skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scratch is brilliant, and the research that has gone into creating a visual programming language has paid off handily. I wish that node-based visual scripting systems like Unreal Blueprints (and, to a certain extent, things like Blender Shader Nodes and Geometry Nodes†) worked more like Scratch:

1. Edges in node-based programming get tangled easily and it becomes hard to read. Scratch has no visual edges: the pieces snap together, making it easy to visually follow the flow.

2. Having to manually drag nodes around is a chore. Scratch does automatic layout within individual functions.

3. Some node-based systems use colors to distinguish types. This is inherently less readable than the different shapes that Scratch uses.

4. Scratch is structured programming, unlike node-based systems which are essentially based on GOTO.

5. Visual programming systems based on nodes have no easy way to step up to text-based programming languages, unlike Scratch which follows the form of standard source code. This is largely because of (4): nodes are based on GOTO, which is not how modern programming languages work.

† Node-based programming is more defensible when there's no control flow, such as with common shaders, but I still think it'd be worthwhile to try something like Scratch in this domain, perhaps modified a bit to better visualize "pipeline" workflows.
He's talking about framing, not the practicalities of exchanges.
There are many such mods. There have been for years.

https://github.com/TheUsefulLists/UsefulMods#performance-and...
British Museum: How to Date an Artefact. Henry VIII and Kath. Of Aragon Pendant
One of the things that the world doesn't seem to have realized yet even thought it should be glaringly obvious by now is that when designing protocols for electronic interactions one must choose carefully when to push and when to pull. Email is push-only. HTTP is pull-only (or at least it was when it started out). To really do the Right Thing you need both working together. And there are two rules that should guide the design:

1. Push should only be used when it is necessary to draw the user's attention to something in a timely manner.

2. Push should never transfer large quantities of data. Large quantities of data should always be pulled, never pushed.

Email violates both of these principles, and HTTP doesn't have push at all.

The real problem is that email is the only push standard that is both open and widely deployed. Everything else is either proprietary (Twitter, iMessage, SMS) or niche (mastodon) or both.
A novel mixed-integer programming approach for the aircraft landing problem
We're using the MuJoCo simulator under the hood: https://mujoco.org/

The keys are actually implemented using a spring mechanism, but springs in MuJoCo are currently linear, which isn't the case in the real world.
As someone who learned programming with scratch in elementary school, the next step they did was using DrRacket but honestly I did not like it. I don’t remember anything I made with it but still remember my scratch projects. I think pygame would be a good next step as it is batteries included and let’s you build similar gui applications with an event loop. However, I haven’t used scratch since around 2010 so it could have evolved a lot since I used it and the concepts might not translate anymore.
This feels like a strawman argument. I suspect the person you are replying to would agree with your last sentence. Can you think of any ways the two things might be perceived differently?
For a grand total of 2.5 hours every day for the top of the scale.

Yeah, coming from a horrible situation, everything is an improvement. The article isn't very clear on what qualifies as "kids", but if teenagers aren't pulling the average down, that is still a very bad number.
actual nazis - they post hitler content and all, polls about why you are/aren’t a nazi too, etc. reporting sometimes works but it’s no longer permanent, you’re allowed back after some weeks if you post rule violating nazi content now. some of these nazis who were previously permanently banned learned that you just contact support and say you were banned for right wing views and they get let back in. there are a lot of active nazis who are open about it.

some are just rw who mingle with the openly nazi posters too though yeah.
I think COBOL devs don’t get paid all that much. They just train fresh grads in cheap markets. The premium wages for COBOL were certainly a thing in the Y2K days.
I can sell a million devices that cost me $4 apiece, or I can sell 1.5 million devices that cost me $3 apiece. That only stops if I have a competitor selling $4.60 bulbs that take away all of my customers.

As long as we're all shoveling shit, nobody gets a whiff of fresh air.
This estimate was based on a projection of our technological state 10,000 years or more from now, but without super-intelligent AI or FTL travel. So human settlements are all over the galaxy, but they are fragile and disconnected from each other by hundreds and thousands of years of travel in slow time. One of the problems in this world is a civilization may have crumbled in the time it took to travel there and be in such a reduced state that its incapable of refitting your ship, leaving you marooned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
Given how hard he fought against buying it even after he signed the paperwork to buy it I think we're forced to say "Yes".
Are you playing the open D in the "bar plus one finger" style or the "3 individual fingers" style?
I introduced to my kids at around 6 and 8. 6 was maybe a little early, but not much (and will vary by kid, of course).

One thing that really added to the fun when they were making games is I got a PS3 controller (which is bluetooth) and connected that to the computer as a keyboard, which Scratch code can then read and use in the games.

The first big (for them) project we did was: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/219423211/ They had just turned 7 and 9 when we did that and dad helped them out with a fair bit of guidance (and cribbing from other projects), but after this one, they really took to playing around with it on their own and a few times per month, I'll look over and see Adam using scratch around 5 years later.

PS: There is a Scratch Jr if your kids don't seem quite old enough to have the attention span/focus for scratch.
The current age of global peace is wonderful and pleasant. It is also young and fragile. Other countries can choose who they wish to align with, I hope most liberal democracies will find the United States to be a more reliable ally than China or Russia.

The price of association with the US is, as you say, US influence; however, US influence is much less restrictive and oppressive than many other major players today and historically. Our EU allies regularly criticize us in public forums; North Korea does not have the political freedom to criticize China and Belarus does not have the political freedom to criticize Russia to the same extent that United States' allies do today.

It's high time for global players to wake up from the ideal world where everyone can get along with zero tariffs or restrictions. The United States must do what is in her best interests and other states should follow her lead. I believe it is the US best interest that the world is more free, and should that eventual goal require some restriction of hostile foreign entities' freedom to operate on US soil, so be it.
The analogy is deeply flawed since nobody is changing their race to fight racist social roles. Just imagine going to a classroom and telling the audience that some children are born in the wrong body that does not align to their real, deep race.

Rather, we fight racism by rejecting racialized social roles. There is nothing racist in acknowledging current racial inequality, but it's deeply racist to suggest there exist a "real", inner race that influences our behaviors, and if society pushes us into racialized roles, it's because they don't afirm our "true race".

Similarly, we fight sexism by rejecting gendered social roles, biological sex is a minor anatomical detail that - aside from well specified domains, such as reproduction and raw physical strength - should have no bearing on someone's ability and right to perform any social role they desire.

To do anything else for pragmatic reasons is as if the suffragettes would have dressed up as men on election day and attempt to vote that way; ie, recognize and reafirm the restriction instead of attacking the fundamental inequity of the male-only vote.
I was about to set up a matrix server with Cloudflare Tunnel, but now I'm going to try funnel instead due to e2ee staying intact.
Which part of stock comp is causing the issue? Is this what was granted this year but is vesting over multiple (e.g. 4 years)? Is this the stock granted in past years but vesting this year?
Modern jazz doesn't use ii-V-I?
One of our new recruiters unbeknownst to the rest of the team posted a job on Craigslist as well as the typical places and more than one interviewee mentioned to me that they thought the job may be a scam before googling us.
it hosts a communication service for organisations and individuals to build followings and broadcast messages. I guess its about whether you see Twitter as more than its user interface or not.
A trend with Real consequences : I so often check my computer screen luminosity. As a side note I find sound level on YouTube and netflix very low. I don't remember having to turn all the sound slider from the youtube or Netflix player to my speaker to the max in the past. Now I have to do it systematicaly, and I don't have any audition problem.
TFA mentions both of the first two points but not the last two
One of the fun things about having a kid is realising how fundamentally-learned everything is, and how much we adults end up taking for granted. I catch myself so many times explaining things to my daughter, and then realising that the terms and concepts I'm using in the description also need describing. (She's 22).
makes you wonder did the commenter read the article at all?
Definitely check out nix2container— it's fundamentally oriented around asserting state on the remote container registry rather than your local store, so it not only won't push layers that already exist remotely, it won't even pull the contents necessary to assemble them, which can be a huge time savings for incremental building of these things:

https://github.com/nlewo/nix2container
The other reply to your comment is a curious one, they don't make their case and have taken a pretty aggressive tone while also giving you the straw man treatment.

In the meantime I'll keep reading to see what I can find, I'm sure there must be something out there (and would still be very grateful if someone can point me in the right direction.)
Yesterday, I set up tailscale on a GCP box for just this - running a local server and serving it on GCP. I thought hmm, wouldn't it be cool if tailscale could just do this for you? And now, it does.. lol. Super cool!
The leap from "we must stop working people to death" into "telling parents they aren't doing a good job" is quite large.
In today's world, it's not just enough to be a good programmer, you need to be a great problem solver that uses their creativity to come up with unique solutions that machines can't replicate
The computer allows you to cut down your design so that it will do "at least X and no more" so you can save a few cents and then the plane falls apart when the pilot asks it to do Mach 3.6 but that's OK because the manual said it will top out at 3.5
OpenAI is training on copyrighted data without a licence. I would argue copyright law has much stronger legal standing than some ToS.

Now OpenAI is arguing their training is fair use, but that has certainly not been legally established so far and could just as much be used as a defence against ToS violation.

So in short yes OpenAI is pretty much doing the same thing.
Thanks for the tip! Just ordered a light bulb from them to check them out against the standard crap I have around my house. Curious to see the results.
Doubtful. Attendance isn't taken when there are several hundred people involved on a zoom call (if it is, thats a red flag for me). Its likely that corporate-speak at these types of things mentioned various tidbits of info that, if recognized, were signs that things were not trending well. I suspect being remote is also the case since then you lose the perspective of a look on someone's face after a meeting or water-cooler talk.
If someone puts a gun to your head, what harm has been done?

Well, the potential harm is only deniable by the biggest of shills, but, technically, the only harm is psychological.
The Anatomy of Your Salary
The comment section is great , but if I need to find out quality of a random consumer product, what is the chance I will find it in this comment section? like 1%?
What I meant is that if this draft becomes a law, you'd have even worse law than what we have in Russia now.

The sad fact is that in the present day United States proposing such a law is not a political suicide.
The commercial API has nothing at all to do with the third-party client API.
I fear that during a "total war" scenario, militaries will use AI powered automatic doxing and extortion tools to target civilian populations, as they have in the past with 'strategic' bombing.

Something alone the lines of "Quit or sabotage your work at the power plant, or we'll tell your wife about [all the reddit accounts you ever used, all the thots you swiped on tiktok, etc]" You can imagine more potent examples I'm sure.

This sort of thing has always been possible for high-profile targets, done manually by intelligence agencies; it's the 'C' in MICE. What's new is being able to scale these attacks to the general population because it no longer takes extensive manpower to research, contact and manipulate each targeted individual.
You could be right, but using your favourite n-gram viewer, it looks like there is a relationship

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%28chalkboard+...

Any thoughts on that apparent correlation? My (implicit) assertion was: in times of racial tension, people avoid(ed) using the word 'black' not wanting to appear racist. That seems reasonable to me, could there be some causal relation in the other direction?
That is the commercial API. People keep treating these the same, when they have nothing to do with eachother.
I think you need to rate limit and auth most free consumer-facing end points, given the maliciousness of public traffic. Limiting it is just protecting yourself from its worst excesses, that doesn't necessarily mean you don't want to be a platform.
The open API access is a very large differentiator for Twitter and Reddit because of the presence of novelty accounts/bots, automatic moderation tools etc. Twitter can follow along with Facebook wrt APIs, but then there's less of a reason to use Twitter instead of Facebook.
It will affect their cashflow if they can’t continue to pay staff in stock based comp.

Lyft operates in Canada.
Thank you for the feedback. What in particular is making it hard to start trying it out? I'm curious because lowering the barrier for entry is important for getting people to start using this.
> Founders that have been source of advice and support.

What are the specific logistics/semantics of reaching out to a group of "founders" with targeted questions? Is it an e-mail chain? Is there a group chat? Discord? WhatsApp? iMessage?

I feel like if you were to ask 10 different "founders" general questions about "should I do XYZ in business?" (pivot, grow, measure how much you should listen to or ignore existing noisy customers, raise prices, don't raise prices, offer a free tier, don't offer a free tier), aren't you possibly going to get 10 different answers given that business isn't an exact science? Or... is it?
> that any reasonable rumination on a statement of fact followed by a directive concludes with the assessment that nothing inappropriate happened.

If everyone responded in a way you find reasonable we'd be a lot more monotonous. "It takes all kinds" is not just an idiom of tolerance, it's a genuine fact. We would not have as vibrant and productive a culture if we were monotonous.

> Shouldn't we expect people to be fundamentally reasonable in this way

No.

> even if some people have a hard time with it?

Especially not then.

> I would say that is what striving for excellence looks like.

I would say that "striving for excellence" means it takes two to tango (I feel in the mood for idioms :P). To most effectively ameliorate impolite situations both parties need to respond, not just the one who felt that they received impoliteness.

> The military certainly does care about optimal functionality

Just like almost every other organization (other than NIST) optimality is not the priority, adequacy is. "Is this adequate to our needs? Great, we go with it."

> It's not a situation with any good outcomes, and is wildly different from a volunteer army (or corporation).

And yet we still get active shooter situations in volunteer militaries and civilian corporations.

> emulating some of the most professional organizations out there

Why are these organization more "professional" than other corporations which practice professions?

> militaries, intelligence organizations, industry leaders, etc.)

Militaries typically don't have competition anymore, except for other militaries. And when they do face irregular forces they don't always outright win. There are very few non-military martial forces, and I would guess most of those follow a military cultural structure. We're a long way from bands of warriors (e.g. "The 13th warrior"). Even then, we have seen that volunteer forces function better than draft forces.

As there is no more competition, has the effectiveness of these particular direct organizational cultures been experimentally validated against other organizational cultures? In which contexts (i.e. does the effectiveness universalize to all sorts of organizations and professions)?

> All of these organizations are characterized as "toxic" in wider circles specifically for the traits that allow them to succeed.

And you know these traits are responsible for their success (and not their failures) because why? And that, even if so, the effectiveness of these traits will generalize to the success of other organizations?
Hmmm... makes me even more cautious to use its output, much less blindly rely on its output, when building safety-critical software systems.
Those weren't the headlines in 2016 though. The "troops amassing" headlines only started appearing about 6 months before it all kicked off (that I can recall), after the US intelligence services became pretty much certain it was going to happen. Even then European leaders had their heads buried completely in the sand, Macron flying back and forth making a fool out of himself thinking he could talk Putin out of it. In 2016, it was more general and then a year or two later there was the whole Salisbury incident and it intensified even more. It's kind of mad really that it took til 2016 for the sentiment to properly turn considering they invaded Crimea in 2014. Looking back, the entirety of Europe was in a state of denial because they were addicted to the cheap energy.

Edit:
Just realised I might have misinterpreted this and that you're instead talking about the headlines from 2013/2014. It seemed to me like it died down pretty quick after the Crimean invasion until 2016 but I'm probably entirely wrong and just wasn't paying enough attention.
Amazon sues sellers for issuing bogus takedown requests on competitors
> infrared LEDs that emit at 940 nm

Is there any LED capable of emitting 780nm? Or maybe a luminophore for letting manufactures to convert invisible 940nm into anything visible? AFAIK both answers are negative.
Poster didn't give a start date, how can you assume it's been bullshit for most of it's existence? For all you know poster is 40 years old and is going off of what has been talked about over than last 30.
Judge asks ChatGPT to decide bail in murder trial
As I said 58 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34597194

> Ugh, this frustrates me. You are just saying that the _mix_ put on vinyl is better than the mix put on CD. That same mix put on CD would be even better due to higher fidelity of the format. Vinyl is a strictly worse format... unfortunately it's also an easier source of better mixes.

Demand better mixes, not vinyl.
Here's another paraphrase from the same book, adapted to the current situation:

Nanny state bad.
Nanny state with watered-down regulations, but which still bails out us when we screw up royally - better!
Ford hikes F-150 Lightning's price again to battle high costs
Handled ones are sold for $0.40 / bag (offhand, I purchased like 10 of them when this insanity started), and I've thus far reused most of the bags in the set 4x, one 5x, and one had a handle failure early in life.

I'm convinced that paper, even used once and tossed into a landfill, is better for the environment, and that the effort involved in reusing the bags is not worth creating a more durable bag that can't instead be reused as packing paper, a bin liner, or some other task before it joins the long term molecular reprocessing cycle.

If the waste stream company didn't charge extra for a kitchen scraps bin (which is co-mingled with yard waste, that I refuse to create) I'd gladly properly dispose of used bags in that container instead, along with food scraps.
The fingering we use is taken directly from: https://beam.kisarazu.ac.jp/~saito/research/PianoFingeringDa...

From their whitepaper: "Fingerings in the dataset were provided by experienced pianists who graduated from a music college or who had played the piano for more than twenty years. The pianists were asked to choose pieces that they could play and provided the fingering that they had actually used for the performance."
Satellite photos from space show California’s transformation from dry to lush
Literally none of those things are part of the fancy coffee world I'm talking about. That's all bog standard mass-market salesdroid lying. Citing them in a discussion of home espresso is like dragging McDonald's and 7-11 into a conversation about fine dining.
Opioid dependence is a helluva drug.
I created a subdomain like local.example.com and pointed it at 127.0.0.1 in the DNS.

I wanted to suggest using a .test domain but managing the hosts file is always really clunky, even with a slick tool like hostess[1].

1: https://github.com/cbednarski/hostess
> To the extent that you see claims that “ancient humans ate large amounts of rotten meat” I suspect they’re conflating that with merely “spoiled by modern food standards” meat, which is much less rotten than it sounds.

The example from TFA suggests you are wrong about that -- at least judging by the rotten meat dripping with maggots:

"In one recorded incident from late-1800s Greenland, a well-intentioned hunter brought what he had claimed in advance was excellent food to a team led by American explorer Robert Peary. A stench filled the air as the hunter approached Peary’s vessel carrying a rotting seal dripping with maggots."
I run Tumbleweed on my desktop PC and the laptop, both of which have NVIDIA GPUs. I have to say this is the first time that my systems are bug-free. Previously on Kubuntu I constantly experienced graphical glitches. I pray they don't come back to me again.