skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet Japan is still there, the 3rd or 4th largest economy in the world. “Collapse” = clickbait.
You can wave business or research articles at them.

https://hbr.org/2014/05/create-a-work-environment-that-foste...
“ We hope that the Rust Foundation considers the history of trademarks and software freedom that we've discussed above.” Imho hope is not enough. More voices, e.g. users should make noise. What is the Mozilla position on this subject?
Haven't play BG3 yet, but my DM has been and noted a few tweaks that Larian made to 5e, especially around spell durations and moving shoving to a bonus action.
I don't doubt that the consensus is that MOND is whack but the fact is that MOND has made some stunning predictions that have come true.

For example, Korean scientists went looking to disprove MOND by showing there isn't something called the External Field Effect, which they found as a result of their studies.

MOND predicted that JWST would see old galaxies, which mainstream astronomers are now flipping out over.

MOND predicts that binary stars that are far apart would enter the MOND regime. Two studies confirm this observation. A third refutes it but there appears to be methodological problems in this third study.

Having been a scientist, I have little faith that the median practicing scientists have any concept of discernment in terns of following the scientific method.

You're supposed to flip your opinion on models when predictive data shows up. As far as I can tell LCDM can explain a lot of stuff but it hasn't predicted much.

Think of it this way. When you train a ML model if you have a ton of parameters you run the risk of over fitting unless you have a regularization scheme. LCDM easily has at least one parameter per galaxy, and the only regularization is "can we come up with some explanation for this?" Over fitting is a huge risk for LCDM.

By contrast, MOND has one (maybe two or three, if you believe in relativistic MOND) parameters for the whole universe.

Which is why it's making a priori predictions versus a posteriori explanations, it's very hard to make a priori predictions when your parameter for any given galaxy could be anything.

It should say something that "why don't we have a picture of it: is the center of the milky way a blob of dark matter and not a black hole" (paraphrased of ciurse) was a real publication in between the time that we "took a picture" of a black hole in one galaxy and before we had done so for Sagittarius X-1
Apologies, I have edited my previous comment.
Apple made better chips than Qualcomm because Qualcomm is a monopolist, and thus doesn’t need to actually compete. The moment a competitor sprung up, they got their ass kicked.

Yes, no other company but Apple could have pulled that off, but that’s only because Apple themselves are a monopolist with the market power to fight another monopolist.

That’s not a good thing. The solution to monopolies isn’t more monopolies. A much smaller company than Apple could have theoretically created a better processor than Qualcomm, but it just couldn’t happen due to multiple anti-competitive factors. Like how Qualcomm has a patent portfolio that gives them a monopoly on 4G modems, and can use that to force companies to purchase other components from them if they want a modem.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/qualcomm-us-ftc-apple-chips...
> “you need to provide a telephone number, which is linked to your real-world identity”

What country do you live in? I can go to my local supermarket and buy dozens of pre-paid SIM cards with pocket change.

If you’re somehow associating your literal identity to a phone number, it sounds like you must be in a pretty heavy surveillance state.

Additionally, if you’re worried about being tracked, I hope you don’t carry a phone whatsoever.
Are there moderate proposals for reforming NEPA?
> TBH PRC "growth rate" is roughly in line with expectations

Iirc the expectation in the early teens was a slowdown to 3-5% growth around the middle of the last decade. The argument then was that PRC officials knew they needed to transition to a more balanced growth model.

Instead, they continued over investing in manufacturing and infrastructure. The end result is a sizable amount of debt across the entire economy that is, likely, unsustainable if and when a market downturn occurs.

> TLDR PRC is at 25% skilled workforce

I think there's a bias on here to think that skilled = STEM. There's an argument to be made that what China really needs is skilled service workers.

People also need to realize that, when it comes to demographics and population mobility, China is far more akin to the EU than the US.

If we go by your argument, Europe also has a very large reserve of unskilled or semi-skilled workers. However, moving from Sophia to Frankfurt != moving from Boise to San Fransisco. I'll even argue that it's much easier to move from Bulgaria to Germany than it is to move from Sannxi to Beijing.
I don't feel the same, a lot of other medical professions are very similar to dentistry. Deal with a chronic plantar fasciitis and you'll see exactly what I mean, clueless experts everywhere with nowhere near the amount of rigor you would expect.

Anyways beyond that, dentistry sits in a very interesting position where there isn't a whole lot that can be done (without major breakthrough). It's why so much is based on preventative measure. It's also why the field feels "antiquated" in a way, we're still using simple instruments to scrape the teeth (or inside the tooth when it comes to root canals), or yanking the entire tooth out. We haven't got much farther than cavemen using stones to clean plaque in that way, besides the pain mitigation.

It's the one field that is ripe for revolutionary improvements if it weren't for corporations constantly pushing their garbage studies.
Docker Arg, ENV and .env – A Complete Guide
Not my content, but I really appreciated vsupalov's tutorials and writing. The graphics and explanations have helped me tremendously in getting off the ground with Docker.
Plus, if they can tell what the actual words would be, then brute forcing the typos is trivial
Generally I agree that this would be great to have, and Postgres does have a set of libraries it already maintains as part of the main source tree (i.e. libpq, etc), and there is a shared set of code between the backend and the "frontend" (https://github.com/postgres/postgres/tree/master/src/common). So theoretically you could imagine the parser moving into that shared code portion, sharing code but not necessarily requiring linking to a library from the backend.

However, the challenge from what I've understood from past conversations with some folks working on Postgres core is that the parser is currently heavily tied into the backend - note the parser isn't just the scan.l/gram.y file, but also the raw parse node structs that it outputs. You can see how many files we pull in from the main tree that are prefixed with "src_backend": https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query/tree/15-latest/src/...

Further, there isn't a canonical way to output node trees into a text format today in core, besides the rather hard to work with output of debug_print_parse - there have been discussions on -hackers to potentially utilize JSON here, which may make this a bit easier. Note that in libpg_query we currently use Protobuf (but used to use JSON), which does have the benefit of getting auto-generated structs in the language bindings - but Protobuf is not used in core Postgres at all today.

All in all, I think there is some upstream interest, but its not clear that this is a good idea from a maintainability perspective.
It's much easier to build a video calling app whose feature set matches Zoom than an advertising company who can compete with Alphabet.
Great writing! Seriously this is good stuff.

For anybody that struggles with the length and slow-paced nature of this genre -- this is hackernews after all -- I had a much easier time imagining this as a radio piece. The writing style is very melodic, like it's meant to be read out loud. The noises of the city, the description of light and temperature, all made it feel very alive. Something to absorb in a very sensual way, quite the opposite of the how-to and faq texts we read at the office during daytime.

(Ha.)
>This is a Motte and Bailey.

No it isn't. The motte and bailey tactic is when you advocate for a very broad position, then retreat to something more defensible. I've stated that the broad statement (that all censorship is bad) is false, so as a result we need to have a more nuanced discussion about when it's appropriate to exercise this power and how we can de-fang potential abuses of it. Your position regarding all censorship being bad is your bailey, which quite frankly, I've razed to the ground. Your motte is the position that censorship can be used by a government to manipulate their citizenry, which is true, but significantly more limited in application than the original concept that all censorship is antisocial.

>I’ll engage with your second point only if you yield that the _only_ form of information that is acceptable for a government to censor is speech that is directly and explicitly calling for genocide.

I mean, I wouldn't concede that because I can think of a ton of situations in which banning speech is appropriate. We can start with the classic 'fire in a crowded theater', we can discuss automated scam-driven robocalls, we can look at email spam filter, content moderation on websites, restrictions on the spread of child pornography, etc. What about speech designed to disenfranchise people of their right to vote by lying about where they're supposed to vote? What about financial fraud or any form of censurable misrepresentation?

From a tech perspective, should you be able to DDOS domains without authorization? Does your

>therwise we are talking about the “known bad information” from your first paragraph.

>Does “bad” mean false? Or just malicious? Who decides it’s bad? How does it become “known.”

>As a citizen, are you allowed to challenge the classification of “bad” or does challenging the classification of “bad” itself count as “bad information?”

Great questions. This is where real debates about how legislation and law intersect with censorship occur. Different jurisdictions have different approaches, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. None are perfect, but if you're actually interested in this topic, you can look up review articles looking at comparative law on the subject and I think you'll find a lot of substantive meat to chew.

Even the United States, which values freedom of speech incredibly highly in it's hierarchy of rights have a very large panoply of situations in which speech is restricted.

>I’m suggesting that’s exactly what people are advocating for.

Yes, that's a strawman, which is why people who actually work on the issue don't take the argument seriously. It's the equivalent of someone outside tech saying 'you can't host a website because you can get DDOSed' then being mystified that the internet is still chugging along. The threat is real, but the value of taking action is important, and finding out how to mitigate the threat in real world is where the actual complexity is; identifying a threat everyone knows exists isn't.

Anyways, this is boring. It's the same 101 level discussion every time on this topic and it really gets tiresome.
Cellebrite Leads the Way: Accessing the Latest iOS Versions and iPhone Devices
Are "links" the issue or showing a summary of the article?
I think that the Gartner hype cycle can be applied to remote work. The peak was in 2022 and now we are in the trough of disillusionment. I think that an improvement in market conditions (low rates), the realization that remote first/fully remote can work at scale (it's a matter of time before the remote startups founded in the last 3 years will become unicorn/decacorn) and a stabilization in the commercial real estate and service sector (a huge crash is an hard pill to swallow, let the market adjust slowly) will push remote work In The slope of enlightenment.
Because it’s in the same category as crossing one’s fingers and hoping for fusion. People don’t voluntarily reduce their living standards en masse without a fight.
You're on clock. Do your job, focus on your zone that (finally!) noone can distract you from. How is this controversial?
I would rather sady that the autor has problems with working with other people. My take is that they are complaining that they can’t do the easy parts (“coding”) and are forced to deal with hard parts (communication with other human beings).
Freaking Kash Hill. If I was limited to reading 10 columnists forever, she'd be one.

Her Maxmind story is campfire-good https://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kans...
Now imagine doing this on Canadian healthcare, having to wait months or years for each appointment, and nowadays they try to talk you into MAID to save resources…
According to the US census, roughly 3M undocumented people own a home and there are approximately 144M housing units total. So, ~2% of the market is from the undocumented. Additionally, less than half of the entire undocumented population makes more than $28k a year.

So you're right, it is totally, 100% unrelated. Otherwise you're making a claim that one of the poorest demographics in the US with the least amount of home ownership is somehow responsible for a massive price spike in housing over the last few years.
> What do you need if you’re out seeking services at night? Food, sex, shelter.

This really encapsulates what all humans want and need. Food, sex & love, shelter & clothing. With only those three things you can live a happy life. Everything else is really to satisfy a desire for novelty and experience.
Keytap: Description and some random thoughts (2018)
> Also, it's not clear a super scalar stack machine would be possible.

The "Boost: Berkeley's Out-of-Order Stack Thingy" (Steve Sinha, Satrajit Chatterjee and Kaushik Ravindran) [1] effectively translates stack code into RISC as part of instruction decoding and issue. This is similar to how "Design of a Superscalar Processor Based on Queue Machine Computation Model" (Shusuke Okamoto, Hitoshi Suzuki, Atusi Maeda, Masahiro Sowa) [2] does the same thing but for a queue machine instead of a stack machine.

[1]: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

[2]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/799499
You're weird but not alone.

I can't write an app or web site to save my life.

However, if you need to analyze 100MM lines of code with bespoke methods, speed up a mature system built by CS PhDs by 10X, do customer segmentation from micro to macro on billions of transactions - no problem.
> Even if the doctor has one (or more) suspicions what the red rash on your skin is, there just aren't any tests for many conditions.

There aren't any tests that the doctor has on hand, because the doctor is a unit in the medical system designed to provision affordable care instead of a scientist attempting to cure you. It would be too expensive to test you, especially for something that will probably go away on its own.
The old Internet is dead. There used to be people building web pages just because they are passionate about something.

Now any imaginable niche subject is drowned by a deluge of blogspam articles.

Interesting people moved behind walled gardens because who is going to bother building a webpage when you can just post a pic or 140 characters on a whim and move on with life.
https://www.saastr.com/why-vcs-need-unicorns-just-to-survive...
Where do you see the low-hanging potential?
I used a 3 billion dollar space telescope. I don't think NASA are going to launch another to replicate some of my results.
Did you look into https://lemmit.online?
FWIW it's gone all right with Google Meet as the usual suggestion from me -- though as I said, it's been only small-group chats. Most of my colleagues have Chrome.

If really necessary for some particular chat I can use Zoom's in-browser page, ignoring its ridiculous auto-download of the native client. (I didn't even know a page could do that, before.)
Just thoughts about code
Who is cheering on Facebook here?

Facebook needs content to survive, as it does not produce anything itself.

News agencies have THEIR content posted on Facebook, giving it value, not the other way around.
I'll give Larian a pass for the gaudy aesthetics, I'm more concerned that they cut out the GM mode from DivOS2 (same engine/game basically).
Many times in my life someone tried to tell me something that I disregarded as wrong or misguided, only to (years! decades!) later realize the that they were right in ways I just couldn't understand yet.

I suspect (and hope) this will continue for as long as I remain introspective and willing to learn and grow.

I feel like this is one of those things that only time and the perspective it adds can teach you.
If the only news is clickbait and ragebait then Facebook is in the right. If the news is good then the Canadian government is in the wrong.
Oh here in Spain I've always had to go through a check. Metal detector and baggage through the X-ray scanner.
Wow this is awesome. You should post this as it’s own show HN thingy.
Yeah, I have a couple of consulting gigs what have kept me busy.
Curious why you feel autism is the most legit here when it's the one that's been expanded on the most due to the DSM. They all make statistical sense to me given the rising acceptance of mental health being a real thing in the first place, no longer dismissed as "just work harder".
Japan is still the third or fourth largest economy in the world. They didn’t collapse.

“Collapse” would be Great Depression, or unbailed-out Global Financial Crisis. The GFC (rightly) spooked everyone, but now we’ve got millions of wanna-be prophets in the media trying to predict the next “collapse” and take credit for being a modern day Nostradamus. But it’s all just clickbait.
Sure. But in the things I do understand, I know waste when I see it (and I see a lot of it).

I actually couldn’t see it as well when I was younger and understood less.
The main impediment is wealthy people with coastal retirement properties who don't want to gaze out upon a vast expanse of blinking red lights at night.
Ask HN: Best Podcast Listening App for iOS?
Hi,

Curious what y'all are using on iOS to listen to podcasts.

Here's some features I'm looking for

- ability to add private RSS feeds
- nice, clean UI
- ability to sync playback location between different devices

Any recommendations?

Thank you
Is tenure really as mechanical as "publish this many papers and you get it"? My impression was that it took into account things like impact factor and was much more subjective. If that were the case, then wouldn't you run into problems with whoever decides tenure paying lip service to counting replication or failed pre-registered papers but in practice being biased in favor of original research?
The DOS system was great, but the lore and stories were relatively formulaic. I was super, super worried about Larian doing BG3 because of this, but they really do appear to have nailed it.

At least so far, the difficulty curve is much less steep which I suspect put a lot of people off DOS2. I certainly resented needing to kill everyone to remain on track with the XP curve, but that's presumably because Pillars has spoiled me.
> Who says that just because it's nondeterministic, it's acausal?

No one - I'm saying that it's the opposite. It is acausal, and that is why its nondeterministic.

> t literally every moment that it has a non-zero acceleration, it has a non-zero net force due to gravity (and the normal force). There is no instant at all where we can say Newton's laws were violated. At t=T the particle has zero net force and is at rest. For every e greater than 0, at t=T+e the particle has net force and is accelerating.

Yes, and you only find this because you assume a trajectory first, and then find force as a result of the trajectory. The force isn't causing the movement, you first assume on your trajectory that the ball stops being at rest immediately after T. Newton's first law is literally that an object stays at rest in its inertial reference frame unless a force causes it to leave its state of rest, yet you have to assume that immediately after T it leaves rest without any valid physical reason.

> NFL isn't quite redundant since many people understand it to define an inertial frame. So if you observe F = 0 but x'' != 0 then you know you're not in an inertial frame.

The existence of inertial reference frames is a consequence of the first law saying that force is necessary to exit the state of rest. It's not equivalent to the definition of inertial reference frames.

Here is Wikipedia's translation of the first law:
> Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

This obviously does imply the definition of inertial reference frames, but it doesn't just do that, it also clearly requires force to cause a body to leave uniform motion. In the trajectories suggested by the article, the body leaves the state of rest, but that isn't because a force compels it, it's just by assertion that it must do so after T, and the force is then a result of it no longer being in the same position. I don't see how that is in accordance with the first law. It's clearly leaving rest immediately after the moment T by pure assertion, which makes it an unphysical trajectory. Then the article gets around this by providing a new NFL which has no causative language and is simply a statement about the second derivative of position, and that isn't what it is.
I’m not sure I follow the point of this criteria. They find niches and leverage their experience. This is what everyone in the professional world does.

The point is that there must be a formula if studios can consistently deliver.
> In US healthcare you have to be your own advocate and be willing to push. The system breaks down if you don't have a routine and obvious illness.

100% the same thing on this side of the pond, US healthcare isn’t special here.
I half expected to see a republishing of the jolly rogers cookbook.

Sadly not
Linking is the issue, despite them also complaining about the summaries.
I don't think the primary aim of the project is erosion control, but the Gobi desert is already the site of the largest on-or-off-shore wind farm in the world[1], by many multiples, with a planned 20GW nameplate capacity, 10GW online now (next on the list being 2GW at Markbygden in Sweden).

I suppose if there is anywhere in the world where wind power installations can cause a significant reduction in wind speeds, it would be there.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu_Wind_Farm
Me and my friends (5 in this case) bought the game yesterday.

It had nothing to do with "brand power" - we didn't even know it was DnD.

We just bought what seems like a great game with no bullshit microtransaction.

I think you are overanalyzing it.
Almost all the roads around where I live are one lane in each direction, including many numbered state "highways." Yes, there are some four lane interstates and other highways but two-lane roads are pretty much the norm everywhere--50 miles outside of Boston. Emergency vehicles manage; even where there is minimal shoulder people find a way to create a path.
The problem is that they didn't disclose it to WOTC and WOTC just banned AI content (which is a good thing)