skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a kid that's in middle school and last year there was about a 2 month stretch of multiple daily fights that were driven by views on TikTok by 6th graders, so around age 11.

It started out small. Maybe a kid would start something in the hall while his friends pulled out their phones, recorded it and posted it to TikTok. Then they realized if they start a larger fight on the way to lunch they'd get more views because kids had their phones at lunch. Once that leveled off they realized that fights in class got even more views because it involved a teacher. It got to the point where my kid would walk outside to go to their next class because the halls were just filled with kids trying to do anything to get views on TikTok.

The larger issue were the second and third order effects this caused. Kids started refusing to go to school because of the fights and attendance problems soared. Multiple classes were constantly disrupted. Due to the layout of the school most of the hallways are narrow so it was near impossible to get to class on time.

It took the spring break and major intervention from the administration, staff, and students to finally have the fad die out. It still flared up from time to time in the spring, but never as bad as the winter.

This year it's now about how funky of a combination of socks and crocs you can post to Instagram.
This is just a battle for shots at elite schools.
You don't need RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE to support URLs in right-to-left languages. It's an extremely rare codepoint that's used to force left-to-right characters to be displayed as if they were right-to-left characters. The only use case I can think of off the top of my head is some kind of interlinear phonetic transcription where you want Latin characters to flow the same direction as the corresponding Arabic for ease of cross-referencing.

For ordinary bidirectional texts, RIGHT-TO-LEFT ISOLATE, its sibling LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE and POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING are plenty:

⁧عنوان URL لهذا التعليق هو: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38734329‬

Where I used RIGHT-TO-LEFT ISOLATE in the beginning to make sure the Arabic text in front of the colon is to the right of it, and then POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING in the end to restore the original directionality. (Amusingly, HN's URL parser treats the POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING as part of the URL, which breaks the link.)

Otherwise it would show up like below, where "in front of the colon" means "left of it" (as is customary in English text):

عنوان URL لهذا التعليق هو: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38734329
New Jersey does this as well via NJCLASS loans. They are only disbursed by NJ schools though the lenders are big loan servicers, like MOHELA
> “Own the libs” and unhinged Trump cultism on one side and “virtue spiraling” and toxic negativity on the other

This resonates. Despite being someone that the vast majority of US citizens would characterize as "left", I was commenting to my partner the other day that as I'm getting older I feel more and more like Archie Bunker. I live in a deep blue area and I can't help but roll my eyes at half the stuff that gets discussed. I almost always agree with their starting point and their general sentiment, but then it just goes off in a wild direction.

And then of course the other side. It's like watching Voyager hurtling itself out past the solar system. They just keep running in a wild direction. There was a time where I'd pay more attention to right wing media as I found it overall better. A couple of decades later, hoooo boy.
Measuring doom is hard, and there are an awful lot of people trying to work out exactly how bad things are and if they can be salvaged. No need to be too flippant about it.
Max Pell grant: $7,395

Duke School of Nursing (article ex) Tuition: BSN: $14,525/yr (or ABSN $25,258/yr).

Housing: $11k/yr. Fees,Food,etc: $7k/yr. I'm likely low.

sources: https://nursing.duke.edu/academic-programs/absn-accelerated-...

https://nursing.duke.edu/academic-programs/msn-master-scienc...

housing:internet said $1100/mo for student housing in Durham NC (do students rent all 12mo?), food:guess

This is to measure the issue, not advance an argument either way.
Did FDR want to join WW2 to stay in power at home?
>Circular can also mean recycling and resource recovery.

In theory it can, in practice todays computers will be unrecyclable e-waste.
Mods are great, but they generally lack cohesion. I agree with OP. I wish that instead of passive upgrades and only a couple tower/ammo variants, the game had a deeper tower defense aspect.

It'd be nice to have more enemy and tower variants, with certain types of towers working better against certain types of enemies - or towers that debuff enemies instead of hurting them. Maybe there could be structures that attract nearby enemies so it'd be easier to direct where attacks hit.

I think stuff like that would keep the tower defense stuff from loosing relevancy in the late game while staying fun.
Oh… luxury!
> nor do the docs explain what "structured" means (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...)

The actual docs do. This second-party attempt to recreate the docs in their own way that you point to has fallen short, I agree. Granted, Mozilla does a better job than some of the other second-party recreations, like Deno's. There is little question that the Javascript ecosystem is a bit of a disaster.

That said, I clearly see the caveats right there up front and centre, so even still it has successfully managed to provide you with what the function name wants to bring to your attention.
Study shows that Asian students are Asian.
Wow, I'm actually a pretty big fan of the original Observable, so on the one hand I'm pretty happy about that (assuming it will get standardised, rather than being a Chrome-only API).

But on the other hand, indeed, like signals, I don't really think it meets that bar - especially since Observables have been widely available and actively worked on for a long time, without seeing wide adoption.
No, because this is unprecedented and within our means to control if we have the will to do so. One hopes we're slightly more forward thinking than other species, although hope is a double edged sword.
It was somewhat deliberate, partly a misunderstanding (maybe). Let me try to clarify.

I think people who cite effective tax rates are being equally misleading, but I appreciate I'm a minority in that opinion and therefore said what I said knowing it would likely cause some controversy.

The point I'd make here is that if you're earning more than £37,500 in the UK you are still paying 40% on anything beyond that £37,500 – it's not inaccurate to say you're paying 40% tax – it's just not the full picture.

These brackets cause many people to want to work less because the way they see it anything they earn beyond £37,500 is worth significant less since they are quite literally paying that 40% on the additional income. So if I get a job paying me £60,000 I'd have to consider the fact I'd be paying 40% tax on a decent percentage of that when I calculate my take home pay.

So I'd argue it's simply not the case that someone would look at it this purely from the perspective of what their effective tax rate is in any given financial year – especially if they're working overtime or have other forms of income which might get pushed into a higher tax bracket. I know plenty of people who refuse work when they hit the 40% tax bracket because they feel too much is taken from them at that point. While saying someone is paying 40% tax isn't the full picture, citing an effective tax rate isn't the full picture either when considering incentives for promotions, overtime and side income.

I'm sure we disagree on this though which is fine. I was considering wording it differently, but ultimately felt putting it in a slightly controversial way would at least prompt people to ask the right questions. The general point I wanted to make is that tax is quite a bit higher in the UK than the US so you can't directly compare gross pay – hopefully we at least agree there.
Client-wise maybe, but the whole IdP part is an entirely different and a whole lot more complicated.

If it would have been that easy, everybody would build OAuth/OIDC providers left and right.
I haven't had a reason really to use tags, I just use folders.
> Both shipping times and costs are rising.

It’s usually positively correlated. Longer shipping time means more demands for ships and there aren’t unlimited amount of ships.
Klonopin as needed.
The correlary to that is that the "yield" goes down for all but the very most competitive colleges, so colleges have to build longer waitlists to ensure a full class. And more uncertainty for everybody.
Xojo (formally RealBASIC) might be what you want if you just want to learn. It runs on Mac, Windows, and I think Linux and allows you to target the web, iOS, and Android.
there are 100 ways to calculate who is the richest country and you will get 100 deferent results

the countries on the list also happen to be the most socialists who distributes half of your paycheck to everybody else
The book Empire of the Summer Moon goes into a lot of great detail about how skilled the Comanche were at horseback riding and fighting from a mounted position.

Highly recommend it for this specific reason and as a great historical book in general.
I should suggest warptorio here: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/warptorio2
Meta and their lobbyists have been pounding advertising in the DC media market on TV, radio, and the Washington Post under all their brands about how they now support the government trying to mandate parents rights to limit access. First it was Instagram branded, but I've seen ads for their other brands lately as well.

It started when the Surgeon General released the report on the effects of social media usage on adolescent health [0].

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-h...
As Indian-American parents, we are leaning towards letting our kid have a relatively normal childhood instead of enrolling them in the grueling rat race of chasing "success". We know that this might mean the kid will have a lower or no chance of getting into an Ivy and so lose some lucrative career opportunities. Having seen successful people have no more luck in being happy and content with their lives than the losers, we just don't see the point in wasting our kids life the way we wasted ours.
It's remarkable how there are some things I just couldn't find in the US at (nearly) any price. I wanted to live somewhere I felt safe with my kids biking to school and living car-free as a family. And there are some places that kinda-sorta-barely might be doable for that (Portland, culdesac in Tempe but I've zero interest in Arizona, maybe Davis, parts of New York though it's not ideal for kids biking safely, one of those cities with golf-cart paths), but no matter what my budget I couldn't really find anywhere that gives me what I get for the price of a basic house in pretty much any city in the Netherlands.

I know I'd have more money in the US, but having lived there for 30 years, I'm confident my quality of life would be worse.
In my anecdotal experience this hasn't been the case. Most people I know in the US can't afford to pay people to do house work or chores. I'm thinking in contrast to a place like India where it's the norm to have hired help for things like cooking, cleaning, and laundry.
Show HN: Pulsar – Micro creative coding playground
Hey everyone, here is a small project that truly brings me joy. It allows you to create and share animations using code. Instead of me explaining, please try playing with it. If it doesn't click right away, consider going through a tutorial.

Pulsar is inspired by something I came across on HN a while ago. Unable to find it again, I decided to create my own version. I swear, only after finishing Pulsar I managed to find it again [1].

As a bonus, I wanted to run these animations on my DIY LED frame. Check out the video:

https://github.com/Stanko/pulsar/tree/dev#led-retro-frame

I intended to write a blog post before sharing it on HN, but that is taking forever. So, I'll just give you a few technical details:

It is built in TypeScript and is open source. User code is executed in a web worker to minimize the risk of malicious use. I'm proud of the solution, and I find it quite nifty. Initially, I used to render it as an SVG, but in order to create GIFs for the frame, I switched to canvas. SVG gave me a few headaches which I'll cover in a blog post (if I ever write one). The syntax highlighter is a trick I found on Stack Overflow. The textarea is transparent, and as you type in it, the code is highlighted and placed into a div which lays on top of the textarea.

So, that is Pulsar. I hope it will be as fun for you as it is for me. Let me know what you think.

And here is a simple animation of a Christmas tree, happy holidays!

https://muffinman.io/pulsar/?grid=classic&animate=both&code=...

[1] https://tixy.land/
The UK and US have very different systems. In the UK, all students have already specialised into A levels (only studying four subjects) before applying to university.

In the US, I think it works differently: some students may have done some AP classes, but these aren't universal and don't represent the same degree of specialisation as A levels.
Situational, I suppose. I still have an active project that's not quite 30 years old (it's mid-20's) that I reference old notes for all the time.

Actually... I reference a lot of notes from at least 20 years ago. There is a lot that doesn't change, you forget, and is an instantaneous search away. I don't foresee this changing in the interim 10 years.
I recommend that students join affinity groups and write an essay that implies they are a race that colleges prefer. They can't directly ask anymore, so they have to go by reading the tea leaves, so just create the illusion that you are someone they want.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aporophobia
Actually if you look at EU export statistics, so little actual plastic waste gets exported to the Pacific (in contrast to wood chips going to Netherland power plants or cubed cars going wherever) that if 100% of it did end up in the ocean it would only increase the level of plastic outflow by a single percent. One of my earlier comments here has the more proof with links and stuff, it's just really buried and I don't feel like finding it right now
LangChain's State of AI 2023 [Report/Article]
Tanzania may have the lowest GDP of the three port countries mentioned but Dar es Salaam has the largest population compared to the smaller cities of Mombasa and Durban. From what little I understand the Tanzanian government may be in the best place politically to use these stress tests to focus more attention on port health and capabilities. I'd be happy for anyone else to weigh in.
It is accurate but not concise. The explanation should start with the purpose of the project described in about one sentence, then elaborate by adding context that may or may not be known to the reader.
People told them to stop. The Houthis don't want to stop and instead continue to attack others. Mist it is.
I don’t like Apple for different reasons, but that capitalised quote seems particularly egregious given what is said elsewhere in the article.

“Although Android is Free Software, meaning I can modify the code, it would probably take me months to learn enough about music decoding and the Android-media-player-service to write a fix.”

Like, mate. You also have no idea how your phone works despite being fully capable of finding out and even having a motive to do so. (That’s what I would say to the author.)
> finding doctors in your network (and checking again and again, with multiple sources)

I have a similar problem in Europe too. Most of the good public state-insurance doctors are overbooked and my option is to keep calling every doctor on a 50km radius continuously, hoping to find a free specialist with an appointment, or pay up privately out of my already small paycheck for a spot at a private doctor.

>hotels losing your reservation, airlines overbooking flights, mail and deliveries disappearing, people promising and not returning calls, etc.

That doesn't sound like anything US specific but more like a collection of things from the "shit happens" category. Same things can happen in Europe too, and some have happened to me.

I think you imagine the grass must be always greener elsewhere. It's not. Every place has its own set of perks and problems.
I can't believe you're saying these things in a post Russia-Ukraine war scenario.
Yes, US has a huge military and it benefits from it, but I would say the primary beneficiary of this military are the friends of US who now don't have to spend money on military. Rather they spend money on their social programs.

Can US walk out of this role it plays, and still remain in a beneficial position? This is the biggest raging debate in the US right now. You can check the works of Peter Zeihan (who claims that US dollar will become even more desirable after the US walkout), or Brent Johnson (who claims that, even in a complete decline scenario, US dollar will still maintain its dominance above and beyond everyone).

Either way, Americans are hugely divided on maintaining this world order as it exists, and saying "you guys would lose so much without this", it's just taking a side on that debate.
I think one thing to keep in mind is that just because something is available in the browser, that doesn't mean that all other approaches are suddenly moot and will never be able to displace it - XMLHTTPRequest is also still available, for example, but did get replaced by `fetch`.

But in general, you raise a good point - just because something worked well with developer tooling, doesn't mean that it would work well when integrated in the browser. You see the same e.g. when people are calling for runtime type validation in the browser just because they like TypeScript, even though the pros and cons would be completely different.
SEC Consult added an update to their page [1]. They are basically hiding behind Cisco, CERT-Bund and CERT.at.

I mean, c'mon... They did all that research and they expect me to believe they didn't understand the potential impact so they deferred to someone else's judgement? That's the excuse, seriously?

Besides, what would have been the harm in reaching out to projects like Sendmail and Postfix and ask them for their opinion? I'm more inclined to trust the judgement of the Postfix project then of Cisco.

[1] https://sec-consult.com/blog/detail/smtp-smuggling-spoofing-...
I fully agree, we even know the reasons why we're not acting, but then...
Waymo claims the dog was fully occluded by a parked car before it ran into the street, giving the vehicle and a safety driver at the wheel no time to react.

Not sure why you're focusing on this event. They're talking about miles with no safety driver.
And therefore, future bounty hunters will make sure to offer their next 0day to the highest bidder instead.
What is this piece trying to say?

I feel like maybe the headline, which would have been chosen hy an editor and not the author, created a bit of a red-herri g here. But even so, the issue of "post-affirmative action" admissions comes up throughout, and I can't really grok to what purpose.

The article seems to be unsure what it's trying to do.

No great sin, although probably made more grating by the choice of title, and I can't understand why it was published or why it's here.
> For example, going to therapy isn't that different from practicing confessions in a church.

Depends on the kind of therapy. Some are more dogmatic and one might even call them "religious" (overloading the word), while other forms of therapy are more grounded and based on empiricism -- the latter ones are far removed from religious confession.
Replace "rich" with "secure" in OP's comment, and it will make a lot more sense.
That's nonlinear. Because if schools get more competitive also fewer kids get into more than one.
Either black carbon goo, hard black carbon ‘coal’ probably.
It's unfair that these colleges that have legacy admissions can take any federal loans/grants at all. I think the colleges' enthusiasm for race based admissions was to ensure that social class never becomes an issue - thus protecting their true clients, the children of rich alumni.
It's also about closing that loophole and bringing it in line with a "Constitutional privacy amendment" (in the comment to which I originally replied). We have one of those already, what good would another do in this case.?
>You can use lower grade hardware than that. But how is the user experience?

It depends on the software. When the developers are targeting the "average user", then everyone who uses hardware that's significantly older than average will be punished accordingly. This doesn't mean it's actually hard to support that old hardware, it just means that performance isn't a priority.

If everyone used old hardware for longer, then the software would support old hardware better.

Also, latency has been going up over time rather than down: https://danluu.com/input-lag/

This is more of a social problem than a technical one.
Smalltalk Syntax in 7' [video]
Ask HN: Why are new Laotops so much worse yet more exoensive?
I picked up a Chromebook for $229 at Best Buy the other day and promptly returned it. It was running an Intel N100 chip 4 GB of ram but it was on sale so I decided to pick it up and try it.

Now, I can go on eBay and buy a three year old Lenovo X1 carbon and get way way way way way more usable experience putting linux on it then I can out of this Chromebook.

If anyone can explain that to me other than pure profit exploitation I’d like to hear it. But from what I understood processor speed was supposed to increase, so why does it seem like it’s decreasing?
My point is that wearable (or implantable) cybernetics lead to an incremental improvement on how easily or frequently we can do what we already do as individuals, but they but they don’t fundamentally change the things we can do. Sci-fi makes them look amazing but our R&D resources might be better spent elsewhere.

We can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. I don't see why we should allocate resources away from cybernetic implants.

R&D resources spent on leg and arms prosthesis is incredibly important since movement is very important for a certain portion of our population. Imagine not being able to walk or not being able to grasp.

Artificial heart and other cybernetic organs are very useful to have if we can mass production techniques, but it may be easier for us to grow organs that can be implanted. We don't know which will win out, which is why research is needed. Being able to replace part of your body if they're broken is a powerful promise to me.

Now...the most underrated tech? Continuous glucose monitoring. It's kinda like a wearable, but it's an implantable device that tell you your blood glucose level almost in real time. It's the most powerful behavioral tool I ever encountered. Now I have 'intentionally' eaten junk food, but the CGM is always there to remind me what a bad job I am doing for my body. Nothing work without the cooperation of the people who uses these devices, of course, but I found a CGM an incredibly powerful lever. I hope that it get cheaper and get more widely used by the population at large rather than being confined to diabetics.
LLM + Text-to-Image model is exactly how DALL·E 3 is deployed, fwiw