skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a world where your great grandparent has double the testosterone rates, more than double the sperm counts, and significantly better fertility rates than their young peers, I stand by what I said unironically. Chances are also good that their great grandparents were getting laid far more often too!

Also, there's been a lot written even in other liberal communities admitting that modern conservatism has essentially replaced the old "counterculture" that was previously held by hippies. This is because of a mainstreamification of "being woke" and of related ideology. Today, an honest to god "live in the forest off the grid type" who tries to live a conservative rugged man ideal is peak counterculture.
I consider the fair market value as an input to the “I was treated fairly price”.
How to Stop Rising Inflation from Affecting Your Financial Future
What products are children reviewing?
>"It's either 6 minutes with 20 lines of AWK written in five minutes. Or 6 seconds in 300 lines of java written in five days. Classic "XKCD: Is It Worth the Time?"

It's exactly this. Is it going to be run many times or just once or a few times? Is it going to be run in production where it impacts customers or runs up the AWS bill? If it's a throwaway script, the Linux terminal and some Awk is hard to beat. There are always tradeoffs.
The IDF has committed way more terrorism than Hamas yet we still support and fund Israel. Israel has all of Gaza under blockade and UNRWA were responsible for delivering basic goods. This is yet another act to cause mass death and destruction to Palestinians.
This forum is so out of touch with reality sometimes I'm just left blinking and shaking my head. 20,000 dollars is an enormous amount of money to a supermajority of people in the developed world. Almost half an annual wage for most industrial workers in the EU and US.
Tolkien's approach is common in fantasy, or perhaps is the model that so many have aspired to.

Written in the 1970s, "The Land" in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Coven...) shows no real advancement after modern-day Covenant returns (via portal) 4,000 years later. There is still a clear good/evil distinction, magic is manifested in different ways, and there is a new crisis that drives the plot:

Descending from the Watch, he also finds that a terrible change has transpired: four thousand years have passed, the Earthpower is gone, or nearly gone, and the people of the Land are out of touch with what remains of it. The Land is afflicted with the Sunbane, a disruption of the physical order which alternately causes rain, desert, pestilence and unnatural fertility to wreak havoc on humans, animals and nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wounded_Land
Cool! I am going to experiment to see if I can render a line chart column in my data grid product DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com), which is text-only for performance reasons.
Developer experience is more important than developer productivity
It’s easier to convince voters and politicians to enact technical control mandates than to persuade the lizard brain of your average human. Is that lazy? Sure, but there is no extra credit in life for taking the hard path.

Much easier to go after politicians and say “People will keep dying if you don’t enact this policy, and we will vote you out if you don’t.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/magazine/dangerous-drivin... | https://archive.is/2024.01.16-150053/https://www.nytimes.com... (“Why Are American Drivers So Deadly?
After decades of declining fatality rates, dangerous driving has surged again.”

> Above all, though, the problem seems to be us — the American public, the American driver. “It’s not an exaggeration to say behavior on the road today is the worst I’ve ever seen,” Capt. Michael Brown, a state police district commander in Michigan, told me. “It’s not just the volume. It’s the variety. There’s impaired driving, which constituted 40 percent of our fatalities last year. There are people going twice the legal limit on surface streets. There’s road rage,” Brown went on. “There’s impatience — right before we started talking, I got an email from a woman who was driving along in traffic and saw some guy fly by her off the roadway, on the shoulder, at 80, 90 miles an hour.” Brown stressed it was rare to receive such a message: “It’s got so bad, so extremely typical,” he said, “that people aren’t going to alert us unless it’s super egregious.”
For a one off thing, use awk. For the production pipeline spend the time writing the Java one (or Rust, or C++, or… etc).

Or use the awk one in production if you want. Nothing wrong with awk ;)
Don't tell me you condone the violent rapists that objectify men's phalluses. How dare people enjoy their lives.
I love AVH, but at the same time feel like they could be doing more to monetize. Why not start a YouTube channel? There are air crash investigators getting millions of views and earning plenty of ad / sponsorship revenue there.
>> A switch brings in a bunch of double negatives that can be avoided in most cases.

If you put the labels next to the switch: ON [xxxx] ---- OFF then it's clear that sliding the switch toward the label puts it in the on or off state. But hey, we can save some screen real estate but swapping the labels and hiding the inactive one under the switch! Yay! For on/off a chechbox is much clearer for the size.
> If we like fictional worlds but can’t make them complex enough to be believable, the obvious workaround — in fact the only workaround — is to “borrow” the real world’s complexity.... The most transparent way to do this is to make a world map that isn’t the actual Earth, but also kind of is the actual Earth.

Counterexample: Earthsea?
Money is a very interesting reward to study though because of its paramount importance in society. With money, one can do and focus on a lot of things. Without money, life is hard. Even in countries with a welfare state, as most benefits are progressively lifted as people manage to earn more money. This reinforces the effect described in the paper!
Don't think I'll ever get used to stars in LaTeX when someone means simple multiplication.

The preceding blog post[1] seems to contain the more interesting parts though. This is just (d/dt)^n e^At x = A^n e^At x, which is kind of obvious from the definition of e^At.

[1]: https://nosferalatu.com/DerivativesLogarithmsTransforms.html
So go on then - let's hear how fast rust can do it?

Based on the trends of "<something something> so we rewrote our entire production stack in rust!" I am surprised there is not already a comment here!

I'd also be interested in how fast JavaScript/V8 executes by comparison.
I wonder if "melanoma" is a catchall for all types of skin cancer in your family. Melanoma itself is one of three primary skin cancers, and the most lethal, while the other two are generally less threatening.
CNN has been one of the most biased networks with regard to their Israel coverage. They even have to get IDF approval before publishing footage and were only allowed access to Gaza via IDF. I wouldn't take anything they have to say about politics or military as being unbiased.
I have been following it for almost a decade now. I am in #gtk idling all the time. I use gtk3 and gtk4 based desktop environments. The dozen of times the bug has been submitted may be closed: but it's a closed wontfix, despite the actual bug still reminaining.

The first instance of the bug report happened in 2014 when mclassen introduced it and refused to fix it. The most recent instance of the bug report happened 7 months ago when I proved to them they'd ported the bug from gtk3 to gtk4 too: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5872 I even showed them a partial patch for the problem for gtkfilechooserwidget.c to restore default text entry input but the filechooser is such spaghetti that everyone is afraid to change anything.

So, yeah, the bug still exists. And it really is more important than another renderer. This is basic functionality that's been missing for a decade.
There are plenty of problems of physics in the RAM design, and it's hardware designers jobs to find the operating regime where those problems do not matter.

I mean, if you had a DRAM labeled "DDR4-3200" but it can only work at a much lower speed (say DDR4-2400), it's clearly a problem of physics - the gate capacitance is too high, the driver transistors are not strong enough. And yet my reaction would be to take that RAM back to store and get my money back, not to defend manufacturers which claim false things about their chips.
I think this instead shows that there are many other popular techniques that achieve much more pessimization than the best-case use of MemorySegment over Unsafe or read over mmap.
I saw him give this talk at a work event and I fully agree, it's incredibly informative and he presents the material in an engaging way!
> So it's better to write this sort of code in a language that's unsafe by default (e.g. C), rather than try to abuse Java.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but can you elaborate on why it's better? Using unsafe for some parts of the code doesn't throw out safety guarantees about all of the rest of the code.
The author doesn't understand how to read maps also, apparently.

He compared a complex European map of 1444 showing a multitude of factions and proto-nation-states, and compared it to a 600 CE map...showing a rough distribution of ethnic groups?

These are not the same thing at all...It's like comparing a climate map to a topographic one.
There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets
Of course it is not. It's just another dogwhistle.

There's a reason why you don't see this crap happening in California, even when they are well ahead of Texas in terms of unauthorized residents.
Graphene replaces sand to make lighter, stronger concrete
Robot avatar lets people see and feel things remotely through VR
You can't simultaneously have an open market for shares and highly regulated financial duties that protect investors. It would be better if there were options for employees to cash out part of equity in intermediate rounds and there are upsides to having more tradeable companies but the downside are most of these companies are near-scam like in terms of success rate and you want substantial bars to protect people when something like 90% of start-ups go broke.

Agree also breaking corporate liability shield gets insane quickly. You're going to have pension funds go broke for owning stock in the wrong company and employees on the hook for start-up debts when start-ups fail.
I've used a similar tool as part of API logging, filtering out the signature on the bearer token... It's useful with request id for dealing with error reporting.
It's also just great documentation for a programming library. Like, if you're using libcurl and realize you need to do a range request (or whatever), or "copy as curl" from browser network tab, you can just do it on the command line and add `--libcurl` and find out exactly how to do that with the C library. It's the bee's knees.
The use case is usually sending the screen to the printer or saving a document.
The "Budgets" page in JAXA website([1], will quote below) indeed don't have a detailed breakdown:

| Project name | Total development cost(projected) | Total development cost(as of Jan, Reiwa 5) | Planned launch fiscal year | Project phase | State of Project (total dev. cost, launch FY changes, etc.) | References |

| Small Lunar Lander Proving Craft(SLIM) | 180 oku-yen(~$121m) | 149 oku-yen(~$100.7m) | FY Reiwa 5 (FY2023) | Phase D (Production/testing phase) (snip) | March, Heisei 28: Project migration review at JAXA (...snip...) March, Heisei 30: At JAXA, changes of plan due to change in launch vehicle(Epsilon -> H-IIA rideshare), as well as change in launch dates. Incorporating the results, adjusted total development cost. (180 oku-yen -> 149 oku-yen) (...snip...) | (snip) |

There are few more media sources[2][3] that state 149 oku-yen[4] figure covers "part of the launch and initial operation". One of such articles[3] estimates Epsilon launch cost as 50 oku-yen or ~$35m, and theorizes change to H-IIA to be intending to save launch cost. Not sure if there are readily available English source, sorry for that - very few of us think in English and these deep topics rarely have English coverage.

1: https://www.jaxa.jp/about/transition/index_j.html

2: https://newswitch.jp/p/345

3: https://moonstation.jp/blog/lunarexp/slim/slim-launche-to-be...

4: 1 oku means 0.1 billion, 1 USD is ~150 yen, so 1 oku-yen is ~0.75 million dollar
> It's either 6 minutes with 20 lines of AWK written in five minutes. Or 6 seconds in 300 lines of java written in five days. Classic "XKCD: Is It Worth the Time?".

Not quite, it runs in 3 minutes written in java in 5 minutes. The official baseline is quite simple and runs in about ~3min https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/blob/main/src/main/jav...
What I talk about when I talk about query optimizer (part 1): IR design
One reason I created Iron Arachne is because I'm fascinated with all of the aspects of worldbuilding. There are so many facets of this, though, that attempting to build One Generator to Rule Them All is impossible.

Instead, I take the approach of creating discrete generators that build a single aspect of Reality, and model, mock, or handwave related concepts. For example, the planet generator generates only a handful of statistics and a pretty neat image, rather than billions of years of history, tectonics, etc.

A game like Dwarf Fortress goes farther, in attempting to simulate the evolution of a world. This leads to all kinds of interesting and weird phenomena in the "final" version of the world that the player starts in.

One of the difficulties with this approach is that people often expect a coherent and familiar world with enough differences that it feels novel. A simulated universe that has evolved from a random initial state is going to feel alien and more difficult to resonate with.

So, worldbuilding is a balancing act between detail and narrative. Too much of one makes the other feel stale or wrong.
In this case, it was a light shoulder bag containing only a laptop. Considering it's height, it should have bashed into the glove box area on impact.
Stripping it down might indeed be more secure, but how do you properly strip that down with only the seat belt?
Mountains of expository prose are a crutch for an unskilled author. There are a number of storytelling techniques to build out a world as it becomes relevant that allow for hinting at greater depths. These allow for exposition, characterization, and drama while still hinting at greater depths without dedicating entire chapters to the socio-economics of grain production.
Amazfit Bip 3. Fifty bucks when I bought it, I see on Amazon that it's creeping up toward $60 now.

Honestly, my favorite watch over the past 5-10 years has been a no-name that shows up on Amazon with a search for "EURANS Smart Watch 44mm, AMOLED Fitness Watch". $20, today. Since it uses standard watch bands, it was easy to find an inexpensive steel upgrade band. The phone app for managing this watch is the best I've used, and there were enough decent-looking watch faces available to make me happy. Battery lasts 12+ days.

Unfortunately, I found that with the EURANS, Bluetooth notifications on my phone were sometimes flaky. With Amazfit, notifications are solid, but sometimes syncing steps from the native app to Apple Health can be flaky. In the ultra low-end range, you're going to deal with something, but for me the Apple Health stuff is easier fix with the occasional manual edit.
I agree that costs should be lower, and they are indeed coming down. That's the intent of stimulating private competition, to replicate what Falcon did for rocketry.

We'd have gotten on this path sooner and the waste that is SLS wouldn't have existed, if Congress+MIC hadn't intentionally misaligned incentives to suppress progress in favor of profit for decades.
which one scales is the question for those trying to optimize.
> I'd like to see more science proving that social media is bad for kids

Smoking tobacco was allowed for children for hundreds of years before it was regulated. Today we can hardly fathom how stupid it would be to allow children to smoke. Social media is much more accessible than cigarettes, far more addictive, and rather than messing with your lungs it messes with your brain and personality.

There are many problems with "waiting for the science". One is that it takes many, many decades to get reliable longitudinal studies on things like addiction and how the brain is affected.

There are so many indications that social media is bad for children (including scientific studies), in many different ways. It really should not be controversial to limit use for children. It's not like it is something that they need.

This book, "Smartphone brain: how a brain out of sync with the times can make us stressed, depressed and anxious" by Swedish MD psychiatrist Anders Hansen, brings up one of the aspects (unfortunately I don't know of an English translation): https://www.amazon.se/Sk%C3%A4rmhj%C3%A4rnan-hj%C3%A4rna-str...

Here's a short video with Anders Hansen: https://youtu.be/DwAx2kRwCRI?t=112

Then there's is of course the question of how to limit the use. But that's another issue.
I think you need enough expository over time to build a good world. Just that it can be done badly or in a good way. Discworld is good example in my mind of mostly consistent world build by enough exposition done in various ways...
What is the historical fiction of Atheism?
In this case it's better because C users have access to vector intrinsics that are much cheaper than the ones Java users have access to.
Arc's new iPhone browser wants to be your search companion
Seems lazy and includes an unexplained slur about "liberal voices" that Turley never connects to the rest of his article. The laziness involves merely listing objections to sex robots/sex dolls without examining any of the nuances or reasons for people to object, then posing "libertarian" as a simple, easy solution.

Turley is not incorrect in subtly noting that the "Lost in Space" character Dr Smith is a robosexual.
Tools already convert a curl command line to a Python requests script.

[1] https://github.com/spulec/uncurl
For sure, but Apple isn’t most companies.
So your answer is yes?

Your position is that decisions about youth access to social media should be fully taken from the parents and made by govs instead. Penalties can be assumed from your examples.

This is the reality that you want imposed on parents and children - yes?
There are many, many biblical texts from various centuries that agree with each other. The New Testament has twice as many ancient copies as any contemporary works. The Dead Sea scrolls are a good example of older copies being found… and they are no different from later copies.
I think this is about confusing AI like that offered from gmail or iCloud email that will unsubscribe for you if you click on unsubscribe from their respective inbox / application. Fastmail offers this too.

I noticed there are times I have to do it manually and can't take advantage of auto unsubscribe because the button layouts are like this.
I don't know if I buy this. He did a death threat, he's the CEO of YC, that seems like something that belongs on HN, YC's community forum.

You might not be interested, that's totally fair, then don't upvote.

But flagging it so that people don't know the CEO of the community is expressing death threats? I feel like we should know. We shouldn't be learning about YC/HN from other sites and have it censored/flagged within the community.
Several governments have already effectively banned sites like Pornhub by creating regimes where people have to mail their ID to a central clearinghouse (which creates a huge chilling effect.) The article talks about “reasonable age verification measures” and so saying it’s unenforceable seems a little bit premature. Also, you can bet those measures won’t be in any way reasonable once the Florida legislature gets through with them.
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Worldbuilding sits at the procrastination nexus of multiple hobbies. Fiction writers, RPG GM campaign designers, video game designers, etc.

For any of those activities, the need for doing coherent and good enough setting design becomes the tempting excuse to procrastinate on doing the actual thing (plot, character, gameplay design, whatever) and 'refine the worldbuilding', because while there is a necessary minimum of setting design, the line of when you have got enough setting design and are getting into diminishing returns is not bright.

Signed - I'd rather write the history of the steam dragons' colonization of the western marshes than finish my protagonist's character arc refinements today, don't worry, I'll get to him soon.
Well, I'm not paying for the second half, but the first half is rather thought-provoking.
I also think there might be more of a heat gradient in the moka itself, i.e. the upper compartment including the vertical tube might end up with a lower temperature throughout the process.
And in physical industries it can also be a real cost. Sometimes in people's health or lives, not just monetary costs.
Using client-side JavaScript to build a tool for Port-scanning and Host Detection. Tools for browser based pen-testing!
With uBlock set to kill and no JavaScript, it's just an ugly list of links
Amazon and iRobot agree to terminate pending acquisition
Look to your left, look to your right, count the heads. Now divide the money that was lost through the number of heads. This is the theoretical ceeling- how much you could make if there were no shareholders and you had your own company - or had a union.
I guess for me it depends on what the law considers "social media".

Is something like the bulletin boards we used to have around the late 90s/early 2000s social media? What about chat rooms? Local social web sites for the school or your city? I think a lot of these things can even be beneficial, if I think about my own experiences as a somewhat introverted teenager.

And what about things like Netflix, Youtube, Podcasts? They can be just as harmful as TokTok and Instagram. Especially on Youtube you have a lot of similar content.

I've found accounts that claim to be official accounts of children's shows - maybe they even are - and which are full of nonsensical videos, just randomly cut together action scenes of multiple episodes. It's like crack for children. Of course YouTube doesn't do anything, they want you to pay for YouTube kids. And the rights holders want you to buy the content, so they leave the poor quality stuff up.

The thing is, exploitative content is always going to be created as long as there are incentives to do so. You can ban stuff, but it's whack-a-mole, and you are going to kill a lot of interesting stuff as collateral damage. The alternative is much harder, change the incentives so we can keep our cool technology and people are not awarded for making harmful stuff with it. But that would require economic and political changes, and people don't like to think about it.
The paid gtk devs refuse to accept patches to gtkfilechooserwidget.c (it's "frozen"), you'd know this if you yourself tried to make contributions to gtk. They owe us nothing, but the fact remains they have been removing features (like respecting the gsettings (org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser location-mode) that would allow users to fix this bug). And they refuse to fix it themselves or look at patches from others. I ask once per year. Even just 2 lines in gtk/gtk/gtkfilechooserwidget.c swapping in priv->location_mode = LOCATION_MODE_FILENAME_ENTRY; would help.

The same bug exists in gtk4 too and they also refuse to fix it there. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5872

So, to conclude, everything you said is wrong re: this specific instance even if it may apply generally.