skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy enough to build a hoverboard with spinning magnets over copper plate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSheVhmcYLA

As you can see, it's not actually that fun to ride. It hovers in every direction, like standing on an ice cube. The reason ice skates and roller blades work is they have low friction only along one dimension, so you can still apply force to the ground along the normal vector.
In extremely rural environments? Possibly. Globally, as an alternative to traditional cellular service? Literally impossible as long as cost is the forcing factor. I'd recommend reading up on RF information theory and then thinking about the cost/bandwidth implications.

Satellite-based cellular is never ever ever going to be competitive with locally deployed terrestrial infrastructure in urban environments.
This will be amazing for in-flight internet.
Customer Data Platform (CDP)
We may just get that. Microsoft's attempt to introduce sandboxing with UWP/msix was ignored by developers. Since then MS has added Windows Sandbox to Win 10 Pro and up, essentially disposable VMs for running sketchy software. I wouldn't be surprised if a couple versions down the line we get the option for more permament app-specific VMs, with integration into the window manager similar to QubesOS. A lot of groundwork for that already exists for WSL2, like more efficient memory use between VMs and shared GPU access.
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Thanks for pointing out! I tried to write a blog post about SIEVE that was informative yet not too technical, and to infuse it with some humor. However, I clearly failed to find the balance. I'd like to change it back to a simpler, more straightforward style.

It's a long way to go for me to write a good tech blog. Criticism taken.
The worst outcome will be that urban Californians will be able to buy houses anywhere and work remotely, driving up local prices and making every where look like orange county.
You may not like it but this is what peak Computer Science looks like
I thought this was the ancient announcement but it is from Dec 27 2023.

It's about Python3 support for this Python-to-C++ compiler.

Not clear at a glance whether it's Python3 changes in the code or supporting Python3 to C++. I guess both.
Basic MiniJinja Template Structure for Working with Rust Objects
I was quite shocked at the amount of tiny and large display options out there. I might even make a YouTube video titled "Home dashboards have gotten cheap and easy" with everything I've learned so far.

Take a $15 Pi Zero W 2, and a screen costing anywhere between $50 to $200. 3d-print a case around them both, and for a third of the price of a new iPad, you'll have a simple and secure single function screen in your house...
Inventing the Future is you?

Yeah these are right on the cusp. Maybe I'm too discerning here. The font seems to blend into the background a bit more than one would expect and, "a novel" is way more faded than you would ever see in trad publishing.

But tbh most people might not even notice that. I don't really know. It's hard to put a finger on exactly what stand out sometimes.
Your comment implies very deep inconsistency: your examples have no pattern that others outside of your circle might agree upon. Why should your personal "definition" of luxury be a golden standard for all?

Cereal is an internationally traded commodity - the polar opposite of local produce. Local produce is often an expensive luxury in my experience. Even in my hippy experiences I don't think I've ever met someone who has grown their own oats.

You define talking to friends over phone as a luxury - why? Is having time and opportunity to talk to friends in person a luxury?

Are food standards a luxury?

Is potable tap water a luxury?

Historically beer was a means of providing safe drinking water. Was it a luxury when used for that purpose?

Is commenting on an internet forum using your mobile phone a luxury?

I am probably being provocative. However I think the questions above are simply implications of my comment.
When last I heard about it the bandwidth was going to be in the kbps ballpark.
> trying to associate yourself to a certain intellectual class.

In general, it's filling the vacuum left by religion. One part of that is what you identified: people generally need something greater than themselves to identify with, and "intellectual" is a tempting option.

Another part of it is that people generally crave certainty and fear the unknown. Religion fills that need by providing crisp, clean answers that don't provide a lot of room for questions and "what if"s. In the absence of a traditional organized religion, people try to fill that void with what seems to be the new, popular replacement—science.

Unfortunately, science is by design all about uncertainty. As soon as it becomes a dogma it ceases to be science.
"With the extra weight, a charge will only last about 60 miles, rather than the standard ~300 it normally gets"

A 5-fold difference?! Towing a trailer makes the Tesla use 5 times more energy per mile!? This can't be right... Author must have a trailer loaded with a literal ton of cargo.

Edit: a Tesla Model Y is 4200 lb. The trailer is about 3000 lb empty (thanks LukeShu), say worst case 4200 lb loaded with cargo, so at most the weight difference can account for a doubling of the energy per mile. It seems hard to believe drag alone can account for another 2.5x increase in energy per mile, which is why I think there must be even more cargo. If not, I guess for me this highlights how good the aerodynamic design of the Model Y must be. This also means the author could get a significant range increase simply by choosing a better trailer with a lower drag coefficient. Or my preference would actually be getting a vehicle designed for that lifestyle in the first place, an actual camper van. One could even use the comfortable driver seat as the office chair, instead of transporting an actual office chair. Swivel it toward your desk behind it and, bam!, instant office desk: https://www.thewaywardhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Sw...
Baby-sitting has always existed as a need; in the past it may have been done by various family members, but the modern ‘daycare’ model has its roots in the Industrial Revolution: as long as there have been machines for both parents to work, there has been someone offering to watch their kids for Money. Industrializing England had ‘baby mills’ where working class mothers could leave their kids (often in appalling conditions).

The initial argument for public education was civics- if you want a nation of competent and driven citizens, they need to be armed with a good, comprehensive education.

A lot changed in the Post-War era. Women entered the workforce, and the role of the public school has mutated to the point that many families depend upon it as the primary caregiver for non infant children (hence the complaints when the school week gets shortened from 5 days to 4).

Also you seem to believe that school being expensive somehow guarantees it’s primary purpose is education. Many districts spend that money incredibly inefficiently. We have lots of touchscreen devices and giant stadiums. And yet teachers are forced to provide their own basic school supplies for the kids every year. Ancient musical instruments failing in kids hands due to rot. It’s really not good out there.
> clear separation between your API(s) and your Client(s)

The problem is that the SPA way of thinking has infiltrated every nook and cranny in this industry. The ratio of APIs vs clients consuming those APIs come scarily close to 1, at least with the customers I work with.

Now you have to maintain two projects, two CI/CD pipelines, two hosting solutions, potentially two sets of languages and tooling…
Yup, and if they think it'll sell then book stores can stock up more. Many book stores don't stock unless the book is distributed as returnable (in case it doesn't sell). Whether self pub or trad pub, unsold books returned by stores come back out of the author's cut. In many cases it doesn't even make sense for the author to physically reclaim returned books as the shipping and storage are more expensive, so they get destroyed.
I've been released 2 years ago and no I've been unable to find a gig. No one would reply lol. I m doing open source projects, ai and indie games. I've got more stress Cred than before. I think getting back to Normie workforce in police state such as us is impossible. Peace man
China filed more IP than rest of world combined in 2022. There is no reason to keep it secret with IP-Laws and Patents.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202312/12/WS6577b803a31040ac...
I think the bigger problem will be omnipresent HD audio and video real time surveillance by governments both directly and also indirectly via commercial devices like smart glasses.
algol isn't a piece of software, so it doesn't have maintainers. i don't know if the algol committee ever officially disbanded but wirth had already resigned before algol 68 came out
I hope history will eventually read something like this:

In the aftermath of the Dot Com Bust, manufacturers became conservative, and lost their ability to dream big. Into this power vacuum stepped the so called Cloud Providers, who in some cases made their own hardware and tools to solve their problems.

Over time manufacturing caught up, missing tools were written, and the Cloud providers went back to solving the main problem nearly none of their customers of suppliers could ever solve: the speed of light (locality).
"The science" has become religious dogma to many people, the complete anthesis of science. When people say they (follow) "the science" I don't even bother listening to what they have to say anymore.
that's yet another reason city dwelling in a multi-tenant building is just not conducive for many people. I couldn't imagine not being able to work on projects. Of course, having the desire/inclination of having that kind of hobby is probably something a city slicker just isn't going to do. I have wood working and machine working tools that I'm just going to lean towards not being allowed by whatever building rules.

I love how those not wanting the city life is just looked down upon by those that are. But that's okay, I think those that live in the city are kind of just weird for similarly petty things
I asked a flight attendant about the window shades once, and in addition to the visibility reasons, she also said it was to help create a uniform view. They need to scan for anything that is out of place, and having the shades randomly open or closed impedes that pattern matching.
Personally, i think Tesla have a chance to turn back. They still have brand recognition. If they manage to get their shit together and stop with the truck nonsense, improve on their older models (Put the buttons back!) and focus on battery size/weight, they can do it.
auto manufacturer websites are always among the worst designed on the internet. menus, tabs, side scrollers, etc. Its a website with a limited number of products guys, just use pages and links.
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Yes, it can get pricey. I'm using a Raspberry Pi Zero W with a Waveshare 7.5 e-ink panel, which came with its own raspberry Pi driver. I also added a PiSugar2 battery. Waveshare seemed to be the most affordable option out there.

I find the costs to be reasonable, but I just bought a Waveshare e-ink ESP32 controller to try boosting battery life, since I don't need a fully fledged OS. All I'm doing on the frame is pulling an image from an URL or displaying a local image if the connection fails.
In the most material terms, they're probably more distracted than two people who are both present and chatting which isn't great for anybody's experience. People also tend to be shouting into the phone, worse if they're not using headphones so you get to hear the other person shouting back.

At a psychic level it also kind of sucks in ways that are harder to describe.
It’s an odd social issue. You can obviously regulate your own access. So the issue distils to it being regrettable that other people aren’t behaving in a way that’s necessary to satisfy one’s desired ambience. Ie. enforcing behaviour of others for our benefit.

I imagine there may eventually be sufficient demand for private locations that ban devices?

Is there something about this that makes it distinct from a “kids these days” kind of lament?
It's not unfair. The data that was exfiltrated is data that was accessible to the users.

If someone gives their routing number and checking number to a scammer, that is also considered "using the platform in any way other than intended". In 99% of cases, you'd be providing that information to someone you had an actual business relationship with. My employer, for example, might have that info in order to process my direct deposit payments. A debtor may have that info in order to process ACH payments. Giving that info to a total stranger would be an issue but that wouldn't be the bank's fault. Neither would it be the bank's fault if you chose a poor or reused password.

That's what happened here. Users shared data with total strangers who requested their connection to their DNA data based on some percentage of shared DNA. Users accepted those requests. The users who reused their passwords had all their info accessible. The users who accepted sharing requests with those users had their shared info accessible. Both cases are "using the platform as intended".
Bicycles, Denser settlement structures instead of urban sprawl, stricter gun laws. These factors allow kids to go to school on their own in Europe.
simonw is the best kind of spammer- he brings his creation into the discussion- but he does so in a way that enriches the value of what is being discussed.

His tool [Datasette] is of course such that it often is immensely handy at dissecting data in useful ways so is often exactly on point for a discussion on HN...
> But even the most conventionally successful of us, young or not, may reach a place in our careers where THERE IS NO OBVIOUS NEXT STEP.

I very much identify with the sentiment. I’ve sought out very different experiences with each job (and hobbies) to keep the feeling of “obviousness” alive - for me that feeling comes with learning something new enough that my mind and body have to forget what they’ve learned for me to succeed.
It's pretty much typical late 2010s/early 2020s "I f'n love science" pop culture mentality. People who actually love science would view scientific claims with a critical eye, because that's what someone practicing good science would do.
Theoretically yes, but I have not yet investigated it.
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I don’t think the CCP gets this stuff or its importance.
Sorta relatedly the Python to Golang system "Grumpy" seems to be moribund. I guess there's no real demand for it. Though I'm curious if there's been unpublished improvments.

https://github.com/google/grumpy
VPython
Is there a market here for crypto blind trust managers? How do people get around stock market conflicts of interest?
Sure. But only to a point. If it looks laughably bad, then sure it probably doesnt bode well for the quality of the writing. But if the cover is fine/good enough but clearly not something that would come from a trad publishing house... That is when the cover might not be reflective of the work but still hold people, myself often included, back.
... and you never will, since OSes don't provide anything like that out of box and to make design ecosystem work like that, a major effort for fat clients would be needed. In a time when dev tools are mostly free (apart from intellij idea but this approach has its own drawbacks) and focused on other technologies / platforms.
> If every school were to close the immediate emergency would be that people would have no one to watch their kids.

If the pipes in your house burst right now, your immediate emergency would be to pretty much stop everything and stop your house from completely flooding.

That doesn't mean that the primary purpose of your life is a pipe-fixer.

I think you made the classic mistake of confusing urgency with importance.
Well, the solution to that is to assess whether work starts too early in the morning. Me, I do all my best work in the afternoon/evening.
I agree in a perfect world, but I believe the OS should have a design that “forces” the programmer to maintain the correct abstraction.

Or at least have the override for such abstractions be blatant and explicit if the programmer wants to circumvent them.

And of course, given the age of Windows OS/ecosystem, it’s a pipe dream to have a redesign that isn’t backwards compatible
Well I think best move would be staring a trade union in discord, to aid eath other. We strong in unity.
It's a perfectly reasonable compromise though if you can't force MFA for some reason. There are many sites which do this today.

You don't even need to rely on the cookie if you're worried about the ux for cookie clearers. You could also whitelist an IP address (or even a subnet) when they verify the email, and it would have been "good enough" to prevent this particular situation.
I presume this is sarcasm.

But in case it's not... snakes do not bite me on the average day. Should I take antivenom every day, just in case? That may not be entirely free from side effects.
I live in the middle of a modern and densely populated city. I'm perfectly capable of disconnecting without leaving my sofa.
Still car limited. I like doing work-cations but I have a similar issue with the working space. A real chair, external monitor, key board is really essential for work more than a week. Flying anywhere with that is unrealistic.

Ive never seen an airbnb or vrbo listing with office equipment in it. Would be cool and useful. It would probably get robbed though. My wife and I usually go through tons of listing photos looking for an somewhat adequate working space.

Im curious how other software people do it.
Trains cost to much because like many other countries, Britain buys from their own manufactures. Because of the state of British railroading since privatization most of British rail manufacturing collapsed and only a very small number of manufactures are left.

Station being to large is a question of taste and priorities. Saying that such tradeoffs are not worth it is different then just saying straight up that 'the results are terrible'.
I generally agree but on mobile, Porsche.com is surprisingly nice to use.
"The total public debt outstanding reached $34.001 trillion Friday, just more than three months after first crossing the $33 trillion mark."

So US is adding about $1T per quarter in deficit?

Serious question, do deficits matter? Does this need to be resolved and if so how?
What about https://github.com/tulir/whatsmeow?
> People still connect their Apple computers to low-DPI monitors all the time.

They do, but the fonts are visibly blurry on those, as they did indeed remove the subpixel antialiasing. Thankfully, the Gtk4 developers removed it as well, so Linux (or at least the GNOME desktop) will soon look like crap as well.
In my hometown, all schools started at the same time but where I live now, the lower grades start earlier than the upper grades. Reuse of the same buses might be part of the reason but at least here, the bigger issue is being able to have the same bus driver run multiple routes. The district probably could afford more buses but every year they have more difficulty in finding enough drivers.
As a night owl, this is actually insane. I can't remember the last time I woke up earlier than 7AM for _anything_.

Probably ended up being an inch or 2 shorter, due to bad sleep cycles during adolescence, which led to many other issues.
> notorious for sticking with chronologically-ordered timelines, so unless you have time to look at every single post, you’ll likely miss something.

The value of RSS to me is getting everything in chronological order, so I (not some algo) can throw 99% of it away, unread.

(and if I do want to go back and look at something I'd skipped without reading, it's easily findable, searchable by keyword or at least still there in the "read" list, next to all the things that were temporally close)
Our crude (actually Pillow’s IIRC) dither has a certain nostalgic appeal to it, but can definitely be bested by other algorithms. I’m still not totally convinced we have a great perceptual match for the colours either. The approach to get them - take a photo of the screen, use a colour dropper and a bit of eye balling - was crude.

(Hi, I wrote most of the Inky driver and your project is the kind of awesome I wish the Pico/RP2040-based Inky Frame devices could pull off.)
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Molly White isn't a reputable source
This is the part you don't have right:

>approximately all of which did nothing wrong

They shared some of their data with the users who messed up. All of their info wasn't accessible. The only data that was accessible was the data that was shared with these users - in other words, opting in to sharing data with total strangers (which could be argued but is the #1 use case for 23andMe).
I don’t think the board game and the videogame are related other than sharing the name and the former acting as inspiration.
Completely agree.

If anyone "believes", "trusts", "follows", etc. science, then they are doing science wrong.

The most fundamental element to science is skepticism. Following the essays of a scientist is no different than following the teachings of a priest.