skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I sat around and played videogames (namely PC) 16 hours a day and became pretty good at computers.

I feel like this was the normal track for my Internet friends and I in the 90s. We've sold two startups pursuing the dream of making video games - which of course that dream came from playing video games all the time as kids. Though I'm doubtful if that particular path will translate well today, or especially over the next decade. Maybe it didn't translate well from the 90s either, but sure feels like it did. (And now in our 40s we still haven't made a single video game!)

I'm also dubious as to whether competitive extracurricular activities will make a difference. This was the _thing_ in high school from guidance counselors - you must must must must be in a bunch of extracurricular activities so you can write them down on your college application or you will never get to attend a good college!
LOC + Dependency LOC, it seems.
> Whether it’s envisioning their child while watching the professional sports league drafts on TV or banking on college athletic or talent-based scholarships, 87% of parents with a kid involved in a competitive extracurricular said the activity could lead to income for their child (up from 80% of parents who said the same in the April 2019 survey). Dads are more likely than moms (92% versus 79%) to bet on their kids’ activities becoming lucrative.

This is wild.

Common sense should tell you getting drafted is a ridiculous thing to bank on and a quick google will tell you "Fewer than 2 percent of high school student-athletes are offered athletic scholarships"[0]

0 - https://www.ncsasports.org/recruiting/how-to-get-recruited/s...
I don't think it is, nor do I think it makes any sense to deny forum users either agency or responsibility - you can choose not to sputter and if you do choose to sputter, it's not the fault of a wikipedia article.
And it comes with a bunch of caveats. It's bolted-on horizontal scaling, vs MongoDB where that's the main feature. Yes I still prefer Postgres in general, but it's fair to point out that weakness of it.
It's not a double-blind study designed to test a hypothesis; it's post-vaccination surveillance.

The subjects were asked about symptoms over a nine month period. The incidence of unexpected bleeding in the 4 weeks post-vaccination was 2X-3X higher than at other times in post-menopausal women, and 3X-5X higher for pre- or peri-menopausal women at times when they were not having a menstrual period. Spikevax was associated with 32% increased incidence compared to Comirnaty.
> This is probably driven by the state of elite college admissions.

I don't think so. I'd agree there's lots of overlap between families in for-profit league participation and university-affording families.

But if the kid's family is in debt over league participation, that kid's college prospects are a lot slimmer, if they exist at all.
> There's limited benefit to having the source code when the community has been splintered, and the future direction is contrary to your needs. Sure, you can make your own fixes, etc, but you no longer enjoy the leverage community development.

And that's still better than being stuck with arbitrary price changes.
Don't disagree, but eliminating the subsidy is much more challenging politically than taxing junk food.
Well let's see how long Google's Spanner lasts. It's designed to support huge-scale systems, and personally I'd be terrified locking a huge system into that.
It would be more impressive (and build trust a lot more) to unilaterally extend the support period of existing devices.
When I was in school I played soccer and pole vaulted, at very little cost (which was good as I was one of seven children raised by a single mom - very modest means). The statistics are pretty clear that non-academic activities aren’t necessarily available to those in similar situations today. That is a shame.

I pay a lot in taxes for education (and activities). I live in a state where it’s a constitutional obligation to provide an education and yet, schools aren’t educating student any better today than back then. And, they seem to be doing less overall. A someone who did volunteer teaching for 4 years I know there are wonderful people involved, but it just doesn’t seem to be functioning well overall.

It’s not a great situation for kids or parents today.
To a point where your program won't understand/be able to edit a simple document created by Microsoft tools. In some cases, you'll see an embedded binary blob that's actually an ActiveX executable in an OLE container.

Here's some classic rants:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/03/02/On-OOXML

https://ooxmlisdefectivebydesign.blogspot.com/

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070123071154671#E...

(especially in combination with: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070123071154671#E... )
By refusing to sacrifice your attention on the altar of TikTok, you've offended the Technogod, and will be banished to the hell of eternal captchas, until the end of the ages.
Are you guys related?
I like how his childhood gets covered extensively. I wish we could see the same thing from Carmack. I'm particularly interested in his contract and softdisk days.
I think it's patently absurd that you have only positive experiences with such a broad cohort, not to mention that the cohort self-selects (and not for positive behaviour).

I think we both know if we had data, you'd be in damage-control mode.
In order to make this not extraordinarily painful, you need some good language support for internal DSLs, or a template language / preprocessor, both of which Java doesn't really have. You could still do it somehow, but it probably wouldn't be the nicest experience. Plus, historically, the Java community has been in love with XML, so you'll find lots of templating libraries based on XML.

Swift has function builders which are part of the magic that makes such DSLs practical.

In Kotlin, which also runs on the JVM, this is possible much more easily than in Java: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/typesafe-html-dsl.html
The bill was presented as an appeal to body autonomy in children and protecting their interest, however it was pointed out that Iceland allowed for operations on intersex babies without consent and would deport children back to countries where they were not protected.

It was a bill proposed by a progressive party member without consulting religious groups in the country. National polls never had more than 50% support, and it was challenged by both Muslim and Jewish communities in Iceland. There was a concern that it would set a precedent in Europe for religious discrimination. There was never a vote and it was withdrawn after international outcry.

So to frame it as though the ADL waved it's hand and made the government change it's mind is misleading and dishonest.
At least with Yubikeys, there are 25 discoverable key slots and you're able to pick and choose which keys you want to delete or save at any time using the Yubico Authenticator.
Yep, it's not profit motive that's the problem, but short term profit above all else, including long term profit. Because in the long term, whoever is making the decision will already be gone.
the age of an unnecessary change is irrelevant. Here's your sequence:

1. It's not true

2. It's true, but it's not important

3. It's true, and it's important, but we're tired of talking about it.
Curiously, this review (and perhaps the book being reviewed?) makes no mention of the model of mathematics as a language. This seems to be a common idea among working mathematicians and physicists[1,2], and it is rather clear that the question of reality of a language is ill-formed. A rich enough language should be suitable for expressing both real and abstract statements. It is also interesting to think about mathematics from the point of view of programming language paradigms: is it functional (I think mostly), what is its type system, etc.

[1]: Galileo says that, roughly, the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assayer

[2]: A classical essay by Wigner on the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" also brings up the language analogy. https://web.archive.org/web/20210212111540/http://www.dartmo...
It won’t ever be so black and white. Certainly some cultures place less emphasis on the future, but western culture definitely revolves around long term goals of building a family/retiring, etc…

I think a lot of people are choosing not to have kids mainly for 2 reasons: it is getting extremely expensive to raise a child, and the uncertainty of the next 20-40 years makes people hesitant to put their kids into that environment.

Social and economic welfare is not a zero sum game, I don’t need to ruin the lives of all of my competitors in order to win, that would actually be disastrous.
> Clear molecular signals of pathology mean that minimizers' claims that long covid is just psychosomatic or malingering are unsupported.

Yes. That's clear now. The UK has an organized program to figure out what's going on with long COVID.[1]
It's been known for a year or two now, from MRI scans, that long COVID is associated with brain and lung inflammation. But the underlying mechanism is not yet known.

This UK longitudinal study [2] is especially useful. "Three in five people with long COVID have impairment in at least one organ (seen in MRI scans) and one in four have impairment in two or more organs, in some cases without symptoms." This has been going on long enough now that the longitudinal studies, where the same patients are re-tested, are starting to produce results.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-research-into-treatme...

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01410768231154703
https://archive.is/G7hfA
The Nexus 6P was also famous for having a bootloop issue as well as suddenly going dead despite showing that it still had a good charge.
Yes, since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36118990 in particular got significant attention (200+ comments and 17 hours on the front page), this repost counts as a dupe.
>It can't even generate flashcards from a textbook chapter, because it can't load the entire chapter into memory. Heck, it doesn't even know what textbook I'm talking about; I have to provide the content!

Okay...? That's a context window problem. and you could manage it if you sent the textbook in chunks.

>The improvement GPT 5 would have to provide is multiple orders of magnitude in order for this to be a realistic proposition.

No..it wouldn't

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12499
Our clan has a proud heritage of keyboard-smashing.
It seems to me that Kafka was the strawman that the article put up to take down as an antipattern. There was no part of the premise that made sense.

> While my client was in a situation where we had no choice but to use this monstrosity of Kafka, Avro, and custom message headers, I would never recommend this usage of Kafka if I had the option.

The antipattern isn't Kafka, it's the client situation.
If you are looking for an upgrade to make playing Doom today look like it did in your memory, there's https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-voxel-project

Review by Digital Foundry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-aVt77epQ4
Hopefully ATACMS will do more damage than the traffic jams.
I agree with the OP: you shouldn't have to click anything to get an idea of what it even is and whether it's remotely interesting to you. To me, "quick start" implies that my interest has been piqued enough for me to dive in further. If you can't convince me to continue reading in the first ~10 seconds, there's a high probability that I'm closing the tab.
We should be sure to distinguish "paper vs. digital" (the question of storage technology, I suppose?) and "tablet(paper)/pen(pen) vs. touchscreen/finger vs. keyboard/mouse" (the kind of interface).

Typewriters are paper tech. Drawing tablets are digital. Large physical keyboards can be used with paper (typewriters) or digital (computers).

How different from a piece of paper and a pen is a digital tablet device with a blank canvas that you draw on with a stylus? In what ways?

Just some thoughts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/09/18/how-ofte...
It’s a body type. It’s the American body type. It’s just that a minority of Americans don’t have it.
Show HN: Nature – Modern System-Level Programming Language and Compiler
This is an introduction to the "Nature" project: https://nature-lang.org/docs/getting-started/meet-nature

I am the author of the Nature language, and today I have released the 0.4.0-beta version. For detailed updates, please see https://nature-lang.org/docs/prologue/release-notes

Now, Nature can easily interact with C language. It is anticipated that in about six months, Nature will release a version available to the community. By then, there will be stable syntax API, a complete standard library, and support for development tools.

Moreover, all the standard library code in Nature will be merged into the main repository. Contributions are welcome.

If you want to follow the development of Nature more closely, you can 'watch' it on GitHub to keep up with the progress. I also hope to receive your 'star' support, as it will give me great motivation.
For a lot of parents it's as simple as having another extracurricular activity on your college applications which can help you get into a better school. When that's a factor, then it makes the calculus a lot simpler. You don't need to bet on ridiculous odds like getting drafted or an athletic scholarship.
What are you talking about?

Running Sentry isn't hard despite crazy number of containers as long as you do it their way and use their docker-compose.yml.

The problem is running it on 4GB instance with 4GB swap is bare minimum which costs quite a bit to give it a dedicated instance.

But you can't beat its features. We should be glad it's provided for free and self hosted version isn't limited. Can't live without it.
Oh hell no. I'm on the other side of the country.
Sure!

So in many, if not most, contemporary Information Retrieval (IR) problems, there is a total document set larger than could be explored on an interactive basis and so the data structures get laid out in such a way that with some probability north of a coin, you’ll find “better” documents in the “front” half. This is hand-waving a lot of detail away, so if you’d like me to go into some detail about multi-stage ranking, and compact posting lists and stuff I’m happy to do that in subsequent comment.

But it’s a useful fiction as a model and the key part is that there’s still “good” stuff in the “back” half: you’d like to consider everything if you had time.

A PID controller (again oversimplifying a bit) is charged with one primary task: given some observed quantity (temperature in a room) and some controlled quantity (how hard to run the AC), maintain the observed quantity as close to a target as possible via manipulating the controlled quantity.

If you hook one of these things up to an IR/search system (web search, friend search, eligible ads, you name it) where the observer quantity is e.g. the p95 or p99.9 latency of the retrieval, and the controlled quantity is how “deep” to go into the candidate set something magical happens: you always do something close to your best even as the macro load on the system varies.

That’s again a pretty oversimplified (to the point of minor technical inaccuracies) TLDR, but I think it makes the important point.

If you’d like more depth feel free to indicate that in a comment and I’ll do my best.
Blue Origin is a joke. They seem to spend most of there effort building buildings. And the engines they're supplying for Vulcan Rockets are delayed.
Compared to decades/centuries in space hitched to a flying object, what's a few kilometers of ice?
It's near the bottom of the page. It's admittedly a very little bit of with, but other frameworks don't make you work as hard.
Given the volume of data, they can just box up the hard drives and ship via container ships or planes.
What do you mean? Does Fandom use MediaWiki? I remember them having their own independent website. Maybe I'm thinking of the MC Fandom wiki before the theme changed. It used to look exactly like Wikipedia.
It's probably all the "travel teams" pushing up the averages.

In my region travel teams for all sports are out of control. So long as you're willing to pay, your not-really-talented kid can play. And if your kid can't make the original travel team, or the one after that, or the one after that, someone is happy to fund their boat by creating another team.
I think it depends on what level and type of "competitive" they're talking about in the article. When my daughter was in dance, they had a show every 2-3 months and the costumes for each show were $100, plus the dance lesson costs, travel costs (hotel, flights, etc in some cases). No problem for us, but there were other parents who really struggled and it didn't surprise me that it was unaffordable for a lot of people, but it did surprise me that they did it anyway.
The frontend js ecosystem has dead code elimination, so when it’s built, only what you actually called comes along.
Of course! Only drone owners have working ears. Could it be that everyone notices but they just don't want to speak with some rude drone dude.
That's the excuse all lazy (as in unwilling to put in the effort to understand their kids) helicopter parents have for forcing their kids into things.

My desire to stay indoors and code/game all day was at its peak when that was my only option for socializing besides being dragged around on long drives to see places more interesting to my parents. The most I was allowed to do otherwise was going to the movies with vetted friends for high school graduation.

In comparison, for a few years (in another country) I had the freedom to go relatively far myself to hang out unsupervised with friends. The result was that I typically spent more time outside and participated of my own interest in all sorts of events (public speaking etc).

This also translated to other hobbies, when I had the freedom to choose my routine, I had all sorts of other hobbies like drawing, when this was taken away, all I ever focused on was instant gratification (or problems I could keep in my head) because I couldn't rely on being able to plan or prioritize my day. This did a lot of damage and I've only recently recovered nearly a decade later.

Now, if my parents had put aside the "kids just want to play games/watch TV all day" belief and paid attention to what I was trying to learn and what I was interested in, they might've saved me a lot of frustration AND helped my development by enrolling me in extra classes about the things I was interested in instead of the things they were interested in.
"Jab" has been used in courts too to describe "jab or job" policies.
https://fortune.com/2023/05/04/ashton-kutcher-vc-fund-ai-art...
It seems plausible to me that CFS and long covid are the same thing, or at least very closely related.
I really enjoyed Pollan’s book, so I just placed a hold for “I Feel Love”. Thanks for the recommendation!
Ranking? On the basis of what?

There IS the phenomenon of Survivor Bias, which I've mentioned before. "Oh, look! They're making fun of me! But they made fun of Einstein, too!"

How about all the people they made fun of and who've been forgotten? The people who deserved to be made fun of?
Looks interesting, but please, please, please - those `marquee` banners have to go :(
Very few students get athletic scholarships, but the article is about competitive activities of all types — not just sports. Those absolutely help with college admissions, and private colleges tend to offer better financial aid packages to the highest rated applicants.
Renting is expensive, it is cheaper for me to keep my 20 year old truck that I use a dozen days per year.
Goodbye Integers Hello UUIDs
I feel like you're trying to make a point but you're presuming context and is absent.
Additionally, when a customer is upset with how you treated them, they are highly likely to tell a bunch of people about it. They are less likely to hype your product if satisfied.

So one bad experience can undo a lit of good ones. These days, one person with a large social media following can tell a great many people for the same effort it would take to tell one person and may not stop until their ire has died down, which can take a while and may be oit of proportion to the harm they experienced, especially if they are going through personal stuff (wife died, their business went bankrupt, whatever).
I think you might have some of the facts wrong here - the post you're talking about never mentioned moving back to Fandom (nobody would ever entertain that option), and we ended up putting one pretty small ad in a pretty non-disruptive place, not "injecting ads at a pretty insane volume".

In reality, we are doing fine on revenue, and more than covering the full-time labor costs by serving one ad to about 35% of users (really more like 20% after you account for ad blockers). It's still a bit icky compared to doing something donation-based or working directly with the studio, but neither of those would pay the bills. It turns out that a pretty small amount of advertising pays the bills just fine, which really puts into perspective how insane Fandom's monetization is.

You can read more specifics/numbers in my post here: https://meta.weirdgloop.org/w/Forum:Mid-2023_business_update
Same. I have tried a few tools but none beat taking notes on paper.

You immediately get to mix text, tables and pictures. You can do it however you want. You can arrange it however you want.

Nothing beats this. Digital tools might be good at organizing old notes but I feel it is not necessary most of the time.
Unless the kid is really passionate about it and shows some real potential, I don't think it's worth breaking the bank for the kid to play in a competitive league. There are lots of fun/casual leagues for kids that don't travel and are much more affordable and provide a lot of the same benefits as the travel/competitive teams.
Spec one API for singlethreaded and another for multithreaded executors.
There are locks around those - for example, writeLock
What's being reported is not changes in menstrual periods. It's bleeding outside of menstrual periods.
You’re correct about most of the existing cross chain apps, but there’s a wide variety of operational cross chain communication protocols that are decentralized. Chainlink CCIP & Cosmos IBC are the first that come to mind.
TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold... to people who use TikTok
Perhaps they could substitute for stationary security cameras. When incidents occur, you could track the target. Entertaining sci-fi.
Autoantibodies were found again

Were the antibodies detected, or was their activity detected? Because if it's just about the presence of autoantibodies, the simple explanation may be that aab quantities may not significantly differ, but their activity/activation might.
NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore can be understood as a network-synced version of UserDefaults. It is a member of the CloudKit service project and can easily share data across different devices (with the same iCloud account) with simple configuration.This article will introduce the usage of NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore, focusing on how to use it in SwiftUI.
People once believed that "Don't be evil" is in Google's DNA.
I heard that the management culture at blue was pretty toxic and Bob was a big part of the problem. They have many super talented hard working engineers but are run by accountants and a bunch of Boeing management rejects. That is a huge cause of organizational problems.
Take a look at the Ukraine conflict to see the future of adversarial drone tech. Most of the public stuff is FPV but I think it's extremely likely that there's also semi- or fully-autonomous units flying too.