skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cables are indeed pulled, the boat does not have a propeller. But the winch part is on the boat, not the shore. If on the shore the cables would either need incredible tension or incredible power to overcome the friction of the seafloor. By having the winch part on the boat, the boat can pull itself along without having to overcome the friction in the cable between itself and the shore. This way also has the advantage that the cables can be easily rested on the sea floor to allow other ships to pass by.
My children are both going to Montessori schools in Netherland. One to primary school, the other to secondary. And not because we absolutely need to have our kids in a Montessori school, but simply because the primary school is very close to our home and seems like a decent school (though they've had a few issues a couple of years ago), and the secondary school is the only one in Amsterdam that offers 4 hours of programming per week.

I do sometimes worry that the freedom might not work well for my kids; maybe they need a bit more guidance. The youngest (7) simply refuses to do his work, and while the oldest (now 13) skipped a grade when he was 7, he failed last year because he was not doing any homework and not turning in his assignments. Stricter guidance might help them both. Or maybe not. It's hard to tell.

My parents apparently did consider Montessori for me, but I've only gone to regular schools, never did my homework, always passed, and in university discovered I had no work discipline at all, so it seems like everybody in our family is going to run into that problem at some point. Maybe it's better to learn it early.
It's a 2016 Ford S-Max (2015 edition). The electric windshield heating was, I think, part of the "winter" package and not standard issue but it's an option available in many models from many different car companies. I'm not sure how the electric hot air works but I'm guessing it's part of the A/C (likely literally just a heating coil that is turned on if the supplied intake air is colder than the A/C setting).

The only issue with electric windshield heating is that the wiring in the windshield makes them more expensive and thus more expensive to replace. It's definitely more common in temperate to colder places (for context: I'm in North Germany).
He will likely close the offices outside the US where labour laws are strong. No need to keep a european office if you can make us workers do overtime and get people cheaper on other markets on similar timezones.

Of course this is short sighted AF but thats his MO for most things when it comes to employees.
Accenture being useful
They could be overfitting somehow, but I don't see how you get that from the quoted paragraph. Of course they need to use the same subject (i.e. human brain) for training and testing. Otherwise one would need to assume that different people's brains represent visual concepts in the same way.
Well blockchain is a very valid case for tracking assets like stocks. I guess the implementation and backwards compatibility is a big issue, also other banks don't want to hop on the hype train etc.
It really is the exact opposite approach to static analysis, which tries to see what the code really does andhow that leads to bugs. I have had (quite expensive) static analysis tools detect genuine bugs, e.g. a somewhat subtle overflow.
What it can never detect though is correct code that misses the intention of the programmer. E.g. whether some mathematical function is accurate.

The language models try, by statistical means, to derive what should be there. Given enough data they will start to have sone (statistical) grasp on the intention.

I am not entirely sure about the boilerplate though. Often you need some minor variation of an already existing pattern. Trying to unify those slightly divergent patterns into one schema can very easily lead to very hard to understand code. Another thing is thar boilerplate is fairly easy to write and to test, because it is familiar, reducing the actual effort which goes into it. Sometimes it is just better to not reuse code.
> And this is why we need to cherish the web.

We implement our apps with an offline mode which offers everything, but because you have to manually bookmark them on your phone home page, it is too much to ask for users and they forget. So they download the app from a store. If we had something that an online app can indicate it has a fully offline mode for the browser to pick up, it could ask ‘download for offline and add icon to your apps?’ . The extra step is preventing users from doing/knowing about this; AppStore/playstore is just lower friction.
ASX is still on their 'Our Partners' page ... for the moment
Unit tests suck at being documentation, and are not a good substitute for the "why" comment. They can catch some mistakes you make with the code under test, but they can't tell you why it is the way it is. At best, they can help you guess, at the cost of having to study the test code itself (which is usually much bigger than the code it tests, and often more complicated). But the thing is, the knowledge of "why" is most valuable to have before you start making changes and break some tests.
> Twitter is now toxic to advertisers, influencers, and many general users

I guess that's what he wanted? I mean I don't feel sad that advertisers and influencers (basically also advertisers) now have it harder on Twitter. In my book it's a good thing that this particular era of Twitter is coming to an end.

And Mastodon, which everyone claims is superior, I see mainly as a GDPR nightmare but it also has other flaws which will probably prevent it from being accepted by the majority of (especially non-tech-savvy) users
> As alleged, the defendants profited illegally off work they stole

How did they profit?
If they even admitted that

> Defendants Operated Z-Library, Which Offered Free Download of Copyrighted Works

This is a complete nonsense
Looking at the state of these comments, modern day front end dev is truly ridiculous. There's not one common answer or approach suggested.
You mean both of his companies that have HEAVILY regulated products and need to pass extensive testing and certification by third parties before being used? You mean those are safe? I wonder why. Must be Elons genius.
From the Australian Financial Review two weeks ago:

"Unfortunately, ASX management and its board of directors have proven over the past seven years they do not have the technical skills to manage a large-scale technology project or the self-awareness to know that what they are doing is investing in a technology dead end."

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.afr.com%2Fchanticl...
Free Pascal Feature Announcement: Function References and Anonymous Functions
Indeed. It's a bit of a downer.
That must be common. I remember many years ago I was walking to the Google MTV campus from a corp apartment in Mountain View itself. It's a fair walk, maybe an hour. I was doing it because it was sunny and why not. A cop car pulled over and asked if I was OK. They were friendly but the only apparent cause of this visit was that I was walking. I found that deeply strange.
It is still very common in many parts of India, or even in Indian quarters in places like Singapore, to see young male Indians hold hands.

I didn't find it odd at all. I actually thought, what a pity that in western societies this behavior can be seen as odd.
There is nothing unusual in this.

The market for highly skilled people is global and people will prefer to work in places with higher wages, better living conditions and quality of life.

English education and familiarity with democratic political system makes the US, Britain, Singapore, Australia and other countries relatively more attractive than other countries at the same income level.
Epic! Hope you don't mind my quote here. I enjoyed it :-)

"...I glanced over at the other boxes, and they all had stickers on them saying "Administrator/password"...The three of us from TSPL looked at each other, and our president told me to decide. I asked the datacenter guy why he needed that. He said that sometimes they need to shutdown the boxes so they can move them to a different power strip. I asked him if it would be sufficient to give him an account that only had local access and could only reboot the box. He thought about it for a bit and said yes... So I created a new account that required a physically attached keyboard for login, and all it had was the ability to reboot the box. Our app was set up to start up automatically on boot, so we weren't worried about someone having to start it. DC guy physically locked the box to a rack, showed us that he was keeping they key, and we headed back to the office...

...We now needed to test our setup, so we asked everyone in the office to let us use the internet connection. We tried accessing our app, and it worked!...

...Since I had Admin access to our box, I was also able to open the "Network Neighbourhood" of our box in the datacenter. On that network, I saw all the other hosts that were in the datacenter. They had names identifying them from India's largest IT companies. These were companies I'd initially though of interning at...I looked at our president and grinned, and he looked back and said, "Send me a safe summary report when you're done" and walked off to his office.

I double clicked on one of the other big boxes and was prompted for a username and password to connect to it...

You can probably guess what happened next ;)..."
Yeah, it is a bit, I could only put it down to their pricing model for features etc. Similar to Jetbrains etc.
It is good that the agents have this wiggle room, because you cannot craft a law that could handle any case. This is why it is important to have competent people that represent the state and see that laws are followed. On the contrary, people should be incentivised to constantly reflect if a law really serves justice. If not, the legislative branch needs to change it.

Problem here is that the success of policing in politics is measured by number of closed cases or by how many people got convicted after their arrest. By crime rate and success in fighting it. This of course creates perverse incentives for the most part. Budget fights and politics leave justice far behind.

If there is no more crime in a country, it shouldn't mean that police are getting pressured because they arrest fewer people. But exactly that would probably follow in a political discussion.
Plants need energy to grow, and the easiest way of providing that energy is direct sunlight. Which means that vertical won't work too well.

I suppose if you wanted be really space efficient, you could use nuclear energy to cultivate yeast.
https://blog.digitalasset.com/news/afr-asx-blockchain-to-go-...

https://blog.digitalasset.com/press-release/asx-digital-asse...

I wonder if ASX was project managing this internally or just throwing poorly thought out requirements over the fence.
I would advice you to at least use some kind of web component wrapper. I have used https://lit.dev/ a lot, even to build a large app and it works really well. You can get started very quickly and the experience stay true to the underlying platform.

I think lit is really a library that deserves more attention since it's so good.

Unless you simply want server rendered html, you can achieve that easily with htmx to get a bit better experience. Then you may use whatever language you want and just return html.
Tangentially related: what is the security of an Iphone, privacy-wise, compared to Android?
Robobun
This injected CSS will remove the popup:

body article.newsletter-post.post .subscribe-dialog,
body article.newsletter-post.post .subscribe-dialog-scroll-modal-scroll-capture { display: none !important; }

Isn't it sad how phones have normalized the idea that you no longer have control over the webpages you read? It's not like this was even necessary, it's the exact same browser, just with a dumber front-end.
While I _agree_ with the sentiment that front end dev is a mess. This is like saying "Modern Sports is Ridiculous because there's not one team". There will always be multiple approaches to building Apps just as there are many sports teams.
Cool! Small note. Red on black is really hard for some colorblind folks, like me. I got what you were doing though, and I could change it if it really mattered.
In my experience, CHESS takes 2-3 business days.
The really nice part of sticking with python2 is that it is now a a stable interface. just like perl 5.

only half joking.
Why does blockchain have a valid case for "tracking stocks"? We've been doing that for decades. Blockchain is a step backwards in many areas. So what positive benefits does it offer to compensate for its weaknesses?
Which concluded with Apple Computers buying them out in 2007-2010 in order to create Apple Music.
Maybe ads on the platfom? I'm not sure because 1. i use libgen 2. i run adblock.

But it wouldn't be surprising that such a popular platform would have ads. Z-library was a site for pirated e-books, no?
That's an interesting perspective and I certainly agree with it.
Tomatoes with Friends?
Unless you can recreate the astonishing diversity of of a regular ecosystem in a box, I don't want this spacecraft.

Fruits and vegetable taste is already steadily decreasing and I have more and more trouble sourcing something decent despite having way more budget.

I also assume that, like everything with complex systems, we are missing the forest for the tree and we will discover tons of health issues related to this in the future.
What’s interesting is that the previous CEO of ASX left recently and said that the job is done, the tech is working and clients are testing - they just need to swap over in production - but he prefers the new CEO to be in drivers seat for that migration.
I just got diagnosed this year in my mid-thirties and have ramped up to 80mg Ritalin (methylphenidate), which I take all at once in the morning. I also tried 70mg of aduvanz (lisdexamfetamine).

These are the maximum doses where I live, and to be honest, I've not noticed too much of anything from either. If anyone has any experience/literature on what makes medication work/what determines the required dose for an individual, I'd appreciate it.

The most helpful thing I've tried is meditation, which doesn't really alleviate any symptoms, but it has enabled me to accept and be self compassionate and grateful for the life I have.
If you're interested in some lower level details this article gets into what was seen as the limitations of the technology https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/17/asx_blockchain_readin... .

It's not clear to me whether the $A250M was the direct costs to the Exchange (ie invoices + ASX staff time) or the value which the Exchange was carrying the software on their books at ?
I believe they also offered premium plans and for the longest time had a big banner on their site saying something like: "if you know of high risk payment processors, please reach out"
Chinese buyout of Newport microchip plant a 'security risk' – UK
They are so young! Does anyone know what will happen to them after the arrestment? I sincerely think they are doing charity.
How would you replace the line

apt install -y python3-django

with "a venv and the last lts of django from pypi"?

I would be curious to see which lines you replace this with and if the script runs the same afterwards.

Personally, I run an application either in a container or in a VM. So I never had the need for virtual environments. Does the latest Django version give you something you are looking for that is not in Debian's version?

A benefit of doing it the Debian way is that it is easy (one line of code) and no extra system has to be put in place for updates. As Django is updated along with your OS updates.
When the most ideal case for blockchains still isn't usable, it really does paint a bleak picture for the future of the tech.
Genuine question: what would you recommend using?

Both companies I worked for in the early 2010's ended up recreating their own (subpar) implementations of what React does.

While I do agree the bar to get started on the web is too high, I feel like it's never been so low?

React and frameworks like Next.js have been great to use. Much better than what I was using back then.

I don't have experience with e.g. Laravel/Ruby on Rails though. Are these any easier to work with?
The Django Girls tutorial is supposed to be good for beginners. It takes you through everything up to Django Forms: https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/django_forms/ . I don't think there's any javascript in that tutorial. That combined with the Django Documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/forms/ should be fine.
That Adam Savage footage… Ok, thanks, never getting on one of these things.

It is just a flawed concept basically.
Topicbox: Group Email for Teams
Get your layout shifts optimized with a CLI-generated piece of CSS
Brilliant! Keep going, I hear is the advice, your best work is behind the initial bad stuff - so get it out!
Can you elaborate on how "using containers" gives you a running Django instance?

Do you mean using a premade Docker image that comes with Django installed and configured?
Blizzard will suspend World of Warcraft in China because of licensing dispute
Hinsightd: The fastest webserver I tested
> but I suspect each of them have plans (if not active projects) for converting video inside people's homes into actionable marketing data.

I suspect not. Besides the fact that it’s a whole new level of creepy and that alone is a PR mess, I doubt it’s that useful. Sure a camera in your home sounds perfectly useful for marketing but whose camera is positioned like that. Mine is aimed at the entryway door. The best you can get from that is presence. I suspect that’s true for most peoples home.

Beyond the question of actually data quality, data processing would have to be very expensive. You couldn’t run those models locally (because the object detection would be too complex and changing) so you’d need to stream to cloud. That would instantly be the largest and most expensive streaming platform ever, dwarfing YouTube or Netflix or anything. Not to mention the actual ML components of it.

I suspect smarthome companies don’t want the data and begrudgingly accept that some cloud is needed because people are notoriously bad at protecting backups (and remote monitoring is a convenient feature).

I question if the incremental increase in marketing revenue would exceed the technical costs.
I don’t want to copy and paste instructions and throw something together without a clue what’s going on

Don’t read medium. Web world has less order than MSVS world, so you have to settle on a tech stack first and read these manuals. Also don’t think “hey it’s just web, I’ll figure it out”, it’s a path to headaches.

Here is my advice, based on I avoid frameworks but still get it done.

“Just html, css, js” will get old quickly, like in half an hour or so. You want to try it much later, after feeling okay in webdev.

For frontend start with Parcel or Vite, both are zero-config bundlers (as in compile, link, autoreload). You’ll need a separate Node.js-based project for a frontend. Use Bootstrap for CSS, since you can’t css yourself from ground up and don’t really want. Use Sass for CSS (you have it out of box with Parcel/Vite).

After a week or two with pure DOM, take a look at jQuery ecosystem, Mithril.js and Vue.

Frontend runs in a browser and is limited in what it can do.

For a simple backend (it talks to files/db, basically a regular program with an http server instead of gui) there are js and non-js options. Node.js Express. Python Flask. The key idea for searches in other languages is “I want to serve few files and api routes”. Make backend a separate project, web world is not zero-config ready for all-in-one projects.

Read most relevant parts of each manual and don’t visit medium unless you’re “in context” and know what you want exactly, but forgot where it was in a manual.

References: MDN, CSS-Tricks.

Stack: Node.js, Parcel/Vite, Bootstrap.css, Sass, Express/Flask.

This will be a good starter with a straightforward setup.
But he isn't, that's the core problem.

He was a Ringer that was clearly parachuted in. The NYTimes puff piece absolutely confirmed that.

Sam's not the first and he won't be the last.

I got over the hype back in 2014, once you take the rose colored glasses off guys like Sam are easier to identify.
Do you think that building a bridge is not a creative activity?
This (friction or drag) is the correct answer. You would need either huge tension to keep the cables off the sea floor (and additional complexity to relax/lower as needed) or an impossible amount of power (and tension at the shore) to pull the boat. Think about how an anchor works, the actual anchor is just the end point and some length of chain is also laid on the floor. Drag of the chain, not the anchor is what actually keeps you from floating away.
I did read it. You attempted to disclaim the specific claims of the poster whilst also arguing its premise was correct, but the premise of "white culture" (which does not exist, no debate needed) being functions of "white supremacy" that "suppresses cultural variance" is just nonsensical racist gibberish from the US left. Slowmovintarget has it right - we've seen this sort of thing before except with "the rich" or "capitalism" being used instead of "whiteness".
This was a strange mix because despite the misanthropic explanation of events, the suggested solutions were oddly naive. I think the author's principle argument is that there is a societal dynamic that inevitably leads to movements being co-opted. However, the solutions proposed just amount to "don't let yourself be co-opted", and then a glib line that if your movement then fails, that's an indictment of charity itself.

The proposals to prevent the movement being co-opted are proposals that also prevent the movement functioning. The proposals seem to be to prioritize being ideologically pure over being effective. Which is odd, because it's literally meant to be effective. There's a tension here that the author thinks that it's bad to allow this certain class of people use your movement for influence, but in doing so essentially legislates against the movement being able to use influence itself. EA isn't just about making sure your money is effective, it's also about incentivizing charities to be more effective - that's exactly what GiveWell. You can view GiveWell donating to CHAI as a corrupt revolving door, or you can say GiveWell successfully has managed to drive EA into the broader industry, and now, with someone versed in how EA works is able to drive money into that charity. The optimist view is as valid as the cynical view, and the EA view would be neither, it would be to focus on what actually happens with that donation.
I don't know how this has happened, but at some point in the future I must invent a time machine, go back to 2005, and submit a post to HN that arrives today. That's exciting.
But then it’s not decentralized, which is bad, because decentralized is good, even if all the decentralized infrastructure is entirely owned, controlled and modified by a central entity unilaterally on a whim.
If you put names to those functions it instantly feels a lot less like 'the original is definitely preferrable', for example something like:

def handleNewEmail(isInboxDisplayed, areNotificationsEnabled):
AddToInbox();
if (isInboxDisplayed):
RefreshInboxView();
if (areNotificationsEnabled):
SendSystemNotification();

Not defending needless refactoring in all cases, it's definitely a judgement call.

(Edit: formatting)
Something tells me it's down to mostly the quality of the paint work really.
If you don't set a definition for "limitation", self driving cars existed long before Tesla and Waymo, in niche pockets of the world. But if you set the definition of self driving car as what you would expect in a sci-fi novel, we're not there yet. But we're actually really close - I'd bet in 3 years Waymo is makes them a reality in day to day life.