skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > All the New England colonies required towns to set up schools, and many did so. In 1642 the Massachusetts Bay Colony made "proper" education compulsory

That didn't mean compulsory daily school attendance. It worked differently at the time - mostly religious figures were teaching children every Saturday. Maria Theresa was the first to set up compulsory daily school attendance.

> > In fact, the “Prussian model” superseded an education system that actually did look like a factory. The monitorial system and its variants the Lancaster, the Bell, and the Madras systems, involved schools that were housed in large warehouses – larger often than many of the nascent factories at the time – with hundreds of students in one massive classroom with one teacher. Students were grouped (30 or so together) not by age but by reading proficiency, with more advanced students – “monitors” – assigned to tutor and train the others.

Yes, and this Prussian model is exactly what education looks like in Europe today. Might be different in the USA, I am European so I don't know. That the previous model was even worse doesn't change anything about our today's comparison to factories. Factories changed too.

> adding also that "the major innovation of the Prussian model was in levying a tax to fund compulsory schooling, not in establishing a method for instruction".

If the schools and literature here in former Austria-Hungary and Prussia are to be trusted, this is wrong. The Prussians did this and a lot more to improve their military, and the Austrian-Hungarians did it for the same reason as the Prussians were beginning to outcompete them.

> I also don't know what "exactly like they do today", given that my experience in the US school system during the 1970s and 1980s seems rather different than what I read about during, say, the Depression era or the late 1800s.

Lucky you.
PixiEditor
Show HN: Carnival Horse Racing Game aka Kentucky Derby
Some good links about this effect are currently in discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25551624

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25546787
Do you have a source for this? It’s my understanding that import/export of electricity to the continent happens today already and is important to regulating grid stability.
That's like saying the '9' in kill -9 might change someday. However it really does depend on which numbers. In the APE blog post I mention the importance on focusing on the subset of numbers that systems share in common. In other words, the really old ones. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/c...
Does this use a similar algorithm like anki?
You'll have to search very long to find a C++ game code-base that uses boost, game devs are not that stupid ;)

Also, Unity games are usually written in C# (I think it's quite safe to say that - overall - most games are not written in C++ but in C#), yet I've seen no data so far which would indicate that Unity games have any less problems than games written in C++ during production and after release (if anything, the opposite seems to be true, not for technological reasons, but because Unity is so much more beginner-friendly).

I'm no fan of C++ either, but blaming a programming language for bugs and quality problems without any counter examples at hand is a bit ridiculous.
It's kinda old news at this point, less "what happens" and more "what happened".
The combination of a very windy, shallow North Sea, where wind turbines are productive most of the time, and the fact that large concentrations of people live in close proximity, gives British wind electricity quite a boost.

It is a different story in Germany, where North Germany is, apart from Hamburg, thinly settled and connecting far-off places like Baden or Bavaria to the North Sea wind farms runs into tons of NIMBY initiatives.
1. Yes, an influence from 19th century Prussia, notorious proto-fascist state.

2. You can argue for a lot of things metaphorically and perhaps even have a case, but that's not goose-stepping.
I’ll be damned! Didn’t know about the API. My apologies and I heartily encourage downvotes for my rudeness.
How is the libc polyglot? I mean don't system call vary widely between windows and Linux?
GiantVM: A distributed hypervisor that aggregates resources from multiple hosts
Their per-capita electricity demand is dropping off quite sharply, and their position relative to Europe is apparently quite low [0]. Those aren't small differences. Either they are giving up their industrial production capabilities or giving up on lifestyle choices.

If I had to chop my electricity use by 10-20% I'd be pretty noticeably worse off. Maybe they've got some really impressive tech to maintain their lifestyles but the Occam's razor here is they're probably just going to be doing without and will likely lose industrial capability or see worse living conditions.

[0] https://www.worlddata.info/europe/united-kingdom/energy-cons...
Automated Testing to Cut QA-Costs for Microservices App
> On-board graphics, audio and NICs usually are shitty anyway.

Onboard graphics, audio and NICs are perfectly functional and more than enough for most people. Both in work environments and at homes. They've not been in a shitty category for years now. They won't break any records, but they will display websites at high resolution, play clear music, and provide more bandwidth than the link to the internet can handle.

Just look at the number of Lenovo's AIOs (and similar solitons) in offices.

> Full USB-C (or ongoing USB-4) means Thunderbolt which is PCIe.

USB 2 is a fraction of the price. (And power and board space)
When you think about it, 99% of the code of a compiled C program is processor specific object code which in theory should not care about the operating system or environment at all. It is the 1% like API/ABI and header magic that makes the same object code incompatible under different OSes.
Is it an instance of the Second System Effect if you build something slightly different?

Google is replacing its internal systems all the time. For example, MapReduce was replaced with Cloud Dataflow [0].

[0] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/06/25/goog...
Do you sponsor any open-source projects?
What are community thoughts on open-source sponsorships
I'm not sure what's going on, but I opened it in Chrome on a 5 year old PC and had no fans going, no choppy framerate, no nothing. I probably could have left it open forever and never noticed.
There's an old joke about that.

A professor is giving a lecture, scribbling some formulas on a blackboard and at some point saying "it's obvious that ...". Then he pauses, stares at the blackboard, says "one moment please" and runs out of the door. Five minutes later he comes back in, with a wad of scratch paper in his hand, picks up the chalk and says "it is indeed obvious that ..." and continues the lecture.
I'd hope such an important law to be passed after a thorough examination, testing, and debate.

In reality it will be nodded through in the UK by 400 people who have barely skimmed it.
I don't mean to discourage you, but what made you build another platform instead of using Anki?
Gosh, if this makes it into airplanes and such I hope there will be a way to turn it off, I've not yet encountered an ANC headset that does not make me dizzy. Sure some sounds are reduced, but they give this strange "pressure" in my head, hard to explain, like being several meters under the water.
Show HN: Hardware-accelerated vector-based search engine for image and text
A couple more links that may be helpful in this pursuit:

https://sagargv.blogspot.com/2014/09/on-building-portable-li...
and

https://blog.ksub.org/bytes/2016/07/23/ld.so-glibcs-dynanic-...

Watch out for the implications of licenses etc.
Magic Painter – Christmas hackathon project
Of course not using insecticides! that was implicit, how could they come back else. You're right to mention it, I kinda forgot people used them, it sounds so useless and terrible
The Oceanbird: telescopic wingsails, 32k T displacement, 90% emission reduction
They then enforce the use of SHA-1 hashes
That feels really counter to what I see. Maybe five years ago I'd have agreed with you, but now-a-days on-board graphics, audio and NICs are way better than they used to be.

Don't get me wrong, I still run a discrete GPU for gaming, but for a lot of people onboard GPUs provide a good experience, and often much better power efficiency.
Tesla to begin operations in India from early 2021
TL;DR: FBI is the holder of the world’s biggest Bitcoin wallet (after Satoshi).
Big deal. That's literally why you've got 3 more cores.
Tried it. Didn’t work for me.
Most people certainly sat the entire evening in front of the TV 30 years ago. Even today old people sit over 7 hours a day in front of the TV since they haven't adapted to newer media yet.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15224/daily-tv-consumption-by...

For history you can see that about 30-40 years ago people watched 7 hours of TV per day, then it went up to 9 and now it goes down again as people start using computers instead. I don't think this is a bad development switching from TV to computers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-...
Yes, vertical farms will typically use LED lights.
This is entirely true.

Apple has more and more in common with other luxury goods, such as expensive cars, which have a glamourous reputation but are notoriously unreliable after only a few years. Then they are eye wateringly expensive to repair.

For someone buying simply for utility, Apple is best avoided. Their market position and financial incentives are aligned against selling you a machine that is solid in the long term.
Another application of a vertical farm is ultra-fresh food. As in, cut a minute ago just for you. Most of us eat quite stale salads.
That's not household usage though, it's total per capita. The UK is primarily a services economy, other European countries have more energy hungry industrial users.
Incremental Packrat Parsing [pdf]
Not to mention the tremendous farmland in Wisconsin and Iowa that could easily be converted to vegetable farms if the demand shifted from animal product.
Bird Brains Are Far More Humanlike Than Once Thought
Good summaries from the EU side:

Short easy infographic: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/attach...

6 page summary: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/brexit_files/info...
But that's the point. If in a blind test you can't tell the difference, then there is very little to no perceptible difference.

If testufo was randomized with multiple repeating patterns and random offsets, it could be a much better test. Here you can accidentally bias yourself.
Is this the first time to lisp related but non-functional language. Shock to see it does not support functional style.
Digg is still the hallmark of bad redesign to me. It was so bad that it killed the company.
The basic pay of Uk politicians are not that high.
SHA-2 or higher. SHA-1 is broken now.
I don't think it is equivalent, because the Infamous Dropbox Comment is about the behaviour of non-technical consumers. There's a pretty vast chasm between a non-technical consumer trying to set up rsync and a software developer adding a Trello <-> GitHub integration.

It does seem frivolous to me to pay money to automatically close tasks when a linked pull request is merged.

And paying $720 annually to host some frontends? Depending on what they mean by "frontend", this might actually be exactly $720 more than they ought to be spending on this.
I'm tired of this claim.

Germany's electricity prices are high because theyve front loaded capex and are decommissioning old power plants early.

It gets even more ridiculous when the nuclear lobby roll it out because if they were going to go on a nuke plant building binge like France did in the 80s their electricity prices would be even higher.
int ftruncate(int fd, int64_t length) {
if (!IsWindows()) {
return ftruncate$sysv(fd, length);
} else {
return ftruncate$nt(fd, length);
}
}

You get the idea. The OS is detected at startup and then checked each time a function is invoked.
Exactly what I thought :D

The QR-Code scrolling with a marquee effect, the globe turning at the bottom and the retro icon style combined with modern fonts.

Looks awesome!
GitHub-based malware calculates Cobalt Strike payload from Imgur pic
Multiple researchers have linked this strain to MuddyWater (aka SeedWorm and TEMP.Zagros), a government-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group, first observed in 2017 while mainly targeting Middle Eastern entities.
They have all kind of motion, detail, etc, though, even persons in the distance.

They just don't have close ups of humans...
This already exists:
https://www.geekwrapped.com/guides/best-electronic-ear-muffs

The utility is limited by the limitations of passive noise attenuation devices. These things are great for the shooting range, because bringing gunfire down to a level that won't damage your hearing is pretty easy. There's no kind of earphones that can just completely block out all sound, though.
You and the other folks responding to this so positively have got me doing some soul-searching. One of my personal limiting factors on this is that there hasn't been a lot of interest so far. It's like, why perform if there's no audience?

("But, if we don't perform, in what sense do we have an act?" ~B.B. Rodríguez)

So, um, wanna join my mailing list? mailto:~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas+subscribe@lists.sr.ht
(Web interface: https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/heliotrope.pajamas )

I'm joking, but I'm also serious: if you really want to see this happen the most useful thing you could do would be to pay attention to it. If I know folks are interested that's hella motivating, y'know?

Cheers!
Thank you for this perspective-- oftentimes I don't think of how these verticalized monolith companies operate outside of NA/EU.
I don't remember if I've seen a coke ad in the last year but I'm pretty sure I bought at least 100 litres of it.
you can feel free to support your local joints. But you cannot ask others to do so if they feel that dominoes gives them better value!
It’s smooth as silk on my iPhone 7 (4 year old, mobile hardware). I wonder if maybe it’s using some webgl feature that your machine doesn’t accelerate natively?
1024 bit encryption...
Thankfully few [1] care about VR, and the fad cycle is over for now.

If they get it better and more relevant in the future we can check again!

[1] Few as in "not enough to matter much". There can still be millions of enthusiasts, but the market predictions and "disruption" didn't pan out.
Firefox + UBO + StevenBlack
Extending VSCode with WebAssembly
Why would that even be blocked?
Well I literally powered up an oldish laptop two days ago that had been sitting there for a few years, and it turned off three times within a few seconds of booting until I let it sit for a few minutes for the battery to charge.

The power brick is rated at 19V 3.16A output, so 60W, the CPU is a 35W TDP second-gen i3.

Of course a big part of that is spinning up the disk, so as you say I imagine this is quite different these days with SSDs.
> Not sure what the answer is but off hand it seems that conservatives and those that are religious have higher birth rates than those who are secular and liberal thus part of this problem is clearly values/cultural.

Mainly an issue with feminism being widespread but living/working conditions not having caught up with it. Society is set up assuming that the wife will stay home to care for the kids. As a result having children pretty much requires either enough disposable income to outsource caring for the kids (nanny, extracurricular activities, etc), or one of the parents staying at home.

For conservatives it's less of a problem because it's more accepted to have the wife stay home.

If we want birthrates to raise again we're going to have to figure out how to make having kids not be a stopper for your career.
Thanks for the reply. Yes reluctantly, as long as we can satisfy the deferred lawyers. Hopefully it wouldn't make for a complex story when we're trying to raise a seed round - could look like we don't know what we're doing.

Was hoping a way might exist without having to dissolve since we're also short on cash.
> The total area of the Netherlands is just 41.6 square kilometers, but the country is ranked first in the world by the area of greenhouse farms.

Well, that would be quite something.. but the number is a typo. From Wikipedia:

> With a population of 17.4 million people, all living within a total area of roughly 41,800 square kilometres (16,100 sq mi)—of which the land area is 33,500 square kilometres (12,900 sq mi)—the Netherlands is the 12th most densely populated country in the world.

The total amount of greenhouse area is about 10,000 hectares (24710 acres).
How does luck work in scientific research
It's not. Git is sloowly migrating away from SHA1.
alright I'll bite: The scam of copying someone elses game just because they refused your offer of buying it, since that's essentially what happened.
No picture or video ?
For me, resolution is the problem. If I reduce window size from ~4K to a fraction of that, the animation changes from being painfully choppy to smooth. I'm running a fairly powerful desktop machine with a gaming GPU.
Anecdotally it uses about 1.5% CPU on my laptop with the current Firefox stable on Windows 10 20H2. Admittedly this is a machine with an 8 Core / 16 Thread CPU, but that still feels reasonable. Firefox overall is reporting around 3.5% usage with a YouTube video playing in 1080p fullscreen, Discord and three other open (and loaded) tabs.
Hidden Brain, Episode titled, "Our Pursuit of Happiness": https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897673162/you-2-0-our-pursuit...

I found a section in podcast that talks about: "we tend to present our best sides to strangers rather than to people who inhabit our lives is very sad", really insightful.
Thanks and agreed -- it is always best just to be honest and upfront about what options exist.
Almost any chemical you can think of has been linked to some type of cancer or other disease. The important question is, how much? If they don't estimate the level of risk, the claim is fairly worthless - indistinguishable from all those other low dose chemicals we're exposed to on a daily basis.
Some time in the future wee can do real time path tracing for a few megapixels (per eye if stereo), in under 5ms, and THEN we you might think we could stop using smoke and mirrors for games.

But even then, someone will think "if I just use some smoke and mirrors I can quite easily get twice the performance, and those spare resources I can use for better AI/larger worlds/whatever".

Ray tracing (and physically based rendering in general) already simplifies things. Content creators can use "natural" parameters for material/lights, and you don't need to insert fake lights to achieve realistic shadows, dynamic lights. That's in a way "simplifying" things, but in the end it just gives more realistic games for the same or higher effort. Until everyone can use ray tracing, it'll also add another layer of complexity becauuse you need to make a separate path for ray tracing, so level editors and content creators need to ensure everything looks good both in both cases.
No smoking, better(also less) eating and more physical activity would cure probably 80-90% of these... for some reason, that's too much to ask for from so many folks because some blah blah excuses, like anybody would care about those.

And its not about perfection, any sustained attempt will bring almost immediate massive benefits in quality of life and happiness. One day our descendants will be looking at us as primitive stupid self harming apes
There's a nice list here: https://github.com/HollyAdele/awesome-programming-for-kids
I think most monitoring services offer at most 1 HTTP request / minute checks, is there really need for lower intervals?
What exactly is bad about this?
Seeing that running live at the time must have been incredible.
Trump-Pelosi $2k Stimulus Checks Are a Mistake
No, they insist on SHA-1: "the hash algorithm SHA-1 shall be applied."
YT premium is free of ads that Google serves. But most YouTube shows are funded by other ads embedded in the shows themselves. I wish Ad Blockers could remove them.

How hard would it be to implement an ad blocker browser extention to do it? Query an api endpoint with a video ID to find out start and end times for the ad and automatically skip over it. Allow users to volunteer to submit those ad times to build up the database. It would be limited to browsers, but it would still be something.
Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year
That implementation has been already reviewed by the UK years ago. The referenced document is about "stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and
cross-border crime" which goes down to details like XML format of the exchanged data and which parts of DNA are used to identify people across Europe. It's not something that UK can change on its own and definitely not something that should give anyone a pause before accepting the document as was already implemented - just because an old browser is listed in examples.

It can easily be debated as "do we have any issues with the technical details of the international exchange of forensic information or should we continue with what we have right now?"
Nice! I was momentarily confused by:

> Fully client-side: your video is never uploaded
...
> Now, upload your video.
The basic salary for a UK MP is £81,932, with additional pay for additional responsibilities (such as being a minister).

The median UK salary is around £30,000.
Doesn't Apple warranty their repairs even when the machine itself is out of warranty?
What would you have done differently from what the policymakers have done? And how would you account for potentially undesirable second-order effects? (Which were quite massive for most of the obvious alternatives.)
I came across an interactive map [1] of contamination in the US. Unfortunately it seems there isn’t much data for a lot of states, including mine.

1: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/
Does 'left alone at normal temperatures' include the inside of a washing machine? Probably not a big issue, if the care instructions say 'cold water wash only' and if people read/follow the care instructions.
The base pay of UK politicians is well above median salary and puts them into the top 5% of earners in the country; before you get into things like the fact that housing costs for two homes, travel and food costs are all fully subsidised.
Avoid News - Towards a Healthy News Diet
by Rolf Dobelli

Prologue

This article is the antidote to news. It is long, and you probably won’t be able to skim it. Thanks to heavy news consumption, many people have lost the reading habit and struggle to absorb more than four pages straight. This article will show you how to get out of this trap – if you are not already too deeply in it.

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.
We are so well informed and yet we know so little. Why?

Article: https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430337
TV’s, PC’s, and lightbulbs have gotten a lot more efficient over time. A 50 inch LED TV for example uses the same power as a 21 inch CRT. Even just looking back to Plasma TV’s and LED’s use 1/3 the power for the same size TV.

That’s continued with many people using very low power tablets rather than laptops, desktops, or giant TV’s. For portable devices low power means longer battery life and less weight which has been constantly pushing demand lower.
HN "newspaper theme": https://www.wolfgangfaust.com/project/paper-hn/

Not listed in the article and was a recent ShowHN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23669650)
Now all we need is a good package manager for it and you're looking at a C renaissance