skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably going to be killed by my comment here, but Tron Legacy is my favorite movie!

The atmosphere, music, nostalgia and other things makes it the most enjoyable movie that I know. It's more of a personal connection that really an objective "this is the best movie ever made".
A massive number of sites have Facebook tracking built in, since FB pays them a fraction of a penny for each visit it monitors. They don't care what username you're using; they just need to correlative fingerprinting (IP addresses, browser/device profile, any data from other apps installed on the same device, etc).

If you opened that arcade, they'd probably recognize that through a couple hundred different datapoints and use that to further analyze user behavior (For example: Which FB/Instagram users went to your arcade, stayed for a significant amount of time, then left. Of those, which don't already own a Quest -- market to them).
Uprise launches free wealth management for Gen Z
Highly recommend the 2016 tv series of war and peace starting Paul Dano.

Sometimes the movie can be better than the book, especially if the book is a dense classic.
> We all made profound sacrifices so that we all may enjoy the best chance of survival.

Would it be unreasonable for me to point out that not everybody sees it that way?

Did pharmaceutical companies genuinely make sacrifices or did they make bank?

Ditto for large corporations who took advantage of local competitors often being shut down, authoritarian politicians who used Covid as an endless excuse for failing policies and power grabs, and endless grifters who managed to cash in on all of the dollars flowing in ways that are too numerous to list.
Because they don't dogfood their own product.
I'm not OP, but this is a made-up interpretation, not a fact. Unlike facts, interpretations don't have unambiguous true/false values - the question is whether or not (or to what extent) the statement is consistent with facts.
Google updates Chrome to squash actively exploited WebRTC Zero Day
Now supporting https://github.com/allenai/tango
Many retro games had massive teams and utilized earlier frameworks and content to release faster

I think you and the previous commenter have different ideas of what constitutes "retro."

The people I knew who worked on retro games usually were in "teams" of one or two, even if they worked for a massive company like Atari. If there were three people working on a video game, it was a huge deal. And "frameworks" weren't even a thing. Each game started from the ground up, with the exception of code clips that you printed out and saved in a binder.
Not so common to see the .za TLD on here, except for posts from Marc Brooker. Is this a South African project?
What's AV?
Looks great, its only for Checz respublic?
While rare, it does happen often enough, and electricity is critical enough, that it must be considered.
This is true, but also doesn't conflict in any way with the 20% first-generation statistic. After all, the corollary of "20% first-generation" is that the vast majority of Harvard students do have one or more parents with a college degree.
People log out?
The Pirate Bay already unironically solved this decades ago
I had to chew through quite a few of those rus books in school, read Dostoyevsky again later. Quite enjoyed Bulgakov. But still most of the big names convey rus greatness and how suffering for the czar is honorable.

Also nice ad hominem, well done.
Geolocking/HUGE taxes on imports are one of them.
>Picking a career path isn’t that simple. Who can really predict what will be oversupplied 4 (college), 6(college + masters) or 8/10 (college + PhD) years from now?

Seriously? In the late 1990s, I was in middle school. My grand parents sat me down and told me to work towards a degree that makes a lot of money. They had lists of "typical starting salaries, by college degrees". We picked the top 3, and I started working towards those. I later reassessed and picked the top 1 - Electrical Engineering.

In 2010, I got my BSEE, and my starting salary was more than the average US salary.

Looking back, it was a hard road, but I get paid enough to provide for my wife and kids, and our life is good.
L3Harris in move to buy NSO Group
Fira Code with ligatures

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install --cask font-fira-code
Graphical vector mini-supers. Unix and vax environments, with SUN ruling the roost and SGI crashing in. Multiple instances of what became things like knime. X11 and multiple vendor-specific gui toolkits. Excellent vectorizing compilers for Fortran and C. 4 and 8 core multiprocessors. Granted, it wasn’t as fast but there was lots there which people probably forget.

Software wise, there were research groups with all of the ml/ai areas in chemistry (Gasteiger, others) so I assume they were active elsewhere. The quants were starting upon Wall Street and they needed visualization systems to know whether their model is going up or down. Stereotactic imaging for medical uses, fluid dynamics and finite element analysis were leading to changes in car and airplane design,

Microprocessors killed off this ecosystem - the pa-risc chip from HP could be a soft pc faster than a 486 could be a pc. But don’t think it wasn’t there. Hell, all of the foundation was laid by (mostly) hackers in the 60’s and 70’s that were building on now. It just used way less memory :-)

And don’t forget the work from the folks at bell labs. And neat stuff like the blit.
Me too! DejaVuSansMono Nerd Font and when I want serifs, GoMono Nerd Font.
PragmataPro.

https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

Modularly spaced and monospaced; true bolds and italics; ligatures. It is more condensed than most system fonts.

The full set is €199, and I've found it worth it. You can buy individual fonts too.
In the Tesla virtual grid test in California currently they're paying 50 cents per kWh. That causes 2 cents worth of degradation to the battery, but only if that's a 100% to 0% to 100% cycle. If instead it's a 80% to 20% to 80% cycle, it's about 0.2 cents worth of degradation.
I had been considering setting up my own small lab to grow and do experiments for ... reasons. I think that this is a great way to get started and should greatly simplify the process.
You took away "expired" my hard earned ubi points that could be used to lower purchase prices.
Since then I'm not spending money on your platform anymore
The Little Schemer is a playful introduction and SICP is more impactful but also more challenging book. Even if you already know how to program, it will force you to re-wire how you think about programming.

SICP is great at teaching concepts and testing your knowledge, but it lacks an important part that is not quite obvious at first: Interactive programming AKA how to actually use a Lisp.

I recommend you watch some videos of people using an IDE/Emacs or some text editor with sufficient support like VSCode to write Lisp code interactively. How they build a program while it is running. But also doing mechanical things like navigation and structural editing.

Step 1 is the basic mechanics of that, leveraging an integrated REPL and language constructs. Step 2 is to make this productive and fluent, by using workflows, tricks and tools that let you introspect what is there, manage program state, move things around effectively etc. Step 3 is then to go beyond and not just write the program in a direct fashion, but experiment, generate data, visualizations, interactive debugging etc.
Wow...

Well, I guess I should be used to the fact that western media often treats their readers as illiterate idiots without their own opinions, but still... Wow!
Or, it is what any half-competent witty student would do when they couldn’t finish their essay in time - send a corrupted .docx file and blame Moodle :)
> Homeschooled children, which indicates to me the failure is ultimately with the parents.

> I’m way more aware of the parents who take their responsibility seriously

It’s hilarious how you think upheaving your entire life to homeschool your children is so easy and parents have failed if they don’t do so. It’s incredibly expensive and not scalable in any shape or form. This is why actual schools exist.
I never buy anything online for this very reason unless I have some gift card or something to spend. the only exceptions are some video games which only available online for purchase, and I make no delusions that they cannot be taken away. I download and install the games I really want to keep around, and buy the physical copies when I can (make sure it actually is a physical and not some download code in a box)

retro gaming has none of these flaws. you get a physical copy, no dlc to download or patches to install, and I don't need to update my machine to play anything, passable bugs usually or just fun glitches, and you get a collectable that can be displayed on a shelf. win win win win.

Digital gaming is like a junkies idea of a good time. consumption driven, interchangeable, constantly changing and needing the next fix....no respect for the gamers they milk, especially since their profit margins are so high with digital consummables and loot
Solid update, thanks Kovid & contributors!

Apple silicon support is ace, startup times on my M1 Pro have improved immensely from >6s down to 1s.
It is certainly working.
UI prototyping with Excel [1].

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1538367
tangent: my mind went to a different Jim Grey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_%28computer_scientist...

(the ACID properties database guru)

The about page of the blog does not tell me much about the author (it would have been nice to mention some projects or other milestones).
> failure is ultimately with the parents

Do you view a lack of time to homeschool as a parental failure? I know single parents working multiple jobs to scrape by.

> moved, reconfigured our whole house, changed jobs, etc to ensure our kids got what they needed

How would your comment go if you’d been unable to do any of this?
Yup. In most businesses it seems the path to promotion for a Product Owner is to come up with that killer feature that will garner massive new adoption and launch the company into hyper-growth. This leads to existing end users being the sacrificial guinea pigs in a never ending experiment that place hypothetical (and almost never realized) future users over the immediate interests of those currently paying for the product.
> Thermite charges are easy enough to make.

I think I'd be too worried about burning my house down, and/or liability in a commercial context. It's also one of the most suspicious sounding things you could possibly do. "There was thermite in the servers" instantly makes people wonder just how much child exploitation material you were storing to even think about doing that. It's not endearing to judges or the media and both of these are likely to be involved in the aftermath.
And what kind of meaningful difference would it make when all the buttons in all the stores (including ones selling physical media) would say "License Now"?
I think OP made the point that in the free market the companies could pay you a certain fee per charge used or something, so that you get remunerated for your battery being used.
Perhaps half of the RAM and CPU is used to display ads in way that makes them very difficult to block using common ad blockers.
Your startup can't measure performance
What a curious line to draw, between "some Catholics think that postsecondary voc-ed might be a good idea" and "anyone with glasses might be an intellectual, best kill them just in case".
I'm pretty sure that if there was any bad news they'd be managing expectations.

This is the quiet of confidence, I think :)
not being spreaders seems dubious, they certainly get it and spread it imo.

But no real danger is easily verified by the stats. Mortality in kids and young adults is a very small percentage.

- https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...
Most landlords, that aren't part of a huge company, actually take care of the property and such. As in they provide a service on top of just allowing you access. With digital licensing, not even that exists.
I had a feeling it was a kickstarter (well, indiegogo). Hope it works out, but I'm wary to put money into any of these.
I got to the intermission in Gone with the Wind, said "great, that movie can be over now" and never looked back.
This incident happened ~20 years ago. The state of “online gambling”, as well as loopholes/implementations, has likely changed in that time.

As well, just because there is one way where online gambling is legal, does not mean that all ways are legal. Ie, just because it’s doable, doesn’t mean that you can’t still be flouting the law.
Being dismissive is a good indication someone did not think something through. Kinda by definition right?

And standardized tests measure, again I ask you, _what_? Isn't it funny how deep we are in this thread and no one has put a name to it? So child A does better on a test than child B. What does that mean? And I do mean, what _precisely_ does that mean.

I'll give you my opinion in the interests of fairness, there is no way to know what that means. Maybe one child is better at taking tests. Maybe one child resents the test taking process and isn't interested in participating. There are plenty of examples of meaningless tests that people believe in. Lie detectors do nothing, some people still take them seriously. IQ tests measure the biases of the person designing the test, some people still take them seriously. Haven't you ever filled out a job application and had to answer a 20 minute personality quiz? Do you think that works or makes sense?

Is it really crazy to suggest that a top-down structure, where the federal government comes up with some arbitrary standards, then makes up a test to measure compliance with that standard, all in the face of intense political interference - did a bad job?

And more importantly - are the standards meaningful at all? This gets to the heart of the original question. Is there a singular path one is supposed to take? Is it really meaningful to measure your progress along that path?
There's a token for that. /s
Screaming what? "How dare Iranian people use the same tech we use!" or something like that?
A desire for intellectual growth is a very good reason. If other minds that I find interesting tend to mention a particular book a lot, I want in. I want to get it, to understand it, to have what they're having. This drive has led me to learn and enjoy many things that I would have missed out on if I hadn't persevered past the "I don't get this" phase (in literature, programming, science, anything). The notion that people should only read things they already 'enjoy' is modern anti-intellectual bullshit. Some things take effort before the reward. It's perfectly sensible for someone with a thirst for growth to ask for tips on how to get into something that smart people, in their estimation, seem to enjoy. And when they do ask for help, they should be encouraged.
As I mentioned below, your first link is poorly sourced.

As for your second one, your attempt to claim the restrictions are similar is going into wrong ears here. Both the cooker claim and the songs claim are laughable.
The lifetime TCO of an electric car for most people is significantly lower than the lifetime TCO of a gasoline vehicle. If you put 250,000 miles on a F150 Lightning you'll save over $40,000 in most jurisdictions. Considering the truck starts at $40,000 that's a pretty substantial savings!
I'm hoping for an eventual RISC-VI where all lessons learned in RISC-V are used and the instruction encoding is completely redone from scratch. I doubt it will happen, but it's what I hope for some day.
> Worse still, moving back to chair-making after a year or two, you discover that the old machines you knew are now obsolete and you have to re-learn how to run their replacements.

Love your analogy, it's all spot-on.

On the above, I'll add that the new chair-making machine is hardly ever better than the one from 2 years ago that you saw, it's simply all completely different for the sake of being disruptive to you its user. Most of the time it's actually worse, with fewer features and more restricted customization.
Clever device. I was wondering how they’d sterilize between harvests, but with the presence of a UV light I assume they run a sterilization cycle of some kind.

While I don’t partake, a quick and clean path growing magic mushrooms would be nice for the community. The existing teks out there still have plenty of room for contamination.
Would it actually be possible to make a analogue or digital quartz watch this thin?
My response wasn't provided with the aim of changing the mind of the individual who wrote the parent comment, nor was it to challenge them to an ad-hoc debate. I responded because I thought it would be of interest to the many passive readers of the discussion.
NASA’s Flying Telescope Is Winding Down Operations
> Genuinely curious

Of course! I think you just should (or at least that it makes full sense to ask).

I remember - to the best of my memory, it was probably well over five years ago when I read the articles - it was the geopolitics course at Uni Moscow; the professor is/was an ideologist influential in the circle of the core decision makers. The list included a pretty large number of objectives, of which the current topic is just a line.

When, after the war really started¹ and of course you think of the tick-mark in the list, I looked for the original article, I found it definitely not the most immediate needle in the haystack. A few weeks later, though, as the ideologists started to present their point of view to the western public, one interview emerged which I have good reasons to believe was from the above said professor.

I will check for you later when I will have some contiguous time: the name of that interviewed professor (easier to find: I have it in my RSS harvest) should be a better lead to retrieve the articles about his course about the national geopolitical objectives.

¹With reference to those commentators which gave it for a fact well before the actual border trespassing - e.g. Niall Ferguson.
>My understanding of school choice is that there is little to no difference in the overall money spent. It is just that it is assigned to each student.

ok, I would expect some significant change in investment because of needs of bureaucracy, IT systems etc.

I mean if kids go by default to school they should go to, then there has to be a process for kids that want to change, there has to be a way to register and keep that knowledge of change through the next sequence of that child's schooling etc.

I would expect it to cost something noticeable, and that it might also cost more or less depending on which part of the U.S. one were in.
Lately I hear about more COVID cases that presumably started on an airplane. Therefore I am now wondering how great these ventilation systems on airplanes really are, compared to, say, those in restaurants and theaters.
Depending on your goals, Tabletop Simulator could be a good fit.
Terminal: Alacritty
Font: Envy Code R

A nice combination in Vim on my minimal Arch setup.
What network requests the site makes, presumably. On mobile though so I can't verify my assumption as easily
Yes, but we have in the USA somehow created a perverse system where we have minority rule that has the ability to take decisions that are not about minority rights away from the majority or stripping minority rights from even smaller minorities, for one example historical suppressed voting rights of African Americans and other groups, where only the African Americans have legal standing because we could only manage to pass a few constitutional amendments and laws after 200 years of injustice, other majority/minority groups it's still perfectly constitutional to suppress their votes. Mormons (that did not recognize dark skinned people as human beings as policy until recently) who are tiny percentage of USA population have pivotal role in US senate with decisive control of 1-2 states, and Roman Catholics make up a unbeatable majority of the Supreme Court that decides rules so we have this endless cycle feeding more power into those with capital.
My default font is ”whatever they have selected as default”. I’m not nearly competent enough as an UI designer to pick better fonts than the person working for Apple / Microsoft / Jetbrains. I trust their judgement.
> Frankly, I’m surprised people think the idea of putting “kids the same age” together will ever result in a more “normal” or better experience for kids.

I call it age segregation.
Minecraft, Terraria, Rust, ARK, Arma, Chivalry, Valheim, Factorio, most Valve games.
How's debugging in Codename?
That’s gotta be a big list.
It's not simply a matter of "leaning against blockchains", that's like saying you're "leaning against bogosort". Anyone with even a basic knowledge of distributed systems can see that blockchains are a useless technology that can't actually fulfill any of the promises being made around them. They just don't work, they're a fraud. Binance is a centralized service that operates off a normal database.
What's interesting about this is that they are using Microsoft's Flight Simulator X's codebase, and I think plugins that work in FSX will work in Prepar3D.
Pieces of Pet Tech That Prove God Has Abandoned Us
None. However, it is generally legal to acquire cube[ensis] spores. From there all you need is sterile grains to setup a block, which should be easy if you enjoy rice.
My sofa is more comfortable than my desk, but that doesn't mean I work there.
Wow JBM is very nice, love ligatures and it's so easy to read. Thanks for mentioning it.
Anecdotally, from speaking to the teachers in my orbit, the young kids weren't the problem when it came to masks. The parents, OTOH...
I hear a lot how people find it difficult to slog through anna karenina because of its length and numerous characters.

They cannot see how such a book could be one of the greatest of all time.

I think the analogy to music may be like: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is one of the greatest of all time. But it’s a really long and complex piece lasting over an hour. It can be hard to pay attention to the entire piece.

That said, the recommendation for reading Anna Karenina would be to read it fast or watch a good tv series on it. War and piece 2016 tv series was excellent for example.
why use big word when small word work fine
Stallman was right all along
with Xbox - the disk only holds the license. which is very absurd. first time you insert the disk you download the game.
wish I knew this before buying an xbox one s console.
xbox is pretty anaemic for single player games that don't connect to the internet.
As long as it didn’t hit any of the actuator mechanism my guess is it probably will just add a bit of noise/bias that they can largely eliminate.

https://practicalastrophotography.com/a-brief-guide-to-calib...
Homeschooled children have always had a reputation for being quite a bit “off” socially(no offense I come from a strange situation too).

Now all of these children will be on that level, only with overworked parents who never wanted to homeschool in the first place.
> You fight bias with real numbers and statistics,

I really wish that was the case. Say that the research say that group A is slightly more intelligent than group B, but that the variation between each group is much larger than the small difference between the averages. The only thing that will be repeated ad nausea, and used to justify all sorts of inequality, is group A is more intelligent than group B.

> for example whenever biased people talk about criminal immigrants we point to statistics showing that immigrants aren't very criminal

In my country immigrants are about twice as likely as the native population to have a criminal record. A lot of that can be explained by bias among the police and courts, and by social class. What people remember is TWICE as criminal, which rapidly becomes “most of them are criminals”, not that 97% don’t have any criminal record (compared to 98.5).