skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son responds super well to gamified learning. What I found is that there are plentiful options when it comes to math... but not as much so when it comes to reading.

When he was in kindergarten during the disrupted school year of 2020/21... I created a "reading version" of the classic Battle Ship game. Instead of a 10x10 grid of letters and numbers it was a 10x10 grid of K-2 "sight words" that I would randomly choose and draw onto a grid (in Excel) that could be printed.

Then we'd play by reading and repeating sight words to indicate the coordinates to attack. He loved it!
I clicked the link to read about it and it started downloading a .msi file on my phone instead.
well, he could have done nothing, and where would we be? if you say "exactly where we are now", I think you are being dishonest with how the situation played out.

No, he didn't write the code or make the schedule, but he stood up and said "this is not right", and took steps to protect his and other small sites.
My apologies to the team who I'm sure worked very hard, for sounding very sour. But I just had this visceral reaction to this:

Come on guys, all of you smart people working at these places, doesn't anyone want to tackle a problem that might actually be difficult and meaningful to humanity rather than "how can I come up with novel ways to get people to be stuck on their phones for longer?"

Sigh, at least Google in its heyday created the moonshots and was tackling real problems that mattered, self-driving, energy generation, robotics. Not just regurgitating the same old tired "___ but with text" "___ but with 6 second videos" ideas.
Low income housing in Marin County, Orinda, Lafayette, Danville, Menlo Park, Atherton? Will never happen.
> Name a single city in walking distance to a forest.

Offhand, from relatively recent experience:

Singapore and Hong Kong contain forests, and when living there I regularly walked to them. Hong Kong is more than half green space.

The east side of Cologne is around an hour's walk from a proper forest.

Central Salzburg is an easy walk from several forests.

Hiroshima is surrounded by gorgeous forests, easily reached on foot, where you occasionally encountered secluded temples along the paths.
I dunno. The disaster that was the switch to digital TV broadcasting makes me leery of this.
> Something about just broadcasting whatever you want into a protected frequency band for anyone with an antenna to hear seems really cool.

If I ever get ridiculous amounts of money that could be burned on frivolous stuff like this without a worry, I'd make something similar to Fallout's radio stations.
I have a personal anecdote that is maybe related?

I store some spare car/boat batteries in my garage, and you would think that batteries, in their plastic/insulated containers, should be fairly inert or impervious to odd discharge effects.

However, over years, I have noticed that if batteries are left on the bare floor of a garage, they will discharge over time. Something to do with gradual leakage via the plastic contacting ground (and maybe plus humidity) -- there is some conduction going on!

So instead, you have to store them on well-insulating platforms, say styrofoam or acrylic, and they will hold their charge far longer. But this is on the timescale of months -- I wonder how that relates to the timescale these researchers are investigating (and for often used batteries, I would imagine it matters less).

These little parasitic losses that are rarely studied...
twm is the best, but it's annoying that modern programs are not compatible with mouse focus (meaning whatever the mouse is pointing at is the focus for input). We've definitely given up interface speed in exchange for conformity.

I used to set it up without title bars. You had to know my personal shortcuts to use my desktop.
Actual footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXPtCBcOvu0
I think a large part of their market is that the radios come pre-installed in new cars. I dislike how it is impossible to subscribe to the middle 2 tiers of programming without actually placing a telephone call. I have zero interest in Stern or sports.
...you don't need a (relatively) expensive single sideband set and radio-nerd tendencies to pick up weather data offshore where you live? That is pretty great if so. Would that there were more of it.
> All the raping and murdering in Ukraine is currently done in the name of denouncing Nazism.

Ah, yes, I guess if we had debated the "good parts" of Nazism then the invasion of Ukraine wouldn't have happened.

> Despite your best effort, you still learned something today.

Do you really think that's an honest debate tactic? Do you think that, when reading your last line, I will think "gee, this guy truly taught me something!" or rather dismiss your remark entirely? And do you feel your way of debating is in line with what TFA proposes, or is it possible that you are trying to "win" here, therefore rejecting the whole article?

I guess I learned this conversation is futile?
no, its not. Not in any white collar professions, not in any blue collar jobs, not in the military, not in academia.

You are only safe when you don't have bosses and all responsibility and power rests on yourself.
But this isn't an account termination. They deleted the data of an active account, without informing the user.

Why could they not turn it into a read-only database without access from the Heroku apps instead? Then it'd just be a routine change to the service offered, would it not?
> I guess the bigger lesson though is that Heroku should really be a last resort option for projects these days.

Maybe people shouldn't, I don't know because I've never used it, but ...

> I learned my lesson about not doing an offsite backup regularly.

This is the bigger lesson, no matter whether you are using third party database hosting, or hosting yourself, whether it's a NoSQL database or a SQL one.

Once the data is gone, its gone.
Agreed. One of my issues with Mastodon is that I cannot see content from people I don't subscribe to. Even if all of my follows like/favorite a toot, I won't see it. This is a flawed design. This is the main reason Twitter is better than Mastodon, IMO. It makes my Mastodon feed pretty calm, but it also feels a bit dead, which makes me wonder why I opened the app at all.
There is no one particular subset of English you can exclude to simplify its spelling. I don’t really know what you classify as Old English, but whatever Simplified English is, it is highly unlikely it excludes Old English as traditionally defined, as the majority of the most commonly used words - italicised here - have such heritage. The spelling of such words is probably not the most troubling part of English orthography anyway.
I wonder if the delay for these sorts of things is just this way?

I mean, the theory of relativity came out in 1905, and applications might have taken 70 or 80 years and only in small ways.
> I learned Emacs at 300 baud

Hah! Brings back memories of a 300bps dialup connection to a DEC-20 machine using a VT-100 terminal; I was thrilled when my institution upgraded me to a 9600bps modem (because a 19.2K modem was just too much money).
DRM is not good, but if they didn't specify DRM, it would still end up in browsers as proprietary methods, or it's possible proprietary browser plugins like Flash would have continued to exist. Unfortunately, you can't just make the people pushing for DRM go away by not specifying it.
Backups are apparently "too 20th century" for today's cloud-focused devops, you can just trust your entire business to someone else's procedures and if it all disappears in a puff of smoke, so do you.

(or just maybe we shouldn't have thrown out all the sysadmins with the bathwater)
That's what I want as well, and the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc) and RSS seem like the main things that fit that criteria. I don't use RSS for articles as much as I would like but I do use it for podcasts, of course, and the fediverse has been a fun experiment for me.
People WILL lose interest and not re-engage - that's the default state for any social network. You have to figure out why they would come back - is it to re-connect with someone they spoke to, or to read some new content on the site, or to express again how they are feeling? And how do you make this all easy through the features you build?

You can start with some basic Code of Conduct that let's say Github, Reddit or Twitter uses - no need to reinvent the wheel. Then you can modify it as time goes to suit what's working or not for your community.

If you have a good model for iterative improvement that puts the user in the loop somehow, it'll be reflected in your engagement stats.
You raise good points, if anything, it'd have probably been more accurate of me to express that DDPMs and probabilistic variants fit within the same Bayesian framework as VAEs but with the posterior and likelihood functions simply being markov chains instead.

This allows us to separate non probabilistic diffusion models e.g. cold diffusion. But then again, what's the difference between a deterministic model and sampling from a delta function? ;)
Thank you for the very thoughtful reply. I am reading it now but wanted to respond in a timely manner. I do try to keep my opinion on important events informed, but have been finding it increasingly difficult since Jan 2020.

I lean towards promoting a solution that doesn't turn this invasion into WW3. Preferably a solution that results in fewer deaths. That does also include worldwide deaths that for example may stem from the financial fallout of the war itself. As well as a comparison of lives saved/saveable using the money being spent.

I'm very aware this is a privileged position that I can justify while living in Canada. Knowing I would find it incredibly difficult if not impossible to maintain my position if the conflict was localized. I like to believe I would still lean to societal benefit, but for that I have zero confidence.

I primarily ponder on the options allowing for an eventual de-escalation being limited or even non-existent. Is there a route to an end of the invasion that you see as viable? What is needed to get there and who do you think could make it happen?

Thank you again for the informative response. I've come out with better information than I had this morning.
One in Eight US adults are addicted to highly processed food, survey suggests
ServiceNow: when filling in an incident ticket takes longer than resolving the incident.
My devices let me separately disable Amber alerts without disabling all alerts.

For a few years, I kept them all on, but after umpteen alerts that I had miniscule chance of helping with[1], I disabled Amber alerts.

[1] Too far out of area, or working from home without a view of any traffic, too sick. Or sometimes excessively vague descriptions of suspect vehicle.
I want control over what I see.

Democratic design instead of authoritarian design is the future of social media to me. I am long on Reddit because it allows you to subscribe to specific subreddits. I am long on RSS - which has seen a resurgence - because of the control it gives you over what you see.

If only there was a "reddit for video" where I could see categorized videos instead of the garbage the YouTube algorithm gives me - of which I have almost no control over.
Yes, Google added limited support for Markdown last year, though I'm not sure if it's rolled out to all accounts yet.

Support documentation: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036?hl=en

Wired article going in a little more depth: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-markdown-google-docs/
Amen. I think the generosity of complex systems for different interpretations is the bane of comprehensive model for neuroscience.
thats a legit case of, "its impossible to gleam that fact from the code and the code alone." (although I would have left that as a comment for the reviewer in the PR) so if theres a conversation around that decision, it would have been captured there.)
I have asked them to consider if the way they were going about the matter was appropriate. I have even explained to you what prompted it: I found their point valid and worthwhile, but in my view the repetition weakened their stance. Considering they deleted the extra comments a while back, perhaps they agree.

Respectfully, you seem unreasonably angry about this matter and I do not wish to continue a conversation where the other party keeps assuming the worst of my replies. There is no malice or ill intent in my post. If you see any, that is on you.
> So in practice everyone will just move over to podcasts and it'll be fine.

Podcasts and radio are very different mediums. I don't think one adequately replaces the other.
https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
I like it. Used it on an AMD/Nvidia desktop and had minimal problems.

The fact that it comes with the proprietary nvidia drivers is nice for gamers.

Main reason I stopped using it is because I dislike Gnome 3 and there isn’t much benefit to running popOS over another Linux if you don’t use their DE.
If you've been following the news, a headline is often sufficient. The total ongoing story takes up many books, but the differential between yesterday and today is often quite small.

And if you haven't been following it, no newspaper article is going to fill you in on the background. As I said, that's books worth of material.

They often try to split the difference, with mixed results. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it just fills the space with vapid, pointless noise -- quotes from irrelevant people, oversimplifications, ludicrous extrapolations, etc. In the worst case that infects the headline, and what could have been one sentence worth of genuine knowledge becomes worse than nothing.
Hey everyone look, we have version control! That means there is no reason to explain anything!

Version control, code style conventions, and testing have nothing to do with explaining how something works or writing about potential pitfalls of this function if some other core logic were to change etc.

Absolutely baffling you guys are arguing for never writing comments.
The single, killer feature I'm looking for in a document management system (besides collaborative environment that we're used to from gdocs) is a way to stamp versions and have those be reviewed independently, with git like diffs across them.

Think gerrit for docs.
Two possibilities exist in an economy, either there are more workers, or there are more jobs. Ideally there would be an equal number of workers and jobs, but things don't work out so exactly in real life, so an equal number isn't really an option.

Which is better, to have more workers, or more jobs?

If Powell's theory is correct, then having more jobs than there are workers results in high inflation -- not good. Thus, the only stable option for an economy is to have more workers than there are jobs? That sure sucks for the workers.
I've run PopOS for over 2 years now, and am happy with it after distro-hopping for years. It runs Steam very well, the interface is great and works well with a hi-res display, and it is very easy to setup custom keyboard shortcuts, which I use to launch programs.

My workflow is pretty simple, I mostly want the OS out of my way, but when I have to interact with it, it's been nice.
You can consider Purism instead, which already are making their own hardware. Happy owner here.
> so that it didn't actually protect about someone removing their repo.

My impression, particularly based on the timing, was that the introduction of the proxy was in part directly in response to the "left-pad" fiasco. One thing it will also do is automatically publish your docs, if it can detect an open-source license. That would certainly require keeping a copy around.
The link at the end of the article to the JVM written in Go is a cool project. The GH project is at https://github.com/platypusguy/jacobin
Absolutely, you want RAID + backup, not one or the other.

50TB at 200MB/s is about 72h. Doesn't seem to be a particularly problematic rebuild time (and that's assuming 100% filled). Of course you need to do regular data scrubbing. If your rebuild is the first time the data is being read in 5y, that might not go so well.
Nah. In 30 years it will be as useless to learn most subjects as it is right now to learn crocheing and knitting, or learning times tables or using an abacus.

People are wayyyy too optimistic, just like in the 1900s they thought people would have flying cars but not the Internet, or how Star Trek’s android Data is so limited and lame.

Bots will be doing most of the work AND have the best lines to say, AND make the best arguments in court etc.

You don’t even need to look to AI for that. The best algorithms are simply uploaded to all the bots and they are able to do 800 things, in superhuman ways, and have access to the internet for whatever extra info they need.

When they swarm, they’ll easily outcompete any group of humans. For example they can enter this HN thread and overwhelm it with arguments.

No, the old masters were needed. Studying will not be. The Eloi and Morlocks is closer to what we can expect.
> As a Catholic I assure you that you can't reconcile Christianity with left-wing ideology.

Did you mean right-wing ideology? (Calling @tptacek and @patio11 ....)
Venmo requested the something similar from me a few years ago for an account with 0 activity. Except they wanted a passport or driver's license with a selfie. This was an account without any bank account or cards attached to it. I hadn't used it to pay or receive any money. But it wasn't a new account. I had for like 3 years and just never used it like I thought I would need to.

I understand needing to verify the identity of people transferring large amounts of money, but it was a ridiculous ask for someone who just wanted it to send a friend 10 bucks for lunch. I just used another app, and my identity is still frozen in Venmo to this day. The silver lining is that no one can open an account with my information to circumvent the freeze, so I'm safe in that respect on Venmo.
> What traits, that are found attractive, would you describe as less shallow?

You got it backwards - my point was that your description of "many physical traits that women prefer but they're less shallow than us men" is as shallow as "hot lustful babe with big tits" or some other stereotypical horny teenager's dream partner that you probably meant by "shallow".

Also, you know that "gender X is less shallow than Y" is sexist statement, right?
Nissan Leaf here. AM radio works fine.

Given that Tesla will add it for a fee(and older Teslas had it), I presume its removal is not technology-related.
Strong Towns is talking about tax income vs tax expenditure efficiency (dollars received vs benefits realized). It is easily possible that receiving more money does not necessarily correspond to improved quality of life, if those funds are spent on projects that don't enable local prosperity.
> In February 2022, Adam Stewart, vice president of Google’s consumer, government & entertainment division, told Olohan that there were “obviously too many white guys” in the division

Daily Wire? In that quote if you replace "white" with another ethnicity and "guys" with another gender then this news would be plastered across every major and minor publication for a week, and there'd be a congressional investigation.
I subscribe to the Sirius XM app. I like the music stations. I have Apple Music too so I could get along without it, but I actually like the DJs, and although I could probably find similar channels on Apple, some of the Sirius mixes are a bit unique so it’s worth $10 a month to me.

The app. Not the satellite. The satellite sound quality is horrible. I can see how satellite was worth it before 4G, but now I just use my phone in the car.
The wikipedia page[0] has screenshots.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm
Thanks!

The paper “Protocol-Aware Recovery for Consensus-Based Storage” is orthogonal to choice of state machine, since it's at the consensus/storage engine layer underneath. So custom state machines benefit from this.

While I love C, and while C was the other choice for TigerBeetle, I wanted to pick a modern systems language to invest in for the next 30 years. There are several advances in Zig around safety: bounds checking, checked arithmetic, error handling, better tooling, cross-compilation, comptime, enforcing memory alignment through the type system, ability to handle memory allocation failure etc.

The big difference compared to Postgres is that TigerBeetle has better performance for the domain (TB can be far more aggressive with group commit since financial transactions in TB are only 128 bytes), a stricter storage fault model, and is a distributed database with automated leader election and fault tolerance. TigerBeetle is also designed to be deterministically simulated, like FoundationDB, so we can test to a high standard. For example, by injecting the theoretical limit (in terms of the consensus protocol) of corruption on all machines, including the leader, and then test that TigerBeetle self-heals.
Why go out of your way to lazily invent obviously false details about bail? You can just say "I don't know," or nothing, or ask further questions. Curiosity and naivety is fine. Making things up is obnoxious. There has been a ton of the exact same kind of lazy thinking on these SBF bail threads, and it's tiring. I apologize for the gruff response.
They already are restricting the number of devices and charge you for extra.

Im paying for the 4K plan in the UK which comes with up to 4 devices simultaneously.

We have Netflix installed on the TV, consoles, mine and my other half’s mobile devices and based on the T&C when I signed up it’s ok because it’s a single household.

However I don’t see how they’ll enforce no sharing whilst not breaking existing household account usage.
"For anyone wondering why we don’t just lift the compliance restrictions, we don’t specify it."

What means "we don't specify it" in this sentence?
The same thing I've done when I've seen such a sign at any time in the past 52 years. Completely ignore it.
I feel it would benefit users immensely if developers had to sit down and watch users performing tasks in their apps that they find infuriating. It's not like we don't have the technical ability in modern phones / tables for users to be able to submit bugs and complaints within the app. But that would mean making users somewhat more important than the data they provide which can be sold. Users are a cost to be minimized, and UX in present day software makes that abundantly clear.
Almost...you find coworkers and share responsibility mutually. You don't need to put it all on your own back.
I went from a rails developer to iOS; Apple and iOS developers in general are pretty good at comments, and I now value them more. Comments at the API level mean I don’t have to go diving however deep to find out what a method does. If they’re really good, they can also be used to distinguish the specification from what’s actually happening when there are bugs.

In the simplest cases, sure you don’t need to write “getName returns a user’s first name and last name separated by a space character,” but I’m guessing the method requestPurchase will have a lot of nuance and I hope it’s documented (yes, even the “what happens”)
Yeah, that is bog standard code. All the code in the post is. I'm just trying to figure out why we're complaining about template meta-programming, because I didn't see any in TFA and I sure didn't see any code that deserved being called bizzaro.