skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't everyone trending down right now? I wouldn't read too much into it. Apple really put some hurt on Facebook ads, though. I think 90% of this is the fallout from that. Well, that and gen Z simply refuses to use anything but TikTok and Instagram. To them, Facebook may as well be as irrelevant as a model T.
It’s true that correlation isn’t causation but I think, in moderation, games do improve cognitive skills. If it becomes something the kid does all the time, then I think the lack of balance does more harm than good. Moderation is all things.
This paper was influential with regards this idea: https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos-ix/crash-only-softwa...

I don't think it's that unusual, but obviously there are tradeoffs.
> Remember, those hiring managers and HR are the same people as you -- got the paycheck, try to do as little as you can to just slip under the radar.

Sounds like these companies should hire better HR people, because they aren't doing their jobs effectively. Also, remember applicants are not getting paid and they owe nothing to you. You seem to have a very entitled attitude towards applicant's time.
Weird take?

It is a table stakes expectation for most servers that they will not lose data when the power goes out, or when the kernel panics, or when the server itself crashes or runs out of memory. If your software requires graceful shutdown, that seems to imply that it will lose data in all those cases.

You can perhaps use graceful shutdown to perform some optimization that allows subsequent startup to go faster, e.g. put things in a clean state that avoids the need for a recovery pass on the next startup... but these days with good journaling techniques "recovery" is generally very fast. When that's the case, it's arguably better to always perform non-graceful shutdown to make sure you are actually testing your recovery code, otherwise it might turn out not to work when you need it.

So yeah, I agree with SoftTalker. Assume all shutdowns will be sudden and unexpected, and design your code to cope with that.
I do miss the terminal in a lot of ways. I feel a lot of nostalgia for the days when I got all my work done with just 2x2 terminals taking up the entire screen. (You could just fit them in with 1024x768 and the 8px high Tixus font.) But in 2022 it feels impossible to live entirely in a terminal unless you're in very specific areas of work.
Given that everyone who cared and was willing to leave over the issue did leave, it would have been irrational for PayPal to do anything else.
Very cool benchmark. I don't think this will be a huge difference but could you try mypyc? I'm definitely curious how it compares. It uses mypy to perform type checks and claims "Existing code with type annotations is often 1.5x to 5x faster when compiled. Code tuned for mypyc can be 5x to 10x faster."[1]

[1] https://mypyc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
FWIW, I have no idea, I just know that Tesla's inability to keep a legally-sound lid on Elon Musk has been a recurring topic for Matt Levine for years. He got in trouble with the SEC for the take-private stuff.
Said test can also bias against the poor depending on how it's created. It can ask questions based on subtleties that only private schools/tutors have the time to cover or on life experiences that only upper middle class realistically have experienced.

Neither system is perfect but I think the purely SAT approach creates too much unnecessary stress for high school students when there are other proxies for determining future success.
And when we don't have consensus, is it really a bug if we can't amend the constitution? One could argue that it's correct behavior.
> I got the original Lego Mindstorms 1.0 kit for my 8th birthday - there was no programming interface, just a way to select one of 256 possible sequences of high-level actions the robot would perform in a loop.

Are you sure you're not thinking of the Robotics Discovery Set? The blue brick? It had a bunch of predefined things you could stitch together to make little programs directly via the brick's interface.

RIS 1.0 definitely had a programming interface via the serial IR tower.
Does anyone know the technical details of the decompilation? What tools were used, what problems they ran into, etc?
I lived in Alabama for quite some time. For anyone not reading the wikipedia article (and tbh, I haven't either, but am quite familiar with it's constitution) it was expressly written to consolidate power in the "planter" rich, white, ruling class and take power from both Blacks and lower SES whites, with a bit of a sop to the more independent farmers of the North Alabama hills (remember this was a time of far from universal suffrage)
The result was that most cities and counties don't have a lot of direct control, and any little thing has go through the amendment process: e.g. this year question 8 on the ballot refers to Shelby county's regulation of sewer rates

It's a shitshow through and through
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I said it was good for cross-domain code.
So I don't have to read the article, what is the swept area compared to a conventional wind turbine? My limited understanding is that what really counts.

Also, my other limited understanding is you have to be at least 50 feet above the rooftop, any lower and wind is too turbulent.
> In no other company would a CEO be allowed to essentially go rogue like this.

I wonder if Meta would be going all-in on a VR system that nobody seems to want if Sheryl Sandberg were still around. She seemed like the only one who could say no to MZ. Granted, there are lots of other factors (TikTok, recession, Apple's privacy changes), but it is an interesting coincidence.
> So when are we going to see modern Unity and Unreal games running on the web?

What, in your mind, would be the killer advantage?

Anything besides easy distribution?
Purge browser history.
Back in the day we used to download files from certain FTP servers via an email with the correct terms.
I never found it very interesting, but it was novel. It would have been much cooler had smartphones been around then.
Another Vim tip: use sessions.

vim -S <sessfile>

will recover a session file.

I set up these items in my .vimrc to make sessions a little easier to work with:

The + key (which has a useless default role of moving to the next line) is mapped to save the current session:

:nmap + :wa<Bar>exe "mksession! " . v:this_session<CR>

Then, a :S command for creating a new session, e.g. :S foo.

:command -nargs=1 S exec "mksession! " . expand('$top/') . expand('<args>')

This relies on a $top variable which I set like this:

:let $top=getcwd()

that has to do with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33351155

I want sessions to be created in the top directory, rather than the directory of the current buffer.
If you reframed the argument as: "there's only so many gay people because they want to fit in and be different and being gay is cool now" then it sounds ridiculous, which tells you everything you need to know about it's validity.

Whereas the prevalence in text from antiquity of "men disguising themselves as women" should perhaps give people pause as to why this concept was out there in fiction despite being centuries removed from surgical transitioning being possible

Because subtext is dead: because gender dysmorphia isn't new, and it was probably quite common for people to do this "as a joke" as a means of spending time in an identity that they found satisfying, to various levels of acceptance of the community around them. Thus writers and audiences of the time knew of the phenomenon and used it as a plot point - people tend to write what they know. The era of "no women on stage" very likely found a reliable source of men willing to play female characters and doing a very good job of it - otherwise it would've been a bit of a scripting and production problem as well.
There's a nonzero likelihood Tesla ends up refunding this once they're forced to recall the feature.
I like that 5 step process. It gives one’s brain time and space to process and integrate.
Well said. The issue (as noted in the article) is party politics. The solution is not to make it easier for whatever party happens to be in power to wield it like a bludgeon, or to throw away the concept of representative democracy and run the government like a twitter poll. The idea that we should keep the parties and the tribalism, but ditch the requirement that we learn how to compromise with each other, is completely wrong.
"It is hard to hang a man for stealing a sheep", he said. But the judge replied that we are not hanging you for stealing a sheep. We hang you so that other people would not steal sheep.

In the same way, we spend resources to save one drowning man, not so much to save that one man, but to let all seafaring men to know that if need be, we will do our best to save them.
Agreed on summon and auto park, they are total garbage and not at all useful. Navigate on Autopilot is slightly better, and can actually be nice occasionally, though there are plenty of situations where it just doesn't work. But there is a bit of the enhanced autopilot package that is genuinely useful, and that's autopilot lane changes. Being able to execute lane changes on the freeway just by pressing the turn signal once and without disengaging autopilot works well and is useful. Is it worth $6k? Maybe not, but it's something.

Personally, I bought FSD because I wanted to test it, not because I thought it would be robotaxi-level anytime soon. And also because I believe that Tesla will one day be forced to give free camera and computer upgrades to everyone that purchased FSD (on top of the HW3 upgrade I already got), because the current in-car cameras and computers are not enough to implement what they promised.
Because people buy this feature because they don't want to drive (as a human); what does it matter how it compares to other self driving systems?
Tic-tac-toe on dopamine, more likely.
In a world with perfect data available, I’d like to see the difference in suicide rates between suicidal kids who receive therapy and whose transitions are supported vs. kids who only receive therapy towards non-transitioning.

The theory being that a non-zero number of kids seeking to transition are doing it for reasons they don’t fully understand, and helping them get to the root of their trauma may uncover something which steers them away from identifying as transgender.

Only because I have heard of people regretting their transition.
Hummingbird robotics kits are great for creative or STEAM projects
on the other hand, since a lot of predators animals in France have been hunted to extinction there, in certain areas hunting is used to keep the population of certain wild animals in check
The gdb TUI with a simple config and a simple readline config from a terminal has personally done wonders for me. I get vi mode, tab completion, syntax coloring, a colored prompt and really all I could ask for.
I have aliased gdb to "gdb - q -ex start --args" and the experience is very nice.
Governments and large companies are the ones who are explicitly requesting this functionality. End users don’t give a rats ass, it’s managed computed where the money is here.

That it can be used to back door the machine is the primary use case for the audience, as that is what lets them do a remote reinstall of Bob’s broken workstation somewhere, or any number of other legit use cases.
Burning coal will kill slowly, and freezing to death in German winter will kill quickly.
Curious, what did you expect here? As far as I can tell, enhanced ap is identical to the standard "basic ap" on all cars, the only additions are:

* automated lane change when you press indicator

* Summon (a google tells you all you need to know about how bad)

* Autopark (this has never worked on my model 3 either, aside from a handful of times. Again, common knowledge it doesn't work).

* Automated freeway exit selection

Otherwise, its the same pretty good lane-keep system they give you with the car as standard.

Of course, Tesla being Tesla I'm sure the feature set will change with time, so maybe you get more later? Tesla don't promise this though, and like all tech you should evaluate purchase on its features today, not its promises tomorrow? I might have missed something, but generally thats all it adds over the basic AP you got with the car, and it's quite clearly documented as such. I can certainly agree I'd feel sick too if I'd paid $6k for it in its current advertised form!
> Given that registrars give out that info, are you still concerned?

Yes, absolutely. It should not be legal for registrars to be doing that either IMO. I don't generally think that it should be legal to build businesses on the exchange of third party information without the direct consent of the third party in each specific instance.

In times past, perhaps a reasonable approach would have been to fax a photocopy of the alleged degree to the registrar or clearinghouse for pass/fail verification.

These days the individual ought to be able to initiate the registrar or clearinghouse to send a digitally signed document to the company.
I was going to say who does this... but then I thought of github projects.
By your logic, if a law makes torturing people legal, then the people who make it possible to do so - the psychologists advising, the guards, etc - are "valid" and not evil whatsoever. Only the law writer is at fault in your view.

While the US government may agree with you on that - other than the part where the law writer is at fault whatsoever - it's still very, very fucking evil to torture people. As is playing an essential part in the theft (morally and in reality, if not legally) of hundreds of billions of taxes.

Once again - legality is not morality. People seem confused on that point often, and it's very weird.
And when whoever controls the server pulls the plug, it's game over.

Definitely interesting technically-wise, but considering the implications, no thanks.
Factory Blew Asbestos into a Neighborhood; Residents Are Getting Sick and Dying
Dismissing the argument because you're not familiar with it doesn't demonstrate anything but your own ignorance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Undoubtedly when Mao drove the Kuomintang out of the Mainland, there were people who "really fail[ed] to see how one could believe it rational" to fear that within a decade Mao would starve to death ten times as many innocent people as the Kuomintang had ever murdered, particularly since such a large democide had never happened before in history. Then, it happened.
We're trying to build this with bash.gg!
How to choose the best developer tool
Many top novelists, scientists, engineers, etc., have come up with ideas doing something other than work. We’ve all had ideas at odd times and contexts. Sometimes good and occasionally outstanding ideas or solutions.
Yeah I read that one, Irresistible, and a couple others. There was a new one called "Stolen Focus" but it looked like a best seller than something insightful.

Also the classic "Flow" talks about this problem of how people are being robbed of insight by never being able to get into the flow state.

> “Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.”
Buy an EV3 kit (maybe at a reduced cost) and flash micropython onto the brick.
They're getting too many applications already. Making it difficult to apply its a feature, so they have fewer applications to sift through. But I am convinced that they do not look at incoming online applications anyway, or they down value them significantly.

Applied online for a role - nothing.
Got referred for the same later - instantly hired.
Nobody has any real material gain from tricking people into believing the earth is a sphere.

Conversely, if ME/PSP actually is a hardware backdoor:

1. The proprietor of the backdoor would've expended considerable resources designing, implementing, testing, and distributing it, and thus would have an economic incentive not to see it exposed and discarded so as not to incur development expenses on a successor.

2. The proprietor of the backdoor would have an operational incentive to not have collection disrupted by the backdoor being detected, exposed, and discarded.

Your comparison of what looks like a real conspiracy to a known character-assasination conspiracy (flat earth) is consistent with COINTELPRO techniques.

I'm not accusing you of being a bad-faith actor, but you're arguing against someone who is opposed to an alleged
US intelligence agency backdoor, using rhetoric consistent with known techniques used by US intelligence agencies to disrupt conversations (and discredit participants) who are exposing US secrets.
Part of the problem is Lego is horrible for robotics. It's very hard to build complex mechanical systems in Lego. It's also degenerating; newer kits are less and less creative (kids follow instructions and build models, rather than creative inventing).

The kits I use with my child are Engino Discovering STEM. Each kit lets you build a bunch of interesting, complex mechanical systems. It's not just a little better than Lego; it's in a different class for building robotic systems. It's also a lot cheaper.

What it needs, though, is a competent software platform. I'd love to have this integrated with something like the BBC Micro:bit.

My general feeling is that Lego is in cash cow mode. A lot of money flowing in, but weakening fundamentals.
Finally a comprehensive write-up about the crypto-space that involves careful reasoned analysis of the interests and motivations of the participants in the crypto-space. Addresses some favorite questions like the nature of money and property -- and how most of it is imaginary (like most things about the human experience).

The first section talks about property-records as being kept in a database, and it also talks about villages maintaining "in-memory" property records (in a pre-literate time). A cool method that humans have developed for durable record-keeping are Rai-stones.

Here are some of my note on those, in case we have any anthropology nerds lurking:

Rai Stones are variously-sized -- 3.5 centimeters to 3.6 meters in height -- circular, stone disks with engravings. They are used as currency, decoration, jewelry by the Yapese people of the Yap islands in micronesia. Because some of them are gigantic and weight a few thousand kilograms, they are difficult to transport. To facilitate easier transactions, the Yapese maintain a ledger -- via oral-tradition -- of who owns which fraction of which Rai Stone, not unlike a blockchain.

An interesting case of the use of the ledger to establish ownership over a stone, is when one of these massive stones was being transported by a ship, and the ship sunk into the middle of the pacific. It was never seen again, by any other human being -- it might not have even survived as a single piece -- yet, its ownership is still recorded in the ledger.

In principle, if all of the stones disappeared from the face of the earth, the oral ledger would still contain a list of who owns what.

Crypto-currencies can be considered as digital Rai Stones -- the value is in the ledger not the actual artifacts.

Ref: https://github.com/interlock-network/knowledgebase-public/bl...
I'm sure your son could find a way to play the game in a way you disapprove of if forced. Kids on TikTok are learning social skills and creating things in order to star in their own videos, learning to harmonize with all sorts of music and being movie editors. There are even foreign language and math lessons to be had. I'm not sure why you have to dismiss the platform as a whole. Time spent with a an active and participating parent is going to be better for the child, no matter what toy is used.
As a public post, it'll even show up on a Google search result. And HN doesn't allow you to delete old posts without a polite email to the admins with a good reason. And it'll still probably end up on the Internet Archive.

Anyone who replies, perhaps suggesting a more private discussion, could be, well, anyone. The odds that someone who's reputable in a way you can verify easily taking a keen enough interest to bother with all that are probably relatively low. So it's no different from throwing it out on Reddit, except the audience is a bit narrower and smaller.

What are the odds that someone is trolling HN looking to engage in identity fraud or a con scheme to get their hands on your prototype so they could then do a lot of hard work to implement it? I can't really weigh that! It's a lot of work for about as much certainty as you have that it'll pay off. On the other hand, it's a crime of opportunity that does align with the skillset...

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken
JS is also very popular. Not for the same things as Python but in some aspects it's becoming modern PHP (which is still popular, if maybe aging somewhat kinda like Perl). But Python is definitely very popular for new back room stuff (source: long digital sweatshop career)
I didn't think birds flying into walls or windows would be the highest
I mean, you might be surprised but I'm sure there are more than a few users on HN that discus digital security configurations of large companies in their day jobs. I've been party to more than one conversation where some company unintentionally opened a security flaw for a short period of time that we discussed over a meeting, that if some evil 3rd party listened to may have gave them a window to exploit services.
Sounds like there was something at play besides pure camaraderie and no-man-left-behind ethos:

> Hambleton had Top Secret access to Strategic Air Command operations and was an expert in surface-to-air missile countermeasures. The North Vietnamese Army may have possessed information about his presence in Vietnam and his capture would have meant a huge intelligence bonanza for the Soviet Union.
> All store bought “extra virgin” olive oils in my experience also burn closer to 300-350 degrees fahrenheit.

Yes, of course. Because of the "air quotes".

I am not vegetarian. I cook everything with olive oil, including searing meats in my French oven. So does everyone I know. I think what you are talking about and what I'm talking about are entirely different substances. I suspect the information on wikipedia, and in your sources, is also far off the reality of olive oil as it's used by people in the region of the world where it's traditionally the shortening of choice. Otherwise, we'd have stopped using it long ago.

> You said most people cook well below 405 degrees.

To clarify, that wasn't me, but wikipedia. I don't personally know what temperatures most people cook with and, I suspect, neither do you. What I know is that there's a few million people in countries around the Mediterranean that cook almost exclusively with olive oil and if it was as easy to burn it as you insist, that wouldn't be the case.

I suspect that you are relying on second-hand information but do not have first-hand experience of a lifetime (and a long tradition) of cooking with olive oil. I've heard more weird things coming from the same place, of lack of first-hand experience, for example that olive oil turns bitter if you heat it, something that I heard for the first time from an American dude with a youtube foodie channel, but not of course from my many friends, family and acquaintances that cook with olive oil as a matter of course. Again, if that sort of thing were true, we wouldn't be using it.

This is really the question to ask yourself: where does your information come from? Is there any evidence to the contrary?
Parent may be thinking of:

French hunters react angrily to drinking ban plan to reduce accidental deaths

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33100432

(21 days ago; 14 points, 8 comments)
WordPress is pretty hard to beat.
Despite all the fancy js, webpack etc...

WordPress just chugs along. It's like an old farm tractor... Not the most pretty but gets the job done