skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's impractical. The social "science" students would never be able to pass classes that involve real math.
We are doing distance learning in a small pod with a caregiver with our elementary schooler. We are rotating houses. The most difficult part, surprisingly, is finding other families with the same needs as you (age, cost, siblings, distancing level).

I chose to go pod since it adds a little more socialization without nearly as much risk as a larger group.
I would choose Schwab over Robinhood any day of the week. I used robinhood and its data/metrics with stocks was extremely lacking and un-sophisticated. In addition order fulfilled timing was slow, I would never trade large amounts of stock with the app. Its all showy UI and bright colors. Which is fine as it seems to be getting alot of users using that method and the idea of "why use your Dads/Moms trading stock trading platform"?
GAN generates fake snow in satellite images
A scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory trained a GAN to test automated change detection algorithms in satellite imagery, with a link to the associated SPIE paper.
> - Don't be defensive

+1 to this. The very first thing I'd teach computer science students is "You are not your code... ego investment will only cloud your thinking" .

When the compiler says it doesnt work, trust it's not a compiler bug.

When the computer does what it's instructed and it doesnt work, trust it's not a JIT bug or that your code "clearly says to do what you think it does..."

When a coworker suggests an alternate solution, it doesn't mean either of you are a "better" engineer. (These kinds of decisions can only be decided across many variables and many data points).
Facebook's Merging of Instagram and Messenger Chats Gets Underway
You should not shame and criticize Apple for being anticompetitive, you should lament that the US is not a fair playing field when it comes to anti-trust investigations.

Apple is under no obligation to behave fairly. Many (not me) would argue the opposite.
> When suffering from perfectionism, a person overweights the consequences of arriving at an imperfect solution and underweights the consequences of not arriving at any solution at all.

So eloquently put, thank you!
I've been surprised at how well our 4 y.o daughter has adjusted to the online world, on the whole. Whilst not all of our friends' children have the same experience, I've noticed it's fairly common for children we know (at least of this age) to quickly adapt to making friends and socializing and learning through Zoom/Skype/etc.

Mornings are spent on "Kid's Club" via https://www.modulo.app , which is a fairly new startup that provides online spaces for kids to learn together, hang out together, etc. My daughter has made a number of new friends through that and she's able to do a lot of the same stuff she was doing before (art, learning apps, etc), but in a more social way. Sometimes she gets to help other kids when they get stuck with their learning apps, and visa versa, which is fun. We're likely to expand this to some of the afternoon too, since they're adding a Spanish program.

Overall, I've noticed that her development has thrived since she's moved to a more self-paced environment. There's been no sign that using screens a lot is causing any problems. We've set up an iPad on an adjustable goose-neck stand so she can (and does) run around a lot and her friends can still see her. We also make sure there's time outside for exercise.

We've found a lot of good online resources, generally free or very cheap, such as Cosmic Kids Yoga, Draw Every Day with JJK, Mo Willems Doodles, and Khan Academy Kids. We've also discovered kids coding apps, like CodeSpark and SpriteBox, that have been a big hit. The teacher at Modulo.app does a good job of helping us find resources for stuff our daughter takes an interest in, and we share stuff we find with them too.

We're both full-time parents, and certainly we're not as productive as we were before, but for me it's a totally acceptable compromise. I get to be more involved in my child's development and I get to see her much more than I did before. One key thing is to have carefully planned schedules for everyone in the house. Kids are generally much happier when they have a schedule, and it also means as parents we know when we can arrange meetings, do live coding, and so forth.

We're very lucky to have these options. I know a lot of parents just don't have the ability to work from home, or to reduce their working hours to spend more time with their children.
This is a very interesting question.

But to answer it, could you define how does a "perfect education" looks like for you?
Or we could just learn the most basic grammar rules in our language so we don't sound ignorant instead of just winging it at all times.

You only hear it from English teachers because they're the only ones who want to help you. When you don't know the difference between an adjective and past participle in your cover letter or article, you just look a little less competent. Nobody is going to respond to help you out.
I was describing deflation on purpose, because deflation [is supposed to] happens after solid infrastructure investment.

My last sentence was misleading because I said "this is one of the various modes of inflation", but what I really meant was "this is one of the various modes of an inflationary/deflationary economy".
Ha, I'll admit that I'm one of those people. I shot on a Fuji mirrorless for years, but photography didn't really capture me as a hobby until this year, when I got into film.

I originally got a Mamiya RB67 because I watched a bunch of Youtube channels and wanted the "medium format look", but I didn't feel like switching off Fuji for full frame as a compromise. The experience of shooting on the RB67 was honestly eye opening. The big waist level finder, being able to actually manual focus instead of focus-by-wire, the highlight rolloff and colors of Portra. I picked up and fixed an Olympus 35RC for 35mm after that, and I had a great compact rangefinder I could carry around anywhere. Way cheaper than buying a Sony RX100 or Ricoh GR.

Part of the fun is just shooting on toy cameras and weird film, too. Despite being able to fire off way more shots on my mirrorless, I feel like I'm more open to experiment when I shoot film, and my digital photography has improved as a result.

It's kinda tough to really verbalize why film is catching on again without coming off as pretentious, but I do think that format, form factor, and the shooting experience are all important to the form of the art that comes out. When I record music, sometimes I'll record on my Zoom, or to a cassette, or maybe just my phone. I'm not trying to put out award winning studio produced albums, just trying to have fun and produce art that's hopefully meaningful to myself and my friends. :)
Stop Panicking about the Post Office
yes, traditionally there are two ways to approach God: cataphatic and apophatic

apophatic is more similar to negation of self

however, it is not the same

the idea is to remove accidental properties until one perceives the essence itself, like peeling an onion with a diamond in the middle
Shame that this got flagged.

From the site Guidelines:
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon..."

I'd say that rampant voter suppression in the United States is a an interesting new phenomenon.
It works in stores to prevent shoplifting too.

And to keep people from trying to buy cigarettes while underage.

Eyes are magic. Pattern recognition that reaches down deep, maybe past the reptilian. Getting looked at can cause anxiety.

Maybe this adds to the appeal of masks.
Yeah, but they could do that any time of day! Especially when you close bars at 1am and send everyone drunk onto the street at the same time.
Configuration Files and .d Directories
'CHAOS' casts doubt on Helter Skelter theory of Manson murders (2019)
ClarisWorks generally got UI features for new OS-supported features very early relative to other default apps. Despite being ostenibly a word processor, ClarisWorks was the first tool I was able to use for ripping songs from CD's.
I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]
> If you want to learn a new technology, do it on a project where you can afford to throw your hands up at some point and scrap the whole thing, because you very well may end up in that position.

Think of it as having two goals for the project: learning $NEW_TECH, and writing a program to do $TASK. Don't use $NEW_TECH unless the goal of learning $NEW_TECH is at least as important (or valuable) as the goal of writing a program to do $TASK.

This implies that you want to experiment with smaller programs. But when you do, recognize that you may not be seeing all the problems and limitations of $NEW_TECH.
That gets at the crux of the problem: hyper-competitive behavior can become anti-competitive when you are powerful enough and have enough leverage to make anti-competitive behavior part of your strategy. The line between "anti-competitive" and "hyper-competitive" today isn't a line, it's a big messy gray area.

It's pretty hard for an underdog or tiny startup to be anti-competitive because they simply don't have the leverage to do it. They can still be dishonest or immoral, it's just hard to be monopolistic when you're not anywhere close to being a monopoly.
Wait until you read about pig intelligence levels. And unfortunately, it seems I still love ham and bacon :-(
Somehow I suspect that the folks at the USPS have put at least as much thought into the logistics of mail delivery as HN commenters in this thread have—maybe even a little more if such a thing can be conceived!
When have those decades of research ever actually been applied to "create a platform that's more beneficial for society?"
High caliber firearms could be cost prohibitive, or simply illegal in that jurisdiction. Alternatively, firearms are only as useful as you are aware and capable of reacting...
Thanks! I totally missed it.

I find it silly how many places legacy versions are hard coded for compatibility.
Good to see they're keeping pace. For some reason I keep cheering for the old beast but I don't see how they can keep up with the big 5
All kids are going to school, but only 4 days a week (I don't know why 1 less day reduces any risk). Masks are optional but recommended. Currently, all after school sports are still going forward as before. The district is offering an homeschooling option but limited on the number. It is already maxed out.
The point is that a POWER core costs twice as much as an Intel/AMD core so SMT8 doesn't save as much money as you might think.

What would you rather buy? A 24-core x86 or a 12-core SMT8 POWER?
> lack of socialization at this age is a very real and serious public health concern

(No offense intended) I keep hearing this and wonder what proof we have of this? I have two kids, one introvert, one extrovert and neither seem to have been impacted. Sure they'd like to hang out with friends, but they're basically the same personality/kids/temperament they had pre-pandemic.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) Detection Using Machine Learning and Python
Uber is the prime example of this. They broke many laws and regulations in order to provide a better product/user experience without much punishment to get to where they are today. If Uber started breaking more laws today they would be shot down very quick.
USPS Secure Voting System Patent Application
15 Signs You Work with a Narcissist, Machiavellian, or Psychopath
This was before the Alpha port of Linux happened; if it had been available instead of OSF/1, we would have done more with the machine.

But, yes: if you want to market hardware that nobody else can supply, you need to get it into the hands of people who will use it and evangelize for it.
> lack of socialization at this age is a very real and serious public health concern-for healthy young kids with no underlying health issues maybe as important as COVID itself

Lack of socialization - for a few months - is as serious as a disease that's killing people by the hundreds of thousands?

Even if the kids themselves are at lower risk, they can transmit the disease to parents as well as teachers, who are much more vulnerable.
Would you want a socialized fast food chain, or computer company? Probably not, and do you know why? It's because these are services clearly designed for the market to solve. I hope we can agree there. Delivery is just something that's FAR more efficient in the markets.

And the difference in inefficiency is just going to grow. Look at what UPS has been doing the past x years. They constantly reinvest money into new tech and decreasing labor, and USPS just gets more money from the government.

It's a fair question to ask "at what difference in cost should we stop giving USPS money because we're wasting so much of it". I think we've reached that difference already.

You know what happens when you raise a child with an unlimited allowance and no incentive to work?

America will stay ahead because of our belief in the private markets. Socialization of services can do good in the short term, but almost always looses out to competition in the long term.
I think you're asking why don't we just be the hosted kafka/rabbitmq/etc and offer all of this stuff in one place. (let me know if that's wrong).

That's a totally legit point - we've talked about offering it all in-house before but it would require us to split our efforts into two - operating a PaaS (for a bunch of different messaging tech) and running the event collection platform.

Operating the PaaS part would be a full-time effort and there's a lot of competition out there. We've decided to focus on the observability/replay part first (since there is a lot less competition) and then later maybe explore the hosted bus option.

LMK if that's not what you meant :)
I agree that there should be room for ethics but the recommendations in the article seem extreme and lacking.

Especially the "Web development" example in section 2 seems to be quite off. In fact the counterargument for section 2 seems to be very convincing!

CS/IT is such a broad, rapidly progressing field that you cannot be prepared enough on technical subjects.

As someone who has no formal CS education I'm impacted immensely by this. I don't only need to keep up with current technology (mostly in my free time) but also often had to catch up on topics that my peers learned in University.

I'm not complaining though. I love it. But to say that there is _easily_ enough room for additional, non-technical/mathematical subjects seems to be quite unrealistic! Especially if we look at the hiring practices of our industry. Apparently having a degree is not nearly enough even from a technical standpoint.
> What’s the current roadmap for CE?

No clue sorry! I left many many years ago.

CE7 was incredibly good, the minimum image size we had it running on was ~20MB on disk.
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164470
It depends on the map settings. You can either have infinite procedural generation or limited area.
You're mixing a few different concerns together. With a properly designed permission system, applications do not get access to identifiers such as IMEI and MAC addresses. If an application demands some information as a condition of running, a proper permissions system should return appropriate mocked data.

The only place the actual IMEI should remain a concern is when talking to the cell network. Mitigating this is an unsolved problem, and it needs to be worked on. Some ideas - staying in contact mostly via Wifi (and only turning on the cell radio for dire situations), or a carrier that deployed sims that periodically rotate IMSI.
Most of technology choices comes down to "the language / framework I know." Few engineers are deeply skilled in multiple languages and frameworks that solve the problem. I sometimes see engineers who are newer with more seniority than the team come in and say "we're building new service / rebuilding old thing in X tech," and they superficially justify it, but it's often because "I know X." There's a push and pull between polyglot shops and specialized shops.
At what point is it ok to throw in the towel and say "this is just a city/state reaping what they sow". Sure there's people who want to do things right but as evidenced by a result they're a small enough minority that their voice doesn't matter. It's not like there's lobbyists from BigWildfire(TM) distorting things. The purpose of a system is what it does.
It does, the article mentions that painted eyes can deter bicycle theft, for example. There are more examples in the article.
You can use software crypto keys to prove your identity.
In the spirit of this particular story, I'd like to ask HN the following question: Should closed hardware (that owns its entire stack) even be legal to sell?

Yes, it's legal today but should we make it illegal?

To try another example besides Apple iPhone, consider the $35000 Prima Cinema movie server to play 1st run movies at home on day of release: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22prima+cinema%22&source=ln...

In many iPhone debates, we throw around phrases such as, "unlike a game console, it's a general computer" and "I own the device so I should be able to put any software I want on it".

Understandable sentiments. So the question is, should consumers be able to knowingly buy restricted hardware such as Prima Cinema? They pay $35000 and own the computer but they know they can't sideload their own movies. They know can't pick another "movie store", or watch Youtube/Netflix on it, etc. The hardware has anti-tampering sensors so that it bricks itself if the owner tries to open it. The hardware is a "general pc". It runs Wind River Linux. I think the cpu is x86 but it might be ARM or something else.

You can't argue that Prima Cinema should not be locked down (claiming anti-competitive behavior) because the paranoid film studios wouldn't even license their content if it wasn't. If a buyer wants to have 1st run movies at home, all those restrictions in place is they only way to get it. It's more restrictive than iPhone in that sense.
Ask HN: Blog Discovery Platform
Hello fellow HN readers!

I recently tried to find a lot more (tech) blogs to subscribe to, and while HN has been great for discovering new ones, I wondered if there was a platform made for blog search, discovery and recommendation. Something like Listen Notes, but not for podcasts.

I couldn't find a good one, and wondered if it would be worth it creating one. Do you think there would be folks interested in using it? If so, what features would you like to have? What about monetization to actually run this website?

Anyways, thanks in advance for your responses!
A few comments on the original submission guessed it correctly:

> This is either something written by GPT-3, or the human equivalent. Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation.

> I think this was written by GPT-3.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817
You're assuming that salaries are not also impacted by the immense amount of wealth being generated by the Silicon Valley economy, though. And you're also assuming that housing prices will radically change, which I don't think is guaranteed even in the medium-term.
Not a typo but deliberate obfuscation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiFWhvg7Fg
That's why I try to reflect on my feelings when I can because they aren't rational. I have to remind myself it's the fiduciary duty of companies to take legal advantage of any opportunity the law gives it.
2BSD is covered by the Ancient UNIX license though the status of the license is a bit murky https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/11/26/why-bsd-os-is-...
Unrelated but it cracked me up... I do a bunch of outdoor stuff but really couldn't get into surfing (and downhill skiing) because you have to wait/jostle with people/paddle forever/wait some more until you finally get 1 minute of enjoyment (or more like 10 seconds when you are starting out with surfing). I thought it was the beginner problem because the places where I can be are so few, and I suck at catching waves... so if I only practiced it would all be long rides with minimal downtime. I figured I'd never get around to actually do it, and it turns out I didn't make a mistake :)
The worst you have to deal with in climbing is getting up super early so you could be the first on some popular route :)
We also live in an apartment. During quarantine we divided our time with our four year old 50/50. Our main bedroom became an office the kid wasn't allowed to enter while either of us were working. No electronics with the exception of Skype time with grandparents, just a lot of playing, reading, physical exercises and the like. Since opening up, we still divide time 50/50 but take the kid for walks and cultural activities conducted in a safe manner that have been moved to the main city park and plazas to maintain distance. Our city has a lot of space for kids to roam carelessly and free. School are scheduled to open in September, so no change there.

Location: Oviedo, Spain
This particular company decided to grow financially by cutting apple from a revenue stream. Apple invested billions of dollars in rnd, PR , legal protection, security, servers etc... Behemoth like Epic decided to ignore that, at the same time still using apple services and platforms. Such a simple case to me. The funny part is I never heard from small company that gain traction from apple store that it's bad. It's a social lift for them. But once you grow , you forget about it... and start complaining...
Zebra stripes reduced biting by horse-flies, indeed: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> All kids are going to school, but only 4 days a week (I don't know why 1 less day reduces any risk)

If the days are staggered, it would reduce the occupancy rate of the classrooms, which seems sensible.
> How are you able to make more local friends in a less dense location?

Not the GP, but the social changes that happen with population density may make starting friendships more difficult (e.g. people adapting by being more standoffish than welcoming due to the sheer number of people they have to interact with in a dense environment).
I definitely agree. If integration and teamwork is required, how would it be possible, if you never saw the face of your partners? I mean, good code is what makes the difference, but still, we are not machines. There's a layer of communication between us, that shouldn't be ignored, which is a part of the bound that a team should have. Just my opinion. Thanks for sharing this, Osiris.
My kids will be in 9th and 7th grade. My school district is starting 100% distance learning. I did opt for hybrid when it's available.

I'm setting up study areas in the house for the kids that are away from each other and me. I'm going to get comfortable headphones for their school-issued Chromebooks.

The plan is instructional blocks that include webinars, basically, along with some study time with the teacher available online. They can come up to my office if they have questions as well.

I built out my home office to mirror my work office this past spring, so I'm pretty well setup to be a remote employee and hopefully the quiet spaces I setup for the kids will be good for their remote learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiFWhvg7Fg
I wish this was dated, as of when they did it. SSC is back up, so while its nice having an index to browse and some editorial "best of" contribution, I otherwise dont know why youd read the articles here and not the original site.
> but the benefit [the App Store arrangement gave] to developers was much less clear cut.

I disagree, I think the fact that so many developers built apps for iPhone supports my point. Apple gave developers everything they needed, users with dollars to spend.
Except it isn't because why would gtk need to prefix their functions and structs with these ugly names? Namespaces is the answer to solving problems arising from a lack of namespaces.