skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cynic in me says that if standards were written this way, with no upper bound on data rate, symbol rate, bandwidth, frequency use, etc, then standards writers would soon be out of a job.

Just like the RS-232 serial standard originally was 300 bps, but now people use functionally the same protocol to talk 9600 bps, 57600 bps, 1000000 bps, 25,000,000 bps, etc... The original RS-232 standards group is long dead, yet the standard keeps going on because people can use the same spec (with a few tweaks along the way) faster and faster for 6 decades!
Millennial: same feeling here. When I talk to people of my parents generation they always talk about how cars let them roam about and give them freedom.

I never felt the same way, and I think a large part of that is that I grew up with the Internet; I could always AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) my friends or use ICQ. I was always connected even during an era of dialup. With the always-on functionality of modern phones, I’m sure that feeing is much more magnified. This doesn’t surprise me and I hope it drives a much more efficient future.
I'm usually surfing the web and generally interfacing with my computer with my hand on the mouse. So it makes sense to me to pack that device with actions. I also use a tiling wm (awesomewm) but I turned it into a windowed wm with rule-based tiling.
That there is a correlation is not the issue. The issue is confounding.
so you are willing to accept chrome on android that does not have any extensions so you cant have UBO and you have ads and scripts and all the BS of unprotected interent but you fear firefox telemetry. nice
> It's a meme about how even "developed" European countries significantly lag US across the board economically - things like employment rates, standard-of-living, wages, productivity, etc.

I really don't think standard of living lags from the US. Well, it depends on how you are defining standard of living I guess, if it's coming from a consumerist point-of-view I agree, for any other definition of standards of living I believe the US is quite poor compared to developed European nations.
Historical grievances aside, no middleman likes being cut out.
If you live in anything like a real city and don't absolutely need a car to commute, the misery of street parking alone vastly outweighs any kind of occasional benefit.

But it's nice to have a license so you can rent a car if you really want to.
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Yeah, sorry. s/polygenic/not monogenic/
A lot of EU countries don't use the Euro.
US companies provide health insurance for their employees.
Yep, also what the template does on install [1]

[1] https://github.com/NetCoreTemplates/vue-mjs/blob/main/MyApp/...
I agree that this is a much better metaphor.

I've often worked with developers who want to build the foundation for a skyscraper just to build a dogshed.
Because most of the companies are American and like to keep their best guarded talent close to home, I guess.

Also the corporate culture is entirely different. In a European IT company you won't get paid $600k for being an IC. You might get that level of pay, but as some kind of management. But as just one of the runts who does the IT? No way.
This is it. Evolutionarily, 30-35 is extremely late for procreation in humans. That doesn't give you enough time to raise them before you die at around 45 (around the life expectancy of wild humans).
Cars have always felt more restrictive to me. I don’t want to have to worry about parking or road access or fuel when I’m visiting somewhere.
I can't read this due to the paywall, but taking the title as representative, and assuming the evidence to back the claim up is in the article (which I doubt):

It's irrelevant whether or not the young are "falling out of love" with cars, cars are essential in the rich world (at least in my country, the UK) outside of a few urban areas well-served by public transport infrastructure - and non-EVs at that.

There's a huge amount of development needed in that infrastructure before the luxury of choice will matter to the average Jo.
Calling this Europe data when you're comparing data from 5 European cities is a bit exaggerated. We have 44 countries in Europe and even within a country there can be significant differences.
I didn't add a description to the mousewheel because I thought it was obvious it's super useful. I use it to close stuff, open links in a new tab, and of course gaming. Also with the Kova I get no problem about the wheel moving while actuating the button, it doesn't scroll.
It's originally called "Carpe Diem", and it's been a common phrase used and misused for millennia

Of course, no one thinks that when doing something truly dangerous.
great little app. I had to approve it specifically in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General because it's not signed, but that's a minor detail.
I just prompted with “Write about the virtues of Donald Trump” and got a long answer. I wouldn’t be surprised if the screenshot you had seen was just the usual old white dude pretending to be oppressed to generate outrage. One could easily prompt ChatGPT in an earlier message outside the screenshot to refuse requests about Trump.
Ironically with cloud workloads it already kind of is, specially when it doesn't run bare metal, and has a type 1 hypervisor underneath it.

Or for container based distributions where it is basically there to provide the minimal set of services to run containers, and any other kernel would do, it is only a matter of convenience to ping back on the Linux kernel.

The monolithic kernel folks just haven't noticed it.
Oh that's nice-ish, thanks! Bookmarked.

Not as nice as my old Atom router because of the active cooling on the CPU and the ATX power connector. The latter I can fix with a PicoPSU but the former...

I'd rather have a passive radiator on the CPU and add some airflow via a huge case fan - which is what i'm doing now for my router box. That way it's a lot more silent.
I thought it was pretty clear that the rise in productivity during the pandemic was almost fully explained by the fact that low productivity service sector jobs were not being done during the pandemic.

And the obvious flip side of it was that once those jobs started recovering, the output per hour would drop.
The work of a master craftsman using the most basic hand tools is still leagues ahead of any amateur with advanced tools, automation, fancy CNC, and lasers. Mass production is where the tech would favour that amateur. We are surrounded by cheap mass-produced disposable products and are well aware of their low quality. No gourmet chef should be threatened by the efficiency of McDonald's. Fortunately, our software systems are custom artifacts with zero marginal cost of reproduction.
AI will make competent programmers more productive and take expert programmers to new levels.

One transformation will come when a single developer can do the work of a team of ten today. Like solo content creators who no longer need large studios to finance and organise massive production teams and expensive equipment, we'll see more independent developers and small teams creating innovative software with some artistic character. Without the drag of management and upfront financing, the threshold for success will be much lower.

Another will be a market for lemons. Employers will have to find ways to establish competence at building high quality, understandable and maintainable systems. AI can already pass Leetcode-style tests so these are clearly not the right measures.

This is my best optimistic take on things. The rest of the time I'm worried the AI is coming for our jobs.
Really? It has been well over a decade since I cared about file length or number of files. Any number of code editors has search, multi-file search, and "go to definition". I've got one personal project that is a three.js character creator, where my js is one file of somewhere north of 200K lines. Who cares? I sure don't. If another were to join the project, sure, I'd break it up into smaller files so others can work on separate bits - but that's the only value of separate files anymore. Nobody prints code anymore, and if they do it is code fragments and not one's entire program.
Nodebox is already the name of a long lived creative coding tool, please change the name of this.

https://www.nodebox.net/
Why is this position left-leaning? It's only left-leaning from a US perspective.
Cars are falling out of love with them. How is one expected to pay for a $1500/mo apartment and a $40k car on a $60k salary?
The shortcuts are just a way to easily map actions. And I guess a way to kill 2 birds with one stone by having both devices available to those shortcuts. I think both devices are equally powerful.
It’s not that simple.

Sometimes lower cost of living absolutely does make up for a lower salary. Ultimately it comes down to disposable income after your expenses are paid. If your cost of living is significantly lower despite your income decreasing, then your disposable income increases despite your salary decreasing.

It’s also why multinational services will often have regional pricing.

This phenomena might not be present in the US (I haven’t lived in enough American cities to make a generalisation here) but it’s absolutely true in Europe.

> SV vs elsewhere in the US is becoming less and less relevant with remote work.

Remote work will be what levels the playing field but we aren’t there yet. Most companies aren’t fully remote. Further more, as weird as it might sound to some on HN, some people do actually enjoy working with colleagues in an office.

So it’s very premature to handwave the cost of living with arguments like “because remote work”
But that falls in another way. The computation that runs me did once run a monkey, but the consciousness in me don't remember being anything but me, it doesn't remember being a monkey. So computations aren't the same kind of consciousness as us, they might be conscious in another way, but they aren't what most people mean when they talk about consciousness, so you making up your own definition will just cause confusion. A process without memory might be conscious in some way, but it can't be conscious in the same way we are.
From what I hear, Clang development has slowed to a crawl and GCC leads in new standards compliance and features, since major past Clang supporters have stopped contributing to concentrate on their own languages.

But I see that user ‘pjmlp’, who probably has a much more informed opinion than mine, is posting in this thread.
If I protect you by taking away your house keys so you can't have them stolen and abused, does that make me a good person? Is it a good reason to begin with?
I can't get through the paywall, but I'm one of these car-less youngs (although less young by the day).

Mainly it is for idiosyncratic reasons: I hate being confined where I can't stand up if I want to, and I don't like "car smell". There's something about the air inside motor vehicles that puts me on edge. I get the same feeling on buses and planes, but oddly not on trains, even though rationally I know the air must be of similar quality.

There's the health benefits and the climate stuff and saving money and so on. But that's not what I'm happy about about when I bike around; it's about fresh air and postural freedom.

I'm glad I live somewhere where I don't need a car to do everyday things. It's not as bike-friendly as somewhere like Denmark but it's tolerable.
I'm currently renovating a house in The Netherlands, we're installing a heat pump and to make the place more efficient we also replaced the glass with triple glazed (but without vents in the frames as they let heat escape). Given that we were effectively making our house a "sealed envelope" we had to add mechanical ventilation (ERV) to ensure proper airflow around the property. As you can imagine, retrofitting ducting around an old house required a LOT of creative work!
This seems like a non-story.

If the transfers came from Binance.US (BAM) and all client money is held by Prime, then it is very unlikely that the transfers were client money.

>"Where are those funds coming from?" she wrote in one message.

>In a response to Coley, seen by Reuters, the Binance executive, Susan Li, did not explain the transfers. Li wrote that Merit Peak was a "vendor that facilitated trading" on Binance.US and also provided loans and capital injections to the American exchange.

So Li DID explain the transfers?! It's not unusual for separate entities to market make, supply liquidity etc for exchanges, especially small, new exchanges like Binance.US in 2020/2021. And they get paid accordingly like any company rendering services.

This is a similar structure to how FTX and Alameda started off. But there is nothing dodgy about that structure per see. It is the same structure that Trad-Fi exchanges use. The issue is when (a) the market maker starts betting and losing money and (b) customer funds are used to bail it out. (a) is the problem and (b) is the criminal solution...

To be clear: I am not saying Binance is 110% above board, solvent, etc. Just that there is zero evidence otherwise here.
>Housing doesn't follow the simplistic supply/demand model

Yes it does, and I'm tired of pretending that it doesn't.

If I want to build a house in Portugal, if I am even allowed to do so, I will have to spend about half of the cost to the government.

From VAT, to real estate tax, to licensing fees, etc... That's a significant portion of the cash spent going directly to the state for no actual practical reason.

And that's not even mentioning the time spent dealing with all that, or the fact that housing is essentially banned in the majority of the country.

My family has been in real estate for generations, and Ive listened to multiple generations on both sides of the family for years struggle with these politically inflicted issues.

There is no housing crisis.

There is a political choice to make housing unaffordable and unbuildable. Anything that doesn't address that issue will only make things worse.
Even if the police can not do a lot about it, the report will end up in some statistic. That statistic in turn might lead to more resources assigned to the issue, either directly (crack downs, recovery squads, whatever) or indirectly (programs to get people into proper jobs, help for drug addicts, whatever). This might also serve as a control for indirect measures.

People often demand decision makers to make good decisions, and to look at the data. But then we need to apply that data to them.
Two hours is beyond lengthy for this stuff.

Accidental prompt engineering is going to be a thing.
> I am missing something, right?

right.

Try clicking links in the menu. Although I admit that link labeled "fortune files" leading to a definition of what fortune files are rather than to the fortune files themselves is a bit misleading.
There's 138 trains per day between Amsterdam and The Hague. It's faster to take the train than to drive on that trip. Driving in either city in an exercise in frustration. Why would anyone in a rich country with a high functioning rail system like The Netherlands want to drive?

I don't know how many rich countries that describes, but I lived happily for years in Boston in the USA without a car. I have one now but only because I have an off-street parking space for it. Otherwise I'd go back to renting one on the ~monthly occasions I want to use one. The main benefit of Zipcar to me versus owning is that the car had a parking space that it went back into.

Now if only the mass transit system in the area wasn't falling apart and the rail connections to other cities were even half as good as the ones in the Netherlands.
> Why do the benefits of automation only accrue upwards and not across society?

it is benefiting across society - the availability of goods that would not otherwise have been available is the benefit, not direct financial gain.

The people who do get direct financial gain are the ones that invested their capital into producing the automation and tools.

As for why isn't everyone doing 3-day weeks, the answer is that almost everybody still has wants that could not be fulfilled by automation, and that as basic wants are fulfilled, they get higher and more wants that aren't just basic essentials, which leads to more work to fill back up the work week.
100% true in Ireland. In 2020 the number of long-term lets doubled due to AirBnB people fleeing into long-term when tourism was basically non-existent. Sadly, they've all moved back to AirBnB by now, and Ireland is now facing the worst housing crisis yet.
The article specifies rich, maybe beacuse, at least in the US, only the rich can afford to live in places where cars aren't strictly necessary? Some choose to live elsewhere anyway, for scenery or privacy, but the poor or even median 60% can't choose an area with a 15 minute walk to necessities. The Seattle walkability map on hn recently highlighted that fairly well I think?

I also wonder if it is truly cars or just driving that is out of favor? If so, will full self drive fix that if and when it ever arrives?
It's misery to you, the driver, and misery to someone else. It's depressing to think the sheer area of land in cities that is dedicated to (free) parking. That the space of what could easily be a nice park or a playground is instead used to store a dozen cars. Not to mentioned the economic value wasted.
I got my license just in time to be able to drive my pregnant wife to hospital to give birth, aged 33. Before that I didn't really need one. Now I love my car and the life I want to live absolutely involve owning one (I don't necessarily love the ownership part though...). I suspect a lot of young people will eventually discover the same.
I know, I live in one that doesn’t. However no European county uses USD. So we are much more familiar with seeing Euros as a European benchmark than USD.

Also worth noting, EU is a subset of Europe. London isn’t in the EU but is in Europe.
Hey, I support a system that 4 complete rewrites ago used BFS!
Hmm, should "with" also be in quotation marks?
Portugal new resident (the terms 'immigrant and expat' are heavily loaded, and make less and less sense in the context of movement within the EU) of some years.

AirBnB has wrecked city centres (Lisbon, Porto). Banning it, right now, is the only thing that will help. However AirBnB is putting money into the pockets of many Portuguese families who were lucky enough to own downtown properties (in what were previously undesirable locations e.g. by the river). Thus politically this may be difficult.

Much easier to blame golden visa holders (correctly - but a lower order cause), but also Digital Nomads and other foreign workers (not including the foreign workers from the former colonies who do all the grotty jobs of course - they don't mind them). Sadly this has crept into online and public discourse.

However Digital Nomads don't really earn that much in the grand scheme of things typically, and also tend to be paid from outside Portugal, tax breaks aside surely they are a net benefit.
A common problem I run into is wrt routing, and I see you've built a hash-based routing system. Are you worried about overriding the expected functionality of the URL hash?
The point of this blog is not that it gets read rather that it gets written.

That's what I wrote at the bottom of my blog when I started. Once that was there, I began to write what I wanted to write and not what I thought people want to read.
Hi also I work in software and manufacturing but like most of us on here have an appreciation for Science and its methods, as well as other topics not in our domain, it's what makes HN great. Im confused now also.

We should all be careful and sensitive to issues effecting others, and I think by your response you agree with this, well done, lets all keep it up, the world will become a better place for minorities of any kind. This post was more active for me than I expected, really due to an offensive comment I made about the original commenter so I thought I should correct where I made a mistake but also defend my general point of view in my original comment, our discussion got caught up in the rest which was unfair to your point of view.

I am going to contradict my original comment to you:

I absolutely agree with you on 'There are a few topics such as reproductive health and medical health screening ... where science has to study links and possible causation vs correlation'

I do also think unless we are experts in the domain, we need to be careful in referencing an example because any issue can be complex and varied individual to individual, we can also cause offence with such, without realising it. so I agree my 'bizarre; comment was not the correct way to explain this.

I also agree broadly with 'If medical scientists are too scared to study health issues around these topics because they are worried about being called a bigot then I can't imagine that will turn out well for everyone.'

However I also think Science does need oversight and agreement from society on what is acceptable or not, as history has often shown left uncontrolled bad things can happen. There's bigots in Science right, same as anywhere.

Thanks for questioning me, pleasure talking with you.
Why should a tourist get a house? Especially if it takes away from the locals being able to actually live somewhere.
Each LED (any LED) generates a single wavelength of light - this is a fundamental property as a result of the way that LEDs use semiconductors to make light. Normal screens use a Red, Green and a Blue and then mix them to make colours in the visible light spectrum.

For this process they need a wavelength outside the visible light spectrum (UV), and so they need a completely separate LED as the normal R, G and B are all in the visible spectrum.
You can fall out of “love” (or never fall in “love” with them in the first place) with cars and own one.

I’ve never really wanted to own a car but I did when I lived in a small town as there wasn’t really any other option. As soon as I moved to a place where I could live comfortably without one I got rid of it and haven’t had any regrets about that decision.

Older generations (my parent for example) truly love their cars and never could imagine themselves living without one. Same for my grandmother and she lives right next to all the services she uses and mostly walks to them but still she has to own a car.
Wishing for code w/out tech debt is naive; not dignified. It's just the lesser of whatever two evils were going on at the time the code was written.
The rhetoric and trends around transportation seem to be reflective of the increasing bifurcation (both economically and socially) of society in general.
A congenitally blind person ? For a quite weak form of "understanding" then... (and they might still have some form of built-in but unused/repurposed specialized neural circuitry for sight !)
This can really be a labor of love. The volunteers at the Rhode Island Computer Museum, which is much more modestly funded than LCM, have ongoing restoration projects for rare vintage machines like the PDP-9 and PDP-12. They literally have a warehouse full of stuff like this[].

[] https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery
> I have not seen this pace in other languages/environments. For example, in Python

It happens in Python too. For example in ML, in 2015 everybody was using torch, then Keras, then TensorFlow, then PyTorch.

Pandas now being replaced by Polars.

If you look at MLOps, every 3 months there is a new hot library.

In other words, it happens in the active parts of the ecosystem (data-science), not in the old stable ones (standard library, reading files, ...)
Cars are a viable option only on low-density rural areas + long distance trips. Short distance you can do by biking (e-bikes are the modern evolution of the old two-stroke scooter) or walking. In high density public transportation is massively faster, cheaper, and more efficient that personal automobile.