skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I endorse this assessment of why I linked that Jessica Kent video.

tl;dr She focused on convincing an employer to try her out on a job with a sales commission, so she could earn money at a multiple of her time, to save as much as she could. She directly invoked sympathy to get the first landlord to take a chance on her. But, she only found someone willing after several months under the somewhat exploitative regime of them insisting she pay for her own background check that - given her history - knew might set them off.

The commission-based job is the insight I gleaned from the video that isn't trite ('keep trying'). You might, nonetheless feel some commiseration of someone who had almost nothing. I also acknowledge that there is survivor bias in pointing at her story, when many other ex-convicts had a harder time that did include homelessness or return to prison.
> Replace conservative with evidence based.

Sure, but that implies a system of pilot studies and increasingly larger studies to make sure that the intervention scales and it wasn't working due to factors inherent to the original population. You need to create an entire body of evidence, because every random fad has at least a single study to back it up. But single studies aren't that predictive, that is to say P(discovering some new fundamental truth | single study published) is rather low, as the replication crisis is showing us. Your changes are probably going to take 20-40 years to iron out all the details and suss out all the subtleties. And real, useful, interventions are going to be delayed in exchange for preventing harmful interventions from propagating.

That puts you pretty deep into conservative, risk-adverse, territory. Firmly in the Eisenhowerian "Let us make our mistakes slowly" camp. I feel like the characterization is accurate here.
Even better, the studios won't have a monopoly anymore on creating blockbuster movies. Some kids in a garage with a cloud service subscription can do the same with their lawn-moving earnings.
They tend to eat children's portions :)

I know what you mean, I have two adult children and they did eat a lot in their teenage years but not enough to cover the disparity I questioned.
I am disappointed that the recipe for "tortilla" is "go and buy it"; regardless of wheat flour or corn flour based tortillas, it is easy enough to make your own, and the different in taste is paramount.
> Unless your kid's main hobby is torturing flies or something

That's called research on model organisms. As long as the kid has gotten proper approval by the ethics review board, they'll do just fine.
The Mac itself was a lot better. It shipped with

- a “Guided Tour” floppy that contained a “Mousing Around” application that taught you to operate the mouse, for example by dragging a path through a maze.

- two audio cassettes “A Guided Tour of Macintosh” (https://archive.org/details/GuidedTourOfMacintoshAudioTape) and “A Guided Tour of MacWrite/MacPaint” (https://archive.org/details/GuidedTourofMacWriteMacPaint) that accompanied the “Guided Tour” disk (with prompts to keep the audio synchronized with what happened on screen)
The O.MG cable is designed specifically for covert USB exploits against mobile devices:

https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable
Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Commerce
+1 here. I would love to see this working on Firefox (Fennec) Android so I can sync to my desktop Chrome...
People may care. But, if the company policy is that people can work remotely when they want to, asking others to commute into an office on a regular basis is a pretty high bar.
Hundreds of thousands years ago life expectancy wasn’t 80yo.
Ask HN: How hard is it to write a Linux printer driver?
I've build a Photo Booth last year that includes a photo printer (Citizen CZ-01 [1]).

When picking the printer my requirements were:

- cost per print

- number of prints per interaction (loading printing medium, ..)

- cost of the printer

Overall I'm pretty happy with the printer, the only issue is that it does not have a linux driver, only macOS and windows.

How hard is it for an expert to write a basic printer driver for linux (measured in days/hours)?

(I'm not intending to write it myself, but hire someone if it's financially feasible)

[1]: https://www.citizen-systems.com/en/products/printer/photo/cz-01
> We need a more rational alphabet tailored directly to English phonemes.

That would cause absolute havok for the billions of people who already know how to read English, but realistically you could never roll this out to the whole world... it would just become another teaching fad that cripples the kids subjected to it, by failing to teach them how to read English as the rest of the world writes it. You would be teaching kids to read and write using a system their own parents can't comprehend. It would be an absolute disaster.
Theft clearly seems to be seen as acceptable when it comes to corporations taking away access to purchased content. I don't see why that shouldn't work both ways.
a common way to temper chocolate for making candy is to seed the crystal structure with... tempered chocolate
You know, I don't think they can anymore.

The web is not what itwas, so they can't just "revert." They need talent, execution, ideas. IDK if websearch still has that at google. A possibility of big(ish) ideas about how websearch should be.

Innovators' Dilemma, and just general difficulty of changing core things that don't change often. Google are optimizers. Local plateaus are hard to beat.
"Contrary to stereotypes, kids are not "turned off" by more direct instruction methods."

I'm not aware of that sterotyoe at all. That highly depends on what the instruction method is, as wella s the child. In this case it was because it became trivial because they dwelled on it for years.

It seems they're looking for a one size fits all solution. I don't believe that exists. If half the kids do well in one method and the other half do better in a different method, then perhaps they should figure out which is the "standard" method and create a second track or IEP for the others.
I was referring to the former. The waybackmachine confirms they launched around 2016, but with sporadic uptime (apache settings in there)

https://web.archive.org/web/20170530121529/http://www.kprofi...

We were running a beta for that period and launched publicly in July of 2017

https://web.archive.org/web/20170722070519/https://kpopping....

Personally I think hallyuidol is even worse but that's another matter. (they are just copying kprofiles but whoever designed it has eyeballs so they have a massive advantage on that front)

Right now I have YouTube's API team giving me an audit that is compounding my already overextension on our development. They're telling me I can't do rankings or aggregate data. It's a giant mess and I have another fulltime job so it's not getting the attention it deserves -- still it's miles ahead of its competitors and I don't see how that's even debatable.
> That would compromise the neutrality of the site.

So what? Competitors exist also. Brick and mortar stores exist and nobody complains that they aren't "neutral".

> Also not everyone who want to publish information about stuff wants to run a freaking retail business to support the publishing/hosting.

They can continue then with their garbage ads, if they so please. But for those who aim to make more money than paying for their hosting, I think selling some product or service is better for their bottom line and for the web at large, than relying on ads. Strictly talking about people who publish online with the goal of making money.
The other key aspect is prioritization of profit--this is most commonly to shareholders.

It can even begin before a company is publicly traded to make it look better on paper. The worst case of this I witnessed is the company preparing to go public improving the bottom line, and ultimately not doing so. The owners were stuck with the bad will and less sustainable operations. One way to combat this is to have pride in ownership, which usually only happens when the majority owner is an original founder or a descendent (and the company has the family name).
Which is a fair assessment, And I think I agree with you. however there is a bit of irony around the whole situation.

The article reaches the conclusion that the best way to handle the situation is for the display server to provide the dpi primitives and let the client figure out how best to draw to that dpi. But acknowledges that there is a hack where you can make the server present a standard scaled dpi, but the drawing will then be bad. And there is this new-fangled thing called wayland where all it can do is the hack.

The irony is that wayland is infamous for usually making the clients do the work(I am thinking window managers) and X for providing a standard method. Nether of which is true, but it made me chuckle.
> LibreComputer boards. Cheap and open

True. Unfortunately they're impossible to purchase outside of Amazon or at any EU shop that supports PayPal.
Investing Adventures in Bhutan
That's true. However, you would rarely use nested-else blocks like that to begin with. The whole point is that you can avoid deep nested scopes.
Linux is designed to run on a wide range of hardware. What you want requires the exact opposite. Even getting hibernate to work may drive you crazy. Learn to love what you have.
Yeah, just think of how the battle scene at Helm's Deep would look if they weren't able to use CGI. AI generated CGI is just the next step forward.

Write and produce good content and we'll watch, subscribe, and buy.
I am convinced that while harder, there are more intelligent ways to block these DDoS attacks other than blocking entire geographies. I often travel between Africa and US, and there are things like buying furniture (home depot blanket blocks non US customers, but they would simply allow shipping only to US addresses), buying cars (there are large car sites that don't allow browsing from outside US, even if you've already have an account or bought from them in the past), etc.

I feel like geoblocking is the easy way out, because if developing countries suddenly started waving their cards en masse, these merchants would find a way to let them in.

Speaking of card waving, it likely only appears that developing countries are not a large customer base because to merchants, they look like US customers.

Most African countries don't have access to Visa/Master cards, so often they'll have a US account where they can transfer some of their money. Others might earn in the US (like remote workers), and spend considerably in the US.

Then, because most merchants don't ship outside the US, these customers would use shipping forwarders, like myus.com.

So when making the decision to "block Nigeria because we don't really have any customers there", they're likely not considerig this potentially large customer base they're alienating.

Even worse, these are usually customers that do not have access to credit, only debit, so for example, when buying large ticket items (like a car), they tend to pay for it all upfront, so likely great customers.

Then there are the business customers, the ones what want to buy containers full of merchandise. Those too get blocked.
Ask HN: Resources for 7 year old interested in Geography
My 7 years old son seems interested in Geography. Whenever he can get hold of a computer, he googles and searches for maps. Any thoughts what I can do to help him explore more ?
Water under the dam at this point, what what?
> it's nearly impossible to click and hold on anything along the edge to resize the window.

That might be the proper nudge to get rid of yet another old&persistent UI mistake - why do you need to hunt for a tiny border when you could, e.g., have some tap/hold key(combo) and have the resize border become as wide as ~1/3 of the window width?

(same thing with the title bar, a wide and tall box in the center should be more than enough)

> They threw out several decades of usability pioneered by real HID experts

Yeah, no, those experts were just as smart as the current "UI/UX morons", with tiny borders and tiny buttons highlighted in the post being the testament of their expertise
Addressing #2

It’s a bug in Google’s promo driven culture. You don’t get promoted at Google by being good at your job, you have to show “impact”. That’s much easier to do by being on a new initiative. You don’t do that by improving and maintaining existing projects.

Amazon has the same “impact” driven promo culture. I haven’t worked at Google. But I did work at Amazon. From what I read about Google, it’s the same Hunger Games mentality.
I think the comment is in reference to the comments focusing on quality instead of the jobs impact. The whole debate around quality seems like a red herring in the first place, who is surprised or did not expect a direct to streaming high school romcom to have have the highest quality everything - even for the second row bleachers in a 1 second cut shot? Who is actually bothered by that problem vs the jobs debate you've highlighted?
It’s hard to swing back over walled gardens, they employ behavioral tactics to hook people into certain behaviors. When internet was new it grew organically, these tactics weren’t needed. Now all large platforms do it. Imagine how much effort it would take to unhook people off doomscrolling for example.
See over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37889533

I am aware of Monads (they're explicitly called out in the article!), and specifically want to go in a different direction.
Wait until you hear about Louisiana.
Firefox has this kind of workaround too: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/extensi...
Caffeine as well. When I cut caffeine to 200mg a day, grinding drops by like 90%. Supplementing magnesium before bed helps significantly.
The meat of this seems to be an upcoming UK AI safety summit:

The UK’s AI Safety Summit is due to take place at Bletchley Park and is expected to gather world leaders and tech entrepreneurs to address the challenges of “frontier AI” that might cause “significant harm, including the loss of life”. The two-day summit on Nov 1 and 2 is expected to be attended by top lobbyists from the likes of Meta and Google. Kamala Harris, the US vice president, is expected to attend, while a Chinese delegation has been invited.

(From TFA)

Anyone have pointers / insights on what this might entail and/or produce?
Gee, what a solid and water tight argument. You sure have me convinced now.
There’s nuance here but you’re missing it
As others are saying, "8-bit" doesn't mean 8-bit address space. It refers to the ALU "word" size instead - i.e., how many bits you can add, subtract, multiply, or divide in a single step. (Larger types are possible, you just need to do the operations in steps, just like 64-bit math on 32-bit platforms.)

Even in the 1980s, most 8-bit microcomputers had at least 64 kB memory. Today, many AVR chips will have 145 kB of memory (flash + SRAM + EEPROM), and pretty much arbitrarily more can be installed externally.
A grid is overlayed over the Earth and a temperature is calculated for each cell. Over the continental US and Europe most of the numbers are determined using weather stations but where sensor data is unavailable, like most of the oceans, a temperature is calculated indirectly using satellite data and a bunch of other sources.

The grids for the northern and southern hemisphere are averaged separately and then combined with a weight to eliminate bias towards the northern hemisphere (since most of the weather stations are concentrated in the northern half of the planet).

There are lots of different models for this calculation and different agencies use ones tailored to their needs and data quality.
This seems like a dumb complaint. Movies have been using painted backgrounds for 100 years. Would that be forbidden?

This is a cheap b movie, so they aren’t going to pay for the extras that a Cleopatra or big production would afford.

The fix for this seems to be better AI (a la Lord of the Rings 20 years ago) rather than employing more extras.
Human race handled the Blacl Death, but was it fun? It can probably survive a global nuclear war, but is it a great idea?
This youtube channel intuitively explains algorithms on a whiteboard:
https://youtu.be/IqXdjdOgXPM
Lord Dundreary
Play Carmen Sandiego and GeoGuessr with them? Or if they like board games, maybe the Pandemic series (especially the Legacy ones, which have more story and different cultures, but might be a bit advanced for a 7-year-old, depending?). Or Ticket to Ride for an easier play. Or Power Grid.

Might also be fun to play around in Google Earth (it's still around!), maybe in VR. Or make some maps together in Felt.com (easy) or QGIS (harder).

Oh, and there are a bunch of scratch-off maps you can get too (on Amazon and elsewhere). Might be fun to combine those with country-specific games, or trivia, or whatever.

There are also these books: https://brilliantmaps.com/book/
And that website has a link to other board games too: https://brilliantmaps.com/strategy-board-games/
I don't see humanity building defenses against what likely caused those mass extinctions...
I think you may have missed the point of the site: "Go and buy it" is merely the starting state for all recipes, see "Click on an ingredient to make it from scratch."
It doesn’t prevent cavities by itself but it’s a great addition to good oral hygiene.
_Extreme_ bit of HN’s signature “nothing ever happens” tendency there.
I'd love to have it in languages that I don't speak with a deep poetry history, like Japanese, Indian, Persian, languages from Africa... but I guess the biggest problem there is not the infrastructure, is knowing the language.

But also Latin would be interesting, Latin has tons of great poems, even funny ones (I still remember Marziale :D )
>>I've been thinking for some time that we could do with having a sort of private internet for the nerds.

If we only could. I'd work for free helping to build it. Count on me.

I just think we don't have to build one. We already had it in 1998. It's still there, buried beneath the landfill.
> I never had the nest egg that enables others to speak like I do in the clear, in the real.

WTF?

Only the wealthy can participate in politics or public debate?

If I was grading this; I'd give you a "D" and tell you to try again, with focus this time.

You want a job in politics, is that it?
As other posters have mentioned, you misunderstand OSM. Geotagged photos go on Mapillary, for example, where they can be used to improve OSM, but not on OSM itself.

But contributing to OSM is definitely not inherently complicated: the StreetComplete app has been around for years and lets any ordinary phone owner add details with just a few taps, in an environment much like a computer game. It is true that powerful editors like JOSM or Vespucci have a steeper learning curve, but since changes to OSM immediately go live and e.g. deleting a highway by mistake would be bad, you want some level of friction.
Yes! Not just computer nerds, but nerds of all kinds.

I want to read things by recipe nerds, not people trying to make money on ads.

I want to read about cars from car nerds and home repair from home repair nerds and writing from writing nerds.

I want to read things from people who share them for the pure joy of sharing them.
Pursuing options that are faster and cheaper because you’re trying to be efficient is not the same thing as giving kids a laptop and checking out to browse social media.
You have to click on the step to expand it.
The events I witnessed were all from rather large botnets. If it was just a few IPs then those particular companies might not have even noticed. Attacks like that aren’t always easy to solve with simple tools like says fail2ban.

Regardless of whether or not it’s the intention of the attackers to disrupt the service, that’s the effect it can have, and it’s something DDoS protections service will usually mitigate, especially the services that incorporate WAF functionality (which I think is pretty much all of them?…).
You might be underestimating the social upheaval that will result from wast regions of the earth becoming uninhabitable and the effect of the population movements from desperate people trying to get away starvation.

You might also be underestimating the consequences of ecosystem collapse. Since 1970 we've already lost about 60% of biomass of insects, birds and mammals. The impact of rapid climate change will put additional pressure on already vulnerable species.

I have little doubt that widespread ecosystem collapse will be the death nail for our global human civilization.
This isn’t even AI. This is just low budget VFX. Something that has been done since the 90s.
Exactly, contrary to doom sayers beliefs, ML models will enable a huge new segment of creators.
It is already happening with people creating games/movies/books/music etc. that are of much better quality than those churned out by AAA.
How can you know the link won't correspond to the title and snippet? Should we just avoid all interesting-looking content because we might have been duped? The only way to avoid clickbait working is if those who have actually seen the entire page can indicate it is not worth viewing - which brings us right back to search engine placement algorithms and curation.
Begin by not brushing so hard. They can grow back if you stimulate the gum. Talk to your dentist.
I think were all getting there as a whole. Everyone at some point is bound to be looped into an mlm, cult, conspiracy or worse at some point and will eventually see the limits of attention or not. A true sage will recognize his limit and apply his limited folk sense of reality wisely within a model that optimizes a quality modern life.
Considering we have only gotten a handful of cover letters, we are having to go by the resume. So if your resume has no Vue and/or no Java, we're forced to read between the lines and guess that there's a reason. Not so much an iron fist, but 95+% of resumes don't convey any passion, so it's hard to say this guy has a passion that will translate to Vue+Java.
One would hope that more studios and more independent film makers with more interesting plots will emerge.

In fact, I think we're probably already seeing this... YouTube gets more viewing hours and more revenue than Hollywood.
Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple
I think the issue is you keep saying 'cheap' labor and a 'crash'. It might be better to qualify your statement as SV/FAANG salaries may adjust down, but for the vast majority across the US salaries will likely go up. I would also bet that many in SV will happily take 80% of their salary if they can live anywhere they like.
The silicon that drives IO pins & oscillator(s) requires some physical size (for one, due to ESD protection reasons), and requires X amount of power.

A complex, modern cpu can consume many times that, so cutting edge process is useful to minimize overall power use.

With small/simple parts like a uC, not so much. So the cost/part, other considerations, and whatever vendor or silicon process provides that, is what matters.

Here, power savings come from sleep modes, disabled peripherals & (maybe) reduced or even stopped clocks. Not so much reduced feature sizes in the IC.
Daily Surface Air Temperature
The best introduction to HMMs and the Viterbi algorithm is the classical tutorial by Rabiner ( see e.g. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/rabiner.pdf ).

What is missing from Steve's clear explanation is (1) a graphic depiction of the central data structure called the "trellis" (Fig. 6 in the above paper) and (2) a citation to the original Viterbi paper [1].

For many years, HMMs - together with a Viterbi triphone decoder - defined the state of the art in ASR (automatic speech recognition), until eventually, neural networks took over.

[1] A. J. Viterbi, “Error bounds for convolutional codes and an asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. IT-13, pp. 260-269, Apr. 1967.