skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> $60 is like 30-60min at a developer’s hourly rate.

More like 4 hours of my salary (~2100 euros per month after taxes), given that I live in Eastern Europe and work for a local company.

I think that there is definitely an interesting shift in opinions towards expenditure towards software, platforms and tools. The poorer a particular nation (and its developers) are on average, the more inclined everyone is towards a mindset of "doing instead of buying", given how their own time is comparatively less valuable than paying someone else to do it.

Then again, the same applies to the software that they use, personally I pay for the Ultimate package of all the JetBrains products (their IDEs are really good), but a lot of my acquaintances only use free software, or other means of acquiring it. Kind of why a lot of Russia and other countries over there (if you look eastwards) is running on pirated Windows machines.

Curiously, that's also why something like AWS is out of reach for me and instead I use local platforms like Time4VPS, or something like Hetzner/Scaleway/Contabo.
Hi Hacker News Community,
I want to showcase game-based learning courses for mathematics. You can try this Trigonometry top-down shooter game (linked in the post) that gives much better intuition about how Trigonometric ratios work. Another game called Descartes Dungeon introduces ideas in coordinate geometry (points, 2D space, lines) at https://pledu.co/descartes-dungeon. NO SIGNUP NEEDED to try out the games. Desktop/tablets work well. If you are facing an issue on mobile, please use the alternate URL https://harshadss.itch.io/trigo-shooter in landscape mode

I know educational games traditionally have a bad reputation for being boring or not delivering on the learning outcomes. There are many games for primary grades but nothing for higher maths. This is my attempt at changing it with games that are hopefully fun and curricular. The target is lifelong learners and teenagers. If you like these games but want to learn more about maths, there are short courses on the website. These courses use interactive dialogue-based activities, games, short videos and quizzes on the website (login is required).

This is at an early stage, so posted under show HN and not launch HN. I'm still figuring it out, but I envision something like brilliant.org but a lot more game based and interactive. I am working on two more courses: logarithms (perhaps a 3D game) and calculus. I'm open to hearing all kinds of feedback about this effort. Happy to answer more questions about the project as well. Email is 'harshad AT pledu.co'
Most grandmas are still writing checks for groceries. It's also not uncommon for people 50+ to 'not trust' debit cards, ATM's, etc as well.
There's Natron but I don't know if that fits your definition of "decent" https://natrongithub.github.io
Good feedback thanks and agree this definitely happens a lot especially in the harder version of the game. Maybe I can create a smarter way to show possible letters rather than the entire letters remaining
My top recommendations are "Docs for Developers" and "The Product is Docs".
I listed more books about docs and general writing, and TW courses and podcasts in this post: https://lorenaciutacu.com/resources-technical-writers/
The OS could do this for old binaries but no for old source. A lot of FOSS code has baked in assumptions about the max size of intmax_t and the compiler and the OS cannot do much about broken logic.
The killer line is of course the last.

Killing Flash did not kill punch the monkey ads and it didn't suddenly make web pages note efficient.

It just changed the delivery mechanism.
It's extremely well documented
Please note that my point is that they sell better quality laptops than the competitors, not the best quality they could be.

Although I have precisely zero complaints with my 14" MBP.
Review from Dave2D 4 months ago, addresses the crease & hinge on a pre-production unit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGhvYLbBRE

I think it seems like a cool idea, 17" at 4:3 ratio is alot of screen real estate, at a 12.5" 16:9 footprint.

Lot of negativity in this comment section, personally not something I'm that interested in, but I am interested in people experimenting with the form factor.
The ATM in Cuba ate my VISA on a Friday night while on vacation. That was a fun diversion getting it back.

And on an actual disaster scale that ranks pretty low, as we had a second card (with a low limit) and still some amount of cash, so we weren't even completely out of money. Maybe it's better if you're somewhere close to home... but on the other hand if everyone is cashless, who could you borrow money from? Maybe a prepaid card that your friend would fill up for you... No, I'm a really huge fan of cash, at least as valid backup payment - even though, of course I enjoy the usual ease of use of card to tap payments.
> I work for Google Search

A tangent. You have what I imagine is a hard job and, despite the many threads here about recent apparent quality decreases, the product brings enormous value to its users.

Thanks for taking the time to discuss in this thread, it is very helpful to see your insights.
I actually feel the complete opposite is occurring, the guests are free to go really deep on their own and Lex provides a simple sounding board without getting his ego involved he teases more out of his guests and doesn’t try to appear clever. If Lex is so uninformed, unresearched an unengaging why does he keep getting exceptional guests and have such an incredibly popular podcast. I can understand you not personally liking his style but he hardly ever interrupts his guests or gets in the way apart from smoothly moving onto the next topic. Maybe his philosophy is just enjoy the speaker and let them shine, rather than worrying his own ego to want to be constantly noticed.
I was looking for a stand, but couldn't find one that's portable, what are you using?
Apparently the CM4 comes with on-board eMMC as an option. About time!
Same here - a photo would be great! I want a portal monitor but it has to be at eyeheight. Otherwise I will use a crappy laptop raiser thing.
In my experience a lot of YIMBYs are actually NIMBY but YIYBYs - Not in my back yard, but yes in YOUR back yard. A classic example is so-called progressive Robert Reich who has many times opined about the lack of affordable housing, eg,

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/22/time-invest-af...

But strongly objected to a plan to build affordable housing in his own neighbourhood:

https://www.johnlocke.org/good-for-thee-not-for-me-robert-re...
Right, but the original comment was (condescendingly) comparing NYC to middle America, so differing densities and other demographics are precisely the point.
wow, these look indeed great. I hope I remember these when my current router dies.
Regardless of reasons ( I'm sure there are some good ones ), this was a "small" mistake that reveals a lot.

I don't know if the people running Gitlab are dev/ops guys who found themselves running the ship or some high pedigree managers but this reveals an enormous blind spot on this group of people.

One of the major driving forces for humans is loss aversion. Doesn't matter the project is abandoned or some garbage you don't value, these guys are on the business of banking for code + services and they just announced to the world they can't be trusted as bankers.

I'm sure that wasn't what they were looking for and their monthly bill is big ( perhaps too big ), but setting fire to the whole thing isn't the right move.
lol, i like how people cannot understand sarcasm...
Amazon and iRobot Sign an Agreement for Amazon to Acquire iRobot
Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
A related thought: I sometimes think how cool it would be if some of the empowering ideas from the smalltalk and lisp communities (think Xerox, Symbolics etc.) would push personal and end user computing forward.

HCI seems generally stagnant or at least the real world influences. Apple managed to extract and distill the UX portions, but their products lack the empowerment aspect. Linux is kind of the opposite of that.

I feel like there are so many problems with end user computing, specifically because every program defines its own little world. Nothing is integrated well, most things are incredibly hard and shaky to integrate and extend. So much time and effort is wasted because of lock-in effects and feature bloat.

Also we’re missing out on large portions of users solving their own problems, bringing in their expertise and creativity to computing instead of their frustrations.
Biggest Tech Layoffs of the Year So Far
To recap the important part: Whenever you created or redacted an invite link your password hash was sent to *everyone* online in your slack
Of course - there's something appealing about the mindset of someone that isn't afraid to get their hands dirty. Especially when so many people turn their noses at a job, saying "I would never work with X framework/language!".

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in a consultation like that - I'd be curious what your strategy is when approaching particularly gnarly projects.
That's not at all my point.

Whatever time it spends unplugged, is time spent draining the battery. Down to 90% or down to 0%, it's just a difference of amount.

If you keep it plugged most of the time, and only drain it to, say, 90% (and this is an arbitrary number), you only used 10% of one cycle. If you let it unplugged until it's down to 0%, you use 100% of one cycle.

If every day you let it go down to 0% and then charge it back up, in 10 days you've used 10 cycles.

If every day it only loses 10% (total) and charge it back up, in 10 days, you've used 1 cycle.

I'm not saying "it's your fault" or that "you shouldn't do it", I'm talking about objective use of the battery.

Yeah, I know it's a mobile phone, so one of the reasons for buying that is to use while out and about.

But the point is that not everyone uses it that way, which can explain why some people see the battery health going down faster than others, on the same device.

And that's not Apple's fault. Sure, you could argue that the battery life is ridiculously short, that the battery's health shouldn't degrade as fast, and so on. And I'd agree with that. But still, it's a different issue.
They are around and actually very good. I got a flip 3 for my wife and I wish I got one myself, too. While not bad, the camera could be better - I like the pixel camera more.
> A common solution to a "looming" task is to break it into subtasks.

Definitely, which is also why techniques like Pomodoro are so useful - also making you approach working in smaller increments, so its less intimidating.

Unless you end up taking pleasure in padding your backlog instead of actually solving problems, like what almost happened to me before I purged some of it and actually got around to doing things instead of planning.

Still need to finish the homepage, though.
Seems an awful lot like perfection being the enemy of good.

Github is and always has been a closed platform. It's also responsible for the largest explosion of open source activity from any single source in the last twenty years. Your argument relies on the assumption that the cost of migrating away from Github is a cost a FOSS project can pay and survive, which is a pretty heavy assumption as far as those things go. Even if the alternatives were comparable in UX, and they're not, there are entire ecosystems (Node, Golang, RubyGems, brew, etc.) that explicitly depend on Github. If you measure your software's success by any metric other than how well it aligns to your ethics, it's hard to justify anything but Github for a FOSS project.

Most people, IME, write FOSS software so people can find and use it. I remember the era when SourceForge was more-or-less the best thing you could hope for as far as central repositories were concerned, but they weren't much more than free static web hosting. I remember how difficult it was to contribute to Apache projects because figuring out their esoteric source control and patch process was so daunting. I remember googling for software packages to use and not having an easy route to quickly gauge whether its quality was worth investing further research. I wouldn't like to go back to a world where everything was hosted on free software if it means losing all the knowledge that exists in that one place.

There definitely seem like more important windmills to tilt at than pointing at the engine that drives the entire FOSS ecosystem and saying it's not good enough by the most stringent of ethical standards.
i am training my brain on the back of the hapless and poor authors like lee child and j.k rowling that i got off of piratebay. why do those "pesky rights" holders release their dogs after me?
There's other advantages to pre-fab though.

Known costs (building a house from scratch can cost 2x or 3x the original estimate)

Assembly time (could be the difference between living on-site in a caravan for 1 month vs. 2-3 years).
Yes same here!

*Everyone is making this manually*. I carry around a music stand, a keyboard and mouse. My laptop has a keyboard I never use.

GIVE US A PORTABLE SCREEN PC THAT RAISES TO EYE LEVEL AND TAKE OUR MONEY.
Very nice work. But:

> The recommended font is Fira Code.

is probably a bit orthogonal to the color scheme... :)
Not a day goes by, where I don’t miss this feature. I was so sad to lose it when I updated to the newest iPhone.
Can you quote where I did that?
It's supported by Clang, so widely used in open source projects - systemd, libvirt, everything using glib, some Linux kernel tools, dracut, qemu, glibc, ..
Is an XSLT processor a interpreter or a compiler?

I think the terms are actually not that well defined and different people use different definitions.

TeX is a compiler in the sense that it is a black box that takes input and transforms it into a different output. By this loose definition even a png to jpg converter is a "compiler".

TeX is a interpreter in the sense that it takes code as input, executes it, and that computation just happens to produce data as output.
> My favorite was "A patron sees a whale sitting in a booth at the bar". You go on and on about him coming back day after day seeing the wale, describing the beverage, etc. Just improv it. The key is going as long as you can while keeping the audience, but still getting that frustration and tension from them.

> At the end the patron gets up the courage to talk to the whale explains to the whale that he had seen him for days, was amazed, etc. Then the whale looked at him and responded [insert best whale noise impression].

This made me laugh more than is reasonable.
Looks pretty good actually. Especially considering the Linux support. Might be my next one.
Mouse is off in the corner of the screen. You press the zoom hotkey, expecting it to zoom in on the center. Instead it zooms in on wherever the fuck you left the pointer. You swear, and curse the person who changed the way things have been working for years. Maybe you get used to it. Maybe they listen to the mass screams of everyone who’s been using it for years and add a switch to work the old way. Maybe you never get used to it and it’s a constant frustration that drives you to another program, or even out of this medium entirely.
The "number" of results doesn't mean anything beyond a rough guess. it's an ad promlting the size of the index. You'll never be able to reach nearly all of them.
There was a "Raspberry Pi Codec Unlocker Keygen Only INTERNAL-BTCR" on the release sites last week or so.

I believe it's for a DVD codex not HEVC.

Originally you had to pay separately for H.264 (not sure if 265 was originally available) on the Pi but I think that's not the case anymore.

Not too unusual.
I took my quality Macbook to a dogbark. My quality macbooks' fancy screen broke because of a thin layer of dust at said dogpark. Opening up my quality macbook was like difussing a bomb. I learned from that experience and won't ever buy another Macbook again for as long as I live. the Macbook replacement has made several trips to a dogpark. I did have a good experience at the mac store though. Dude was honest about the situation and could relate to my pain and rage.
This started as a quick little experiment with sys.stdout, but turned into something somewhat useful!
Ask HN: Where to find people who love to learn?
I love learning new things. Reading new books on unfamiliar subjects, practicing intensely for months to develop a new skill, talking with an expert and absorbing decades of wisdom as they share a lifetime of experience.

When I was younger I thought this was the normal mode. As time goes on I've realized not a lot of people I know enjoy learning this way.

Where can I go to find people with a deep love of learning, not for money or a credential but just for the pure joy of it.

Universities? Libraries?

Suggestions appreciated!
What is odd about wanting governments to stop criminal and predatory behaviour? Yes, there is a libertarian cost to this, but when clearly defined and monitored, everyone benefits. Do you want people to have the freedom to exploit and harm others? Isn't that somewhat odd?
You can create a way better router using an old thinkpad (t400, t6x, whatever) which will probably have 1 Gbit ethernet, 3 mini PCIe slots (?!) which can get you 2 separate Wifi interfaces and WWan, also an expesscard slot which can give you another 1 Gbit ethernet port. Just add a switch (for LAN) and you'll have a router which probably outperforms most routers in 100$ range, which is the budget you'll need.

I did all that and I'm quite happy with results. Maybe I'll do a blog post, when I finally start my blog.
Not parent and I don't have kids but if I did, there's no way I'm giving them an ipad.

They can have coloring books, crayons, Legos and building blocks, doll houses, physical plastic, wooden and plush toys, restricted access to PCs/consoles, but no portable smart devices with screens, online connection and spyware apps.

By kids I'm talking about pre-teens. They can get smart devices when they're teenagers.
The crux of the issue is that Gitlab is a commercial enterprise so at one point it is reasonable for them not to want to host dormant projects for free when it costs them money to do that.

In fact, even if they weren't a commercial enterprise they would still need to balance the books in order to survive.
My base assumption was to treat code like text and you’re right, this means that smaller tokens are not as salient as larger ones. But if you really wanted to go down that rabbit-hole you’d ideally have to adjust each token individually according to its size, including font size, physical display size and potentially even take into account glyph differences between typefaces.

Given the way that themes are currently implemented, I thought making this simplification was reasonable.

If you’re not dead set on the hard constraints I was aiming for, the tool linked below looks great for your purpose though, except it should really be using OKlab instead of CIELab.
> I have the impression that most of it is geared towards children and teenagers. So of course it seems abhorrent to us oldies

I have seen what facebook feeds boomers - it too is abhorrent.
Also covered here: https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/amazon-is-buying-irobot-fo...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/5/23293349/amazon-acquires-i...
Amazon and iRobot sign an agreement for Amazon to acquire iRobot
Have you considered any of the raspberry pi power button options that exist? Something with a reasonable size capacitor and a signal pin to let the Pi know to shutdown when it's lost power, before the capacitor runs out, might work?
I would buy a laptop with two separate screens that unfold. I need the extra space to show more windows, not bigger windows, so I wouldn't mind them being separate panels. With different sizes even.

edit: Maybe I should just buy a portable monitor.
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This is not the way to share your work on HN. It smells of sales and marketing intent. I'd recommend reading through the FAQ and top Show HN to learn the guidelines and what works well.
If you're reasonably certain that the request is being made by a malicious bot, you could try responding with a ZIP bomb [1] if HTTP 1.1 or newer is being used and the bot accepts compression. It can cause problems for several browser engines.

[1] https://blog.haschek.at/2017/how-to-defend-your-website-with...
Yeah, any study that says something like "This specific SSRI doesn't work for some people, works massively well for others, therefore it's not an effective treatment" should really be tossed in the bin.

It's funny that you mention Tylenol as an example, as acetaminophen/paracetamol is the only over-the-counter pain killer that works for me. Ibuprofen does literally nothing for me and I've had to convince my doctors to list it as an "allergy" on my medical records just so my health care providers will stop suggesting it. But that doesn't mean ibuprofen is not effective for other people.

I was prescribed SSRIs for a while, back in a particular bad part of my life (financial stress, job I hated, lots of health problems with everyone in my family). If we're going to say that all SSRIs are basically placebo, then I was not in any mental mood to believe that anything a doctor would prescribe to me would be effective. And in my case, Wellbutrin was not. In fact, it had a very significant deleterious effect in that it made me a raging asshole. But Lexapro, on the other hand... night and day difference.

(Thankfully, job changed, everyone's health got better, and now I'm no longer on anything other than blood pressure and cholesterol meds, which, come to think of it, is round-about treating the knock-on effects of my years of untreated depression).

Placebo effect is never a large effect. If you see a large effect, it's pretty safe to say it's not placebo.
Amazon to Acquire iRobot
Somebody got a good review for breaking it (but improving some other metric), somebody will get a good review for fixing it. Net result for users is zero, but all the churn looks like productivity in a "metrics based" GAMMA review process. I've seen worse.

(Same problem with GDP as a measure of economic productivity BTW, but that's a topic for another day.)
Show HN: Genie Builder, no-code UI plugin for building data apps
Hi! Genie Builder is a free VSCode plugin that makes it easy to build web GUIs for Julia applications (and in future, Python apps too). Users can simply drag & drop UI elements to create interactive dashboards and data apps, without writing any frontend code.

The tool is designed for data scientists and researchers who need to expose their data models to business users with an interactive web application, but lack the software development skills to build one.

Genie Builder completely eliminates the need to learn frontend development to code the UI. And very soon, we’re also going to support one-click cloud deployments to make it easy to build AND deploy data apps - no frontend nor devops skills required.

I’m Adrian, the creator of the open-source Genie web framework (https://genieframework.com/). Genie offers low-code libraries for building data applications - just like Streamlit or Dash, but for JuliaLang. We developed Genie Builder because of feedback from our open source community who needs more productive data tooling.
> FWIW, I'm personally not sure that increased density is the actual answer anyway... or what is.

The truth is the materials and labor to build what most people consider “housing” is out of reach for a lot of people and these people don’t know it. There’s a reason that nearly all new multi-family development is “luxury” - it’s the only profitable way. Anything that’s “affordable” is government subsidized. Not to mention upkeep.

So we need to change what people think affordable housing is. It’s a lot closer to a trailer than it is to a fixed structure. I don’t know if a lot of people are willing to accept that.