skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditional draftsmanship (not really tech is it?), as in with a pen/pencil on a draftsman table, has completely disappeared.

My father is a (relatively) recently retired Architect, he ran a small but specialist firm of about 20 people. By the time he retired about 5 years ago there was no one in the office that had ever been trained in traditional draftsmanship, only himself. It’s a lost art.

There are now almost two generations of working architects, those that learnt 2D CAD in the 90s and early 00s who still think in 3d and translate it themselves to 2d in cad (a little like traditional draftsmanship). And those since who have only ever worked in 3d and used the tooling to “project” 2d elevations and sections.

I trained at university in the early 2000s in Industrial Design, we did some traditional drafting lesions (maybe three or four weeks). But then jumped straight to 3d CAD and never looked back. I suspect they don’t even do those lessons now, and in fact most kids have probably done some 3D cad at school, maybe only 10% had when I started.
Wikipedia tests a new UI design
Pound to Dollar Below Parity? Citi Says This Is Now Possible
...but my fiduciary duty compels me to maximize short-term profits for my shareholders
why doesn't t Go just uses "syscalls" in macos too?
Couples are unlikely to accept. So the only option would be for the state to raise them... I think I saw some sci fi movie where the galactic republic solved a problem with hostile robots this way..
Not that my "schema" is really rigid ... just a little more convoluted syntax than "createCollection" but underneath quite similar.
I always understood the word "conceived" or "conception" to apply to the person being born, not the parent. Is this not accurate?
That's correct. I decided to go with Unity, because there are more learning materials available than any other game dev engine e.g. Unreal
$600:

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/7398994/ASUS-VivoBook...
My guess is that printed and scanned documents from word make up a large component of this.
Changing motor oil always comes up but it is really worth paying someone a few bucks to do it for you.
This sort of problem is trivially solvable by using an exam hall.

Remote learning is bollocks Matrix pod shit. Just don't.
How do you define mass emails though? I don't think the people who are sending out a hundred emails are really a problem as far as spam is concerned. On my other account here I have my email listed, and I expect to be contacted every now and then about random HN projects, and I am. I don't consider those spam.
> so are you suggesting then that just because a company's revenues (I think you mean "earnings") have exceeded X, that they should be completely broken up as a company?

Yes. But I meant revenues. If we want companies to become smaller, taxing their revenue progressively would compell their owners to split them up into independent entities. Think about it as a progressive VAT.
> My buddies and I want to start a company as we are all in the same position, but we have no grand ideas...

Just improve something that already exists then.
Nobody expects the Spanish exceptions, you surely mean.
Another implementation https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/traceroute-haikus and I've seen many more.
Not to knock on this too hard because it seems cool and useful for 98% of people out there but touch id does have an unfixable vulnerability. If you are security obsessive, maybe no touchid altogether on your mac (I use a token).

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/apple...
What is sscreamer serie? Google search does not help :D
It's tivoized hardware running closed-but-visible-source software. It's not an oversimplification at all to say it's not open source.
PHDs are never going to be learning through games but I think at lower levels of education there's a ton of room to inspire a desire to learn something more deeply through games.
So you basically discovered mukbang.
I hired a carpenter a few years ago and we became friends / stay in touch. He had just started his own company in 2018 and the work he did for me he did with a “helper”. By 2020, he ran 5 crews and jumped in where needed to help keep deadlines and whatnot. In 2022, he said he hasn’t picked up a hammer in over a year other than training his crews of which he now has 12. All the growth has been entirely word of mouth, they all drive plain white construction vehicles without his company branding on them and he has never marketed his company at all.
FWIW it most likely doesn't matter if they can't be sold outside of China. the domestic market is large enough.
I kind of agree with Ghana here. Gotta maintain your planes. It's sad that a foreign country has to be the one making Delta do routine pmc.
Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: A GRU Agent Charmed Her Way into NATO Circle
For anyone who ends up here looking for a legit HN newsletter, Hacker Newsletter has been around for some years, is free, sends the top posts once a week, and is pretty solid.

https://hackernewsletter.com/

Most recent edition: https://mailchi.mp/hackernewsletter/617

I'm not affiliated, just a reader, but I think it's an HN user's side project.
How big is your Go codebase versus your Rust codebase? Why not rewrite bits in Rust? This is very cool, but seems like a lot of effort and ongoing maintenance.
I encounter this in UI/UX all the time. You can think of ways to make things easier for people who haven't learned it yet, but in the process it makes things difficult for the people who already learned it, because they need to learn something over again and also unlearn what they already learned. And in many situations, most people who need to learn it already have.

In short, no one will approve something like this calendar change unless only 5 year olds get to vote.
I expect this will be less noted and well-remembered than several other things they've done or are doing. This matters a lot to academics and science nerds, but won't be as big a deal to the general public as even something like the student loan forgiveness effort.
Adopting a New Framework by Composing a Community – NYT Open
My girlfriend strongly believes this comes from "patriarchal society" and specifically a "study" that said office thermostats are set based on an old formula designed in like the 60s and that only looked at how HVAC interacted with men.

I thought the idea that offices set thermostats to an actual standard instead of just whoever cries the loudest or has the most power to be almost laughable, so I looked for the "study" she got it from. Indeed, I don't remember the details, but the governmental bureaucracy involved in recommending HVAC did actually use a formula that was obsolete and didn't consider women. However, there was zero evidence in the study that anyone actually used that formula in consideration of anything.
A world were everyone could speak scheme is a beautiful idea. Like if we were cyborgs. I'd hope there is still value in learning the thought patterns of Scheme 1.0.
Most likely, your clone-child would grow to hate you. Why not just do things the sane way and marry a nice woman and have a child with her?
I think not. Roman law is not a scientific study by any means, and the reputation of the destructive Roman impact upon general scientific knowledge is felt in many fields.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/what-did-the-romans-...
Well first off, they do boot and impound liberally for multiple unpaid fines in addition to the usual denial of registration/license renewal for unpaid fines (though TFA says the latter changed recently but recent enough that it shouldn't have impacted the backlog of unpaid fines).

Second, 500m is $25 for every person in the greater NY area. That doesn't pass the sniff test. It would be irresponsible and stupid to go off half cocked over that kind of data. I suspect that the bulk of these fines are from systemic edge cases that have piled up over the years (the article implies up to 20yr). The knee jerk jackboot move you suggested is unlikely to be appropriate here.
It sounds like they're saying that they would end up being a better parent because it's a clone, not because they know it's a clone.
Mods, please correct the editorialized and wrong title. NumWorks isn't open source and never was.

What it is is source-available, because the source is available. Or at least it still was available the last time I looked at it.

NumWorks used to be fun because it had an unlocked bootloader, allowing users to download their own software onto the calculator. But then they did a face-heel turn.

To NumWorks' credit, I'm sure the UI is still miles ahead of Texas Instruments calculators.

EDIT: it seems NumWorks now allows users to download "apps" onto their devices. This is nice, of course, but still a far cry from the unlocked bootloader situation.
It sounds like they're going to try to catch and remove that - one of the bullet points under DOCX Benefits on https://www.uspto.gov/patents/docx reads:

> Privacy: provides automatic metadata detection (e.g. author and comments) and removal features to support the submission of only substantive information in the DOCX file.

And, then further down in the FAQ it says:

> What happens to the metadata in DOCX files?

> Metadata is generally removed by applicants prior to submission. However, if metadata is found during the validation process, it is automatically removed prior to submission. Examples of metadata include author, company, last modified by, etc. The only information that is preserved is the size, page count, and word count.

> Outgoing DOCX documents (i.e. Office actions) from the USPTO to applicants will also have metadata removed.
I would assume that it hasn't changed much since you were in grad school.
I am personally very excited for RISC-V. I like the boot process of OpenSBI/U-Boot, can also directly boot a Linux kernel. So far I have only used the qemu virt machine w/ riscv64 cpu. OpenBSD and Debian/Ubuntu have great support, I have ordered a VisionFive board, curious to see how well it runs on physical hardware
A YouTube discussion between passengers on each of the flights turned around and a professional pilot:

https://youtu.be/7PQTMx7TZ9A
Europe's industrial revolution was also profitable, while Ming treasure voyages were expensive and resulted in no profit.

We, too, stopped flying to the Moon for 50 years because it was too expensive.
And that well-armored hand will probably have fewer than 5 fingers.
What was the issue with the bulk deletes? Locking the cpu?
I'm a partner in a factory and I believe this is an incredibly important area, and the requirements are fairly different than normal "just put it on Confluence" workplaces, in a way that most tech people don't understand and usually completely miss the mark when they're doing product dev.

- Your team is out on the floor. Their hands have grease on them. Using tablets sounds great until you're trying to use it with a glove on it, or your hands are dirty, and it's hard to get grease off tablets. But they need the info out on the floor. Also, it can be noisy on the floor.

- The team tends to be very visual. They don't like tapping on computers a lot. Literacy ranges from pretty good to kinda OK. Sometimes they refuse to get (or wear) reading glasses for whatever personal reason.

- They're working on proprietary hardware, but technicians with the right knowledge are not nearby to come in and look at it. You really need to be able to see the issues visually. Sometimes even hear them. AR might be interesting here. (I spend $10k to fly a tech out for a few days to look at a machine. The bigger issue is that I lose $10k a day from one machine being down, and a tech might not be available to fly out for a week.)

- Predictive maintenance. The fancy sensors and whatnot mostly don't work. Tech people try it in a clean, quiet office and it works, and they can raise money on it from clueless VCs, so money keeps getting set on fire with smart AI machine learning magic motor sensor companies.

- Preventative maintenance. How to schedule, how to verify it was done, how to check whether it revealed an issue that needs a follow-up. Getting people to do it, and verify it was done, can be a challenge, but there are huge returns to preventative maintenance (for example: checking gearbox oil levels, verifying lubrication line function, checking valve temperatures.)

- Diagnosing machine problems. Using prior problem documentation helps team members see most likely issues. But many of these people don't really want to sort through a database of prior similar issues because they "know" what the problem is. How do you provide this information to them in a way that feels more approachable to them?

I could go on forever. Manufacturing is an interesting environment because downtime is usually hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars of hard cost per hour, depending on the operation, and they will spend quite a bit of money to stop it from going down, but culturally there's a vast gulf between the white collar SF tech bros and what actually happens in manufacturing plants, so innovation tends to be more limited.
Think of it instead as designing tools that make learning fun, and enables that gratifying feeling you described. Lego, for example, has probably created generations of people with incredibly high levels of visual-spatial intuition who've all been inspired to go on to become designers and engineers of all kinds.

It doesn't have to occur within the walls of a school for something to be considered education.
Then this isn't the solution for them. You keep assuming this is an internet service when it's not. Internet protocols are massively inefficient and have latency constraints that would choke narrow channels while offering almost no utility. This will be a modified SMS service, not a not an IRC service. Don't like it? Go buy an actual satphone with a data plan.
It’s the one movie I’ve always wanted to live within. IIRC there’s supposed to be a Kiki land in the new Ghibli theme park…
> you can oppose any solution because it was always like this, it will be always like this, and people should simply accept it as is.

I have eyes to see the world and choose to use them.

The same celebrities that tell us that climate change is going to ruin us all keep buying ocean-side estates and using their private jets to travel to international environmental conferences. Interesting, eh?

When it comes to actions that harm peoples' liberty and livelihoods, the standard we should go by should be purely unassailable.

Human beings (not all human beings, mind you, just the unwashed poors) are being told that they must sacrifice their living standards and their liberty to resolve very nebulous climate change predictions that have been continuously been proven wrong. This is too much to ask. I refuse the bugs, the pod, and the science juice.

Real environmental issues like the health of the oceans (an actual, real issue) are totally ignored. I think many high-IQ people here have been totally misled about what needs to be focused on and it's really sad.
espanso is a lovely tool.
> If she forgot the square root of -1 was undefined, she’d never write a test for it.

Uh...
For this I thing Welsh wins, I have seen some of their words and I cannot even begin to pronounce the words I have seen.
> Fix the root problem to stop the bleeding and then treat the existing injuries.

Stopping the bleeding is not fixing the root problem. You stop the bleeding so that the victim doesn't bleed out while the paramedics arrive and can take them to a hospital.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-aid-severe-bleedi...

What's happening reminds me of Trump's throwing paper towels to hurricane victims - a misguidedly symbolic photo op that accomplishes nothing but distracts us all.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-defends...
My understanding is that katakana I used for tons of other uses like providing emphasis.

The reason borrowed words are written in katakana is too provide a clue that the word may have a non-standard pronunciation.

It functions similarly to how italicization does in English
And also probably the single least efficient source of heat for a home. An apartment using resistive heat instead of a heat pump should not be allowed anymore.
Also if the plane gets retired, does that clause stay there?
> if you need to compare for a < b as opposed to a <= b, you gonna need couple more instructions

Depends on what you are doing--you may not need to spend any extra ops at all. For instance, if you are blending then you can compute a >= b and commute the blend arguments. If you are branching, then you pick the complementary flag to branch on. Etc.
Ape together strong
This change will be quite welcome. The most difficult part of my last renewal was to find a working stapler in order to attach the passport photo. The experience had me questioning whether we are really living in 2022.
I agree but that still doesn't invalidate my point. They had to significantly overhaul the thermal system for alder lake. I validating the point that it uses less power then the prior Intel gens.
Sort of related but I, a 28 year old tech guy, am going back to school part-time to get a BEng so I can get into more aerospace-heavy roles. It'll take 6 years but I'm currently happy with my work so am not in a rush. Currently I work in networking/search for a defense startup so it's tangentially related.
Lunisolar calendar is used by Asians for centuries.
One way to "solve" the tonality issue with Mandarin would be to increase the number of permitted phonemes or phoneme pairs and turn as many monosyllabic words as possible into polysyllabic ones. To some extent, the latter process has already taken place in the real world with the transition from classical Chinese. Pair this with a Hangul-like script or Bopomofo redesigned from the ground up and you've indeed got yourself a hypothetical tool of communicative beauty.

Amusingly enough, English has its own tonal-equivalent learning problem in the form of phoneme stress. One of the final bosses for non-native but highly fluent speakers is the ability to never mess up the stress on certain words.
ArXiv is fine for what it does, but it does not provide any sort of dissemination support.

IMO the best thing about CS conferences is the poster track where you can walk by hundreds of posters, and the information is (when done well) much more easily digestible than papers, and you get to ask questions, and these are nowhere near their limits.
The police’s job is to protect the public space as in “to serve and to protect” the government property that is paying its salary.

This is why “stand your ground” laws exist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law#:~:tex...
Well, Bret Devereaux is a scholar of Rome, plus Rome had really a lot of resources under its control. The empire was huge, comparable to the modern EU, and had a good transport network both at sea and on land. Most of the other civilizations were dwarfed by Rome at its maximum extent, or at least didn't have as big internal market as Rome did.
Lol, no they don't: https://www.statista.com/chart/14636/defense-expenditures-of...
For Windows, it seems it's possible[0, see footnote], however there are problems like general incompatibilities [1], and official support status is " We have this in our backlog. At this point it's not prioritized.".

0: https://github.com/tavrez/openssh-sk-winhello

0.footnote: "Windows Hello also supports other types of authenticators like internal TPM device(if they support generating ECDSA or Ed25519 keys, they can be used instead of FIDO/U2F security keys)."

1: https://github.com/tavrez/openssh-sk-winhello/issues

2: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/1804#issu...
Of course, if you already have the technology to build boats, it's not going to take you long to copy the other guy's design.

Later sail warships mostly didn't use triangular sails either. I assume this is related to volume in some manner. Clipper ships were very fast but they had relatively little capacity so were used for high value goods.
I'm even lazier, stole another commenter's script and just have it run on reboot.

Is it idempotent? No, every reboot it adds the line again. Doesn't appear to matter though.
Re. Changing motor oil example: I gave up doing this when my cars started having non-standard nuts on the oil sump. I had to pay the garage to fit a _headlight_ recently because the bulb was practically inaccessible without either specialist tools or 3 elbows :(
Party’s over, huh? It was fun while it lasted.
so far finding well-established c 'modules'(libraries, e.g. glibc, musl, openssl, curl,etc) has not been a problem for me, there are probably more good quality c 'modules' than other languages, they're just not put together with some package manager like go|rust provide.

conan(or even the light weight tool called clib) could be of help but I have not tried them, as I don't feel the need yet.
Well, this simplistic view appears to be shared here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20790545
I haven't even read it yet but this grates on me. Science is the method we use to figure out if something is true or false. It must do nothing else.
There are shockingly few people maintaining the video encoding packages that most people rely on.

https://xkcd.com/2347/ makes me think the same is true of image software as well.

I'm pretty sure there's a timezone database that's maintained by two guys and literally everything depends on it to get timezones right.

When I was at Microsoft ~10 years ago there was a single guy who truly understood how tables in Word worked. I'm sure they've fixed it by now but back then if you wanted to touch the tables code in Word you had to talk to the tables guy to make sure you wouldn't break everything.

If I remember correctly there's a lot of low level networking code that's basically in this state. I think ntp is maintained by a single person. Curl was written by a single person, not sure who maintains it.

Tons of stuff in the geospatial world is owned and maintained by surprisingly few people like proj and gdal. I'm almost certain I saw something about all GPS code in the world relying on a package maintained by a single person.
When you are the only source of a critical service in an area, you become a utility and should shoulder the responsibilities that come with that.
Narcissism, maybe ? But given we have a surplus of adoptable children on this planet and not enough parents, I would argue most people have a natural child out of subconscious narcissism.
This goes in a different direction, but my thought experiment is to think about what would happen if our civilization collapsed. Assuming you had access to libraries and lots of old equipment, could you ever make a new solar cell or a wind turbine.

And the Fermi Paradox is really about becoming a space-faring civilization. You need to do a lot more than boil water to show up on the galactic map.
Chrt prv zhlt hrst zrn (grayhound first swallowed fistful of seeds)
Read what I wrote again, slowly this time, spelling each word.
"I am all for a streamlined and lean State, but until that time, I'm happy for my side of the political aisle to waste money to accomplish its objectives."

You might as well have just said that. How about we say all the things you listed are bad and we should fight against all of them, and not justify any based on the others?

"Two wrongs don't make a right" - every parent to their children, basically.
I agree that games intended to teach academic subjects are very hard to get right. Interestingly, when you take the arrow in the other direction, ordinary video games have sometimes been the arena of some very advanced "doing science", e.g.:

"Speedrunning as a gateway to scientific endeavours"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_1lQ2KH50

"The Complete History of the Super Mario 64 A Button Challenge"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94lfiY18_CgWGQzweD_a...