skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Australian faith based schools cover all faiths, not just Christian ones. Where a madrassa isn't established some Islamic kids go to catholic schools out of parental choice, their monotheism is at least partially respected.

I know there are Jewish and Muslim schools in big cities like Sydney and Melbourne, but not where I live. Where I live, your private schooling choices are basically Catholic, Anglican, Adventist, a couple of variations on non-denom Protestant, "vaguely Christian but super-expensive school for the upper class", Steiner, and some (mostly small) secular schools which focus on children with different needs (autism, disability, "just not fitting-in in a mainstream environment", etc)

My Catholic high school had lots of Protestants, and also a Jewish girl. I know the Catholic school we send our kids to has at least a couple of Muslim families. But, for Jews and Muslims, I think that is only really an option for some of the relatively secular or moderate; I expect many of the more strict would not agree to sending their kids to a school where their children are exposed (even just passively) to Christian prayer and religious services. Whereas, state schools, there is significantly less of that passive exposure (even if it isn't always possible to opt out of it 100%)

The Catholic schools have an "arrangement" with the Eastern Orthodox Church, according to which they officially give preference to Orthodox kids, after Catholics, but before Protestants and non-Christians. (I'm not sure if the arrangement is mutual, but there are so few Orthodox schools, that question
only has practical relevance to a small minority.)

> State schools are meant to be mostly agnostic/athiest except they can run R.E. classes but local staff can (and do) proselytise, and State authorities do little about it.

There is a historical reason for this. At least in New South Wales (and I believe other states too), the public school system started through a deal between the colonial government and the major Protestant churches – the Protestant churches handed over their schools to the government, in exchange the churches would retain the right to do religious education in them. Although the deal was made almost 150 years ago, the churches involved insist the government stick to it. (It isn't legally binding, so the government could legally break it if they wanted, but politically they aren't going there.)

> A notorious instance was a Jewish school head who groomed students, got found out, absconded to Israel and was defended by politically astute religious to avoid extradition for years.

A lot of that was due to a belief in Orthodox Judaism that it is a sin to take Jewish community issues to non-Jewish courts – I think most Orthodox Jews do not think that rule should apply nowadays, at least not to serious crimes, but this school was ultra-Orthodox/Haredi, a community in which some still seem to think it should. I don't think that specific issue is really applicable more broadly, since even though you'll read some rather similar stuff in the New Testament, mainstream Christian churches have long chosen to ignore it.
Hold two buttons, then swipe?
Yes, you're right, Tcl suffers from lack of Scheme-like macros. While a lot can be done using procedures, methods and introspection "tricks", often enough it's far from elegant. However I haven't been stymied all that often. Missing functionality can sometimes be provided by C-API extensions which I've gotten pretty good at writing.

Completely agree about the utility of Tk. I remember reading somewhere that HTML/CSS widgets were influenced by Tk. Don't know how true that is but I can see how it could be.
I see your point, but I don’t know if people in the financial position to do this do it to get rich. I always saw it as creating small bits of edge in the game.

Also, to this point, the interest arb doesn’t work out the way most people use it because they don’t account for the principle. You’re still going negative into a depreciating liability if you only invest the value of the car. It’s just you’re not going negative with interest.

To go fully not negative requires a lot more cash to generate the interest income to cover the entire payment.
The clear example of only having an hammer and every problem is a nail.
North Korea TV Censors Alan Titchmarsh's Trousers
JupyterLite is also built on Pyodide.

Is there support for DuckDB in JupyterLite in WASM in WhatTheDuck or pretzelai?

datasette-lite can load [remote] sqlite and Parquet but not yet DuckDB (?) with Pyodide in WASM, and there's also JupyterLite as a datasette plug-in:
https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite
I wonder the price of the meteorite.
Well. Need to qualify that. They may have things like on-die ecc but they aren't exposing state. So, it's down to trust.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=358921 for instance
Scripts are usually no better than they have to be - they're not the main purpose of the system. Scripting languages handle all sorts of issues that take pages of code in other languages so they are the easiest way to do what you need and easy wins.

IMO some languages like C/C++ cry out for an embedded scripting language so that you don't write the basic, one off, performance insensitive parts of your code in a "hard" language. This is taking it the other way around - suggesting that as much as possible of your "main project" should be in a scripting language so that you're not wasting "hard" development cycles on areas that don't need it.
Nah, they're driving community engagement, dontchaknow?! The sadism is a /side benefit/.
It's only a matter of time before I get an AI-fueled graphics overlay that eliminates anything that looks like an ad from my screen (click to reveal false positives), and then it's game over for advertisers.

Hopefully HDMI/HDCP splitters will add an adblock feature as well.
Antitrust suit could force Apple to reveal its secrets
North America has lots of land and oil. Timber (Canada), plastics, and corn fertilised by nitrates that were made using fossil fuel energy. Corn probably doesn’t ship in containers but corn-fed beef and poultry do?
Show HN: Chatrun – run commands using OpenAI and CLI man pages
A weekend project by myself and @feldoot
That's a great idea, we should do that.

I have a similar dream, we'll make it happen!
I think the biggest issue with the decentralised crowd is they think their target market is their (technical) peers. Web publishing was a cul de sac until it went WYSIWYG. Dialup internet didn’t take off until the likes of AOL dumbed it down.

Until the decentralisation experience becomes AOL simple, it will remain a backwater.
Just replying to save this amazing comment.
I guess that’s my point though. isn't it a very rational BUSINESS decision to go some where 80% of people and probably 99% of their target market are on these platforms that provide them with free distribution? Outside of the moral qualms of that 1% of people that don’t have a social media account or use google?
There are also the intermediate cases. I had a blood clot in the leg. Not immediately life threatening, but certainly so over a couple of days. I waited something around 1-2 hours, which was not fun, but completely understandable.
I am not an expert, but clearly pilot boats must be built to take a lot of punishment. And they don’t have the mass to damage the big ship beyond the paint layer.
That's a good start for sure. And when Safari and Firefox implement it instantly, and if Chromium rejects a PR for it, then can make it a law.
> plenty of other places have had success with it

Which places, and what do you call success?

The only place in the world that seems to have drugs handled properly is Singapore.
The silly thing is, that all economies need migrants at all income levels. The idea that only rich, educated migrants are needed is bogus.

Working class poor people who meet and marry migrants below the naturalisation income threshold are still contributing to the economy. As are their partners. It would be wrong to assume they're only a net burden on the economy. We need ancillary care nurses, cleaners, drivers, store packers, all kinds of workers. Why shouldn't they be foreigners who marry a local?

The UK policy is massively counter productive.
This is standard practice at many places and should be standard everywhere.

The American College of Radiology say the below [1].

‘it is advisable to require that the patients or research subjects wear site-supplied MR Safe scrubs or gowns in place of their own clothing and undergarments in the region undergoing direct RF irradiation.’

Slightly odd - this appears to be about burns rather than projectile risk. Anecdotally, sites that don’t change patients have more accidents.

[1] https://www.acr.org/-/media/ACR/Files/Radiology-Safety/MR-Sa...
Book "Why we sleep" definitely wont improve my sleeping. It make it worse because it make you anxious from thinking about what terrible happening when you are not sleeping! In this condition it's really hard to fall asleep.
It's fairly horrifying how fast the bridge collapsed after the moment of impact on the pylon. The whole span seemed to fall in totality almost at once. If anyone was on that bridge at the moment of impact, they were in the water a couple of seconds later.
Earplugs and music is the discerning choice.

Most (all?) vendors suggest this - they get well over 100db and the vendor headphones are pretty crappy.
Impressive demo.

I noticed a correction that was done retroactively in the demo

'make that H100 GPUs'

and noticed that there was only one instance of the token GPU. Hence the correction was seamless. Had there been a couple more instances I guess all GPU tokens would have been replaced by H100 GPUs. I guess you could say make that NVIDIA H100 GPUs that would be more accurate but if there were multiple instances and you needed the change only in one instance, not sure how that'd fly. I am nitpicking but this could be a common theme.

The fact this can retroactively change the text and also understand a command is quite brilliant. I don't see any trigger word for a command, so wondering if I needed the command as part of actual text, how would that work ?
There’s a game on my Quest - I don’t remember which one - where when you hold the controllers up close to your face it pops up the controls, with arrows pointing to each button.

That should be all but standardized, other than exceptions in games where that could be a problem.

It’s not so bad when you’re used to the system, but giving it to someone and trying to explain what button does what isn’t exactly fun. You usually end up needing to move their fingers for them, and playing a weird version of that scene from Ghost with my father-in-law isn’t my version of a good time.
Because reading book wont reduce your loneliness.
Cash in a brokerage account. Admittedly, not a "bank".

Vanguard VMFXX - 5.28%

Fidelity SPAXX - 4.97%
We noticed this in our custom embedded Linux device (at work), where when we didn't have the time sync with NTP turned on for boot (but rather a cron job at an interval further away from boot time) and that our RTC's coin cell was drained due to a small hardware bug, that at first when our API calls from the device were failing that we thought it was a hardware / software driver (WLAN) issue, but it fortunately turned out to be the innocuous issue of TLS failing due to the system clock being so off!
This website gets blocked by ESET as having a failed security cert. Be advised.
Huh. Interesting. I have never heard anyone say "flouting", but I have heard "flaunting" hundreds or thousands of times. Seems the confusion has been common enough for long enough that it's correct now: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaunt

Similar to any word really.. if enough people use it a certain way, then that is the correct way by definition.
Keeping scripts in the main project language usually means the monolith gets larger and more like a final boss than something the team controls.

Use the language that best fits the job. For me that's TypeScript on a serverless platform, SwiftUI front-end and Java for business logic.

I used to feel like I was winning using only Java for UI, Web and business logic, but the complexity became immense. It's too easy to create yet-another-internal-API that gets forgotten until it needs to be refactored.

Also learning a language gives you a new perspective on software engineering, a bit like learning a foreign language gives a new view on human culture.
You can probably continue doing so: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaunt
I know something’s off about the visionOS keyboard—but I can’t put my finger on it.
> you just made it easier to reply to

Ah, makes sense. Thanks!

Well, the implication is not wrong. If you validate only during testing, you never validate some inputs, the ones that matter: user input.

I now see what you mean by hot path, I was imagining something like validating asynchronously, later, when not serving a request for instance.
One of my favourite nitpicks, but IMO 7x fewer errors means -6 times the error rate. Maybe error rate reduced by 86%.
Usually it is not the patch version being important eg being specifically 3.9.7, but rather picking one supported version and pinning it. Yes we should all be on the latest Python version that is available in the mainline repos and distros as a binary but a lot of orgs I’ve seen don’t invest the time and effort to properly be upgrading to be on the latest version of deps. So you are usually having one specific supported Python version that everyone builds against which may or may not be new enough to be in the official repo.

I also imagine the scenario you mentioned causing a lock to a patch version. But I see this as just a normal steady state a lot of orgs drift to if not staying on top of version updates
HN has always seemed ambivalent to me. There's a crowd of enthusiasts for it but a surprisingly strong contingent of sceptics (about VR in general, but also specifically this device).

My take is however that yes at this point, Vision OS has failed to hit the aspirational goal of launching XR into the mainstream. There's no App store gold rush, after the initial couple of weeks of hype most people forgot it exists, and I'm truly surprised that Apple seems to have even fumbled the ball on content. That seemed like the easy part to me, but no new environments, nothing new to watch, the Apps hitting the store are mostly toys and really zero things that haven't been done before or fully explored on other devices. Nobody is raving about watching sports on it. etc etc.

What I really hoped was that the novel features of the Vision Pro would kick off a new wave of creativity in terms of what is possible. When I saw people pulling 3D objects out of web pages and onto their desk it really seemed like this could be a true start of something.

The one upside I think is that the slightly anemic launch is probably going to bias Apple to be more open and less controlling than they would otherwise. I hope so.
Perhaps things were different in my neck of the woods, but my recollection is different: By the turn of the century, CD recorders were pretty common amongst even some of the non-geek computer users I knew. Most of the extant drives were not very good, but by then there were also examples of absolutely stellar drives (some of which are still considered good for burning a proper CD-R, even though they're a ~quarter-century old, like the Plextor PR-820).

I don't recall any particular difficulty in downloading games over 56k dialup around Y2K with a modem, though it was certainly a good bit faster with ISDN (and a couple of years later, 2Mbps-ish DOCSIS).

It was not fast with dialup -- it took a day or so, or longer if slowed it down to avoid what we now call buffer bloat -- but some of us had time, and a ye olde Linux box that was going to be dialed-in ~24/7 anyway.

But usually, the route to piracy that I recall being most-utilized back then involved renting a game from the video store for a few dollars and making a copy (or a few, for friends).
If the patient isn’t twitching occasionally, the resolution is too low. We aim to be just below peripheral nerve stimulation threshold.

I’m sort of joking, but if you aren’t ever getting PNS, the machine is not being run very hard.

However the sensation you get in the region being scanned feels more like heating than PNS to me.
You notice it more on high SAR sequences, suggesting that might be the cause. PNS just feels like twitching you can’t control, but ones milage may vary as this is anecdotal.

Source: MR radiographer.
Someone on Slashdot asked the key question: If an individual did this, they would be prosecuted for hacking under one law or another. Why is Facebook not facing criminal charges?
I've not used Emacs to edit a file since 1994 and I hadn't used it for very long back them.

But I seem to remember after these 30 years that was something simple, like Ctrl-X Ctrl-S to save, and Ctrl-X Ctrl-C to quit.

Edit: I don't have Emacs installed absolutely anywhere; but I went to a machine provided by the GCC Farm project and tried it there. I remembered right.
I've been thinking a lot about algorithmic trading and imagined interfaces where you can code or build your own strategy from some blocks; this is really something I'd like for myself. But it's a bit out of reach for me right now as such an app, in my opinion, would really need a lot to be built before it can be useful; not an easy MVP here.

Also, have you tried TradingView? What do you think about them? They have scripting for strategies and indicators. It is an array-based language, I think, somewhat similar to R, just simpler. Nevertheless, I was able to craft quite interesting things in there.

As for desktop apps vs web-based: desktop apps definitely have their uses and advantages. I'm not saying web-based is better, but I think it's just more approachable, and there are ways where some of the existing apps might be improved.
Citation needed. You can probably ask a few followup questions for many stated preferences and watch the preference fall into dust.

I know personally that when I chose from menus at restaurants I am hilariously bad at picking what I like, while my wife is consistently better at choosing what I like.
Wow I haven't thought about this in years.

I was involved in one game once, online. A bunch of rules were passed that required the implementation of a lot of infrastructure, said infrastructure eventually got implemented, and...everyone immediately lost interest.

I'd be interested to play a version with a base set that somehow kept it light and fun.
FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software
IIUC it does not work, the assumption here is that you can serve all your traffic with a single instance
I ate some food made with mealworm powder this weekend - it blew my mind. Some real good chefs cooked it up, they did blueberry donuts made with 20% mealworm powder. They also did tacos, where the tortillas were 20% mealworm powder, and the rest was just really good veggies/beans/sauce. They had fried ones with crickets you could sprinkle on top.
Yup. If you're not talking to customers and hearing the problems on the front line you run the risk of solving problems nobody has.

There is a balance though - in some cases you have to roll the dice and strike out in bold new directions. But this needs to be done with eyes wide open and everyone in full acknowledgement that this is an experiment and conversations with users are the next step.
> Real families want to share quality family time in the real world, not “content”

You've never gone on a nice trip and then when back home with relatives streamed photos/video of that trip to a TV to share?
You can see a star with the naked eye even though it coverers no space on the sky. The size is not relevant.
Google has already killed Google search for anything that isn't a Google property.
It really is a little absurd IMO that the text of the book is sold separately from the audio.
> he's taking responsibility for the code

Here's a quote from the project's license:

> 7. Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or
agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Work (and each
Contributor provides its Contributions) on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions
of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the
appropriateness of using or redistributing the Work and assume any
risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License.
Frankly I wonder what influences what weird hangups being poor/relatively poor gives people. Like, when I was growing up I remember my mom and grandmother discussing exactly this - oh, this store has chicken on discount, and the market at blah neighborhood has the cheapest tomatoes, I'll be in the neighborhood and can pick up some for you. However, I got all the useful hangups from it and none of the poverty trap ones, as far as I'm aware.

A big one, I generally have disdain for status goods, probably because I couldn't have them as a kid so I convinced myself they don't matter. This one I'm not planning to fix :)

Or, I mechanically buy things I need on discount and optimize minor things like that without much mental effort. I have to train myself now to notice when I do make effort, so I don't waste time saving 5 bucks anymore.

Or a weird one, I am averse to buying anything that I cannot afford /very/ easily, I remember the first time I saved enough money from odd jobs and gifts to upgrade my computer (early aughts), I was deathly afraid to do it - cause if something happened to my years-old shitty computer I could use the money to buy a new one 3 times over, but if I spent the money now on the new one and something happened to it I'd be SOL, better stick with the old shitty computer. When having money, it translated into e.g. buying a house I could afford very easily ("the cheapest house on the best street", sorta) instead of maxing out like most people I know and buying as much house as practical... However in smaller things, I have to really force myself to spend money, e.g. to not buy crappy air tickets just cause they are a bit cheaper, and such.

Why cannot everyone get the good hangups from poverty? :)
I felt copilot chat is the only useful feature.

copilot as in code completion is too annoying and distracts the thought process. It may be useful to new developers but for experienced, no thanks!
They reflect enough light. This is different from them occupying significant space. Stars on the night sky for example can be visible with the naked eye but were you to travel 9/10th the way towards them they would STILL appear the exact same size to your eye.
Best AI Playground?
Yo i've been playing around with various AI sandboxes for a while now. Nat.dev and the like.

They are cool and all, however they seem very simplistic. I've always been expecting someone to drop some terminal-based extremely powerful AI editor client, but I haven't been able to find anything.
Your post sort of boils down to me as "be annoying and measure stuff all the time" or "hope you get lucky". I think there's a middle ground in there but it's too easy to err on one side or the other ad a methodology and then get stuck - either you're ruled by OKRs and playing games with metrics and juking the stats all day, or you're shooting blindly in the dark with no direction or accountabilities.
96 steps? Hmm, my TRON had 128 steps. Might take a bit more circuitry or and/or a gear to get there.
Citation needed. This sounds like audiophile craziness. https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/

256b/s AAC is well enough for it to be indistinguishable from lossless.