skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that's killed it for me is scrum, even though I'm also a 'scrum master'. Or maybe because of that.
Without NoScript, I need to trust a site well enough to download and run programs from it, in order to check it out. With NoScript, I can at least try to use a site.
This is cute, and I can imagine there are some use cases for it. But I was disappointed to find out that it doesn't even have the 150km2 island that I live on. Maybe a bit too small for most cases.
Seems like a stupid take to me. The fact that it is drone footage is not why it’s interesting. It’s merely indicating that it’s drone footage because that implies a novel ability to film something interesting from a good angle.
Do you have the people to build them?

That's a problem in this part of the world. People would rather sit at a comfy desk writing software than expose themselves to a harsh construction environment. The small few willing to do it are booked up years in advance. They can't possibly build any more than they already are.

You might say higher pay would attract more people, but guess what higher pay brings?
Some states are now seeing more than 1% of their tax revenue from cannabis sales
> Decades of extensive research utilizing the classical twin paradigm have consistently demonstrated the heritability of nearly all cognitive abilities so far investigated.

> “Our findings emphasize that these shared family environmental factors, such as parental nurturing and the transmission of cultural values, likely play a significant role in shaping the mental state representations in metacognition and mentalizing.”*

"Distinct Genetic and Environmental Origins of Hierarchical Cognitive Abilities in Adult Humans" (2024)
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(24)003... :

> Human cognitive abilities ranging from basic perceptions to complex social behaviors exhibit substantial variation in individual differences. These cognitive functions can be categorized into a two-order hierarchy based on the levels of cognitive processes. Second-order cognition including metacognition and mentalizing monitors and regulates first-order cognitive processes. These two-order hierarchical cognitive functions exhibit distinct abilities. However, it remains unclear whether individual differences in these cognitive abilities have distinct origins. We employ the classical twin paradigm to compare the genetic and environmental contributions to the two-order cognitive abilities in the same tasks from the same population. The results reveal that individual differences in first-order cognitive abilities were primarily influenced by genetic factors. Conversely, the second-order cognitive abilities have a stronger influence from shared environmental factors. These findings suggest that the abilities of metacognition and mentalizing in adults are profoundly shaped by their environmental experiences and less determined by their biological nature.
> This is why domain knowledge is key.
> Lawyers and accountants are another profession where you have a language gap.

I fully agree with you. However, my experience as a software engineer with a CPA is that, generally speaking, companies do not care too greatly about that domain knowledge. They’d rather have a software engineer with 15 years working in accounting-related software than someone with my background or similar and then stick them into a room to chat with an accountant for 30 minutes.
> clean code is easier to read

What's "clean code"?

Capital-C Clean Code? Hell no. This is code that looks clean only on the surface, but in practice it only works on toy projects. Anything big enough is impenetrable for debugging and a performance catastrophe.

Lowercase "clean code" from people who heard the above but never even read the book? What's that anyway? Nine out of ten times, this is just developers putting aesthetic preferences in front of correctness, simplicity and performance.
Just want to send my thanks. I’ve been a regular user since the early testflights and it’s been great seeing the iterations and improvements, particularly for me the scheduled-but-no-show ghost buses.

Congrats to the team!
With "self-funding" I mean a mechanism that does not depend at all on broken politics to pass budgets.
Programming, even when in service of my corporate overlords, is invigorating. Coaxing the machines do my bidding never gets old. I could do it all day and not get tired. During those rare times where much programming is needed, I often lose track of time only to realize I've been at it for 15 hours straight. Its been this way for the nearly 20 years I've been doing it.

Sadly, programming is only a minor part of the job. The further I get, the more that is true. I might only actually program an hour or two a week. The rest is spent in ridiculous meetings, hand holding people who fail to read, trying to coax others to coax the machines to do what is needed, "planning", and similar noise. The only rewarding part is mentoring younger programmers.

I continue to do it because its a safe path to retirement and I am nearly there. My plans for retirement: program stuff I want to program for the pure joy of it.
That guy keeps everything from collapsing.
Xi Mingze. Harvard. You don't know just because you don't really care about it. The info is on Wikipedia.
If you don't use JS at all, you don't pay the price too and it's faster since there is no JS to parse and execute - see e.g. https://github.com/niutech/phooos
Syncthing for the win. Has worked fantastic for me for many years across just about an OS you want to use.
Congrats on the great execution of this novel idea! Inspiring for everyone with a "why isn't there an app that does x" idea.
What would an emoji provide over that ascii combo?
The maximization of American dollars in a bank is a polite, democratic proxy for the violence of neo-colonialism. So any good investment scheme should ignore common metrics of science potential, as a lot of evidence is required to measure and determine what is a good science program to embark on. In contrast to analytical models and proposed theories that are more rational than they are empirical; rationalism is a sneaky way for neo-Marxism to taint the natural administration of science, technology, and capital. Hard evidence and reproducible centuries-long experiments are protective guardians of sensible science.

America wins for a reason in geopolitical history and it's because it has a secret military on top of its apparent military. Air forces and scientists are just fungible tokens for a surreptitious right wing shadow government that competes with ankle biting bugs like neo-Marxists. But it can all be reduced to undignified gang banging like Crips and Bloods, because space colonization isn't as noble as the romantic fictions have showed it to be. Maybe the correct inference from knowledge of history is that humanity isn't the end goal to chase after?
Saying that "incentives need to be better aligned" is like saying that the Sun is more than fifty miles up in the sky: (A) it is technically true, and (B) there are people who don't believe it.
Transportation is massive for this situation, and the gutting of HS2 was entirely to prevent people being able to commute to London from further afield and wrecking the housing in London.

If we were able to get a better network of transport it would unlock a lot more of the country where there is land, and there is already empty housing.
The Newton of Engineering Management
That comparison falls apart once you look at the details: geologists are qualified and expected to have strong opinions about geological terms but the handful of people with strong scientific credentials who deny climate change are inevitably speaking well outside of their professional experience — physicists who studied quantum mechanics or semiconductors should not expect their opinions to carry more weight than any other laymen.
Well well well, it seems the vulkan display WSI is not working/complete/stable(whatever), and it would mean calling into the full-blown vulkan driver.

Too greedy, indeed. BOOM, the wall.
I use an app called Closing Doors which is just train schedule with some geolocation and it's about perfect. I installed it a few months ago and yet it seems to have vanished from the Play Store?
this is because the repository is a Lua fork.. actually, Lunatik started in 2008 [1, 2].

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/lunatik/files/
[2] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/colecao.php?strSecao=res... (Portuguese only)
This website, Hacker News, is written in Arc and runs on Racket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
Noob question: Is it something that only beneficial for games or also be beneficial as generic scheduler ?
> A hobbyist pilot with his PPL needs a minimum of 24 hours and a checkride every two years

Citation needed on the first part. (The second part is also not a checkride, but rather a biennial flight review, for which a checkride will replace the need for, but a BFR will suffice.)
An order of magnitude is a bit much. I'd say quick and dirty gets you 3 shots, while slow and beautiful gets you 1. And if you succeed, it means the result is dirty/ugly code that must be maintained forever.
Only supporting the very latest browsers is basically a "works on my machine" attitude. That's lazy.

It means not supporting 11% of iPhone users and 18% of iPad users [0]. That's aggressive.

Adoption of evergreen browsers is also slower than that. Chrome 124 was released this week and even though 123 has been out for a month, the majority of desktop users are still on 122.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/
For grading essay assignments, and possibly also essay-style exams:

It is important to get a feel for the collective level of writing before grading essays individually, and it is important to avoid over-grading or under-grading essays at the beginning or end of a stream of papers. Therefore I did a three-stage grading process, with three colors of pens:

The first pass, with a red pen, is marking up single-point problems like misspellings and glaring usage errors. Also of course the general level of writing begins to seep in. This pass of course includes all papers, and it can pass fairly quickly.

The second pass, with a green pen, mostly just marks in the margin where a (good) point is made or a conclusion is reached. This is to prepare for the next pass. Again, all papers are done in this pass.

The third pass, in blue pen, is where the quality of the writing is assessed and critiqued. Maybe some short notes in the margins, maybe just comments at the end of the essay.

When students get their papers back, there are some chuckles (or whatevs) when students see all the pretty colors. But after I explain the method and its rationale, the method is clear and understood (and also appreciated?).
"Ceruzzi: For legal reasons?

Bricklin: Both. We couldn’t afford to spend money on time-sharing. We could buy our own
machine. In those days, development – a lot of people did development, as Bob explained, on
another machine. And then from that other machine, you loaded to the micro because the
development systems on the micros weren’t up to it. That’s how Microsoft Basic was done – that’s
how Microsoft ended up having a PDP-10 I think. They eventually used XENIX to do their
development. We did the same thing. We developed all our own tools over the years. We improved
the tools. We wrote our own implementation language, a higher level language. In fact, that’s one
of the issues that eventually came in, is that in the early days of the PC industry, there were so many
different machines and you didn’t know which was a winner. You sold to each manufacturer. So
you had to port all over the place. That’s what Digital Research was – a porting company.
Microsoft was a porting company. That’s what we did. We had to figure out ways to port the same
product and cookie cutter it out. And everybody went a little different and you had to fight with
them. Otherwise, the costs would go up. So we eventually moved things to a higher level language.
We did our version 2 of VisiCalc, in a higher level language.

Ceruzzi: What language?

Bricklin: We wrote it in something we called IL, which is a Lisp derivative. It was like
writing in Java or something like that today. An interpreter. Microsoft had a similar type of thing
for Multiplan. They wrote in a language which let them use a cookie cutter to put it on many
different machines. But the Apple II version of the VisiCalc II (VAV) was written in assembly code.
We realized that to port that was going to be so expensive. When we ported from the Apple II and
Apple III, doing the IIe was next, then to port to the IBM PC it’s a different code base. The way we
did the VisiCalc code base is, since we had our own tools, we hired Seth Steinberg, who had worked
at the [MIT] Architectural Machine Group – Media Lab, real experience, real bright guy, helped
bring a culture into our company. Free Cokes came from him. He ordered it and all that stuff.
Lotus and others all copied this. It helped bring that type of environment from MIT into our
company and spread hopefully to others. What Seth did is he said, “I’m going to do an idiomatic
translation, basically, from the 6502 code to a Z80 code to do the TRS80.” And what he did was he
modified the compiler to list the two sources synced on labels. The compiler we used had macros
and it had no ‘go-to’s in it. Basically it was all IF THEN ELSE and stuff. It was a macro assembler"

https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/113026/oh...
Why should they care what their friends think? Can we not take pictures and videos of things for our own enjoyment of that act?

FWIW I don't own a drone nor have I ever considered buying one. I do have a horde of 35mm film cameras though.
Well, you are asserting a binary choice here which is questionable and implies that unless we grant spooks legal OK for some violations of the constitution they are free to ignore the entire matter. If a government agency is acting in violation of constitution then there are legal and constitutional remedies to make sure the said agencies act according to the law of the land.
>> folks are way more comfortable talking about cats and dogs having feelings vs. say cows and horses.

Our family cat has empathy. It often acts like the stereotypical asshole - feed me and leave me alone - but when someone is feeling down, that cat will come lay close and rest a paw on them.
In the new cross area it's a minimum of 600k for a three bed and I'd say it meets pretty much all of the above criteria.
To be fair, that's the about page, not the landing page. And their goals and reasons for organizing it are commendable.

Abner, I'd be interested to hear more about what it was like working with Jonathan Blow. (Maybe your project's about page isn't the place to go into it, but possibly here, your personal blog, or private email.)

I'd love to see his reaction to watching the Game Helpin' Squad's tutorial, "Time Travel Understander"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fABGyVzVwI

I pointed Will Wright at their SimCity parody tutorial on "Pretend Gas Station", and he loved it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMeWas4kXM

My favorite, which you have to pause to read all the hilarious popup text and chat that goes by quickly, is the Game Helpin' Squad's "World Quester 2" tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gy9hJauXns
Receipts:

> Elon Musk, the owner of social media network Twitter, said the platform has no choice but to follow local laws in every country.

https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/twitt...
Very rarely do I defend the last government of Germany, but the strategy was to give centers a good margin and low bureaucratic hurdle to maximize the number of testing centers and ensure that everyone can get tested everywhere. Given the seriousness and uncertainty of the situation
at the time, I think that was a good call.

And there was required documentation, it was just not checked at the time. Once the situation settled down, the state started clawing back fraudulent claims.
Fabulous.

I read your rail ads story with interest.

Great perspective.

素晴らしい視点でした
from ja-JP
First of all, thank you for the kind words :)
Secondly, don't feel bad! I'm sure you know much much more than you give yourself credit for.
This took about a full weekend plus another day, and a few more days of working here and there when I have time.
But as was written somewhere else in the comments and as I wrote myself in the README, the hard work of making Doom more portable was done by the incredible project doom-generic which I forked: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric
Because eventually it becomes your turn to jump first.
I'd imagine that jumping so far into such cold water, even if your form is perfect, would also be quite shocking to your system and probably dangerous in and of itself. I say this as someone who went swimming with penguins in Antarctica this January. No way I would enter that cold water so deeply and quickly.
Very odd footage imo.

* most of the birds are falling in because they’re pushed, not because they’re jumping

* most of the birds are belly flopping hard rather than diving in with any sort of graceful entry

* most birds don’t appear to ever jump. I refuse to believe the camera wouldn’t have shown the whole population in the water if they had
Ah, derp, I didn't look at the link, thank you.
Si se puedes!

Emotional self regulation is a normed behavior that is modelable.

Head start programs would thus be justified in having SEL Social and Emotional Learning components; but how much more effective is parental behavioral modeling than non-parental caregiving?

Can't be done.

In Africa, they say "It takes a village".

One of perhaps 20 questions to split the sets with:
"Can people change?"
I used to use Google Desktop back when it existed for its viewed web page search feature mostly. It was pretty handy.
I was coming to say something very similar. The hard truth is that the society-changing projects this person wants to work on are exceptionally rare, and most work boils down to selling products to consumers. Not that I'm saying this is ideal, but if it were easy to create deep and inspiring work that paid well, everyone would be doing it.
I stumbled upon this project approximately a week ago and submitted it here but it didn't get any traction. Glad to see it has made the front page. I like it when some hacky for-the-fun-of-it projects like this one make it here :).
* can be 7 figures if you’re not the CEO.

Though obviously if the unicorn is worth 20B things look vastly better even with a 2% stake.
I'm not sure why you set the track playback to the middle of song, but it feels very literal. There's the "suffering" starting from 2:50 or so from the distortion of the guitars — I guess it reminds me of 56k modems, maybe?

But because that distortion fades completely by ~ 5:00, and the track ends at 7:30, it feels like 90 seconds of "dead space" so it feels incomplete if that makes any sense.
It's a song which places its emphasis on the dead center of the track, but because it doesn't build on the distortion or play off of it — it kind of overstays it's welcome.
> run away from those companies that have done such kind of ROI analysis…lack of common sense

Are we seriously arguing for management by gut feeling over numbers in a thread about air traffic control?

ROI is a weighing of costs and benefits. It isn’t inherently short or long term. I can use 19th century physics to prove no plane can fly. That doesn’t mean we conclude physics is fucked, never do physics again.
Even Google struggles to apply these correctly 100% of the time:

google.com TOTAL SPF ALIGNED DKIM ALIGNED
209.85.167.49 3 100% 0%
209.85.218.47 3 100% 100%
209.85.167.43 2 100% 50%
209.85.208.44 2 100% 100%
26 more IPs 28 75% 92.8%
It's all about fertility, reproduction. When intelligence offers a greater chance of fertility, that species will trend towards becoming more intelligent. In the scenario where intelligence starts to become an impediment to reproduction, like exactly what is happening right now with humans, then a species will start to become less intelligent. So for an alien species to succeed, they're likely to need to adopt some sort of ideology that:

- Keeps fertility high

- Keeps outward motivation up

- Protects from pleasure traps

Explaining parts 2&3 - imagine we create some sort of virtual device that one plugs in and it just basically gives you endless pleasure. If enough people would be interested in such a device, it could easily destroy a species. A rather odd 'great filter' of the Fermi Paradox. It's a species not going out with a bang or a whimper, but something more like a moan. Similarly, if people are just comfortable enough with what and where they are, then they may not have the motivation to carry out the massive work required to actually explore the stars.

Putting these altogether, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the first intelligent alien species we meet immediately begins trying to convert us to their God(s). Convert all the infidels of the universe seems like one sure fire solution for all the above. It also sets the stage for dystopia for those who choose not to acknowledge the grace of Qzar'dn the Almighty.
Hey Jarred; Nice to see you here.

Great work on Bun. Excited to see the future of your project.
I've found much the opposite. I love working for product companies, because the vision is clear. There's an actual goal in mind, not just "keep the customer satisfied."

I helped my last company build the world's first fully wireless neonatal ICU. I help my current company keep people in austere environments connected with each other. If that isn't meaningful stuff, I don't know what is.

Is this a geography problem? I feel like I hear complaints about meaninglessness of work from my peers on the west coast far more often than I hear them from my neck of the woods.
Seems very difficult to explain this as food motivated
It’s a bit different, but Indian extreme metal label Transcending Obscurity has had several bands release two days early on bandcamp (I know for sure about Vorga [0] and Replicant [1]), and indie black metal band Adon [2] simply decided to stay bandcamp exclusive for a week before releasing on streaming platforms.

I very much appreciate those :)

There are, usually big-ish and famous-ish, bands who do the opposite, only release on streaming, leaving me no way to buy the album, also those only releasing on something like Amazon (which then requires me to get the disk to rip it myself, raising the buy-rating for me from 3.5 to 4/5), and of course also Japanese artists who often don’t seem to care about western audiences at all with their music only available on Japanese sites.

[0]: https://vorgaband.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-palest-star

[1]: https://replicantband.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-mortality

[2]: https://adonmetal.bandcamp.com/album/adon
> you can then make it right and maybe even fast

IF there is budget for that very often. Otherwise they'll expect you to move on.
I think you may be speaking from an affluent bubble. None of my friends ever approached me with their drone footage. And my grandma would absolutely be stoked if I did show her something like this from myself. Yes, drone video have become a bit too much of a thing in any kind of documentary (and it can be a tad boring for at least 5-10 years now). But that is just how it is, colored video (or HD etc) is also not novel anymore, yet we keep doing it.
This year's cicada invasion will be double trouble
That’s the feature I miss most about Google Desktop.
Sometimes people take tech too far... this is not one of this times.
Here is another example of exclusives from the old soundclash culture.

A dubplate is an acetate disc usually of 10 inches diameter, traditionally used by studios to test recordings prior to mastering for the subsequent pressing of a vinyl record, but pioneered by reggae sound systems as a way to play exclusive music. They would later become an important facet of the jungle/drum and bass, UK garage, grime and dubstep music scenes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubplate