skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal of the state (and the church) in promoting and supporting good marriages has historically and traditionally been to foster stable societies, strong homes, and obviously, population growth and replacement for the aging, infirm and dying.

A society that encourages folks to marry, and to bear children, is a well-functioning society with a bright future. So what happens when marriage is no longer oriented toward child-bearing, marriage is ephemeral and easy to escape, and an increasing number of married people can't even physically conceive children? What happens when children can't count on a mother and father being at home for them, even before their adulthood? What happens when a child reaches maturity without any marriage prospect but must definitely become self-sufficient and enter the workforce, regardless of their sex or abilities, because there's no supportive family structure and they don't even know how to raise a child? What happens when men and women find they've reached adulthood without acquiring skills to run a household, cook and clean and do chores, and it's futile to support a spouse or depend on one, because they'll be divorcing you soon anyway, children or not?
This whole episode was essentially a conspiracy theory that was taken seriously because the paranoid people who came up with it happened to be in positions of power and respect. Additionally, this whole milieu (DC gov/media) just automatically believed it because they feel like Russians are lurking behind every corner. If an average citizen went to the doctor and claimed these things they'd be shown to the psych ward.
Not just education but real life engineering too.
Crooks don't need component libraries to mimic government websites. And their victims probably wouldn't notice one way or the other.
Show HN: Client-side ads-free dev utils (diffs, time conversion, JSON formatter)
utils.foo a fully client side, ads-free developer utils app. Today, it has a timestamp converter, base64/url encoder/decoder, json & diff utils, quick pivoting data.

A lot of these exist, but often buried with ads or unclear data usage. I wanted to build something for myself that is ads-free and easy to use.

My goal is get to top 20 commonly used tools, make them feature-rich and then reduce the page size. Will appreciate feature/tools requests and feedback at https://github.com/midplane/forum.utils.foo/issues.
When Musk is picking-and-choosing where freedom of expression matters (e.g., Turkey, India, publishing his plane's location information, banning users writing "cisgender", etc.), I don't think it's "pro-censorship" to not be on his side here because this doesn't feel motivated by true principle and puts his motives and associated narrative into highly suspect territory for me.

Is some selective censorship from Musk better than nothing? Since his selective censorship appears to be primarily aimed at supporting right-wing causes, I have a hard time feeling like the answer is "yes".
> WebMD syndrome

That is absolutely a thing.
Indeed, we should actually have a CEO take all of the surplus value. Or at least a continuously increasing amount.

Not based on their performance or the value they can be measured to add, nor comparing against any sort of alternative structure that might be more efficient, but simply because they deserve it for their hard work ensuring the company is operational and ever-growing.

Indeed, really it should be the case among all companies. And if employees dislike it, they should simply try to employ themselves and join in on the action; so often are people simply lazy whiners who should go make their own profitable business before rent's due.

Actually, in retrospect, the CEOs should probably leave some surplus for the landlords to share -- without their herculean work, how would so many have a home to live in?
Related:

The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Dreams for Creative Problem-Solving – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Committee_of_Sleep
This is some good stuff!
Oh, you are correct. Hn ate the formatting. The example is stolen from wikipedia. Lets try that again:

dc -e '_640320[0ksslk3^16lkd12+sk*-lm*lhd1+sh3^/smlxlj*sxll545140134+dsllm*lxlnk/ls+dls!=P]sP3^sj7sn[6sk1ddshsxsm13591409dsllPx10005v426880*ls/K3-k1/pcln14+snlMx]dsMx'
changelogs are generally useless and manufacturers hate having to release firmware updates, so the mere existence of an update is pretty strong evidence there's something seriously wrong

it's not like web or app dev where you can ship trivial upgrades every day for free
What I got out of this is that this is a very understudied area considering it's hotly debated by everybody and influences a vast section of the population.

Data also appears weak for cohabitation versus marriage, although there is some, and I don't see a distinction in data between one of the key things with children and without which is a whole different ball game.

The characterization of marriage as a prison for the male is likely tied to marriage being aspect of monogamy and the outlawing of polygamy in our society.

Dating app data has shown that women will throw themselves at the top 10% of males. Marriage being an institution that curiously benefits the non-elite of men who would otherwise engage in polygamist marriages to match their often multiple dating partner lifestyle in single life.

It's not because of some great sympathy towards "loser" males that marriage exists: it's for societal stability and for the ye children.
The nature of a starfish: 'a disembodied head walking about on its lips'
If USB-C becomes the new standard for wired headphones, I'm ok with that, especially if it means thinner phones.

I inherited a Pixel 3A a couple years after it was released, and I still have it. I didn't even realize that headphone jacks were being phased out. It would be nice if we started to get more than one usb port on a phone, but I already have small USB-C docks for laptops that would work well.
My money is on some combination of "comppletely made up" to "psychosomatic".

We see no better evidence of this than how cops treat fentanyl exposure. Cops act like if they're in the same room as fentanyl they might die. This has been perpetuated in media. Thing is, it's completely made up.

Fentanyl is no more dangerous to handle than talcum powder. I mean, don't ingest or inhale the powder. There are no "fumes" however.

But the cops themselves believe this to the point that they report oversdoses in the field and have legitimate panic attacks for fear of exposure [1].

Havana Syndrome was suspicious from the go. Just the association with Cuba screams CIA psy op.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1175726650/fentanyl-police-ov...
My understanding of the advantages is that the 3.5mm Jack is "big" in terms of space taken on the internal of the phone, and that real estate is valuable. Also it was becoming a bottleneck for phone thickness. Don't know if that's all just marketing bs though
* You lied in your title. Hacker News hates clickbait.

* You linked to a random tutorial in the middle of a series.

You'd probably have been better off linking to the GitHub (which is what most HN people would look for) or the domain. But the GitHub README doesn't do a good job of documenting the project.
> * The USB storage driver is not in the initramfs, so the storage device found by the initramfs is guaranteed to be my internal SSD.

Do note, if you are using systemd-gpt-auto-generator with the DPS[1] it only searches for a root partition on the drive with the booted from kernel[2] (and any other DPS partitions are searched for from the drive with the root partition, so if you somehow specify a different drive than the one with the boot loader it will search on that different drive)

[1] https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_par...

[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
All the phones I used were Nexus and Pixel. Pixel 3a XL was my last Pixel and now I switched to Sony. They're expensive - they're priced without care to competitor's pricing and sold at Sony stores only. Most people in the street wouldn't know Sony still make phones today.

I don't think I'll go back to Pixel until Sony drop the headphone jack as well, or someone invented a lightweight pluggable backpack that charges everything inside. Until then I'm not touching the backpack when I'm at home - the wireless mouse use disposable AA batteries, my portable battery stays uncharged, the laptop is charged while using it.

Also on Bluetooth, the phone connects to the Tesla and the Samsung soundbar with SBC as the only option. The only thing that use something else is my DAC with Sony's own LDAC. There's nowhere telling you why it doesn't use better codec. Wired always deliver the best quality your hardware could.
My unpopular opinion is that wired earphones are really great if you really love the sensation of getting your ears ripped off when your cord hooks on something when you stand up, and you don't care much about maximizing battery life in your mobile device.

They are also truly ridiculous now that you can just swap out your cable for a USB audio cable. (If the cord is hard-wired to the headphones… okay so you have cheap headphones? Why even care then?)

I don't get it.
The war has already been lost. Headphone jacks are basically only in low end phones now. They used to be in mid range devices too, but even there they are gone. You have to really compromise to get it which is a shame.

What I do wish is if somebody at least made is a USB C phone dock similar to what Apple made for 30 pin and lightning iPhones with audio out jacks. There are dongles that let you charge and do audio out but not in nice dock form.
Some go as far as believing that plants have consciousness. Which isn’t surprising considering slime moulds:

> Slime molds have a variety of behaviors otherwise seen in animals with brains.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold
Ok decreasing the regulator voltage was a real surprise! I thought switching regulators would be far more efficient at higher voltages! (Less current = less heat)
Entitlement is expecting a royalty from someone who saw your publicly posted art and learned anatomy from it. Selfishness is attempting to sabotage it so the learner is mislead into learning wrong anatomy. Lack of a consistent moral system is believing these are variably wrong or right to do when it's a meat neural net or a digital neural net in question. And finally, thinking any such loom-stomping tantrum will meaningfully halt progress and let you keep art creation in exactly the same state as the past is a fundamental ignorance of economics.
It's worth emphasising in cases like this that even an individual experiencing completely phsycosomatic ('all in their head') symptoms is still experiencing real symptoms. That is, rejecting the idea that your friend's symptoms are caused by energy weapons is not rejecting the idea that he is experiencing negative effects (which to be clear, may still have an 'external' cause)
Once I noticed this I can't un-notice it anymore. It's not that it's robotic but that the inflections always follow the same pattern. There's an upswing and then a downswing with almost each and every phrase.
My impression is that Japan's temples are regularly destroyed. They're giant wooden structures with zero fire suppression and basically tinder boxes just waiting for a spark. Lo and behold, the Great ____ Earthquake/Fire or war occurs every few hundred years and there she goes.
The whole setup of the modern school day is dumb. It's too early for many growing minds. And it doesn't balance what's taught with a chance to reflect on it. And the school year should be the whole year with more breaks rather than a summer time off.

It would be pretty cool to have some sort of siesta for students in the day. Maybe one of those private schools would do it.
I assume the CIA is trying to save a buck by pulling healthcare money from someone else’s line item. Also, by forcing people to do this it makes it easier for national adversaries to figure out who is in the CIA. To hide information like this you need to inject randomness.
There's some videos on the AT&T Tech Channel on YouTube that show inside the CO, like this one for the "Speedy cutover service": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk
Cool to see that this worked well for someone. Super hard to force the key insight in a problem to magically appear given more time sunk into it. Big weakness of mine honestly, and requires a lot of self-awareness to pull myself out of a problem-solving rut. I like the idea of hacking sleep - do you find yourself priming your mind with the problem before nodding off? Curious how a bedtime wind-down routine factors into how effective this is.
If you look up the history of the temples mentioned in the article, they were more often destroyed by non-religious conflicts, fires, and earthquakes.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41405424
I use this too, since like 2013 or something. Still works. Also it has an SD card slot, so plenty of storage. And it includes a real working FM radio, weighs approximately nothing, and can clip to my sleeve. Battery lasts for ages. I never saw the appeal of putting music on my phone.
really like that it's completely client side and no ads.
They have found what/who has been causing this and just don't want to explain what this is.
Interesting, if annoying tech.
“Well functioning” for whom? The purpose of the system is what it does. If people are not happy in an entrenched system, it is clearly within their interest to find ways and means to escape said system.

Society has proven it wishes to optimize for metrics somewhat orthogonal to those of the individual, so operate accordingly (treating society adversarially; aggressively affirming reproductive freedoms and the ability to support one’s self without a partner or org driven by a belief system).

(Religions are cults to attempt to enforce conformity and monogamy, while producing as many kids as possible; capitalism ran with this to extract from the cattle in the name of aggregate productivity; it has now started to fall apart with women robustly empowered; 43% of first marriages fail, so avoiding marriage is simply prudent risk management; 64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men)

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-exp...

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245199

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/0...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-bad-looks-good/2...

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...
Investigate deeper regarding religious marriages vs nonreligious and you will find a vast disparity of contentment leaning towards religious married couples.
> do own a pair of wired Audio Technica headphones

They seem to work well for you. I respect that choice. That doesn’t mean it has to be compatible without an adapter with every device on the market. (In the same way every device shouldn’t have to support wireless headphones.)
You're right that PG's piece suggests they probably weren't as successful or impactful in their previous roles as their references claimed. But we can never be entirely sure. I also don't dismiss our responsibility as co-founders for the decision and how it was implemented under our leadership.
Leslie Valiant was on Sean Carroll's podcast to talk about the same topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHW-nBIZc2g
I've read speculation that because the jack can pick up electrical fields, you have to design the phone around it. Otherwise the user will hear buzzing in their headphones.
I initially designed those buttons to be familiar for users coming over from Windows, but I agree, I'll be redesigning it and moving buttons to the toolbar to make it fit in more with the macOS design language (and potentially give configuration options in the Settings).

The toggle is actually a native SwiftUI Picker in the toolbar. Adding command options and dragging and dropping on the dock icon is on the roadmap!
While programming Java full-time, I found myself waking in the middle of the night with some big chunk of my brain grinding away on coding issues. Not good.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
We do know boys struggle more from unstable families. Nearly 90% of the homeless and prison population(when accounting for at-home absenteeism) experienced a high degree of absent fathers.

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Downloads/Comm...
Achieving high Python performance with code generation (2022)
> I've been bitten before by Dell due to plundervolt updates that removed the undervolting capability

That's enterprise computing for you.

Been bitten by that kind of shenanigan more often than I can remember.
The only thing that sucks about it for me, as an introvert, is the energy drain from socializing.

Otherwise, I quite like people and I’m generally pretty interested in them. I don’t really feel awkward at events, because I have confidence and try to be humble/genuine, warts and all. I’m there to learn about and from people. People like that.

For whatever reasons, socializing seems to drain energy from introverts. Extroverts, however, seem to get energy from these interactions.
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This whole write up seems to fall into the ‘average man’ fallacy, where it is trying to look at the average rate of happiness of men and women in marriages to determine if marriage is on average a good or bad thing.

This seems fatally flawed, because there’s no such thing as an average marriage. There will exist all four of these kinds of (heterosexual) marriage: those where both people are happy, those where neither is happy, those where only the man is happy, and those where only the woman is happy. The distribution is far more interesting than the ‘average’ happiness across all these discrete cases.
Thank you very much! Do report back if you have time to try it. Good and bad, both are welcome
Using our evolutionary predispositions for good rather than evil??

I always wondered in a half serious way if sex (just innuendo or tittilating images or something) could have positive effects on learning if done right for the same reasons: evolutionarily wanting to retain information if it has a better chance of leading to mating. Of course you'd only test this with adult students.
But phones aren't really that thin, especially with the camera lenses. Why didn't they just put the 3.5 mm jack on the other side from the cameras, protruding a little bit from the rear housing, exactly enough for the phone to rest stably on a flat surface without rocking?
What problems does that solve? Reading blogs over git clone sounds like re-inventing the wheel. Are there even any tools that do that?

If anything were to replace RSS (and Atom) I'd personally hope for h-feed [1] since it's DRYer. But realistically it's going to be hard to eclipse RSS, there's far too much adoption and it is mostly sufficient.

[1] https://indieweb.org/h-feed
I think some portable minidisc players and discmans around 2000 used 2.5mm.
I'm not sure what you mean by prod server in this context, we deploy to k8s. We use testcontainers[1] that run locally on the laptop via IntelliJ. There's a bunch of integration tests that take a good while to boot via docker-desktop. If these tests can be sped up significantly then it's worth that $8 a month. I'd like to remind you that technically docker desktop isn't free, either. Nor is pushing tests to run via CI/CD first. That iteration cycle would take even longer.

[1] https://testcontainers.com/
My favorite unexplained mass phenomenon, the dancing plague of 1518. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
> In general I’m frustrated that patients can’t just order the exact tests they want.

See jasonhealth.com (for Quest) or ownyourlabs.com (for Labcorp). The main issue is that you can't bill insurance without a provider's order, but a lot of tests are cheaper when not billed through insurance.
Dongles exist which allow you to charge and play audio at the same time.

And… stop buying garbage products from gas stations? You are buying the most cheaply-built item possible from a manufacturer and merchant who have zero concern with repeat business. Pay a few bucks more once for something made by a manufacturer with a reputation and stop throwing more money down the drain.
I agree. It can definitely be useful, but not if I'm stressing too much about it. Then, waking up feels like I was hit by a bus in the night.
You should not host on GitHub without source.
The regulation that allowed for the breakup to happen in the first place was then not enforced for the years that followed, allowing for more monopolies in a variety of fields to form.
Confirming this is the case. OVH closed all my non-US accounts approximately 1 year ago.
"These days" that wasn't the case four years ago when they arbitrarily took it away. How would you know what the level of demand is? I would selectively purchase a phone with a headphone jack over one without, but that demand is meaningless without an option. Apple led the pack with the highest R&D budget of them all, with a premium smartphone. They, uniquely, took the headphone jack away while launching airpods.

You're right about there being no mystery there.
The waterproof 3.5mm jack connector isn't an R&D cost, it's just a standard component you can buy from Digikey; comes with an o-ring. A whole generation of waterproof phones had them, like the Sony Xperia.

They look like this: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/cui-devices/SJ-35...
You'll have to quote me, I don't see where I am implying that.

But anyway, the point that I am refuting is the use of C++ to write programs for such an extremely constrained runtime environnement, and at the same time refuse to use this library (which is template based afaik).
For multiple speakers/screens, some kind of guarantee or description about the precision of the update callback would make it possible to synchronize multiple speakers and screens.
I've spoken to founders about this before, and pointed out something that not a single one of them had thought of until I pointed it out:

The founder of the company stands to make generationally life changing money, the people they hire do not.

Founder mode works because the founders are willing to spend every waking moment on work. They have time to get into the details of everything. And it's worth it for them because success could mean billions. It could mean they are set for life, as is the next 10 or 100 generations of their family.

Steve Jobs -- Billionaire. Brian Chesky -- also a billionaire. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang . Basically anyone you would name as successfully running a company in founder mode is most likely a billionaire. It's worth it to them to scarface everything to spend every waking moment on work.

But the people they hire don't have that incentive. Especially not anymore, with the way VCs are getting better at extracting value from companies. Exits for early employees aren't nearly life changing as they used to be, and exits for later employees at the stages we are talking about here are even worse.
Email the mods to have the URLs swapped: hn@ycombinator.com
> One large component is that a lot of business rules and policies have been encoded into the software logic, and (re-)translating that into code in a new(er) language is part of the challenge.

It's a massive challenge.

It's like a little city that has been growing for 5 decades with a new lot of houses here, a new road there, utilities routed over there, etc. Then someone saying "let's re-do this city about 10 miles that way".

With a city it's easy to see the magnitude of the problem. With large software systems it's not.