skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn, that's not just some random substacker - that's Paul Morland who wrote Tomorrow's People.

TBH that book was rather bland and milquetoast. The same argument he makes here is made at book length by Eric Kaufmann in "Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth", which is very good.
It's as simple as inequality - fix that and all this goes away

We've seen this over and over and it's blatantly obvious what the problem is - too few people control the wealth of the world and that wealth is used to buy control and power in ways that continue to erode the power and comfort of the working class.

President Teddy Roosevelt, who died a socialist who wanted to live like his porters [1], led America at the turn of the century by attacking the robber barons, breaking the trusts, and generally crushing unethical business across the nation, leading the way for a revitalized society (he wasn't perfect but we're looking at the issue of oligarchies here).

I'm not sure that's possible anymore like that, and I think peaceful revolution inside the system is possible. We do it by building mutual voluntary employee owned cooperatives that create products and services and DENY the capital class the ability to continue to accrete wealth and power.

[1]https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/10/east-afric...
The author was struggling along to make a point and then dropped 'wokeness' to completely lose credibility.

The author seemed to completely miss the point that, regardless of liberal or illiberal, when women have access to birth control, birth rates go down.
u can.
These numbers are ridiculous. Birth doesn't cost $100K on average, not even close. College education doesn't cost $500K on average, and not to the parents anyway (unless they want to pay for it).
You should look at Dutch cities, for example Utrecht got rid of a huge chunk of hideous highway in the center of the city and in its stead is now a beautiful canal with one the busiest bike-traffic streets in all of Europe.

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/motorway-remov...

Yanks could do the same if they wanted to, but unfortunately they've been brainwashed into thinking walking is the devil
Qt/.NET – Hosting .NET code in a Qt application (1/3)
>Dazik

Daszak.
Well put.

“I’m gay”

Hn: so what, everybody’s something

“I’m an atheist”

Hn: yes and?

“I embed sensors under my skin”

Hn: cool!

“I’m childfree”

Hn: why don’t you just kill yourself then?

Tongue in cheek: obviously not all of HN. But this is one of the few alt views / lifestyles that HN doesn’t easily rally behind.
when was the last time Apple released a product that didn't have a proven market? iPod, iPhone, iPad, watch, etc. were all basically superior versions of products that already had proven consumer demand and Apple just made a way better version of existing products.

Apple going into VR seems like the first time they've taken an actual risk in a long time. I'll buy it day 1 if it allows me to create a solid virtual workspace with multiple monitors synced to my laptop.

But for consumer market they are going to have to find a way to drop the price over time and get people over the negative image of wearing goggles on your head

and there's the simple fact that you won't be able to wear these publicly in most major cities without getting robbed, which limits their use
https://archive.is/uyE6u
Netflix lost millions of subscribers and 60% of its value in 2022 because of that policy. This is a highly misleading article
Go: Using pointers to reduce copies is premature optimization
It would be imperfect but better than nothing.
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I specialize in mentoring juniors so that they can become productive quickly. I am looking for a company that would be willing to hire more juniors if they had a senior to work with them, guide them, and ensure they deliver.
My dad took a terrible accounting/logistics job for $15 an hour last year.Like the whole business was completely F'd, they no longer exist today.

My dad, who did programming his whole life, didn't care. He was retired, he enjoyed the interactions with humans and the problems he was solving. He probably was providing $60+/hr of value since he would automate it.

If you saw a grey'd dude that is absurdly skinny drag himself into an office(He hated the commute, he always hates driving), you'd think he was miserable. No, he was happy to be there, he just doesnt like driving.
I might not have been clear in the original posting. I wasn't intending to bemoan the difference, I was bemoaning old programmers (like me) not being familiar with the most basic unicode concepts, which leads to lots of issues.

Yes, if you limit your strings to ASCII then they are always 1 byte long (utf-8), or 2 bytes long (utf-16) or 4 bytes long (utf-32). So you still need to know which encoding is in play. But you can then randomly access "the 4th character".

My follow up points out though that this is meaningless. Because in the real world you cannot limit your strings to just ASCII in the first place. So your point is moot from that perspective.
Not if people leave and go to the pro-natal ones in droves.
I still can't believe in 2023 there are people supporting WebP.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm definitely going to play around with Anima.

Pixel perfect is definitely necessary, and something I can achieve reliably since I'm building the tool from the ground up, not as a plugin on an existing software.
But his point is that if you care about liberalism, or Italian culture, then those societies won't survive. So maybe for liberals and Italians to learn a little bit of pronatalism would be a good idea.
Cost doesn't prevent people from subjecting themselves to density.

There are many people living in single bedrooms in former family homes in London and paying half of their wage in order to do so. I couldn't do it, but they do.
What did people expect?
That wasn’t even remotely in the vicinity of your argument in the last comment.

The goalposts you set yourself are on the other side of the field. Stick to them.
The iPad was also supposed to compete with your laptop, and it has partly succeeded, though nowhere near as much as the most hopeful fans were expecting.

The VisionPro is a far less comfortable, far less portable, more power-hungry version of an iPad, with a few gimmicky 2.5D/3D stuff built in, for $3500. Is it really going to take anyone away from a laptop? Perhaps, but not that many people.
He is a research scientist at MIT, which sounds quite solid credentials as compared to <some random anonymous person on reddit or HN>.
On the subject of Perl: I've seen HN'ers vehemently beat down any comparison between "serverless" and the old world of /cgi-bin perl scripts. But I've yet to see a reason why. Why, exactly, aren't people using simple and straight-forward run-once cgi-bin scripts? They seem super suitable to so many use cases, even in 2023.
Gradient boosting as a “blind” gradient descent
When compared to my 970 gram (<2 lbs) Think Pad X1 Nano Gen 2, I'll happily pass on the T4.
You're telling me they can't restrict which GPUs are allowed to run on their hardware and OS?

They can test and bless a handful. Unless I'm missing something, it's not an all or nothing decision
From Usenet to Slashdot/Fark to Digg to Reddit I'm ready for what comes next. I'd like to test if you need testers. bold.cat3322@fastmail.com
Fear not, it's basically impossible for that to happen
The question of signing generally arises with dueling forms, where there's no dispute that "a" 20-page contract was signed on June 4, 2017, and that this is page 20, with all of the signatures, but... What did that contract say in Paragraph G on Page 12?

Perhaps the bank only retained page 20, and is saying that they used the same master form for every mortgage and the master form says "this" on page 12.

Or one party discovers that other has misplaced their copy of the contract and then shows up with a copy that has advantageous wording on page 12.
Yes there’s departures, revivals, and reversions to the mean.

But two parents who feel strongly about something having children will produce children with a certain biological proclivity.

It’s a lot to bet that people will deny their own biology.
I'm super liberal, to the point that I believe in open borders (there was a Weeds maybe a year or two ago that had some stat that borders have a brutal cost to humanity; can't find it now, but this paper [0] gets at the gist; a good quote is "the estimated net gains from open borders are about the same as the gains from a growth miracle that more than doubles the income level in less-developed countries"), but it's pretty clear that the answer is that our immigration policy serves two purposes:

- The right gets to turn out its base with xenophobic demagoguery

- Neoliberals get to keep shoveling human capital into their furnaces (Uber drivers, Doordash delivery people, tradespeople, warehouse workers, etc.) which displaces low-income Americans, propping up a sclerotic, corrupt economic system while (and thus) putting more pressure on an already teetering (also corrupt) political system

Unsurprisingly, Americans don't like this. Either they're getting directly ginned up, or they directly lost a job, or they see the downstream effects.

I think it's easy to look at places and people who don't want anymore immigration as xenophobic or racist, and there's some truth to that, but an even bigger truth is that Americans generally want to help, but most of them can't. A wide majority (between 50-60%) have made so little in the last few years they paid no federal income tax [1]. It is hard to run a pluralistic society, they ask a lot of their citizens, and most people in the US are doing pretty badly.

[0]: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18307/w183...

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/242138/percentages-of-us...
> And Apple usually doesn’t do MVPs

> The big Apple hits have been the perfected version of products that already had massive markets

Uh...

Did you own the first iPhone? It had no apps and no horizontal typing. It didn't even have 3g. Few if any mobile sites. Small screen. Bad battery life.

Did you own the first iPod? 5gb. Firewire connection (which were hard to come by). The scroll wheel was an ACTUAL wheel. You needed a mac to use. Again, bad battery life.

I won't even go into the early mac desktops and laptops.

Those were MVP's on the market. Where we are now with those products didn't dictate where were were then. The did the bare minimum to be considered products.
Businesses that care about this stuff enforce it contractually.
Endianness is such a pain. I wish everything had always stayed big-endian, the generally superior option (though I will acknowledge it’s not quite uniformly superior). Implement any bit-level algorithms and endianness tends to rear its ugly head. I implemented the Speck cipher last year, and it basically mixed little- and big-endianness (byte/bit expression), but the paper never mentioned this at all, so that trial and error on the sample vectors, or emailing the authors for clarification, was the only way you’d find that out!

The article gives examples that assume big-endianness, but in practice, UTF-16 is almost always UTF-16LE (no idea about UTF-32 since it’s not used so much), so the bytes within each code unit are, for practical purposes, back to front.
This is I think in large part that Larry Wall[0] is a linguist and I think this influenced both Perl and its descendant Raku[1]. Thats why it has this almost natural-ish looking syntax in alot of ways, and relies on symbolism. I also think this is why Perl is legendary for regular expressions

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

[1]: https://www.raku.org/
(Note)[https://atlasalpha.serenebase.com/post?recordId=recOLlq0KKbT...]: The agreement comes after JPMorgan's CEO, Jamie Dimon, claimed he barely knew of Epstein's existence, a claim that has raised more than a few eyebrows.
Mobile browser is working fine for me.
Input or audio peripherals.
If I were to theorize, it's because you try to min / max it and build the most efficient city. I'm guilty of that too, building everything in neat grids and then I got bored.

But look up some designs; people build chaos, people build things that look good or quirky instead of what works the best. The style you play at determines how much fun you have with it. For some, that's doing it organized and efficient, for others, it's whatever makes them the happiest.
Interaction has not been the sticking point for me (keyboard aside), it's the lack of a "why".

I quite enjoyed browsing the web in various VR headsets, it's a fun novelty experience, but it's not sticky as a tool because it's not adding anything to the experience yet adds the irritation of goggles.
I don't have a dog in the fight but I'm a little surprised at the lack of comparisons to nim.
The money supply never doubled “in a few months”. You have to go all the way back to 2013 to have half the peak m2 supply.
this is an interesting thought to rise the tide to lift more boats, ie for more people to ascend the hierarchy of needs and contemplate what sort of creative output we could secure from that ascent all else being equal. I'll have to think about that, that's an interesting idea.
The original comment specifically denied what you’re claiming was said:

> basically virtual floating iPads which is nice, but not anything too special

Instead, it was saying that being able to interact with those apps in a spatial way will be valuable:

> What's much more interesting is that existing iPadOS apps can… [get] the full 2.5D treatment with all of the various controls taking on the expected visionOS appearance and behavior
No? HoloLens is an enterprise product barely advertised for public use. It’s not a new form of UX for general computing, it’s a niche.

The hardware for ambient light AR also sucks, it’s why HoloLens, magic leap and such are not compelling. It’ll be a while before that’s a viable option (and why Apple is committed to pass through currently).
They are notoriously unhelpful bordering on openly hostile to any sort of disability accommodation. It depends on the individuals you run into but it's widely known in disability communities that when flying you need to prepare to fight to even keep your medical devices with you, and then have a backup plan for if they don't allow it and then negligently break your device.
ur only responding to what was demoed in 2d
> Then China shutdown domestic travel from Wuhan, while still allowing it internationally.

Lie[0]:

> On April 21, Ferguson provided an “update” to his April 5 column in which he acknowledged, “Data from sensors tracking actual flight paths would seem to indicate that no flights left from Wuhan itself to other countries in the world after January 23.”

[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel...
I'm not sure what more game designers could ask for than a rich modding community for a previous title that gives you the best user research you could ask for. They've already done the hard work discovering what players want. Take the best ideas, refine them, plug them into the next game, give a hat tip to the modders and community.
>> Being an older programmer is a very poor excuse at this point to not understand Unicode.

I completely agree. Which does not make the ignorance I experience around Unicode from both older, and younger programmers, easier to forgive.
Can we at least let Apple ship the damn thing before going full on fan boy.
Their interest in correcting your grievance is directly proportional to your ability to cause them trouble if it remains uncorrected.

I have zero capability of causing them real trouble, and they therefor have zero interest in correcting anything.

Likely, few people have non-zero capability when it comes to causing them trouble.

> and the standards that they are held to are much higher,

I've seen no evidence of that.
People talk about the Apple tax all the time but the Linux tax is real too. Of course there’s something to be said for putting your money where your mouth is and not giving Microsoft money for an OS you’ll never use.

Mainstream Windows laptops are often partly subsidized with a healthy dose of trialware installations and Linux laptops are too niche to reach economies of scale, but the good thing is that if you choose carefully it’s pretty trivial to install Linux over top of Windows these days.
personally i think both meta and apple will see success with their ar/vr solutions, it will take years for the ergonomics to be acceptable but they are laying the groundwork for the content and software now
It's the George Carlin defense of trademark. "Looks how dumb the average person is, then realize half of them are dumber than that your honor! Ergo, ceteris paribus, E pluribus unum, everyone is violating our copyright/patent/trademark and all should pay us royalties."
He's never run for political office or anything like that so most of what we can glean is from his shows, which for sure attack the right more than the left but don't advance their own policy proposals.

The most overt stuff he has done politically is the late 2000s rally with Colbert which was very middle-of-the-road decorum-focused Democrat in tone, I don't think there's a lot of evidence for him being "hard left". If I had to guess, I think he'd be more in line with the Obama / Biden type camp than Sanders.
Isn't that true of any implementation? You could always query every username.
What games are you running and how old are they? The base M series GPUs are decent for integrated cards but they aren't powerhouses. For a modern title like Resident Evil Village they just aren't equipped to handle 2560x1600 at 60FPS locked on Ultra settings.

The M2 Ultra costs $4000+. For that money a 4090 or 7900 XTX is very much in the cards and will offer considerably better GPU performance.
It might also just be because most of those claims are wrong. Unless you use 'prevent' to mean 'fully eliminate', every single one of those claims is wrong except for potentially the last one, which I am not sure of because I haven't researched.
Because developers want to believe they're using something NEW and SHINY. Comparisons to decades old technology doesn't fit into that belief system so some will be hostile towards such suggestions.
I’d have a problem if this was an artist, but it’s not art it’s somebody trying to sell dog toys that look like Jack Daniels. This is not expression that I care about protecting. The ruling talked about “trademark of a trademark” not being protected and that’s just fine.
Several thousands an hour is a bit of a stretch, maybe you meant monthly? but your point still stands.

For those interested: right now the largest instance I see is a u-12tb1.112xlarge (448 vCPUs, 12 TB RAM, 100 gb networking) which is ~$109/hr on demand or $40-80/hr with a 1-3 year commitment. This works out to ~$29k, ~$58k, or ~$79k per month.

If you don't need 12 TB of memory, there's a 6 TB instance for roughly half the cost.
It's 2 fold, it is both a demand issue and a supply issue.

Yes, we need to find a way to move away from oil. But, we also need to move away from decisions that lead to a stark increase in demand. Avoiding things like Car culture, building cities in deserts/tundra, beef consumption are just as important. This is especially true in the developing world. If per-capita energy demands in Africa / India / China gets anywhere close to Canada/USA/ Norway, then no amount of 'clean energy pivot' will be able to save us. But that change has to begin from USA/Canada/Scandinavia as global thought leaders.

This pans out in statistics [1] too. There is clear clustering around car centric, sprawling & snow-clad regions. Japan, France, & Spain stand out as medium-consumption developed nations simply due to better urban planning & moderate climate. Taiwan and SK are the two headscratchers for me. I would have expected both to have similar consumption to Japan, no clue why they use so much energy per capita. Is it all air-conditioning ?

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...
> ES6+ introduced a slew of features like arrow functions, template literals, async/await, destructuring, classes, enhanced object literals and native modules.

This is the problem.

All of this has made the language worse. Just accreting features doesn't make the foundation less broken.
Reading the article closely, SCOTUS seems to be ruling on a legal technicality; specifically, whether the "Rogers test" applies to the case in question. A lower court said it did, which made the toy-maker's case way easier. SCOTUS says it didn't, which means the case is now just "normal"; it doesn't at all mean they've lost:

> Elizabeth Brannen, a partner at Stris & Maher, said Jack Daniel's victory "could turn out to be pyrrhic." The whiskey maker will still have to prove VIP's toys are likely to confuse potential customers into thinking it was affiliated with them in order to win its infringement case.

> "The likelihood of confusion analysis will still take the challenged product's funny message into account," Brannen said. She noted that the high court said consumers are "not so likely to think that the maker of a mocked product is itself doing the mocking."
Because they really aren't. Things like not being able to reuse DB connections really hurts. Building the world on every request, 99 times out of 100, is dumb.
>Yet those of us who never got that genetic golden ticket should take heart: The halo effect appears to go both ways. A number of studies show that goodness often enhances our looks. A paper in PLOS One in February, for example, reports that people found faces in photos more attractive when they learned the subjects were honest, kind and not aggressive. The results suggest that “facial attractiveness is malleable,” the authors write. Or as Sappho observed: “What is beautiful is good and what is good will soon be beautiful.”

Well there goes the correlation/causation angle. I'm sure everyone has experience with seeing someone for the first time and thinking that they're incredible attractive until they open their mouth. The mind builds perception out of many signals and ocular vision is just one kind. Typically 'ugliness' is the presence of unwanted phenotypes, and in the absence of that 'ugliness' it's very easy to impute beauty.

I also think the idea that beautiful people become more likely to believe in a 'just world' is a strange way to think of it. If we're assuming a baseline level of selfishness, evolutionarily it would make much more sense for ugly people to try to shift consensus away from a 'just world' as doing so is likely to increase the amount of resources they receive. That is, instead of beautiful people recognizing their own privilege and thus lobbying for more, to me it makes more sense that people who don't see themselves as beautiful will tend to lobby for more beauty-blind practices. No one complains the deck is stacked when they're winning.
Shout this from the rooftops.

Phone apps delenda est
There are some listed here,

https://stackdiary.com/reddit-alternatives/
The whole of the x86 laptop space has been trending away from 16:9 in the past couple of years — I have a 16:10 ThinkPad from 2021 for example. This is great, but it sure took a long time… the 16:9 takeover and the terrible reign of 1366x768 began at some point around 2007 and only started relinquishing in 2021.
I am not a biologist, but from what I understand the gene regulatory network is like a neural network, so it could encode arbitrary behaviour as selected by evolution. Maybe someone who knows what they are talking about could chime in.
If you are doing text, this is the answer.