skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israeli internal communication has been openly genocidal for decades. But our political classes got taken in my their nonsense somehow and helped them arm up to the point where they could actually just start bombing children with no repercussions. In a just world, everyone who ever supported this should never see power again, but of course, that would be much of the political classes of most western nations.
A game like this with a million variations is almost immediately uninteresting. It makes it seem like the rules / strategy aren't fully formed and doesn't feel like something worth learning. The implementation is great though.
The tires seem overinflated for the environment. I bet that alone would have made a huge difference in that climb.
Ornamenting "Jingle Bells" with Perl's Music:MelodicDevice:Ornamentation
The wheels aren't spinning without traction, that results in a terrible 0-60 time.

Rollout originated from the practical reality of measuring with a starting beam - the tire doesn't stop breaking the beam until after it's started moving. With modern GPS data loggers and other corrections the use of rollout is just to lie about the 0-60 time to make it seem better than it is. Like the Model S Plaid wouldn't get to claim a 0-60 of under 2 seconds without that cheat code.
It started in Dec 2000 and The Perl Advent Calendar is back for another season.
Trucks are huge now because people want huge trucks. That is the only reason.

Fuel regulations have been around for decades but trucks are getting bigger and bigger.
Why the hell would I ever want to return? That’s like going back to an ex thinking it “will be different this time”
The front wheels still have a CV joint to facilitate steering. See 4:17 in the video.
You can find that same spirit in the discords playing with LLMS right now even though it's walled. It would be better if it wasn't but the spirit is the same.
That's a blast from the past. Turbo Pascal 3 was the first "real" language that I learned when I was young. And then there was 5.5, which had a much nicer IDE. Ah the good old days.
I had something called Turbo Pascal DiskTutor which if I remember correctly really helped me understand object oriented programming.

I also spent quite a lot of time working on a type of rough wireframe 3d CAD editor in regular Turbo Pascal when I was in the 8th grade. I used equations I got from a little reference book my dad had brought from some garage sale or whatever to figure out how to do rotations and perspective.

We also used it in AP computer science class which was probably the highlight of high school for me.
> Many trucks are driven by folks in the trades.

It's a little hard to believe that's the primary market given the design trends in trucks that seemingly make them less attractive and useful to tradespeople while being more appealing to folks in the fashion accessory market.

For example, the trend of trucks getting more and more expensive with luxury features and interiors or the increasing popularity of short beds with giant cabins or the higher ride height that makes it more of a pain if you actually lift things in and out of the bed. Or even the enormous tall fronts that make it a lot more likely you're going to run over stuff you can't see. I'm not sure why anyone with an actual job related need for a truck would be driving those trends.
haha I'd be surprised if I'm drinking more coffee than usual during those drives.... but any road trip I am definitely consuming more snacks and candy due to very poor self control.
Some artists will tune A to be resonant to the room they are in rather than a specific number within 432-444.
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This is exactly how I have mine set up aye. Proxmox on hardware, Main PC as a VM - once I got to the point where Proxmox had its web interface (and ssh) up and running I had no real reason to have a monitor plugged into the hardware OS anyway. Passed the GPU and all USB ports to the PC guest from there.

At the time I had no idea how popular it was to run this setup, I thought I was being all weird and experimental. Was surprised how smoothly everything ran (and still runs, a year and change later!)

Bonus, I was able to just move the PC to another disk when the SSD it was on was getting a bit full. Moved PC's storage onto a spinny HDD to make room to shuffle some other stuff around, then moved it to another SSD. Didn't even need to reboot the PC VM, haha.

Proxmox backup server running on my NAS handles deduplicated backups for it and other VMs too which is great.
Sounds similar to what Asimov created in the Foundation series under the name Psychohistory!
There are different tiers of highschools and different tiers of higher education.

The first tiers are more targetted towards craftsmanship (e.g. arithmetic and trigonometry you can quickly do in your head, you start working earlier in life, as early as 16) while the latter tiers are more universal and abstract (e.g. math concepts that have better use for computer science, you start working much later, around 25 years old).

You can switch between tiers or fetch later.
> most companies make physical things, not software, so there's no secret sauce to share through email anyway.

The conclusion does not follow from the premises.
The goal is basically to help you build offline-first apps. In the offline-first paradigm, app code works directly with a client-side embedded database, which automatically syncs with a backend database in the background. This is in contrast to cloud-first apps which primarily use a cloud datastore via APIs.

Working with a local database (e.g. SQLite) means that apps feel instant to use because of low latency, and remain functional when the user’s network connection is unreliable or offline. Also, offline-first typically offers built-in real-time collaboration by automatically syncing data in the background.

There's 1-minute demo video here of a Flutter "To-Do List" app showing some of these concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTx5ViRe3HY (this demo uses a Supabase Postgres backend for simplicity)
>> Well, my title was founder. All the other founders were on the board, I was not. All the other founders controlled budget, I did not. So really, despite the words on the offer letter I was just an employee. The founder title granted me the right to work 90 hour weeks with no help and no support and no budget to hire help.

>> At least didn't waste too many years on that one.

Firstly, i'm sorry to hear about your situation. I'm curious why you didnt negotiate harder some time into this. It seems to be you held all the cards.

I'm fascinated by the number of "business co-founders" who think they can cut a 25k check to some random person on eLance/Upwork and replace technical co-founders.

My recommendation would be to say -- sure, try that. Lets talk in 6mo if you still need me, but i'll set the terms at that point. 6mo is about when most non-technical people realize they have no code in source control and some random person overseas now owns their company effectively.
> Which for most people includes making judgements about who you are based on the clothes you wear, the car you drive, the style of haircut etc.

But, it's important to understand that the people with some hairstyle aren't the assholes. That would be entirely on the people saying they're assholes for their choice of hair shaft placement.

> And buying a Cybertruck does imply that you either (a) agree with or (b) are ambivalent about Musk's behaviour.

I don't believe most Tesla owners are aware of this. Most that I know see an obvious choice in a product with no real competition.
London Underground tops 4M journeys in a single day
OpenZFS is on an exceedingly short list of software in my life that I actually trust to do what it's supposed to. Where most software just up and falls over every so often, ZFS chugs along, day in and day out.

Then ZFS has one bug and everyone starts acting like the sky is falling. And sure, it was a bad bug, but you had to be pretty unlucky to trigger it, and it was present in ZFS for all of a month.

Meanwhile, people's Google Drives are apparently forgetting the last the eight months of changes.

OpenZFS is fine.
I would argue the root cause of this is administrative creep. Faculty don't care about student movements accross campus, but for administratos it's an opportunity to improve their job security and expand the role of the beurocracy.

Most of these technologies are solutions in search of problems. There is no need for invasive proctoring software if students just take exams in person like they always have. There are presently too many economic incentives to violate people's privacy and almost none to protect it.
right. what early distributions were doing was creating subdirectories within /mnt, but that got in the way when users wanted to mount something manually. at least it did bother me.

personally i wish /media would have stuck. i find the current paths /run/media/username/device rather unpractical. whenever i connect a data device i have to go searching for the mountpoint.
The independent plumber I use when something goes wrong with the pipes drives a GMC Savana van. He's really good; close to retirement age and very methodical and thorough and his prices are reasonable. The electrician I use also drives some sort of van. I've had a few other contractors out for different projects around the house and I'm starting to notice a correlation: the ones in the giant lifted pickup trucks are unreliable and overpriced; the ones who drive vans are the best.
Turbo Pascal was a game changer. Prior to this, I'd been learning to code with Computer Innovations C compiler. It required multiple compiler passes involving swapping floppy disks. What a pain. Turbo Pascal was small, compiled fast and produced tiny executables. It was a joy to use. Later, I used Delphi to develop the GUI for an electron microscope. It made GUI development so easy - even developing custom controls for knobs and 2-D sliders.
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Ask HN: Behind Digital Devices, Insights for An Educational Journey
Hello everyone,
I’m Stefano, a programmer deeply interested in education.

I’m leading a project aimed at demystifying digital devices for elementary school children. We’re about to embark on the second phase and I’m seeking insights from this great community.

Our journey began in a public school in Italy, where we introduced programming through an “analogical language”. This approach involved the use of the body, cooperation between students and other classroom activities that mirrored programming logic, including logical operators and conditions. The use of Scratch was a key part of this phase, allowing students to apply these concepts in a digital format.

The upcoming phase in January marks a significant transition. We’re starting with disassembling old computers to give the children a hands-on understanding of the hardware that powers digital technology. This practical approach aims to reveal the workings behind everyday digital devices and services.

The ultimate goal is to foster a deeper understanding of the technology that surrounds us. By demystifying the inner workings of computers and software, we hope to ignite a curiosity about the science and engineering behind their favorite devices and apps. This project isn’t just about teaching coding; it’s about unveiling the “magic” behind digital technology.

In this next phase, I’m contemplating the use of languages like p5.js to bridge their newfound hardware knowledge with software development. As we delve deeper into the complexities of technology, I’m eager to hear from those who have experience in teaching young learners about coding, hardware, and the interplay between the two.

I’m undertaking this initiative as a volunteer, dedicated to making a difference and I’m not perceiving any financial compensation.

Your feedback, resources, and personal experiences in this area will be invaluable. They will not only guide the development of this initiative but also contribute to an open-source framework and knowledge base for educators and enthusiasts globally.

I appreciate any advice or stories you can share. Your support and motivation are essential in shaping this educational journey.

Thank you in advance for your help and insights!
I ran through the HE IPv6 certification thing back in 2017. It involves setting up email SMTP over IPv6. I used my home connection.

You really don't need volume. You need to do it right by following the rules and also not sending crap out. The likes of mail pig and co will never work as I do ... Americans use the phrase "Mom and Pop" for a small family business - that is what I do.

I have a VM at work that acts as a SMTP/IMAP post office for a few vanity domains. I registered another one a few months ago and added it in for a friend and they have no problems conversing with the hyper scalers etc and nor do I and the rest of my small holders.

This may be an artifact of being in the UK but I doubt it. The big sods are run by people like me - professionals, who try to get the messages through, despite a sea of hate, viruses and the rest.

If you really do SMTP seriously, you will discover a world of people who really care about delivery.

I am not an "old server" per se. I refuse to deliver crap and my peers seem to appreciate that. I own my IT company and I keep a pretty tight rein on my S&M department - they do not get to randomly spam people. Strangely enough we still manage to function and profit without being arseholes that blatt the world with spam.

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This is, apparently, my certificate from HE:

<img src="//ipv6.he.net/certification/create_badge.php?pass_name=gerdesj&amp;badge=3" style="border: 0; width: 229px; height: 137px" alt="IPv6 Certification Badge for gerdesj"></img>
Woah, neat! It seems like we had pretty similar thinking for the kinds of workflows you'd want.

It looks like you have an Venmo integration ("Sent to Venmo" in screenshots) which I haven't quite cracked yet - curious if you're willing to talk about how it works. Tender has venmo via plaid, but it only supports importing tx, not initiating payments/requests.

I thought about either: integrating unofficially (https://github.com/mmohades/VenmoApiDocumentation) or just doing links to venmo payment (i.e. venmo.com/user?pay=500) and having some way to import venmo contacts

Neither seems great from a UX or security perspective.
If I remember right (it has been a while since I dived into this topic), Reading Recovery was one of the programs mentioned. It was supposed to be a supporting approach to teaching reading to kids who were struggling otherwise.

The mainstream approach that really made a hash of things though was "Whole Language" learning, largely commercialized by Fountas and Pinnell, which eventually provided the program and associated materials to classrooms around the world. This program relied, in part, on guessing: if a child got stuck on a word, they would be asked to guess what word might fit in the sentence. Sometimes they were given context clues, like a picture on the page. Any efforts to associate individual letters or letter combinations with sounds was abandoned.

Wikipedia has something of a watered-down overview of this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language, but I really recommend listening to the podcast in the second link in my parent comment (https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/), APM Reports put together a compelling examination of what happened, and it's explained well. (I do wish it was also available in a more typical article format.)
I drove a rented SUV a few weeks ago (GMC Acadia Denali) that had quite shocking acceleration -- 310 horsepower or so -- and the handling of a dead fish. It was kind of scary, and overall a really unpleasant experience. I don't understand why the manufacturer would choose that combination other than being able to market the HP. And this was gas, not EV.
But who will take my money to make minimal UI changes to VMWare Fusion year-over-year?
Yes that whopping $387/week on average. That’ll show them

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/best-and-wor...
Instead of leveraged buyouts, we now have layoff buyouts. Acquire firm, minimise headcount, keep lagged revenue on existing assets and IP for 5 years while reaping profits on 90% margins.
I would trade my third child for your avocado tree.
NASA has actually looked into this & found the ideal method for safely vandalizing tires https://www.thedrive.com/news/nasa-built-a-tire-assault-vehi... (it's an RC robot w/ a drill, for testing how space shuttle tires perform when damaged)
The vast majority of companies don't write any code ever. Not everyone is developing "apps".

If you're going to generalize "everyone" you need to understand your business type is a tiny tiny minority of what most people do.
Indeed. Asimov says as much in interviews - the laws are flawed from the get go. It is the naive belief that the laws work by various scientists that creates these Sherlock-style mysteries/crimes to be solved in the first place.

I suppose the real wisdom there is that humans are doomed to fail at alignment if we create sentience and expect it only to serve us.
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Lexus is already doing steer by wire, they used it to make a vehicle with a yoke that didn't suck to operate (as much anyway): https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2023-lexus-rz450e-steer-b...
same here!

put together a sieve of eratosthenes from algorithm as a kid and thought I was hot shit. something about watching a computer slowly tick through primes was so satisfying.

good times.
A fantastically productive system back in the day. It was a joy to use.
"Real" agile is meant to do just this, but it's rare without falling into cargo culting.
This is the way forward imo. Particularly as we've started to flesh out the relationship between model size and true context reliability. We've found that raw context-window size is not representative of what the model can actually consistently recall, but we've also found the recall is consistently reliable out to a point. I suspect more robust theoretical models around superposition will move us a long way towards understanding the limits of context reliability rather than what would currently be an experimental approach.
You can’t beat having a stellar media team.
Cesium: The Platform for 3D Geospatial
> is that not a sentient mind that you're forcing to do your labour? Does that not raise a ton of red flags in your ethics?

Maybe and maybe not. Being sentient or even sapient doesn’t mean it has human emotions, feelings or motivations. You have to be very careful when ascribing naturally evolved emotions and motivations to something that is not a naturally evolved intellect.
and Kissinger got the Nobel Peace Prize
It's hard to overstate just how much faster Turbo Pascal was than its competitors. So fast that it was hard to believe it wasn't cheating in some way. And then the resulting program was faster too.

A tour-de-force of its day, and it deserved all the acclimation that it got.
The Cybertruck beat the 911 while also towing another 911. I am not a fanboy of ether, but this is pretty cool from an engineering standpoint.
Boosting smartphone signal strength around King's Cross station
Depends on what you mean by founder. Pre-funding employees can get sweet nominal-cost restricted stock awards.
No, we didn’t - as the Libera mess demonstrates. We are stuck in a nightmare situation where Matrix is successful, but most commercial projects building on it don’t contribute back either financially or otherwise. We’re now trying to fix that via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162275.
Given the pricing for the lower and mid-tier I wonder if this will force Rivian to lower their prices on their R1T

Lots of comments about the F150 Lightning but I feel like the Rivian is the real competitor for the cybertruck here. Different buyers
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I am pretty happy with Swish (https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/)
Use can make gestures to snap/tile windows. Pretty cool when you have a trackpad or Magic Trackpad worth the $12
> It has a historically cavalier attitude to enforcing them (which I believe it inherited from TCL)

Richard Hipp (inventor, principal dev of SQLite) called it “manifest typing”[0], indeed likely inspired by Tcl[1], of which he is a Core Team member emeritus, and of which SQLite was initially born, as a loadable Tcl package.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/different.html

[1] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Everything%20is%20a%20string?...
Cute, they even included a strong punching screenshot of a ticket to “let basecamp subscription lapse” in their new ticket management tool. Reads like someone is very proud of the morally superior decision they made and just spent 4 hours typing up a big pat on their back. Switching from 37signals to MICROSOFT on grounds of morality is actually impressive as far as mental gymnastics go.
Yeah, that’s basically it, it’s an ESXi style management UI that just makes everything really easy. In our little setup I used libvirt on an old server, Proxmox on the new one, and now I’ll probably shift the old server too to Proxmox due to the clustering (for example, you log onto one machine and can manage them all).

ZFS support that just works is really nice too. They also have a backup solution I’d like to check out but haven’t yet.
If you shop around, I have always found a base model. 4 of the last 5 new cars I bought were base models. The exception was probably a mistake on my part. (It had a dealer installed sun roof that popped out on the highway at 6 years.)
>Now we have a market that's almost entirely bound to congressional whim

Agree 100%

>mostly disconnected from consumer demand

Disagree. Sedans are still around (Camry, Corolla, Civic, Accord), but consumers are voting with their wallets for crossovers. Ford killed the Focus and Fusion because they simply couldn't be sold for a profit since most people didn't get the high end models, and to be honest, I'm surprised Chevy still makes the Malibu. The Company Formerly Known As Chrysler doesn't even make a car anymore.
Mozart's music was considered too edgy and quirky in his day, actually. People who were knowledgeable about music tended to like it a lot because they could follow all the twists and turns, but Salieri was the more popular composer with the mass public. The story with Beethoven is not very different, ultimately some of the simplest pieces of his were the most popular and he wasn't very happy about that.
> "The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and IDE--was 39,731 bytes"

On my computer now, it's smaller than:

- License.txt which comes with "TurboPascal (with DOSBox)" (42,044 bytes)

- sqlanywhere.vim, syntax highlighting file for the SQL dialect of SQL Anywhere (41,929 bytes)

- parse.py, the URL parser in Python's urllib (42,057 bytes)

- doc_testing.html the Rust By Example section on writing tests in comments (42,059 bytes)

- pwd.exe (print working directory) in GitHub Desktop (42,296 bytes)

- WindowsExplorer.admx the XML policy file describing the available
settings in Windows Explorer (42,461 bytes)