skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I don't want is I buy an old Kobo on eBay, and find out it's not jailbreakable, or requires some library which requires a different version of Ubuntu, or whatnot.

I understand what you're getting at. When I was following some of the article links with respect to the Remarkable 2, I had the exact same concerns when they were discussing how you need to wait for the patches to be updated to new firmware versions since the screen driver was integrated into the software. Needless to say, I have also been bitten by such things with other devices.

That said, you picked a poor example. Kobos aren't locked down in any meaningful way. Anyone with a knowledge of Unix and how the update process works can inject their own software. There are no secrets. There is no encryption. At least when it comes to the operating system. It is the way hardware should be, albeit it is so rare for it to be so that it is easy to jump to conclusions.
Some people have been trying to make inclusions the new fetch which is stupid since if are so much better. Diamond does have superiority something like moassinite but the cost differential is way more than 3x for minor differences in wearability.
Tiny Forests with Big Benefits
What do you mean by "social skills?" As an immigrant with parents who limited social activity with peers, growing up I felt handicapped by my social skills in some areas (particularly dating, which my parents discouraged up to the moment they started asking for grandchildren). Now I'm pushing 40 with three kids and a real job, I realized I had just learned a different set of social skills. Because I was always expected to converse with and participate in activities with adults, I had no trouble when it came to joining the workforce, interacting with bosses, etc. And whatever discomfort I had navigating the artificial social context of age-segregated school just didn't matter--it wasn't a valuable skill outside that unique context.
> And they want companies with:

>> at least two managers or supervisors supporting the owner in bookkeeping, dispatch, sales, or project management

That sounds like a bigger business than “mom and pop” to be honest.
Neat.

> If a graph of nodes and edges with data about traffic volume is provided, it will render a traffic graph animating the connection volume between nodes.

How would one go about providing such a graph? :)
yeah i thought this was the case. There's a couple of other sites that - i hesitate to state this completely factual phrase - leave dumps for the public to pick up.
What a neat idea.

It sounds like around 10-ish rooms in an old mostly abandoned village. Conceivably one could maybe even rent them all out, have a family reunion or wedding in your own little town, haha.
The socialization argument is nonsense. Schools as factory farms came first -- with no regard for socialization -- then the socialization argument was made later to rationalize it.

Forcing kids (by constructing their environment in such a way) to have only relationships with kids that are precisely the same age as them is weird. Some healthy relationships with people who are a few years older in positive. Older kids/people need to be embedded in the social circle as role models. You get less bullying and should get faster social development. Homeschooling done right is more similar to how kids developed socially in our ancestral past (all the way up to a few hundred years ago). It's also more similar to how kids develop in much of the world outside of the West where larger family units are more tight knit.
There is no and has never been any true evidence that home schooled kids are worse at socialization then the ones that go to a traditional school, at least as far as I can tell. It's a meme that people propagate because it is "common sense," but none of the studies I've looked at supports it.
ITT: people who don't realize that when you become the apologist for white nationalist racist fascists, you identify yourself with them as and as one.

Also presumably some who do realize that, and do so, and are.
Based on experience, I suggesting finding your local missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist) and ask them to put you in contact with your current local ward bishop, wherever you are now, who has access to resources (including an employment agency, depending on whether it is set up in your area), and good, practical advice for your specific situation.
(Thoughtful comments appreciated with the downvotes; thank you.)
I like this example because it doesn’t rely on the US oddities that people often come up with for this topic (eg doctors doing extra, likely negative EV, procedures for fear of litigation).
Not sure. I would prefer not to spend $30K on an individual vehicle that requires gas, insurance, registration ... but no reasonable public transportation exists instead (west Omaha, Nebraska, FWIW).

Now if I lived in Tokyo I would be so hot to ditch the car!
I suppose that also ties in with stories like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37276869
For anyone that likes ncdu I would highly recommend gdu. https://github.com/dundee/gdu
Huh, my daughter and I taught her first grade class SET last year (I did most of the pedagogy…). They seemed both able to learn it and engaged. It wasn’t in a math circle setting, but a lesson to the whole class. Would be cool to investigate the differences!
In that case then "earliest known" is the only thing that should ever be said and there is no justification for claiming "first".
What is your point? That the cars themselves sometimes block traffic, therefore it's okay for protestors to stop them and block traffic?
Agreed but also this feels like a way to spending hundreds of engineer-years for a 7.3% speedup on the common case.
The boat or the moat?
There is no low wage workforce to invest into, because the job market is the whole EU. People (especially educated younger generation) won't work for low salary at home if they can earn more euros for the same work on the other side of the fence. Local businesses have to pay competitively.

And the fact countries can't use protectionist measures inside EU does not help either.
But a casual passerby spent 5 minutes thinking about a problem and uncovered a solution that the teams of domain experts missed in their years of dedicated work - surely there aren’t any downsides!
Since you brought up compiler engineer :-), I'll share that at the outset 100% of my colleagues and friends all said I had zero chance of succeeding writing compilers. They literally laughed, and it was a running joke among among them. The only person who believed in me was my dad, and he had no idea what I was trying to do.

I chose the path. Everyone tried to kick me off that path. I could have easily stayed with my nice, safe, corporate job at Boeing. Lots and lots of people do.

Influence should not be conflated with force. If someone put a gun to my head, I'd probably do whatever they ask. In fact, I have. Twice. That's force. It's a heluva lot different from mere influence.
It’s not just in a single ideological direction. Any post or comment even mildly considered controversial or verboten to discuss by a specific side gets it on here. I tend to still see them all because I read HN with a RSS feed reader and don’t see the flagged indicator until after I open the story. Generally I know either from the link url, or the topic that when I open the story the story will be flagged, or will have a # of comments flagged.

It’s really not disappointing to see supposedly smart people do this.
I agree to some extent that people can control their situation with choices, but I would like to push back on a few of those examples as I think it's a little disingenuous to say everyone can simply make choices in our society and do better. For example, living in a bad location also often means one would have limited options for work, which limits their income and prevents them from being able to just move out of that situation. Limited free time from working multiple low-paying part- or even full-time jobs to support oneself or others can make paths to gaining more education, whether free or not, just not feasible. Good luck getting a somewhat reasonable SBA loan with a criminal record! I know you are giving very simple examples, but many of them fail to account for the situation one would be in to require improving the situation. In theory, yes, I agree, there are ways out of bad situations simply by taking the correct steps, but those paths out may just not be open for people in the very situations where they might most benefit.

I've seen many truly impoverished areas of the United States (large swathes of West Virginia primarily come to mind, no offense to the West Virginians on here) where these paths are not tenable. Many of these areas straight up don't have regular internet access. These whole regions are lacking in education and options for mobility are severely restricted. I simply do not believe it is because everyone in that area has decided they just don't want to do better for themselves, but that there are systemic problems preventing these people from being able to take these steps.
Hey you know what; you do you.

I’m an EE by education. It’s electron state, silly leaky abstraction Stan’ing to my head.

Different babble for allocation of memory and algorithmic manipulation of the values stored within.

Correctness is important when it comes to results being mapped to human consumption and even then the subset of parameters to be be rigorous with can be made subj. personally I lean on a subset that includes biological health and well being and deprioritize religiosity
D interacts with LLVM via using C++ inheritance and templates although not via their original source to be fair.

N.B. ChatGPT is not a toy in this domain - weird macro? It can reason.
Thanks! Curious, why changing network/disk IO latency, does it help in online games noticeably?
I'm gunna plug AdNauseam. I like it better than uBO or the ilk, because it clicks every ad it blocks. It completely breaks marketing platforms for me, i never get relevant ads when i do see them. According to marketer data, i want to see ads for everything. It also makes some websearch hilarious - i search for "microwave frequency QAM" and it's all ads for kenmore and GE countertop cookers. I avoid search engines that give crap data, because they're trying to get me to buy stuff, i just want search results, thanks.

It also keeps a handy "cost to advertisers" metric you can view. I'm over $40,000 at this point.
and with humor I can play with AI without worrying about it hallucinating and getting everything wrong
According to this Indian government report, 110 million toilets and 2.23 million community toilets were built between 2014 and 2019 under the clean India drive begun in 2014. All states reported open defecation free in 2019.

Coverage estimates vary between 70-97% in 2019. I would assume the situation has continued to improve over the next 4 years so 15% seems like a believable figure.

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1907510#:~....
> That anxiety only goes away if you have an environment that allows you to unplug. Systemic changes like requiring workplaces to allow employees to have "off times" seem necessary to remove some of the baseline anxieties many of us have.

Are there really so many employers requiring employees to be permanently on-call? I would only consider working in such an environment if they would be paying enough to retire in a few years.
Martin Miller talks about his mother, Alice Miller (2015)
I mean are we really comparing the niche impact of 00s 4Chan w/ modern Twitter? 00s 4Chan didn't radically alter political discourse in America, and as far as conspiracies go, I mean its not even comparable.
No, a pint. A pint isn't 586ml it's 568.26125ml. Nobody does non-SI metrication, metrication is very expensive, the world pays for it collectively, and so it's done for the SI unit system because nobody wants to subsidise anybody else's weird local units. As a result if you have weird units (as the Americans do and we do) you have to define them in terms of SI unless you either don't care what they mean (not going to be much use for a weights and measures law are they?) or you've got several billion dollars to pay to duplicate that work.

The only place a pint is legal is draught beer and cider, which are poured into glasses and the glasses are marked either with a line or "to the brim", with either a crown mark or a CE label signifying the maker claims these glasses comply with regulations.

The people making a "beer glass" and putting the crown mark on it need to ensure it conforms, if they've got gear that can tell them it's 568.26125ml that'd work, because that's what a pint is, but the law says "Pint", not "568.26125ml".
Show HN: AmpedNYC, find free CitiBikes in NYC
Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase
See also this interview: https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/2014-07-12/ty-article/.pr... - archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20230422212632/https://www.haaret... and https://archive.ph/X6FEF
He had me convinced until the list at the end. A lot of people confuse the different types of “impossible”: there is “impossible within NASA due to cultural/political reasons” versus “impossible because physical reality won’t allow it.”

However, the general point made by the author is valid.

Back at University I studied computer science, physics, and did a bunch of “small” courses in other fields.

Very quickly I realised that wherever the cutting edge was in computing itself, the progress of digitisation of everything else was about two to three decades behind.

Right now you can do amazing things by, say, 3D printing metal parts. That’s still rare in industry but is basically a superpower. You can use just about any alloy to make almost any shape! Part counts and labour can both be reduced enormously.

I’ve never seen a 3D printed metal part in real life. I’ve flown on a plane with a printed part in its landing gear, but that’s it.

The future is here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.
until you get "hardware failure" note from cloud provider. Or the person updating packages makes a typo and messes up a system.

sure, use "pet" computers for experiments and dev.. but having produluction be a "cattle" makes your life so much less stressful.
> that they don't know they will have to put some effort

I wrote that because the usual responses I get are that it isn't easy. Thought I'd deal with that up front.

My dad used to tell me I wasn't afraid of hard work. I could lie down right next to it and go to sleep.
lol who owns cloudfanatic? did they put together their infrastructure with cheats?
Thanks for the pointer. Curious: can whisper be made to translate into other languages than English?
The former has one big advantage: I can easily change "needle" without having to skip all over the cmdline...

Pretty usefull when debugging something interactively.
Then put on the imprecise number? If you are looking for precision in estimates for the impact of projects you worked on, the vast majority of hiring managers reading resumes won’t care. They’re already going to be mentally sorting impact into broad buckets
I am maintaining a fairly complex set of nodered flows, dealing with some long running tasks performed by other tools.

When checking n8n the impression was that it's like a v2 of NodeRed that learned from what NR did wrong. Lots of tools an capabilities you end up wishing for in NR are built into n8n.

For example:

* data flow is simplified, no one global "msg" var that gets clobbered by every 2nd custom script
* you can fairly easily test flows
* you can see execution history, including in/out data
* you can see exacting flows
https://archive.ph/YwsSB
> You can see residential luxury high-rises where most of lights on every floor are off at night. Nobody is living in them.

Most people turn their lights off at night?
I'm not sure I buy that.

After so many disappointments in the tech universe (and with some AI winter in the past) people in the industry should not be naive to the point of thinking that OpenAI would solve all the industry's problems.

>> OpenAI has marketed it as an "everything" tool

That's what all companies do all the time. Should we blame capitalism?
Could you have it write code and run it on the machine too?
> People going to college and getting jobs nowadays are "NPCs", and the only true way to live is to go on luxury vacations and drive fancy cars full time.

What do you expect when there are no good jobs left over for college grads between the double whammy of a pandemic and LLM automation threats? Not everybody can be software engineers and most other entry level jobs simply don't pay well enough for a decent life in most cities. It's no wonder that the average non-STEM major are turning towards "hustling" on tiktok when their future contains either prostituting themselves on OnlyFans or being a perpetual serf in the service industry.
The standard says that WHILE can't appear before FOR in LOOP.

(parse-integer (subseq line 0 p)) is shorter (parse-integer "12345678" :end 3)
>There are no private "public transport" in the form of local buses, trains, etc.

That isn't strictly true. A number of (predominantly ethnic minority) communities are served by entirely privately-operated bus services, created mainly to fill gaps in publicly-subsidised services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_vans_in_the_New_York_me...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines
There is a nugget of a good idea here. My user agent should be able to inform the site of my sensitivity to local resource usage. Perhaps I have a fast and efficient computer, or a powerful one with a zero-emissions primary power source. It would be nifty to communicate my preferences along with the request. But I can't see it being anything more than an irritant if a site tries to infer such things on my behalf.
> AZs are buildings often times right next to each other on the same street.

Not at AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...

> An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region. AZs give customers the ability to operate production applications and databases that are more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than would be possible from a single data center. All AZs in an AWS Region are interconnected with high-bandwidth, low-latency networking, over fully redundant, dedicated metro fiber providing high-throughput, low-latency networking between AZs. All traffic between AZs is encrypted. The network performance is sufficient to accomplish synchronous replication between AZs. AZs make partitioning applications for high availability easy. If an application is partitioned across AZs, companies are better isolated and protected from issues such as power outages, lightning strikes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and more. AZs are physically separated by a meaningful distance, many kilometers, from any other AZ, although all are within 100 km (60 miles) of each other.

This is unique compared to Microsoft, and Google (a single flood taking out multiple AZ's? Uh oh: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/26/google_cloud_outage/)

Sure, a massive earthquake or a nuclear strike could probably take out several.
Never thought of that. It is/was actually a pretty good argument.
Not feeling comfortable could be question of time. You get comfortable when you go from kindergarten to 12th grade with the same kids. You know them well, because you've been in classes with a lot of them for 6-7 hours / day, 5 days a week, 9 months a year.

As I typed the above paragraph out, it actually makes me question. Is that really growing social skills if they're always surrounded by the same kids? For example, I moved to a different state between 8th grade and the start of high school. That experience helped me to understand what it's like to not have friends, how long it takes to make friends (2-3+ years), and how to interact with a lot of peers you don't know and who don't know you.

It was interesting when I went to college, and I found other students who were nice, but never really interested in being your friend because they went to the same college as many of their high school friends. Or they grew up near the college and had all their high school friends nearby still. I guess this latter point isn't really social skills, but it is something that I learned to be aware of.
It would be a heck of a lot more useful if it wasn't under a research only license
The real problem is that we need nuclear waste warning markers that last at least two orders of magnitute longer.
I think that's a lazy take. It's not the facts, it's the worldview. Socializing children into your moral and religious worldview is something that's widely recognized as a human right: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/... ("The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to have respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.").

There's no fact I would not discuss with my kids. But as someone from an Asian country, I'm becoming increasingly wary of how teachers talk about certain facts--specifically, from an individualist, humanist perspective. I want my kids to understand that they're a cog in a machine, rowing with many other people to move forward a society, and have myriad reciprocal obligations to care what other people need, what they think, to respect their feelings, to allow them to save face, etc. I don't want them to grow up to be "muh freedoms!" Americans. I think a lot of cultural minorities—which these days includes Christians with orthodox beliefs—are in the same boat.
If it makes you feel better, I was public schooled, and a lot of the kids seemed to have really awful social skills. This kind of numb mindlessness. Not everyone, but it was too widespread. Something about sitting still doing nothing for 7 hours, surrounded by people but forbidden from interacting with them.

I'm sure there were many benefits but public schools don't seem to be doing great at socializing kids.
I’m not even a homeschooling proponent or religious but this sounds like nonsense.
That's a ridiculous statement and has nothing to do with the institution. We have decided as a society that the police shouldn't be involved in petty children's fights. Seems like the right call to me.
> The real solution is not to homeschool. It is to force ALL kids, regardless of age, location, and income to be forced into the same school system. Want to improve things? gotta make it better for everyone.

But what if there is a fundamental diversity in educational goals, that different sets of parents want to aim in different directions as “better”? How would you accommodate that?
And it was caused by a profit-seeking behavior - an assumption that most, if not all people, would wait to drink the coffee until after they were out of the vehicle, which could be up to X minutes; as such they wouldn't want cold or lukewarm coffee. If most people equated mcdonalds coffee with "bad lukewarm coffee", less people would go to mcdonalds for anything, including coffee. I forget how hot they served the coffee, but it was up around 95C/200F. I know that you have to specifically request "extra hot" at places like SB and CB&TL, otherwise you get coffee hot enough to still be "hot coffee" after adding creamer, i venture 130F or so. AFAIK McDs doesn't offer "extra hot" coffee. Once bitten, and all.

I don't know about the changes made due to this lawsuit, but i reckon they changed their cups to keep ~120F coffee at that temperature longer.

edit: aside: I just realized why i prefer Fahrenheit even though i understand Centigrade. Stuff over 100F is "hotter than i am" It's intuitive in a way that merely remembering 37 is body temp (my dad was born in '37 so that's why i remember) and "anything over 40 is hot" doesn't really roll off the tongue, even though it's roughly as accurate as my ">100F is hot"