skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This prompted me to check, and the first translation in French was in fact the translation of a translation of a translation [1]. No wonder it strayed from the original!

The English translation went through similar ordeals [2]. The more recent ones are presumably more faithful:

> The first translation by Paul Selver was heavily abridged, reducing the novel to about two thirds of its original length. Selver's translation also bowdlerized the original text, omitting paragraphs and occasionally pages that may have seemed offensive; despite this he has been praised for preserving some of the tension in the work between Literary and Common Czech.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aventures_du_brave_soldat_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk#Tr...
Big believer in Blender becoming the default tool to design and build buildings this century.
SpaceX does not stream on YouTube, you are watching an old launch on a fake channel. Please report them.
love appsheets, very powerful.
I worked on a couple teams (contract - 3-6 months at a stretch), and teams had postman licenses for everyone - assuming it was some enterprise-type deal.

No developers used it. We all had access to it, but none used it (well, none did in the several months I was there). I guess some used it at some point, but it was primarily a tool some testers used, from what I could tell. Now... devs needed access to it to help answer questions from time to time, and I guess... 'using it' would be to put some new endpoint info in some collection, then grant access to it, but it wasn't anything helping out any developers day to day. But the companies paid for full licensing for everyone anyway - perhaps that's just easier in some sense? I guess that's the game?
IT firms like ours receive countless queries and requests on minimizing software development costs. Businesses and startups are always on the hunt for tips to reduce or save costs in any possible way. Understanding their stress, here is an article that is jam-packed with all the information!
Illegal?
Is Voyager 1 in hibernation mode because the RTG is not producing as much power, or is it because most components have failed, but could in theory still be powered on? I do not know how long an RTG lasts for.
you were not watching the Spacex official stream?
There was a video from Joel Spolsky - you suck at excel. That is a good starting point
All CSS font sizes are already responsive because CSS pixels are an abstract concept. Adding your own hacks on top of that instead of respecting system settings is counter-productive.
There's a fake SpaceX YouTube account that looks official because they included videos from the real channel in playlists to get verification ticks & have managed to harvest thousands of subscribers. YT's interface is a bit dumb for including the verification ticks in that use-case.
Dang I got got. Thanks for letting me know
I still remember when this guy was on CNN during Jon Stewart daily show era. Regardless of how you feel about Musk Don Lemon has to be one of the dumbest people on television and nothing will be missed if every show he ever makes gets canceled. Even worse than a hard political bias is just being a moron
Wouldn't socioeconomic status correlate just as strongly or even more with high school AP grades and extracurriculars?

It seems that these would require more discretionary time, as well as discretionary money, when comoared to the SAT.
Social security number is public information as well and it's never used for authentication so you're right. You normally identify yourself using BankID, which is issued by your bank and tied to your phone.

Identity theft is still possible but requires much more intricate methods.
> No, you can't. You can't force people to want to live in the sticks.

"You can't force people to want"?

What are you trying to say? That sentence does not parse for me.

Of course you can convince people to happily move elsewhere: "Look, you can keep your current job, work remote, and instead of crammed into a 1-bedroom flat in a high-density block of multiple loud families, you can raise your kids here in Sleepyville, in a 3-bedroom house with a garage, a garden and an attic/basement for your hobbies."

People aren't stupid. The majority of them work to live, not live to work, and the substantial increase in quality of life afforded by large spaces let them live more than work.

The QoL increase in having an attic/basement for hobbies/workshop/kids/entertainment/whatever alone would get people to move. Then you add in things like usable private yard, much nicer room sizes, etc and for many people it's a no-brainer.

> people actually like to go places, socialize, go out to eat, see cultural events, etc.

You can, and many do, all of this just fine in all small towns and cities. You should, ironically, get out more.
I've been wondering, to use something like this in a new captcha system. AI is great for solving captchas, but megacorp censorship won't let them swear. So captcha: Write some swearwords in this textbox.

A swearword password is great for the same reasons: You can't publish it in most public locations. They'll refuse to publish it.

Next up: A password full of covid disinformation. Preferrably racist.
A Maui community tries a novel approach to keep homes in local hands
The article goes into some depth describing what constitutes a deplatforming event, including shouting down an in-progress event, rescinding an offer to speak, etc.
> Games are a lower resolution representation of the 'real' world.

Are they though? In the real world you’re playing at many unbounded activities at the same time, with no reward counter
can you share any pointers on where to get started with this, ie using game engine for artistic video generation?

i've seen it accomplished but never found any resources on how to achieve it.
Knowing both sides of the argument around this topic and apple, it's not hard to understand why apple has a compelling argument and why it still deserves to be heard.

You have to remember that tons of people have near zero tech awareness, and regardless of the laws, will just bring their iPhone to the Apple store if it breaks. The same way people still go to dealers to fix their car, even out of warranty.

This means Apple can say "Hey, give us full control of your phone repairs, and we can kill the theft market for iPhones. You are going to come to us anyway, so might as well let us end iPhone theft too"

So this is why lawmakers still sit down with Apple. And the generous lunches.

(Apple DRM'ing all the internal hardware does effectively make stolen iphones completely worthless, in whole or in parts.)

-For the record, I have personally written my senator before asking him to support right to repair laws.
Then change your DPI scaling factor to match your display size and viewing conditions. HN has a perfectly reasonable font size.
A starch is a starch.

However, this study seems to compare freshly baked bread to a frozen/toasted one.

I'd guess that the difference will be smaller when regular store-bought bread is used instead.
My favorite solution in this space remains https://www.modularscale.com/, because (like others mentioned) different device types warrant different scales, BUT ALSO changing line height and padding on a modular scale (also per device type) takes the math out of my responsibilities and puts it on the computer - where it belongs.
All the links to different videos are broken here: https://learn-py4web.github.io/

And there are no alternative/non video resources.
I've been listening to SFN for about 20 minutes now and haven't heard a single reference to donations. Like parent, they're my preferred feed.

If you can get SpaceX's twitter to work, you can use them for audio. If so, EverydayAstronaut will likely have the best video.
Hmm. A quick Google didn't find that.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/theater/newsandfeatures/t...

"Heller, who died in 1999, told various interviewers that Céline and Kafka were his most powerful influences and that "Svejk" was "just a funny book.""
I don't believe I'm being contradictory with data or with those statements (which I did look up). It's been hard for me, pay is lower when offered, and "diaspora" is essentially a huge amount of people leaving wherever they are, even if I painted a rosy picture of startups (lower pay, lower stability, worse work-life balance, required moving) gobbling up most of them. In a few years, I think it'll be better and we'll be in a better non-FAANG place, that's all. And some of us will be working at the next ~B$ company.
Mandates are how we got electricity and phone lines to every home. Building such networks are a natural monopoly and communities have real leverage if they want to use it.

Subsidies as needed are fine, subsidies without mandates simply waste taxpayer money without actually fixing the underlying problem. Without a mandate companies just take that cash and build the same profitable network they would have build without it.

Also, 93% of Australian homes have home internet. Cheap fiber beats any other technology when it’s available. So perhaps the neighbor doesn’t want fiber today, in 2 or 20 years when someone else moves in you don’t need to lay a new fiber. It’s all just statistical noise from an investment perspective.
Yeah, the built in http client is 'good enough' for most needs I have. I posted another comment about the collection stuff I saw at some companies - tended to be used by testers to validate stuff, keep notes about their testing, etc. Perhaps that was some value for them and how they worked, but it was no value add for anyone on the dev teams I've worked on - it was basically ignored, even though we were paying for the seats.
What’s grifty about nasa space flight? They’re a private news org that does incredible coverage of SpaceX and spends funds doing as such. They’re mostly donation driven but they don’t solicit them really. They just thank folks that do on their livestream. Their forums are an absolute goldmine of knowledge if you take a look and it is an incredibly friendly community.
It's in today's NYT connections puzzle:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections
Late by like a decade. We’ve moved on from “how do we save / fix academia ?“ ro “how do we destroy academia?” Nobody thinks college even serves a role in protecting free speech anymore
The idea with this temporary relief was to help home-owners keep their homes warm during the first winter of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Many mechanisms could have worked for this purpose. A fixed amount for instance. Or an upper limit on a tax cut. Remember, the idea was to keep a typical home warm.

Instead there was a tax cut with no upper limit. So the affluent heating outdoor pools in the middle of winter also got relief, not just home-owners on the brink of ruin trying to heat their old house. In the big scheme of things, probably not a big deal, but interventions by the state should appear (and be) as fair as possible, lest people will loose faith in the system.
Good. If it means deplateforming fascists and enemies of mankind, I'm all for it.
I haven't been in University for over a decade now, but is this an actual real problem or just conservative provocateurs whining?
I've never understood the model of the world that people who don't agree with this.

My take is people question the tests because wealthy/powerful people have a history of "gaming the system" in order to retain that wealth/power. It's not unreasonable to ask "is the test predictive of anything other than the parent's ability to hire a tutor?" While a test is, in theory, easy for a poor student to pass through independent studies/library, etc, reality gets in the way - that student needs transport to the library, time to study (many work), etc.

But, based on this research, it seems the answer is "Yes, the test is actually predictive of something other than parent's SES."
Cal Newport talks about a middle level:

- Write for yourself

- Write for editing

- Write for the audience

He recommends writing for editing, for an editor to approve or reject, as a strategy to improve one’s writing.

Writing for yourself has value in exploring and clarifying one’s thinking. Writing for editing has value, for the approval of an expert, as opposed to the approval of an audience.

The distinction being, these all have a different kind of value, and the order matters. When you do the first two, the last one takes care of itself. But if you write for the audience first, it often feels generic, bland “content marketing”.
I've enjoyed Švejk's adventures, but never read any Hašek's short stories. Can you recommend a particular one you like?
Coming to this late, but...

What made you choose this tech stack? I'm especially wondering about Rust, was that something you had familiarity with before so just went with that? Did you evaluate a few different options and decided that would best fit this use-case?

(I have very minimal familiarity with Rust, I'm just wondering here.)
One question I haven't seen much discussion about is the status of WeChat. Doesn't WeChat fall under this bill also? (The monthly active user requirement seems satisfied). If this bill becomes law, would it immediately become illegal for US tech companies to service WeChat also?
They think they're on the right side of history and are making the world a better place. Think Rust evangelists.
This only makes it worse ...
Was just watching YouTube stream on “SpaceX” channel and right at launch a QR code cryptocurrency scam replaced the SpaceX feed. Not sure who fucked up but I’m guessing the marketing folks at SpaceX lost control of their YouTube creds.
I suggest actually reading up on how past or existing Communist countries worked. The Soviet system eventually failed, yes, but not before great strides in a lot of areas. There is an incredible amount of nuance lost in how the west generally talks about these systems, some from general misunderstandings, some from Orientalism, some from downright nationalism.

For example, the "soviet" system was a bottom up democratic system where labor unions effectively formed the foundation. There was a lot of thought into how the system was formed and even the CIA admitted Stalin was more of a team captain than a dictator. Hell you can get a lot of interesting tidbits into declassified reports on the Soviet Union. There's the famous one about how the soviets were better fed than their American counterparts, despite the claims of breadlines.

It's really quite sad that we are basically not allowed to learn from the positive aspects of these projects.

For example, people hate on Stalin a lot, but his 5-year plans were so wildly productive and successful, even a young South Korea deep in a western backed dictatorship copied the idea in order to boot strap their industrial base. China continues to use this idea, the simple method of setting goals in the short, medium, and long term in order to use resources effectively.
Their mindset is "my ideology is good and pure, thus anyone that have other opinions are evil and must be fought by any means necessary"
You got bamboozled by an AI Elon deep fake.
The second comment on the article - worth reading in itself - is signed by Švejk himself, with a detailed criticism of the Parrott translation, recommending instead a 2000 translation by Sadlon. Anyone else have insight on which translation I should read?
> the UDP protocol wasn't optimized by routers and operating systems over the last decades due to its low usage, making it comparatively slower than TCP

What exactly does this mean?
When loading many images [0] different browsers load the image in a different order and parallelism[1], especially HTTP/3 with Firefox [2]:

[0] https://github.com/TalalMash/100-Image-Load-Test

[1] https://imgur.com/a/b8P3XvB

[2] https://forum.openwrt.org/uploads/default/original/3X/b/c/bc...
That's a strange metric to measure "free speech", as this metric would be very high in campus where free speech is strongly suppressed and where students are punished to complain about discourse that are dangerous for their own safety.

After all, some deplatforming attempts are themselves an exercise of free speech, where people who feel excluded from the platform are trying to rebalance the debate by asking that we stop focusing on debunked theories.

Sure, not all attempts are like that, there are abuses everywhere, in all direction. But 1) as long as there is no way to handle that aspect properly, this metric is just meaningless, 2) it cuts both ways: you cannot complain about complainers without exposing yourself to the same criticisms (and, I know "it's not the same because I'm just expressing my opinion, but that person who said 'can you, just, not?' want to steal my freedom and kill my family")
In 1924? What?

Socialism was extremely popular in academia during that period. The US had the Espionage Act but I cannot think anywhere the stoning of socialists would happen, let alone in academia.

Stoning black people was never a thing as far as I know. Do you have any pointers?
Indirect: screen time = time that your body is not moving.

Health benefits of exercise are well known. And likely to have some effect on the chances of developing particular types of cancer.

Not to mention indoor air vs. outdoor air, that bowl of snacks within reach while sitting, etc. Various factors that shift towards "healthy" while out for a walk, bicycle ride or whatever.
Is that new? Because SpaceX has streamed launches on YouTube for years.
Called a “poke” by the team, the command is meant to gently prompt the FDS to try different sequences in its software package in case the issue could be resolved by going around a corrupted section.

The apparent foresight of the original programmers is impressive though maybe not too surprising given the conditions they expected.

I'd be curious to know if anyone has any book recommendations on software design for space missions; I suspect there would be some lessons in there around testing and reliability that could inform more day-to-day stuff.
tangential, but this was an outright hit, right? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/john-barnett-boe...
“There’s No Free Speech Crisis on Campus, So Please Shut Up About It.” the irony :D
> Wish I could query the browser if the user has specific preferences, just like with "Dark mode"

You can't query that with dark mode since there is no "no-preference" in the spec and the "preference" that browsers expose normally has not been influenced by the user in anyway. You should still respect the indicated dark mode preference because the user can influence it to set their preference for all sites. Same with the font size.
Made me think of the opposite problem - in Spain you have to prove that the people who live in your house shouldn't, really. It can take years to evict squatters.
UK air traffic control chaos made worse by remote working, review finds
The team managing them probably worked before at the MCC New York...
I can get almost all the questions correct on the SAT test without any time pressure but when I do it when the clock is ticking, I find myself unable to reason my way to the correct answer nowhere near as fast. As a result, I have to move on and skip 1/2 of the verbal and math questions because I don't have enough time. And I don't draw blank when under pressure so there must be something else going on.

I have tried to pretend that I'm an LLM and trained myself on hundreds of SAT questions on YouTUbe where people solve them. I've found that my reasoning speed under time pressure is a direct function of the amount data I've trained myself on.

Is there a quicker way to this or do people like me, with average IQ or Chat-GPT 3.5 if you will, have to train on thousands of math and verbal questions because we don't have the Chat-GPT4 like the gifted people where they ara able to be creative and don't need to rely only on past knowledge to solve novel problems?
I also sometimes wish this site got an overhaul, but then I look at the new Reddit layout and feel glad HN hasn't changed like that.
It is. From my understanding, CPUs execute machine code. Assembly has to be passed through an assembler to get machine code, and that assembler can make other changes as well, so they are not always one to one. Written assembly will usually translate veryclosely to machine code, though.
That HTTP2 is the worst of the bunch is a given. But HTTP3 should on paper be able to handle packets loss better than HTTP1.1 and way better than HTTP2.

And SACK does not seem to help under my real life workloads. Maybe poor implementations. I don't know.
I think you're saying that because a century ago some people oppressed other people (in America?), therefore free speech was never protected.

If that's what you're saying, I don't see that the conclusion follows from the premise. It is possible for a society to protect free speech in general but to fail to protect it in specific instances. That's a deplorable inconsistency for a society to have, but it doesn't make free speech a "myth". It makes it an inconsistently protected right.

And, if that's what you're saying about 100 years ago, then what is your point about the present? If the idea of free speech is a good thing, then let's make it not "a myth" by supporting it. If the idea of free speech is a bad thing, then let's crush it and silence everyone we disagree with. But what are you saying? How is it being "a myth" relevant?
I occasionally need to loan people money, and usually they need to pay me back in multiple payments, sometimes over several months.

Being a proper geek, my first inclination was to build a web app to keep track of that and so the people I am loaning cash to can also view their balance, but I realized that would involve maintaining state and login creds and a bunch of other variables I haven’t even considered, and maintaining this app would become a second, unpaid job.

Then I thought “I could just use a Google sheet and share it”, which is what I ended up doing. It’s easy to set permissions, I don’t have to worry about hosting, I can have it do any amount of arithmetic and light programming that I might need, as well as being automatic and reactive as I add information. It will be slower than something I would write in C obviously, but realistically for something involving budgeting the time savings will be on the order of milliseconds.

I love spreadsheets. They provide a gateway to programming for non-programmers, and they provide a low-effort means of playing with data.
> actual real problem or just conservative provocateurs whining

Can't tell if this is a joke or not. If not, can't you see the irony in your own typing?
It is. Of course the bank checks my income for the last few years before it gives me a loan. I also recently got a possible employer to admit that he checked my preceding years taxed income before giving me an offer.
On the other hand, it is very democratic. With many of the flaws of a democracy,

If you see a kingdom, in principle and in practice the emperor has no clothes. No single person has any special power or ownership over articles. If someone acts that way, you get to tell them what you think of it, if you like, and you'll very much be in the right. And if you are, others should agree and side with you.

There aren't moderators as such, people are supposed to talk to each other, directly. If you don't like how someone seems to act like they own the place, it won't change unless you tell em how you feel!

The thing is people who aren't afraid to give their opinions tend to talk over quieter people. I'm afraid I don't have a very good cure to offer, but please don't feel like anyone's too big of a power-user to have a little respectful, civil chat with. Please, template the regulars! They either respond politely, or they lash out and make an ass of themselves in public.

The problem is the rules apply equally to everyone, but the power users know exactly where the line is and how the bureaucracy works. "The law, in its majestic equality, allows administrators and newcomers alike to revert edits per policy, report 3RR violations, and open AN/I threads about people they don't like"