skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst bullies I saw where from well off families. Still weren't the brightest, but that had definitely nothing to do with social circumstances. In fact, those socially handicapped kids were those being bullied. That was on a German Gymnasium, so on the road to higher education.

Obviously, social dynamics will be different in lower tier schools. I do have the impression that we are not discussing those here.

Also, being bullied is a poor excuse of becoming a bully yourself.
I definitely think there's a significantly higher quality guarantee with Mouser, Digikey, SparkFun, etc. than there is with Amazon/ AliExpress. But hey, like you said for hobbyist use it might just be good enough and the cost savings can't be beat.

As a beginner though, you might bang your head for hours over a non-functional circuit just because a cheapo component isn't doing what it should. Once you gain confidence it can be a bonus challenge to write a driver for some poorly documented knockoff component :p
The best strategy in my opinion is to build something that aligns with some of your hobbies or favourite things. Do not attempt to "solve a problem" or "do generic exercises", build something that ties up with something you already enjoy.

For example, if you're into some kind of sports, build a software that helps you keep track of it. If you like cooking, build a recipe tracker. You know the gist.

By building something that helps you with some of your passions, you'll feel more connected to it and more engaged with the project.

This does not need to be a product, or something you'd try to sell or market. Build it for you. Share it with those people you like, if you feel like doing it, but build it for you.
First M8: An easier way to query Prometheus
> The latest UI framework (XAML/WinUI) sits on top of a better rendering architecture (compositor) that itself wraps DirectX tech.

WinUI/UWP still uses CreateWindowEx and good old WndProc for event loop message handling at the top level on Windows 10.
Isn’t this just a way for him (or others) to launder bribe money?
The parent is correct, and shouldn't be downvoted IMO. If you set the max payout to world gdp of ~$100 trillion, you get an expected value of ~$50 for the game. So people are actually calculating expected value correctly with their intuition. It's just that in their instinctive calculation they're also making better assumptions about reality than mathematicians do.
This assumes that by taking more risk, you end up gaining more if the risk didn't pan out.

But not all situations are like that.
In my first job as a software engineer I was working on an inventory management system for the University I attended. The original source for the data was a wacky Access database. We had a copy of the data imported into MySQL in production and it was not uncommon for me to try something, corrupt my local database, and need to restore it from backup.

When doing so I would typically run "TRUNCATE items;" on my local and repopulate it with the content from the not-yet-live production copy. This worked great until the afternoon where I was doing a demo for my boss in the office, realized my local datastore was in a bad state, and then got my tabs for "production" and "local" mixed up in my terminal. I truncated the entire dataset on production while my boss was standing behind me.

I got to learn a lot about how to export from Microsoft Access and import to MySQL that month. Lol.
It seems to effectively brick your wifi in a way that survives power cycles, deleting the SSID, etc. The only thing that unbricks it is General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings. So perhaps not havoc, but it would be pretty annoying.
Many companies want remote workers–except from Colorado
There are always inconsistencies in the scientific world:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudge_factor

A good portion of experimentalists' time is probably spent in trying to figure just how badly they've messed their experiments as compared to reality. Major discoveries are sometimes based on teasing apart those differences:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_g-2

In my EE studies we had a specific course just in examining the limitations of (digital) numbers:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_analysis

* https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...
Yup, didn't work for me at first because it's case sensitive. Also, you're one of my doppelgangers, hello.
If you are in a place without connection, how do you get updates? Any kind of diff mechanism with USB storage?
require up to 1.25 million gallons of water each day

Something is wrong in the reporting. Datacenters use closed loop cooling systems. Very little water is lost, if any. If there is a datacenter truly using millions of gallons of water each day, I would like to see it.
There is so much noise out there. Hence, I rolled my own site (finclout) where relevant news is aggregated across several vectors leveraging social media arbitrage. So far its really profitable and brings peace to my mind to not miss a news item about a stock that I like.
Further, Motley Fool is blacklisted. That's is a crap FOMO side.
No, it was very unhealthy and caused problems in my life.
Skallas is amusing on twitter but his newsletter is just gobs of copy-pasted plagiarism passed off as his own writing, so IMO he's not really worth promoting. Alexander Pshenichnyy has documented several, though I can't find all the threads.

https://twitter.com/maintcraft/status/1405850286334386176

https://twitter.com/maintcraft/status/1353636211676622848

I guess being a fraud is in some sense lindy, but I've flagged the post because of it.
If as a user, you plan to use it for yourself, then re-signing is already possible and while this complex setup might make it easier, it's still a little bit unpractical.

If you expect to distribute an app through this, then it's mostly a no-go as, except some very strange use-cases, no user will be willing to go for this to use your app.
Thanks for the suggestion! Through that search I found this HN post comparing most of the popular animation libraries.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23083730
https://www.carvana.com/research/2020/03/do-you-have-to-pay-...

It varies but many state and local governments collect personal property taxes on based on the vehicle’s value. What’s notable is US property taxes are generally regressive. 3.6% for the bottom 20% down to 0.7% for the top 1%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_Sta...
"It's not her you're sexually attracted to, it's my code. Just face it, Dinesh, you're gay for my code. You're code gay."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7bkbv4u1tc
That's good to know. I think I have a fight-or-flight response for every C++ new features :-/
No my MVP is quite basic. But it solves the problem. And that is the only thing that matters.
Not sure if I want apps that can use all sorts of private APIs with zero impunity on my device. At least on the actual AppStore they get scanned. I wonder if they can provide such service?
I got downvoted at least twice, but noone bothered to link to the explanation why this article is no longer visible.
> I guess one challenge with this is that old school Win32 doesn't really support anything resembling automatic / responsive layout.

It gives you all the building blocks to implement it yourself.

Remember that Win32 is not UI framework but OS API which allow you to build yourself one (wxWidgets, QT, SWT).
Ask HN: How can we digitise housing
Let's be fair... If automation dies what we all probably think it will. Everything is going to be abundant and free. Music perhaps is the best example. It used to be £25 to buy an LP in the UK. Include inflation and it's a lot more.

Forward to today, housing is in crisis everywhere. From London to Sydney, every single western city is unaffordable for all.

My ask is this, can we yes WE digital folk, do what has been done for music to housing. So that we can stop working our lives into the ground to afford it.

Ideas wanted, I'd quit my job to work on this.
The 90's Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMrVKnGzwg

"On your marks, get set...we're riding on the Internet"
I see this recommendation rather often, but it's rather unhelpful. I certainly can't think of any such problem that I have.
Should read 'if automation DOES...'
When I read the headline, I had an alternate vision of this.

A super hardened computer, drop proof, waterproof, weatherproof, sandproof, rated for at least 20 years of
use.

No moveable parts and everything stored on PROM.

It would come with a kit to use any power source
possible

That should be able to survive in remote village with
no supervision required for a long time.

I did not imagine a PI with a plastic case and a standard harddrive.

Clearly the rugged one would cost magnitudes more and
things like WordPress and other programs like it would
not be possible on rugged version either.

I would think that as a plus not a minus.

If a village fills up a blog or some other such software with large amounts of data and the harddrive crashes its gone.
Does not come with a backup as far asI can see
That is true its more about economic status now. We have made some considerable progress in opening up the middle class to immigrants.

To paraphrase MLK "judged not on the colour of their skin but on the size of their parents' bank accounts".
So many doors magically open to you when your parents have money.
Orange jasmine: A small flower with a strong scent
Exactly - it's a judgment call.

When the compassion & effort of providing the info looks like it may possibly have a good effect, and is likely to be reasonably safe (e.g., minimal retribution/fallout effects, and is delivered with kindness - it can be good for all.

But one should first consider the consequences. Sometimes it really is best to just get away while the getting away is good.
You lost me somewhere between "I’m told by my boss to delete a directory on the file server. Which I do." and the rest of the story.

Did you misunderstand? I don't see the logical conclusion
It is not regulation we need but a sea change in values.

Like if somebody is sending senseless spam that gives evil a place to hide then they should be liquified, their business liquidated, and the resources reallocated to responsive organizations that know what time it is. Not by the law, but people voting with their feet.
Not really.

If you don't rotate the six-digit code, the probability an attacker who tries sequential codes gets the correct code in 1M attempts is 1.

But if you do rotate the code, the Bayesian probability that an attacker who tries random codes gets the correct code in 1M attempts is still about 60%, if I did my math right (and of course it asymptotically approaches 1 with more attempts).
Many companies want remote workers, except from Colorado
This is a great post.

> Many retail investors don’t really care about whether GME’s price is justified by their corporate earnings - they simply buy at any cost. This financial nihilism - where intrinsic value is unknowable and all that matters is what other people think - is a worldview often encountered in Gen Z retail traders

The article makes it sound like as if this is a recent phenomenon. I don't believe that's true. I believe that stock prices, or prices of anything, be it tulips or paintings, have always been driven by narratives. For example, both "fundamental analysis" and "technical analysis" are just different narratives that people have bought into. They then became self-fulfilling prophecies with feedback loops due to their adoption. Some may argue "but earning reports are scientific! It's numbers!" - not it's not. There are so many ways you re-arrange, manipulate, or re-interpret these things. It's just another narrative that has been accepted by a large enough number of people.

Predicting the market has and will never be about "facts" - it will always be about predicting other people's behavior.
> How does school choice allow for increased teacher wages? Presumably they get the same per-student funding.

The raw number of dollars per pupil isn't the only variable here, if it were the US would already have the best schools pretty much everywhere (the US spends WAY more than the average in this category).

There's also what percentage is spent on administrators instead of teachers (frees up money for teacher salaries), various QoL improvements that could be made such as less paperwork, more latitude in how they teach, hiring a few full-time graders to take some of the load off teachers (generally a big time-sink and a source of a lot of overtime for teachers).

> When the school gets more applicants than places, how does it decide who to let in?

Presumably either entrance exam or lottery depending on the philosophy of the school.

> Seems preferable to intervene and improve failing schools before it gets to the point of shutting them down.

Do we know how to do this in practice? I haven't heard of any tactics that reliably improve a school that has started going downhill, but if you have some examples, I'd definitely be willing to consider them.
I wonder if you could "abuse" a service like GH Actions to replace an always-on Mac. I'm not an Apple user, so I don't know how feasible it is.
But using such a (freely provided) service for something it wasn't meant to do is unethical, even tho I think it's a lot less unethical than mining crypto on it.
unique tricks?
I have no idea of US law, but shouldn't the state law suite these things shut? Here in germany there can be a case of public interested and torturing kids definitely sounds like one...
I believe there is a gap between regulation and technical progress which allows for a wild west in retail financial services. Feels like 1997 again.
The theory behind this is NOT that the poor students will become productive and valuable members of society.

It is that they will become criminals if you don’t do everything you can for them, and one criminal is more costly to society than the marginal benefits of that money to 100 successful students.
"Major companies have said in recent job postings that Colorado residents are ineligible to apply for certain remote positions because a new state law requires businesses to disclose the expected salary or pay range for positions, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The law, which went into effect in January, is meant to help close the gender wage gap and to promote wage transparency for employees, but companies have said Coloradans need not apply to avoid disclosing the information.

Johnson & Johnson, CBRE, McKesson and Cardinal Health are among businesses that have added such caveats in recent online listings for remote positions, according to the Journal.

The big picture: Businesses have argued that the wage disclosure law is overly burdensome for employers, while the state's labor department is investigating complaints of postings excluding Coloradans.

Colorado residents can still apply for the positions, but it's unknown if companies would actually consider them as candidates."
That's correct. I also like to be able to lend people my car and not have a 'who pays' situation if there's an at fault accident hence comprehensive.
iOS & iPadOS devices would be so awesome if they could just run arbitrary software. The new iPad Pro is more powerful than my Lenovo T-Series laptop, and I would totally buy one if I could actually run e.g. Linux on it.

But unfortunately Apple deliberately cripples these devices. Really hope the EU will overthrow these hardware-facilitated software monopolies soon. The truth is Apple already makes quite sizeable profits with the hardware alone, so I think at least power users should be able to install arbitrary software on them. This whole "the hardware can only run software approved by us" is so ridiculous, really makes you wonder how companies doing this (not only Apple) can still get away with it.

Imaging Tesla would restrict which roads you can drive your car on, because just using arbitrary roads that haven't been thoroughly reviewed by them for security and safety would be a risk to you. That's essentially what Apple is doing with hardware that's perfectly capable of running general-purpose software.
It works! My doppelgänger is my old account.
Only half of Istanbul is in Europe, and while the historical core is on the European side, most of the modern city center (Taksim etc) is on the Asian side.
Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
Can see this being inspiration for a CoD map soon enough.
Prediction: in the next decade there is a cyberspace ‘Pearl Harbor’ and the culture will change drastically.

First like this need to be put out of business to make room for new firms that do things right.
Very little? In my town's school district, something like 30% of the school's budget is allocated to these "difficult kids". Who make up less than 5% of the student body. They get a LOT of attention and extra help. As far as I can tell though, it doesn't help much.
> -RHEL (free for up to 16 instances)

RHEL is free for up to 16 instances for individuals not working in a team. This is frequently ignored, but it says so crystal clear, black on white, on the developer program terms page: https://developers.redhat.com/terms-and-conditions

> The Individual Developer Subscriptions are unsupported, intended for your individual use in your personal capacity and are not intended or supported for any other purpose. If you are interested in the Red Hat Developer Subscriptions for Teams other terms apply and please contact your Red Hat sales associate.

> [...]

> By accepting the Program Terms, you represent that you are acting on your own personal behalf and not as a representative or on behalf of an entity [...]
I told a fairly obnoxious and (in my mind) idiotic customer to "take a chill pill" on a conference call. This did not work out well. I did call them back and apologized before my management told me too, but I'm claiming no credit there, that was just pure self-preservation kicking in. On the plus side, after that day, I (slowly!) started to understand how salespeople can be really, really good at a really, really hard job. I very much enjoy sales now and I think I have a lot more empathy for where my customers are coming from thanks to that very dark day.
> You’re making an appeal to authority

Yes, what is wrong with that? You cannot rationalize the climate change discussion. The information density of the argument cannot be much compressed than what is tomes of scientific literature. So you need to build trust in authorities and just believe them. This is better than believing your or soembody else's train of thought in an online discussion.

> What else can they do?

No, why do you need to investigate on your own? Nobody does that, and they shouldn't. Heck most people would have a hard time finding the federal code which says that you have to stop at a stop sign. The good thing is that you don't need to because it says Stop and people you trust such as a driving instructor told you.

> The root issue is that the article and more broadly media discussing science.

No, the article is giving statements by scientists that are meant to be approachable to lay-people. There isn't anything bad with that. In particular, the OPs point that a statement such as "maybe the worst drought since 1200 years" (which might as well be) is doing a disservice to fighting climate change, is troubling. It is as if the firefighters are telling you to get out of your house because it is burning, but you are staying because they used bad grammar in their request to you.
Isn't Canberra the capital because all the other cities couldn't agree on who gets to be the capital? Like what happened with Washington?
> While NFTs are not sure proof of a physical Birkin bag's authenticity, they all but ruin the economic incentives of counterfeiting.

One exception to this: if I want a Birkin bag, not to sell but for myself, and I want it to be authentic, I can buy a real bag and a fake bag, and sell the fake bag with the certificate of authenticity. I don't have to worry about diminishing the retail value, since the bag is for my own enjoyment.
From the looks of it, the upstream author was against downstream packaging of any sort. It's not any particular problem that caused him to attempt to prevent NixOS users from using his software.

But anyways, existing packages tend to be easier to maintain on NixOS because of rich tooling around the Nix ecosystem. Most importantly, they have automated workflows for checking and updating upstream sources[1], and it can be merged without problems most of the time. There's also lots of effort around preventing regressions too, and packages are tested as part of the automated workflow. It's also easy to check out the changes yourself, because you can just "git pull" and test the changes locally without interfering with your existing installation, a feature unique to Nix.

The upstream author's claim that NixOS was not bothering to update his packages are simply not true. That was just him being incendiary and disrespectful[2]. NixOS was using the exact version required by the latest version of Home Assistant. And he very well should've known that because he happens to be a major Home Assistant contributor. If anything, data shows[3] that NixOS is one of the most up-to-date distros out there.

[1]: https://github.com/r-ryantm

[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326

[3]: https://repology.org/repositories/graphs
Expect to see it touted as the next major kid's Xmas present must-have in 2024
Quantum computing will enable sustainable cold nuclear fusion which in turn will enable quantum computing.
Stream type systems are pretty much a non-starter in high security and safety critical applications.
The description sounds more like PS4 than PS2 (maybe PSX was simpler - PS3 is closer to PS4 and "normal" programming). I've seen numerous examples of how involved CPU was in rendering, especially on PS2, due to special units being exposed as MIPS coprocessors. Efficient rendering meant you had to keep the pipelines happy and that could require significant amount of assembly wrangling.

I remember reading about how GTA3 on PS2 was a watershed moment, because it was a proof you could use a somewhat more generic engine - whereas console programming had a heavy amount of assembly focus due to historical reasons.
Wanting to drink ice water on a poor town in the old west still seems laughable, even if technically possible.
In the short term I agree, but in the long term the market is still a weighting machine (not a narrative driven voting machine).
They are...
The things you are describing /are/ a relatively advanced civilization. The ability to transport them is the advanced bit. In isolation people had had access to ice, but society didn't.
"I heard about Ivermectin for the first time this week"

This is what is extremely disturbing. This result of the control of information occurring in our society.

What's more, it is not just the literal control, but the social conditioning. Within the group of those who have known for a long time, there is a reluctance to share that with anyone else as society will apply any number of taboo labels to such individuals to make them outcasts.
I'm going to repeat some stuff I said in a sibling comment, but OP mentions students who actually set $#!+ on fire at their school, and the only semblance of correctional action for this serious, criminal behavior was five days(!) of in-school suspension. No mention of police being seriously involved, as would be entirely proper given these circumstances. This is emphatically not how you'd try to save these kids from a life of crime; it has the exact opposite effect.
Likewise if you have a real bag and a certificate of authenticity but then the bag is ruined and you didn’t have insurance, or bad coverage on the insurance, you can buy a fake bag and resell the fake bag with the certificate of authenticity for less than the cost of a new authentic bag while still lowering the amount of money that you lose out on had you discarded the certificate when the authentic bag was ruined.