skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a basic principle I decided on when thinking about smart switches etc. Basically they must be dumb switches first and only if HA is working are they smart. The most promising ones I find were from Shelly. They fit into normal light switches (or in the UK you probably have to put them at ceiling roses).

Then I decided I didn't really want to put electronics in my wall at all and did something more useful with my time instead.
The value of being able to see the deleted posts is so you can recognize the posters or their telltale phrases in future:

a) Too-good-to-be-true accommodation listings on CL/FB listing artificially low weekly/month-to-month rates on nice-looking properties, in order to "acquire" unwitting customers for marketing RE or 12+ month leases to. RedFin and/or their affiliates seemed to be doing a huge amount of this throughout 2022.

b) Deposit scammers on CL, FB advertising properties for which they are not the landlord; meet in person to pretend to take application and deposit. (Someone I know was scammed $1400. Obviously be skeptical, check owner, never give cash to strangers - but this still happens).

c) Another telltale is when the identity of the "apply to" URL is disguised using shorteners (or rendered as image).

d) Nuisance landlord(/roommate) scammers on CL/FB who repeatedly post a similar generic ad under different names/ addresses/ userids; then don't know which property in which country you're responding to, won't reply by phone, are in a different timezone/country, and insist you fill in their third-party application form incl. your contacts and SSN.
A medical doctor friend some 30 years back said patients coming back to consciousness after reaching the hospital after 45 minutes of CPR definitely did happen.

He also said that if you enter the hospital on a stretcher, you're most likely also leaving on a stretcher...

The chance of 45+ minutes of CPR allowing someone to recover to even near normal health is tiny. The right question to ask is, do you care enough to cling onto that tiny hope? As in, is it your child or loved one? (Or, is it your job to administer CPR while the patient is being transported to a hospital...)
The Anus... they're really taking this "Doom runs on everything" quote seriously!
ETscript: https://github.com/markgomez/etscript

An interpreter for AMPscript (DSL for personalizing emails) that I used when I was at ExactTarget/Salesforce. I wanted to learn Rust and needed a project-based approach.

It doesn't really have a real-world use case since it's not integrated with any email platform (e.g., Marketing Cloud). I had loads of fun working on it though! Oh, and it's still missing a garbage collector.
A privacy and caching reverse proxy for Gravatar written in Go:

https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/privytar

Still need to write tests and deploy an official instance, but the code itself should be working already. I'll consider it ready when those tasks are done and I can have a senior Go developer review the code.

I was inspired by projects like Nitter and Bibliogram. No real reason for it to exist aside from that and "because I wanted to." I guess I also don't trust Automattic all that much either.

There's also acopw, a small cryptographically secure password generator module for Go:

https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/acopw-go

I'll consider it ready once the underlying cryptographic implementations have been independently audited.
The libc is absolutely part of the operating system. Some people and tools go out of their way to avoid using it, but they are completely mistaken to do so. Go in particular has wasted a huge amount of effort on this absolutely pointless exercise.

And not just libc - on a typical unix, there are a small number of other libraries which constitute part of the operating system, like libm, libdl, and libpthread. They are part of the means by which the operating system delivers the POSIX environment.

You're right that the JVM is a dependency, and that there is very poor versioning support for it in production. Everywhere i've worked, we've come up with ad-hoc solutions for it, and none of them have been very good.
Well, yeah, but the chapter on strings is chapter 5. Shapiro doesn't start with strings, he starts with numbers, which I think is a catastrophic mistake. When I say start with strings I mean start with strings. Actually, start with characters, i.e. start by pointing out that the fundamental units of computation when you interact with a computer using a keyboard are things like these:

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ - + = { } [ ] : ; " ' < > , . / ?

Then talk about how stringing these things together in sequences can denote different things, but that these denotations are just conventions. For example, by convention we denote strings using double quotes:

"This is a string"

Note that there are two ways you can look at the above. You can see it as a sequence of 18 characters that starts and ends with quotes, or you can see it as a sequence of 16 characters that starts with T and ends with g. This ambiguity leads to a whole host of problems, not least of which is that if you want to write a string that includes a double-quote mark you now have to somehow indicate that the embedded double-quote does not denote the end of the string but it intended to be a constituent of the string, and the fact that the same character is used to denote both the start and end of strings was actually a catastrophic design error but we're stuck with it now because of the weight of history. (The Right Way to denote strings is with balanced quotes «like this» but that ship sailed a long time ago.)

And then, once the student understands strings, you can start talking about how some strings, like "123", stand for numbers, and how this is also just a convention, because strings like "123,000.00" look like numbers to any educated human but don't stand for numbers in any programming language except Microsoft Excel again because history, yada yada yada.

The point is, numbers are really really complicated, even more complicated than symbols, and they are definitely not the right place to start teaching any of this notwithstanding that this is where everyone starts.
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Still breaks swipe to go back for me.
Graduation rates and attendance were even lower before the 70's, so I'm not sure what fantasy world you might be referring to. Are you referring to segregated schools? That probably wasn't an ideal system.
I'm bootstrapping https://subledger.app until I can raise funding for it.

It's a more efficient accounting ledger targeted at in-house finance teams of post Series A type startups.
Typically bribes are to individuals and fines are to government institutions.
Agile itself was a response to this problem, and was invented by engineers who wanted more control of their work. It's become a whip for management but when it's done right it can be pretty freeing.
Not quite half-baked, but fairly fresh out of the oven:

https://github.com/oalders/is

It's a tool to make shell scripting read a little more like English.
Hit the gym: https://www.julian.com/guide/muscle/intro

Grind leetcode: https://leetcode.com/
Please do not contribute to this silly archaic practice. It was once not silly. It is now archaic, and it is silly to do it now that we have vastly superior tools.
> The winner is going to be the consumers

Cloud infra may be a comparable market, since computation is a big share of AI costs. Did consumers win big from competition between AWS, Azure, and GCP? Not sure. I see an uptick in write ups saying “We switched off cloud and reduced costs by 2/3rds.” Not a scientific sample but may leave the question open.
That may be your experience, but I assure you that there are plenty of companies where it's not like that. Where I work, our product team is pretty receptive to us taking time to fix tech debt, since:

- Engineering is very transparent about explaining when tech debt is slowing down development of new features

- We recognize that buggy/unreliable software hurts customer retention

- Engineering leadership has set the expectation that a significant portion of each team's time should be spent on maintenance and reliability.
I have no idea, but this isn't an "18+ adult content and services" product, so I wasn't expecting this response from payment processors.
Echochrome Official Trailer [video]
(I'm not here to start up a heated or judgmental comment thread here, because I do think conversations like these about ethics are illuminating, and that the interplay between general principles and an intuitive sense of justice is hard, and that I do want to genuinely engage in good faith with you...)

I hope, as a species, that we do become a spacefaring, exploring civilization – so that these mice will not have been euthanized in vain. It would be tragic if these mice died, for example, so that space can be militarized. My feelings tell me that so much relies on what this knowledge ends up being used for – which is intimately linked with what we end up doing with the fantastically expensive investment that is spaceflight.
The drop in test scores is almost certainly due to the new curriculum in K through 12 grades which emphasizes group cooperation and a curated and limited view of history and de-emphasizes writing and critical thinking skills...

Also, The Establishment dislikes social media being used by young people because they like complete control of the flow of ideas into the brains of young people.. and the establishment wants to limit idea transmission to the educational curriculum and Hollywood entertainment, which they control completely.. they have tried to control social media but they cannot control it completely, so they're trying to shut it off for young people so that no unapproved ideas can get into their heads
Flexport is laying off 20% of its workforce
The Windows 95 user interface was really something special.
Would love to see the performance results
The Problem with Locks and PostgreSQL Partitioning (and How to Fix It)
Ha! You noticed it! :-D
I memorized it as 1=blue, 2=red, 4=green and then you add the numbers to make the combinations. So magenta is red+blue so it's 1+2 = 3 and cyan is blue+green with is 1+4 = 5.
If you appreciate quaternions for what they can do for you, but also find them frustratingly unintuitive/ugly, then you may be interested in bivectors (https://bivector.net/) and geometric algebra more broadly. They're equivalent in power, but suddenly everything actually makes sense!
> I get the sense that nearly everyone on both sides of this issue is entirely guessing.

I would hope that people base their political positions on strong evidence and/or the voices of subject matter experts. Alas, political positions are more based on what people want to be true, rather than what is true.
Quantum dots: the tiny 'rainbow' crystals behind chemistry Nobel
https://macroco.sm

It’s functional programming for creative thought processes.

I’m excited to launch this very soon, and hope you’ll check it out. Thanks!
A bit like the 16-bit game consoles : tell your user that saving the game involves them saving a string of characters, in base58 for instance ?
In Germany pedestrians also always have priority over turning cars when crossing at an intersection, no matter if there is a pedestrian crossing or not.
I won’t dispute the cost issues with the Mac.

But it seems like a lot of the other Mac issues are related to Steam.

A normal Mac app sold online or through the store wouldn’t need special entitlements for dylib loading, and Xcode could easily handle all the signing for you. Xcode cloud could help too with builds.

I don’t think the game being Electron would matter there.
the primary challenge to convert old audio/video/images to digital is a device to play them. what would the website do? a paid service where i can send my tapes?
The first 30 minutes of this interview does a great job of explaining what's going on here. Really interesting stuff.

https://youtu.be/qcvMjoJdck4?si=RL1WnAAj4loS1D2s
It's self correcting as customers will move to the competitors over time.

If it's one of the few business that has an absolute monopoly over a certain sector in a country, then the country will gradually weaken over time, until eventually it won't be able to resist a foreign competitor.

Or at least that's what market theory suggests. Of course the period of 'self-correction' could take a few months to a few centuries to fully play out, and simultaneously overlaps with all other market participants.
Was this the video from HashiConf? Any links or transcripts?
Web-first app, Electron for desktop, WebView for mobile.

I wonder how that compares to using an engine like Godot, Unity, or UE for cross-platform support? I love Electron and WebView is nice too, but neither would be my first choice for creating a video game. Personally, I'd prefer a native app that compiles to WASM for web support.
I think you may have misinterpreted what the person above you said. I think the person above you is actually not as car brained as you think. I read their suggestion not as "everyone should use a car to get everywhere" but instead as:

> Cars can't safely be on streets with pedestrians, so we probably shouldn't allow cars onto roads where pedestrians could walk. Instead the only place where cars should be allowed are roads meant for long-distance driving, like interstates, as that's the environment where a cars advantages shine. Once off of an interstate, you gotta park that car in a dedicated car-storage facility and then walk or use public transit to get around. If you want to drive a car, then "walk or take a tram to your parked car if you need to drive it to the next town."
This is almost exactly the progression of topics that led me to DL too.
That was my read too, though I haven’t seen the term used that way before.
They are subsiding the users with their massive cash reserve.

And it is the right business strategy for them. It is MSFT money, it is free money.
"Saturated", as in the first usage under "Web", refers to market saturation. The word is questionably appropriate in the first case, and wrong in the second.

I suspect that what he means (in both cases), is that sales are low on both platforms, and they are not worth the effort to port to.
Why can't it be making electrical appliances since 1875?
It's called Efiboot: https://github.com/cbarrick/efiboot

It lets you manage EFI boot entries in a TOML file.

It's actually in pretty good shape, but I still want to work out a reproducible and offline build system, for the sake of packaging in Debian, Arch, etc.
I didn't even realize what Loom was until now. I love their product demo video on their home page. https://www.loom.com/

Brilliantly made.

And I'm completely sold on the value of this software. Screen recording is the best way to log software design defects.
> As far as I know [Mormons] don't make this type of claim to be historically validated by peak reason.

Mormons absolutely believe that their religion is backed up by history: the book of Mormon is about and ostensibly by various descendants of Old Testament figures who migrated to the Americas, culminating in the burial of golden tablets with "Reformed Egyptian" writing in upstate New York. It's obviously fiction - but that doesn't seem to make much difference.
Tor Browser 13.0 is released
Let's celebrate relicensing from an open source to a proprietary license
https://earsmith.com times out for me.
https://www.flexport.com/blog/flexport-ceos-note-to-employee...
I suppose you can move to Venice Beach sleep outside and just queue up for the soup kitchen a couple times and shoot up all afternoon.
> for the purpose of keeping traffic flow orderly and efficient. Not sure why this should be any difference

Because I'm saying that the act of crossing the road _itself_ should not be illegal - merely the act of crossing it unsafely. By definition, this is not disruptive to traffic flow.

> why pedestrians should not be expected to follow traffic laws

They should. This is begging the question - I'm saying that the law itself is flawed, not that a law should exist and be flouted.

> why the law should allow pedestrians to step into traffic whenever and wherever they want

This is a strawman. Pedestrians should be allowed to step into _roads_ (not into traffic) whenever and wherever it is safe to do so.
3D saddle formula:

f(xy)=z

Sphere:

(x-h)^2+(y-k)^2+(z-l)^2=5^2
Oh. I assumed we were sharing information, not exchanging insults. I'm not sure what segregation has to do with anything, the data doesn't align, and many of the states focused on are in the north anyways. If you can't see the gigantic drop in test scores, lower velocity on all fronts save spending, and corresponding drop in productivity then that's ok.
https://www.jukelab.com/

Turn your iPad into a jukebox.

I’ve thrown 20+ parties with it and it’s always a hit. Putting it out in the universe for fellow jukebox nerds to try out too!
I'm well aware -- I've been working with this stuff since the early 90s and have a better than usual understanding of the history of it all.

But if we're going to analogize to the internet, you have to count LLMs as "the internet" and the things that came before as just "networking". Networking is very old and laid the basis for the internet, but the internet was something different in kind.

My only point is that LLM being used for real things is very recent. There hasn't been a ton of use (relatively speaking) before it was available for public use. That's not true with the internet. The internet was heavily used, and heavily iterated on, before the public had access to it.

Being skeptical about LLMs is not irrational, and so you see a lot of it. There's just not a great deal of history with them to provide counterexamples to that skepticism. That's not the case when the internet was opened to the public, which is a large factor in why the skepticism about the internet was much lower than the skepticism about LLMs.
> A binding being an association between a name and a value is a defect in Common Lisp.

Well, it would be if that is how CL actually defined the word "binding" but it's not. The CL glossary defines "binding" simply as "an association between a name and that which the name denotes". It does not specify that "that which the name denotes" must be a value, and in fact there are name spaces (collections of bindings) in CL where the things denoted by names are not values. The TAG namespace, for example.

The CL authors did make a few mistakes, but the definition of "binding" is not one of them.
That is disturbing. I didn't know about that dark side to it. Still thx for posting.
The article mentions handheld portable vacuums. Even if a £30 vacuum is repairable, who is going to repair it? How can replacement parts be stocked when their sales will be 99% lower than sales of the original product?
Ahhh, yes, I misunderstood - sorry!

Also, I feel obligated to ask “are you me?” at your stated homelab journey. I also went from mergerfs + SnapRAID, albeit shifting to ZFS. I also went with k3s, but opted for k3os which is now dead and thus leaving me needing to shift again (I’m moving to Talos). Finally, everything in my homelab is also in IaC, with VMs buiit by Packer + Ansible, and deployed with Terraform.

Happy to discuss this more at length if you have any questions; my email is in my profile.
NIST responded: https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/W2VO...
Confused about “From here we tried increasing the running time of the benchmark, removing I/O and system calls, checking for hyperthreading (ARM cores don’t support it), and even changing the cores’ CPU governor”. Where do ARM cores come in here? Is it a typo for AMD? But those cores (Bulldozer era) did have shared resources between threads even though they didn’t call it Hyperthreading.
Why are there two a's? [video]
Yeah, everyone has their own "Moore's Law" that's over, but original Moore's is kicking along.
I used this all the time on hikes. Combined with VR headsets, they were a great way to share experiences with people who lacked the physical health to otherwise get access.
I don't know what sort of mention you are looking for but there is a blog comment that mentions it.
Please also consider: removing the one or two severely disruptive students from a classroom results in drastically better education for the 20+ students who remain, which is likely a benefit to society at large.

Based on my own education, a public school where every single day the same 1 or 2 students disrupted the lesson, assaulted nearby students and forced the teachers to waste hours on maintaining order rather than teaching, the result wasn't that the median student pulled the troublemaker up, it was that the troublemaker caused the entire classroom to not learn anything.

Society would have been far better off to have the couple students unable to thrive in a conventional classroom go to an alternative school and have all the other students get a decent education.
The parental bias is two-pronged - officers, many are college-educated, esp. from the various armed forces academies - West Point, Annapolis, et al., and those recruited into the armed forces have to overcome various hurdles, from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/every-branch-us-milita...:

"The pool of those eligible to join the military continues to shrink, with more young men and women than ever disqualified for obesity, drug use or criminal records. Last month, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville testified before Congress that only 23% of Americans ages 17-24 are qualified to serve without a waiver to join, down from 29% in recent years.

An internal Defense Department survey obtained by NBC News found that only 9% of those young Americans eligible to serve in the military had any inclination to do so, the lowest number since 2007. "

So out of the possible Americans aged 17-24, less than 2.3% would serve in the military. The partner/spouse may not have to pass those hurdles, but having at least one parent with those attributes and employed would help the family wellbeing.
Yes, there's way too much truth getting out on that particular subreddit.. wouldn't be surprised if Reddit ends it
Ask HN: Anyone tired of Googl just punting any products of theirs at any time?
It pains me so much to build up content then to have them.just shit it down or like domains drop kick it to Squarespace? It's so hard to commit when they seem to kill off projects that doesn't garnish a billion users. I finally got my in-laws to use Googl+ then bam! Closed. So utterly disappointing to no end.
Not an RPG gamer anymore, but this looks like a true innovation in RPG playing. I wouldn't be surprised if this takes off in a big way.