skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I'm biracial, black and Indian. My mother is Indian. She raised me alone, with no financial support from my father.

My father is a black American who never went to college. He doesn't understand the point of education. He wanted me to a be a movie director or singer or otherwise "famous". He didn't give a crap about school and let me do whatever I wanted when I stayed with him a couple weekends a month.

My mother, an Indian immigrant, sat me down every night and made me do my homework even though she worked three jobs. She paid for twelve years of private schooling. She told me every single day that my education was the only thing I would ever have that would let me survive in this world.

Thanks to her obsession with education, I completed college and never stopped educating myself. I now work as a front-end dev and make six figures. I'm currently preparing to apply for master's programs. I live a happy and comfortable life. I have some savings in the bank. I am constantly working to educate myself. I don't have vague fantasies about becoming "famous" or winning the lottery to support myself.

Education is truly the only guarantee for people of color to achieve a comfortable life in the US. I would never have understood this without my Indian mother's cultural drive towards education.
No, it's absolutely unacceptable to merge touchscreens and keyboards/mice. These should be separate frameworks where you couldn't reuse any GUI code whatsoever, not a single line. You must design everything from scratch for phones and for computers because of how different the interaction paradigms are.
Yeah, it was obvious from the start that "they are so insecure and have all the backdoors" actually meant "they dont have backdoors for us" :D
> It's the EU that arguably needs to come back to earth, by returning to a trading bloc, rather than a halfway house pan-european state.

This old chestnut. Go read the Rome treaty or the Schuman declaration. The “it’s only economic” is a lie you’ve been sold by your own governments. The aim has always been political Union, from the beginning.

Besides, the EU being “a trading bloc” would not solve any of the issues facing the British government, which mostly result from the government having mutually exclusive demands and being unwilling to keep its word and following the agreements it signed. Including on imports and exports, which is the essence of a trading bloc and would not be improved one bit of the EU were only one of those.
> since 2014, and nearly a decade later they aren't that much closer

That is just an absurd statement. AlexNet came out in 2012 and ResNet in 2015 but somehow Tesla had something "close" to the current FSD in 2014? They're heavily using Transformers now which came out in 2017. They have demonstrated leaps in performance since the first version of FSD Beta two years ago.
I prefer macOS over Windows, but I think a lot of your points are... outdated, or just outright myths to begin with.

I can't find any (non-anecdotal) evidence that a "bloated" registry impacts performance at all on a modern system. If you have benchmarks or something, I would love to see them! (not being a jerk, I really would). If you think macOS applications cleanly uninstall when you drag them to the trash, that definitely is not the case. Check out ~/Library and see the ghosts of applications past.

Disk fragmentation isn't an issue on SSDs. Anybody still running Windows on a spinning drive has worse problems than fragmentation.

The settings situation does suck, that's absolutely true.

APFS and NTFS both allow you to choose case sensitivity depending on your preference, so I'd say they're on equal footing there. PowerShell isn't that bad, but you can still use bash with WSL or cygwin if you really want to.

I've always clean installed Windows, so I don't know about vendor bloatware. The bloatiest thing I can think of are shortcuts in the start menu to install ridiculous things like Candy Crush, but those are just shortcut ads, not actually installed things. Distasteful, sure, but easy enough to wipe out with a script.

Anecdotally, I've had way more kernel panics in macOS than I have blue screens of death in Windows 10. The T2 fiasco alone has caused me more crashes than I can count.

Anyway, I think in 2022, operating system choice is more of a personal preference thing than a technical one. They're all equally bad, just in different ways.
I’m almost more disappointed to learn there were only 650 episodes available to begin with.

IIRC, Sesame Street has thousands of episodes. At some point when I was watching as a child, they would display the episode number on screen at the end of the intro song, and it was huge.

Where can someone access all of that cultural history?
I’m not talking about an app. I’m talking about a router that VPN-ifies all your traffic to mitigate any form of leak. That article talks about iOS leaking traffic when using VPN apps. A VPN router is the only solution to stop this from happening.
Think there also a middle ground in this debate that is overlooked. Perhaps it might not work for chucking humans into space. If you can do some with component part of liquid fuel that is in isolation inert that would be a massive win.
Firefox then.
Show HN: Open-source gym capacity forecasts, my first open-source project
Firebase is owned by google. There are plenty of OSS solutions to create this exact realtime thing without getting too close to the elephant in the room.
The scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market (2018)
You underestimate my cheapness and lack of caring about my car. Bring me a Chinese cherry car and I'll replace my 10 year old Suzuki
I like parts of it!

The tabs vs spaces thing seems pretty silly to me. If your editor is randomly swapping tabs and spaces, get a better editor. Tab is the default in a makefile and that seems fine. The suggestion to use "> " instead of tab just looks noisier.

The observation about the filesystem is good and hopefully well known. The way to think about makefiles is as a tool for creating files (it is very oriented toward this), not as a general purpose scripting language (it is just a worse version of whatever scripting language you are in it, if you use it this way). I do wonder if he could structure his tests to have them actually generate output files which make could track, and also have his tests track dependencies.

Point taken about the magic variables. Sometimes they can get obscure (although they are pretty easy to look up). IMO one he's missing, though, is the pattern matching % operator. If make isn't generating at least some of your recipes for you, then why not just make a "build.sh" script?
Which is better: Throw away content? Or content that endures?
I thought google was changing chrome so that adblockers can’t work anymore on that browser?
> But what I took the most inspiration and value from during those undergraduate years was the sheer power of dedicating the entire weight of an academic discipline to the uncompromising _study_ of a subject matter _without_ the explicit agenda of trying to explain it away.

And that's the religion of academia (I don't mean that pejoratively).
That doesn't materially change the situation, though. It can't be cheaper to a) do the computation, b) generate a proof, and c) validate the proof many, many times than to just do the computation. You can cut down the number of orders of magnitude worse it is, but it'll still never be as inexpensive (let alone cheaper, as the original comment suggested).
> The v0 API is essentially a dump of our in-memory data structures.

TIL that HN doesn't use a "proper" / persistent DB. I wonder then how HN handles data persistence. Is it as simple as creating write-ahead logs + checkpointing every some duration?
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/wtd61q/aws_swi...

this tweet is not talking about compressing customer data in s3, i seriously doubt that aws compresses customer data in s3 for all the reasons i've already listed. i am right and amazon does know what they're doing, which is why they don't compress customer data in s3.

4 bytes per megabyte becomes significant at scale when you have to keep it in ram, which you have to do if you want to avoid the extra IO.
You know, actively making stuff worse costs money. Not touching it is free.
Can confirm - my wife is a teacher and it seems every year is getting more difficult. I guess it's too soon to say how much of this is pandemic-related, either directly or indirectly, but it seems like testing, bureaucracy and parent madness (e.g. perception that the curriculum is too "woke" or not woke enough, etc.) have certainly been getting worse too.

But I'm also hearing (and experiencing) increased BS in other industries. Remote work spyware (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/work...) and flawed metrics-based performance measurement. So I don't know how much of it is teacher-specific and how much of it is general nonsense.
One common complaint from doctors (at least, in the U.S.) is the need to hover over a laptop all the time that takes time away from talking to the patient. A big problem as I've heard of a number of doctors retiring early because they don't feel as though they are even treating patients anymore, they are slaves to a console. (And these are not old doctors nearing retirement anyway.)

Personally, I think we've become a little too tech obsessed in thinking every problem can be solved with IT. Digitizing records only feeds a surveillance state anyway and can be dangerous (for other, obvious, reasons).
Somehow I knew it would be Thunderf00t from the title alone.

I used to watch this guy religiously (lol) back in the day, and while I still occasionally see what he has to say about certain topics, I find him hard to watch because of what seems to be a lack of humility. Last year I unsubbed.

Yeah, some of the stuff he critiques is really stupid (ex. solar roadways), especially when it comes to Kickstarter scams, but his general attitude suggests that no one should ever test insane ideas for the sake of it. I get that reusable rockets have already been achieved, for instance, but Thunderf00t seems to think that's a reason to dismiss the efforts of SpaceX, as if nothing could have possibly been improved upon since the 1990s. He has a real bias towards governmentalized academia, and he's even admitted it more or less in the past, which is why he frequently criticizes commercialization of technology.

It's too bad, because he's a really smart guy, and used to make very good points against organized religion. He could be inspiring more people to get into science, but he's now in the business of mocking, which isn't a compelling reason to actually become scientifically literate.

The really odd thing about his critiques is that he doesn't actually attack the heart of the problem, which is the media. As long as the mainstream media is scientifically illiterate and is so bereft of ethics that it just wants to sell attention, people will invent cockamamie ideas like the "sky hotel."
A $100k tax credit means there is such a large surplus of tax credits that not only does the government tax $0 after credits, but also large numbers of credits go completely unpurchased. This doesn't seem like a good system at all.

Corporate tax rates are around 12% after deductions and constitute less than 20% of current taxation. If you raise those corporate tax rates to 96% above a certain threshold you collect less than 8-times the current revenue. Even 8 times current revenue would get you less than $6 trillion in revenue from corporate tax which would let you improve your tax deduction from $10,000 to $20,000 if you wanted all the tax credits to get purchased and government to collect no tax revenue. You've now completely reformulated all of how corporations work and obliterated a large portion of shareholder revenue and you need eight more equally large changes to get to $100k. I don't think you have them.
I'm sure the author knows all this, but if they'd put it in the introduction of the book the effect would be far less prominent.

Does the placebo effect exist? Yes.

Is it helpful to provide patients with dismissive arguments before they undergo placebo treatment? No.

And the idea of giving readers of this dismissive post a free copy of the book if they send back the outcome of the treatment is therefore also not very useful.
I am working on getting an update in. Thanks for letting me know. I'll likely replace that. Also I need to update the Store info as well. Apple just takes its sweet time accepting my updates and I have to make changes to keep it happy.
In that case, just pay whatever it costs to store the data. With AWS glacier it would cost $50 a month.
It also fits with Google able to undo your Google account...
Thanks for the tip. It works with both an HDMI cable and wirelessly via AirPlay.
New study suggests Covid increases risks of brain disorders
Title: "Your Makefiles are wrong"

Content: A lot of subjective preferences, with the only thing people are probably doing "wrong" being not properly mapping files as inputs and outputs (which could be a correctness problem but is probably either a mere inefficiency or complete non-issue).

If this had been titled, say, "An opinionated approach to writing Makefiles", or perhaps "How to use GNU Make in a completely unorthodox way that I really like", I wouldn't mind it so much.
And just to make sure your brain always has to concentrate when switching (beyond the fact that you now need two sets of shortcuts instead of one): Cmd+Tab cycles from most-recently-used (what you would expect) but Cmd+~ blindly switches to the next window in a cycle (not what anyone expects or wants).
Physical benchmarks every man should meet
Generating illustrations for media with DALL-E 2
It is a universal law: any organization is overrun by people who use it for their own purposes sooner or later (academic institutions, corporations, churches, states -- nothing is immune).
If something goes wrong with your google account (or other SaaS that would lose your data, or ban you without recourse), you are not even on your own, you're just trully fucked. It's poof gone and no local/internet tech geek will be able to help you.

If something goes wrong with your at home nextcloud, you still have the data/hw, and you can either get help troubleshooting from someone who understands what they're doing, or you can try yourself (which will take more time). You're not on your own. And even if you are, you can just shelve it, and defer the recovery for later. But unless it figuratively crashed and literally burned, you're not fundamentally prevented from recovering your data.
You can right click the browser icon in taskbar or start menu > new incognito window.
A different article recently prompted me to wonder (I'm American): We know exactly at what age someone becomes 'legal' wrt images - do we know on which day of their life a person first becomes 'illegal'?
No, there aren't.

I have seen one example thought. But it was closed source in-house SW.

Maybe LabVIEW is close to this idea.

There are also interesting research projects on this topic, like Ptolemy. Or eTrice.

There were a few attempts to achieve this goal in the past, but all those companies have been eventually bought by IBM and now they sell their monster-tool for huge amount of money, so it's irrelevant in practice.
So, 1000 exes and 500 isos (that may be problematic, but most probably aren't). Everything else seems to be what one would expect.

That's way cleaner than I could possibly expect. Do people manually review suspect files?
It is the organizing structure that is more efficient. It's not perfect, but just more resonspive to changes over time.
Chocolatey makes it very easy.
Even if something is rated on i.e. 1000G it is rated for a very short time, like a shock or a fall on the ground. Which from my perspective is the problem of whole concept described in the video.

In 5:55 minute mark, video is describing force applied on the payload will reach from 1G to 10000G, but how long does this take? 10 minutes? 30 minutes? An hour? Can you have a payload which will be able to withstand 1000G+ for minutes?

Contrary to big cannons, like [0] there would be forces of 10000G only for few milliseconds as shells are accelerating only during the time of being in the barrel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
Quebec moves to protect French amid Canada’s shift towards English
Learning the right lessons from accomplishments of successful people
Georgists generally believe that everyone has an equal right to all land and all natural resources. This makes the correct scale for a CD global if possible and national if not possible. The CD is a poor tool for keeping up with the cost of living when it's not highly localized. But localizing it is a form of neo-feudalism where people have wildly different entitlements based on where they are born.
Tony Fadell on the pitfalls of A/B testing and how it's not product design
Any craft which starts from sea level (and the top of a mountain or a rail system is basically sea level) will indeed lose a significant amount of its energy to heat. Check out the Sprint missile, which was chemically rather than kinetically launched but faced a similar challenge: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)

I'm not saying it's impossible, just that to pull this off while still having a craft capable of reaching orbital speeds is an immense challenge.
I guess you just don't care about the data?
I keep seeing this and people griping about it so much bothers me. They pulled some decades old episodes. There are still some decades old episodes. New episodes are still being made, after an exclusivity period they’re still on PBS.

Seasons 39 though 52 are still available.

I’m willing to bet very few of the people complaining actually ever watched any of the cut episodes which is probably why they were dropped.

This just seems like a good opportunity for people to be upset about something, but it doesn’t make any sense.

Go buy the DVDs if you care so much and stop acting like HBO reducing the number of seasons available to 17 is like they canceled it.
> Point taken about the magic variables. Sometimes they can get obscure (although they are pretty easy to look up). IMO one he's missing, though, is the pattern matching % operator. If make isn't generating at least some of your recipes for you, then why not just make a "build.sh" script?

Probably a preference for explicit over implicit, just like setting `MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-rules`. Of course, promptly using a couple of magic variables because they're "common enough that you quickly learn to recognize what they mean" is... a bit amusing, to me.
I like the concept of a "coding therapist."

Documentation is pretty difficult. I take it seriously, but I'm not as good at it, as I would like.
> Many school problems are caused by disruptive children.

Being able to fire your students is greatest advantage that private schools have over public ones.
Honestly his takes (mostly) aren't wrong or niche (at least not all of them; a few like the tabs thing are debatable). Some of these you only realize once you've wrestled with Make for a while and spent time thinking about the underlying problem, which many don't do. Knowing some of these
ahead of time can save quite a bit of a headache. They're worth considering even if you don't follow all of them.
> In both cases, the proof is the same: “email verification” means “the user controls an email address.”

No. In one case the proof is "the user receives E-Mails under this address" and in the other it is "the user can send E-Mails under this address".

The service is generally interested in proving the first. For recovery, service-related notifications and for unsolicited marketing. So all the things mentioned in making the "normal" flow undesirable, are actually exactly what the service owner wants to protect against. If their E-Mails don't get to you because they end up in spam or just get dropped by a misconfigured Mailserver, they can't spam you and you won't be able to use this account for recovery.

I agree that the reverse flow is easier (though TBF, mailto links also require the user to have set them up to work, which not all users have on all their devices). But I don't think that's where the incentives align.
Thanks for clarifying. Now I see your point more clearly. Interesting while I do similar things regarding remote ssh/screen/tmux sessions, I never get used to do that with Remote Desktop sessions. I agree it’s different use cases and personal preferences
Meh. As someone who's read the Bible in its entirety, it's so full of contradictions and unclear complexities that you can make a good case for any number of incompatible interpretations.

The Bible is interesting for historical context, and has many useful stories and lessons that I still get value from, but so does the Tao Te Ching and the Quran.

It's a good piece of work for a person's spirituality practice, but it is far from sufficient on its own. And on its own, it can be (and many times has been) used to justify some absolutely appalling shit.
That's terribly wrong.

I live in an house.

I walk 5 minutes to the nearest bus station, there in the worst case, in public holiday I may have to wait 30 mins at most, but because the bus hours are public, I can leave my house at the last moment.

10-15 mins with the bus, or 8 if there are no car jamming the road, I'm at a train station.

This train station have a train line that bring me in the middle of Paris in 13 minutes.
That's a strange take on the post. The post only uses built-in functionality. Options exist for a reason, and defaults are _really_ difficult to change in software used by millions of people.
I'm currently writing an HN posts score tracker (basically it plots score variations over time since they were in new for each popular post) and it's really handy that you can just subscribe with eventsource [0] and get realtime update when something changes without having to manually poll each post wasting resources. Not yet sure about the latency though.

[0] https://github.com/jpopesculian/reqwest-eventsource/
PodPing blockchain distributed notification system for new podcast episodes
Writing from South Korea. My father was a teacher and I am very proud of that and basically everyone around me reinforced that pride by showing respect. Everything I read about US teachers is so alien.
That's good to know - thanks.
> I would say this is because the software world is too big now. We genuinely are looking at a new form of literacy that is changing all aspects of human communication, organisation and decision making. It's hard to cram that in any one magazine.

Au contraire, I think that with the increase in output, we need something like that now more than ever. Not everybody needs to know everything, but there's plenty of topics _most_ engineers would benefit from. In my mind it would like something like the (now defunct?) O'Reilly Technology Radar but more technically-oriented.

> Finally a sillier question - If HN started an in-house magazine, what would it look like?

I don't see it as silly. The average discussion on HN is leaps and bounds above the global internet average, and I believe, given enough editorial supervision, plenty of HN users could publish at least one banger article. And on the other side, I believe most of us would be willing to pay 5 or 10 dollars a month for a magazine with like 3-4 excellent long-form pieces and another 4-5 (forgive the pun) bite-sized articles.
Apple isn’t blocking ads. They’re blocking cross app tracking which was mostly run by Facebook. The apps are still advertising, they just can’t use facebooks profile to target you.
A single example does not make for a general rule. Aside from the fact that thank fucking god a less than 1 year old car and a less than 4 year old car should not have some manufacturer issues, Tesla still has a dreadful 226PP100 (as in, each Tesla tested had on average 2.6 problems in a single year), even worse than the industry average (which includes some truly terrible constructors).