skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to Madison for grad school and I absolutely loved the place. I also grew up in Durham, NC which OP mentions so I can compare the two.

Madison was absolutely beautiful and I loved the culture and the people I met. I also loved that it's very pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly. I think the downside is that it's a little bit small, dominated by the university, and not very age-diverse. If you are in your thirties and explore Madison's cultural life, most of the people you meet are going to be younger than you.

As for Durham, this has changed for the better since I lived there, but what I disliked was that it felt very suburban and car-centric. There are nice bike paths and parks, but if you want to get from place A to B, then you drive, period. That said, there's been a lot of development downtown in recent years, and I think this might be changing.

The overwhelming positive of Durham is its diversity -- and the near-universal appetite for culture. For example I decided to try swing dancing, and I found huge and very energetic crowds -- and the people there were of all ages and walks of life. This felt very representative -- try out anything in Durham, and you will find an incredible community doing it.

The wild-card about Durham is that it's sort of laid back, and people seem to move there because they want a compromise between culture on the one hand, and nice weather and an easy-ish life on the other. I met a couple of dance teachers who were at the absolute center of the swing dance scene in San Francisco, and got burned out and moved to Durham. Listening to them made me want to move to SF, which I later did. But for many, Durham strikes a perfect balance.
I've really enjoyed "graphic audio" adaptation of books with better sound effects, voices, and adaptations to the medium. Too bad it's not a wider selection.

https://www.graphicaudio.net/
"How to be a decent human in the world" is always a fruitful discussion. It is, perhaps, the most important one.
His comment regarding preemptive vs cooperative scheduling, so which is it? Does Go have preemptive scheduling or not? I was under the impression that it did get that somewhat recently? Could anyone point me in the right direction?
I'm utterly unconvinced that AR/VR is a large market or is going to be game changing in every day life. I can see why Apple feel that they need to have a product in the market, but I wouldn't be surprised if its presented as “Just a Hobby” the same way that Steve Jobs presented Apple TV back when it launched (and for a good few years later).

I really do think that Apple are much more likely to present some interesting AI products that run locally on Apple Silicone, thats where they truly can do something different and new that will impact all their customers. It will help them sell the next generation of iPhone and Macs.

I want my AI to be local and privet.

In some ways I think Humain have a better idea where this market is going to go. I'm not convinced by their product, I think it should be built into a phone, and I would be suppressed to see Apple do some stuff similar.

To copy what I put in a comment the other day, a next gen Siri with chatGPT like functionality, trained on all your docs, email, calendar, movements, browser history, video calls. All local and not in the cloud:

"Hey Siri, I had a meeting last summer in New York about project X, could you bring up all relevant documents and give me a brief summary of what we discussed and decisions we made. Oh and while you're at it, we ate at an awesome restaurant that evening, can you book a table for me for our meeting next week."
> What exactly do you want? A service that will spend their money to deliver arbitrary HD video on demand and lose money?

I'd probably want options instead of a singular proprietary garden, antithetical to the open web, where all content is hosted.

Just one example: I'd be fine with a service that respected my time and just had a list of sponsored links associated with the content of the video, but everything was in 480p-720p. Maybe that wouldn't be ideal for everyone, but that's how the web was supposed to work: lots of approaches, only unified by consensus-derived protocols.
So, just like every other site?
Small correction: Visual Studio community is only free to use if you are a small company (250 PCs or 1M in revenue) plus a few other exceptions. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/de/license-terms/mlt03181...

Regardless, Microsoft is free to do what they want, including licensing parts of a software as open source while keeping other things closed source, but their loud marketing around .NET being fully open source has caused other projects (like Godot) to move from Mono to .NET. If .NET turns out to not be open source in practice because you can't compile it for Windows without proprietary stuff, then that will be damaging to the projects using .NET for open source development. Here's to hoping that I just horribly misunderstood everything and this is not the case.
So I guess 7.zip isn't allowed?
Sure there is no evidence that the popular depiction of “learning styles” has any effect on learning. But it’s pretty obvious that everyone is different and will learn better from certain sources than others. It’s just not able to be reduced to a simple concept like a style.
My retort would be:

If you have a singular employee doing a certain unique job, or a very small handful, then it's pretty trivial to instead manage them directly on a human level. You don't need Orwellian tech tools to have conversations with them and make a one-off evaluation as to whether they're giving it the effort and authenticity it should, and again: results matter. What were your expectations (in terms of accomplishments) in hiring this role, and are they being approximately met?

But if you have a lot of employees doing a similar job, then it just gets increasingly easier to be objective about it. Look at their actual outputs statistically, and find the outliers and focus effort on those cases. Does Joe's output sit two standard deviations below the median? Why? Maybe there's a good reason and you document it and move on, or maybe they're just being deceitful. I still don't think mouse/eyeball tracking or virtual timecards are going to help much.
When it hallucinates and makes a libellous statement that you then repeat to others—oh boy, you're gonna have such an experience.
It's hardly an ordeal to press ctrl-shift-n, or right-click and "Open link in incognito window". There are no ads with uBlock Origin allowed in incognito windows. There is no need to worry about manually maintaining watch history either.
Curious how this will compare to the nreal air. I’m not sure why apple insists on leading here. They should just wait until the tech is ready.
I think instruction and examination could and should be split. Independent assessors could accept anyone, much like you can take a foreign language proficiency test now, or a driver license test. Some common standards will be adopted, or emerge where absent.

Certain kind of examination will take pretty long to be comparable with what a university can assess. A course project, one that demonstrates some breadth and depth of knowledge of the course's material, may take weeks or months to complete. Which, on the other hand, should be fine, both in a traditional university setting, and outside it.
It is possible to include multiple binary attachments and text content in certain HL7 V2 message structures. Just use multiple OBX segments.
Ben Thompson wrote exactly about my point in his newsletter. But thanks for your accusation.
Foundations are often missing: semantics. This is the dividing line, I find, between practitioners and researchers. Like most dichotomies there is some bleed over between the two groups: I consider myself a practitioner but I tend to think in terms of semantics and try to keep up with the research. I know of many researchers who dabble in practice and build things with the fruits of their labours.

The difference between soil and foundation is almost as vast as the difference between soil and atmosphere. For people who think about programming in foundations they're more interested in how solving recurrence relations can lead to better optimizations; more generally speaking, how formal calculation of programs is influenced by or limited by language.
Sure if you consider programmers at Uber, Google, Docker/Kubernetes "less talented".
What do you mean by generation?

BotW was released originally for Wii U, wasn't it? Which belongs to the previous generation.

EDIT: I looked it up. It was first aimed to be a Wii U exclusive, but in the end was released simultaneously on the Switch.
Agreed. Going on a vacation is an experience. Doing a Google search is not.
Yes, because a couple of Go folks joined the team doing the prototype in Java, and drove the rewrite into Go.

There is a FOSDEM talk about it.
When will we get a tiny Linux handheld with 1 or 2 GB RAM and a couple of cores?
Any core, I mean. RISC-V my favorite, but anything else in the 32-bit range would be ok too. I mean a real battery-operated product I can slip in my pocket.
NOT a smartphone, though.
In fact this is a common technique used for memorisation
Zelda runs at 30 fps (when it doesn't drop to 20)
This sounds like the answer I was looking for. Thank you!
What did the earliest animals look like?
I mean, I hate to break it to you all, but all y'all obsessing about FPS are the minority. By a lot.

While it has by no means killed the XBox or the Playstation line, I think they've obsessed over that segment of the market more than they should have to their own detriment, particularly due to the expense of keeping up with it. As a side effect it has also convinced that segment that they're bigger than they actually are. Most people don't care.

My kids don't care. My kids were lined up with allowances and/or birthday money in hand on day one. They're loving it.

I am too. It's not a skinner box designed to extract the rest of their money from them. It's a complete, quality product. No subscription pass. No seasons. No loot boxes for money. No gambling mechanics designed to secretly back to real world money. They made a good choice.

I'm sympathetic. I care at least some; not obsessed but I do understand what you're getting at. And even that position + total obsessing is clearly in the minority.

Nintendo knows what they're targeting, they hit it, and while you're complaining about the fps not being very good they're rolling in dough. I mean, if I had to choose between satisfying the fps obsessives and making more money than I even know what to do with, I know which I'd choose.
Indeed, as proven by the massive popularity of alcohol
Yeah, the place to solve this is within Congress. If they want to keep the debt limited, they can control that by passing budgets that fit. If they want a rule to manage that, they can make one.
that's your take away from this? so tired of hearing about the e word, and all this therapy talk in business/tech world. "psychological safety" and "vulnerability" (not related to security unfortunately) are two others that make constant rounds among the management caste. i instantly cringe when someone starts talking about this crap at work. please, just focus on your job.
Are these FALD backlights for LCDs, or full-resolution LED arrays?
There's this one too: https://archive.is/6auZH

I don't use archive.is that often so I don't know if that link is any different from the one up there ^
> How is that supposed friend, who might very well be aware of this person's blog, going to feel after reading this?

Friends are people you can talk like this about and they are still your friend afterwards.
I agree with the forced positivity thing, I work for an American firm and if you're not positive, you're reprimanded. I had to be told several times to learn to feedback constructively.

While I do appreciate this, and I understand it, I just feel like a robot now, not a human at work. So much tip toeing around issues it all just feels so fake and there is little room for emotion.

Sometimes, I think it's ok to just be honest with people , but not in America for some reason.
Yeah, there have been so many times during gameplay I've said "man, this crazy scenario I somehow concocted by tossing a lazer cannon glued to a fan into the middle of a group of bad guys sure is fun—but if it were just running at 10fps more I could really enjoy it."

The game looks and plays great. Most people won't notice framerate. You don't have to either.
A mere clef change is a purely mechanical adjustment. The point of an urtext edition is to try to avoid new creative work being added.
>The Chinese team is not rejecting the results obtained by the team at UoR—instead, they suggest it is possible that the nitrogen dopant present in their material was of insufficient quantity to produce the desired effect. They also note that in their sample, the dopant was unevenly distributed. They suggest further testing is needed to verify the results obtained by the group at UoR.

Replication can be hard. Failure to replicate shouldn't lead to immediate rejection.
Yeah. A friend telling me I'm being annoying or stupid is fine. The narcissism of turning your life into content creation where I happened to cameo isn't something I could ever get used to though. :p

That feels like such a new and toxic dynamic enabled by the fact that anyone can (and is incentivized to) blog online.
My take is simply that programming has gotten way bigger. People seem to think that in the “old days”, programmers ate raw potatoes and programmed in assembly because it put hairs on their chest. The reality is, computers were way simpler objects back then. Assembler on the Intel 4004 has like, 30 opcodes or something. The list fits on your phone screen without scrolling. Modern javascript bundlers pull in more code than entire operating systems back then. C only has about 20 keywords. If you know assembler, you can probably learn K&R C in a weekend if you go hard. Modern C++? Forget it. Apparently the spec just for c++ initialisers is 300 pages long.

Today the same amount of knowledge makes you barely passable in a single niche domain. Consider web development. To get really good at modern web development, you need to know modern javascript, CSS and html. You need to understand how browsers work and all the quirks of how http requests and loads webpages - including what dozens of http headers do and how they interact. You need to understand the browser rendering process, performance tools, accessibility and debugging tools. And learn dozens of javascript libraries, like react, express, webpack, database wrappers, and so on. It’s accomplishment to learn all of that. But if you do, you still only know web programming. That knowledge doesn’t really translate to operating systems work, mobile development, databases, AI, embedded, etc.

Most professional programmers only have the inclination and capacity to learn one ecosystem. And, even then usually with big holes in their knowledge. True polyglots are rare because the mountain you need to climb to get there is higher. But we also depend on polyglots to guide us toward useful tools. Language / ecosystem choice still matters. It matters for performance, velocity, security and compatibility. But how can you really evaluate that stuff unless you’ve spent time debugging Go programs, or tried to squeeze every last drop of performance out of a big legacy Java monolith?

We’re left talking imperfectly from our own experiences. And living in whichever niche of programming we’ve carved out for ourselves. The days of everyone being all terrain programmers is over.
Learning Activities for Children
Engaging children in learning activities is crucial for their overall development and academic progress. By providing them with fun and interactive experiences, children can enhance their cognitive, social, and emotional skills. Here are some learning activities for children that promote active learning and foster a love for knowledge:

Storytelling and Reading: Encourage children to read books or tell stories. This activity stimulates their imagination, improves vocabulary, and develops their listening skills. Create a cozy reading corner at home and let them explore different genres.

Arts and Crafts: Engage children in arts and crafts activities that promote creativity and fine motor skills. Provide them with various materials like paints, papers, clay, and recycled items. Encourage them to create their own masterpieces.

Nature Walks: Take children on nature walks to explore the environment around them. Teach them about different plants, animals, and natural phenomena. Collect leaves, rocks, or flowers for further observation and discussion.

Puzzle Solving: Puzzles challenge children's problem-solving abilities and improve their logical thinking skills. Provide age-appropriate puzzles like jigsaw puzzles, Sudoku, or word puzzles. Collaborate with them to solve complex puzzles together.

Music and Dance: Encourage children to explore their musical talents through singing, playing instruments, or dancing. Music and movement activities enhance coordination, memory, and self-expression.

Cooking and Baking: Involve children in simple cooking or baking activities. Let them measure ingredients, follow recipes, and assist in food preparation. This activity enhances math skills, reading comprehension, and promotes healthy eating habits.

Gardening: Allocate a small area in the backyard or provide pots for children to engage in gardening. Teach them about plants, watering, and maintaining a garden. This activity cultivates responsibility, patience, and an understanding of the natural world.

Outdoor Sports: Encourage children to participate in outdoor sports like soccer, basketball, or cycling. Physical activities not only promote fitness but also teach teamwork, discipline, and resilience.

Virtual Field Trips: Utilize technology to take children on virtual field trips to museums, national parks, or historical sites. This allows them to explore different cultures, history, and the natural world from the comfort of their homes.

Remember, learning activities should be tailored to the child's age and interests. Encourage their active participation, provide guidance when needed, and celebrate their achievements. By incorporating these activities into their routine, children can enjoy learning while developing essential skills for a lifetime.
MINIX v3 is an actual OS.
Of course, no RISC-V and, definitely, not 2K LOC.
They will be overused and over valued. Vast swaths of people will believe they are actually perfect oracles. They will create higher quality spam for everyone.
I'm working on an AI agent that functions as a Project Manager. It will pull Jira task statuses, ask for updates, lead standup, and measure velocity - all with a bit of sass.
I saw this quote by buffet where he was talking about the top 10 stocks by market cap 40 years ago. I think 4/10 were Japanese companies. Japan has a very high debt to GDP ratio. As of 2023 none of those companies are in the top 10 anymore. The highest ranked Japanese company is in the 50s (Toyota).

I wonder if the US will be in a similar position in 30 years or if the debt to GDP ratio and the USAs spending. I see people say all of the time it doesn't matter because "it's not like household debt" but I fail to see how it doesn't catch up to the US eventually.

Maybe correlation != causation here though and the decline of Japan's dominance in the stock market has nothing to do with their debt to GDP ratio.
Just as Microsoft forked .NET Framework to make CoreCLR, they forked Mono. Both live in the http://github.com/dotnet/runtime repository. Both share most of the same C# code base for their runtime libraries. Mono is used for Blazor (WASM), iOS, and Android.

This merging was announced as part of .NET 5 but I recall that it was not complete till .NET 6.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/
And it seems they're making every effort to drive you crazy if you don't subscribe to premium.

Hulu is doing something similar using crazy loud ads on their non-premium subscription. Searching their support forums for "ads too loud" brings up threads going back multiple years. I thought this practice was illegal, but perhaps there is a loophole when it comes to streaming content?
When the wall was ten feet away, the wall was "nothing changes", ca 0° warming. Then the wall was 1° warming, then 1.5°, ... We're still accelerating towards 3-5° warming. Coral reefs for example are already doomed, there is nothing we can do to save them. A degree or two more and highly populated areas will become either too hot to live or too dry for agriculture. Then the wars for water and land start.
nintendo's playbook: bet on withered technologies.

which means their focus is only on gameplay mechanics, story and art direction. not focusing on bugs that are well not known cz of using something too new, expensive etc.

not fancy graphics, or other modern fancy things - that don't really add anything to the game.

wish the software industry would learn to bet on old technologies and develop novel experiences on those.

not the current - move to the latest framework, hardware etc. while presenting shit.
It proves that Nintendo is incapable of doing anything new tbh, where are the new IPs?
Hope the rumor in this article that Apple will sell the device at cost is true. Oculus understood that they needed to sell cheaply at first. I don't expect Apple to come in at $299, but the rumored $3k is a pretty heavy lift.
I dislike when it’s a full cast, I actually prefer a single person to voice it. Having different voices makes it feel like I’m listening to a movie rather than reading a book.
> All local and not in the cloud

Apple execs: "why not both?"
How does one use a blackboard outside? What happens when your work day is going well but you have light rain in the afternoon?
> pop-in of objects isn't as jarring.

I don't play modern games and am hardly a connoisseur but I seem to recall this being a mostly-solved problem via "level of detail" and hardware fog effects... has pop-in been an issue in the last decade? Saturn/PS1 games having it was par for the course but modern hardware is so powerful that it seems unnecessary.
George Varghese Releases Second Edition of His Book Network Algorithmics
I think people tend to move where the economy is hot. The reasons are obvious: it's not fun sitting at your mum's house, while everybody thinks you're a loser, essentially because the economy is averaging negative GDP growth year on year, and nobody is getting hired.

That's mostly a social thing, not a lifestyle thing. Being unemployed in Italy (or really anywhere) is worse than having a decent job basically anywhere else.
Nintendo didn't really need to do any marketing beyond "Hey we are releasing a new Zelda game, it will run on the Switch you bought years ago mostly in order to play the previous Zelda game".

I've been playing games for 30+ years, at no point have I cared deeply about the difference between 30fps and 60fps. I do not like 5fps-stuttering, which happens sometimes in poorly optimised AAA games no matter how good (within reason) the GPU.

The new Zelda runs well and looks good. I like it, though it's very much "BOTW Continued" which maybe we didn't need, I might have preferred a completely fresh world & characters instead of the same Hyrule a few years later.
The 747 actually had rather small engines. First of all, it had 4 and they were older-style with low bypass ratio. The 777 isn't that far from 747 capacity, but only sports 2 gigantic engines, they not only need to be more powerful, but have high bypass ratios to improve efficiency. They are even wider than the body of a 737.
Minor but important correction: it did not find that "works that lack the force of law" are uncopyrightable per se. It found that works created by or for legislators with "legislative authority" are uncopyrightable, even if they lack the force of law.