skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
extremely cool, especially the moon clock, never thought GPS could be put into a clock
The UK government has become rather obsessed with attendance levels. It's one of the things schools are scored on in government ratings.

They don't really look at why kids are off school, just that they are.

A child that falls into a coma is counted the same as the child of a negligent parent that doesn't care or even know whether their child goes to school.

This then gets fed into these sorts of studies that are used to blame various things.

Rightly or wrongly, one of the things being blamed is ongoing teacher strikes. It's seen as very hypocritical for teachers to say that a parent taking a child out of school for a day is bad, but that it's also OK for the school to have to close due to strikes.
Where I grew up, each winter there were a few days that started at -30-40°C.
Walking is not too bad (in the squeaky snow) because usually there's NO wind. Cars usually had (plug-in engine-coolant) 'tank heaters' and battery trickle-chargers to keep engines startable.

But there were plenty of snowmobile riders in the area. Some of them who bundled up and attempted to ride at these temperatures learned that their lungs did not work well after a short time.
That includes a lot of variation. Photos or description?
Why the Japanese PC Failed
Scalping (or at least reselling) airline tickets used to be a thing before 9/11 when the TSA came into being and they and the airlines began requiring positive ID to get on an airplane. Ticket reselling cost the airlines money: It made nonrefundable tickets fungible again, which the airlines hated. So the airlines loved the TSA's new positive ID policy.

Ticketmaster could do the same thing if they wanted to, but I have a feeling they don't.
They did not "expect over 20M by now". That article is some bad reporting. It pulls from a private forecast given very early on to investors in 2015 that depended on a lot of things going different than they actually did. For example, the pandemic not happening, and Starship actively flying.

2015 is when they first opened the early development facility in Redmond. No hardware, not even prototype hardware, no government applications filed. Didn't even have an office building.

The entire design of the system went through multiple massive revisions before it even launched the first test satellites, as well as a firing of most of the entire executive staff (who went to work for Amazon, which still has yet to launch any of their satellites).

In a presentation[1] in 2015 to a group of people (early employees?) he mentioned that they plan to launch prototypes in "3 months" (standard Elon time), they didn't launch any prototypes until 2018. That'll kind of throw off your plans to getting to 20 million.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeZHyOnsm4
We install planters so you don't have to look at homeless people
There is something uniquely wrong culturally in those states, and it permeates all the way down to the lowest levels. That something is a rampant culture of corruption and oppression of minorities and lower caste peoples. In some states, there's only corruption and dishonesty in the upper levels (or little of it like Kerala and HP). In most states, there's corruption in the upper and middle levels. But in the BIMARU belt and Karnataka, it's practically every where. Every one is looking to scam and cheat you regardless of where you are. Karnataka was "saved" thanks to the IT boom, but without that happening, it would have remained an extremely corrupt mining state. But for the others, it's telling when you get in a lot more Central funding and still have nothing to show for it.

IMO, most of those states should be split for good reason, to make administration easier and more easy to monitor. UP should be 3 states, Rajasthan should be 2, MP should be 2. Even worse, looking at the split away states such as Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh or Jharkhand, they're all now currently better run than their parent states.
You walked away from a role in the military paying that much or you walked away from the military to a 200k/yr position?

My understanding is that the military is looking for people to fulfill jobs that the private sector is paying multiple times more in salary on top of not having to deal with all the loss of rights and strict lifestyle that comes with military positions
For some problems? 15 minutes with a whiteboard. There’s no good e-replacement.

For other problems? Sure, slack and zoom are perfectly adequate to preferable.
that's the altered part -- those more restrictive terms of the VVVVVV license only apply to the _assets_, and the license for the source code itself is far more liberal:

https://github.com/analgesicproductions/Even-The-Ocean-Open-...
120k? I've had 60-80k offers. Friends with PhD and several post-doc accepted <80k.
I accepted the only offer I had at 65k, and quit several months in the job. Understaffed, underfunded, engineer covering operators quitting on the spot. Noped out and never looked back. Such a shame, the science is awesome, but the career outlook just bleak.
Why is it not valid for someone to send email from another domain? I’m asking seriously. That’s not an invalid thing to do. The RFC explicitly advises that flexibility in the envelope address is a necessary feature of internet email.

It may be a convention that transactional email services require proof of domain ownership, but that is a convention, not a standard.
>if one of the platforms “cracks down” and makes it harder to buy and sell people will prefer another platform.

1) what other platform? I'm not too intimate with this, but part of the revolt over the Taylor Swift contrversy came from how Ticketmaster as exclusive use to most of the big venues. That seems to be the other half of the issue not talked about in this article.

2) I thought this issue would be as simple as banning resales, but after reading the kind of tech (and money they pay) to invest in the scalping... idk. It'd kill off the casual scalping of someone who buys maybe a half dozen tickets. people paying hundreds for fake numbers and specialized browsers won't be deterred. And the demand for the tickets comes from the celebrities, so it's a pretty safe market as long as the concert industry stays up (so, no more COVID. Even then, it's not like it's hard to pull out).
Original source link: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/8805
Fashion too is a realm where your ideas have very little ownership attached to them. New ideas, rather than protecting your old ones, is the name of the game.
That's not what it is now. Right now the scalper gets the difference between the ticket price and what the highest bidder pays. In an auction all that money would go to the artist.
On the bright side, it was a great week for Godot
Growing up in Oregon, it's just the way it was that we socialized with people we met through work/church/school/hobby, but not neighbors. I've lived next door to people for decades and not even met them face-to-face.

Many years ago, I was riding on a nearly empty city bus. A guy got on and sat not too far away. After a bit, he looked my way and sidled over to be in conversation distance and said, "Excuse, I moved here from Florida about two months ago. Nobody here will talk to me, and I'm starting to go crazy. Is there something wrong with me?"
I don't know where you live, but most large cities have an Improv Comedy scene that includes courses, weekly meetups and workshops. You will learn:

* How to talk like you have something to say

* How to leave space for others to talk

* Helping the conversation move along

* Saying stuff that is interesting but not necessarily true without being deceptive

* Be funny now and then (YMMV)
Because the production of life in a loving relationship between a man and a woman is the best way to produce life.
Using ChatGPT, the bullshit generator, to generate a "study" of bullshit (NFTs). Beautiful.
Forcefully breaking up your logic in places where it doesn’t make sense is an antipattern IMO, and makes it very easy to write spaghetti.

I’ve inherited codebases with this overemphasis on very short functions and what I saw were very specific utility functions in dozens of different modules, all over the codebase, often with funky names, surrounded by dead code, and never a clear path to and from it. Sometimes a single function that spans even a couple of hundred lines, is preferable.
This is a truly great use case for nuclear power. Fine idea.
More than that, the software itself changes. You can determine what you want the properties of the steel to be, so there are no hard constraints to dictate your decision making. You need to make up your own, and if you pick the wrong ones, you get ruthlessly outcompeted.
GNUStep StepTalk Is Alive and Well
»StepTalk is pretty cool, and it is a solid piece of work that deserves some attention. Recently, there has been renewed interest in GnuStep desktop – with the “gs-desktop” project, another one called “Agora” (https://github.com/AgoraDesktop) that both aim to make all of these things easier to install. It’s worth checking out – the classes and objects of the applications and desktop are all interoperable. It’s a desktop environment that a programmer can love.«
Here, here. The elephant in the room in just about any discussion about threads/async is Python. Threads simply don't function in Python because of the GIL.

Instead of accepting this fact and using another language if threads are needed, Python has been doing various async-style things for years and pretending it's good enough, including what can only be described as cooperative multitasking, that horror from the early 90s.
what security risk would a polystyrene cup pose, a choking hazard?
> Ever wondered if in the 21st century there could exist warm toilet seats?

This post is so timely. TMI, but I'm wondering it right now. I wonder how good a warm seat feels.
Nice! I'd built something similar to make fonts for the Adafruit GFX library. http://aravind.rs/fruitfont/

Its export format is C code that defines GFXGlyph and GFXFont structs.

Doesn't work well on mobile and multiple size/style variants doesn't work yet. This was mostly the result of yak shaving after I set out to make a watch face for my SQFMI Watchy.
Modern Linux Tools vs. Unix Classics: Which Would I Choose?
I came here to post something along the same lines.

Specifically branding, right? So much of Musk's success comes from branding himself as genius entrepreneur. I didn't expect him to screw up branding so badly.
Instead of banning resale, why not just allow resale at face value? The French open(tennis) does this and makes it possible to still get tickets at a reasonable price up until the day of the event.
I wouldn’t know I’ve never used it.
I feel confident that an AI trying to read that info back would suffer the same limitations as any human. What is important depends completely on the audience and why they are reading. The sum of all important points to all people at all times is equal to the content of the computer program itself.
PowerToys run and fancy zones are very useful and people should use them. I wish Microsoft would put more effort into Run though. Compared to something like Raycast on Macos or Krunner it feels more limited.
read() would be a killer feature for adoption. There's a ton of MOOs that make use of this in-verb, for menus or other things.

For example:

color = player:choose("Pick a color", {"Red", "Orange", ...});
> People just don’t want to deal with the reality that the Taylor swift tickets that start at $40 or whatever were never real to begin with

This.

Here's a much more optimal semi-auction style solution.
Tickets go on sale for 20 days, each day, all the seats and spots are worth the same price, you can buy anything, the price is always the same.

Day 1, the price is $2000. Day 20, the price is $10.
So you'd only pay $60 at most for a ticket? Sure, just check in on day 16.

Since we start the price at the higher-than-scalp price, there's no scalping opportunity if you are paying the 'real market price'.
Dropout Risk System Under Scrutiny After the Markup Report
> don’t want to run IPFS nodes
If he starts charging a small monthly fee like he's talking about doing, you may effectively get your wish.
That’s wild
It's such an odd thing to read. Feels like satire at points throughout the homepage, and then entirely serious at others.

Edit: I see that it is satire! Looking closely at some of the other pages on the site this becomes clearer.
It’s all Kepler’s fault.
"Life" ?

Quantitatively false:

According to the team, there are almost 20 quadrillion ants on Earth right now. That’s a 20 followed by 15 zeroes, which is a number that’s hard to really get your head around.

https://newatlas.com/science/how-many-ants-total-earth

In terms of tonnage and sheer numbers there are many many more ants than humans - clearly their method of producing life "wins".

As a quick heads up, they don't have loving two parent families.
I remember in high school long wasted days of nothingness. Sorry but I agree with the other parents.

I do what I can to bring my children to school, but I'm not going to die over it.

School needs to change so much and we are so far from it
Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust
In the early 00s the Psion Series 5mx (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5) was an amazing portable computing device.

It was more portable than a laptop, had a hardware keyboard large enough for touch typing, fit in your pocket, came with a full suite of office / productivity software, and ran on 2 AA batteries.

Sadly it and the other handheld computing devices Psion made were discontinued and the software was converted to power feature phones.
Context: https://www.sfplanters.com/
Makes sense they're based in Marin, sounds like your average, clueless, afraid-of-homeless Marin resident.
The situation is still the same, happening as we speak. This court case is from a long time ago, but look at the market since the Ryzen inception, the last five years, and you'll find it hard to purchase worthwhile AMD stuff outside of some niches (desktop CPUs, low quality plastic gaming laptops with TN screens, or super low quality budget laptops with sub-Ryzen apus). Just go to BestBuy, or browse Newegg, or else, and good luck finding a great Ryzen product in stock that you can purchase. All the interesting stuff, for creators, or graphic designers, or anything high end, they only have Intel products for sale.

Try this: find me an in-stock 2-in-1 Ryzen 7 or 9 metal case laptop with high nits 2k+ touchscreen, no discrete GPU, great backlit keyboard, a large battery, and a spare M.2 slot.

Or try to find anything bizarre or exotic (like those laptop with 2 screens instead of 1 + keyboard). Nothing with AMD, ever.

Almost all are / were easy to find in Intel flavor. Have fun trying to put your hands on any worthwile AMD product.
Also they cannot see password fields or your keyboard when using them, and the like, at least on iOS and iPadOS. Apple hides sensitive inputs in regular screen sharing as well, and occasionally when airplaying to a TV, for PIN codes for instance. It sometimes makes it difficult to provide remote help to novice family members, because you have to guess what they’re seeing.
Yes!! Thank you for expressing this
Disclosure: I work for Amazon. I’m also the principal engineer for Bottlerocket.

FIPS support continues to be the top customer ask by a wide margin. Unfortunately the timing here is not kind for a new distro with no previous FIPS offering. New FIPS 140-2 certifications are no longer available, and new FIPS 140-3 certifications have to make it through a lengthy queue as the entire industry switches over.

If this were something the dev team could just power through, I assure you it would have happened by now. I apologize for giving the impression that it’s not important. It is, but that doesn’t help the timeline in this case.
Yes, i did this exercise few years ago, I wanted 4K screen with ryzen, and there was none. Ended up going with intel.
Starship doesn't use hydrazine.

The article headline is "technically" correct because ANY water that has come from any pipe work/tanks that isn't rain from the sky is "treated wastewater" by weird government definition.

The water has no known pollutants in it. It's clean drinking water pumped through pipes and splashing on to the ground and picking up whatever dirt is on the ground.
That's the link that was posted. What do you mean "context"?
> I have also learned that some of the IPFS gateways even do regular HTTP 30x redirects to bounce over the client to another gateway.

> Meaning: not only do you use and rely a total rando’s gateway on the Internet for your traffic. That gateway might even, on its own discretion, redirect you over to another host. Possibly run somewhere else, monitored by a separate team.

> I have insisted, in the PR for ipfs support to curl, that the IPFS URL handling code should not automatically follow such gateway redirects

I wonder what decision was made here.
> If you don’t know the feature set of the software you use, maybe don’t use the software instead of blaming the vendor.

Saying this in reference to modern Microsoft, with their default-opt-in-to-drive-market-share strategy, is a pretty high bar.

Effectively it means "Don't use Windows."
Is equinox a subsidiary of equifax?
/s
I don't fly as often as you. Maybe 6-8 times a year. But I usually try to travel on days/times/routes that I think will be quiet. Like, if I'm going to Vegas, I'll leave on a Tuesday night after a holiday weekend. Internationally, there used to be a lot of half-empty planes. Admittedly, I haven't seen as many empty rows since covid constricted the industry.
Ah man. Probably should have considered that before slapping a “Nuke the Whales” sticker on the back of my screen.
Everybody has their own opinion

I agree.

The important thing is some people have informed opinions on topic X.

Most people don’t have an informed opinion on topic X.

Where topic X is not a topic where all opinions are equal, e.g. who should be elected to office Y, the appropriate role of religious practice, and what is sexy.

Starting is not incompatible with valuing informed opinions.

Sure finding informed opinions can be hard without experience in topic X. But learning to identify uninformed opinions is straightforward work.

Good luck.
Wow that is flat out, unabashedly heartless. Not to mention those things are pretty ugly; not as ugly as human suffering though apparently.
Theoretically they could do it themselves, locally, but I suppose thats a poor assumption now that I think about it.
I expected this to be a criticism of OpenAI and the whole generative AI ilk, and while that's somewhat related, this video mostly focuses on the shortcomings of AI generated worlds, art, content and dialogue in the popular Minecraft game. The speaker does delve a bit into the shortcomings of generative and other AI as applied to the real world as well later though.
Western Europe. Is that a privileged fairyland?

You write like you've been sniffing paint fumes.
Honestly if using AI to summarize this hour+ video means being able to efficiently grok the content without suffering through dozens of mindnumbing YT ads, then it's not really that rotten.
There can be distinctly different run speeds between bulk entry dumb terminal and opcode heavy tui behavior.

https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-...

And I don't really care that much but I will say that while it is a bit of a dog in the bulk display race, no one beats xterm in the keyboard latency contest.
Cameras are not how you get better teachers.

The trick to getting better teachers in the US isn't more accountability---administrators and school boards are already so fearful of parents that standards for students have dropped to historic lows to accomodate the most unprepared students and the parents backing them.

Look at the countries with star education systems like Japan, Korea, China, Singapore and you'll see a) a culture of respect for teachers and b) high teacher salaries.

In the US teachers are treated and paid like service employees (not well), parents carry "the customer is always right" attitude, and teachers are expected to parent students who receive no behavioral reinforcement at home. In the countries with star education systems parents are ashamed of disobedient and underperforming students and reinforce the goals of the school at home.

You won't get better teachers until you get better parents and a culture that values education.
The dot-com is the real one, the dot-org is the satire
For someone like Taylor Swift, the tickets would sell out at $2000 on day 1. Then what? Her fans burn down her private jet on the tarmac for being greedy.

The entire reason performers want their tickets sold below market value is so that non-rich "real fans" can actually afford them. All of the other shenanigans going on are there to get around this issue (and the performers definitely get a cut) while protecting the performer's shield of plausible deniability.
It looks like the link posted on HN (.org) is a parody of a real company (.com)
The .org reads like parody
Thank you! Supporting design for other bitmap sizes (in particular, 8 and 32) is one of the items on my agenda for future updates.
> Why would all-cause mortality be normally distributed?

Erm, that is my point? They're not.

The human body has systems that break down. The immune system, for example, relies on a fixed number of stem cells that eventually die. Once you have zero of them, you're pretty much done. Also, I seem to remember that our ability to replace fat cells also declines with age (probably for similar reasons).

Consequently, outside medical interventions (or lack thereof) aren't really defining human lifetimes.
This is the last straw for me. I stopped pirating when streaming was reasonably priced. I now pay more for streaming than I paid for cable. No. I will now pirate what I want to see. If you don't want me to pirate your content, make it easily available for a reasonable price. I already pay for no ads in Amazon Prime. Adding ads and then expecting me to pay to not see them is just plain greedy.

edit: not -> now
This is my preferred style by far, but it seems like most junior programmers I work with don't seem to mind the style with deeply nested ifs and far away exceptional elses. I try to avoid commenting on such stuff in code reviews unless it is egregious, but I will rework it later if I happen to be in the same code. I hope it doesn't come across as passive-aggressive on my part.
Agreed, like any technology, AI is going to enable both good and bad solutions. I certainly feel that generative AI has made life easier in some ways for me, summarizing long text is a super useful one.

I do agree with the author that generative AI in gaming and other content lacks the polish that a human creator brings to the table, but there are certainly some good use cases for AI.
Thank you for the context. This is great parody, up there with MSCHF’s best.
I know features flags like the flags of FF, but they are in fact config files. How does one realize dynamic control of features flags?

Are they using a kind of logic to determine to turn on/off a feature or do they query a central database to know that?

Can someone explain its basic mechanism? Thanks
I doubt there is any man-made object more complex than a state of the art semiconductor. The amount of science and engineering that has gone into the evolution of the fabrication should not be taken for granted. Exotic is an understatement. Just for a sliver of insight, take a look at the ASML lithography tool and how it generates the light that exposes the nanoscale circuits on the chip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv40Viz-KTc

And that was filmed years ago, as today, TSMC is using ASML machines at 7 nm and below.

Puff piece or not, the equipment companies have delivered technical wonders under extreme duress and endured brutal business cycles for many decades while still managing to enable these feats of science and engineering.