skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey!

That's funny. I checked out your Twitter after the submission started trending on HN and saw that you posted the traffic stats. I actually wondered whether you would figure out where it was coming from, so I'm glad you eventually did!

Regarding your question I don't think there's any good way to engage with people after the thread has been "archived", especially since there are no DMs on HN.

Glad I could contribute to some excitement nonetheless. I posted it because I thought it was a cool and novel approach to a classic problem. I also really liked the article (and your homepage/games in general). Keep up the good work!
Yes! These kinds of initiatives are not focusing on tutoring the ”ahead” kids as some think, they are about tutoring the “behind” kids because teachers cannot possibly overcome multiple grade level differences using classroom differentiation. So as you say, the teaching example in the article is entirely missing the point.

The real question is whether you can get Bloom’s 2-sigma effect without a human tutor (for social accountability) when the student is disinterested. I think it will take more than just a chatbot to make a student feel like somebody cares whether they get it or not.
Honestly, I'd happily give my unused project domains to a fellow hacker who can make better use of them. (If interested, see my profile)
I make good, but not FAANG, money, and $350k after-tax, all at once, would still put me most of a decade ahead, financially, and give me some much better options for dealing with a bunch of stuff. Yeah, life changing.
You can be saved from fates worst than death. You're not forced to be saved from fates worse than death.

But you can be.

Faith is a failing concept in the West when people 'give up' to a predicted outcome.
You can't currently download Ubuntu 23.10
Foundry is amazing. But it’s only amazing compared to the competition. I’ve ran a campaign on there for the first time yesterday, and the UI is just…
D, Ada, and Modula don't have enough traction.

Go's runtime can be a showstopper, especially for multi-language projects.

C++ may be better than C, but many people feel that Rust is even better.

Rust is already available in almost all scenarios, there's no need to wait for it.
Rochester Institute of Technology, an engineering school in New York.
Latest TikTok trend: moving through your life like an NPC
Go ahead and visit our half-baked site for a collection of old Polish matchbox labels:

wzornik-etykiet.com

Of particular note - a janky filtering system for each label!

Also - no english, yet!

Other quirks:
- Individual labels are not linkable, if you want to share one, the link won’t work!
- No proper mobile support.

Honestly, this project was a learning experience in React for me, and the code is a mess. No back end, just JSONs and sheets behind it all.
That's more of a tantrum move than a financial strategy move. It would likely have saved the company money of these two stayed on to help with the post-layoff chaos and prepare for the next round where they'd then depart and be done. That said, maybe their golden parachutes were large enough they opted to leave.
That whole train of thought not only requires that long-form virtual actors are within reach (we’re close but not there), but that all this recent generative work can escape having a signature at scale.

There’s ZERO evidence of that right now and little reason to expect it.

What’s dramatically more likely is that generative AI will be an incredible new medium, disrupting current arts and reshaping almost all art markets the way photography and sound recording each did a few. And its disruption applies to film, illustration, music, coding, writing, etc

That’s no small achievement and its an exciting thing to witness, but it’s not the same as replacing the arts that already exist. Arts have shown themselves to be cockroaches, that simply adapt themselves around these sorts of disruptions.

There will still be HUGE markets for human (and hybrid) arts even as they are smaller and differently shaped than what we saw in the 20th century.
> My immediate reaction was that value-wise it was a joke, how can they be worth $1 billion?

It's probably way more about the in to the large install base of users to start pushing other Atlassian suite products on.

"Hey there happy Atlassian (formarly Loom) customer, since you're now in our ecosystem where products go to die, may we interest you in a Jira or a Confluence? They come with a complementary week of consecutive downtime on the house!"
Maps of the 2023 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse
Haha, yup. No matter what method I choose, I give something up. I agree switches are usually the best, but it gets more complicated when I want to have configurable color temp and dimmability in the same fixture. Can't use a dimmer switch, because the smart bulb wants full power. Or I can use a dimmer that's operating as basically a remote for the bulb rather than a true current-interrupting switch. But now it needs to be able to fall back to real switch mode if the hub is offline.

(By the way, Philips Warm Glow bulbs are awesome for this. I use them in my dining room lamp connected to an Inovelli Z-wave dimmer. They get warmer the dimmer they go, mimicking how tungsten filaments work)

My current setup is a mix-n-match of all three types, using each one where it beats the other two for simplicity and predictability.
https://todotxt.vercel.app
Ready Player Dance – Shall We Play a Game? TikTok Says YES
At the root, caring for and raising children well is an extremely time intensive endeavor.

It's hard to see a way we could fundamentally afford to pay someone to do it, at scale.

And the solutions that don't involve "someone" (at an extremely low child:caregiver ratio) don't seem like they'd produce success.

I do think schools should financially incentive performance, though! Not firing teachers, but just paying students directly for academic achievement -- make kids care.
I dig it and love ants. Don't think I have time to help but thanks for making the ants :)
I might have edited something in immediately after posting. I do that often.
> Several very big profile names have recently begun moving back to self-hosted, hybrid, or dedicated hosting solutions.

Could you provide some examples?
Checks out. He hired a many person company guy to take over his few person company. The many person company guy tried to make the few person company a many person company. He then went to Burning Man. On hella psychedelics, he had the full realization that his tweet quality tended to zero after he decided on content marketing to pump up his Founder's Fund deal flow which should be near infinite in the first place and that his FF work is not as important as his company. So he came back from Burning Man to his company and fired the many person company guy he got and decided to take the reins and run it like he would: lean and green.

I'm positive this is what happened and you can't make me believe anything else.
And they will have a personal relationship with everyone.
Similarly, I've got the first 20 or so seasons of The Simpsons on DVD, and after watching them once with the commentary on I never watched them again. But I would watch the two episodes a day that my local Fox affiliate would broadcast.

If I actually pick a specific episode to watch (or nowadays to stream) it somewhere seems like I need to pay more attention to it than when I was watching a regularly scheduled syndicated episode. With the later it puts me in the same mindset as listening to radio...a casual thing that I might multitask with other things, such as reading or doing a crossword puzzle.
Nice to hear from an actual teacher about education. Billionaires have the same issue as a lot of other people - they went to school once, had some beef with it, are now successful, and so they think they've got some insight. Its funny how we in the tech industry (rightly) bristle at some outsider like McKinsey claiming insight into our world but can't see the same hubris when we talk about education without any background or training in it. Well except - we went to school once.
> Sony with a cheap 50mm/0.95 lens from 7Artisans

OT but I have their 35mm f0.95 and the bang for your buck from these lenses is pretty amazing.
The isolated, think of the children who have no adults to teach them how to ride public transit.

Meanwhile, in Atlanta, private school children ride our trains every day, often with no adults, to Woodward academy. Public school children do too, but they're not wearing identifying jackets.

Or Japan, or much of Europe (especially, Spain, Germany, Amsterdam, Austria) where students rides busses, trams, and trains every day.

Most of these locations are also known better for physically disabled or elderly.
This is probably asking too much of it, but does the Boox Palma have GPS? Occassionally I go on outdoor trips with little or no reception, and I'll download maps to my phone that work offline. If I could have a device with great battery life handle map/navigation duty, and also read some ebooks in the evening, that'd be really nice.
If you're just running VPS on the big clouds, you're not going to get much advantage out of it, indeed.

But tell me what third tier cheap provider has managed scale-to-zero-or-infinity functions? Managed storage with S3-like API? Where can I get an API gateway cheaper than Amazon? What about managed databases? These tools allow me to develop insanely scalable software incredibly easily.

Agreed - all the big clouds are very expensive VPS hostings. Don't use it for that.
> Could we reproduce the effects of tutoring by getting rid of all the government contracts for school paraphernalia like smart boards and hiring lots of teachers while giving them reliable access to basic necessities?

Very unlikely.

We are short of good teachers as it is. Adding more teachers basically means you’re pulling from the bottom of the barrel, so overall instruction quality will decrease.

Plus, lots of people don’t actually want to be educated, so no sense in broadly spending money on those folks (large percentage of the population).
I've found foreign exchange students have a (lesser) version of this too.

I think it's fundamentally about increased tolerance to uncomfortable/novel situations.

Which suck. But apparently it is a learned skill! Or at least coping strategies are.

I'd be fascinated to see a study on adolescent coping strategies in non-military vs military child populations.
https://digestbox.io (just a design mockup, not even close to "half" baked)

I'm the ArchiveBox.io creator, and I'm experimenting with different ideas to launch a paid version of ArchiveBox for less technical users. ArchiveBox will always remain free and open source, DigestBox would just be a fancy frontend on top of it that handles cloud hosting and provides a nicer UI to make internet archiving more approachable to the average user.

The revenue would go towards supporting open source ArchiveBox development, and would allow me to work on it full-time.

I'd love to get people's feedback on this concept. Let me know if you like the idea of DigestBox and if you'd use it!

I'm also curious if the $0.01/URL pricing sounds reasonable to people. Assuming each page produces 50mb or less of output, that works out to $120/yr to archive 1000 URLs per month.
Flexport is commonly discussed here because it’s a ycombinator company and brands itself as a tech company.
I'd say 99% of my configs are not secret, at least not from containers running nearby.

I'm fine reading a few passwords and tokens from a secure key-value store. But the rest of my config can be a bit more expressive.
It's not that hard. Particularly for simple deployments, which a startup should have or they are doing it wrong.
A lot!

- https://github.com/huytd/speech: Practice english speaking for non-native

- https://github.com/huytd/ascii-d: a cross platform ASCII diagram editor

- https://github.com/huytd/js-playground: a JS code playground with a little visualization

- ...
What about the other 80%? That’s what, 250k per? Not a lot of runway.
> This is the first and only Windows to denote the current time zone on the map. Surprisingly, in the next editions of Windows, the world map simply occupies space and the highlight is nowhere to be seen.

Explained here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...

> In early 1995, a border war broke out between Peru and Ecuador and the Peruvian government complained to Microsoft that the border was incorrectly placed. Of course, if we complied and moved the border northward, we’d get an equally angry letter from the Ecuadorian government demanding that we move it back. So we removed the feature altogether.

> The time zone map met a similar fate. The Indian government threatened to ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed region to Pakistan in the time zone map. (Any map that depicts an unfavorable border must bear a government stamp warning the end-user that the borders are incorrect. You can’t stamp software.) We had to make a special version of Windows 95 for them.
Ask HN: Conflicted about my FAANG work place
Throwaway for obvious reasons:

I know I am in an extremely privileged position but nevertheless I need help.

Facts: I work at “the” FAANG company as a Software Engineer. I make about ~350k per year living in the Bay Area. I am close to 20 years into my career and have never gotten promoted or risen through a corporate ladder for various reasons. We are a family of 4 that I support on my income alone.

Thoughts: I am reasonably “smart”. I can do what I need to do at my job. Typically get EE ratings for performance at my current job. However I don’t look forward to what do at work. I do my work because it’s pays the bills and I know that so many people would metaphorically speaking kill to have what I have. I feel guilty about complaining. I am not sure what’s the best approach for me me is to move forward if my goal is financial independence. I know rsijg up at my current job to a Leadership role would get me to financial independence but I just don’t see the path. My company is extremely large and I am a cog in the wheel. I have always thought about being my own boss but never have actually done it. I would like to create my own startup but I also realize that pursuing that means quitting my well paying job to take a MASSIVE chance. While I would have no problems do that if it were just me I have 3 people that depend on me and it’s not like if I create a startup I can earn a comparable salary in the early days. Logically speaking I should keep my job and try to do something on the side that gets me to financial independence doing something that actually interests me or make my peace and try an rise up where I am. But I also know you can’t rise up if you are bored at work.

I want to hear from people who are or have been in a similar boat to understand how you have thought through this.
I'm a free-speech absolutist but killing someone is not speech, otherwise, a lot more people would be dead. Maybe even you and me.
Show HN: stews.io – power tools for publishing quality curations to the web
I highly recommend being able to use a key like control, shift or alt aswell or instead of "command" .. Command equates to "windows key" on windows which brings up the start menu.
https://stoichkitweb.com

I wrote a stoichiometry library in rust to practice my numerical and linear algebra programming. I wanted a way to share it, other than as a command line binary. (This had the added bonus of letting me practice writing a web server in rust)

I have wanted to improve the equation balancer by implementing the linear system solver explicitly "in the domain of the natural numbers" (currently it's in "reals" -- i.e. float64) , which should be intuitive given rusts type system, but I haven't found a straightforward way to use any of the existing libraries as such.
After creating an account the first characters presented (default category is 'newest') are Anal Amanda, Shemale sister, bitch (nude woman), a Dominatrix. Scrolling down the list 80% seem sexual in nature. Clicking on category 'popular' it's even more.

I found a Lalo Salamaco (from the Breaking Bad francise). He writes his sister is Sarah Connor but he won't tell me where here son is. He keeps switching back to Spanish and is angry, that fits the fictual character.
There's already a kpop group that goes in this direction https://youtu.be/1wGOHbcQKIc?si=hKti2i2gKq_pQ16T
Obviously not 100% ai generated; there's motion capture/ modeling and a real singer is recoding, but yeah. Going in that direction imo
I mean, I would settle for a simple RTS style 2D web interface! A lobby and match making, if I'm really ambitious.

Unit rules are a special problem--Wahapedia has a csv download of unit and weapon rules.. I think there were several thousand in 9th edition.
> a x10 Engineer, i.e someone who churns out loads of code and fast, is usually disruptive to a team and often produces code that’s hard to grok and harder to change

"hard to grok" for who? Not for another high level engineer... which means that hiring more low level engineers is limiting the organization to low level code. I think this leads to sacrificing powerful high level concepts that when implemented could add tons of value to the business, in reduce cost of development or directly using less compute power and saving money. Unlike other engineering disciplines, software has unlimited potential as we can see with the emerging industry of AI. The perceived notion that advanced engineers do not scale well in teams is missing the point. Advanced engineers use software to scale production, not other people.
They chewed through the floor, 2 walls and the closed cabinet to get to the food and gave me hantavirus in the process.

That is when I learned that compassion for rodents is basically suicidal insanity, and stopped trying to co-exist with cute furry little superspreading plague bearers.

I'm glad you enjoy the privilege of having had others kill them for you, but someone most assuredly did, and the reason you haven't died of the plague already has a name: specicide.

An average number of rodents in a wilderness environment is 200 per acre and approximately 10% carry hantavirus.

They also carry the plague, typhus, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, and several other presumably horrible diseases that I've never even heard of.

This is, in fact, the reason the habitat under discussion is a sealed box with a "lifetime" supply of food, water and filtered air exchange.
Pedestrians have to ask to cross the road by pressing a button, so that the usual signal cycle for cars is interrupted, to let them cross. Cars don't have to ask. That means the crossing inherently prioritizes cars, and pedestrians are a second class user.
Trying to legislate digital content generation seems like a waste of time and resources. I am not much of a libertarian but this is one area where I agree with minimizing laws and regulations.
The Age of Outrage (2017)
Not very true here in California where most people take the indoor smoking ban pretty seriously, and recently in France it seemed like regular cigarettes still outnumber vapes 20:1 or more. I haven't been to Japan in a couple of years, but regular cigarettes were still very popular there in 2019, and I don't recall seeing a single vape, though I wasn't specifically looking for them. Seems like a very regional thing -- I know that in the Midwestern USA for example, vaping is extremely popular across many demographics.
CPUs also have different frequencies depending on how many cores are active.

It is pretty annoying to benchmark nowadays unless you have access to BIOS, or at least root.
Correct, this is the definition throughout all of biology, chemistry, and physics. Merely molecules with carbon atoms.
That's one reason I cited Musk's claims. Not all his claims are accurate.
FYI this is for the commercial nginx product, hastily purchased by F5 a few years back when software load balancers were annihilating their hardware offering.

Curious to see f5 still playing games with their own cve disclosure on the bigip product though...assigning it a mitre cw400 is just lying.

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000137106
Still, Heroku would look impressively good if you wanted to deploy a 12-factor app, won't it?

Not all marketing is that straightforward.
Well, yes. OTOH, so is lower-level instruction in almost any subject. No student's first English Lit. class starts "please read Middlemarch between now and next Monday; I'll be lecturing on Regency era English society this week".
Ooh i got several of those. The one I like the most is this:

https://github.com/obaqueiro/dominoparty

The idea is to make a minimalistic tabletop online multiplayer game engine that only draws the "pieces" and controls the player-hidden pieces but doesnt enforce game logic.

I tried to simulate the environment I had when playing dominoes with my friends in real life.

The idea of the engine is that you can change the "pieces" (cards, letter squares, domino tiles) and thus can play lots of games online with friends.

I built it at the start of covid to play with the family. But it has A LOT of rough edges, bugs in state keeping and the code is awful

I'd love to have time to improve it. Particularly to keep state using CRDTs via Yjs.
And no more "tribute" bands.
see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImTheMainCharacter/
https://jtickle.github.io/number-game

My wife is going through a cyber security program and needed to quickly get familiar with binary, decimal, hexadecimal conversion. So I made a little practice tool in React. It's been a few months since I did React so I had to take a couple hours to learn how you bootstrap React projects these days, then another couple hours whipping this up. More I want to do.
Flexport made a large number of hiring posts on this site, so most people here have presumably heard of them.
It’s more like if a bullet goes past you, and you calmly decide the best approach is to run full speed off the nearest cliff.
I've posted before, but https://beatyourbookie.app/ is what I've been working on for a while.

The website is for tracking betting lines and finding arbitrage and +EV bets across sports betting sites. I've been hooked on the idea that there are inefficiencies in sports betting markets that can be taken advantage of, especially in betting on live events and so this started as me just collecting minute by minute odds data from different sites and going from there.

I'm currently collecting all the data myself so my next step is creating a public API to allow other users to access the same sportsbook data that I'm currently using (https://sportsbookapi.com).
I have great memories of that time, when home recording was becoming possible thanks to these little devices. I never used one, though, as I already used to bounce stereo tracks from my Dolby C equipped Aiwa cassette deck (ADF350 if memory serves) to a friend's Akai tape reel recorder. That allowed us to obtain a less hissy sound (multitrack cassette recorders frankly sucked) while also maintaining decent dynamics. Then a few years later I spent most of my earnings from working in the military to buy the Fostex A80 8 track recorder plus the 450 mixer and some outboard rack effects, which I also used to record some rock band demos aside my own tracks. I have some good memories from that era, like when I had to sleep on the floor in a abandoned house in a high crime area that band used as rehearsal room because a recording took longer than planned, so we would continue the following day, and it was granted that if I left my gear alone it would be gone by the next morning. Good times!
My bad, must have just scrolled right by it :-)