skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> California: the land that forgot how. Seems like we've become incapable or unwilling to build new infrastructure, housing, or even essentials for life like water reservoirs.

Building new reservoirs doesn't help when the problem is inflow, not storage. (Desalination, OTOH, can help, and is being actively pursued.)

> How can a state with the wealth/income of one of the top 10 countries in the world be managed so incompetently?

To the extent this isn’t just a misapprehension actively fueled by political propaganda, largely Constitutional fallout fron 1970s tax revolt politics. (The supermajority threshold to raise any individual tax, even if it is a net tax cut, for instance makes it practically impossible to realign the tax system; until recently repealed, the similar requirement to pass an annual budget had even bigger effects on governability.)
I know, right? I thought COVID proved definitively that remote work is not just possible but equal to in-office work. I really want to understand the counterarguments, but all I see is oblique assertions like "true creativity requires body language." I'm keeping an open mind, and I acknowledge that in-person chat features much higher comm bandwidth than video chat, but I'd like to see a well-reasoned explanation of what exactly a business loses by allowing its employees the freedom to manage their time and workstation setup.
I can't remember which direction this went, but I had a Netra T1 hooked to another Sun machine (240R? V440?, don't remember), and resetting one would send a break out on the serial console... which would send the other into the ok> prompt in OBP.

We finally got serial servers out of that one, though!
My favorite chrome extension pattern is state stored in background page that's communicated with injected content scripts via redux + actions.

You get a crazy powerful state management model that can allow traditional web pages to feel like SPA (your extension around it at least)

It's a shame manifest v3 absolutely butchers this use case because there's no long term live-state management other than opening an extension tab.
Trans men are men, regardless of what bigots might try to convince people of.
FWIW CIA involvement is much older than "recent years".

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-p...
tbh, I never tried to find out if the system enforced those limits or not. I'd guess... it varies.
I agree. But it’s not something that requires a “special prosecutor to investigate the allegations”, which is the statement that started this conversation.
In the US, it's arguable that medicine barely existed in 1900, so I think you make a good point.

The thing is, we aren't even doing the simple thing of making sure that the medical care that is delivered is done so somewhere close to the best possible cost. We heavily regulate supply and then pretend that we have a market.

Or like we have laws like EMTALA, which requires stabilizing care, which is expensive, that leads to hospital systems making walk in clinics that aren't subject to the law, and then encouraging their patients to figure what level of treatment the need. Like my PCP has little placards in their rooms explaining the difference. There's no law that the ER can't triage down to a lower level of care, but it would cost them revenue. It's fucked.
In my opinion, the most beautiful icon sets are from Windows Aero (Vista + 7) and Aqua (Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard).

Immense character; there were Easter eggs when you zoomed in on any one of those icons. Now everything is a flat dreary mess.
You're correct that memorization and pattern recognition are useful, but they're not supposed to be the majority of the test!

A good test should also include reasoning skills and comprehension.

Having reasoning skills means not all necessary information can be derived from the test itself, the necessary information isn't always well defined, yet a correct answer is produced.

Demonstrating comprehension requires the test taker to write out a model of what they think they know in their own words. Undoubtedly the answer will be at least slightly wrong which is why subjective expertise is required to evaluate the level of comprehension.

To me it seems the quality of the tests has deteriorated due to cost cutting, not because AI has become so much more sophisticated.

Subjectivity is usually dismissed these days as a roll of the dice, but it's vital to fitting the real world full of humans living in it. Humans must be the gatekeepers, not to fight off AI, but by the very definition of what it means to be convincing.

Answers to real world questions solve many more constraints than just the concrete subject matter. The whole point to updating a test on a well understood topic should not merely be to prevent "replay attack" cheating, but to conform to the new subjectivity on the topic.
One is a product of some dev or artist's wicked sense of humor.

The other is a product of pandering and crazy talk.
Silicon.
30% speedup to the JavaScript ecosystem by optimizing module resolution
> The reason surgery is so far behind aeronautics is likely entirely due to the fact that when a surgery goes wrong

Surgery is not a public performance. How do you even find out about the mistakes that occur? Fatal mistakes, sure, maybe...

You have a better bet of your dash cam showing what happened when your car is hit by another car, if something happens to you.

I think nobody's really going to know what mistakes were made while you were on the table. Certainly not in a near miss like this case.

Very interesting reference on improving healthcare and getting honest measurements: a 2004 article by Gawande on the treatment of cystic fibrosis. [1]

[1] Atul Gawande, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/06/the-bell-curve
This is another thing that really depends on the USB to SATA controller you use.

Some are OK, some are great, and some are garbage before they make it to a warehouse shelf.
College board is involved, sure. However, they are the clearest comprehensive data source I know of on the cost of college net of aid. Do you have other data sources beyond a single data point?

The only fully non-biased data points I know of are from the US Education department. Their data shows that tuition and fees average across all 4-year public schools is ~$10,000/yr. The $2,500/yr number I quoted is for first-time attendees, who may get more grants and financial aid. As a comparison, the annual tuition at 2-year schools does average only $2,500/yr, and is a common path for students who then transfer to 4-year schools.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_333.10.a...

The ed.gov data also clearly shows the root problem, disinvestment in state schools by state legislatures. In 2007-08, states spent $11,049 per student, and tuition averaged $8,314. By 2016, state allocations were down to $8,218, and tuition was up to $10,526. Q.E.D.

In the images you linked, tuition is $12k, not $20k. The latter number includes transportation, personal expenses, and other items.
I didn't know much about Hall-effect sensors until I built a solar M&C system (in 2003) and I wanted to accurately measure currents (into/out of battery, out from solar array, and out of auxiliary charger). I didn't want to use shunt resistors because of losses, dealing with voltage offsets, and calibration uncertainty. I ended up using some metrology-grade Closed Loop Hall Effect Current Sensors (F.W. Bell CLN-200).

Hall-effect sensors by themselves are pretty poor for this application, but these sensors consist of a traditional (AC type) current transformer, but instead of a closed core, there's a Hall-effect sensor placed in a small gap in the core loop. Instead of measuring current from the transformer windings, the windings are fed from an op-amp current source with feedback from the Hall-effect sensor with the result that the magnetic field produced by the transformer windings exactly cancels the magnetic field produced from the current flowing through the source cable. The current in the cable is thus known because it equals the product of the CT current and the turns ratio (in this case 200/1).

The Hall-effect sensor here is only sensing the presence or absence of a magnetic field, and the CT is driven to null the field, so the system calibration is simple. (There's no need for any temperature compensation of the Hall-effect sensor.) Also, IIRC, these sensors have a pretty high operational bandwidth (DC to ~200kHz).
Yup, this post is how I found out that they changed their name.

> Game Developer was first founded in 1997 as Gamasutra and has strived since its inception to be a leading resource and reference for game development and industry knowledge. Following the shift from Gamasutra to Game Developer in August 2021, the site has maintained that mission while embracing the in-depth content its namesake Game Developer magazine is known for.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/about-game-developer
I can tell you why I use lazy stuff like FontAwesome and highly reusable assets. The company I work at has a huge focus on small, independent teams (they call it Amazon-esqe). In the long term, I get penalized if I don’t make sure that I close every ticket that was assigned to me for a particular sprint. Pulling in any other teams increases my risk exposure to not closing a ticket for reasons outside of my control, so I just use pre-canned solutions whenever possible in order to hold on to my job.
Government cannot ask big tech for data on their users.

Big tech is not allowed to lobby for the government to pass certain laws or restrictions or whatever else.

Big tech is not allowed to voluntarily or in any form shape or a communicate any data with the government unless it is strictly related to government business and employees.

The government may not communicate in any form shape or way any data to big tech unless the conditions from the above paragraph apply.

Government may continue to regulate technology companies, but the data they collect on their users is considered strictly not in the domain of any form of government.

Unless we are talking about court cases with discovery and the defendant being able to defend themselves. If someone uses Facebook to commit a crime Facebook should be liable to reveal data about the messages they sent by court order for a *public* trial.
Right, but they use regen just by releasing the accelerator. So unless you're hitting both pedals at once, you will be regenerating every time you're braking.
Not surprisingly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague strikes again.

It's worth noting he didn't mention checking the caps in the PSU too, or the voltages, because they go bad there too --- and can cause further destruction if they cause the voltages to go far out of range. In particular, a bad cap in the PSU standby feedback loop causing the +5VSB to go up is somewhat common. I've seen it at ~6, 7, or even close to 10V in one particularly bad instance. That would certainly damage any mobo connected to it. A common symptom of high 5VSB damage is a machine that (possibly intermittently) doesn't stay in standby after being shut down, or turns itself on immediately upon applying power.

I had forgotten that such an old machine had a full-screen BIOS logo

I believe most if not all of the prebuilts from Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, etc. had that. Mobos sold standalone had the classic BIOS POST screen, but some had a utility to let you create a custom one.
My PC is still connected 3.5mm to RCA to a old stereo box to my Dad's old full size JL430w Kenwoods which use the same 40 year old speaker wires. Still great sound!
Fun and a bit sad to think about from some angles. For instance the often maligned baby boomer generation essentially had the UI/UX rug from pulled from underneath them leading to loss of confidence and computer skill regression. Not to mention probably opened them up further to fishing and other computer scams due to a combination of UI churn, generally being flustered by changing conventions, etc. Not to pin all their computing woes on this, but I think it’s had a large negative effect
I understand what was said. I'm saying that sucks. I don't really care about the tiny minority of people who care about the skill ceiling within a super low level micro.

RTS entices people into a strategy game. But the games are so similar that everyone but the top 1% of players will do better by simply following a predefined strategy and executing it as tightly as they possible can. And that sucks. Nudging guys a few inches to the side is the opposite of what makes the game fun for most people.

I'd like to see RTS games that randomize game parameters each time, requiring you to actually strategize.
Aliens or spies: what to make of US government's new UFO report?
I realize the author was probably using the term "unreasonable" for literary effect.

But it's not unreasonable at all. Aho of the "Dragon Book", Weinberger of Bell Labs, and of course Brian Kernighan of K&R.

One would expect nothing less, really and they did not disappoint.
Is the iPad for Dumb People? (2010)
American culture descended from Christian fundamentalism, not Christianity. It’s a huge difference and it shows all over the place in how bigoted US laws are, compared to most of Europe.
Finding Fediverse Feeds
I can make you a list. Cinderella, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Superman, Batman, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel, Game of Thrones... You could sell WB the 2090 rights to any one of these, except the ones that are going into the public domain (and those they already own of course). Look at that, the system is 'working'.
You are very out of date, on a modern car the rear brakes will go first. With traction control they move all the braking to the back, if possible, so steering works better. Of course if you brake hard there is no choice but let the front brakes take over, see my comment about bad driving.
Im a big fan of browser extensions as well. They are great side projects that can grow to hundreds of thousands of users. They can be as simple as html and javascript. My most popular extension is a url shortener tool and its grown to over 400k users https://t.ly/extension
Which jobs are being replaced by AI and is software engineering affected?
I've fed Silk icons into xBRZ and Waifu2x, and the results coming out were not pleasing to the eye (xBRZ can't handle antialiased input well).
I’d there’s one thing the world needs more of, it’s subleq :)
If organizational goals are centered about building X with half-baked features and then kill it after the perf review cycle, it is rational for everyone to focus on that. Stop wasting time on fixing tech debt. There is always a main product that pays all salaries and bonuses. As organization gets larger, fiefdoms get built by hiring more people. Just understand what’s going on and use that “knowledge” to advance careers and to make more money.
Ordinal stats aren’t too helpful here. For better reference they produce less than half of what Russia produces and less than a third of what the US produces.

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-production-by-country/

They consume about 3x what they produce

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-consumption-by-country...
LifeLock was always a scam, not a security company, and they had a history of security problems. Norton acquired them but as a subsidiary I’d expect less chulture change, especially given Norton’s own history here.
tbh I get your point but a lot of scams work because people don't realize. It's better to present the worst case and get people who don't read the fine print to uninstall your harmless extension, than not and have those same people install malicious extensions because "there's no way it can see my browser history, all it does is add an overlay to the current tab!"

Web3 services like MetaMask are primary examples which should have these big warnings, because crypto is rife with scams where someone does something (e.g. open an AirDrop, save their seed phrase in Google Drive) which gives an attacker access to their account without realizing. I don't doubt MetaMask is legit, but you want people to be diligent and understand that whenever they hook up one of these apps to their wallet they are giving a lot of potential for it to be compromised, so maybe be careful and honestly maybe use less of them.
Unfortunately it takes a lot, and I mean a lot, to overcome network effects when something like Twitter is involved. The only way it goes under is if they are losing revenue and they actually go bankrupt at some point.

Elon has already been muzzled quite a bit and I haven't seen much out of him recently, so I imagine as long as that keeps being the case going forward we're going to see Twitter do just fine.
Why don't they just put the commonly stolen items in vending machines? Large items could be in amazon style pickup boxes with clear doors. Customers purchase the items to get them out of the machine. I'd prefer that over having to find or wait for someone unlock things. Employees get notified electronically when they need to restock.
Monk! I need a monk!
I developed one a few years ago, TDD and all. Automating browser testing was surprisingly difficult, and required working around some gaff to get it going at all. Nobody else seemed to be doing it, either, which was surprising. Last I checked it didn't seem any better, so I'm not too keen to do any more. At least the extension has continued working for many years with minimal upkeep.
The authors themselves were astonished to see what their language could do in the hands of other programmers.
Stripe is doing it despite not having to. Where it's happening is irrelevant.
>really juicy and hard to defend targets

IMO the opposite, if anything small modular reactors can be more easily hardened and distributed to reduce vunerability. Relative to PRC underground infra abilities, I can see thousands of these buried reactors + with wide spread electrification to make for probably the most securitized energy infra.

Large scale peer warfare where adversaries have global strike capabilities means countries can't rely on geographic distance for defense anymore. It will be back to old school geologic depth. Especially with respect to US, where energy autonomy increasingly =/= energy security. Fortress America becomes another Saudi Arabia where essentially extraction infra becomes vunerable/indefensible once advanced rocketry can hit large stationary targets on CONUS. In the meantime, there's already reports of people messing with US energy infra state side with drones and bullets.
The cycle method is really elegant in Perl, of all languages:

use feature say;
say <{Fizz,}> . <{Buzz,,,}> || $_ for 0..100;
I think I probably wasted half my teenage years on Subspace/Continuum. What a blast that game was! Not to mention the diverse player base. I noticed they even listed on Steam a few years back, but being 38 with 4 kids doesn’t lend much time to such things anymore.
Last week I tried submitting an all new MV2 extension and Chrome Webstore said I had to use MV3. My older extension is still grandfathered in, so I was able to update the pre-existing.

So it's awkward until Firefox MV3 is ready.
Progress for sure, that iPhone can do all the flashy webgl in the world and not break a sweat, those things have kick ass processors.
There are severe consequences to what you're suggesting with a net negative to society. Before you know it we'll have Big Tech Banks being a money launderer's wet dream. Kinda like how it is now, except all their data is in a bank the government can't touch or will ever know about.
Imagine you are doing barrel roll and struggling to control a plane, and you have a parachute.

So you decide, scre the airplane, a will save my life, and jump out. Only it fails to open, it was an unreliable parachite, bought by someone like you. They thought,'better a 50/50 parachite then no parachute?

So now you are plummeting to you death, thinking, that if you did not have the confidence of 'I have a parachute' you woupd have never attemped the barrel roll in the first place. And you would have done your utmost to steady the plane, and probably would succeed. And you would not waste time packing it and fuel carrying it around with you.
Opposite question: do the heroes get awards of any sort?
I find that opinionated tools like awk are esoteric and very niche, but for things they do, they do very well. Writing awk scripts for simple text transformations brings me immense pleasure.
Authentication with Django and Single Page Apps (2020)
You can disable file indexing. KDE is taking <1GB on my old laptop with 4G RAM. Its memory usage is comparable to Lxqt for me.
Are you aware of any drawbacks to this?

The page listed says explicitly that it's not intended to replace data collected from gtag, Tag Manager, and Google Analytics.
It's not necessarily sheer idiocy:

1. Someone who doesn't hold a particular position absurd to make a sarcastic point.

2. Dogwhistle to the fascists, kleptocrats, and ideologues. It maybe "tilting at windmills", but it's bluster "to impress the ladies".

3. An attempt to raise a proposal so extreme in order to gather press coverage.
Direct-View Quantum Dots
Right, for the average user the barrier to entry for userscripts is significantly higher than for extensions. I recently released one (a small enhancement to the Netflix UI) in both forms for this reason: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/446689-netflix-recommendat..., https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/netflix-recommenda...
I would believe regulations on banking would apply regardless. You would apply these laws only to places where social media companies are dealing with the people's day today data and interactions, not stuff like banking.

It's the law, it'll be written by a billion lawyers who consider edge cases like this and this little comic will apply.

https://xkcd.com/1494/
Show HN: Munter factors for your uphill ski days on Strava
My friend is training for the Grand Traverse and using the Munter method in his pacing estimates.

Last weekend I hacked together a Strava app that calculates Munter rates from your activity data.

Connect your Strava account, and whenever you upload a "Backcountry Ski" activity, it'll put the rates at the bottom of the activity description.

Made a "Club" on Strava for feedback/suggestions/feature requests/etc: https://www.strava.com/clubs/1106227/discussion

Cheers!
> no one bans books like Tom Sawyer et. al. even though they are inarguably more offensive to minorities than Tom & Jerry.

Not in the traditional sense of the word. The strategy used today is more of a soft damnatio memoriae.

For example, the estate of Dr.Seuss has decided not to publish or sell certain titles over supposedly racist content.

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/exclusive-dr-seuss-st...

Even the author of Captain Underpants (Dan Pilkey) and his publisher withdrew from sale an entire decade-old issue of a series spinoff due the use of a stock kung-fu master character in a few scenes.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-race-captain-underpan...

The last one is rather surprising because the Captain Underpants series has been one of the most challenged and censored books. In an article penned by the author himself, he had this to say:

"To set the record straight, I should point out that my books contain no sex, no profanity, no nudity, no drugs, and no graphic violence (at least nothing you wouldn't see in a 1950's Superman comic book). So what's the big deal? Well, most of it boils down to the fact that not every book is right for every person. There are some adults out there who are not amused by the things that make most children laugh, and so they try to stomp these things out. We've all met people like that, haven't we?"

Rather ironic.
also why my 1997 Jeep Cherokee was running funny and a proper PITA to fix
A happy indictment on modern society is that my little sib and I just had lots of laughs talking about this while having a real fun play with my pup.