skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Students have always done whatever they could to get their own way. Once we took away basically all the power that teachers had, the students just had to put their foot down to get their own way.

I get that a lot of the "power" that teachers had was inappropriate, just as spanking, but now they often can't even call the parents and have the child sent home. If you can't do anything about a student disobeying the rules, what can you do?

It's not the teachers' fault, and expecting them to fix the situation is pointless.
For NYC specifically I've been burned many times by Citymapper. It is trying to be clever and parse the messages about service changes, but does it all wrong and in the end gives you wrong directions, leaving you stranded. Sometimes it doesn't show the alerts by MTA at all.

Now that the MTA app is so good and has achieved feature parity with Citymapper, I prefer that for 90% of the time. It doesn't have multi-modal (eg subway + citibike) and doesn't show estimates of uber/lyft prices, but those have not been very useful in my experience.

Citymapper is still ok to quickly check upcoming train or bus departures.
>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.

This way of modeling Cognitive functions in two distinct hierarchical ways, is it the same theory underlying the idea of "System 1 & System 2" presented in "Think fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman?

How accepted/supported by empirical evidence is this model
How the Internet Is Changing Economics
Maybe that compensation was tied to some gameable metric like adjusted EBITDA as so many startups do. Or free cash flow like at Warner Brothers.

https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/warner-bros-discovery-davi...
If it was really enjoyable, you will remember it. The human memory is designed to fix emotional experiences. No need for celluloid or pixels. If you were with a loved one, your future conversations about that time will keep the memory alive.

There is a certain value and excitement in showing personal photos or videos to grand-children. But their children will not even know your name.

The vanity and self-importance of youthful experiences will wane with age, reflection, wisdom, and a certain acceptance of our transient existence.

Yes, I left many meaningless 35mm negatives, in a long forgotten attic, of a distant house, which I used to inhabit. Nobody will miss them. Not even me. If they are, perchance, discovered by a future owner of the house, they will be excited, for about 10 minutes, then throw them away.
This is a great & useful resource! So many guides on YouTube are unfortunately padded with so much silliness and fluff. Would be great to link out to time codes if possible.
The corporate world doesn’t give a shit about finesse, abstractions, witty or beautiful code.

Right, but that wasn't what the OP was talking about. In fact the issues they were concerned about were pretty much orthogonal to that. You're trying to make their complaint sound lame and pollyannaish, but really it wasn't.
I don't think the quote suggests that a programmer would mentally design a whole system before writing any code. As programmers, we are used to thinking in problems as steps needing resolution and that's exactly the 90% there.
When you're quickly prototyping to see what fits better as a solution to the problem you're facing, you must have already thought what are the requirements, what are the constraints, what would be a reasonable API given your use case. Poking around until you find a reasonable path forward means you have already defined which way is forwards.
There's an entire genre of literature called "Electronic literature" of which interactive fictions are probably a subset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_literature

That said: it's a bit asking too much of games for them to have to validate their status as "art" by winning prizes proper to another form of art. Nobody expects films to win Nobel prizes; nobody expects land art to win Oscars.

The video game medium is basically less than 50 years old and it's likely that the most compelling justifications for games as art have yet to be written. In practice, museums do treat them as art, but with a special focus on their "interaction design": https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/798
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Road_(song)
Show HN: Pre-alpha tool for analyzing spdx SBOMs generated by GitHub
I've become interested in SBOM recently, and found there were great tools like https://dependencytrack.org/ for CycloneDX SBOMs, but all I have is SPDX SBOMs generated by GitHub.

I decided to have a go at writing my own dependency track esque tool aiming to integrate with the APIs GitHub provides.

It's pretty limited in functionality so far, but can give a high level summary of the types of licenses your repository dependencies use, and let you drill down into potentially problematic ones.

Written in NextJS + mui + sqlite, and using another project of mine to generate most of the API boilerplate/glue (https://github.com/mnahkies/openapi-code-generator)
You are correct in your assessment of your meaning. Thoughtless indirection and delegation of capital allocation is essentially abrogation of executive agency in a capitalist system. It is, in fact, undermining in every sense to personal determination.

Is it painful? Yes. Does it prevent centralized allocation? Damn straight. Is centralized allocation of capital something to be avoided like the plague? In my opinion, yes. Even at the cost of the inherent pain previously mentioned.
There's a CVE for it - CVE-2024-2961 - and fixed glibc versions have already been released (and reached Ubuntu LTS for one thing) so I think it's fine.
How do I solve complex problems?
This camera trades pictures for AI poetry
Tesla cuts price of Full Self-Driving software by a third to $8k
> I'm a software engineer at a large construction company and find my work deeply meaningful. We make sure people building actual stuff stay safe with our tools, and work more efficiently.

And if the management is seeing your work and appreciates it, that's pretty much a dream job. Good for you.
Thought of letting this one go, but then changed my mind.

> I tend to think

> I havent encountered

Egocentric views of things are far less notable and far less interesting than what those things actually are. It makes for tiring reading.
Hope it does not come off as being too testy, my apologies if it does.
>Comparison is the thief of joy

With the existence of that statement, and the truth it seems to hold, I don't think it's just about getting better but also not above overly comparing yourself to others. Of course this is why I think a lot of engagement based social media sucks because it's just a bunch of people saying how perfect their life is so they feel good.
Also, when ranked by that total the “best 4” aren’t really the best 4. They don’t report rape numbers, so they don’t get a total. And their numbers are all worse than NY on the other categories (murder, robbery, assault).
I would like to agree, but since keyboards are still mostly ASCII (in particular with regard to punctuation characters), most people don’t have a Compose key configured, and also don’t want to be constrained to editors with an input method tailored to that programming language, it would be an uphill battle for adoption.
check out this similar project, it's made for Linux and has LLM feature: https://github.com/apirrone/Memento
The negative economic sentiment is very common and IMO entirely manufactured because it sells. Actual economic data is excellent. It kinda makes Haidt's point. Traditional media clearly isn't helping either though.
From the media. Even if there's nothing objectively bad to worry about, the media is compelled to find something that people would rather watch than other channels. They "spin" things or invent them wholesale, just to maintain their paychecks.

We have it better than ever before in basically everything. But the media can't just report that, they have to find things that "need" improving and present them as dire straits.

Children, since they haven't learned to filter it out yet, feel that as soul-crushing dread. And since it's nothing they can do anything about, they feel helpless.
Haidt's rebuttal to your argument of spurious correlation:

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/phone-based-childhood-cause-epi...
Social atomization arises from a lack of social connections.

Not too far a stretch to see how our device / social media time might contribute to a breakdown in deep social connections.
> A lot of things have installed it to their own directory in appdata or program files

This is the windows way. In the early days (Windows 95/98) it was indeed common practice to put shared dlls and exes in C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32, but without central oversight this was a nightmare: version conflicts were rampant, and uninstallers didn't know what could be safely removed. Everyone switched to installing everything into the program's install dir, and the world was much better off.

Some poweruser tooling gets fancy by checking if ffmpeg is installed systemwide, and if not downloads it to the programs appdata folder. But that exposes you to versioning issues if that version is too old or too new
That's not true.

1. Haid has evidence from randomized experiments with kids.

2. There are natural experiments caused by different regional adoption rates of high-speed internet.

3. When the effect size of harm correlates with the frequency of use in population, that's more than time series and spurious-correlations.

Social Media and Mental Health: A Collaborative Review
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-HOfseF2wF9YIpXwUUtP65-...
$5k is the right price for Tesla FSD v12.
If it is able to 'remember/recall' individual American roads from its database rather solely relying on neural nets then that would probably change the dynamics of FSD.
I was being somewhat facetious, it wasn't really pridewashing, as it was a tiny logo.
Japan's cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
What does one's musical tastes tell you about one's personality?
To be fair, it's not hard to outperform something written in Electron with native code with a factor of ten :) Anyway, this is really impressive, so good job!
I guess my observation is that most parents, even competent ones, fail to get this right and end up with phone or tablet addicted children. Maybe there is some approach that teaches them a better way, but I wonder if avoiding devices entirely is a less risky path if you aren’t confident in your ability to teach them how to use devices.

> This is the result of my international teaching of my daughter about how we interact with devices.

Do you mean like exposure to how different cultures live with technology?
>This is the result of my international teaching of my daughter about how we interact with devices.

No. It's the result of you having time to spend with her instead of working 2 or 3 back-breaking jobs like many parents have to, and her having a safe and stable material livelihood so she doesn't constantly desire escape.
I use vscode for doing devops-y things (Terraform, OpenTofu, JSON, python, yaml, txt, dockerfiles, etc.) and sometimes the way it bogs down my system drives me bananas. I'll punt to Sublime Text on occasion and use it for a few days, but then start running into papercuts in various places and have to go back to vscode. I so, so wish there was a better way to do this without fucking electron.
He actually says what you're arguing for is akin to saying we should give kids a bit of nicotine earlier on so they know how to smoke before they're adults and won't be as affected by it then.
Having tried this feature on my own Olympus camera, I'm not enamored with it either. It's only really good for a pretty narrow selection of "static" scenes.

Light breeze comes through as you take a landscape shot? Welp, I guess that tree branch is going to look like a glitch in the matrix.

It's at its best indoors on a tripod. Architecture and still lifes are where the Olympus implementation really shines.
From my perspective, I agree that it's not a feature that I look for in a camera, but i'm a street and portrait photographer, so the sorts of things I shoot aren't the sorts of things that I have either the time for, or that i'm limited by resolution with a single frame.

If, however, I was a photographer shooting still life in a studio, for example, product photography for a high end jewellery company, then this is exactly the sort of technology that will work, and will give a resolution boost that may be useful. With a tethered camera, and possibly spending hours getting the light and reflections just right, the extra time to get the shot is of no consequence. Older digital photographers in that market will have used medium format scanning backs, so it's pretty clear that they have patience and that ultimate image quality may trump convenience.

The comments about beyer sensors is interesting, and may be something that the casual photographer doesn't realise. Camera sensors have a patter of red/green/blue filters over each site on the sensor, so if the resolution of your camera is 16mp, you'll have 16 million sensor sites, but each will only give you the level of 1 channel (red, green or blue) and the camera will interpolate the colour resolution across the image. By shifting the sensor across exactly the width and height of 1 pixel site, the camera can capture the correct colour information at the same resolution as the output image, and hence give better colour rendition.

As someone who normally photographs people, and often converts to B&W, this lack of colour resolution isn't important to me, but there are other people where this might be a significant concern.
I can see being concerned about the spiraling cost of housing, but that's a problem with a relatively straightforward solution.
It's so fucking awesome how when people actually reach out to Congress, asking them to not do something, Congress responds with "How dare you tell me how to do my job!", and does the opposite of what was requested. You can really feel the democracy at work.

I'm sure they were real annoyed receiving phone calls from normal people instead of just businesses trying to set up meetings for ~~bribes~~ campaign donations.
Housing costs. Aside from housing, Gen Z are materially better off in every other way. They earn higher real incomes than previous generations at the same stage in their life.
Is this economic pessimism supported by data?

Online, I see lots of complaints about rent burden, but it barely increased from 25%->27% from 2001-2024 [a].

Median wages are growing faster than inflation, too. The easiest numbers to pull up are Wolfram Alpha's [1]:

CPI (2001-2022): +68% (+2.5%/yr)

Median wage (2001-2022): $27060 -> $46310 (2.6%/yr)

Mean wage (2001-2022): $34020 -> $61900 (2.9%/yr)

Bottom 10% wage (2001-2022): $14070 -> $27340 (3.2%/yr)

I think there was a temporary spike in rent burden [2] [3] which quickly reversed [4].

It generated lots of headlines, but nobody paid attention to the decline.

[a] https://cre.moodysanalytics.com//app/uploads/2024/02/image-1... , from [4]

[1] eg: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=median+US+wage+2022

[2] https://www.moodysanalytics.com/about-us/press-releases/2023...

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DP04ACS006037

[4] https://cre.moodysanalytics.com/insights/market-insights/q4-...

EDIT: A commenter below led me to the following stat: 32% of American adults can't afford a $500 expense with their savings (Table 12): https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2023-economic-we...
Turn off your VPN.
Around a century ago, after a lot of pressure due to people hurting themselves and their families by over-consuming liquor, the USA passed the 18th amendment.

I'm told that at least some of the campaigners were originally aiming for just liquor, not all alcohol.

I won't be surprised if history repeats, and some chunk of the world bans all social media (including forums like this one) despite the majority of the harm being concentrated into specific social networks and the strong drive that led to it being a thing in the first place.
I can’t speak for the author, but in my experience, ffmpeg-wasm really is a lot slower than native ffmpeg at the moment. As in 10x slower, in my informal testing, and that really makes a difference.
Nobody gets it right the first time.

Good design evolves from knowing the problem space.

Until you've explored it you don't know it.

I've seen some really good systems that have been built in one shot. They were all ground up rewrites of other very well known but fatally flawed systems.

And even then, within them, much of the architecture had to be reworked or also had some other trade off that had to be made.
Maybe this? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global...
Financial investment, nutrition and parental time investment have also shown significant impacts all forms of development (https://www.nominalnews.com/p/early-child-investment-child-t...). Discerning these impacts will always be difficult. Regardless, it appears that external factors do play a more an important role than maybe inherent ones.
Housing is definitely an issue. The obvious solution to that are probably my biggest policy issue. That said, homeownership rates in the US are close to an all-time high.
I'd love to see some examples, if you have old screenshots laying around!

Your take conflicts with my toy hypothesis, and I wouldn't mind being proven wrong if it saves me time and effort.

I wonder if the folks who were fooled by your screens were fooled by the random data itself, or the fact that it was presented within all the familiar chrome and doodads that people associate with stock price visualization.
This seems like something people on HN have asked for before. I clicked on one Recent video about how to create a simple Flask app in 5 minutes and the instructions seemed good on a cursory view.

I tried entering a new video but I got a Heroku application error. Maybe it's a limits thing.

When I look at the Recent videos, a lot of them are not for instructions/tutorials. Perhaps people do not understand the purpose of this project. Maybe they are just testing it out with non-tutorial content.

Maybe you could add representative videos towards the top so that people would get a better sense of the use of this project?

I don't know why this isn't more popular here. It's a good idea. (Maybe it has already been implemented elsewhere?) Reading is much faster than watching a video for many instruction-based tasks. Good luck!
I always read that as "scum master" because that's how the management often thinks about us :D
The technology is old, but it's solid. It's never crashed on us while working. I think the only time they reboot it is at night when traffic is low and they do an update, but it's seemless because there are two systems. They update one and switch us to it, then update the other.

I work in an Air Route Traffic Control Center, not a tower.

If you asked me that a couple of years ago, I would say being able to talk with the pilots, but now the airlines are starting to adopt CPDLC which allows us to send text commands (to climb, turn, etc) rather than relying on voice communication. Not everyone has it though.
Some carriers offer services that do a pretty good job of filtering these out.

You can also set it up so that incoming calls are whitelisted or something like that on just about every phone.
It's right there at the top of the github page
I’m always surprised no one talks about the top of funnel for ATC controllers. As a pilot, ham radio operator, and operations enthusiast I considered it as a career change at 35 but it’s an impossible field to switch into.

In particular:

Must be a U.S. citizen
Must be age 30 or under on the closing date of the application period (with limited exceptions)
Must have either three years of general work experience or four years of education leading to a bachelor’s degree, or a combination of both
Must relocate to Oklahoma City + a rural airport for multiple years.
Salary is $135k/yr

I suspect a lot of others get weeded out during the Hogan test (mmpi2) and no-history-of-ADHD-or-depression requirements. The extensive relocation periods don’t bother me but one would have had to come straight out of school with the mission of doing ATC to even qualify.

This hiring thread is worth a read: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1c1wmt2/i_am_an_air_t...

Coming from startup land, it’s so clear the lack of available and qualified controllers is directly down line of this thorny problem. It’s the inverse corollary to growth fixes all problems.
My guess: Negativity makes great clickbait & political propaganda.

I agree the numbers look great -- Added stats in a sibling comment above.
Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked
As I have already said, with the current DNS system, that’s how it works. You have to trust that your provider won’t screw you over. It’s held together by duct tape and spit.

You know, in every OTHER technology, that’s how it was before we automated things that humans previously did. You may as well have said this about telephone switchboard operators, or tying up the line, until VoIP brought the costs to zero. “Who connects your calls? I’m quite sure paying $1 a minute was good enough for nearly all situations.” Except, when it all got automated and the providers turned into dumb hubs because open protocols eliminated the middleman. Where are these phone providers today? They provide the infrastructure only, and we route around problems. Same with blockchain.

Paying someone exorbitant amounts to “maintain your domain” because it is famous, and a hosting company to “handle spikes in traffic” etc. All that results in the need to extract rents from the ecosystem in ever-more-toxic ways, using toxic forms of capitalism:

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

But it gets worse than that. The externalities to our society of the profit protive and private ownership of public forums are immense, including widespread depression, tribalism evho cham and national anger reaching a fever pitch. All predictable. Take a look at exactly how it works:

https://rational.app

LAWeekly published an article recently about the steps I and my company have been taking for the several years to fix it:

https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/

Again, Web3 and blockchain is one possible way to do it but the keys to all the solutions are decentralization and open protocols! They remove the middlemen and oligopolies (like phone companies used to be, or the original AOL/MSN walled gardens) by making an alternative system not owned by anybody and with no single points of failure or control by a few people:

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-worldwide-web-ne...
My Grandma was already blind by the time the internet became a "thing" and, knowing I worked "on the internet", she would ask me what it was all about when she heard it in the news. After a few struggles we settled on "it's like ceefax, but much much bigger". She knew about ceefax, she was happy she understood what I did. It was a good analogy in the early days (mostly WWW work).

I did get the reputation with her friends that I was a "ceefax expert" and would always be drafted in whenever her friends were struggling. I was "Mr Teletext" for a couple of years. (the other ceefax like service available in the UK)

Another memory was watching the live football scores on a Saturday afternoon. Waiting patiently to get to the right page and the agony when the page you wanted was skipped... having to wait another 8 pages before you were back to the right division (only to find out you'd gone a goal down). Happy days.