skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China has actually passed US both in quantity and quality of research now. Vast majority of Chinese students who study in the west end up coming back to China, and some end up teaching at top Chinese universities. Many scientists are leaving the US for China as well now.

Chinese education system also has the advantage of being far more accessible, and China has a much bigger population than US. There is absolutely no way for US to compete against a bigger and better educated population in China in terms of R&D.

https://physicsworld.com/a/china-overtakes-the-us-in-terms-o...

https://english.news.cn/20220920/38d7b612ced14c5a9aa37216c72...

https://www.cato.org/blog/abandoning-us-more-scientists-go-c...
Retry with `wget` was one of the most incredible Linux distro included features when I started running it at home. Pretty crucial thing on 56K dialup, and it worked better than the Windows tools I was aware of at the time.
Alt-tabbing looks even more uncomfortable.
Don't extensions need to seek user permission? I feel certain that they do, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned.
Well as the US has some not forced patriotism that we (in the EU) simply don’t have, the loudest shouters will have studied in the US.
You are right about Gnome vs. macOS. It has many features which are not obvious and may be hidden behind an alt modifier key. But this makes it very usable for beginners and experts at the same time without alienating the other.

In the end Gnome seems to strive for a UI which scales from smartphones to big desktop screens with varying success. It's cool to know, that your desktop feed reader could work on your smartphone without changes in the future. But this Gnome future is always distant.
Actually, it is compelling. All things being equal you give an experienced surgeon an advanced tool and get 30% reduction in hospital stay along with less damage to your kidney function

From a patient point of view it is a big difference. Hospital stay is really expensive even if you have insurance. Hospitals charge like 10000$ per day and copayment foe hospital stay is usually hundreds of dollars.

Of course, it means that hospitals can process more patients and generate more profit, but it also reduces surgery wait times, which is critical for a patient with a tumor, because the longer your wait, the more likely for the tumor to spread
Personally I use my memory. It's a bit disturbing that some people can't write code without reading the reference for basics.
I've hoped for so long that I've sort of given up: inevitably each implementation requires very specific judgement calls about what edits mean and even after all the computer science, is missing fundamental things. (c.f. first footnote about deletes aren't un-doable). Every time I look into it I end up at "might as well write real syncing code, it'll be done by the time I have this compiling and a UI around it"
I wonder what is possible in more common languages like Java or Python.

Certainly, the language itself won't have liquid types in the compiler any time soon. But taking Ruby's Sorbet as inspiration, I wonder if you could annotate Java classes with semantic rules and do some simple verifications as a post-compilation step?

There's too much bad code out there that can't just be replaced. Tools to help make it better would be a huge boon.
1) A fork isn't going to resolve that issue

2) It would cause many other ones

3) C, C++, and Zig aren't getting this feature any time soon either

I certainly wish all of this had been handled much differently, but I'm not seeing how your response is a rational one.
Storage is cheap, if there’s something you’re interested in it’s time to become a data hoarder.
> Which would attract story-lovers. And might lead them to approach it from the story-end first (rather than seeking some more solid to work with). Which could be a problem.

Can you elaborate on this? Thanks!
Rust community is always in drama and it’s just silly and unprofessional
I got my start with OpenMPT. The tools I have now usually feel like an upgrade, but not always.
If parents don't need to go away to work then homeschooling is much better, just as long as kids socialize in some way.

The origin of modern schools is daycare while parents are away slaving at the factory and to make more obedient industrial cogs. The fact that kids are bunched up together randomly with each other to grow into bullies/bullied/abuse victims (and taught by strangers who let's be frank could not do better than teaching career) is not a concern.
What evidence is there for the notion that the incentives in China are more misaligned than in western countries? Seeing the rapid technological progress China has achieved in a very short time seems to suggest the opposite.
As I said on Mastodon recently: if it's good enough for Venus Williams and Carlos Alcaraz, no lesser player has much excuse for dismissing it.
I just memorise the man page. I can't believe etc etc etc

(Seriously, there's a million nix flags, and only so many brain cells. ChatGPT's better than Google for simple "what's the magic incantation?" searches, and laziness is a virtue. If you don't want to be lazy that's fine, but I think you're missing out).
"to warn against 'story bias'. Cowen argues that any time someone believes in a story they are effectively subtracting ten points from their IQ (by which he means, broadly speaking, their analytical intelligence)"
Am I the only one here that remembers credit cards before they used any sort of online processing?

Back in the day, paying with a credit card was a hassle. There was a machine that would take an imprint of your card and you would sign the imprint. There was no authorization.
I was a big reddit user, with 2 small subreddits I started and managed, and I abandoned things and havent gone back.

Losing the addiction has been healthy. Going back is laughable.
This is an excellent read on the subject https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-noth...
In the olden times we used wget when we wanted to mirror a website. It is a specialized tool.

Curl is a general purpose request library with a cli frontend (also used embedded from other programs, or as a standard library API in PHP etc).
The only reason we have cheap high-resolution 4K monitors is they use the same panels as TV screens. If TV's don't move to 8K, cheap monitors also won't.
Has there ever been an online community that improves over time? At best it seems they grow, then they’re doomed to either maintain at a certain level (like HN), or slowly slump into the melt and burn away.
You can also set your default search URL in your browser to use Verbatim. Result quality can still be a bit underwhelming, but searching without Verbatim feels like going back to the 1990s.
Share Secrets securely using a url
Prevent your secrets (passwords, api key, etc.) from being recorded in chat logs or emails where you lose control of the views.
Just seems like another abstraction layer to me. With its own DSL, which will have bugs and limitations. And of course buildpacks - yet another abstraction thats simple until you need to build and maintain your own because none fit quite right. I don't know, not sure this solves it.
It's not a spy novel by any stretch but if you enjoyed TSWCIFTC you'll like For whom the bell tolls. The character portrayals are similarly ambiguous (among many other reasons to read that book)
Chrome Browser blocking .exe downloads even with Safe Browsing disabled
Starting September, Chrome has started blocking the download of some file types (eg. .exe) even with Safe Browsing turned off. Previously Chrome would block downloads if they were suspected of being malicious or dangerous.

It seems after Sept. 1 the Safe Browsing setting is no longer respected and Chrome will aggressively block some filetypes regardless.

Chrome will also not notify you if the file was blocked. Leading you to believe nothing has happened when you click a link to download a file. You must press CTRL+J to open the Downloads window, where you will see the file is blocked.

If you want to download the file, you must click "Keep" and then a second time "Keep Anyway".

Colleagues of mine are now discussing what to do about Chrome's forced hand-holding. Obviously we need to be able to download things like Microsoft Teams, Notion, Tailscale etc. all of which have been silently blocked by the browser.
I agree, my point was that the state is coercion/violence, not that it should be avoided.

(I am a fascist, for the record.)
There's plenty drama in serious organizations as well. It just tends not to be public.

You're very naive if you think at a place like Oracle there's no conflict, rivalries, and bitter arguments.

At my previous job we had enough drama that the police showed up at the office. Over a year we had screaming, insults, people climbing on the desk and throwing a monitor, and people in management getting into a serious fist fight with a broken nose. Plus a colorful employee who couldn't get his mind out of the gutter and apparently corporate property theft.

That was one surreal year, I've got to say, after which I changed jobs.

Only none of that happened on a public mailing list, so the only place where you'll hear even a hint of that is here from me.
that's not true. "meat farming" is only part of the problem.
Regardless of what I believe, those stories are clearly not compelling evidence on which to build any kind of political argument.
And the companies almost don’t want you to know - they’d rather you rent/buy the video online for $20 instead of waiting a period of time to rent it cheaper.
If the results are there, but not displayed, then whatever is displayed is being displayed instead of the results.
I like tldr for quick examples. If it doesn't have what I need, then I fall back to phind or some other llm. Nice thing about tldr is there's an offline version.

https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/curl

https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/wget
If the moderators of canning cared so much about their community they wouldn't have closed it I guess.
To be fair, this is one part where I don't think macros caused the drama.

Not sure why, but broader Rust community really loves participating in drama, and seems incapable of applying the modicum of Hanlon's Razor.
Sort of a side question, but what is the state of the art in open source community hosting? I know a bit about tools like Zulip, but was thinking something more like forums. They feel very dated, which surprises me since Reddit seems a straightforward thing to compete against.
Must be an app thing. I use https://old.reddit.com and don’t get that.
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You might not have meant it, but people on Reddit/Discord, in a dysmal show of game of telephones thought it was a credible theory.
"Tier 2" conferences would do well to blacklist this individual. While this is rather low-stakes as far as governance issues can go, the inadequacy is obvious.
Indeed, in my experience, there's some kind of biofilm that forms on the disk surface. Doesn't look like anything more than a thin stain or discoloration, but disks so afflicted never read correctly. Suspect that whatever it is, it's between the mylar and the oxide layer so the bits literally flake off when the head hits those patches.

Why do I think it's biological -- just the shapes of the patches resemble what you see in laboratory petri dishes, and that the amount of such corruption seems to correlate to humidity. Disks from an attic seldom have this issue, compared to ones from basements.
Cool! Just don't make it curved, like the original Webb mirror - or, if you do, make sure to never ever let direct sunlight hit it...
Cable monopolies didn’t actually produce content, they had a distribution monopoly but different cable companies all had HBO etc. The biggest issue most people had with cable was the bundling, they would have a few channels you might like alongside dozens you didn’t but needed to pay for them collectively. And with streaming nothing changed, D+ has 1 or 2 shows I might be interested in, so does Netflix, and Hulu, and etc etc.

Net result spend 100+$ per month to have a decent chance of finding something interesting, rotate subscriptions, or even better just skip them all as crap.

I don’t know why streaming services have so consistently failed to produce good content rather than simply being mildly interesting, but I suspect it relates to how captive their audience is. Shows need to be actively bad before you swap to something else else because it’s all asynchronous. The threshold for success drops from actively engaging to mildly interesting.
I only know this because of the scene from Home Alone 2.
There is so much wrong in this comment. I'm not sure where to begin...
The guy is a professional chef that has run multiple restaurants and teaches people how to cook.

Your standards for cleanliness might be unnecessarily higher, but don't you think it's a bit disingenuous to call his cooking "unclean"?
You should be getting a kick out of the rhyme. If the US had cared more about teaching history instead of promoting itself as everyone's savior, I wonder whether so many would have made such predictable blunders.

https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol39/iss1/7/
I cannot reproduce this. Just downloaded all three apps you mentioned and they downloaded just fine.
Python etc drama has historically been strong arguments about the future of various parts of the language. This is way different, this is bickering, personal attacks etc. I have nothing against healthy criticism and debate focused on making the project stronger, but this is unprofessional and not something I want to be adjacent to.
I think you might have miscompared to a day instead of a second? Unless I missed something. But you're right that if we were to be observing the administratium reaction over one millisecond in the slowed scenario, it would take 2.73 nanoseconds at full speed, nothing like femtoscale.
I had a QuickBASIC program that'd spit out a generic disk error screen, and later a Visual BASIC program that'd put up a Windows dialog saying that it needed to be open on NT 4 or later (school system was Win9x at the time). Good to hear we all slacked off the same :P
My grandfather was at the head of a French company that pioneered the smart card for banking use. They started with the payphone, continued with the Vitale card (public health system card), then did the credit card. He told me stories of him going in many countries to sell the tech and concept, and this article nails it: this is a French thing, so the US did not want it. They did not want it so badly that magstripe is still commonplace. Its quite nice to listen to him about the beginnings of computing, the notion of "datacenter", etc.
Not sure if bias but I feel like the quality of content on reddit has gone downhill since the mod purge and the killing of 3rd party apps
aside from whatever copyright Tom and Jerry falls under I believe they are also Trademarked.
There is no biological need for computers, cars, lawn mowers, or any number of other things in modern life?
Has the 8K-capable receiver, HDMI cables, and 2 Gbps internet (10 GigE POE+ house). Just need an 8K TV, those nonexistent 8K streaming services, and Lasik eye surgery so I can tell the difference between insane resolution (8.3 MP) and the beyond ridiculous resolution (33.2 MP). And something else to adjust absurdly dark streaming scenes with inaudible dialogue.... that's also HDCP-compliant because that DRM between the TV and receiver and receiver and streaming stick is absolutely essential and impenetrable that anyone can buy an 8K 1:2 splitter from Amazon for $21.
Discourse perhaps? I've seen it in use in a few places; it has a modern look and feel to it at least.

https://discourse.org/
Show HN: Baseutils – Your daily utils in one place for a faster workflow
I forget how many times I have to google for simple utils to help me with my job. Not only that, I further spend time trying to search for a clean and easy to use solution every time. And, in the end, I never remember to bookmark the link for some reason.

I wish there was a directory of such tools with a clean and consistent interface that would be the go-to place when I needed these simple tools. That is the goal of baseutils.com.
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> Even EU can't compete with the US on funding and high tech skilled wages(except London and Switzerland which aren't in the EU), what makes you think India and China can?

India and China tolerate more inequality than continental EU. Software engineers probably only make 2 to 3 times as much as teachers or nurses here, rather than maybe 4 to 10 times as in the US (and probably also India and China).
Practice and Experience
Reaction: Is this real? Beyond the obvious "watering hole at the end of the rainbow" for A List national cyberintelligence groups, the web page has gems such as: "We are using AI tools powered by Microsoft to streamline your operations. Whether it’s translating the incoming data or summarising for reports, it’s done seamlessly in the background so you could focus on the task at hand." Yeah... With how many major security screw-ups Microsoft has had recently, and their "meh, whatever" reactions - I'm thinking that nobody competent in this space would be interested in pushing more trust in MS's direct.
Can Stock Photo Is Closing October 1
I'll miss this site. Of all the paid stock photo outlets, it has the clearest, most direct pricing structure. You could always buy one small JPG for under $5, with no $50 minimum purchase of "credits" or other foolishness.
Well, a lot to unpack here.

I'm not going to disagree with the inequality, bad air quality, or the gap in development between the classes of people in India.

But, as someone with one foot on either sides of the world, I'd like to caution against a closed-off narrative that sounds like "Look, this, this, and this are bad, so overall it is conclusively bad!". We humans all over the world develop as a society and are posed with different challenges that we solve very differently. I certainly have made my personal choice and moved around (US, Denmark, and now Netherlands), but that doesn't entitle me to say any particular world view _must_ be the good one. I for one, certainly miss the cultural openness, family bonds imposed on one by the typical South Indian society. I miss the attitude of "how do we get by and do this? no point in complaining that the government is failing to do blah, or relying on the safety net of a social system" - weird, I know. But, it gives you a certain mindset to look at things differently. I see this in my daily life with my Austrian wife and my son born in Denmark and being raised in The Netherlands - we(including myself) expect things to be in certain place, and feel entitled to them that we almost do not care. Look up the energy use and water use per capita in any western country versus that of India's and you'll see the eye-opening difference. India simply cannot afford to be as wasteful as the Americans or Europeans when the world is already lit on fire.

Sure, western societies do not have underpaid home maids and servants, but the society here has been developing for a long time, and haven't had the misfortune of another country colonising them right during the industrial age and loot all of the resources and treating people like underpaid home maids and servants. Neither did they have the constraints of a warming climate dictating what or how much fossil fuel to burn to build out their infrastructure.

India is huge, it has a different set of problems than the ones encountered by the western countries while they were developing. Over time, things will rationalise and I'm optimistic that the society will move towards the same priorities that the West has. But, I already cherish the secular credentials, diversity, innovation, and hard working populace of India. The scale of elections that occur that lead up to the election of the prime minister is a marvel to observe. I was only surprised to see the creme of the labour force(IT, one I happen to know) is already on par with the West that already seem to have it all. The rest will follow.
the presence of the preference matters far more than the preference itself, at least to those that profit from polarizing people.
Talking up the tech of having physical plastic cards hold value, but ignoring the real-world implications, is kind of silly right? Maybe it would have been better for the author to get that out of the way first... something like "if plastic cards held a value, public figures such as celebrities and CEOs would be robbed, kidnapped, held ransom, etc due to the values of the cards, so they are not practically safe in our non-utopian world. But let's explore the tech behind it anyway"
Fukushima isn't going to affect radioactivity in the ocean in any measurable way. Whoever said that hasn't done any research on the matter other than watching protestors in the news.
There's also a high number of quality contributors which just left without any ceremony.

It's the same as Twitter, officially the metrics are saying that it's alright but in reality the quality contributors leaving makes it a repost ghost-town.
Takahashi's new game (which this article seems to be promoting) is called to a T and is coming out on Steam and XBox: https://annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/to-a-t
If you are doing flood control, given the somewhat swampy nature of the surroundings, then having a lot of trees would make sense to keep things dry. They would also help keep things cool during the height of summer, so it is not unthinkable that they would have nurtured a lot of them as part of the city.
> As a few seconds of googling would have shown.

If I have to google to discover whether professional pickleball exists, then it's not anywhere near the popularity of other professional sports. I would have heard about the results of pickleball matches in the sports headlines.

> Your reply is just a low-effort attempt to dismiss an idea that makes you uncomfortable, or maybe just to pour derision on something for fun. Show more curiosity.

Please refrain from personal attacks, which are against the HN guidelines.

I don't even understand what you think is supposed to be making me "uncomfortable". I'm perfectly comfortable, thanks.

I was simply disputing this:

> This is rarely good for any sport, and is likely why interest in alternatives is growing.

1) Basically every professional sports is becoming more about strength and height over time, because athletes are getting better over time. Even professional golf, for example, is becoming much more athletic.

2) I don't think there's any evidence or plausibility to the idea that changes in professional tennis explain why pickleball has become popular among amateurs. I'm not disputing the amateur popularity of pickleball. And any growing popularity there may be in professional pickleball is the result rather than the cause of the amateur popularity of pickleball.
>Software engineers probably only make 2 to 3 times as much as teachers or nurses here

No, 2 to 3 times more than nurses or teachers is huge an unrealistic by socialist western EU standards. More like 10 to 40% tops is realistic.

For context, a nurse earns 3k to 4k/month in Austria while a SW dev in the ballpark of 3k to 5k tops, so not that much more.

There's no companies paying you 2 to 3 times more than a nurse.
> It could be 81% cheaper

I think "up to 80% cheaper" implies "No more than 80% cheaper".
Also here

https://github.com/aria2/aria2/issues/2078
Facebook's recommended images are even worse.
[picture of a surveyors dot on the ground]
"This dot in a field in Wisconsin is the center of the world. The other points are inaccessible due to water, but this tiny dot is..."

[picture of a dead something with a pig snout completely covered in farmers field mud]
"This 30,000 year old cave bear was found with DNA still extractable."
Also you could fling them clear across the room, frisbee style. The 5.25" ones not so much.