skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One afternoon during my senior year of college, I was procrastinating by trying to estimate the height of the stack of every assignment I'd ever completed since kindergarten, and suddenly realized that I had produced basically nothing of worth during my 16 years of school. Since about 3rd grade I'd felt busy and productive every school year, because I'd been diligently slogging through mountains of assignments, worksheets, problem sets, and essays. However, looking back, if I measured my production in terms of items produced that had any lasting value (artwork, essays, code that might be used outside of an assignment, etc.) I was at fewer than 2-3 "things" per year. If I measured my learnedness in terms of what I could actually recite out of the hundreds of thousands of things I'd "learned", I could probably only recite 5-6% of it, and most of it was gone.

Other people typically say that all of that slogging was useful, and it was "teaching me to think critically" or "giving me practice at learning", and even if I don't remember that stuff it's still important for me to have looked at it. I tentatively agree that it's okay to take a shallow pass at some material without really mastering it, because then you have a basis to build on later. But I'm not so sure that my time in school was well-used, and I have a vague sense that I've reached less than a tenth of my intellectual potential. By seventh grade I had already optimized my "learning style" to cram hard at the last minute, burn assignments down as quickly as possible, and then aggressively purge the memories of the knowledge as soon as the next "unit" began. Many subjects I now find interesting were practically traumatizing in school because of the stress and workload. Now that I'm investigating them independently, it's far easier to remember facts.

I now think that the only use for tests and worksheets is for self-reflection, for the learner to discern whether or not they understand the concept the problem set is related to. A really enlightened education would never weigh the completion of the problem set over the mastery of the problem set, and there would be no factory-production model of forcing students to complete work and then gaslighting them into thinking they'd "learned" something or that their time was well-spent. I don't know if that's possible to set up at scale, though.
Show HN: Karpenter and AWS EKS with Secondary VPC CIDR Configuration
This demo allows separating the Node and Pod CIDRs so pods can have ~24000 IP addresses.
Another major difference between them is that their hype cycles are out of phase by 40 years. The first AI winter was in 1984 and the first crypto winter was in 2014.

For an apples:apples comparison we need to compare the AI of today with the cryptocurrencies of 2063, or the cryptocurrencies of today with the AI of 1984.
The Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos had a $40M salary in 2022, which is definitely too much money. However, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the company's $31 billion revenue.

So I'm pretty sure the streaming services are charging whatever they can get away with, aka the market equilibrium price, regardless of their executives' salaries.
What games would you recommend?
I haven’t done it myself so I can’t speak from experience, but Rob Walling’s book “The SaaS Playbook” has a whole chapter on hiring and building a team. I found it insightful. The whole thing is a quick read/listen and I thought it was worth my time.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/48329

In other words, speed of a projection of light from 3d space to 2d space may be higher than the original speed in 3d. (Because one dimension gets squished to 0, so movement in this dimension is perceived to be instant.)

It's like a diagonal of a cube 1x1x1 has length sqrt(3), but if you apply orthogonal projection onto R^2, its image will be a diagonal of a square and it will have length sqrt(2). Shorter distance -> shorter time to travel.
This is a great use of AI
> The T's FRR is the highest in the country: all of 30% or so.

According to the Federal Transit Administration, the Boston subway has a FRR of 74%. This is not the entire MBTA, which would also include things like the bus service (it should not be a surprise to anyone that trains are more efficient than buses).

I'm not disagreeing with you on the premise that the state has mismanaged the T and that it should be turned over to a municipal agency, only that the situation is not quite as dire as it seems. Most other cities in the US would be over the moon if they had Boston-level transit (which, again, is saying something about how poorly the US has managed its transit infrastructure).
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Legally, they have their hands tied much more than Sega.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i13hrynnGNY
Ask HN: Is it me, or are Stripe fees somehow getting worse?
Long story short, I've used Stripe since June 2022. We are a small agency business, and we probably do anywhere between 10 - 15k in revenue per month. I really just use Stripe as a simple way to invoice and then collect the associated payment. I've also used instant payouts, and tried out revenue recognition to see if that was useful.

I've paid them hundreds of dollars in processing and other fees since we started out, but have tried to do most things through ACH to avoid paying more. I totally understand the processing of cards, which has real costs and middlemen. I definitely don't like that they take the higher processing cost, even when a card is debit. Even with ACH, they do still charge $1, which is pretty fair in my opinion.

Jump to today, where I was hit was a $16 fee / charge for using Invoicing Starter plan and had a negative balance when looking at my payouts. After investigating, I see their pricing, which has changed recently to be 0.4% of all invoicing totals and / or not include 25 free invoices like it may have previously. To put it clearly, this means that I am now paying anywhere between $20 (more like $40) and $60 (plus ACH transaction fees and CC fees) per month (more than I was) to essentially use a SaaS based invoicing service that really just has a few line items and a bank account number on it with the convenient option to also accept a card if needed. This is a huge pricing change for a business that essentially has non-payroll costs of less than $200 a month, and it only gets worse the more money that I make or the higher rate(s) that I can command. Stripe was probably one of our biggest expenses per year by the raw numbers, but now, it is more than double and is doubly so by our biggest expense per year.

In addition, I think the part that really irks me the most is the the fact that they are also probably making money off of my money while it sits in their accounts, but to then double dip and charge me what appears to be outrageous costs for a simple SaaS product with some banking / automation backend seems a little much. I get there is probably some complexity that I am not covering and fraud protection and such, but I honestly don't care how they make it work, I only care the value that I get out of their service versus what I am paying, and frankly, the value to cost ratio just took a nose dive today for me for my use case after seeing these new costs associated with their pricing changes.

Am I crazy for thinking this? What is everyone else's opinion here?
> Most things "just work", which you only appreciate after working with other linux laptops. For example, I can seamlessly plug this laptop in place of my work macbook with just one usb-c cable.

I think any laptop sold in the last 4 or 5 years or so is plugged and charged with an usb-c cable and can be docked that way.
I'm team usb-c after having broken many barrel connector ports. That's a plus not a minus.

I'm also team usb-c because it is extremely nice having one charger that can charge any of my devices instead of needing a charger for my laptop, a charger for my phone, a charger for my tablet, on and on
So far all the attention for behavior change has been in the supply side: carbon extraction companies, governments that license the extraction. What about the demand side? How many people are graciously seeking less energy and plastics use in their lives? In the USA, it seems that there is ever more not less reliance on plastics. Who in a less-developed economy wants to stay less developed and avoid enjoying what the rich countries have?
Hash functions are an analogy that falls apart very quickly.

You can recover the original word from the embedding, but not from the hash.

A hash function will return very distant vectors for very similar inputs. An embedding will return similar ones
Eh? this is way too soon to assume they have learned anything considering how little we know about the movie.

TBH after how successful (and decent) Mario was I woulda argue if they learned anything they would have gone to the same team that made that work.

If anything giving up too much creative control and Nintendo not being hard to work with could also be a problem.

It will never cease to amaze how how a paragraph of information from Nintendo (or anyone) can be turned into a long article likely focused on SEO that doesn't really say anything.
While this is great brainstorming, that doesn't mean it's a viable business plan. Having a large highly qualified dev-team working on experimental stuff for now over a decade and no likelihood of completion anytime soon and without a business plan is pretty tricky, even for a non-profit.

In general, for research of that type (of scale) it doesn't strike me as generally very viable to rely on commercial support, and such a niche technicality is surely not going to collect enough donations to run on that alone. If we want to fund this because it's an interesting option for the future in the long term, governments are going to need to chip in - and it looks like that's at least partly at play here (or even primarily), i.e.: system working as designed.
This is the kind of snarky response I can approve of.
Why do we need another browser engine written in C++?
Also mentioned in this thread: Tumblr's ActivityPub integration (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716429) was apparently announced without any plan and then immediately cancelled once they started thinking about how to implement it.

- https://mastodon.social/@_jv_/110692236418053393
I'm sure everyone has their own approaches for this kind of thing, but mine is basically this:

Try to remember what was difficult about this material.

Use that to guide yourself down to the core pieces. What is the kernel at the center of this mass of knowledge? "This would have been easy to learn if only... [what?]"

Often if you view the particular ecosystem as a dependency graph, the places to start are the root dependencies. If you go back far enough, there tends to be a single root.

Make sure that core foundation is well-covered and answers all those questions that made the material difficult when you learned it.

Then add some more use cases on top of it just to give the reader ideas of what they could go on to build. This won't be comprehensive, but should be tempting.

The very act of _learning to program_ should be exciting and fun. I recall when I was 12--every page of a programming book was unlocking something else in the world. "Wait--it can do _that_?" I try model this more as a path to follow at first and less of an open field going off in all directions. And I try to _hint_ that it _is_ actually an open field going off in all directions, but the reader can explore that later.

Don't worry about being wrong. Make an effort to be right (pride in quality) of course; just remember that everyone who produces a laundry list of reasons why your guide is crap and you shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard has just given you some free editing. :) If the points aren't valid, you can ignore them. If they are valid, you learn something (win), the guide gets better (win), everyone who reads it after the fixes gets better-quality info (win), and the complainer can no longer complain about those things (win). And ask Brian Kernighan or Rob Pike if they've ever published something wrong, and I guarantee they'll laugh knowingly. :)

My tone--I imagine I'm being a goofball discussing this with one of my best friends. I like that tone, I have an easy time writing in that tone, and it seems to be pretty popular. But I've also definitely had people complain about it being too casual. I don't know what to say, other than...

We're knights of the round table

We dance whene'er we're able

We do routines and chorus scenes

With footwork impeccable

We dine well here in Camelot

We eat ham and jam and spam a lot

Dah dah dah da da dah dah... [dude clapping in the dungeon]

Also, don't forget to reread and rewrite everything. There's always room for improvement.
Vonnegut was right! Here’s a great lecture where he explains the 8 shapes of stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
Didn't work for the Irish. British took all the meat and left the potatoes behind. So although they were kept alive, it wasn't a great existence.

And then the potato blight happened.

Which England naturally didn't help out relieving.
Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon from the Air
Your implied accusation is totally baseless.

I am just logging a protest, I have absolutely no interest in discussing it.
Presumably the same regulations apply here that apply to not stabbing people. Outlawing stupidity surprisingly only has limited effectiveness.
> but then they're just Service Oriented Architecture.

This is a disappointment I have, when you mention "normal" services/SOA in past 5-10 years, younger devs assume you mean tiny microservices, and you get caught between monolith vs microservices holy war.

Larger domain services are a huge benefit to many shops, but it has felt like a losing battle recently. Like being a centrist between Democrats vs Republicans in the US.
Certainly seems like hypocrisy is the name of the game.
Apple's Home Key to form basis of a new smart lock standard, Aliro
It's actually been explicitly stated from former Nintendo employees that Melee will almost certainly never get a re-release; because:

A. Nintendo doesn't care about the primary audience for Melee. They view the Melee players as being, in many ways, harmful to the brand; which considering the dozens of pedophile and sexual assault allegations, they might have a point.

Before anyone says the above is an exaggeration or unfair: https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/hjfv0y/summary_o... and https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/hlyrgs/regarding_...

B. Any change, no matter how slight, would get screams of being "unplayable!" Just one frame of increased or decreased lag because it's different hardware? "Unplayable!" It doesn't work with the actual original 2003 GameCube controller instead of the Switch reproduction? "Unplayable!" It doesn't support the hacks the community has added? "Unplayable!" And on and on... If you literally could never make the community happy because it's not 2003 anymore, what's the point?
I really dislike when something is “non-intuitive” to the completely naive and thus a phenomenom is called a paradox.
BlackRock and the US Government Could Be About to Kill Bitcoin Amid Crypto Rally
there goes the future of cinema
No true scotsman arguments are pretty unconvincing. What I described is how much of the world economy works in capitalism. It may not be to your ideological liking but this is what capitalism does, and the laws its writes, the social norms it dictates, the types of governments acceptable under it, the way it fights reform, the way it creates incredible inequality, the way it seeks for max allow price, and the politics it creates.

Had waving this with a vague "but but corruption" ignores the forest for the trees here. Not to mention your comment is provably false. Even the least corrupt capitalist states suffer from the exact same mechanisms and their own streaming prices are going up as well.
> it made me realise that HN, like any other online forum, has a finite lifespan

Everything we touch has a finite lifespan, and I don't think that's the important thing to think about.

I would further comment, but the guidelines[0] last point says not to.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We'll just follow dang wherever he goes :P
when the planet is dead we can't go anywhere
Lunar.dev wants to help developers take control of third-party API costs
https://archive.is/vIXll
This is mostly right.

However I'd consider Neil Postman's excellent book "Amusing ourselves to Death" on why Americans (and perhaps many more countries now) are obsessed with entertainment rather than why entertainment is so expensive
Sure, and in that case no issue. But that is the government stance, not the EU stance.
I don't know the feasibility of it, but the issue is that if this kind of system was implemented, I don't think it would *only* allow detecting CSAM.

And that's the problem
I gotta be honest, I'm not sure what was expected? They spent $2b building this thing, it's brand new tech, it didn't host many shows last quarter (it was open for 1? full month of the quarter).

I still think The Sphere is super damn cool and I can't wait to go to an event there.
This is awesome! Kudos!

I wish there was some kind of "computing archeology" discipline
I'd argue that the EFF is the main organization fighting for the open web.
Agree with your pros, but not your cons. Mine is a bit newer, so it might be a bit different (?).

Feel the trackpad and screens are totally fine. (Although low res for the 13' version).

Very happy with mine, specially how small and light it is. This is my 3rd "ultra portable", and it might be the lightest one yet.
Different drug (you're referring to Invermectin).

Still, I'm not sure there's any reason to trust this latest Didier Raoult paper any more than the meta analysis carried out of numerous papers and studies into AZ/HCQ carried out by institutions that hadn't staked their reputation on it being a cure in March 2020
Netflix was founded in 1997. DVDs were brand new technology and dialup was the primary means of accessing the internet. They didn't begin streaming until a decade after that. They were called Netflix because you could rent movies on the internet.
That tracks - It's a Bloomberg article.
I wonder if they're doing a GOT-inspired take on it? I feel like a limited series covering a game like Ocarina or Majora would be a mega-blockbuster
The user stylesheet version is deliberately blunt, done in two rules to forcibly override whatever the author may have done, to both the normal and the interacting experience.

If you control the site’s styles, it’s better to keep specificity as low as reasonable (which I decided meant one pseudoclass—you could reduce it to zero by shifting the `:where(` to the start, but I decided not to for some reason), and only change what you need to change (which is the text-decoration-color—notably, not the entire text-decoration—on links that aren’t being interacted with.

Why? Because as well as being shorter and more conceptually elegant (and frankly, I place likely-disproportionate value on it being just one declaration, pride probably factoring in), it makes it easier to override when you want to. Suppose, for example, you want <a class="button"> to not get underlines because you’re making it look like a button (for better or for worse): you can write `.button { text-decoration: none; }`, just like you would have done previously, and it’ll work fine. Against the user stylesheet approach, even stripped of its !importants, you’d still get an underline on hover until you increased specificity (e.g. `.button.button`, and I’m assuming this is coming after the :any-link:is(…) rule, or else you’ll want `.button.button.button`) or reduced its specificity (which I grant :is → :where can do).
Not with BabaBASIC (for now?). No networking support whatsoever :P
It appears the shorter one is trimmed?
It's striking to see the newspaper of record in Ireland presents this as a "major setback" to the Irish Government. That government is wilfully and blatantly failing to enforce EU law, that it is treaty bound to enforce, for its own gain. It's tantamount to observing that the Irish Government and Apple are openly conspiring against the EU.
It depends actually. If the thieves have to find new fields every year, it will be a logistics problem
This makes sense as nomads transformed by agriculture would probably be more interested in organized defense than offense (before prosperity, population booms and eventual land grab attempts.) Do you remember if this was a book?
I think it's that both were websites that catapulted you into truly random, non-targeted interactions -- Omegle with a random person, StumbleUpon with a random site.
how long are you staying with one company usually? i imagine getting from one person to five can take anywhere from a month to a year or more depending on how fast revenue or investments are coming in.

i am kind of in this situation myself. but i primarily need sales partners in regions where i want to sell my services, while the rest is done by people offshore (me included)
The reporting on this study is conflating sentiment with plot structure, which misrepresents the study.

See for example, Frankenstein. The sentiment rises slightly during the Creature’s narration to Victor of his circumstances - likely the narration of the French family he was “living”/stowing away with - but that’s certainly not a “rise” in the sense Oedipus rises to noble status. It’s hard to interpret Frankenstein as anything other than the protagonist’s consistent and tragic downfall (riches to rags in this analysis).

Not sure if that’s fundamentally a problem trying to extrapolate plot beats from sentiment alone, or a bit of less than accurate journalism.
I see a parallel with that to "art". My favorite description of art is that it is "creativity under constraint". Pure, raw creativity isn't art -- art happens when that creativity is expressed inside of limitations. The limitations of paint, for instance, or of a particular literary or musical form, etc.