skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, many schools are giving children more autonomy in learning, instead of training them for lives of desk-bound obedience.

This was one of the biggest disappointments of the pandemic. Teachers aren't ready to give up on their old operating models. The flipped classroom, despite the hype in the 2010s didn't really shine.
Yeah, the layout of the house and lots of huge, openable windows could get you pretty far in terms of keeping it comfortable (most modern houses cannot do that, and are horrible even in moderate temps without AC) but if the breeze was weak and temps got past 90F nothing would help much. You could run a window AC non-stop all night and keep it close to 80, maybe, but that was still too uncomfortable to make it worth the insane electric bill that would follow (no insulation, original single-pane windows, no modern mostly-airtight envelope in the walls—I do mean the AC unit would run all night). Without that option we’d probably have had more like 5-6 patio-sleeping weeks per year, instead of 1-2.
I think this really succinctly describes why reddit sucks now.
Expressing my laziness in concrete ways
That part was retracted by unity in their latest fixed.

But trust was broken with many game devs, BUG is going away as a result.
My salary is $20,000 right now and I cut my health insurance. Obviously if I’m staying in a pod, we don’t have millions of dollars in investment.

I’m doing what I can with what I have.
If the amount of Americans who are overweight was reduced to the amount of Americans who still smoke, the earth would probably shift on its axis.
This is great stuff, but lists don't make good submissions to HN. They lead to shallow discussion about the lowest common denominator of the items on the list, and this is usually pretty generic.

It would be better to pick the most interesting item on the list and submit that instead.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
There are about 180,000 athletic scholarships too. There is certainly a lot of competition to win one, but it's not an unreasonable dream for a talented/hardworking youth.
Lots of people coach and referee. It also says "could" which seems like basically just a true statement in that it has a probability built in? It's not clear to me what the question actually asked was.
I hate Google management (as opposed to the company's good products). I signed up for You Tube Premium Lite just 9 months ago. Received by email this morning (below), they tell me I was one of their first subscribers, but they're discontinuing the product and canceling our business relationship without prejudice and without looking back. How has this become a way of doing business?

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We're writing to let you know that after 25 October 2023, we will no longer be offering your version of Premium Lite. While we understand that this may be disappointing news, we continue to work on different versions of Premium Lite as we incorporate feedback from our users, creators and partners.

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I recently came across Shadow Complex, which is a 2.5D Metroidvania type experience. It was fun, scratched the right gaming itch, and was the right size, if that makes sense. It didn't try to be anything it wasn't, but it did what it was well. Worth checking out if you haven't tried it yet.
What kinda specialised monster engines is that plane running, holy hell.
What the hell? This is possible?
Imagine what the classified systems do… ufo sighting explained I bet
I think didn't do a good comment here because I don't mean that exactly. I don't necessarily care so much about it telling me how it got there. Rather I like it when I ask someone about something then I can ask them... "Tell me more about this or that or explain that in more detail" which I can never do in google.
I've yet to try it myself, but it does indeed have multiplayer. Some users have been recreating Unreal Tournament deathmatch maps for it recently
After saving commuting costs and dramatically reducing your lunch costs? I am saving easily $10 a day on the commute and about the same on lunch. That’s $4k/year post-tax and I had a short (albeit driving) commute.
The sound system in my new Mercedes is distorted!
Nope. Never looks the same. Because what you see inside is more honest than what's outside.
Can't make a man understand something that his salary depends on him not understanding, or however the saying goes. There's a considerable number (not all - calm down, managers) of individuals in the workforce whose entire value proposition is wrangling 'lazy ICs'. Remote work requires trust that your ICs aren't lazy. Where do those individuals then fit in, in the remote world, if your ICs are grown-ups doing their jobs? My money is on those individuals simply fighting to maintain the status quo and keeping bums in seats. Hard to see making 'a better society' even registering in their minds.
You can do this with text too (like in spreadsheets, code, etc) to find differences visually.
I read the comments here just to verify I would find this joke.
I'm not a finitist, but it's a highly defensible philosophical position.

As for this:

> Or, if you consider the set of natural numbers to be real, do you not consider power sets to be a logical relation?

Skolem solved that quite neatly already: Every "uncountable" set has a countable model. Thus the power set is, in fact, no larger than the set of natural numbers, because both can be fully described in a countable manner. What I'm describing is necessarily an abstraction of an abstraction, though, so I'd consider it "unreal" by definition.
these problems can be solved with downvoting. HN is doing that, and the curious/critical readers here can see the dead comments and judge for themselves. no actual removal of comments needed.
Gitness is built around Drone CI... Oh reading the comments, it's an extension of Drone.

How compatible have Drone CI and it's open-source fork Woodpecker? I'm curious whether one might expect any kind of engine swap to work.
Sounds like yet another attempt to shoehorn your chosen solution (blockchain?) into a problem better solved without it.

Compare to this actual working solution:
I run gitlab runners on spot instances (or at home for personal projects) The runners check in with the server, get a job, process it and send the results. A CI job can have multiple parts. A server can be handling multiple client requests simultaneously.

CI is a resource intensive process so you want beefy machines but they shouldn’t run when not needed (at night if you’re in one time zone, when unloaded if you’re distributed). Enter autoscailing groups and spot instances. 4x the speed for 10% of the cost of always on and “on demand” priced instances. Or for personal projects, speedy when needed idle when not.

Compare this solution to what you’re working on. You’ll see you’re doing a lot of extra work for no additional value.
It is that simple. Unfortunately that’s not the same as easy. Especially not when your whole environment, culture, and physiology are designed to encourage you to eat too much food.
Both Eero and Apple only support 160 MHz channels in 6 GHz
> When mathematics does not relate to one of the three -- for e.g., in Cantor's theories of "countable" and "uncountable" infinite sets -- it is totally unreal.

I find that to be quite a bold statement. The question as to whether "mathematics is real" feels firmly rooted in philosophy. First, I would question what is meant by real and unreal. Second, I would question if the answer matters whether the existence of the real and the unreal are not yet discovered, or even imagined.
The Happy Exile (1972)
Modern, and even old, sensors absolutely can see stars during the day. It's really a question of magnification. When you magnify the image, the pixels a star falls on don't change much, but the background gets darker because the background is spread over more pixels.

I was talking to a grad student who was having an issue getting descent flat frames (images of a uniform field, used to account for dust and optical train effects). I asked why she didn't just take a picture of the sky in the daytime like most amateurs do, and she said she always ends up with stars in the image doing it that way. They tried finding the least populated part of the sky, but still always picked up stars.
Your describing physics more than math in my opinion. But it's hard to say things like set theory isn't real when a lot of calculus works nicely and describes the world very accurately. That toolbox is heavily built on the "unreal" things in math your describing to be not intrinsically relevant. The weird parts of math often speak to some deeper thing your discounting. Hopefully I'm not reading into your comment to much
Parent of a kid who has a horse…it is in the $6-7k range annually. It is frankly embarrassing and at times has been nearly crippling financially. My spouse is one who believes in the scholarship thing.
You did not miss anything. It lacks that functionality, making it necessary to template the inner part, and then use that within an outer part.

Fully-featured templating libraries provide this in the form of special syntax. This does not provide that level of capability.
Right. id rode (and ending up being a driving force for) the emergence and adoption of x86 PCs as the dominant home computer platform with near perfect timing.

If you were gaming on a PC before they showed up you were a masochist.

I tend to believe many of the problems with id productions up to Carmack going off to Oculus can be seen from this early mindset. They can do focused experiences, but their practices cannot scale up, and certainly not to enable the sort of level of variety players want in big titles today.

Simply practicing making lots of small games is not enough. It's like that saying about going to space: you don't get there by climbing progressively taller trees.
Since when Twitter has "good will"?

I'm sure even before Musk, most people considered Twitter the equivalent of soap opera. It was bad. It was tasteless. It was a time waster. But people just need to have something to scroll.

Unity, on the other hand, was actually loved by some devs. Of course it was buggy from time to time, but it was huge time-saver especially for mobile games.
People are actually mostly getting good performance well beyond that. Estimates are now typically that most people can expect 15-20 years or more, unless they use the car in someplace very hot, always use a very fast charger, charge up to full every time they can, and things like that.

It seems to be distance that matters more than time. Tesla has found that for their oldest models, most people still have around 90% capacity at 200k miles. The average American takes about 14 years to drive 200k miles.

The data suggests that if you don't need a low mileage battery pack replacement, because say a particular model year turns out to be a dud you will probably get 150k or more miles.

Here's some articles on EV battery life [1][2][3].

My expectation is that there will be a pretty good used market for EVs.

For example, for my next car I'd like an EV and I want to get at least 100k miles with nothing but routine cheap maintenance and replacement of consumables such as tires and fluids.

A used EV might be ideal for that, say one with 50k miles on it. That would be enough to be past early failures due to a bad model year, but still should have well over 100k left on it with good capacity.

[1] https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/how-long-do-ev-batter...

[2] https://blog.evbox.com/ev-battery-longevity

[3] https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a44852031/how-long-do-elec...
A previous study that came to the opposite conclusion: vaping is certainly not as harmful as smoking tobacco.

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/41/28/2612/587566...
It’s still a good time to sit around and play with computers. Just don’t give your kids tablets and stick with desktops/laptops.
We desperately need an alternative to qb
This is a curious statement. Mathematics is a description, not a prescription. When Newton says that the path of a projectile is parabolic, he does not mean that it is in the shape of a parabola. He means that a parabola is a very good way to approximate the shape of the motion.

The map is not the territory.
Or plane graveyard.
> I did youth soccer in an expensive city as a kid (close to 20 years ago now)

I had early kids in lots of activities 20+ years ago. I did not do the same for my later kids because most everything we found was massively more expensive.

Talking to parents who were involved, I learned a lot about how things changed. Modern activities really weren't the same offerings we had had.

What was informal had become formal. Activities required a much larger time commitment. Volunteers had become professionals. Coaching was a world more serious. Transportation was formalized. Things like shared gear seemed to have gone away. Even the designed uniforms where more expensive than coverings we had bought.

It had become cheaper for my younger kids to visit Belize and Alaska than to compete.
And you're just a brainwashed BEV fanatic. Time to give up on Chinese Communist propaganda. The whole thing is a giant scam and it is destined to fail.
Interesting point. Definitely worth considering. Thanks.
The reaction to this was generally pretty negative, so I’m pleasantly surprised that the top comments here were mostly positive.

It’s important to understand there are two floors of working spaces and a private office that’s usually open. It’s not just the pod, and that’s just for sleeping.

This is the lowest-cost way for me to be in SF, and it’s been an insanely net positive trade so far. I was in central IL trying to build a startup before this.

And to be honest, it’s pretty cool waking up and knowing my friends will be downstairs, and I can talk to them about whatever I’m working on that day etc. I like it way more than I thought I would, it’s beyond “bearable.”

It’s not luxury living by any means but it’s not this awful thing that people are taking it as.
Ugh, that's disappointing to read. Certainly, I don't assume the stories told in standup are precisely true. But it's poor form to make up a story about being a victim of bigotry.

I do question if it's unfair that a non-minority comic can make up stories about whatever and I don't necessarily feel that's a problem. But I think it's the fact that people will assume you've been victimized as a thing to know about you outside of your performance that feels wrong.
For those who want a quick summary, see this thread: https://twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/status/17063329657922727...
My father worked on the guidance system for the Trident nuclear missile at Singer-Kearfott for many years and this is mostly accurate. There was a lot of geometry involved.

They used to test launch the missiles back during the cold war from submarines off of California. The missile would cross the continental US and land in the water off Florida. The Soviets would invariably send "fishing" boats to measure the tests but the coast guard would never shoo them away -- they wanted the Soviets to know just how accurate these missiles were. And they were accurate.

It blows my mind what was possible with analog tech.
I wish I could up vote this multiple times. I've received so many "heavy" recommendations in my 20s and 30s, from people who read (at most) 1-2 books per year. Some people I know have stopped reading altogether, since they can't find the energy to get through "edifying" material.

If that resonates, my unsolicited advice is to:

1. Read for fun. If you're you're going to nosh some brain junk food, it might as well be a book. Enjoy it!

2. Don't be afraid to stop reading one book so you can start another.

I've seen so many people try to finish a book they're not enjoying, then stop reading altogether.

3. Once you've (re)cultivated a habit of reading, you might have more tenacity for that hallowed "edifying" material. I'm reading and noodling on "Tensor Calculus for Physics" exercises as a bedtime activity, but that was preceded by months of reading YA spec/sci fiction to unwind.
I completely missed the Socialcam era apparently. First I've heard of it.
Yeah, I assume that is basically it. What would you expect to happen in that case? I'd assume nobody involved wants the world to see how these deals are made, and the judge probably agreed since this is a trial against Google and not Googles competitors.
Which phone do you have?
I think it works great on the Mini, but I believe I recall it being a disappointment on a Max
Japan pharma startup to begin human trials of tooth regrowth drug in 2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37638956 - Sept 2023 (59 comments)
science sometimes can get it wrong too. only through the clash of opinions can we work out the real truth.

i absolutely agree that the spread of some messages should be limited, but outright censorship risks removing the wrong messages, and gets in the way of a critical discussion.
Dead reckoning using the pilot's ego as a guide.
> Java has not been boilerplatey for a long time

Considering records just made it into the language, I think "for a long time" is a very misleading description. And records only solve the problem if your type is actually immutable - which you may not be able to do if you have to interface with stuff like Hibernate which assumes that it can just mutate everything everywhere.

That's why people use Lombok - because the language itself is too clumsy.

And that's just one example. The way checked exceptions don't work well with lambdas and require manual catching and rethrowing would be another. And so on.

> The real nice thing about Java is everything is statically typed, unlike in TypeScript where just your code and if you're lucky some of your dependencies

Thankfully, there are many other statically typed languages, so you don't have to decide between Java or TypeScript/typed Python. With Scala or Kotlin, you don't even have to leave the JVM.
You really don’t need anything special for a high quality school. Protection from the elements, a communication tool, and students who want to learn or can be punished (such as expelling) if they don’t. All of the tech this or that is totally unnecessary.

Most kids should start working around 12 years old. The very motivated and intelligent can be identified by then and put into longer learning.

Those who start working should be able to go back to school if they have the desire and aptitude. Too many kids develop an intense hatred of school, caused by a combination of terrible teachers and poor quality peers. Experiencing more of the real world can provide an incentive to try hard in school before life brings them someplace else.
> The ratio of the median income to the median housing cost is significantly worse

You're again quoting income vs the price to buy property. You're arguing against a strawman with that.

The argument is about the cost to rent, combined with the monetary and opportunity cost of commuting associated with that.
The linked message is just saying that implementing (green) threads on top of a non-threaded WASM spec has overhead. It doesn't really have anything to do with async, or the multiplicity of async runtimes, as such.
In the case of Prodeus, the devs aimed to solve the problem of sprites, but in a true 3D space. With a lot of Doom ports, when mouselook was enabled, it showed just how flat everything actually was since looking up and down in true 3D would make them look like cardboard. But with Prodeus, everything is 3D but models render as if they were sprites at fixed angles. I really like this aesthetic and haven't seen any other games do something quite like it. I stopped consciously noticing it partway through the campaign
I like my software written by nerds, not business guys from the dotcom era.

You can try to poke holes in that with whatever isms you want, it's still true. And I'm not alone.
OK... If this had been an option 50 years ago, and proportionally cheaper, would people have taken this cheaper route? I think probably. It's not any different than a hostel except that it's monthly instead of nightly, and cheaper. The issue here then is the cost of living in SF, not the particulars of this arrangement.
> What should I read, watch or listen to in order to catch up on today's approach to selling, do you have some recommendations?

It really depends on where you are in this journey.

Seth Godin
Permission marketing
Tribes: We need you to lead us
All marketers are liars
This is marketing
Etc.

Ries & Trout
Positioning: The battle for your mind
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Etc.

Scientific Advertising - Claude Hopkins

https://www.foundingsales.com/

The Little Red Book of Selling - Gitomer

Learning to use online channels, in my opinion, requires a lot of work. Companies like Google have useful material. Frankly, this subject is wide and deep. I got into it starting about twenty years ago.

Perhaps others can suggest books or courses/videos on best practices for online marketing and optimization that are more up to date.

I'll warn you that at some point in my journey I hated the fact that I had more business books by my bed than engineering books. It was frustrating until I reached what I call "cruise altitude" and had enough capabilities and understanding to do well.
Sears was still doing this when I worked there in 2016. They went as far as to bust open a set of 24 drill bits to replace one of them on the spot.
Whilst Kafka isn’t a good fit for everything it genuinely sounds like these issues were organisational, not tech and no stack would have suffered the same frustrations.
Weird take on ChatGPT.
If you can manage good academic progress while also earning an athletic scholarship, that’s fantastic. Shoot for the moon, get into a good school, all sorts of doors will be opened for you.

If your athletic focus comes at the cost of poor academic performance, that’s a disaster. Sure, you can find a university that doesn’t care about whether you’re learning anything in class, but you’re probably going to struggle after you graduate.
> literary quality

Generally speaking, people read for entertainment, not literacy. And it has very little to do with TikTok.
70% of people being overweight is by no means good, but that is not even remotely close to 100 pounds of extra body fat. 100+ would usually put you in class II or III obesity. That number is more like 10%.
Look at Enshitification through the lens that its basically just Inflation localized to a single company. When companies are poorly managed, they die. Except: now enters awesomely sophisticated Financial Engineering, enabling companies to metastasize far longer than the market alone would allow them. Take out debt; venture funding; unsupported valuations; high expectations; market ebbs and flows; you can fly a Cessna at 70mph just fine, but a jet going that slow crashes.

Unity was running $200M in losses on $500M in revenue, per quarter. And they've never been profitable (since going public). A government can safely print money if it has the economic growth and tax base to support it; but if it doesn't have that, over enough time, you get: Inflation. The bill always comes due.

Enshitification is just company-localized inflation after unsupportable financial engineering. There are really good examples in Doctorow's original piece; most of them actually cover the more-common stagflationary effect, but stagflation is just inflation through a different lens. It really doesn't have much to do with B2B versus B2C; its intimately related to attempts toward increasing profit margins, but the critical piece is the path the company walked to get there; and, in the most severe cases, the fact that they should have stopped walking and died three miles back.

Or, maybe Doctorow would disagree with all of that. But that's the fun part of inventing such a meme-able, excellent term; it outgrows you!