skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This highlights a thought I have.

There are 2 schools of thought. 1 - People on average behave differently now because of something to do with the people (their age usually, sometimes their wokeness, or there race, or there politics) and 2 - People on average behave differently now because of something to do with the environment (having internet now, different economics now, ratio of cost of living to income now, etc).

I tend to fall into more #2. It's not that "kids these days" do this. It's that movies and TV these days does this. If a younger person is watching an Seinfeld episode from 30 years ago there is no need for subtitles, if an older person like me is watching a TV show or movie that came out this week It's likely that subtitles would help anyone, of any age, follow the story.

As other comments here have noted. It has to do with the huge dynamic range on audio in most new film/TV. In my view it's not a "kids these days" thing, it's a "content these days" thing. I think that most things are this way. We read about how younger generations aren't as into home buying, nope. Economics have changed, they're not as able.
They did have varied beliefs especially between New England and the southern colonies, but I am referencing Jefferson here as he was one of the main authors of the constitution and not just a signatory
Northern European here. I don't understand this at all and need an explanation. Maybe someone can provide the context I'm missing.

I've heard Americans complain online about having to learn "cursive", for at least 20 years. Basically for as long as I've read forums online.

In school, we learned something called "loop writing", literally translated. It's a technique for writing without lifting the pen from the paper very often.

This technique is much faster than writing out capital letters, or typing letters as they would be written by a printer or printing press.

Soooooooo... How does this "cursive" thing fit into this? What is the alternative; what do Americans do when writing by hand? The "printer font" or "capital letters" options are a lot less efficient when writing. Do you just prioritize uniform legibility over time when writing? Do you almost exclusively type on computers? How is this resolved?

I still write notes and messages on paper all the time, and I can't imagine bothering to spend twice as long on it.
Very good point and scenario. The 49& would revolt and form their own "country" and government.

And then the 51% of the other country would perhaps try to enslave the original 49%. But that would not be democratic any more. That would be juts one country starting a war against another.
I still take notes in cursive. The letters the parent points as looking similar most definitely don’t unless your cursive is extremely incorrect.

"c" and "e" I would have understood. Those are written nearly the same way. But apart from "a" and "o" all the pairing mentioned concern letters with widely different sizes.
Kinda sounds like you're describing cooperatives.
I’ve spent a lot of time in Canada, and the USA. Before you move to Canada, know that the winters are long and dark. You will need to make it your mission to pick up a winter activity (even if you’re feeling too old for that). This is how you will connect with people and make real Canadian friends and feel at home, and look forward to winters.
the screen is the primary consumer of energy. i don’t know but imagine sound is likely more hungry in that regard than any of the other discrete systems on a smart tv.

edit: additionally tvs that don’t turn off are in some cases of limited utility.
Great to see people hacking just for the sake of hacking. And who knows, someone somewhere may actually find a good use for it. Thanks for sharing.
Why can I only give a +1 to brilliant posts like this?

I had to laugh out loud. Thanks for making my day.
There’s a required RAM module for most cores that slides into the de10 nano. The software and the Linux kernel are also tightly coupled. Individual cores can be ported to different FPGAs though. The SNES one for example was recently ported to the analogue pocket.
Ask HN: Which tech X would you always choose over Y? And why?
It can be programming languages, frameworks, libraries, software, etc.
Not the same. I pay for YouTube premium but the algorithm continues to push:

1. Political content that is not only unaligned, but diametrically opposed to political content I've previously consumed.
2. Random "Free" movie and youtube original content suggestions (effectively ads, on a supposedly ad-free account).
> Right now Go is miles ahead of Rust when it comes to libraries and ecosystem.

I'm not sure that's true. A couple of years ago sure, but Rust is growing very fast.

I also think there's no reason to think C will stay around forever. The C ABI will be the lingua franca, but that doesn't mean you need to actually use C.

The only reason it has persisted for so long is lack of alternatives, but now we have at least Zig and Rust. Obviously there's a ton of momentum so it will still take a while to be replaced but I wouldn't be surprised if e.g. musl switches to Zig or Rust fairly soon.
The best and most fun lecture I ever gave was with whiteboard and dry erase pens. The scheduled speaker had not shown up, and the organizer asked if anyone could fill in. I volunteered, and had done no prep and had no slides.

What also made it fun was the interaction with the audience and I'd just go where those interactions led.

I don't do this normally, because everyone expects slides, and the conference organizer provides no mechanism for blackboards.

Also, blackboards are problematic for a larger venue, they work best in a normal sized classroom.
Before the Internet, where was nearly all speech actually happening?
The post referenced:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880510

As the comments show, the submission had other issues.
Kandinsky is in shambles https://www.tallengestore.com/products/figurines-at-the-grea...
Firefox will also rewrite YouTube embeds: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/c6d17806faef8708b6....

Firefox also ships a "system" add-on (https://github.com/mozilla-extensions/webcompat-addon) that has interventions and user-agent overrides for many websites. See for yourself in Firefox on about:compat.
Wasn't that PayPal's original domain? Yeah...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
Funny how a few years ago they were saying how it wasn't a rival in the embedded space and all this other FUD they published.

Sure its not a rival in some aspects yet, but the trend-line is pretty clear. Unlike ARM RISC-V gets to standardize the Serve Platform based on much of the work done for ARM but in RISC-V case when people will start to seriously develop these things the standard will be there already.

You already have RISC-V massively in the 'AI' market and some of these companies are targeting the data center, the famous example are Jim Kellers Tenstorrent and David Dizel Esperanto Technologies. In addition the the AI accelerators both these companies are also building high performance CPU.

In addition you have a lot going on in China as well, with large Chinese companies building on RISC-V instead.
I used to be against memorization too but to be honest it’s immensely useful and an important skill that takes hard work to accomplish. There’s a special flow to speaking with someone that doesn’t need to stop to look things up on his phone multiple times in a complex conversation.
You don’t want to do this with an OLED TV though.
Forgive my ignorance, can you tell what these SEO tools are?
> > Respect

> is a two way street. Teachers routinely blame the parents for any failures in the classroom.

I teach in a great environment, but my public school peers are frequently berated by parents of students that complete no work.

Even in my environment, I am pretty constantly "talked down to" by parents-- there's the implicit assumption they're better than me. I have enough confidence from past successes in industry and life to shrug it off, but I could easily see it becoming demotivating. Someone with my skills can easily find more lucrative and less challenging work.

> > adequate resources

> I never learned more than at Caltech where the material was taught with blackboard and chalk, and the students used pen and paper.

I teach computer engineering with pen and paper.

I mean things like "a living wage", "time to prepare for your classes and go to the bathroom", "not sticking 40 middle school students, including many with severe behavioral problems, in one room", and "not having to buy pencils and other necessities for your students with your own money".

There's also a whole lot of nice-to-haves that make a difference. The $15 set of refillable whiteboard pens that have a very wide nib and make huge dark lines are very useful, but ain't no public school teacher going to get those over worn-out Expo markers. Candy bribes and stickers used judiciously as prizes to fuel classroom competition make a difference. Etc, etc, etc.
To be honest, I don't think using programming language (e.g. learn Go) books is a great way to approach learning as it's a bit too passive and often ends up as coffee table material. I'd argue trying to build a project and using the latest documentation helps things stick better. Obviously better if you have to do it for work.

On the other hand, programming and architecture concepts (e.g. designing data intensive applications) make a lot more sense as books, since they are high level concepts. In that case, use whatever medium reduces distraction. That's often in physical book form.
> Anyone who’s been on the Internet long enough will have wisened up to the fabled YouTube link ending in in XcQ

"We've known each other for so long"
Everyone should be reminded that Twitter is not for posting actual science.
I'm guessing what they mean with long distance dependencies is section 3 of the contract sets one scenario and section 46 an exception to it.

This happens (normally, intentionally) when there is a section up front or at the end that sets defined terms. It also happens in a way we lawyers agree kind of sucks but whatever who cares - when after a long negotiation we're adjusting one small point and don't want to go through the effort and consternation of rewriting the whole thing.

Legal negotiation culture states that the longer/more involved your edits, the more presumptively unreasonable they are. So there is low incentive to rewrite something to make it "read better."
What's your hourly rate as a designer, and how many minutes would it take to put together all the triangles in Illustrator?

If you make more than $16/hr and it would take you 30 minutes to put this together triangle-by-triangle, color-swatch-by-color-swatch, then $8 is not too much, correct?
Not really. This is a lawsuit about an ISP misrepresenting their services, not banning users for violating their terms of service.
For sure, although the same happened with my Dad. In his case it was more surprising because his job was such that he had to sign paperwork several times every day and so he was very insistent on maintaining a fixed signature, yet his signature too had drifted over the years.
I would have more sympathy for that if Windows 95 were just suddenly dropped out of the sky to some rock music, but my experience with MSDN is that they are quite liberal with access to beta versions so software vendors can test their products before the unwashed masses get it

And I say this as someone who remembers the binders full of CDROMs that arrived, so not just "download this iso" modern day conveniences
I deactivate always on display, raise the wrist to turn it on, and automatic workout detection. If I keep all these features on I get about a week of battery life, the blood oxygen feature in it is on demand, it doesn't run all the time, it runs a test only when you ask for one, this may give it some advantage compared to your watch, but the rest is the same, the heart rate sensor runs all the time, it's connected to my phone, and displays all the notifications that I get in it, and at night it tracks my sleep, the problem with the other watches is that even when you deactivate a lot of features, you don't get a significant boost in battery life, why? is it because the OS is bigger and more complex?
https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xcrv6k/i_sent_1...
Doing the math… this would cost me $50 per year in electricity bill
https://github.com/barbajs/barba
That is assuming that things are failing. $20m/year with 3 people does not look like anything is failing to me.
I lecture a whole lot at the whiteboard. I use slides a lot, too. And demonstrations. Or I make students come up and demonstrate.

It should be a little unpredictable what class will be like each day.
Yes but "in game" on a private server run by you means a chat between you and your friends. That's why I find it puzzling that you'd think that a company has the right to police that kind of content. When it's public and you're interacting with strangers makes total sense but on private servers?
Because normal human language doesn't describe things exactly and exhaustively specifying the edge cases; as soon as you need do that (and you do, in law, programming, math proofs, etc), even if you don't use a single specific term you get language that looks like legalese.

In essence, none of the commonly used English words means exactly what you need to, so you need to add many explicit qualifiers to specify which parts of that wide and vague meaning shall apply and which shall not.
TBF those structures do exist for a reason. Just take the “Total Compensation” as an example. Breaking it out as shown in the paper does work, but now some language is repeated; in an edit (and most contracts are edited rather than being created de novo) one of the duplicated clauses could be edited and the other overlooked, especially if they become separated by successive edits.

I’m sure there are obscurantist
> There was this sociologist who had written a paper for us all to read ahead of time. I started to read the damn thing, and my eyes were coming out: I couldn’t make head nor tail of it! I figured it was because I hadn’t read any of the books on the list. I had this uneasy feeling of “I’m not adequate,” until finally I said to myself “I’m gonna stop, and read one sentence slowly so I can figure out what the hell it means.”

> So I stopped-at random-and read the next sentence very carefully. I can’t remember it precisely, but it was very close to this: “The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels.” I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? “People read.”

> Then I went over the next sentence, and realised that I could translate that one also. Then it became a kind of empty business: “Sometimes people read; sometimes people listen to the radio,” and so on, but written in such a fancy way that I couldn’t understand it at first, and when I finally deciphered it, there was nothing to it.

— Richard Feynman
I did that, decades ago. Sieve is a very nice upgrade, safer, easier to read/write, and even had a web UI if you want.
Something that often gets overlooked in systems like this what happens when there are bugs. Mechanical control systems are often designed to be durable, and this gives rise to simplicity. Why add all this complexity? What happens when a bug in the software of the bike locks me out of functionality I’ve paid for? This approach is so user hostile.

A bike throttle connected to a carburetor is beautifully elegant. Twist throttle -> pull wire -> wire pulls open air intake valve. If anything ever goes wrong with this system, it’s usually a $5 wire that needs to be replaced (fuel mixture problems are further down in the pipeline.
That sounds an awful lot like racism to me
The Terasic boards are essentially an evaluation board and despite the recent price increases, still give you a lot of hardware for the money. Other boards that come close in capability and have what you'd want for something like an emulator platform (like HDMI out) are a lot more expensive. Pretty sure Sorgelig (project lead) has said he has no interest in ever porting it to a new platform. Doesn't mean someone else couldn't, but it would be a major effort to do so and keep up.
I was referring to Twitter.
Those are containers, not VMs.
Can't find the hackernews post (probably got removed) but it was a link to this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xcrv6k/i_sent_1...
No, AI did not discover a new type of physics
No. The phase differences for FULL localization are not in the incident sound.
(There are phase and amplitude differences for left/right only)

3D phase changes occur and create comb filters at you ear and your ear is unique to you.

This is why Kunstkopf(dummy head) recordings were never as successful as anticipated.
The $300B Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack
Seems to me that since the court already ruled that teachers have free speech to use whatever pronouns they wish with students (and they can't be fired for it) that that ruling will cut both ways.
I wholeheartedly disagree with the "kids are stupid" comment. They just have no experience. I've coached 4-5yo kid soccer. With guidance and instruction and lots of practice, they went from wanting to kick the ball as hard as they could to dribbling the ball in total control in one season. Some of them had better skills/ball control than some of their older siblings that were not taught the same way. All they needed was to be shown how, encouragement to keep at it, and someone willing with the time to do it with them.

It wasn't until this team (I had coached older kids prior) that I immediately understood why people became coaches/teachers. The look on their faces when they realized they could do something. It was the pride of a parent multiplied by each player.
What is meant by "invoices"?

Every single screenshot I've seen in another thread said they were terminating free accounts and please send us payment information if you want to continue.

I haven't seen a thing suggesting they are charging anyone without their consent, or issuing invoices.

Several people noted that an account that's a decade old isn't going to have a valid credit card on it. Yes, of course, that's why they're asking people to pay, so what's the big deal?

If this is not a weird circle of mass hysteria, is there something that explains why people went ballistic?

Nobody, to be clear, that I noticed, was angry specifically about losing free access and many people were saying they hadn't used the thing in years. It was all freaking out about impending fraudulent charges.
Being names Mohammed is like being named Jesus, it is directly tied to the religion. I suspect a person named Jesus from Texas would have a hard time getting into biology research programs as well.
Completely agree, they really could be anything. What if they are a jelly-fish like creature that only communicates through touch?.

I wouldn't even know where to begin having a conversation with such a thing.
Plan 9 was designed as an advancement on UNIX, where 100% of everything is a file.

so, I say yes
It’s easy to optimize for developer convenience when you aren’t getting paid to do the work… arguably it’s the only way non-profit open source software can progress at all on average. The tails are heavy, though.
I bet the AskBar was always in the perfect standard place for Firefox to find it, despite being run by Oracle (Yes, Oracle installers for Java included the AskBar. A crime in my opinion).
I'm in California-- SF Bay Area-- but I'm teaching at a private school.
Simple Type Inference for System F
> Is the entirety of the whole company just 3 people?

From what is told in the summary, it seems like the software stack and these 3 people constitute the core of the business that is going on. The business may be something totally different. But it seems to be running on that software.

> And... $20m is revenue

Even if they have lower margins than what you yourself imagined, $20 m revenue/year is still a gigantic amount. You can improve upon whetever margin or inefficiency in the process and increase the net profit - optimize vendors, costs, sales pipeline.

The difficulty in modern Internet business is getting to some place at which you can command $20 m revenue from any market. Finding the customers and the users. Not the margins.
In the heart of any note taking system is the note taker.

People seriously underestimate the amount of self discipline and determination required to keep taking and grooming notes.

Without that discipline the supporting software is quite irrelevant.
The sheer verbosity of the average person on the internet has always amazed me. You can't say anything in less than 3 solid paragraphs. Sometimes I wonder if the problem is mine. It certainly seems a hinderance to communication.
Bear in mind that there's distinct meanings to "cursive" -- the dictionary meaning that just refers to a writing style with the letters all connected, and a common American usage that refers to some very specific stylized letter-forms that often bear minimal resemblance to the print forms of the letters. The latter is fairly illegible if you haven't been taught it, I feel -- it winds up looking like a series of minimally differentiated squiggly lines.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HandwritingOfOneJohnJay(N...

As someone who was educated in the UK in the 90s I was taught what was just called "joined up writing", which was us being encouraged to connect up the normal print forms of the letters. I never had any exposure to the American style. It might possibly have a speed deficit compared to the American style (I'm not sure), but it does have a clear legibility advantage...
Thanks for a constructive response! I don't code any more, and I was never an OS-level programmer. And the systemd debate has been argued, and my champions lost. So I concede; I don't want to argue about systemd. The problems are still there though, and I'm interested in ideas that propose to solve them.

This article was scratching different itches than the ones that bother me. I'm not interested in Kubernetes, or any other enterprise cloud stuff for that matter. I don't need orchestration, my hardware never changes (so I don't need anything like UDEV), and if there ever is an ad-hoc change I can ad-hoc configure it.
This is not the post I was referencing. It was a link to this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xcrv6k/i_sent_1...
He only changed his name, not his education history.

Please don't try to justify discrimination based on color or national origin. It is, in fact, against the law.
No, but here is one of our service files for systemd to manage a Node.js backend instance. Could be a useful starting point to create your own https://gist.github.com/eugene1g/22aa2b2c8897a29a54fba876b0c...

Many sandboxing features require a relatively modern systemd and will do nothing on older distros (we run RHEL9).
But with the major improvement that we wouldn't be signaling to half of the population that they are de-facto second-class athletes.

*We* don't have to signal anything --- mother nature has already taken care of that for the most part. And nothing *we* can do will hide the full reality of it.
I think the idea of codifying the repair of the environment as a foundational legal concept to be an interesting one, and one arguably necessary to successfully combat the problem. Treaties tend to codify shared values between states; since almost all modern nations are capitalist, treaties tend to focus on trade and capital. Climate thus gets second tier status, which is the opposite of the ideal.
I don't want to do that with anything. It's ridiculous to have to go through the trouble of doing that.
I think I'm stupid, because for me this all seems overly complex. Why do the things get more and more complex instead of the opposite? Is it really the only way? Like said, I'm clearly stupid for not understanding it.