skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric Company was still playing in reruns in the early 80s and they would show it to us in school. All the kids would cheer out loud when the Spider-man segment came on.
Since elderly get vaccinated first and they are more at risk anyway. Gotta read news in the right context, or statistics get misinterpreted to confirm your own bias or fears.
I know it would be a huge task, but at this point I believe it's worth considering a port (rewrite) to ARM, due to the high number of platforms it could run on.
Being able to play movies and TV through DVB-T cards made me think about one application: SmartTV minus spyware/adware. Which of course would imply other applications like kiosks, industrial automation control panels, etc. Just add a higher level language environment to ease writing applications and users will come.
> Why are they held to this super high standard to teach a difficult subject (computer programming at a high level) to all kinds of learners at all levels?

because this is the standard they advertise to and represent as the capability of their learning platform and their teachers?
Indeed. I'd suggest the invention of some form of social network would be the most likely culprit. ;-)
I’ve built a significant number of relatively sophisticated applications as internal tools and one public application (which is used daily by ~300 people) using Airtable, Stacker, typeform, carrd, twilio and integromat. I also use MagicBell, Infinity and ApproveIt (a slack approvals tool)

By “relatively sophisticated” I mean “would have cost me a significant amount in dev time to do this” and “have useful functionality that I can’t get out of the box elsewhere”.
Contributions like the parent comment make the Dead Internet theory feel very plausible.
> I have to be very careful with nostalgia here, but it certainly seems like PBS has really lost a lot of the clout that it once had. Certainly for me it was immensely valuable.

If it makes you feel better, PBS has a streaming app and my kids watch it all the time. If I let them they would just watch it all day. So they still have clout, even though my kids don't watch Sesame Street (but they do watch Daniel Tiger, which is cartoon Mr Rogers).
VS Code is totally available on linux. In fact, it even works on my raspberry pi 4 with an ARM processor
I think you've misunderstood - the disguised towers are normal cell towers, and normal cell towers are normally disguised to be less of an eyesore.
Fantastic work! Are the vector tiles compatible with OpenMapTiles styles?
>(do they still make Mazda Miatas?)

They're called MX-5s here in the UK and I see them everywhere, unsurprisingly because it's in the spirit of an old British two seater but unlike the Triumph Spitfire or MG Midget it doesn't break down all the time and isn't essentially hygroscopic.
The metaverse, NFTs, crypto, and digital goods are pointed to as the next wave.

Staunch proponents will tell you that we'll be living in VR metaverses, doing work remotely, earning crypto, buying virtual properties, etc.

I'm personally bearish on crypto/NFTs, but kids like buying digital goods in games. And VRChat is blowing up and looking more and more like a threat to Facebook.
Self-Driving Race Cars Make History in Indianapolis
This page just confirms the above poster's hunch. A professor of mathematics who teaches one "Mathematical Design 128" class.
> minus spyware

The problem of trust towards the hardware remains...
> Or just bring them back to earth.

True. Put them into the now empty cargo bay of a returning Starship and attach them to a new one.

The future seems a lot of fun again.
If you need to render quite a lot of data look at one of the WebGL implementations, I switched from Leaflet to Maplibre GL for displaying around ~7k linestrings and saw huge performance gains.
Reverse-mode automatic differentiation from scratch, in Python
This is a great example of perverse incentives, although I'm not sure I'd want to put my body through that
This is the sneaky, flawed premise behind many instances of what we call optimization. I have a Law of Optimization: the closer you get to optimal on your chosen metrics, the more cost is shifted to unmeasured externalities. (I imagine someone has named this.) A stronger version would be to say that the distance to optimal is inversely proportional to the externalized cost, so that the total externalized cost goes to infinity as you squeeze out ever-smaller increments of gain with respect to your chosen metrics.

The important corollary is that you can get 80% of the way there with very little externalized cost, and that going too far will eventually reveal the oversimplification in your cost model.

You can move an object with near-zero energy, but it'll take 1000 years. You can get to net zero carbon emission by shifting it to someone else or dumping it somewhere it isn't measured or is a temporary sink that will eventually re-release. In my own area, you can reduce garbage collection overhead to zero by either never freeing anything (so the externalized cost is memory) or shifting the GCs to happen in between the timed portions of a benchmark (and this often happens accidentally, especially with a "no regressions" policy!)
Fed Prepares to Taper Stimulus Amid More Doubts on Inflation
I'm not saying this is a bad outcome (modernization is overall a Good Thing), I'm saying it's bad that the GDPR is being used to achieve it.

Before today, you cannot seriously tell me that (hypothetical) United Airlines being unable to print æ on your boarding pass would be a GDPR violation. No one would even have considered it. The best "GDPR auditors" that popped up to save the day with expensive consulting would have glossed right over it. And yet the overly broad language of the regulation allowed this contrived gotcha. And now any company that can't support emojis in your surname is now in the Naughty Bucket of GDPR Violators.

I'm just shocked how so many hackers are ok with this law existing in its current form, just because it sometimes achieves things that they like.

If we find ourselves asking "what else can we hit with this hammer," it's a bad law.
I found it very illuminating to read Dostoyevsky's works alongside Goethe's Faust when thinking about the protagonist.
Is the original still up somewhere?
Just out of curiosity, how much do you pay for that stack per year?
I worked at a place that made a group of loosely-related websites. Basically different spins/themes on the same products. There were 4 of us on the development team. There were 10 websites. Some new, some in maintenance mode.

I quit after a few years, and about 3-4 years later they went on a hiring spree. Tripled the number of developers. Refreshed some products, discontinued some, and some went into maintenance mode. They still had around the same 10 websites, but 12 developers.

The products didn't get better. The products didn't get made any faster. They didn't have any less bugs. My wife actually works there now, and when she tells me about the issues they have I laugh a little bit.

It's all the same problems we had back then. Invites don't work. Teams doesn't work. Uploading profile pictures has issues. Entering data doesn't work. Registration is broken.
الصاحب الزين – سليم السالم
Why? Convince me!
well if that sort of "successful" is your key metric, this is true for a lot of things and has been known since biblical times: "a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it"

you did say "by almost any metric".
Wasn't there a gag order involved?
They had fantastic product-market fit.

As dleslie and that_guy_iain have mentioned, it was expensive to send an SMS text back then, especially in Europe when your friends have different country codes. So WhatsApp was a free alternative that tapped the unmet need for millions.

And signing up with only a phone number seems like a nobrainer nowadays, but the mindset of the time was still email + password. Sure, Microsoft could have launched a competitor, but they would most certainly require you to use an MSN account, thus adding friction to adoption.
Yeah I'm a dev but was a team of one embedded within a sales and marketing org at a a medium-large size startup with a mandate to automate and find growth hacks for sales + marketing, and I was able to use Zapier with its Salesforce integration, google sheets integration, Twilio integration, Marketo integration to do a lot of work that I wouldn't have had time to build, support, and do maintenance on if I'd built a full backend application.

All of what I did with Zapier could have been implemented with a database, a bunch of scripting, and cronjobs, but using Zapier saved oodles of time and meant I was outsourcing the maintenance to their API integrators rather than to myself.

I was able to do so much with triggers and webhooks I can only imagine what is possible now with their more recent code blocks feature and adding better environment variables.
FB shares under pressure following release of leaked whistleblower documents
He risked death to protest the oppression of Chinese people by the Communist government, brutal oppression the Communist government has spent decades trying to cover up. The brutal actions at Tiananmen Square and the surrounding areas--and the consequent coverup--are something we all disapprove of and abhor.

He may have survived, but many others did not. You can find the photos of their corpses online if you're outside the Communist regime's censored, dishonest, pseudo-internet.

Only commenting so younger people don't think your comment has any merit or honesty.
This was quoted and linked in Panic's article, for what it's worth.
> 3.5. The Podstakannik
>Do voters feel they have an actual choice here? If the impression is that all candidates engage in this, voting results might not mean much here, especially if direct opinion polling states there is interest in the topic.

I agree. However, it's not about choice or whether or not certain candidates raise money.

In the current system, all candidates, incumbent or not, spend a significant portion of their time and energy fundraising. Not because they're necessarily corrupt, but because if they don't, they can't compete with those who do.

The problem is that our political system pretty much requires it unless you're extraordinarily wealthy. And even then, most will fund-raise anyway.

The system we have incentivizes money over all else. Which is counterproductive and creates the avenues for prioritizing the well-heeled and wealthy special interests.

Voters understand this, which is why most want to get the running sewer of filthy lucre out of our politics and elections.

What is necessary is public funding of elections, with strict limits on spending and much more regulation of lobbying.

Doing so would allow a much broader cross-section of folks to run for office and give those who are elected much more leeway in servicing their constituents.

And that's, IMHO, what most Americans want.
Agree 100%.

Stated another way: asymptotic functions convincingly appear that they'll hit zero--though obviously never do.

Same reason I'd be shocked if physicists ever achieve absolute zero Kelvins in a lab.
yeah but you found your way out via tech, which is a very exceptional case (I did the same thing, after spending almost two decades not-in-tech). And anyways GP said:

> one single thing that makes traditional university education successful

Probably is "external credentialism", if there were a single thing. Think of the largest employer in the US (federal government). Credentials are CRAZY important for positions in that org.
An anecdote from an early bootcamp grad—I graduated from what was then known as The Starter League in 2012. Those I have kept in touch with have all done pretty well. My guess is:

—1/4 are doing what they did before or something similar.

—1/4 became engineers. Some have moved more into management roles.

—2/4 have ended up as PMs, founded a startup or in product design, like myself.

Those were successful gave it 100% of their time and focus. Those who stuck with their day job and tried to do it in the evenings struggled. Also, nobody got a job straight out of bootcamp. Many did after 3 to 6 months of additional work post graduation.

Also, It's interesting to see how things have changed. I paid like $6,000 and we met for class 3 days a week and had hours of pairing work and mentoring outside of class each week for 12 weeks. Now it seems like many of these schools cost at least $20,000 and are much more hands off.

It is amazing that was almost 10 years ago. Time flies.
There are a ton of ideas that could get someone to $5000 MRR in 30 days; they're just not passive income. For example, if he had started a facilities maintenance company and found one customer, he'd be set!
You charge at the hotel.

https://www.tesla.com/destination-charging
The phenomenon of Long Covid - leaving people with symptoms that doctor's write off as anxiety due to its novelty. Eventually we're going to learn a whole new level of stuff about how the body and immune system work as a result of studying it, but the awareness has to come first, and it's against narrative for both mainstreams to talk about it.
People who aren't equipped to deal with it, mainly. People who won't fight back. It's disgusting
When you write your name in Chinese characters, how do people know whether to pronounce it in Cantonese or Mandarin (or some other Chinese language)? Does that ambiguity ever come up?
I actually think he has a point with the great man theory. What we call a great man is a carefully engineered product and is the result of work of many people. A Steve Jobs or a Napoleon is a head node of a massive computing cluster. Is someone like that necessary? Of course. Would they be powerful at all without all the resources behind them? Not really. And this is sort of what I took away from W&P: Napoleon was a product of his time, and due to circumstances people happened to connect themselves into this giant borg with Napoleon at the helm.
What is a CL?
The one thing I had always wanted my ipod to do was stream, so I def agree with the lack of wireless being lame. Just because the greater majority of users felt it was okay and made it the most popular music device doesn't mean it wasn't lame to not have it.
Constantine's Sword Explains the Culture Wars
I generally tend to (perhaps superstitiously) do things the "slow way" like this, for exactly this reason.

This kind of thing is also generally why I don't understand people who don't like "dependencies" in general. If something requires specialized knowledge, I would much rather let the specialists work on it, than arrogantly assume I know enough to do it myself correctly.
> This shows that this is complete nonsense.

Uh, what? This makes no sense. It's not like the entire hardware and software teams were totally firewalled. Obviously higher ups and managers were in both circles and coordinated the development of both.
UN sounds alarm on missing climate pledges
Rewrite is a completely new project
> We just have no evidence this happened.

Any evidence regarding that was suppressed by the judge due to the possible revealing of classified information. This sort of suppression is precisely my objection as it effectively allows the government to operate with impunity.

I don't claim to know if the claims were true, I just think they should have been assessed in court.
Oh, the things I'd give for an LTS version of Mojave...
Indeed. I found this via RSS on the author's site, which used the title "How good a business is running a robotaxi?" I found it more captivating than the actual drivel.
Bitcoin Comes of Age
There are so many of these and they are so flawed, yet again and again its been clear to me that I would have maybe gotten a job at this point if I had just signed up for one and stomached the debt. These days I just wonder how feasible it would be to just... make one up and say that I am a graduate.

I'd just need to mock up a relatively fancy website, some copy, and a good name, and then put on my resume that I am a graduate.
The zip tie dude apparently got them from within the capitol and took them so they couldn’t be used against them.

The rally was coordinated by the president, not breaking in to the capitol.

We don’t know who placed the bombs. From their placement it seems to me they could have been used to kill people at the rally, but who knows.

Let’s be real: it was a bunch of idiots that found an excuse to do something they thought would be fun, the same with all the other riots we’ve seen recently. If those people really wanted to mount an insurrection they would have brought and used firearms that they almost certainly own.
Most CS programs do not have 99% placement. There are a few reasons

1. Some people who graduate with CS degrees can't write good code. It is shocking how little you can learn while still graduating.

2. Some college graduates are lack the social/organizational skills for office work

3. Industry has a limited appetite for junior engineers because they're often a net drain on the company for the first 6-12 months and once they become productive can usually get a pay bump by switching jobs.
We’re failing kids in the most basic academics. How can we ever hope to be long term competitive?

Third world countries treat academics with more importance and rigor than this kind of defining the problem out.

Let’s see the governor redefine taxes and see if the IRS humors that. Neither will life for these kids.
Types vs. Traits: Why Personality Types Exist
I don't often get triggered by people being wrong on the internet (https://xkcd.com/386/). However, when I read "MBTI is astrology for nerds" by well-respected academics on Twitter, THAT triggers me. And it happens surprisingly often.

Thus, I decided to write a logical, scientific proof for the existence of personality types (as well as calling out the problems with the Big Five and why Big Five followers are the true cult).
That RAM is DDR4 while the MBP uses DDR5 (low power). MSI has stated that DDR5 will cost at least 60% more. Known prices are actually 3x higher.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/msi-ddr5-ram-will-cost-60-more-th...

That SSD is 2600mbs while the MacBook is 7400mbs. The Samsung Pro is the only SSD in that territory.

Buy a cheap motherboard and you'll pay the price later. I didn't spec a $800 motherboard (though those are amazing). I went quite middle-of-the-road for an x570.

A keyboard with a fingerprint reader will set you back at least $50 with a Surface keyboard costing $100. A comparable trackpad would be over $100, but even a midrange $50 mouse.

A non-garbage case will be around $100 plus or minus a little.

A decent air CPU cooler that will keep your CPU from throttling way back is going to run close to $80-120. I also didn't bother to price out all the little things.

I forgot to add a PSU by the way. A name-brand, modular PSU with midrange internals that is just big enough (around 5-600w) is another $100-120.
Ask HN: Can you please add transcription to vocal messages in messaging apps?
I know that there are employees of big tech companies lurking around here. I have a feature request.

Can you please add the ability to see the transcript of a vocal message on messaging apps like Teams, Signal, Telegram, Messenger, Discord, Slack, Whatsapp, etc?

I know that live transcription is already a thing so it must be feasible, right?

This feature would be super useful to see what was said without having to playback a bunch of vocal messages.

I had the idea of doing this myself a long time ago but I basically needed to recreate the entire messaging infrastructure just to add this feature. So I donate the idea here.
Training or inference? How's training performance compared to 8GB NVIDIA, if you have one?
> You can scrap secure from this, the vast majority of users don't care or even know what that means.

Until you get sued or called in front of legislative bodies to testify about why your customer data was breached.

But maybe you're big enough at that point to ride it out.

On the other hand, it's very very hard to add in robust security after reaching critical mass.
Southwest Airlines doesn't even support having a hyphen in your name, as if that's some exotic character and not something fairly common in English surnames.
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986229

"Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility" (github.com/nuta)

351 points by Klasiaster 9 hours ago | 136 comments
My solution for these problems (kind of like turn off/turn on):
Create a new word document, and copy-paste stuff in front and stuff after to the new document.
Sometimes this works when normal editing doesn’t.
Agreed, for hardware and manufacturing related development it is very difficult to see out past 5 years where anything new is being attempted. Within 3-5 years you are largely constrained by current available manufacturing, fabs, and processes, but farther out there may be better choices. You may be better served by doing the research (or collaborating with a supplier) to build new production capacity (understanding their challenges) for anything further out.

Look at DUV lithography where a huge industry flipped on its head in 5 years, while X-ray lithography had been in development (and written off) for so many decades it had to be renamed. That required real R&D not tweaking current available equipment, which led to asymetric advantages and huge profits (Zero to One).
Thank you for mentioning Appsmith! We do spend a lot of time on support, glad that you noticed it.
Sounds like tagtime https://github.com/tagtime/TagTime
> This shows that this is complete nonsense.

That is…not at all what this shows. Just because software engineers writing a file system don’t know what the final industrial design is going to be like doesn’t mean there aren’t people fully responsible for end user experience.
I am my own VPN provider. EC2 micro instance on AWS running StrongSwan. Sure, feds could dig that up, but it would be messier. I wonder what in/out logs AWS keeps on its VPCs....
Depends on what you mean by “obsolete”.

Were they superseded by more modern solutions? Absolutely.

Were they nonfunctional? Hell no.

I worked on several systems in the early 2000s that still had a big old mainframe at the back end.

I’m pretty sure most airlines and banks still run them.
The etiquette school for China's super-rich [video]
My bad, I should have written something like `We are under restrictions from fear of short covid consequences, not long covid killing.`
Change list, essentially equivalent to a PR. Gerrit also uses them so it's a good place to check for the differences (squashing of commits into single CL for example)
> I've had more injuries on the bike (on paved paths, not due to cars) than I have had in a car. I've had more injuries walking than I have had in the car.

You’re missing the point: Cars are mostly safe for the people inside them, but awfully unsafe for people near the cars.
I honestly think there is real value here for firecracker style containers. Running memory safe code for your whole stack, with a minimal number of virtio devices? Fantastic!

The permissive license would also be interesting in some applications.
'Being a good entrepreneur' and 'being untidy' might not be mutually exclusive effects of toxoplasmosis.

https://www.one37pm.com/grind/entrepreneurs/perks-of-being-m...

Just for curiosity, Albert Einstein was also messy. Not sure about if he had toxoplasmosis or not, but he had two cats.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/369141
https://www.bluecross.org.uk/story/pets-have-shaped-hearts-a...

About poor driving skills: it could be hard to concentrate on the traffic and surroundings, if people's mind is somewhere else.
How stable is Monterey for those that have been using it?

Ironically I just upgraded to Big Sur yesterday from Catalina. I think I'll probably wait again to let 3rd-party apps catch up.