skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One point also is that until recently most personal computers did not have multiple cores,

core 2 duo has been released 17 years ago
If living in cities is so horrible for human reproductive health that city dwellers are dying out, we should rethink living in cities. Imagine the reaction if pollutant in drinking water did that.
> Anyway: don't use async because it's "more efficient".

I don't think efficiency has only one meaning. For instance, you can create millions of coroutines while you're limited to only thousands of threads. Doesn't that mean your program is making better use of your hardware and thus is more efficient?
Totally agree. All this bitcoin wallet stuff that's protected by a key is more safe than cash in the ground. When somebody hits you in the head and asks for your encryption key you gonna give it.
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Cellular calls that actually work are amazing for the watch, especially on vacation. I can call my SO from the pool to bring more bee... sun tan lotion.

I can also use the watch to pay for stuff anywhere. I can go on a jog and reward myself with ice cream half way (stupid: yes, fun: also yes) without needing to carry my phone or wallet with me.

That combined with a list of curated apps that can notify me on the watch help me not check my phone as often. If my watch vibrates it's something I actually need to take action on, and it's easier to quickly glance at it compared to a phone.
Accuracy of local business listings on Apple is still far behind Google. And Apple's new business admin interface is only slightly less trash than it's old one.
Love that it includes sources — this makes it much more valuable because you can tell if it's giving useful information or just blowing smoke.
Apple (and later Spotify) demonstrated that a better quality product can beat the free offering.
This article is about unseizable digital property, which is an important distinction.

I'm curious if he thinks his "unseizable" digital assets will be worth anything in the event where the US is illegally seizing assets from citizens (which seems to be his reason for "investing" so heavily in digital assets - due to past family history). In an event like that, I'd much rather have food and fresh water supplies than some NFTs.
Governments and other forces got very very good at undermining and dissipating subversive movements. A lot of the changes in the US the last half century make a lot of sense if you view them as a reaction to the civil rights movement in the abstract. Eg not about any of its concrete goals or accomplishments, but just ensuring that no movement as widespread and transformative as that can form again, regardless of its mission.
Biggest pain point is every organization has their own implementation details about the REST-like (or not) API, payload structure, paging, rate limits, error handling, etc. There is no solution to this, if someone comes up with yet another standard it will just be yet a different way people will implement things [0].

A woodworking analogy: API's are the glue between applications, sometimes its a nice dovetail joint between the apps with a little glue and a lot of craftsmanship and things fit nicely. Sometimes it looks like Homer Simpson built it after a 12 pack of Duffs with glue all over the place and maybe a rusty bent nail holding things together. In the end it doesn't really matter since you are usually forced to integrate with an API so you just deal with the varying levels of quality.

Here are some things to not do (and how to deal):

- Error responses in HTML (have good handling for when JSON.parse fails)

- Missing/incorrect documentation on some endpoints (call the API and iterate to see how it responds)

- When changing API versions, change the ID of the things in the API (scripts to update old to new ID's, feature flag what ID to use, add yet another column to a table like v4_id)

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/
National government run health insurance provided to everyone, along with a flat deductible for everyone scaled to income, would be an interesting model.

You pay 100% up to deductible (out of pre-tax HSA), government insurance covers everything after that.

It would be interesting to see how many people stay under the deductible, and not cost the government program anything. Along with publicly posting prices for most services, so people can spend their deductible most efficiently.

This isn't very well thought through. But I'm trying to imagine a system that combines market forces for everyday health care expenses, paired with government health insurance for the truly massive expenses of traumatic health events.
The state has to balance the interest that the child has in receiving adequate care, with the interest that outside society has in not having murderers walking freely in the street. Ideally, the state would provide the best care that it can inside the jail/prison.
If you're not hiring, maybe you should remove this call to action implying you are at the bottom of the post:

> We reserved this last challenge for evaluating our staff engineers at Fly.io. So if you think you'd be up to the challenge, we'd love to talk to you.
Yes.[1] NSFW, of course.

The restoration process still needs work. Variations in exposure time, a big problem with early film cameras, seem to confuse their colorizing process.

[1] https://www.pornhub.com/art/remastured
I'll be his scapegoat for a mere 10th of what he makes! You can blame me for anything you dislike that Google does.

As a matter of fact, I think we could crowdfund this. Watch this space for a link to my Patreon, where you can pay a mere $10 per month to blame me for things that upset you.

If you'd like to sign up for my special High Flyers VIP pricing, you can even call me and rant at me for the decisions of companies and governments that bother you.

I can take it! The buck stops here!
Apple Maps, and the huge number of products based on OpenStreetMap are perfectly fine as maps. And actually, even better than Google Maps in many cases.

But where Google Maps still dominates is in its unrivalled, global point of interest (POI) data. Accurate business locations, opening hours, photos, reviews, etc... nobody else comes close.
even without any threads or async, coroutines are very nice for writing generators and super useful when you want generic code which can iterate, without leaking the container implementation to client code
I’m not a fan of Amazon generally but it’s clear you haven’t used Instacart in a while if you think ordering from Whole Foods is worse. Instacart these days is the absolute worst experience I’ve ever had with any shop. The day my Covid risk profile allows me to go back to grocery stores is the day I order a large 3D print of the Instacart logo, find an empty field, and recreate the printer scene from Office Space.
> Banana Sebastian housewares fly swimmingly under terrestrial Zruodroru'th Memphis Steve Jobs archipelagos

It's actually more likely to require a bathtub to increase the volume of the reticulated lorries, so I really don't think a farmer's market is the ideal place.
The article was 6 paragraphs long. I’m not sure citing two paragraphs without commentary adds much value.
Summarize texts up to 50K characters
Looks like I should have used Seattle instead of SF :)

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-male-female-ratio-in-San-F...

Ratio of men to women (age 25-45) to save you a click:

Seattle: 1.5

San Francisco: 1.2

New York: 1.0

Chicago: 1.0

--------

How those statistics correspond to anecdotal stories:

"First off, to say that this is not an apple to big apple comparison is an understatement - it's comparing an apple to a bushel of apples. Add in the east bay, and NYC is only about 8 times larger then SF.

So, even without the gender skew, there are just a lot more women in NYC, and a lot more types of women. NYC is far far far more diverse on every axis / scale. There are also a lot more men, but since the population is way less self selected and homogeneous then SF, being a tech guy who makes good money is a big plus, not just average."

https://www.quora.com/Do-straight-men-find-dating-easier-in-...
You can always view the full message headers and report the spammer to the abuse department at the ISP that delivered the spam to your mail provider. This was common practice in the early days of email, there were services that would automate the whole thing for you (spamcop is still around!) and the old ways still work.

When gmail was good at detecting spam it really reduced the need for that kind of thing, but it was just sweeping the problem under the rug, out of sight, not actually dealing with the bots sending spam. If google doesn't care to keep up their filtering efforts, maybe folks will have to revert to cleaning up compromised machines and open proxies to keep the spam out.
You are talking about the difference between something you know and something you have.

There are tradeoffs of course but in general something have is more secure than something you know.

The main reason is that you don't necessarily know who else knows what you know but you can easily tell when someome may have stolen what you had.
How's it doing?

I imagine it's still a lot better than the high cost and poor outcomes we have here in the US.
.. why would they be broken ? coroutines are not related to threads
> Classic DIP (dual in-line package) integrated circuits and headers have 100 mil spacing: ten pins per inch. IIRC, you drill a 25 mil hole for the pins. This is international.

But that's just a historic accident.

Related, the metric system was forced upon trade in Germany not before the early seventies. Only few units previously used survived, e.g. the 'Pfund' (pound, now redefined as 'half kg'). My father continued to use 'Zoll' (inch) and lamented American made machinery using threads on nuts which differed from those used in Germany (and everywhere else). Even I know the folding carpenter's ruler only as 'Zollstock' (no one says 'Gliedermaßstab').

And while I used to be very opinionated about the imperial- vs. metric system, after twenty years in California, I feel comfortable at 75°Fahrenheit and am exhausted, if I have to walk more than a few miles. I even caught myself recently referring to a width as 'about a yard'...
I encourage anyone who thinks the Supreme Court is composed of 9 wordcel idiots who can't possibly understand anything about computers to read their opinion in Google v. Oracle [1]. It's very readable and well-argued. It's like a reverse Gell-Mann amnesia—clearly the author of the draft understands the issues at play quite well.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf
Totally anecdotal, but it has worked on everyone that I've shared this with. Take a paper towel and put it over a cup of water and drink the water through the paper towel. I'm guessing the net affect of this is similar to the straw mentioned in the article. It feels easier to do that a breathing exercise.

It also does work while being inebriated
In my area, they look to be only using Walmart stores. There are so many better options around here, I never shop for groceries at Walmart unless I only need one or two things and I'm already there for something else.
It deserves to be called out as a massive failure on leadership's part. Thousands of people are losing their livelihoods and the image of Meta should reflect that. What do you mean calling this out has no effect?
Just getting started looking at this now, but the order on the tabs: Schematic, Code, PCB; is very interesting! I'll be excited to see someone import a RISC-V CPU into this or something, then import Linux :):)
I'll take this one further, that poisoning is the only way to protect privacy. With all the means of data collection, and labeling at scale, your privacy is going to be (Already is, but think about the data processing capabilities iin 10 years) complete public knowledge. As hacks of PII become more consistent, pushing a metric fuck ton of fake data into these services will be the only way to ensure no one has your data.
Possibly. Unfortunately, the state has to balance that risk against the risk that the murderer mother may commit additional crimes if freed. There is no perfect solution
I get and agree with your overall point but if you want me to believe people jerkin it to AI porn and monks have a motivation in common you've got some more work to do.
EV maker VinFast downsizes in US, Canada
Servers love tip out. They can make hundreds a night and possibly even what a junior SWE can (pro rata) if they’re good.

If you want fierce resistance from servers

- ask them to split tips more equitably with the kitchen

- offer to abolish the tip system altogether and just pay them $15/h flat, hell even $25/h
We're not able to send at all via SMTP. Getting the same response as above. Pretty sure they aren't telling us a lot.
This topic is cherry-picked to provide a platform for venting about sociological views.

Let's keep that in mind, and moderate the venom?
This particular case? No. Many other cases, yes. I think there is a severe lack of understanding in the court system at every level, not just with BGP.
And YouTube - although TikTok is winning in some segments: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/07/tiktok-is-crushing-youtube...
I remember liking the liquid drink they sold back in early 2016. Have you heard anything about the drinks getting worse too?
No, they are just the real world side-effects of whatever fantasies they believe.
Code Jam/Summer of Code was a great indicator from a hiring perspective ... When I see a junior candidate who participated in those, it was always a good sign. I wonder if they are trying to reduce "training" of talent that could be potentially made into competition.
HN optimizes for increasing engagement from people in the tech industry to show more ads for portfolio companies job postings, which increases YC's profits.
They had too much thrust, not too little.
Joints are critical. I can't judge without knowing a situation, but I wouldn't want to live my life with a fucked up elbow because I didn't go to the doctor.

When I was briefly without insurance between jobs, I went on a desert hike and was scared about getting injured, so I get it.
That's kind of my point. Go has the `go` keyword. Kotlin has runBlocking, coroutineScope, launch, async, and suspend. Go's simplicity feels nicer to me.
I suggest reading this reddit post about hospital billing [1]. You certainly have options other than paying a shitload or leaving your arm untreated. Money can be negotiated, but you only get one body.

Edit: I see elsewhere in the thread you have health insurance. If you're paying for it, utilize it. You're in a better position to deal with this than uninsured people.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/x9b7vm/im_p...
your country has fucked up big time
Upvoted - I see what you are saying and I am mostly convinced, except:

> It's not like Airlines are making huge profits out of it too.

True, but airline margins are also very thin, so there is some incentive to "pinch pennies." And I do not put it past management to cost cut as much a possible for those sweet, sweet quarterly stock increases.

Given the recent record of lately in terms of safety, timely service, cancellations, forced retirements for pilots, etc, the trends are not looking good for the airline consumer.
Employers can't force you to keep quiet to get severance, labor board decides
We are swamped. We kept up as long as we could, and now we're making some changes:

1. We have someone running infra now that also owns infra hiring, instead of me owning it. Infra is an ultra-important role here and we're still hiring for it.

2. I'm still on the hook for platform hiring, and we've paused it for a couple months (if you submitted a challenge, we're still moving forward! but we're not taking new applications).

I know people on HN don't know these details, but knowing it myself makes it especially goofy to see people calling these challenges an elaborate scheme to recruit people for platform development (which is where these challenges apply).
I did some work like this back in the day, on the side while doing my normal software dev day job.

It's another acquired skill that you don't get just because you're an excellent programmer. On that basis, adding a donation prompt when installing the package is I think a valid attempt at solving the problem, but it's a solution coming from a developer mindset not a fundraiser mindset; if you code it they will come, all that.

If you had the capital you'd hire someone to help with this or find a suitable volunteer with a goal to making it paid.
They certainly can act and communicate what they want.
Might as well skip the middleman and go straight to "my religion requires me not to be imprisoned".
Cons always frustrated about gas prices and who to blame for them, now libs also have some metric to obsess about!
I agree, that language could be very improved. This is not a GPT-like LLM whose training corpus is HN comments, which I found to be an extremely interesting idea. Instead, it looks like it's finds relevant HN threads and tells GPT-3 (the existing model) to summarize them.

To be clear, I think this is still very cool, just misleading.
Hmm. I thought perhaps he was going to take the questions from askHN and the top upvoted comments and fine tuning a model with that as the prompt / reply pair.

Curious how that would differ; but would be an expensive endevour.
Well, contractors don't get severance when their contract ends, whereas layoffs for employees are typically attended by some small payout. That's not much but it's not nothing. Contractors also have to deal with their own taxes and buy their own insurance (for worse rates).

Of course, if I were a contractor I could probably get double my current salary ... but I'd still rather be an employee, even in the face of at-will employment. Particularly given that my employer is doing great and didn't over-hire during COVID.
We're happy to talk. But the first thing you'll hear from us is "we've paused platform hiring for a couple months".
Amazon having a finger in every pie isn't a monopoly in the traditional sense. There is competition in the PCP market, in the shipping market, in the grocer market, in the cloud services market, the booksellers market.
Wired has been in the same camp as the Verge, IGN, Mac Rumors, and so on for a while now. They are closer to a tabloid than what Wired Magazine once was.

Not sure who they are a mouthpiece for but they certainly don’t mind being one.
Control D vs. Pi-hole
It would be trickle-downy if they weren't competing for the same one bedroom apartments.
Not many details in this article, but further north there is another threat to undersea cables carrying Internet traffic:

On Feb. 2, a Chinese fishing vessel sailing close to the Matsu Islands severed one of the two cables, which connect the islands with Taiwan proper. Then, six days later, a Chinese freighter cut the second cable.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/21/matsu-islands-internet-...
>The idea that we can create some sort of libertarian utopia seems blind to the fact that humans are inherently social.

Attempting to explain this irrefutable, unquestionable fact to a libertarian is like trying to explain sports to me: they ain't interested and can't understand.
No, your processor can only do n things at a time, where n is the number of cores (probably like 8) (simplifying hugely of course). It's pretty easy to fill out 8 cores with 1000s of threads, the coroutines only become useful when almost all of them are blocking on a socket or something, periodically switching on and off to handle it.
For those who don't know the reference: https://xkcd.com/538/
It does, I didn't have to read it. Title might as well been "unused internet cable breaks down in Vietnam"
Oh, I assumed that PCIe was on the northbridge. Of course PCIe eats energy.
The wild thing to me with this "unseizable" fantasy is that it in practice opens the door for far more property loss. Scams, phishing, hacking, market manipulation, fraud, corporate malfeasance (e.g. SBF), ransomware and other sorts of fraud and theft are rampant in the cryptocurrency space.

Your government may not be able to seize your property from you, but they also can't seize your property back from criminals. And they still know where you live and have guns, so I'm not sure how much unseizability is gained.
*2001 was a transition point from slow progress to the sort of performance-doubling progression you're thinking of.*

You are way off here. Lets check a contemporary source to understand the public sentiment at the time:

"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight"

Weird Al - 1999

You also are totally incorrect about internet connectivity adoption at that point.
We already have great email clients, the problem isn't with MUAs it's server side filtering we want and anyone starting their own email service now is going to have to fight for their legitimate mail to be delivered since some people effectively blacklist anything that doesn't come from a handful of major email providers.
Cpython/Lib/Antigravity.py
Title makes it seem like Vietnam is in an internet blackout. Not the case apparently, they're still connected and are fine.
We're almost at 60 Million dead poultry in the US from H5N1 since Jan '22.

Even before that during covid, there were super long periods of unprofitability for raising turkey to the point that you couldn't even buy whole turkeys in most of the southeastern US for over 10 months.

Monopolies are a problem but certainly not the cause of this one.
> The iTunes being discussed here was not a streaming platform.

I never said it was. The point was not a comparison of iTunes to streaming - but the proposed UX enhancement iTunes provided mapped a way that was even simpler than pirating per u/HarHarVeryFunny, which made it worth it at the time to switch from pirating in their mind.

Streaming made this even easier in my opinion, and was the catalyst that prompted me to stop. Granted - when I was a teenager, I simply didn't have any money even for iTunes purchases - but when Spotify came around, I had just gotten my first job, and made the switch then.
This reminds me of a question I’ve had for a while, and have not been able to formulate it well enough to do any searching for an answer on my own (total layman here).

Do we have any hypotheses of what the matter inside a black hole might be like? I mean “hypotheses” in a strict sense; I do not mean “a good/definitive answer”

To oversimplify a bit: white dwarves are supported by electron degeneracy pressure, and if such pressure is exceeded by gravity then e.g. a neutron star can form. Neutron stars are supported by neutron degeneracy pressure, and if such pressure is exceeded by gravity then a black hole can form.

For each of those “steps” we have an idea of what the matter within must be like to support/exceed such pressures. Are there any hypotheses for what the matter might be like after such known pressures are exceeded and a black hole is formed?
Is it surprising? People much more sympathetic than this are regularly mocked and condemned on this site. It's certainly bad but the cruelty is predictable.
Ode to Samuel Delany