a block of wood, not like the easily accessed strands of cellulose in cotton. It's mixed together with lignin and other components in wood. It is possible to make a weak, brittle kind of paper with straight wood pulp that's mashed and cooked and pressed. Mixing in a little sawdust to rag paper is an old practice. But properly freeing the cellulose requires both extensive mechanical shredding and chemical treatments. As far as 19th century technologies goes it's underappreciated. From what I can piece together, around 1800 in England, a labourer's daily wages would buy a few dozen sheets of paper. By 1900, they could buy literally reams and reams of the stuff.
Well, the USSR did something similar - for a while you could only really sell a new space rocket by branding it as an ICBM.

Even the bloody 700 ton UR-500 which became the Proton eventually piggybacked on this, marked on paper as a 50-100 megaton warhead ICBM!

But looks like the Americans were thinking even bigger. :-)
These are on vastly different scales: we probably pay 50x more for childcare than clothes.
Zooming out to gain control of 2023
Regional and cultural specificities aside, as the population pyramid becomes more inverted the incentives of older citizens (who are more likely to own property) should be expected to outvote the interests of younger citizens (more likely to rent).
I mean... It's hard to find anyone who prefers Java to Kotlin for Android development. I know people who still have Java One backpack, and they would rather write Kotlin over Java any day.

JavaScript...I didn't mind how quirky it is when it was SSR + a little jQuery for interactivity. nodejs, asset pipelines like webpack, React make me want to barf. They haven't improved at all.

LiveView looks very interesting and I wish Phoenix/Elixir was an option for me.
Corporate profit does not always lead to social good. There are lots of cases, especially when companies scale significantly and over a long enough period of time, where the profit motive leads to a decline in social good which is often seen in the form of negative externalities.

> Profit is a rough measure of how much good they do for people.

While this is true to a certain degree in many situations it does not capture the distribution of the “good” across people (is “good” given to 100 people equivalent to 100x that “good” enjoyed by one person?) and it does not take into account negative externalities.

I’m not saying all profit is bad but I also don’t think, in the current system we have, that profit in and of itself is inherently good. Sometimes profit and social good are aligned and sometimes they are not.
> - A NATO base is hit with a Russian missile, leading to increased saber rattling but ultimately not to any full-scale war

Theres a decent chance that Russia hitting a NATO base with a missile doesn't cause full out war but it will be more than sabre rattling.

> - There is no peace agreement in Ukraine but there is a temporary cease-fire which is eventually broken by a rogue faction of the Ukrainian military

I don't think there will ever be a cease fire in Ukraine, it only allows Russia time to rebuild their stocks and rearm themselves.
Raining Buckets is definitely still in use in America, and shows up enough in old books? Linguistic drift?
It’s only simple if you don’t care about crime, pollution, etc. Then, it’s very simple yes.
Yes it is. It's a semiformal weak-typed RPC.
That can, and will, be pushed out for generations. It's a declining birth RATE—there are still more people. Plenty more people. And we will continue to limit the number of homes. If we need to, we will shrink the number of homes available.

Home values must go up. They will go up. You should bet on them going up. Because if, for some reason that were to reverse global finance implodes and nothing else really matters.

A permanent, long term downward trend in home values may as well be the end of "money" as we know it all together. And it sort of would be, literally, since much of money creation these days is via mortgage loans.
s/produce/replay

Yes reproduction allowed the top .01% of musicians to gain world renown, but as GP stated it really made the activity of socially enjoying and creating music less accessible.
How do you compare to Glean? https://www.glean.com/

Not affiliated but just a happy user of their product it searches slack, confluence, jira, gmail, gdrive, github and source code all at once. With extras like Go links, verification, and some knowledge base features.
They were talking about crypto. Email and the web were born out of research & universities, not the “potential to attract investors”.
I'd never heard of NSUI, this looks awesome!

Is it true that 3DS hardware supports Genesis games (as seen in the screenshot)? I'd love to know the story there. Was Sega involved? How does it works in hardware, since the Genesis has 68k/Z80 CPUs, and the DS family uses ARMs?
The most impressive part is the creator gets to have a probably comfortable living from a channel that grew organically and still 100% depends on youtube’s algorithm.

I follow the channel for years now, anyone not familiar should have a look [0]. It’s not “viral” targeted videos with crazy face thumbnails, borderline clickbaity titles, ABtested through a week, no “I got to stick to the schedule” weekly videos etc.

The videos are really straightforward and focused, and derive all the entertainment from sheer viewer curiosity and the creator’s humor shining through. When I see the 100h average per video, It looks like they really nail down what actually matters and got to ignore the rest.

IMO there’s very few channels that stayed very basic and true to their form while enjoying a comfortable success, I think this is the kind Youtube probably wanted to encourage the most, and hope many more thrive in places I never heard of.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/BrickExperimentChannel
I think that may be the experience in STEM, but not in humanities or social sciences. In this particular case, teaching was seen as a very important part of the job because it was at an elite liberal arts college. But even at R1 schools, humanities professors focus on writing/teaching, not grants as much.
> Anybody that believes that we have the technology capable of setting up a self sufficient Mars base should be invited to demonstrate such on the Moon

Is this not exactly what we're doing with the Artemis Program? From its wiki page:

> The program's long-term goal is to establish a permanent base camp on the Moon and facilitate human missions to Mars.
Curious why the author chose not to discuss macros? You encounter them immediately with a Hello World.
DOS game/graphics programming with DJGPP is how I learned C, and later C++, back in the (very) early 2000s. Very nostalgic.
Well, the distance between human intelligence and dolphin intelligence is less than the distance between dolphin intelligence and fish intelligence.
A more appropriate question would be why wouldn't an advanced, space faring civilization distinguish between us and maggots the way we distinguish between maggots and worms?

Completely in agreement with the second paragraph.
> Argon2id, but without specifying the parameters, not why they chose this particular variant over another variant like Argon2d.

On this specific point: the use of Argon2id over Argon2d doesn’t need justification. Per https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9106.html#section-4, the first and second recommended options are Argon2id, and Argon2id is the recommended type basically unless you have a very good reason to choose a different type. (And as a fairly informed layman in cryptography, it’s very obvious to me that Argon2id is the correct choice for this sort of password safe.)
There's a Wikipedia article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...

but the gist is that Galaxies are mostly empty space; so even though the massive black holes in the center will eventually collide, most of the stars/planets/etc. will remain in unfazed.

Also in about 4-5 billion years, the sun is slated to reach the end of its life, at which point it will grow big and hot enough to destroy all life on earth (and possibly earth itself). This seems like it's more of an issue to be worried about.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
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If you can't enforce a contract it's not a contract.
I doubt housing was such a hot-button issue in the past. I expect it's mostly financial: for most homeowners, their home is by far their highest-value asset, dwarfing any other savings they might have. As home prices have gone up, the effect of this has increased, and homeowners have become more and more fervent (politically) about protecting the value of their homes.

Any government proposal to increase the housing supply directly threatens this. These days, government officials who talk about doing things that decrease existing homeowners' property value get voted out, immediately.

It's incredibly short-sighted, but people vote against their long-term interests all the time.

I just bought a condo three years ago, and while it wouldn't feel good if its value decreased below the purchase price, I would gladly "pay" in that way for a more livable city, and more housing is key to that. I expect in the long run, making the city a nicer place to live would be better for my home's value anyway. But people won't care about their higher home value in 15 years if it drops for the first 3-5.
I think such policy is illegal in many countries. An employer cannot prohibit workers from discussing salaries. This is often a measure to combat against gender discrimination at a workplace. I’m not sure how this affects contractors, but I would be surprised if these laws wouldn’t cover contractors as well.
@stevenpetryk do you see Mafs becoming a library supporting similar features to Manim?
Q&A: Michael Spencer speaks on the newsletter economy
I saw a truly truly awful codebase get around the caching bit by appending a random string of bytes to the query string.

If you're willing to ignore the rules you can get away with pretty awful stuff that no one should really need to account for in a general conversation.
The opencraft link for applying returns a 404 at this point.
I want to ask a question to the engineers with experience in WebAssembly.

Last year I invited a student to compile ClickHouse with WebAssembly. But the task appeared harder than expected, supposedly due to poor 64-bit support in WASM.

Here is a pull request: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/37871 that we have to close because it is unfinished.

I suspect maybe we can get the result with some additional effort...
Sure it will, with cracked binary off torrent...
open & free for self hosted version, current alpha version is client side (runs in the browser).
Certainly up to about 5-10 years ago in the UK university societies ran on cheques (not sure if they still do). It was AIUI the only simple way of requiring the approval of any two of a number of committee members to spend money.
I run a remote team and it’s impossible to get anyone to commit to getting together socially. Best we managed was last year when someone left and he lived locally enough for a leaving do.

Most of the team just don’t want the hassle of leaving the house.
Sashimi is literally raw meat WITHOUT rice.
...that's a really good point, actually. I am in fact so cynical that in light of this point, I think I'm going to go around loudly praising this bold new law from the wise Liberals.
Eyeo is a creative tech festival that was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I loved my experience there and had the opportunity to meet so many wonderful people.

https://eyeofestival.com/
Generally speaking, json-rpc compares negatively to REST and to other RPC standards like gRPC or Thrift. REST is more popular, in large part because of Ruby on Rails, but also because it provides semantic meaning and a system that defines what the api call should be named. No need to look up the remote function, like you need to do for json-rpc. For those who prefer RPC calls, why not use a RPC system that compresses data efficiently and which use IDLs for code generation. Anecdotally, I found that many developers had difficulty understanding json-rpc, because it was so close to REST apis
Wow, very interesting, thank you for writing all this. Hope you’re more at peace today. Human mind is complex and can be so fucked up.
Give that the score is called “karma,” it seems very odd for downvotes to occur for disagreement .
You may not believe it, but the situation is very well documented and certainly a thing that is removing housing stock from cities around the world.

Housing has a value as an investment, and leaving the housing unoccupied reduces the cost to maintain the investment. Tenants have a lot of protections in many jurisdictions, and an owner is responsible for maintenance, depreciation and damages, while a tenant cannot be evicted by the landlord who wants to sell a unit without a substantial waiting period, if at all.

https://bostonagentmagazine.com/2018/09/11/study-bostons-new...

https://nypost.com/2021/08/05/nearly-half-of-luxury-units-em...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/upshot/when-the-empty-apa...
Ah yes, the "social good" that is literally destroying our planet.
How about "Algorithms for Decision-Making"
I dunno… it isn’t always a sliding scale… sometimes a change actually switches a product to too expensive to sell.
The gobbledygook in the Stable Diffusion images is actually a nice touch.
I enjoyed reading this comment and agree mostly with what was conveyed.

>I don’t think people should go back to a prior employer.

Personally, I don't think that going back to a prior employer is a bad look. I've seen colleagues who left and came back in a more senior role.
While 65 is pushing it, middle age does not mean ”half way to death”[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age
I think a lot of it is other people voting against my interests. How many homes in Detroit have democrats demolished in anti-gentrification violence?
University and education has always been a certification game.

What matters is that an institution has approved you and certified what you know.
CMU's Andy Pavlo database courses and related webinars

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjaKScG3l0nuOi...
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjaKScG3l0nuOi...
Increasing the level of education for women. Increasing the access to pre-natal care for women. Decreasing the poverty level generally and specifically for young families. Moving more people out of agricultural work.

Those things are highly correlated with lowered birth rates, though I suspect the last one is probably not applicable to the US.
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Zero-knowledge: proof of your lack of knowledge made me laugh hard ;D

Note: it's funny because zero-knowledge proofs are hard to understand, and there is an enormous landscape of them.
Having been to Colombia recently, this sounds quite possible.

There's no angels in this conflict and support is definitely divided.
That’s not really what I meant, but I suppose I can see why you’d infer it. I’m saying that a social safety net decreases the risk of pursuing art rather than a more traditional job, not that we should repurpose it to give people additional income to fund specifically artistic goals.

So I’m not really introducing any tangential topics. In the US, medicine and healthcare are expensive and usually tied to employment; by providing those to everyone for free or cheap as part of a social safety net, it becomes less risky to dedicate your time to producing art.
> only marginally higher than tech wages with much higher risk/stress

nonsense, not having to deal with corporate life is easily worth $50k on its own

no dumb meetings

no imbeciles imposing their will on you just because they started before you

no moronic company brainwashing, thought-policing, bossware etc etc
Makes me think of this:

My understanding is that chitterlings is the correct spelling and chitlins is the correct pronunciation, but so many people spell it chitlins that it has become an acceptable form of the written word.
It's not. He's made videos of their revenue breakdown before and from what I remember AdSense still accounts for ~30% of revenue, which is significant.

E: seems like I was a bit off. AdSense accounted for 18% of their 2021 revenue. Still a significant portion though. 30% might be closer to their 2020 AdSense revenue given the growth of their merch over the last few years.

https://twitter.com/linustech/status/1486918784401088515
Very nice. I just solved it with GraphViz: https://gist.github.com/mLuby/d184c08c507fa03292c72acb38a146...
More specifically, I do a lot of context switching and still try to maintain a reasonable amount of open tabs.

The problem that I have is that I can't remember days/months later if something I read is in an open tab or closed a while ago resulting in some frantic searches.
... Failing to obstruct a post-mortem counts as throwing people under the bus?
Build is by Tony Fadell (as the book cover in the article suggests), not Derek Sivers
Abundant friends were not always a given or would often not be friends anymore after repeated visits for some reason.
It's not that parsing JSON to a JSON-like data structure is hard. That's easy.

It's the overhead of having to parse it to a generic JSON-like data structure at all, before knowing what the keys and values mean, so you can then transform the JSON-like data structure to the program's API structs.

If you knew the shape of the RPC method before parsing the JSON body, the body would be parsed directly to target language structs and variables, without using any generic key-value objects (dicts/hashes/maps), any generic arrays, or even any strings in some cases (when JSON strings represent enums). For many RPCs there would be no memory allocations during JSON body parsing. But you don't know the shape, so you either have to allocate memory and store the input in key-value objects, arrays and strings temporarily, or parse the JSON body in two passes, the first pass to get the shape for the second pass.
>Credit cards can be more convenient, but not all places accept them and of the ones who do sometimes they charge an inordinate fee.

Card acceptance is very high in the UK now, and fees for paying by credit or debit card have been illegal for a few years.

Banks in the UK wanted to get rid of cheques because they're expensive to process, so the alternatives have really improved.
Linus tech tips did a video sharing their YouTube earnings last year
Freax.

You might find this of interest for the longer story: <https://liw.fi/linux20/>
Don’t attribute to malice what can be equally be explained by stupidity
this seems hyperbolic? the overwhelming majority of aws apis are json over the wire (with some variation in how the operation is defined. there is no perceivable downside to this practice, and they’ve built quite the “oil refinery”.

being able to easily introspect requests and define your own over the wire was immensely helpful, and it’s painful that i have to reach for a special tool like grpcurl.
For Neovim users that use LSP + completion + snippets, it is slightly unfortunate that the Pyright team does not plan to support snippets on Pyright (but open to supporting it on Pylance, which is not OSS).

https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/issues/924
Did you mean the photoelectric effect? I think transistors really exploit our understanding of conduction and valence bands of electrons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_band_structure, how to move electrons to the conduction bands, and then bias them so a large current can flow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-effect_transistor#Effect...). IIRC part of the nobel for the transistor was because they (Shockley) had built a theoretical model based on QM

There's no (visible) photons involved in silicon computers, although very similar solid state and vacuum tube devices are used to exploit the photoelectric effect, mainly for scientific measurement purposes.
HN is not in "the field," and if it's trivially researchable then you can include links to it yourself. It's not constructive to demand other people are read up on research before interacting with you here.
OP already mentioned that the UX on mobile was really bad.

A real password manager (like Bitwarden) would be integrated into the mobile OS, and automatically prompt to fill passwords. It also doesn't provide any functionality to generate secure, unique passwords for each site, so it encourages insecure reuse of passwords. Further, it can't notify the user when a password has been compromised and should be changed.

Different people have different threat models, and improving usability of good tools can improve security more than perfect tools would.
Ask HN: Any web scraping sites that scrape the careers page of the top co?
Anyone know any webistes that scrape the careers page of big companies so that it's easy to apply?
New method precisely locates gene activity and proteins across tissues
Why would you do something when you can do nothing and get elected and paid? It's cynical but that's it. There is no punishment for poor performance, so why would people try?
SJW do get their knickers in a twist about pronouns. Do you disagree or agree?

Now you've introduced the part about entire cities being overrun so I'll leave that to you.
so another thing i have to install. and i also need to set up the introspection endpoint on my service to make sure it works well.