skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these schools aren't new. lots of data to be collected, and likely is collected.

the schools are in most cases public, in which case there is a mandate for many of these statistics. public money pays, so show us what you're getting for it. this is especially the case given poor and underprivileged students, who have been the focus of many studies (and some targeted funding efforts).

the middle school to HS to college pipeline also isn't new at all, and has been tracked for decades.

whats really more shocking to me is not that it's happening, but that more people aren't abusing it aggressively.
This is already written elsewhere, but this game screams to work efficiently with the keyboard, so one can just type country names and hit 'return'.
I can already mostly navigate it with TAB + shift-TAB, but as the game loop is simply 'type name, get feedback', it seems weird the keyboard flow has not been polished in its otherwise quite polished design.
I am at two minds about the drop-down matches covering the beautiful prompt map. I realise I should be able to carry on typing even though I then can no longer look at the country shape, but for the design purity of it, I would prefer the drop-down to not cover the prompt. Maybe by allocating less space to the candidates, at max showing 2-3 options, or showing them _beneath_ the map.
Still, very beautiful compared to a version I made 20 years ago for my private use (CIA world database map says hello!).
Question: could you enjoy a song if you knew absolutely nothing about the artist? Let's make it instrumental so you can't judge the voice.

From what you say I infer you couldn't, you need to know about their life, their struggles, their views on things, etc.

Some people can actually enjoy just the pure sound. Electronic club music tends to be like that, where if you listen it in a club or on the radio in a long mix you might have no idea what song is being played, the vocals and lyrics are ultra-minimal so no "human expression" there.
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Personally, I find that SANBAK is a better model than BATNA, especially considering the BATMAN aspects of the MEASL.
I've used this a few times over the last decade, and while I can't predict the future, it's been rock solid thus far from my perspective.

Per their footer:

> FutureMe™ brought to you by Memories Group Limited © 2002 - 2024.

> Yup - we've been sending letters to the future for about 22 years now
The US DoD budget is at or in excess of three-quarters of a trillion dollars. It is more than the next 10-ish countries combined; most of those - but two? - are allies. Maybe it's not subsidies in your sense of the word, fair enough. But the American people are footing that bill one way or another, and there are others who are profiting from that.
Dresden should suffice?
Why is that “progress?” Why is “progress” a good thing in its own and who decides what “progress” even is?
I actually think you're right. Apologies. I also don't see deploying a glibc fix as particularly costly.
And in that vein, a reduced version of Servo for rendering desktop/games GUIs.

There's a lot of stuff in CSS and HTML nobody uses anymore like floats, blink, marquee, etc.

Ultralight has a product based on that idea but I think they use WebKit.

https://ultralig.ht/
I actually did, repeatedly. I threw away 3 or 4 chat sessions with it about this very subject. It kept hallucinating features into libraries and naming products that don't actually support this translation direction.

And with Google searches the vast majority of results are going the opposite way: creating a GraphQL API from a real SQL schema.
5 warm-up iterations of 10 seconds each.
You must be thinking of Terminator.
I can't watch it right now but IIRC this (amazing) video of the life cycle of an HIV viral particle demonstrates an RNA that forms a ring:

https://vimeo.com/260291607
What about offline sync
Just got done mastering a track (a soundtrack for video with voice over). Getting to the appropriate LUFS level with a limiter seems to me something that is easily automated, and I'm not sure you need AI to do it. But as usual, most of the moves I made with EQ, compression, saturation, and so on were creative choices where I was picking from among dozens of different possible tones and vibes (some in my head, some from reference tracks). I guess I don't doubt that AI can master a track if you say "make it sound like a Beyoncé record," and some of the automated tools give you vague choices about how you want it to sound.

But for this to really work, I feel like I'd have to sit there going: "Okay, same thing but bring the lower mids up a couple of dB. Try it with a little more air in the top end. Compress those drums, but try not smear the transients on the snares. No wait, go back. Try smearing those transients a bit more."

At that point, I'm not sure "mastering as prompt engineering" is worth it. Though I totally agree that things like LANDR and Ozone are great for quick-and-dirty work.
The HTML dialog element API is a mess
You’re close but that’s not quite it.

Here’s a more realistic way it might work.

Bob buys paintings A, B, C, and D as a lot for $10MM.

“Things happen” in the art market and a few years later lo and behold “everyone” agrees those paintings are worth $200MM of course.

Painting A (the most marginal of the four, of course) gets donated to museum X with a value of $50MM.

Given standard tax rates on passive income Bob saves at least $10MM on his next tax bill and now has three completely free paintings thanks to your tax dollars.
I remember it differently. In my mind NeXT-Apple – while being perfectly willing openly eviscerate pre-NeXT-Apple – has always been extremely unwilling to admit any fault.

I see consistency, not a trend. Maybe a slight trend towards a softening, towards being more willing to admit fault.

Whether it’s brushed metal interfaces or butterfly keyboards, Apple isn’t good about admitting fault. Most of all openly.

However, my experience is also (and I don’t think you can be successful for so long without that) that they are still reactive. Maybe sometimes a bit slow, maybe without saying they did something wrong (just quietly fixing it), but NeXT-Apple does eventually change shit things.

Except, obviously when it’s deeply tied to something they hold strategically very dear. Then they are completely unable to.

Overall my main point is that I don’t see a trend where you seem to be seeing one. Especially not post 2007.
it's much bigger and requires running a server, that's why I use sqlite3, and my needs are 99% modest most of the time.
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>The US is just a particularly violent place with extraordinarily well-funded police departments.

Compared to peer nations, the US spends a decidedly ordinary amount of money on the police:

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/how-police-compare-differen...

What makes policing in the United States different is the weakness of central (i.e. federal) authority and lack of nationwide standards of training and conduct. Typical US police training is about six months, while European programs are not rarely three years (including essentially an associates degree in law enforcement). A parallel issue is civil asset forfeiture, which can amount to legitimized robbery.
There is https://github.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb for streaming time series data, but it is abandoned since 6 years.
and it makes sense that lithuania is the bottom one (ie, closest to poland), since there used to be a polish lithuanian commonwealth
> Most people today don’t know what the command line is, much less why they would want to bother with it.

This is true today, and it was true as well "in the 1980s", to use the same time frame as TFA. The difference is that today there are more people than ever who know what the command line is, and who can use it. At least an order of magnitude more people; maybe two. We can certainly say that we live in the CLI golden age!
My Trifecta is:

Postgres, Redis, S3

Hasn't steered my wrong yet. Every once in a while I'm tempted to try to use Postgres for Pub/Sub but then I realize that I need Redis for caching and sidekiq anyways, and Redis is amazing too, so why bother.
Thanks for sharing! We will have a look
That's... what I wrote?
The most interesting aspect of this is the public anonymous letters [1]

[1]: https://www.futureme.org/letters/public
SQS FIFO has exactly-once processing
But it surely will! It will!

See, now that we're profitable, we're gonna become a _scale up_, go international, hire 20 developers, turn everything into microservices, rewrite the UI our customers love, _not_ hire more customer service, get more investors, get pressured by investors, hire extra c-levels, lay-off 25 developers and the remaining customer service, write a wonderful journey post.

The future is so bright!
I suspect making a list of "I think these ones are not critical." is not sufficient.

You may overlook some subtle forms of interdependence.

To be sure, you need to test your documentation by actually switching off the "uncritical" assets.
They've tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
they kinda already do, there's a place called the spaceship graveyard where de-orbiting craft target to avoid collisions with inhabited areas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_cemetery

I've often wondered if you could take out a boat there to see a particularly impressive de-orbit. Maybe when they do the ISS, which is scheduled to go there eventually.

There have been cases where craft ended up in inhabited areas. iirc one hit australia and upset some people a few years ago?
You’re skipping the majority of my points.

Yes you can technically do each of those things in isolation , but you literally have no way to access these mainstream movies as 4K 3D before the Vision Pro, because they were not available. You could choose one or the other, not both.

and it does not matter if I can buy 7 meta quest 3s for the price. All 7 would not be able to do the things the Vision Pro enables.

Maybe it doesn’t make financial sense to you, I don’t really care, because that is subjective. But let’s not be deceitful by trying to disregard the delta in quality as meaningless either.
It definitely varies.

In Brooklyn there are plenty of kids who inherited money and working jobs that do not match their wealth/housing/lifestyle. So they are spending down whatever wealth they inherited for sure.

The typical picture I've seen is that the parents/trust buy them a condo all-cash, and then the underemployed then live a lifestyle that implies easily a $1M/year income except in a job that would imply a $0-$100k income. So unless they inherit like $25M+, they are spending it down quickly.

I've also seen the early stages of this from the other end with my colleagues, where parents in NYC who come from more modest backgrounds, end up making FAANG level salaries but then having kids that want to get a philosophy degree and work at an NGO (while enjoying having a place in Manhattan to live and traveling internationally 3x/year).

I guess theres a fine line between giving your kids space to grow & pushing too hard / trying to choose their path for them.. But being raised in comfort does seem to remove the striving mindset and understanding that this lifestyle doesn't come for free or from a fun job.
Worked at a company that suffered from this too. Compounded by the feature that let customers share data with other customers, so single DB was a decent architecture to begin with. And we were on postgis v1, which had no straightforward upgrade path to 2.0, nor was it supported by later versions of Postgres. Restoring a backup became a multi-day affair.
I never really understood why the Oracle/Enterprise version of GraalVM has better performance (also advertised) compared to the CE version. Is there any fundamental difference?
gh repo is a bit better on details, and has screenshots: https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox

There is a demo instance here: https://demo.netbox.dev/
Or Blades (https://getblades.org)
From my NYC observations, 3 generations seems like the best case.
> certainly you have to be able to do mathematical reasoning about natural numbers, but that doesn't necessarily imply determining their ontological status

That's true, of course you can use something without understanding it, but can you use something, and then deny its existence?

I want to correct what I said earlier about the natural numbers and infinity. Of course you could add infinity to the natural numbers, if you wanted to. This can be done in different ways. It's just that natural numbers without infinity are a simpler starting point.
I upvoted, but I agree so much, I had to comment, too. I wonder how long it’d take to recoup the loss of retrofitting such a system. Despite this story today, this type of problem must be rare. I imagine most of the savings would be found in the electric bill, and it’d probably take a lot of years to recoup the cost.
I've built quite a few apps and web pages that ultimately failed primarily due to not having a client. To take a lesson from my failures, always make sure you have a client.
Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software
Hello HN!

I wanted to share something we at Good Enough (https://goodenough.us) built over the past month.

Pika! https://pika.page

I know, I know, who needs more blogging software? In this case, _I DO_. I find that the big players in the market have a distracting number of dials and knobs. I greatly appreciate the indieweb players in the space, but none of those solutions quite fit my way of blogging and so I'd bounce from one to the other to the other. I tried SSGs and my goodness do I dislike the experience of maintaining a website with them. I dislike the SSG experience so much that before convincing the team to build Pika with me, I was actually blogging by writing straight HTML!

Pika is about simplifying blogging down to writing. Pika provides a great editor that doesn't _require_ Markdown (but accepts it) and a light bit of easy-to-use customizability without distracting you. With that baseline, we hope Pika can be a nice place for semi-technical folks to start or continue their blogging journey without all of the fiddly bits. In the longer term we'd like to make blogging more and more accessible to those who are non-technical, and we will grow our feature set and UX accordingly.

We would love to hear thoughts from anyone that is an active blogger or considering starting a blog. Also, if you know someone who is on the hunt for easy, beautiful blogging software we'd appreciate you letting them know about Pika. Thank you!
I don’t think it’s as bad as you make it to be. Qt is a great option imo.
Starting at 16 years old I wrote a letter every birthday to my 30 year old self with ideas of who I want to become and how I ought to judge my success. I hoped when I turn 30 to open all of them up and realize how much I accomplished would be satisfying.

Through the project, I actually discovered two things. First, I estimated a rate of progress that exceeds the real possible magnitude of accomplishment by about two lifetimes. Second, that the storylines I want in my life and the opinions I have about them are stable across time, even if they are dormant for many years in a row. Whether this is the effect of personality or an ability to maintain memory beyond the capacity of attention I don’t know. But then again, maybe those are both the same thing.
For a static blog written in Markdown, Github has all of that built-in.

When you’re on Github, use its IDE by pressing the . key. You can, of course, use Git and edit the files locally.

Own and maintain these two folders _posts and _assets. If you are going to write regularly, I suggest creating sub-folders inside _posts but name your Markdown files by date such as 2024-02-5-foo-bar-is-my-file.md.

On Github, use Github Pages (officially powered by Jekyll) and deploy using one of the pre-defined Jekyll Themes[1]. That’s it, your blog is at reponame.github.io which you can CNAME it from a domain you own just like I did mine at my-domain.com.

Comments: You can either use Github Discussion as your blog’s commenting system or embed a third party service which you can export and carry around when you change such services. Honestly, and personally, I don’t want to deal with comments these days.

Now, for the customization, the themes are in simple Jekyll[2] which you can play around with.
In future, if you want to move from Jekyll to something else, you just have to worry about that _posts and _assets folder. They may have different naming convention but you can just config-managed it or change it to your choice. This is why I suggested owning that two yourself.

You also may not worry about FrontMatter[3] (meta in the header) and its accompanying jazz by asking Jekyll to use the plugins jekyll-optional-front-matter and jekyll-titles-from-headings. These comes as part of the officially supported Jekyll plugins[4] by Github. That way, you are just writing a human-readable plain-text spiced up with Markdown and readable by almost every other Static Site Generator. You can use your favorite IDE or another Markdown editor such as Obsidian to edit your files without ever running Jekyll locally.

Now, play with the _config.yml that Jekyll generates for you from the theme above to define your post dates, navigation, and others. Jekyll is one of the OGs — the Gandalf of Static Site Generators. If you have a problem, someone somewhere has solved that.

If you really think of it, “there is no spoon”, eer, I mean “Jekyll.”

Did I missed something? I was supposed to write a blog article for my website on this one and this comment will serve as my starting bullet points.

1. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...

2. https://jekyllrb.com

3. https://frontmatter.codes/docs/markdown

4. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
> Traditionally, UNIX commands were written under the assumption they were going to be used primarily by other programs. They had more in common with functions in a programming language than with graphical applications.

Not quite. They were primarily intended for interactive use within a login shell. There are the programs which generate output on stdout (ls, cat, find, tty, who, date), and there are the "silent" text filters (tr, grep, cut, uniq, sort, wc). A one-liner would enable you to do basic computing tasks in that era. Any complex program would be written in C. After the appearance of DSLs like sed and AWK, certain string-heavy programs were offloaded to the shell.

The shell is not a sane programming environment and was never intended as such.
I struggle with netbox. I understand their theory of separation of duties, but without it doing DDI and without it having native integration into all the major dns players the usefulness is questionable to me. Relying on people to always update the source of truth never actually works in practice in an organization of any size.
This. There used to be a fun geography game on the Commodore 64 where you had to fly a helicopter over countries/capitals. It was fun because when you had no idea where a country was, you just kept flying in circles. They got the gameplay right to some degree.

Screenshots:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/maps-usa-n4v
Eh, enough similarities and differences can be drawn between all of those analogs to arrive back at “not sure” what would’ve been optimal. And of course what was optimal in the near term could be so highly suboptimal in the long terms that a different decision could’ve been warranted.

Well… it’s pretty simple: lots of people are racist fucking losers who think it was the war and not their own moral failures that kicked their “glorious lineage” into the mud.
How about metrics? Would it be possible to do this in Postgres as well? I'm talking e.g. about simple counters that are not directly vital to business logic. I'm currently using Redis for those things as I'm thinking that Postgres seems to be the wrong choice for this kind of data, would anyone disagree?
PL/I had features from COBOL, FORTRAN and ALGOL.

One advantage over FORTRAN IV was that PL/I had complex number types and the associated math libraries. This made certain engineering calculations much easier, for example, transmission line calculations.

It suffered from being IBM proprietary and from its size and complexity, which were too great for the early wave of minicomputers. Hence the rise of the much smaller and more open C language.
demo demo is login
The positions of the Pacific islands and the smallest nations of the Caribbean are difficult to remember. For Central America it's hard to remember the north to south sequence and the same for the equatorial region of the coast of western Africa. Everything else is pretty easy.

Considering how many countries are there in those regions I expect that I should achieve at least 50% but not close to 75%. That's surprisingly bad for an European that thinks to know geography.
First of all, as others have pointed out, the math here doesn't check out. The rich person is now less rich.

Second, the IRS is hip to this. They require a qualified appraisal, they have rules about who the appraiser can be and what information is required. Then, they have a network of experts who would do their own research on an art deduction of this size and give their own estimate of value (without knowing how much the taxpayer was claiming it was worth). And finally, if the charity that received the artwork sells the artwork for less than $75 million before the IRS does its research, they're going can use that information to determine the real value.

-- https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/unlocking-myster...

In short, for people planning on avoiding taxes, please consult a licensed tax avoidance specialist for advice in addition to doing research on internet chat boards.
> It also requires repair service to be available as long as it is technically feasible.

If that is to be taken as how most technically minded people read it, that is a LONG time. A repair may not be financially feasible for more than a few years, but it is technically feasible for a very long time. If a type of screen no longer produced is may still be technically feasible to start up a new production line. The normal way to deal with this is to have stock of spare parts, but that goes against everything Apple and Tim Cook believes in.
This is a really cool idea! That said, after I sent a letter to my future self, it automatically signed me up for several email lists, tried to get me to download the app, and pestered me to become a "member." No site like this needs any of those things.
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Companies like HPE have partner programs that companies can self register to join.

This is because most MSPs are small mom-and-pop shops and a company like HPE or ServiceNow can't justify the headcount to have a personalized partner program for each MSP or small business.

PRNewswire is also basically an RSS feed. Every company publishes random PR listicles on there. I have no idea why (the newer generation of larger tech companies don't, but legacy ones do), but they do it.
As someone else mentioned, the labor is typically free. It's done by volunteers for various reasons (including, but not limited to, prestige ... literally working for exposure).

Also note that publishing to a particular high-profile comp sci journal tends to cost on the order of 1000 EUR (last I checked, a few years ago), more if you want it to be open/public access.

In other words, journals will:

- Charge hundreds to thousands of EUR to authors (typ. indirectly, by charging their university) in order to publish papers.

- Charge hundreds of EUR (at best) per year to readers for access to said papers.

- Not pay reviewers for the work in reviewing the papers.

It's literally just glorified super-expensive webhosting.
There's a scene about the discovery: He disables voice control (or switches it to Chinese) so at high-G he cannot hit the stop button, nor command it to stop.