skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> losing half their current users

IPv6 adoption is not uniformly distributed. Some usersbases might have higher penetration. But yeah, I doubt there are many where it's high enough to be worth it.
plus at least the self-checkout software that Walmart uses runs in Java, on Windows, on underpowered hardware, yet still has to interface with the old POS system that's running inside of it. I haven't worked at a Walmart in a few years but when I did, the self-checkout UI system would sometimes get out-of-sync with the POS, due to not accounting for all possible edge-case states the POS system can get into. in order to get the UI system out of such a state, a self-checkout employee would need to hope that the system wasn't too stuck so as to be able to log in with employee credentials, then scan a bar code to log in, then enter a UI mode that emulates the keyboard-and-LCD-driven POS system, then press ESC or something to get out of the unaccounted-for edge-case state. and this is all assuming the self-checkout employee has any knowledge whatsoever of the keyboard-and-LCD-driven POS system that's inside the self-checkout machine, which increasingly few employees have, because they've been using these UI wrappers for so long now. but when I first worked as a Walmart cashier in the late 00s/early 10s, nobody really had any trouble working the keyboard-and-LCD-driven POS systems—pretty much every cashier, whether teen or elderly, picked up how to use the POS system fairly easily.

modern self-checkout machines and touchscreen POSes are perfect examples of heaping more layers of abstraction on top of abstraction on top of abstraction on top of a simple underlying system that really didn't need all those abstractions, but they sure look fancier and apparently that's all that matters, productivity be damned.
Is there some way we could advertise this better? The quarto homepage already says “Quarto is a multi-language, next generation version of R Markdown from Posit, with many new new features and capabilities.”

When talking about Quarto within the R community we usually frame it this way, but obviously it’s not a very useful description if you’ve never heard of RMarkdown.
> In the mid-2000s, the Army decided to cancel the technologically revolutionary, expensive, and long-delayed RAH-66 and Congress allowed it to reinvest the RAH-66 money into known quantities like UH-60, CH-47, and AH-64 instead. We got whole new fleets of those aircraft with upgraded capabilities, and then we all saw how they were reliable workhorses over the last 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think that choosing the Valor reflects this lesson-learned. ... If we actually want to get something out of this program, the right decision is probably to "not let perfect be the enemy of good." ...

That seems to be the Department of Defense's general approach these days, but I wonder if they are just fighting the last war. Against forces that are already massively outgunned, such as ISIL or the Taliban who generally had only rifles, explosives, and RPGs, improving technology generally doesn't help. Against 'near-peer' foes (the euphemism for China), it may pay to invest in the truly exceptional, ground-breaking technology - you don't want your ship or city defended by good-enough, economical fighters and anti-air; you want to see some X-wing fighters up there shooting lasers at their old turbine and missile buggies; you want what stealth bombers looked like next to the Soviet fleet.

That said, tilt-rotors are still a big step forward from standard helicopters.
Pair the NASA documents with PACE soldering/rework videos to have a successful outcome each time, all the time.
Hi, Mr. Calhoun! I’m sorry this is such an unorthodox way of reaching out to you, and I know this is probably off topic for the original thread, but I couldn’t really find another way to contact you. I’m trying to get in touch with you about your raspberry pi TV project. I’m a 16 year old high school student, and my best friend loves retro tv and custom gifts, so I figured a great going away to college gift would be a project like this, loaded with all his favorite old (legally obtained) tv shows, and the videos of various musicals we’ve done together. I’ve been looking for a project very similar to yours for a few months now, and the closest thing I’ve found is a video describing a portable version of the project by a YouTube channel called Irish Craig Party. Unfortunately, it was the only video on the channel, the comments were turned off, and they had zero social media/github attached to the channel. I had to keep looking around for similar projects. I was totally willing to do some of the coding myself, but some fundamental challenges like the scheduling or the real time playback were a bit too intense for my admittedly barebones coding skills. Now I humbly come to you. You had mentioned that you were planning to open source it in a thread from a while ago, but you were debugging. Is there any way to get the code for this? I already have the vast majority of the parts, I’m willing to debug and modify it in any way, I just need the foundations. Thank you for hearing me out, I’m sorry for not finding a better way to reach out, and thank you for your time.
This is a good thing to be able to see, but I'm much more interested in identifying the soft censorship in comment sections.

This is obviously harder, because vote totals aren't publicly available for comment sections, but it is much more important as a tool. What topics are on the front page is much more clearly the legitimate domain of moderation than what commentary is made about them, especially when moderation of those comments contradicts the vote mechanism.
This is since Elon told something nice about DeSantis
Composer Steve Reich: 'What do I want? I want the music to be played'
Strangely the number of Tesla recalls is lower than a dozen other famous brands and reported all the time. So it seems like the number of defects has little influence on the reporting.
If you did it right, your tool or service will exist for decades to come, if you have the option to not call it something fsck, fwkc, fck, etc. it's worth exercising that option.
You think a font being a few tenths of a millimeter off spec is a "dangerous defect" ? Let me guess... not a fan of Elon.
"Money" here stands in for anything the government would try to tax, which includes bartering.

Basically, where are the customers? If you only have theoretical ones, you don't have a business yet, you have a project or startup.
I assure you that there is nothing disingenuous in my comment, and not everything is a "dog whistle". A dog whistle for what, if you mind?

No people has ever willed to be colonised (and that was the proposal in the comment I replied to). Immigration is a different matter. The people in history who welcomed being colonised were very sorry for it afterwards.

Genetic extermination is the same as genocide, and it has happened countless times, it is happening right now, and it will continue to happen as long as humans are faulty beings.
Yes, that's one of the tools they use.

The training for dentists and full protocol-processes followed, and has been evolving, is from Las Vegas Institute - https://www.lviglobal.com
Complex admin dashboard with lots of interactions that should be low latency
The reason people want to go to nice places is because of the people currently there who created them—-not the people wanting to come.
Also, work email on your personal phone is the road to hell.
When should you give up on a project that doesn't work?
How is the mind-boggling... Are you forgetting the impact of EVs? EV demand is mind-boggling... Also, consider the shift in generation https://www.statista.com/statistics/189369/electricity-net-g... While it's disturbing its consumption, it's a misdirection to where the real impacts should be focused...
Desktop Was the Place
Presumably its the id parameter in the URL?
The author is great - smart and responsive.

He's inspired a small number of long-time, serious contributors.

Together they maintain a super-high-traffic utility that simplifies the very arbitrary complexity of document formats for untold millions of users.

It's really a stunning example of social good.
We are worried about children being compromised. This is as much about data getting into their heads as it is about basic exfiltration.
A recall protects a company like Tesla from lawsuits.

In this case, someone could have determined that the reason their car crashed was because an icon wasn't big enough, discovered that Tesla wasn't adhering to safety standards, and filed a pretty solid lawsuit.

The recall says "look, we found a problem, we'll fix it, and now that we made a reasonable effort to let everyone know, we're off the hook and protected by the government for having done so officially."
> insurance

I was better off buying the machine outside of insurance. Insurance was testing to force me through some sort of rent-to-buy thing where the machine would get taken away if not used a certain number of hours per week. My out of pocket cost for the rental added up to significantly more that just buying the machine outright, and by buying the machine myself I didn’t have to share that data with the insurance company.
My experience is that too many doesn’t even know what this problem actually is, and yet it exists in many places, but in different shapes.
Dare to Connect a Server to the Internet
Props to the mods for keeping the post quality high.

However, I do see a few decent posts in this list that probably warrant a second chance.
Maybe there's just a lot of bad news, but so many of the articles and blogs about Tesla almost seem giddy when there's a mistake or problem. I think electric vehicles are a good thing, and I want Tesla to succeed, but maybe animosity towards Musk is fueling schadenfreude towards the company.
That must be why we have so many violent revolutions and so few taxes
Unfortunately, the calls that are real outnumber the fake ones. It's also impossible to know which is which.
You might like this "documentary" CNN made back in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_(2019_film)

As I remember it, there's minimal dialogue and they incorporate actual audio of transmissions between ground control and the crew.

The launch sequence in particular is very, very cool
That is the information I needed. I am sitting here with my almost finished app, sometimes about to give up after having put so much work into it, thinking I am too old to get this done. I will pull this through, thank you!
The url for this page is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513 so the id is 39230513
If you have nothing to hide, why not make all story and comment removal history publicly visible, like Wikipedia edits.
Amazons Fire tablet allows you to block apps like Youtube with a password (or completely hide them), but I havent ever tried to "hack" them , so dont know how effective they are
I was just responding to the weird notion that because a thing is legally permissible, we just need to roll over and accept it. Nobody has to do that.

Yes, we're being spied on everywhere. But that in no way means that it's pointless to avoid it wherever we can.
I've done this. I spent six years building and maintaining an API platform to support apps and websites.

I'm fully aware of mobile and the need for those APIs. They just weren't sufficiently overlapping to be of any use to an SPA.

You need a whole slew of separate endpoints and behaviour, so it may as well not be an API - just make it a server-rendered monolith and move along.
Imagine if Cloudflare went to IPV6 only. Yes, Cloudflare's customers should know what that means, but the end users that are using the service may not be and if the error in anyway says Cloudflare, then it gives Cloudflare a bad reputation.

While AWS is a bit (just a bit) more removed from the end user than Cloudflare, there is still the potential for it not being good PR.
My cousin chose RAF and got some single-engine flight training. This was early-90s. I don't recall exactly how much of his private licence it helped with, but it was a fair bit.
The training for dentists and full protocol-processes followed, and has been evolving, is from Las Vegas Institute - https://www.lviglobal.com

They have a directory listing of the dentists who have done their various courses. NOTE: Not all are up-to-date and so be sure to check they have the necessary relevant training, and that the course wasn't taken say 15 years ago; their dentists are recommended to regularly do courses to keep track of the improvements to their processes.
the little DSL format looks like this:

WIFI:S:NETWORK-NAME;T:WEP;P:NETWORK-PASSWORD;H:false;;

and i use the python tool `qr` to generate one: https://pypi.org/project/qrcode/
Your first link doesnt work fyi.
I didn't know about being able to type the LaTeX stuff; that's pretty neat.

I think part of it was that I had basically memorized all the keystrokes for the MathType editor, and most of them didn't work in the MS Equation editor, which annoyed me. Also, I had issues with parentheses formatting correctly but I suspect that's been fixed in the last 15 years.

Still, I really do prefer to work with Markdown in general. The Markdown -> Pandoc -> LaTeX rendering just ends up looking prettier in my opinion, and at this point I'm pretty useless in any editor that doesn't have Vim keystrokes. Pandoc irons out the parts of LaTeX that I really hate (the `` vs " being the thing that's given me the most headaches), while letting me drop into raw LaTeX when I need it; not even getting into the fact that there's just math stuff that (as far as I know) doesn't work in Word or MathType's equation editor (e.g. bussproof trees).

I do get pretty annoyed when people try and tell me that regular LaTeX is "just as easy" as Word, because even as someone who has a reasonably good handle on LaTeX I can say that is just not true. TeX is arcane and weird and annoying and inconsistent, and I don't blame people for using Word compared to it.
Isn't some of this simply that the practice of software development has become a more mature, bigger space over time?

More companies in the space, with more staff, building more things?

So naturally you don't want 50,000 generalists engineers in your FAANG. You probably have different areas of practice with different specialities, and recruit more specifically for roles in that area.
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That is not what the word recall means. That is what you want it to mean. The governing body here is the NHTSA, here is their recall page where the term is defined. https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls

>A recall is issued when a manufacturer or NHTSA determines that a vehicle, equipment, car seat, or tire creates an unreasonable safety risk or fails to meet minimum safety standards. Most decisions to conduct a recall and remedy a safety defect are made voluntarily by manufacturers prior to any involvement by NHTSA.

>Manufacturers are required to fix the problem by repairing it, replacing it, offering a refund, or in rare cases repurchasing the vehicle.
Where did you find that definition? The NHTSA definition doesn't have any mention of "returning" a product.

They define it as "when a manufacturer or NHTSA determines that a vehicle, piece of equipment, car seat, or tire poses an unreasonable safety risk."

It's entirely based on risk and a duty to the consumer. It's possible that you're leaning too heavily on the etymology of the word rather than the industry definition.
Weird, most cable ISPs that I know of have been IPv6. Last I checked in the US (pre pandemic) there is more IPv6 nights and weekends than working hours by a lot because the Cable ISPs and cell phone companies rolled out IPv6 long ago, while companies mostly are behind. OF course you didn't say what country you are in - different countries have very different numbers.
Most likely in the URL, id=3923
I’ll trade you for some yamok sauce.
I've been pushing to open source a VLIW assembler/codec generator with some syntax like this but alas may not stay long enough to see it through.
I think another huge factor is the network of people you know and the breadth of knowledge you can tap into that way.

Superstar young founders have crowds coming to them to fill those gaps, but less high profile young founders don't have access to that.

I would think that a very astute person starting their first startup in their 40s, but with tons of connections and deep knowledge in the target market, would have an easier time than a generalist that had done ton of startups but with less connection to the target market. But that's a broad heuristic which may have nearly as many exceptions to the rule as data supporting it...
Yeah, it would be a small advantage at best. Leg kicks very rarely break bones, usually they rely on causing pain and damage to tissue. And surgery will result in lost training time, plus the risk of something going wrong long term...
Infinite Food Craft
Inspired by Neal's "Infinite Craft" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020), I made a food-based version. You can use the sidebar to create a new food and click or drag the example ones.
I wasn't expecting to like this at all but I was pleasantly surprised. It seems a bit US focussed but I like where it's going, being able to tailor some preferences on it could be a real winner.
Carbon Language Newsletter, the Carbon Copy, February 2024
I almost used Feb 30th by accident filling out a form online today changing a field from last month to this months, the software didn't stop me but I caught it myself.
They should have a separate term for this, like “over-the-air recall”. This sort of thing will happen more and more often as in-car computers become more relied upon.
...and that's the problem. You can easily get distracted by the look of the words on the page. Is the heading big enough, centered, got enough white space around it. By the time you've faffed about with that, I'm onto my second or third paragraph of content.
The real problem is the “gerrymandering” of state boundaries and the Senate. CA has around 10 million non-Democrat voters who have had zero representation in the Senate since 1992. In fact the entire West Coast hasn’t had any non-Democrat senatorial representation since 2009.

This is why states like the Stare of Jefferson need to be allowed to exist.
I don't think this has anything to do with design tbh. You have developers who are comfortable with HTML/CSS/JS and those who prefer to stay clear of it.

A lot of those HTML/CSS/JS folks happen to also really enjoy (and are great at) PHP/Ruby/Python etc - not so unicorn-y
Buying a smaller car is a choice. Like having the least expensive insurance policy.

I'm specifically gonna buy a bigger vehicle to keep the Toyota Corollas of the world from killing me in an accident.

Mass is the greatest, most significant safety feature you can get in an automobile.
In case anyone is interested in an earlier discussion from 2023 (312 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478206
3. I used to do this. Now I have a medical grade 6-foot monitor arm carrying my 32" display over my bed which tucks neatly into the wall. I have a set of pillows designed to make a seating position like an "anti-gravity lounge chair", and between a wireless keyboard, mouse, I've never been more comfortable.

Now, I am not married and live alone. I suspect I'll be ditching this setup if I choose to go down that road, again, but I ditched the whole "separate work from life" from a physical standpoint. It hasn't caused me to work "all kinds of extra hours", but it has allowed me to quickly sit up and write a few lines of code that are sitting in the corner of my mind keeping me from falling asleep. Before I'd just ruminate on them for hours b/c while I was awake enough to struggle falling asleep, I was tired enough to want to remain in bed.

When I dropped $300 on this thing I thought "this is a stupid waste of money" ... that week, my laptop battery failed resulting in it being impossible to use since any vibration causes the power cable to stutter resulting in its immediate hibernation. But plug it in and set it on a stable surface with an external keyboard/mouse and it'll run all day.

Since then, I've found I finish work feeling less sore (this position is extremely comfortable and my monitor stand adjusts/tilts so it's at exactly the right position). I'm no expert in ergonomics -- and I have a fantastic, highly adjustable (Herman Miller Aeron) chair in my office and an adjustable desk, but I've never finished my day without something aching until I started using my mega-bed-desk setup.

And the best part is it tucks away nicely so it's not the focus of the room unless I'm working.
'Stunning' US jobs growth of 353,000 far outstrips estimates
The word, "recall", has a myriad of definitions. In this particular use of the word, it has a historical basis in physical vehicle recalls to the service center. That an agency has since decided it also applies to OTA patches does not change this fact or how it is perceived by people at large.
Hard to tell exactly, both because of course it was a process (still running DOS some time while having Windows as a GUI for other uses), and I don't remember everything exactly.

I think the later Running-on-top-of-DOS-Windows-versions - the last one was Windows ME I believe - where trying to hide their DOS-based roots, and you had to use some hacks to actually boot into DOS. I can tell you that I used those hacks.

I never migrated to the "native" (non-DOS-based) Windows versions (I believe XP was the first consumer-not-dos-based version), but switched to Linux around that time.
What is the real change that is going to occur?

Likely a bureaucratic formality that will force private entities to follow certain procedures.
Apologies for giving you the boring 'it depends', but it really does depend ALOT where you start off and what you wanna do. I can tell you my experience.

If you start off with a stock Amiga finding off the attic you can pretty much expect anything. This is rock bottom. I did this and in hinsight it was a mistake. Decades of sticky filthy dust, bugs, rust, yellowing, bumps, scratches, stickers, missing port pins, screws, ram lid, cracked up soldering, leaky batteties, unresponsive keys. But I had a working floppy, and it actually booted. Lucky me.

You should buy a confirmed working Amiga from an enthusiast. These guys usually have a lot of them accumulated over the years and has probably tended to at least basic things. I did this after I gave up my first. You'll find them on Facebook and they are great helpful people in your demography probably.

Now you want a screen. Do you really want an old CRT, or do you wanna adapt to a modern (HDMI!) screen? No approach is correct, you just have to pick one

Now you want data. The floppys are old and were already a flimsy tech when new. Many don't work anymote. I found I wanna work around this with and download floppy images off the internet instead. There are many ways to do this by fitting something modern on the Amiga. Gotek to name one solution.

Sorry for the long answer, but to go back to my original point. This is a huge topic with a large community and many commercial actors who can sell you things to fix old computers.