skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow everyone in here seems really triggered by this! I went to a Montessori school from K-8. I would say it worked well for me before junior high.

In middle school they had a weird blend of Montessori and regular school structure which was probably a good transition idea but wasn’t executed well.

I think if the teachers are good it’s a nice environment for kids to learn and explore what they are interested in.

I highly doubt the commenters who think that Montessori kids are dumber. But some kids prefer different kinds of structure. The idea is supposed to be that the teachers tailor your experience for each kid.
GPT plagiarizes.

https://justoutsourcing.blogspot.com/2022/03/gpts-plagiarism...
It's obvious why the Tories are thinking about allowing onshore wind again: a huge chunk of the mainstream media, including the BBC, have been pushing the idea that it's the superior option which the Tories are just ignoring because they're conspiring with fossil fuel companies to screw us. At this point it's probably not politically viable not to allow it even though it makes little sense. The BBC's been doing things like describing them as the "cheap, reliable" option every time they talk about the Torie sblocking onshore wind and omitting the fact that they're basically worse on both counts than the offshore wind the UK is building these days, repeating any claims the leader of the opposition makes on the topic verbatim and unchallenged, and even outright describing one of its big fundamental disadvantages as nonsense.
I'm not sure it ought be "neglectful" or "illegal" to let kids wander in a busy street. Every day I see a huge swarm of kids, including 5th and 6th graders in elementary school, walk home without parents from school. That includes crossing intersections and commercial venues. I don't think that as neglectful activity.

In Japan there's a popular TV show where kids (max age 6-7) wander around their town to do shopping chores. Despite the fact that this is a TV show and thus there are going to be employees secretly posted around with cameras, it still displays a cultural sensibility on when children should begin to be trained to be independent.

Now, should kindergarteners cross a very busy street alone? Probably not. But in the city I'm talking about each family makes their own choices and the sum of all this is one of the safest places in the world. Police cars do not regularly patrol around and the community is very, very prosperous and optimistic.

Meanwhile we have a recent story of a mom who got charged for child endangerment and convicted and sentenced because she let her kids walk alone.
I just tried adding something along the lines of:

Tell me a story about ___. Every 2 paragraphs show a very descriptive Dalle-2 prompt for the image which fits into the story.

The result was pretty interesting I thought. ChatGPT did a good job here. I bet it would have been even better with 2022's additional prompt samples found on the internet.
It is not feasible to either fight a war or do basic things like ship food without communications.

During World War II, to coordinate the UK and United States war efforts, at the peak several thousands of teletype channels, were in continuous operation across the Atlantic (something like ~10 kilobytes of text per second) and priority mail shipments by plane (often shrunk to microfiche to reduce weight) were measured in the tonnes per week. The Allies even spent around a billion dollars (inflation-adjusted) to create an implausibly-complicated system [1] to allow encrypted voice communication between high officials over shortwave. Allowing FDR and Churchill to speak real-time, even just for a few minutes a week, was considered just that important. And back then, they were used to doing things with much less coordination from afar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY
So, Uber literally helps riders get away with murder until they can be bothered to respond to police subpoenas for one of their drivers being carjacked — sending the info multiple weeks later.

Yet another example of how Uper's corporate ethos is: "screw everyone else, we'll just do whatever is good for us". But 'oooh, it is a tech company disrupting things so we should give them some slack'. No, if Uber was actually a tech company, they whould be able to respond to such requests faster than anyone else; the police should have the data so fast they wonder how it was done.

Uber is not a tech company, they are simply a herd of VC backed scofflaws with a little bit of software sprinkled on top. They are not advancing technology at all.
Realtime fluid sim is making lots of progress, though full 3D sims still appear to be computationally out of reach, at least for games that aren't focused exclusively on them. Here are some fun fluid sim examples from members of the Ten Minute Physics discord:

https://twitter.com/Michael_Moroz_/status/159507609967093350...

https://twitter.com/MytinoGames/status/1600278137564184579
This is great! There is more info from Google about this feature here:

https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/SecurityofPasskeysin...
I guess SA's opinion is close enough to my own that I'm willing to defend it in public. However, I don't understand your question/statement - can you restate it?
Securing AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Show HN: I indexed all of CS50 to find “bubble sort”
When google started search was a big business with a number of competitors. The most popular, Yahoo, was one of the biggest sites! There was even a meta-search engine (dogpile, I think?) that would run searches against several of the top contenders, but personally I mostly used AltaVista until google killed them.

Google did have a key product insight that you didn't need the "web portal" cruft -- just good search was enough.
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I'm not sure this fits in
> Or maybe he is just describing what a Hush Puppy shoe is

To me, this reiterates the point. Perhaps he is just describing a Hush Puppy shoe, and it's just the way his mind chooses to present that information.

The same information packaged in other ways won't be as interesting to read, won't feel as compelling, forces the reader to create their own narrative.

Whether this is a subconscious outcome and the words just flow or a carefully calculated outcome with much poring over the sentence structure doesn't much matter.

What matters is that people eat it up, and there is most likely something to learn from that.
there is a twitter account @UK_WindEnergy[1] that posts the percentage of total power on the UK National Grid that is being generated by wind about once an hour, and then once a day a daily wind % totals. it doesn't happen very often, but i have seen upwards of 60%! very heartening.

[1]https://twitter.com/UK_WindEnergy
Your complaint is the designer’s lament, regrets because fast iterations will usually beat a cohesive development, the struggle to accept that the imperfect delivered today wins versus the perfect delivered tomorrow. A good engineer chooses their battles, fights for the right compromises, and grudgingly accepts that the evolutionary remnants in all our engineering artefacts are the price we pay for the results of iterative path dependency. For example, Intel didn’t design the x64 ISA.

Practice beats perfection
The engineer’s game we play
Make do with what we've got
And make it work today

If you watch Jim Keller talk about microprocessor design, he seems to say that designs converge due to real world constraints and factors. Human designers are imperfect, which Jim seems to be very good at acknowledging. Every now and then we get to refactor, and remove some limiting kludge. But the number of kludges increases with complexity, and kludges are the result of compromises forced by externalities, so the nirvana of a kludge-free world can only be reached in engineer’s fairy tales. Disclaimer: I was an engineer type, but turned dark by the desire for the fruits of capitalism. (Edited)
return of the sacred ?

some things in life are deeper, and I think the electronics/computing era was half pragmatism half 'what-if' and we reached the what-if, it's everywhere, it's near omnipotent.. the itched is scratched, and while it's cool, the impact is not all glorious, other factors (sometimes archaic ones) weigh in our societies (the current state says it all) and our lives.

but back to computing, that's why I'm aiming a lot more on some mathy topics, it has a longer life time, more poetry. That and cosmology like fields. There's something strangely peaceful about wondering about the universe.

ps: other fields of value: biology/medicine, pragmatic sociology (how to help groups living better), and agro/ecology.
Theranos comes to mind. Reaching back a bit more - Webvan, Pets.com, MySpace.
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Excellent ! I've been using a similar approach to write stories, what an amazing tool !
It's an interesting thought experiment! What would happen if electricity ceased suddenly.

If there was no electricity where I am at, the apartment would soon start to cool down. It is right now something like -6°C outside. I think it would take some days to cool down to that level.

Electricity keeps my food refrigerated and frozen, both at home and in the shop. Well, I should put the frozen food out on the balcony (and cover them up so that they don't melt if the sun shines during the day).

Kitchen oven and stove, and water kettle run on electricity. There would be very little cooking going on! Not to mention that electricity is needed to pump water from the ground level up to the apartment. So I should to fill all available containers with snow and take them inside to melt (before the apartment temperature drops below freezing).

Seems like loss of electricity would mean loss of heat, water and food in rapid order. It's difficult to imagine this loss to be very localized, so my neighbours would likely be suffering the same, perhaps the whole suburb. Without apartment or street lights less reliable members of the community might try to take advantage of the situation. Perhaps not, it's not a particularly restless environment. More resourceful members might come up with solutions to problems, but I can imagine the situation to be quite chaotic.

Without communication channels I can't ask if a friend or family member can support me, or if they need support. Or indeed if it is safe to move, and if so, how and where. Lack of street and even apartment lights might be a challenge to many and make traffic overall quite a bit more dangerous.

I don't know how reliable electricity would need to be. But some reasonable level of access to electricity is definitely more important than nice to have.
The idea that creating a model can be a “user story written in math” seems to me a variation on a common misunderstanding about what model creation, particularly the role of coding in it is. Data scientists, statisticians, modellers, don’t go in knowing what the model is and just coding or specifying it. They use code as a exploratory tool to test several hypotheses until they find one that seems to hold - the code, the data, the algorithm, the statistical test, the exploration and the reasoning are all tools in the process of discovering the right model. It simply can’t be specified in advance, it has to be run and tested.

Having som spaghetti code is a natural consequence of this exploratory, iterative process. Applying good SW engineering practices to this exploratory endeavour is just a natural consequence of the process when you don’t know if your code will be of any use before you finish running and checking the test results. Why would you bother modularising and doing test coverage on something that is very likely to be thrown away after one or 2 runs?

I say this from 28 years of experience both as a data engineer and data scientist. I am a good python developer, and I can write production grade code. But I won’t refactor my code into that until I know that is the code that generates the right model. And I certainly can’t specify this particular code before writing some dirty version of it, testing it and confirming that the model it trains passes some statistical tests, at least.

Basically, the code is not the product - the product is the result of applying some transformations on data and running that through some ML or statistical algorithm to generate a model. Transformations and algorithm being unknown to be useful until tested, hence specification being unknown until coded, run and tested.
You may also be interested in OpenAlex.org which also uses wikidata (along with DOIs, ORCIDs, ISSNs and a few other standard identifiers) to classify publications.
Show HN: Panoptisch – A recursive dependency scanner for Python projects
Hello all,

Very excited to share this project with you all!

Panoptisch scans your Python file or module to find it's imports (aka dependencies) and recursively does so for all dependencies and sub-dependencies. It then generates a dependency tree in JSON for you to parse and enforce import policies.

Supply chain attacks are no joke, and this is one way to transparently analyze your dependencies to see if any malicious imports are taking place. For example, your yaml parser, nor it's sub-dependencies should import socket, or sys.

Panoptisch is in early stages, with known limitations (for now). I welcome feedback, testing and contributions.

Also, happy to answer any questions!
-- heard Larry can barely talk these days - dr friend of mine met him couple years ago - said he's really struggling --

2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNZKtRjvrvo
> This is a choice by the company. It isn't a requirement of the regulation. I'm not sure why 100% of the blame goes to the regulation and not the company that is actively adopting antiworker practices in response to legislation preventing them from continuing their previous antiworker practices.

You’re assigning moral judgment on a purely numbers question. My health insurance costs my company ~20k per year over the cost of my salary. Which means at a bare minimum, just to pay for the coverage my employment must either generate 20k in additional revenue or free that 20k up from some other place. No amount of legislation will change this fact and if a job can’t generate that money then, it wont just magically be provided because “people deserve benefits” it just simply wont exist. This is why companies have scheduling and time commitment requirements, because there is overhead in each additional employee and you can’t make that overhead go away just because you make a law saying more overhead must be paid.

So your options are either you legislate jobs out of existence in some attempt to force third parties to pay for what people “deserve” or you skip the middle man and give people what they “deserve” and leave what people “earn” out of the equation.

In my mind if you truly believe people “deserve” these things, then trying to force someone else to provide it is a wastefully inefficient way of getting it to them. We don’t do this with anything else people “deserve”. People deserve to have food, we don’t mandate that employers buy their food for them. People deserve a place to live, we don’t mandate that employers buy them homes. People deserve clean water, we don’t mandate that employers distribute bottled water to their employees. If people deserve health care or unemployment insurance or social security or whatever then stop mandating other people do it. Provide it to the people and raise the taxes to cover it.
You can still .unwrap() everywhere, it doesn't make for more robust code.
This mirrors some Facebook comments from my trucker buddy that had a few of the same complaints, although his take was a bit more optimistic (he thinks Tesla will fix the flaws in an updated model soon as he doesn't think this will sell.)
A strange pandemic for John Hollis, naturally immune to Covid
and just added running the file, with an appropriate shebang:

$ ./myscript.lisp
Those were fun reads!
Hehe fair enough for your case. Yes, those absolutely exist. If you're not working for a military contractor or something there I hope you ran a long time ago. This seems to indicate that a lot of other things would be wrong with that place too.

I asked my parent if he timed it, because he mentioned "a minute". Lots of things feel longer to us than they actually are. If you're waiting for something to open or react to a click or other input even half a second can feel long and we're bound to say things like "whoa that took like 30 seconds, WTF!". But when you time it, it actually takes way less.

E.g. opening an issue directly from a new tab in Jira takes about 5 seconds for me in my quick test for example. Yes, that's absolutely a "long" time for what it ultimately needs to display and do. But it's also nowhere near a minute and if all you gotta do is to open a ticket someone sent you because you're supposed to "work on ASAP", these 5 seconds don't matter. You'll wait about the same time to run your unit tests after making the required change. You'll wait way longer to run the entire test suite etc.
For low risk clients, were the results different? Which platforms (First Data, Tsys, etc) and ISO (FDMS, Gravity, Bank of America, etc) were you seeing success with?

I don't think the average ISO has the knowledge let alone a published set of credentials to receive card data, the ISO industry really sticks to the tooling platforms provide.
You think $30 a month is ridiculous?
This is not my experience most backend uses php, ruby, python typescript, java definitly not c or c++ and most performance is usually gained by optimizing queries, adding indexes avoid doing work and caching.
The low level libraries used in these languages do often use c, c++
Yeah, when I read the example I didn't get much farther than "Hush Puppies" before laughing out loud. I had to decide whether it was an elaborate bit or the author was a credulous dope. What does "Start with the subject and move swiftly and smoothly to the object" mean, other than "this is the sort of thing I think literary critics do, but I don't want to actually read all the fiction that James Wood did."

I think there's an idea out there that when your faves become (and they always do) Problematic, it's time to defend them with a kind of partisan zeal that approaches the absurd. It's like ok man Gladwell sold a lot of books, no need to create a shadow culture around him.
That's so cool! Thanks for sharing that!

Do you know how they're making the synth sounds on the pi? Like are they going full pure-data/MaxMSP/SuperCollider with it or are they still using discrete sound chips?
The first written Athenian Constitution was written by the statesman Draco, from whence we get the term "Draconian". In Draco's constitution the penalty for almost all (if not all) offenses was execution. Plutarch writes,

> And Draco himself, they say, being asked why he made death the penalty for most offences, replied that in his opinion the lesser ones deserved it, and for the greater ones no heavier penalty could be found.

It should be noted, however, that one of the reasons that execution was so common only a couple of centuries ago is that prisons are a modern invention. The idea of the state holding people for any amount of time just didn't exist, if only because it was cost prohibitive. It was something that only ever happened to royalty, though even then such prisoners tended to disappear. Slavery was a common punishment, but slaves lived within the community, so that wouldn't work for violence-prone individuals, or even serial thieves.
Lord of War
I remember playing with them at the local supercomputer facility. I thought it was so funny that you were expected to ssh into a pcie device.
Stuff like that had negative localized effects, but the ad industry that fuels large segments of tech has negative effects across a much broader swath of the population and economy.
BTW, Roswell makes it easier to run scripts: https://github.com/roswell/roswell/wiki/Roswell-as-a-Scripti...

It is also a tool to install various CL implementations, and to install software.

It doesn't come with a choice of built-in libraries.
> Every time an x86 powers up, it cries in despair and begs to be killed.

Intel/AMD could make their new CPUs start in protected mode, even long mode - and nowadays, likely nobody other than BIOS developers would ever notice. Why don’t they? I guess it would be a fair amount of work with no clear benefit.

One thing they could do - legacy features (real mode, 16-bit protected mode, V86 mode, etc) are now an optional feature for which you have to pay a premium. They could just have a mode which disables them, and fuse that mode on in the factory. With Microsoft’s cooperation, Windows 11 could be made to run on such a CPU without much work. Likely few would demand the optional feature, and it would soon disappear
How does this compare with SurfingKeys?
> FB/Insta ads were a key catalyst of growth for thousands of startups and small brands in the 2010s.

How many of those are genuine brands and startups and not a yet-another front for a multinational conglomerate (or marked up AliExpress pipeline)?
You're saying the quiet part aloud!
You put the lightning inside by using a mystical combination of poisons (dopants) and engravings (rubylith).
"Drivers sits in the middle. This makes overtaking or looking ahead more difficult. But also makes it impossible to reach out of the window to pass the paperwork or to talk with the guy in the gatehouse when you enter a port or a factory or, say, a tollbooth."

This one seems like the worst one of all these criticisms.
If there are some bad takes in TFA, please list the bad takes and why they are wrong. That would add value to the conversation. And frankly, sometimes a wrong essay or rant makes for a good HN post if it serves to provoke informative conversation.

But only if that conversation is informative. So add some information!
"Build around driver" - Tesla

Designed by a tech bro that lives in a city and uses public transportation, also hates driving.
It would be more useful to have the perspective of someone who actually drives one. When people see a different design it’s easy to come up with lots of ways it’s different from what you’re used to but you can’t really see which problems have been solved in a different way than you might assume.

Plus, it’s a day cab so it’s not surprising there’s no obvious place for a bed.

Also, it’s strange that someone would think it’s a “rich boy’s toy” like rich boys are going to be buying semi trucks for fun.
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Note that the author of this thread is comparing to European-style trucks. I am not a trucker so I would be interested to hear whether American-style trucks have similar flaws, or whether these are specific to the Tesla Semi.
How do you break into the sound world? It looks like a really fun space to be a programmer. I love hardware and tactile stuff.
At risk of being a hypocrite, this isn't worth posting without reasoning

I'm about as ignorant as one could be with this topic and folks like me would be better served by elaboration or bowing out
Wow! Opinion zone but this shouldn’t be allowed at all, public health is a necessary evil, it shouldn’t trample on individual rights.
I'm always a little skeptical of long form complaints that mix seemingly important things (papers please) with seemingly trivial preferences (he doesn't like where he'd doff his boots?). Its a day cab, not a sleeper, so that whole section of complaints is fairly irrelevant.

OTOH, he makes some good points about the ergonomics of seat and door placement. But are these really the things that will drive or diminish sales?

Put another way, imagine that you were a truck driver and a day cab would be sufficient. Now imagine one saved a few dozen $$ per day in fuel costs. Would you put up with not taking your shoes off where you want to in exchange for a few dollars?

These are good insights, but the framing seems a bit hyperbolic.