skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With fountain pens, ink flows out steadily as long as the nib is in contact with the page, and stops flowing when the nib breaks contact. Whereas with ballpoint pens, pressure is required for the ink to flow, since the ballpoint is held in place by a small spring, and ink stops flowing as soon as pressure is removed, regardless of contact with the page.

Hence, ballpoints tend to cause wrist strain, and favour forms of handwriting which minimize contact with the page, whereas fountain pens work best with cursive. Needless to say, since the introduction of the ballpoint in schools, handwriting has gone into decline.
> they couldn't move abroad to work in their field

Nobody could do that, Jews or not.
Do not give those guys ideas
So many buildings downtown were getting filled up with telecom and data equipment that the Atlanta city council passed a law about a decade ago to keep it from pushing out all other uses. There are lots of historic buildings that are little more than facades wrapped around these places due to how much fiber runs through downtown making it a very attractive place to locate. The city wants more people downtown so they'd prefer more housing, offices, retail, and hotels (human, not telecom). The law seems to have worked or at least contributed to helping to rebalance uses there.
It looks like it's enforced primarily against businesses, which probably are pretty good at paying the tax: https://www.salestaxinstitute.com/sales_tax_faqs/i-bought-a-...

For consumers and very small businesses it also looks like there are often exemption thresholds which make paying it a legal requirement something that a typical consumer who buys out of state will not run in to.
Yeah, as I said, it's not very effective and I'm only really managing to keep it up due to being able to do a quick 15 minute lesson right before bed. I have some workbooks and do often end up perusing and attempting to converse in japanese to practice, but I don't manage to keep it as consistent due to all the other things I have to balance.

Language learning and art practice both tend to quickly get put on the backburner for weeks whenever I get busy with a project or whenever work gets busy.
As stated in TFA, what if the holodeck space were larger, e.g. 5-20 meters? The centering adjustments can then take place gradually (unless you flat out sprint straight like Usaine Bolt). It kind of irks me this is a valid solution which is half glossed over to make room for a clickbait headline.

This could ostensibly function as a thorough bypass to compensate for the sensitivity of the human vestibular system, at the cost of TAM (Total Addressable Market, due to size constraints).

Personally I'd be up for going to a Lazr-Quest like place to experience a real-ish holodeck. Would make for a great destination for a venue in SF.

--

Related submission from yesterday:

Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156444 (288 comments)

And the direct link to the goods: https://youtu.be/68YMEmaF0rs?t=203
If Adobe ported their apps to Linux (which I can't imagine would even be that hard, as they are already using their own toolkit) I would not only switch but never look back; and if Adobe released their own distribution of Linux and went all-in on some first-party toolkit (so, no Gnome/KDE) I think they might accidentally win a massive segment of the desktop OS market.
What's bad about copy paste? I daily drive GNU/Linux, and I never experienced copy paste issues. I also have both technical and non technically inclined people I know who daily drive GNU/Linux, none of them complained about copy paste either.
Interestingly this taught me I never look at usernames, thanks for pointing out
Even without the huge library discs in the mail had a big advantage over streaming: recent movies.

To offer a movie as part of their subscription a streaming service has to have permission from the studio. Generally only one streaming service has that permission.

With discs no studio permission is required, as long as the rental service doesn't want to make their own copies. If they just buy retail copies and rent those out it is covered by the first sale doctrine.

With discs then all I would need is a subscription to one disc based service, like Netflix used to offer, and my recent movie needs would be covered.

There is an alternative that is kind of like the streaming equivalent of Netflix's old mail order DVD business for those whose ISP is Comcast if you have been a Comcast customer long enough.

Comcast has a rewards program, with the rewards based on how long you've been a customer. One of the rewards is $1 movie rentals. Once a week they make this available on their rewards site. If you claim it that week you can rent any one movie that weekend that they normally rent for $5.99 or less for $1.
Again, not a distinction that carries the same nuance that it would in English. The whole animate/inanimate distinction just isn't there in the same way in non-indo-european languages.
doas [0, 1] in OpenBSD is somewhat simpler.

[0] - https://man.openbsd.org/doas.1

[1] - https://man.openbsd.org/doas.conf.5
A lot of these tools are created in an atmosphere of corporate redundancy. Sure your test framework, regional deplyments, A/B testing, CI, code coverage, storage infra, network infra, security settings, and app configurations are held in a 20000-line yaml-within-yaml-within-yaml disaster.

On the other hand, at least they aren’t hand-coded by Steve (who left the company last week)
My kids have a book about “buckets” - where you can empty other buckets or fill them up.

This is the sweary adult version :-)
Presumably one purchases a wildcard for multiple distinct systems.
Haha good catch… It’s difficult coming from a Romance language to do that f-oh thing… for us it’s all the same and it goes with f ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
This reminds me of a blog post a while advocating less state, as a demo they implement the infamous DVD screensaver completely stateless.
You mean 30 years of listening to non-experts instead of experts. 30 years of listening to scientifically illiterate journalists who exaggerate and make stuff up to sell more papers or get more clicks, while refusing to listen to what scientists actually say.

Pretty much everything in that link is just random headlines, with zero connection to what the scientific consensus was in the listed years.
Yep, Yandex is my goto when I want a perspective outside of the one the corporate West wants you to have. I once searched for Hunter Biden's emails on both Yandex and Google, first result in Yandex was the actual searchable email archive, but it was nowhere to be seen on Google, instead I just got page after page of articles from CNN et al titled "here's what you need to know about Hunter Biden's emails".
That’s largely on Mastodon; security-Twitter was one of the first communities to migrate.
Show HN: Techmart – Costco for SaaS. The usual tech tools at lower prices
So here’s the deal. I’ve been bootstrapping my startup and realised the sh*t ton that we’re spending on saas. You know the drill in this game, minimize overhead and maximise productivity, usually with tools. We use 28 SaaS tools today – apparently the average is 89, according to Okta - at a range of $9-$600 monthly; it adds up fast!!

That’s when it hit me! What if there was a Costco, but for tech tools?? Even software sellers would win, by acquiring customers at a lower CAC -- a no brainer for both buyers and sellers. So the concept is simple, a member store where you could buy all of your usual tech tools but at lower prices; Techmart.

I’ve built with my brother for the past 2 weeks and we’re now launching it to the world to see if we’re just crazy or this is for real. I’m curious, are we missing something or is it an untapped goldmine waiting to be discovered? Other people need this too? I'm ready to hear the harsh truth.
A Beginner's Guide to Programming Language Academia
I wrote a post cataloguing my experience reading papers on programming language things.
These are things I wish I'd been aware of when I just started out; I hope this can make the ivory tower of PL theory a little more accessible to other self-taught langdev people (:
And for decades has had the world's busiest airport but that doesn't stop snobs for calling it flyover country regardless of the literal meaning of the phrase.
I have zero problems with copy and paste on Linux and the extra selection buffer paste is a great boost to productivity.
I have. My state has a question on the tax form about out-of-state purchases. Most of what I buy in the US online already collects sales taxes, but for things I buy overseas I've estimated the tax and paid the estimated tax a time or two. It usually doesn't matter though, as there's an exemption up to a certain dollar amount, which I usually don't exceed.
"Doing nothing" sounds like a straw man position. The question is rather whether optimism is warranted. I think there are some very worrying trends where we are not moving in the right direction at all, where it is even taboo to address the problem. I doubt she mentions those.
So is the problem that fake porn is being created, or the ease in which it can be created?

The latter almost makes it sound like fake celebrity porn is more of an art form that should be appreciated and guarded from cheap knock offs.
The countries we're referring to were generally all established colonially, in many cases very close in time to the establishment of Israel.
i would love to create CI/CD for whatever app is targeting win3.11. my 6yo self would be happy.
>> The parts of Russia where the rich people live

>Central London?

Just voting for this wasn't enough.
True, but the income tax is brutal. It ramps to 8.75% after the first $10k (single filer) in income, then 9.9% over $125k.
I'd believe both of those things
After the big bang, there was likely many millions of years where the universe was a comfortable temperature that would have allowed life to evolve there first. Which eventually cooled and died out until it met the right conditions. Probably why space smells like burnt food "Other astronauts have described it in similar yet varying ways: "burning metal," "a distinct odor of ozone, an acrid smell," "walnuts and brake pads," "gunpowder" and even "burnt almond cookie." " https://science.howstuffworks.com/space-smell.htm#:~:text=Ot...
Climate activists throw soup at glass protecting Mona Lisa
in the US, every German restaurant i've been to serves this combination! thanks for saving me from some embarrassment!
Now this is first class Ignobel Prize material.
I think when you see products that hide complexity and you're forced to "learn" them and this frustrates you, there are three responses

- Accept this is how we make our money and that being paid to be the $INFRA person (replace with your infra tool or cloud provider of choice) is not necessarily a bad thing unless you can't translate that into whatever the next $INFRA is

- Go build the next $INFRA and sell it to all the people like you that didn't like the old $INFRA (or lose everything, obviously this is risky)

- Complain

I don't think the third option is really a good strategy in life. A lot of the frustrating things in industry exist for good reasons (that more often than not, turned out to be bad/inconvenient a lot later) and life is too short to get upset at things when you're being paid to understand them.

But obviously a config file is just a program and you need to know how to debug it when something goes wrong, and it's not helpful when "what does this config do" is hard to see because the thing it configures is intentionally obfuscated.
Guaranteed it’s a few weeks or months. Nothing is that complicated. Especially if it runs on windows 3.11.
For example 7zip decompression CRC failures that resolve on a second try. It would be longer to explain how, but I tracked it multiple times to a single bit flip in the decompressed output.
I love running a VPS and just controlling everything.

Always feel helpless when app engines cloud, managed db, managed kubernetes upgrades or something else fails. Slow builds, builds getting stuck, upgrade issues, overcomplicated new concepts, cloud outages, slow support.

One exception to them all is Vercel, it's just amazing. Haven't had any issues, fast deploys, works instantly. What a joy.
I find it unlikely that we would be asking the ai for a very specific caching design. If the optimists are right, the ai should be able to do its own analysis and automatically design an architecture that is superior to what a human would be able to do.

A job spent mostly reviewing ai generated diffs sounds like a level of hell beyond even Dante's imagination.
If the tribe is closely related, it can be a good strategy as a large part of their genes would still spread
Taylor Swift also isn't one to shy away from a public moral stand. She picked a fight with streaming services and her former label. This seems like one I could see her stepping in to take a public stand on.
Indiana and Maryland don't have county-level sales taxes, but do have county-level income taxes. May be the same with some of the other states that show 0% local sales tax rates.
And sometimes you also don't need to read the written data back (for instance when writing to video memory).
Poor choice of words on my part. In my example one is going "off course" in the sense that one is spending more time on the yak shaving than is justified by the scope of the problem being solved (e.g. let's say refactoring a script that is only run once, and spending more time on the refactoring than if one had manually replicated the script's output). Maybe "too deep in the rabbit hole" would be a more illustrative phrase.
yes, but they are every other post you find on google now.

i certainly didn't help; i used shreddit to overwrite then delete my posts.
Tilt it? That is to say, to some extent, could you repurpose gravity to give a sense of acceleration?
Wow, thanks, really useful knowledge about the Erlanger
I received feedback that the AI should be able to tell the user about their account/top posts, so I've added that functionality

If you ask, "tell me about the user pg" or click on the "what are my top posts" button it will fetch user details from the hackernews API
Most people have locked themselves into Office and/or the Apple ecosystem.

However with so much moved to the web one of the traditional barriers has fallen.
For me it is lack of high end mechanical/electrical CAD software.
30% of TU Delft Aerospace Engineering Seats Reserved for Women from Next Year
I would strongly suggest reading the previous link and the Science paper it leads with (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7942). When a large number of medical professionals say there’s something real and there are peer reviewed publications in top journals discussing options for treatment, it is highly unlikely that some rando with no relevant expertise is correct in arbitrarily dismissing it.
Then you have to find someone to make/modify your favorite action game that's compatible with this, which is no easy task in and of itself. Ladders and clambering you experience in game will still be a matter of pushing a button on the controller in your hand.
Economics? Global usage of coal is declining everywhere.
Genuine question, how will memorizing this info help him?

I’m a parent too, and have prioritized activities that teach my child critical thinking (so they can self-solve problems).

I’m curious if I should be layering in some memorization activities like this, which is why I ask.

(Please don’t take my question as judging, I’m genuinely curious how it’s helped because I might replicate. And I’ve got huge respect for all your writing over the years)
With your own keys, you mean adding your MOK (machine owner key), or going the entire way, with the Microsoft ones removed?

The first one is easy, the second one seems to be more complicated, especially if you have Option ROMs signed by the keys you would like to remove.
> The further I get into studying deployments/DevOps methods the more surprised I am that the balance has shifted rather strongly towards configuring tools from third party infrastructure vendors and away from what most would call software engineering.

This is kind of an arbitrary line to draw. You can learn the ins and outs of Nginx, but that's also "configuring a tool" rather than "software engineering".

Of course, the advantage of something like Nginx is that it works on any Linux box, so you're not locked into your third-party infrastructure vendor. But most front end frameworks are compatible with many "one step app deployment" vendors, as long as you're careful to avoid any proprietary features.
In Finnish there is also a nasty yet much more eloquent saying.
Would you mind giving an example of the kind of prompt(s) you use to get these card generated?

On a different note, ChatGPT has been making me feel stupid because I fail to come up with many use cases, while it seems like tons of technically unskilled people come up with all kinds of uses...
Why not? Why would one require faith at all to define themselves in life?
Solar wind? (Genuine question)
Patterns aren't intended to "relieve humans from the tedium," they're to make the code more intelligible. Code generators create notoriously difficult to understand code. Apparently the current crop of LLMs are no better in that regard.

> find myself, for instance, writing more long form, boring configuration files that once upon a time I would have built some abstraction reduce the boilerplate and verbosity. But now that co-pilot can just auto-complete the next section for me, why bother?

Again, so humans can understand it more easily.
Middle click paste is unable to be disabled, which really doesn’t play well with using the thinkpad trackpoint middle button for scrolling and middle clicking
The article addresses this exact question.
money kills art
so, you, are, still, hacked.
This is a problem for once the thing is working ;)

No doubt there'll be other constraints coming. This isn't The Ultimate Solution, rather a significant incremental improvement over the stated hurdles with existing designs optimized and marketed towards fitting into 3'x3' space in front of your television, bed, or desk.
I would have assumed that nowadays using a small neural net to approximate a CFD model of a flame would be the easiest.
You can't register a vehicle without paying the tax, but there's no other enforcement besides tax department business audits. Sometimes politicians and other public figures will pay it.
> When a law doesn't work, you don't go around breaking it, you work with the system we have to change it.

In this world there wouldn't be a USA, nor Gandhi, and Mandela; segregation in the USA would still exist, and labour laws would have never been discussed.

That's never how bigger changes have been made.
I find it heartwarming that you've never seen software more complicated than a few months of work. I wonder what you typed that message on.
Yeah some thing in websites I have, even the personal one, they get on average tens of these attacks, and again, it seems they are after .env too and other php related directories. Big portion of these attacks come from TOR networks too.
Even if you can find a sw Eng job, salaries have dropped to ~2019-2020 levels

Factor in inflation since then and it’s a huge effective pay drop
I'd rather they didn't, I recently upgraded our household flashlights and was pleased to be able to get 3-mode rather than the ridiculous 5 and 7 mode that they were replacing, no more having to loop through 'SOS' and several ridiculous flash patterns, a half-dozen brightness settings and so on to get to the 'full brightness, no flashing' setting that was needed 100% of the time.
Is there a way to control the pitch and roll of the treadmill to simulate an acceleration change? If the vestibular system is expecting a deceleration, make the treadmill have a slight upward slope along the axis where we would expect to slow down?
Ask HN: Has Kagi got much slower and laggy for you too?
I've been a happy subscriber but it takes around 5-0 seconds to get my search results. On the same network, Google opens up in <1 seconds.
Interesting thing about li-ion batteries, is they have much less lithium in them than disposable lithium coin cell batteries, and hold much more charge. If we're outlawing disposable li-ions we should outlaw those as well.
Top performers are divas. Much better to have an average youngster who can be more readily abused.
ok, make your move. Reddit is filled with people that thought this way and have now been unemployed with no job in sight or were forced to take a job at reduced pay.

Like waiting in the stock market, I would make my move when it's an employees market. This way, you actually have some negotiating power.
The kind of people who can afford to buy EVs buy a new car what, every 3 years? So I guess about 1/3 of a car (or, using the numbers from another comment, about 4000 vapes' worth).
No developer here. IDK. My boss uses those Apple things and stuff. And our business was a bit sensitive at the time. So I insisted that we use our own servers. He told me once when he was dealing with some trivial Word formatting: We old guys know nothing but Google Docs. And he's older than me. And I remember struggling with a bunch of code-like characters to centre my title... in Wordstar? LaTeX is crystal clear by comparison. Maybe some people like machines. And some people can't learn anymore.
Matt Stoller should investigate and write a slightly hysterical, loose-with-the-facts piece about this troubling monopoly
The art of state management in web development
Not to mention that whenever I light a candle, my air filter spins up and my air quality monitor says pm2.5 peaks.
The gaming paragraph seems a little too underwhelming. Steam Deck is a perfect implementation of a Linux computer. I adore using it just to glow in the polish and expertise with which it has been assembled. Kudos, Valve. I don’t even have a Windows install anymore.
A higher bus factor is nice, but there's almost certainly more thought and wisdom in a popular CI/CD setup than Steve's scripts.
no because a healthy politics does include alternative views. It is the unhealthy security mindset that becomes inflexible @! and does anyone now support the activity of Senator Joe McCarthy, honestly?
Is that why they sent Scott Kelly for a year up there and then compared him to his twin?
If I'm not mistaken Mars' atmospheric is pressure is less than 1% of the Earth's atmospheric pressure. That is a lot closer to a vacuum than it is to Earth conditions.
Hear hear. GA is pretty kickass. Primary and Secondary educational system more rigorous than Texas or Ohio. Generous college tuition funding for B and higher students. Natural beauty and resources. Friendly folks. I'm hoping it continues its upwards trajectory!
"electrical smell", "burnt almond cookie" is the smell people who survived report HCN to have. And it's not that space is full of a lethal-on-touch gas, that's the smell your nerves report when the sensory cells are dying faster than they can pass on a chemical signal.
Maybe this could be useful? https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ (able to run Photoshop myself)
Nobody is stepping down over awkwardly quoting Tupac.
We're OK with disposable alkaline batteries, so what makes lithium worse? If anything, alkaline batteries might have a slightly worse environmental footprint due to the use of manganese.

The problem with lithium batteries is that they can catch on fire, but that's a problem only when charged (or charging). A fully discharged battery shouldn't do much.
There is an interview with the great jazz pianist Bill Evans (conducted by his brother) in which he muses that most amateur musicians make the mistake of overplaying. They go out to the club and hear a professional and they come home and try to approximate what the professional does. What they end up with is a confused mess with no foundation. He insists that you have to learn to be satisfied with doing the simple things and gradually building up a stronger foundation.

I think his insight applies nearly as well to using code generated by an ai.