skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He doesn’t understand ct, nor can he grok the beauty of vim and all the muscle memory that doesn’t interrupt the (writing) flow. Since he learned to scroll with the mouse and click at a position to change something every problem is a nail.
I’m sure the HN codebase has some secret creed to make lisp more popular
A captivating summer 2007
I doubt it - many schools can't even get 50% of the students proficient in math and english - I sure as heck don't want those schools teaching parenting skills as well.
Related: https://www.axios.com/2024/02/02/us-economy-labor-market-str... ("January jobs report shows the labor market is hot, hot, hot")
Can this subpar foam be taken out and replaced with a non-microbial metal mesh or something? The use case for the foam was noise reduction it said in the article.
Most the parents that I know with kids do use iOS Screen Time. And yes, it's super frustrating.
Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time (Diggnation was an early podcast fav of mine)! Glad to see he's still at it.
Aws Kinesis and other services dont even support IPV6 to start with , how are they speeding up IPV6 adoption
> Less traffic in data-rich apps (even taking into account compression, HTML is heavier than JSON and not just due to syntax overhead - consider all those page headers, footers and other common parts).

This statement is way too overly broad. JSON is terrible for tabular data, since you have to include the field names in each row. HTML will be much better for data heavy sites in this case. Also, as others have mentioned, you still need to download and process the JS needed to display the data (libraries, likely styli ng, etc.).

> Better UX for slow networks: even in countries with 5G coverage there are still a lot of corners where your device will struggle to connect.

1. Offline and autoconnect are lovely ideas, but most js devs don't care enough/aren't permitted the time to write with this sort of resilency in mind. In practice it isn't really an advantage.

2. When a SPA does fail, it is often worse than a back end framework. The browser will tell you the request failed and a very general reason why. Whether it worked or not is abundantly clear. Most SPAs just sit there and silently die, while you stare at the screen waiting to see if it will actually do something.

3. Most of the mobile devices you're talking aren't that powerful, so loading them down with a bunch of JS to run, makes for a really bad for UX.
When my city didn't even let people go to public parks, having an Oculus Quest helped maintain my sanity
Are any of us in the position to truly know that. I feel that throughout history there were always groups of people that dismissed new innovations. Trying to be as unbiased with that statement, I don’t know what the future holds.
My observation is that generalists gain more opportunities within organizations over time, but have a harder time changing organizations. Which I guess makes consulting challenging for generalists
That's a very bad faith paraphrase of their single comment in this thread:

> For what it's worth, depending on the harms, a sudden total ban is not out of the question as being beneficial to humanity as a whole. It would just be disruptive to enterprise, boo hoo. We don't need to always treat bad actors with kid gloves.

Hardly the extremism you're implying.
> it may encourage more caution by SWAT and other armed police responses

Good luck with that
Humans evolved in an environment that is completely unlike the world in which we live today and a lot of things that people do intuitively might be actively harmful. That's true for lots of things, not just parenting. Your instincts are not enough to successfully navigate human society as it exists today.

Aside from that parenting for as long as we have been around has been something that was taught -- from your own family, if nothing else. The evidence of that is the experience of literally every single person who has had children who have family members tell them that everything they are doing is wrong.
So is that law. Small players would be discriminated against by virtue of not having the money to mitigate the legal risk.
I would advertise how understandable it is as well.

maybe something like: ufck?
If it works..

There are a billion forums with less stringent moderation. Moderation is a very large part that makes HN good and not so game-able like most sites
Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/j3i0N
A few years back, while browsing some such sites, I came across downloadable versions of the classic Norton Guides for Turbo C, Clipper and Assembly language, along with an app to view them. I think it was a TSR app, like the original, or it may have been the original app.

Also, at least until a few years ago, earlier versions of Turbo Pascal such as v3 and v5, were downloadable from the Museum section of the Borland (Codegear / Embarcadero) site.
> Why does someone need to be able to print a tooltip in the sign in dialog? It’s absurd.

I doubt that it was intentional. Although careful deploying systems, I have often a feeling that we must have forgotten something that is trivially exploitable by someone. I wonder if there are provably secure systems in use somewhere...
> I'd like to see a grocery store where you walk through aisles that have only one item per SKU on the shelves and you point your phone at the qr code to "buy" one. The store app lets you indicate how many of that item you want. In the back room you have robots feeding your items up to a boxing station.

In the US, there used to be a store like this back in the 80s-90s called Service Merchandise
My general rule is sort of a variant of Godwin’s Law:

“The first person to tell their opponent ‘you shouldn’t be so sensitive’ forfeits the debate.”

There are of course exceptions. But obnoxious people think that every time they say something offensive or awful, the onus is on others to make allowances.
Getting GPT (any version) to be "politically neutral" seems to be an exercise in futility given that the models have been shown to be inherently biased [1-6]. Given that GPT decides which stories are 'important' this bias immediately comes into play in the form of selection bias. How do you handle this known bias and what is your opinion on your success in getting the output to be as neutral (politically) as possible?

[1] https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/article/fresh-evidence-of-c...

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/17/openai-chatg...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-politics-of-ai-chatgp...

[4] https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/chatgpt_political_bia...

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10623051/

[6] https://bgr.com/general/openais-chatgpt-has-a-major-politica...
For millions of years people were living in close communities. Before you had own children, you saw it every day and took active part in parenting.

That's a little bit different, from single child families, who see their relatives with newborns once a year. Not much chance to naturally learn parenting this way, until you are thrown in the cold water once it is your turn.

For me it was fortunately easier, mainly because I often visited and helped with my siblings children as they lived close. But if they would have lived far away, everything would have been way, way harder.

So formally teaching it for those who do not had that experience, makes some sense, I think. That is, until we find ways to be closer again by default.

There is an old saying: it takes a village to raise a child.

So many people bored and living alone. So many parents with no energy left to play with their children. It doesn't have to be this way forever.
You mean as a prompt generator? There are already finetunes for this, though most people use smaller models.

If you are talking about transformers llms that output pixels, that is an area of active research... I hope you have a few million dollars lying around, though.
Early in my career, with the bravado of youth, I sold myself as a hacker/computer whiz. Now I sell myself as someone who solves interesting problems.

I did game development, then embedded development, more game development, back to embedded, then robotics, then machine vision, then deep learning, then virtual reality, then back to game development (with machine learning), then embedded software in healthcare, then game development again, then vr & computer vision, and back to game development (back-end). And there's probably a few segues into other areas in there I have forgotten to mention.

I maintain multiple online profiles, that sell me as a specialist in a specific area. From blogs to single page websites. And why do I do this? Because when you go to a steak restaurant, you shouldn't expect their pizza selection to be great.

In Feynman's words "specialization is for insects." And I agree, but when selling yourself, specialization closes the deal. Specialize to win the bid, generalize when you've won their trust.

Customers, like patients, usually identify a pain point they have, and they want a specialist to take away that specific pain, be it software or medical. You sell the specialization, you keep that customer coming back with the ability to solve all of their problems.

I liken software development, and especially contract software development to follow the first principle of improv (also something I've done): You never so "no", you always follow with "yes, and..."
No one is saying it's a hard requirement. It's a recommendation to understand how difficult raising a creature that depends upon you for everything is.
While those stories may be important, they are all off-topic for Hacker News. This is not a general news/discussion site, and there are other places on the internet to discuss those things. HN is explicitly set up to discourage stories which would incur flame-war-like political arguments.

Per the guidelines:

>What to Submit

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

The latter two stories are not new phenomenon (the war has been ongoing), and the former, literally being a decision by a political body, falls squarely under "politics", and is highly likely to lead to nonproductive flamewars.
I emailed that very screenshot to a sibling after connecting to their network the hard way.
Just enable showdead if you want to see all of that. It's 99% botspam.
Since we're talking about billions of dollars here, I'd like to know how far down the production stack they are investing. The displays, optics, and processors in headsets are hungry for technological advances. So is Meta custom building meta-material grown silicon lenses (or other crazy sci fi stuff), or are they just trying to commercialize other peoples breakthroughs at the lowest levels?
Admittedly, the time you know if a ISP is good or not isn't reached _until_ there's a problem. Because it's all about how they work with you to get it resolved.
Contacts+ and Cardhop are two.

To be fair the clock app is a lot better since they introduced the sleep schedule, but I used to have a separate alarm app, and still use Sleepytime to calculate wake up times.
Look around..no one is building native clients for every desktop OS anymore. Web, iOS and Android are the way to go for modern apps.
There's sort of a base level of parental instinct, but that gets you about as far as not letting them die.
I wholeheartedly agree with you in regards to VR (its a fun trinket and while I love my VR flight-sim in the end it is nothing but a toy), but I think AR certainly has potential.

For instance, just imagine wearing a set of AR goggles while <working on your car/building some furniture/whatever> and having an exploded parts diagram available at your beck and call in relation to the physical item in front of you, with assembly/disassembly steps shown should you so desire.
Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported
> I only got 3% raise because having higher raise would "increase inflation".

You only got 3% because you were not able or willing to find a buyer to give you more than 3%. Any other reason is just the buyer being polite.

Obviously, this works both ways too.
Here is my approach to reverse-engineer a DOS game: Starflight [1]. Actually, all the tools failed to disassemble the code and I had to write all tools myself.

What I find most fascinating is that reverse engineering these kind of games is very satisfying and even more fun than playing them.

[1] https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse
I don't want to get into a measuring competition, but is there a military that does logistics better than the US? I mean this very seriously and not at all in a jingoist way.

Look at how fast the US went from Kuwait to taking Baghdad international airport in the beginning of OIF. I recall that the entire world was like HOLY CRAP and had no idea how good the US was at logistics up until that part.

“Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars.” US Army General John J. Pershing, on battle in WWI
Look at NVIDIA's profits, it definitely is getting cheaper for some people
Yeah, I don't think we should assume that, or rather, that assumption ought to be verified.

The world changes, society changes, cultures change, and parenting is contextual in all of these.
It has been done for millions of years, within small tribal groups who all collectively observe child rearing from within overlapping multi generational families living in close proximity in a group of dwellings connected by walking paths. I think the article is spot-on. I'm speaking as the parent of a 3year old.
You make a very good point, and I see the depth of it. Do we want some institution teaching us how to raise our kids, making sure that our kids learn that we have parents too, parents with credentials and authority, ensuring that we pass on to our kids the sense that when they're adults they will not be their own people, making sure that the idea of autonomy never crosses their mind? I guess some people do. Sounds like an interesting world, a different world, a world that sounds very brave and new.
Oh absolutely! That's the main reason why every room needs an AP. A 20mbps 4K video only uses up 1% of the air time for wifi 6E. Any more than that will noticably increase p99 latency. A device outside the room could easily use 10x as much airtime for the same bitrate.
And what natural evolutionary process has led to us naturally knowing how to change diapers, deal with economic crises with kids in tow, teach kids how to deal with tech, how to have the right balance of ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ to be successful and also not a terrible person, etc?

I think the bigger issue is how are you going to come up with a curricula when you won’t get any group larger than 1 to agree on the right answer to any of these topics. And there are incentives to teach most kids the wrong answers for a few people, so their kids get a leg up.
Waymo Safety Researchers AMA
Steam on Linux Falls Short of 2% for January, AMD CPU Adoption Linux Hits 70.5%
An error page can be enough for a handful of customers to decide to “come back later” or go with a competitor website.

If you think about experiments with button colors and other nearly imperceptible adjustments, that we know can affect conversion rates, an error page is orders of magnitude more impactful.
Anecdotally? Only most of the time for most people.
I’m not sure that it was instinct for the majority of human history, I suspect it was extended families passing down knowledge and sharing the work. Many people no longer have that support network.

I do believe parents should follow whatever instincts they do have though. A diversity of parenting approaches guarantees a diversity of children which I think is a good thing.
The last paragraph is maybe the only relevant one:

> Sales of VR and AR headsets and glasses dropped almost 40% in 2023 to $664 million in 2023, as of Nov. 25, according to research firm Circana. An analyst at Circana told CNBC that the steep drop was likely due to a lack of new stand-alone VR headsets.

You can read that either way though... sales are dropping, but maybe only because there wasn't anything new, so maybe they'll rebound.

Beyond that, it's speculation. Meta is throwing money at the idea, and expects to throw even more at the idea.

> “We expect operating losses to increase meaningfully year-over-year due to our ongoing product development efforts in augmented reality/virtual reality and our investments to further scale our ecosystem,” the company said in its earnings statement.

But neither can know for sure what the Total Addressable Market is because it's not yet a wholly mainstream area of consumerism. They're both hoping it becomes the next internet/cloud/music player/smartphone/wearable/app store/etc. type of play and they have a foothold and a head start that makes the investment worthwhile.
> Actually the person you replied to somewhat incorrectly. They're not targeted re-entries because the on-board propulsion of Starlink is too low to precisely control the re-entry location.

SpaceX says otherwise, see [1]

SpaceX spokesman James Gleeson, when asked about the 10 satellites, said SpaceX is “performing a controlled de-orbit of several first iteration Starlink satellites,” using onboard propulsion.

There's a difference between unscheduled deorbiting (as happened to about 40 satellites after a solar storm in February 2022) and a scheduled deorbiting manoeuvre trigged by ground control. Starlink satellites use electric on-board propulsion (Krypton powered Hall thrusters) that doesn't run out as quickly as chemical or cold gas gas thrusters. There's also not much precision needed to avoid major population centres - Earth is pretty big after all.

[1] https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-fourth-batch-of-starli...
Somebody mentioned the "luxury" tax. I will just add that in the days before any of this was dreamt of, the Yankees won 10 World Series from 1947 to 1962, and 13 pennants.
Meta is a revenue generating machine. They keep beating quarterly estimates. I think they have every right to invest in R&D that isn't profitable yet (or ever). Their staff are well compensated already so what should the do with the money in ways that won't hurt their revenue? They already open sourcing a lot of things and have committed to reaching net zero emissions in 6 years and I'm sure other "good" stuff.

Note: I'm no fan of Meta's products and I've blocked FB/Meta domains for over a decade.
Reinforcement Learning Kinda Works Now
Well, again, the US citizens can't agree to that. So then what?
I'm not going to wade into details of the position when it's so clear from context what is meant by "large cars". Your comment is in bad faith, I think.
Do you really think that AR and VR will only be "gizmos" forever?

I can think of dozens of real world applications off the top of my head. AR assistance for challenging professional situations (surgery, mechanical repairs, etc), PTSD treatment, AR warfare, gaming, and so much more. And this is with our limited viewpoint in the year 2024.

When headsets (or the evolution of them) are eventually the size of reading glasses and cost very little, this could change the world.
What I learned as a parent and from interacting with other parents is that most parenting advises are useless because it's what "works for their kid". Most parent's style is coevolved with their kid through lots of try-and-error, and can hardly generalize. After reading a ton of books when I started as a parent, I now mostly just use common sense and my understanding of my child as a person.
I wish that were true for all customers. I've had Fi forever and the only thing I get are good deals on phones every so often.
The maximum safe temperature for PTFE is uncertain, with many conflicting sources. Depending on your risk tolerance, you might accept anywhere from 200C to 250C. The former is easy to exceed by accident (personally tested using an IR thermometer), the latter is only likely to happen if you use incorrect technique, e.g. trying to sear meat on it, or leaving a hot pan unattended. PTFE is only suitable for gentle cooking.

The quality of the pan also makes a difference; cheap ones often use very thin metal that doesn't spread the heat well, resulting in hot spots.

I recommend using an IR thermometer to learn how your personal cooking setup behaves.
Technically the name _start is not special either. The binary lists its entry point address in a header and that’s where the OS starts execution from. That symbol is just called _start by convention by C and other languages, which is what the linker uses to set the entry point when writing the ELF headers, but if you’re writing your own linker scripts you could call the entry point whatever you want.
Additionally, just because it’s possible that this could happen doesn’t really give us an idea of how likely it is. Is it one of those theoretically possible, but it never actually happens events? there’s a huge difference between it impacting half of the stories that fall off that quickly, and it impacting 1 in 10,000 stories that fall off that quickly.
Poe's law at work? There are people who unironically want to hold back faster wifi and wait for environmental impact studies
That’s absolutely true. It’s more symbolic than practical.
This. If it weren’t for auth and backups, “docker run prometheus” could be 100 times easier than coming up with your own schema and setting up foreign data wrappers in your already running postgres. Faster too, row vs column storage, etc. Prometheus integrates with every other tool in existence so there is very little reason to wrap it and loose those integrations.

With FDW you don’t get off the hook of operating the backing data store anyway. You only get a consolidated query frontend.

Kubernetes has solved a lot of the operational hassle of running multiple services. Standardized storage is still a nirvana, if you want to care about consistency, knowing if your database has a WAL or if you need to flush before snapshots, point in time, delayed replication and all that. Getting better, with many new databases connecting straight to S3 or equivalent.

Standard auth was supposed to be solved but oauth2 is still a fragmented, difficult mess, often only part of the enterprise version.
For recent dead comments, click on the time ("31 minutes ago") to bring up the comment's own page where there's a "vouch" option next to the other comment options if you have enough karma.

For dead stories in the "new" queue, I see a "vouch" option already without going to the story's own page.
did you write up your findings anywhere? I'd love to read about them!
I have no idea how much energy 1200 "kilotonnes" is.

Assuming 100% efficient electrolyser (70% is common today) 39 kWh = 1kg of hydrogen. 1200 kilotonnes is around 46,800,000 kWh.

A Tesla 3 has a capacity of 60kWh. China's hydrogen capacity could power some 15,000 hydrogen cars, once per week.
Fiscal policy can help slow growth, but prices will always go up in high demand markets.
Does go to show how long lasting they are.
"vapJ" might do the trick for one paragraph. So maybe you can make a mapping that does vapJ and moving to the next paragraph ("]]"?) in your vimrc will let you do this with a count.