skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes my kids have been talking about the pervasive phone use in their elementary school

Unrestricted phones too it seems
Yeaaah, I didn't really thought much on the nick while creating account. I just picked first person I saw on Wikipedia page.

Okay, to be more serious - thank you
Why name drives after letters of the alphabet? It was never scalable. It was semantically meaningless. Many OSs don't distinguish physical containers from the file structure explicitly. It's so old and creaky and pointless it's breathtaking.
That hasn't come up with my customers. They run web applications they need live 24/7. We do see traffic patterns but no times with zero activity.

I have seen over-provisioning with almost every customer I take on. Once we look at actual usage we can scale back. Often they have things like multiple web servers and load balancers they don't need, excessive database replication and backup retention. I've seen fully redundant setups in secondary regions for failover, but no failover plan or testing. That can all add up.
PocketBeagle is a cool very tiny (smaller than a business card) Linux SBC if you want something kinda similar: https://beagleboard.org/pocket
It isn't a culture. It's more hours for no more money. It is simply wage theft.
the sad thing is that in a lot of professions like this you need social media to promote your work
> Because simulating damped springs requires calls to potentially expensive trigonometric and exponential functions…

It doesn’t though if you go numerical and simulate with Euler or RK4. That approach also fits well to the application in a video game with discrete time steps. I wonder why the author chose to go with the closed form solutions.
The companies I work at are all using either Google Docs or Office 365. The collaboration benefits are pretty immense, and can save people a lot of synchronization and communication effort. Most my colleagues see oldschool desktop document editing software as obsolete and frustrating to work with.
A naive CRUD may accept local times to make things easier for users, not realizing the DB needs UTC. Juniors often commit this error unless told ahead of time. Then you may have weeks or months of data that is wrong and possibly values from many zones.
Show HN: Basic Template for Astro
I think many folks are there for sex, and have no problem faking to get it.
How is Libre Office bad exactly?

It has always seemed like an excellent alternative to Microsoft Office to me.

What don't you like about it?
Of course it’s not sustainable. No modern farming is.

They’ve probably come up with some stupid technique like diverting the entire amazon river in order to pull this off. And then a few years down the line they’ll be asking where all the water went and why the forest is gone.
> Are you able to exchange your EUR to USD within Wise first?

I currently have nothing on my wise account, as I used the different solution I've described above. I will try that next time.
Cause its HBR. Conventional HR wisdom doesn't believe in nuance when its coming from the employers side - everything must be repeatable, process driven, and very corporate. Deviating off of that, is scary because it introduces bias into the mix and HRs responsibility is protecting the company. Having a hiring process that is personalized to a specific candidate is a no-no.
On the VAAPI thing, do you disagree with their legal analysis? Do you think they can ship patent-encumbered algorithms?

I think it sucks, but it would suck far more to see Fedora/Red Hat hit with legal challenges over it. It's also not usually a huge deal. This is the sort of thing that RPM Fusion has been great for many years.
An employer may consider you too verbose.
> It always seemed strange that there wasn’t any central database of binary parsers that everyone could contribute to.

file utility with /etc/magic database
In what ways it it superior?
I had a poster of Lara Croft in my childhood room. First the original, later Angelina Jolie. I never had another video game character on my wall. I was 10 when the first game came out.
Chat Completion API refuses to generate controversial content by default.
Make sure to enable the HiDPI mode which is not the default for some reason.
It's not replicating it that is impressive. That part is easy. Of course consciousness wouldn't be that hard. Of course it would be mostly an emergent property of various building blocks. Of course homo sapiens would eventually be able to do the same thing.

The impressive part is replicating it and then teaching it real Love. Love is a choice. Producing life that chooses to make that choice and defend that choice is impressive.
Apart from the font, all your questions are answered in the book's introduction. And this is still a work in progress.
In case I wasn't clear, my argument is that egress is most expensive for someone trying to migrate away from the system (assuming a big dataset with relatively low traffic). When comparison shopping at the beginning of a project, people often neglect the cost of someday wanting to switch. So this can be hidden vendor lock-in.
that is what CS programs at universities are for.
Male dominated genres that don't usually have main characters: 4X, RTS, racing, rhythm, shmup, competitive puzzle, realistic sim

Female dominated: casual puzzle, social sim

The rise of mobile games made those last two extremely popular, but that wasn't the case back when Tomb Raider was released.
I think it's safe to conclude at this point that Axios's editorial style is a failed experiment.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167733/axios-guide-writing-w...
US: We have to bring democracy to Brazil, ASAP.
Code is both a liability and an asset.
What coding LLM is the best?
To take a “draw the rest of the fucking owl” approach to explaining this. Picking up QR codes is just like picking up normal barcodes, or decoding any sort of structured signal from a noisy environment (the kinda thing that at the heart of all RF comms).

Basically the entire of subject area of electronics and signal processing exists to find clever ways to solving all the problems you mention. So for people that do for a living, there’s a huge set of standard algorithms and approaches you can apply to solve the problem of “detecting QR codes”, in the same way there’s standard approaches to sorting a list, or building a B-tree, or creating a query planner.

It’s realistically not possible to summarise the process into a HN comment, because that would require explaining decades of signal processing research in a handful of sentences.

To give a flavour for solving this problem, QR code alignment markers are designed to be easy to detect, regardless of angle or being partially obscured. Their large simple pattern means you can use crude algorithms to find all alternating back and white patterns in your image, then analyse those patterns to detect which ones are noise and which ones might be alignment markers. Stuff like the regular spacing of the alignment patterns, plus the timing strips between them, give you anchors to rapidly check if your looking at a set of actual alignment markers, or just things that happen to have the same shape as alignment markers. At which point you can start the expensive process of attempting to decode the QR data.

As for what algos to use to go from colour to greyscale, well that’s up to you to figure out. Building a crude QR code decoder is “easy” building a fast robust one is hard, and quite valuable. Nobody is gonna give you that kinda secret sauce for free, not when they can charge you for the hundreds of hours of R&D involved.

There’s an official spec for QR codes, it might even give you basic guidance on how build a very basic QR code decoder. But asking for a detailed spec on a fast robust QR decoder is like asking the IEEE for a detailed spec on how to build a 10Gbs Ethernet controller. It ain’t gonna happen, because building such a thing is hard, even once you know what signals you’re decoding.
Gaming too. And then we put it into our kid’s pockets, and started hiring psychologist to consult on game development…

They don’t stand a chance.

Part of the human experiment I guess. We’ll see where we end up. I suspect authoritarianism, rampant viruses, and a toxic environment while we entertain ourselves to death.
A lawsuit by Nolan Bushnell, with the settlement to be paid in quarters.
Really needs (2007) in the title.
You’ve got some pretty strong demands for services you require others to deliver. What is your contribution?
The IOMMU that is subservient to the cell modem, where the latter runs code of unknown provenance with the ability for ad-hoc, targeted updates over the network?
I would venture to guess they are suing BECAUSE they can’t do anything else

I’ll tell you that for the schools that my kids go to, parents would most likely throw a massive tantrum if they banned phones.

Beyond that…it wouldn’t work and would either be ignored and just another mis-applied or selectively punished thing or further turn every school into prison-lite.

In reality the entire school system is a sham intended to be public day care so that parents don’t have any reason they can’t go to work. So anything that would functionally work to improve education is orthogonal at best.
Or maybe it is? How does he know?
The first response could easily have been a lucky hallucination.
Now I'm curious if you can teach either sleight-of-hand trick to the monkeys.
But is that high paid era over?
the graph they include is pretty bad done https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i3vIWdzheOB...
if you play with data representation like than ... anything goes.

no good, bloomberg
Borges may have studied mathematics, but I posit that he was simply a well educated man of the time. Its not unreasonable to assume that he would have read ancient Greek thinking, grounding him in logic and paradoxes, for example, or looked at Pascal and Descartes for their philosophy and picked up mathematics on the way. I see evidence of a well educated and supremely well read humanist rather than someone quietly studying Cauchy and Legendre on the down low.
https://legiblenews.com once per day for major news headlines.
> If you know the mass and radius of the object, you can calculate the tidal force.

The issue is more the position of the object. Good luck doing trajectory correction for an object you can't see.

The "throw a bunch of rocks" technique might help, but since they'd be unpowered they're not going to be following a trajectory that minimizes tidal force. It's still going to be enormously difficult to thread the needle through an invisible object that's going to tear you apart if you're not on the right trajectory.

Perhaps the technique Beowulf Shaeffer used could work if it were done with instruments - measure the tidal forces aboard the ship and navigate accordingly to minimize them.
> Employees need a paycheck. It’s an asymmetric relationship. This becomes very apparent during economic downturns!

While this is certainly true, there still are usually enough jobs that fit the broad parameters of "pays enough to eat and take care of my rent". If you have a choice of a good boss at lower pay, or an a-hole boss at higher pay, you should take the good boss every time.

We spend 1/3, or more, of our lives at work, and life is far too short to spend any of it taking orders from an unpleasant, incompetent, or abusive a-hole. Not only will this make your time at work miserable, it will also lead to poor sleep and spending far too much of your "free time" brooding about your job. In that type of situation, you're not giving them 8 hours per day, you're giving them 24 hours per day. Eventually that's gonna take a toll on your physical and/or mental health. Don't do it.
Not just someone but dude was not ripping or cracking stuff for fun. He made business out of it and what’s worse he added ransomware to scam his “customers”.

POS deserved all of it if not more.
I think the material quality of life in important industrial cities like Norilsk was much higher than the provicnes in general.
The UK telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, publishes some useful annual research on this topic [1]. According to the media use and attitudes report 2023 [2]:

> Smartphone ownership shifts markedly in [the children aged 8-11] group, which correlates with the children’s transition to secondary school … As reported by parents, more than half of 8-11-year-olds (55%) owned a mobile phone, a significant increase on children aged 3-4 and 5-7 (both at 20%).

[1]: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/media-literacy-re...

[2]: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/255852/...
Apple May Announce Drop of 'Hey Siri' Trigger Phrase at WWDC
To be clear, “age checking” involves nothing more than having the user enter their birthdate via a datepicker. Not exactly the same kind of verification used for things like cigarettes or alcohol.
that will be like the case with Russia and China: The leftist are going to start to call it right. Now Russia and China are Right, not Left anymore. Cuba and Venezuela too. North Korea? radical right! Left for them, today, are just Germany and Norway.
That is 100% on the parent, not "social media"
CodeCompose: A large-scale industrial deployment of AI-assisted code authoring
It's still a bad foundation
sure, but at 425TB i'm guessing they're storing either everything in full or everything in full and uncompressed.

and compression can do a lot for text files like sources etc. for example (last time i did that) the linux kernel source code was about 1.2GB uncompressed, but ~60-70MB in tar+gz format.

surely there must be a way to reduce that size.
I noticed long ago that many people have their own interviewing “secrets”. Remember that story about how Henry Ford would fail applicants if they put salt on their meal without trying it first? A lot of people take stories/ideas like that to heart. The person interviewing you was probably offended you called him by his first name or something. “A good applicant won’t do that”.
it wasn't originally a hit but it grew into a cult classic.
> Complete with full source reproducibility

if you have full source reproducibility, why are artifacts needed then?
Even if that is the case, why not track the number of requests each user makes though to the api and “Bill” their account monthly. Some caching can help fractionalize some of those request costs for popular content.
Ask HN: What are you using AI for?
I enjoy how nlp models like github copilot make my life better but I still have yet to really see it make a difference. How are you using it in your life? Want to show off what you’ve built?
Lucky? More like expected. The ten hottest years ever recorded all occurred in the last ten years. I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict next winter will also be unseasonably mild in Europe… and everywhere else.
> adding things to the output is anything but harmless, and often forces us to fix the program right away.

is that not the idea?
more relevant in States. rest of the world isn't as obsessed with managing their egos
You can, the trouble is that you don't know that say, libfoo.so loads libbar.so at runtime, and so you need to also package up libbar.so.

Otherwise, libbar.so won't be found in your AppImage, will get loaded from the host instead, and now it explodes but only on some distributions.

In my case it was OpenSSL loading stuff at runtime.
Then this is an argument against "just having programs emit text that you filter somehow" as "the API", not against deprecation warnings.
> this basically amounts to never deprecating anything at all

yeah, though from the perspective of a sysadmin I suspect this is what they would prefer
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I moved to a keyboard with customisable firmware, as software painpoints always existed - Remote Desktop and virtual machines were inconsistent with how they worked etc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36174359
Check out the legendary Poc||GTFO articles: https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/ they are a treasure trove for this sort of information.

High level hacking requires assembly because you're trying to reverse engineer opaque APIs that aren't meant to be interfaced with. What other way is there to do that other than trying to examine what things are being moved to which memory addresses
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Well outside of work and more as spare time working on side projects or simply as a hobby, I think it depends on one's energy and if other things in life are getting in the way. When we're young, and a full time job not the most pressing thing on one's mind, such exploratory activities are generally spontaneous, we were a bundle of energy and enthusiasm and sheer determination to get the less than best coding or idea in general to work ... it wasn't uncommon for the young enthusiastic programmer to find their day fades into night and back into dawn and it's hardly been noticed ... days soon becoming weeks. When we get older, we've often got other life issues, commitments, bills to pay and as such many of us unconsciously self impose a structured order to the day, spare time being more to get over the day, to relax and not to tax the brain too much - and often we're so stuck in our thinking, the rigid structure remains even if one has found themselves out of work. However (not that I had much luck back in the day) I've seen over the years a couple of people push themselves to practice taking the time to pick something and spend the day working on it until it was just something they'd do, and did so without concerning themselves what else they had to do or were meant to be doing, they just ploughed right in.
> For some cultural reason that I'm not qualified to explain, the Spanish literary world is much more stilted than the English one. When I first read the Odyssey about 20 years ago, I found it more pleasant to read in English than in my native Spanish because all Spanish translations were full of intrincate poetic language and obscure words, while English ones where much more down-to-earth.

This is a common theme in Romance language writing, but it's especially so in Spanish. Lots of elliptical sentences longer than most paragraphs in English, requiring extensive effort to parse. Lots of flowery language. A bit of a word game, but usually just dreadful.

> (PS, since the post talks about Borges: he's an exception. He sounds like an Anglo-Saxon writer writing in Spanish).

He learned to read English before Spanish while living in Switzerland as a child. In a way he very much was an English language author writing in Spanish. The result is that his writing is very accessible in the original Spanish and very translatable to English, and his writings have a very unique flavor.
the name kind of sucks, why 'f' q? F for ... 'FU' ('teenage snigger'). It should be 'bq', binary query, after 'jq' json query.

Cool project none-the-less. The comment about 'programmatic documentation' of binary formats is very interesting, maybe some kind of 'binary description markup' could be part of this?
It's the same.
Dumme AI video editor creates YouTube Shorts in minutes
Yeah, totally agree, good point.
your politics don't matter to me since you spend your entire life in your house.
Yes, I was only today thinking I might reuse an old esp8266 thing I made and I thought - how did I even program that? And I would have been on Windows then, so how do I do it on Linux? I hope it will come back!
The interview process is a great filter for the candidates as well to understand if the company/team/manager is in one way or another, insane. The interview process exposes company culture in one way or another.

Things to watch for as a candidate:

* Is the process oddly impersonal with lots of gates to make it through before even talking to the team who is hiring?
Red flags - MBTI personality tests. Extremely hard tech tests that even half correct gets your through. Video recorded timed take home tests. Etc.

* Do the people hiring you know how to do the job, are they asking you anything relevant? Are all the interviews kind of high level 10k foot view, and/or in the weeds in weird ways?
Red flag - All there interviewees are peers to the hiring manager and above.
Red flag - Digging into arcane proof of concept code from 10+ year old white papers that the entire industry has moved past. Not the flex the interviewer thinks it is.
Red flag - Interviewers who seem confused why they are interviewing you, don't know what role it is for.

* If hiring into an existing team, are any of these peers part of the interview process?
Red flag if no - sign of huge turnover / mad max type org where you are being brought in to fight for survival.

* Is the process unclear, do new rounds keep popping up, do interviews keep getting rescheduled, are interviewees constantly late to the interview?
Red flag - Disorganized chaos, do they even actually have a role open they can hire, are they stalling?
The government already have all your personal information. If you mean that you don't trust a government API to do age verification, then that's already an option in some countries and it doesn't have to expose anything.

Denmark have MitID, which is a sort of government OIDC/OAuth2 thing. There's no issue in having it expose only a single claim, such as age, or adult=true/false in age verification scope. You don't have to open the floodgates to government data, in fact Denmark has navigated that pretty well through the last three iterations of our government issues online ID scheme. There's even laws preventing cross referencing data from different database, in the case that you for some reason have access to it.
HVAC quality in a house is nowhere as good as in a well-regulated office. The first thing I do at home is take of my shoes (from my culture) but also my socks. Working from home, I can't even think clearly in long sleeves most of the time. If the floors are particularly cool, I'll wear thin and loose fabric slippers.
Yes - as heat, but, unlike in the case of airplanes, remote detection of submarines by infra-red is only possible insofar as the surface water temperature is increased, as infra-red is just another form of EM that is strongly attenuated in water.

Nevertheless, I believe the detection of submarines by their heat output is being used. One thing I had not thought of until writing this reply is that, so long as this method is inefficient, a submarine propelled by this method will require a larger powerplant, with a correspondingly larger heat output (and noise output from pumps, etc.) than comparable submarines driven by propellers.
The grass is always greener. Most Canadian software engineers are getting paid much less for the same work as across the border. Currently there are layoffs, hiring freezes and pay increase freezes. Canadian software engineers make less than doctors. FAANG salaries are a thing but you have to be willing to move to the US in order to attempt to achieve that.
So your job is to create an undercover network to allow them to escape the clutches of evil republicans. I can certainly imagine that you don’t want to take responsibility for this drivel at work.
In case it wasn't clear, I was pointing out how silly it is wasting time recording your development efforts in case of lawsuits when you already have a comprehensive record in Git.
The Unexpected Joy of Giving Up on Your Dreams
One of my ideas is to find a way to indicate to a computer what you find interesting and then monitor the internet for what you find interesting.

A Google search query is too small definition and not rich enough.

Could use large language models to identify similar semantic space of your description of what you think is interesting or valuable.

I call it attention camping. Rather than everyone on HN or Instagram or Twitter trying to create things that are interesting to a mass of people, you can index your interests or ideas you find interesting, wait some time until it matches other people's interests and then schedule collective attention for 10-100-1000 people at a time. There's value in shared experiences.