skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A robotic moon landing with sample return? Luna 16 called, it wants to remind you that the Russians did this in 1970.
For the same reason they didn't issue a warrant against the Israel government over the past twenty years: the conflict spiraled out of control months ago.

In 2019, the ICC got involved following the 2014 Gaza war and concluded that war crimes were taking place (on both sides, in different ways), but they concluded that they lacked jurisdiction. Investigations has been ongoing ever since.
Both can be true. Entrance examinations are at least meritocratic in some sense. On the other hand, these open ended admissions means there's an arms race to the bottom to make your profile look stronger than someone else's, that's why the need to fill it with extra-curriculars and stuff.
> What would have been an impressive final-year project when I was in university is something high schoolers are churning out as a bare minimum.

Funny that people dont see the parallels between this, and housing. So much written about "boomers could easily afford a home on one salary, then they pulled up the ladder." No, not really, buying a house was always somewhat challenging, lots of families realized that two incomes would make affordability easier, that started to catch on, prices rose, soon two incomes became the bare minimum to afford a decent house. As competition rose for desirable cities/neighborhoods, not a surprise that now you need two well-above-median incomes to get into something decent.
American society is multimodal. I went to an urban high school that was frequently lowering requirements/making it easier to graduate, but among the people I considered my peer college competitors, the extracuricullar oneupmanship is frequent and seemed much more intense than in the prior generations.
Discussion 2 weeks ago [0] (19 points, 18 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282477
> Netanyahu can be outflanked on the right

He was outflanked by the right in 2019 when Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu and Lapid's Yamina withdrew it's support for Likud and joined Bennett's and Lapid's anti-Netanyahu coalition in 2021, but Bibi was able to leverage fringe Kahanist and Mizrahi parties to reclaim the top seat.

Hell, Bibi would make a coalition with the Arab List/Ra'am (the Islamist Party in Israel) if it meant remaining PM (and thus retaining immunity)

Traditionally, the hard right Jewish parties would always win around 20 seats in Knesset but would never be a major part of any coalition - but Bibi has alienated just about every single faction in Israel at this point trying to extend his rule.
> Is my kid really going to be a better student because she volunteered at a hospital or played high school softball?

Is the goal the best student or creating well rounded enlightened contributions? If that’s the goal, probably. If they are thrown in them to check boxes, probably not.
The whole Reddit app is terrible.

Their latest update on my iPhone 15 Pro (so the most vanilla configuration) has some kind of reverse padding on posts that will drag them under the previous one.
As a hunter, I have to disagree. Properly harvested deer, elk, and bear are all amazing, and I'd take any of the three over the lowest common denominator ground beef. Actual cheap ground beef is garbage.

I buy half a cow every year from local farmers, and I'd put my ground elk up against that ground beef any day (though I do have to add suet because elk is so lean). In fact, nobody that I serve elk to knows that it's elk until/unless I tell them.

If your wild game tastes bad, you messed up somewhere along the line. Get it cold as soon as possible, keep it clean, and the meat will be great.
We are talking of different things. It's good that high-schoolers can make mobile apps. I am talking of the amount of extra work kids have to put in just to have an edge in their admissions profile.

It's bad if the avg college admission officer expects every high-schooler to have an open source project.
It’s a peacock tail.

Diverting effort and energy into external signals of intellectual health to impress potential collegiate mates.
I kinda feel like this is a result of suburban car-centric living too. If every 45 minute practice comes with another 45 minutes of commuting time it eats up all of everyone's time, attention and downtime.

I'm happy to let my kids do the activities they want to do, as long as it's within 5-10 minutes
Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
Oracle's biggest-ever acquisition turned deadly
i just learned the other day that you can get a computer for 1.58¢ in quantity 20000: https://jlcpcb.com/partdetail/NyquestTech-NY8A051H/C5143390

if we can believe the datasheet, it's basically a pic12f clone (with 55 'powerful' instructions, most single-cycle) with 512 instructions of memory, a 4-level hardware stack, and 32 bytes of ram, with an internal 20 megahertz clock, 20 milliamps per pin at 5 volts, burning half a microamp in halt mode and 700 microamps at full speed at 3 volts

and it costs less than most discrete transistors. in fact, although that page is the sop-8 version, you can get it in a sot23-6 package too

there are definitely a lot of things you can do with this chip if you're willing to optimize your code. but you aren't going to start with a 30-kilobyte firmware image and optimize it until it fits

yeah it's not an nrf52840 and you probably can't do ble on it. but the ny8a051h costs 1.58¢, and an nrf52840 costs 245¢, 154 times as much, and only runs three times as fast on the kinds of things you'd mostly use the ny8a051h for. it does have a lot more than 154 times as much ram tho

for 11.83¢ you can get a ch32v003 https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontroller-Units-MC... which is a 48 megahertz risc-v processor with 2 kilobytes of ram, 16 kilobytes of flash, a 10-bit 1.7 megahertz adc, and an on-chip op-amp. so for 5% of the cost of the nrf52840 you get 50% of the cpu speed, 1.6% of the ram, and 0% of the bluetooth

for 70¢, less than a third the price of the nrf52840, you can get an ice40ul-640 https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Programmable-Logic-Devic... which i'm pretty sure can do bluetooth. though it might be saner to hook it up to one of the microcontrollers mentioned above (or maybe something with a few more pins), you can probably fit olof kindgren's serv implementation of risc-v https://github.com/olofk/serv into about a third of it and probably get over a mips out of it. but the total amount of block ram is 7 kilobytes. the compensating virtue is that you have another 400 or so luts and flip-flops to do certain kinds of data processing a lot faster and more predictably than a cpu can. 19 billion bit operations per second and pin-to-pin latency of 9 nanoseconds

so my summary is that there's a lot of that kind of embedded work going on, maybe more than ever, and you can do things today that were impossible only a few years ago
> Settlers have been given free rein to commit terror acts all throughout the Palestinian Territories.

Not quite:

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

This is not to say that Israel permitted Gaza to have any reasonable sort of economic development (as a simple example, it’s effectively a country with two not-very-open land borders and no port, which surely made trade rather challenging).

If you want an analogy, imagine roughly the population of San Francisco plus San Mateo County, but with under half the land area, hostile relations and extremely limited travel across the land border with Santa Clara County and points South, with no bridges and no port. Throw in a near-complete dependency on Santa Clara for water and electricity, and nowhere near enough agriculture. (At least San Mateo County has a decent amount of farming to the West.) Take out the hot tech scene as well, and the economic situation would not be awesome.
Wait, this is a pretty good sell. I'm going to give this Nix thing a shot. All the other times it's posted people talk about things I don't care like replicable builds and stuff.
Maybe. That is, if and only if you want a conventional life path or need a particular University-conferred credential for your choice of profession.
Otherwise, there's no pain associated with defecting. If anything, there's far less pain associated with defecting than with the alternative, weighted down with drudgery as it is.
Sort of tragically ironic that he died in a car accident while trying to live outside of modern civilization.
Nah, why would you trust Apple - they see you as a product they want to lock-in.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_t... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_the_State_of_P... .

Most countries which recognise Palestine as a state seem to recognise it in the 1967 borders, i.e. Gaza + West Bank + East Jerusalem.

Not sure about the UN though.
In, like, the top few percent of schools that only a small proportion of college-bound students are even considering.
https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/assassin

Thank you for the refreshed memories
Microsoft and Windows (and by extension x86) achieved their desktop market dominance by respecting that most people want backwards compatibility.

Everything that has tried to go or is going against that tide either failed (eg: Itanium, Windows RT) or never had market share to lose in the first place (eg: MacOS, Linux in the consumer space).

Microsoft would be stupid to be "courageous" and drop backwards compatibility, that would even trump Apple's courage abandoning the headphone jack. It also makes business sense to keep your eggs in multiple baskets, assuming those baskets are each commercially viable.
Your site is very well designed and easy to read btw, and the app UI looks great from the demo photos. I might try it!
What there are still people who don't install Voidtools' Everything on all Windows PCs and assign it a global shortcut? Since I have it I don't even bother organizing stuff
Yeah, but it's a magical version in an imaginary realm.
Check your Contacts page for yourself: you may have entered a work address. (Or Apple might have 'helpfully' added it?)

I haven't cared about tracking since removing all ads, either paying for no ads or simply doing without. Life is good now.
If you read the article carefully, all AY-3-8913s mentioned fall in 1 of 2 categories:

1) Pulled from, or sitting on boards that were built much later (~2010?) than AY-3-8913 original production. There's no clear indication how makers of those boards obtained their ICs. So "bought from random eBay seller, potentially fake or relabeled chip" is entirely possible. Not excluded, anyway. Even if seller was legit, other options like poor storage, ESD damage etc still apply.

2) One vintage board with original IC. This of course pre-owned, IC not tested outside of this board, and... sample size 1.

Then this link:

https://www.bytedelight.com/?p=6327

Same thing: "AY-3-8913 chips we bought may have been duds or fakes".

If you'd find some gear that actually used these AY-3-8913s back in the day, in unmodified state, with a known history (use/storage/previous owners), pull the AY-3-8913s from that, test in isolation, and then also see the same problems, then you'd have a case.

But with the data as presented in article: could be anything, really.

The only thing I take away from all this: if you're building something that uses an AY-3-891x, stay away from the -8913. Because they're rare / hard to find, and "buy from eBay" has a good chance of getting you a bad chip. Dud, fake, re-labeled or otherwise.

Which is good to know but says little to nothing about genuine, original AY-3-8913.
That expensive test prep can bump up the score significantly clearly indicates that isn’t the only component, though.
> Here's the thing about smartphones - you can make them as dumb as you want. You can determine the set of minimal features that works for you, providing everything you need while minimizing distractions. I know, I know - crazy concept!

...actually, I can't, at least on iOS, because many of the built-in apps cannot be uninstalled:

1. Health, Find My, and Wallet. These are clearly superfluous to the basic functionality of a phone. Why can't you remove them?

2. Safari. Given how central the web is to modern life, I kind of understand why Apple doesn't let you remove this. However, if you don't think it's healthy to have a web browser in your pocket, well, tough luck.

3. Messages. This makes sense, as texting is basic cell phone functionality. However, the iOS Messages app comes with its own integrated store that can't be disabled. Wat.

4. Clock. Setting timers is arguably basic cell phone functionality—but setting my bed time clearly is not, and this is built into the app!

Sure, you could just not use this stuff! But if the central idea is "I don't want a full computer in my pocket that will distract me, I just want a very basic appliance to make calls and texts and maybe a few other extras which I will select", the iPhone is not a device for you! Apple won't let you cut it down past a relatively high baseline. Screen time doesn't really solve anything as it's very easy (and psychologically tempting) to bypass.

I am not familiar with the current state of Android, but I would be surprised if the situation was significantly better. Let me know if I'm wrong!
I recommend _Deep Learning with Python_ by François Chollet (the creator of Keras). It’s very clear and approachable, explains all of these concepts, and doesn’t try to “impress” you with unnecessary mathematical notation. Excellent introductory book.

The only downside is that in 2024, you are probably going to use PyTorch and not Keras + Tensorflow as shown in the book.
Apple Pencil Pro casts a fake shadow based on which tool you're using
If you want to keep space alignments that's honestly to be expected. Exclusively using tabs would work much better, partly for the reason you have said. On the requirement of clang-format itself though... Yeah, that is more like a problem of C and its ecosystem indeed.
Truth Social losses $300M on Q1
> Is my kid really going to be a better student because she volunteered at a hospital or played high school softball?

Unfortunately, kids from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds have fewer opportunities to volunteer and to pursue expensive sports. These colleges are, in effect, selecting for what Thorstein Veblen would have called "conspicuous leisure" and "conspicuous consumption", i.e. for an upper middle-class background (or above). A long time ago I applied to one of the top business schools in the US and was told quite directly, during the interview process, that the MBA program was mostly about networking and not so much about academics. It looks like this attitude has now expanded to many four-year colleges as well. In business terms, it's all about "culture fit" these days.
Antarctic Treaty System
Highly educated anesthesiologist, former state and federal public health professional, and current employee of Purdue University since 2021, selects HDHP for his insurance plan and then gets upset when he actually has to pay the high deductible for the plan that he himself selected. News at 11:00. And, don't get met started on his assertion that having to pay that deductible prevented him from contributing to his HSA that year. This person is a shining example of what's wrong with US healthcare, not a beacon of light for fixing it.
I think this is very much up in the air.

A high profile Islamic terrorist attacks would shift the narrative, for example. On the other side, if the war cools down a bit people will gradually lose interest in the same way that no one cares about Modi's past actions.
Love how all the initial comments on this are about how these parents are going to massively influence their children’s future by not _making_ them do multiple “extracurriculars”… TBH YOU ARE THE PROBLEM-> gamification of their life is what is causing all of this strife.

Not everyone needs to be a 10X-er (to use a HN favorite term) honestly I would much rather work with 2x-5x engineers that went to a regular school than the unfortunate ones who have had their whole lives gamified for some social credit game played by their parents. Im not saying that there isn’t value in Ivy League but the games being played to get people in and this idea that it will == successful life is at best a marketing strategy…
Of course it isn't. Since when is "big" a selling point? I want something focused and functional, not big.
AWS microsecond-accurate time: a second look
I have been thinking for a long time that we do not have (to the best of my knowledge) a good transcript formatter, and that Transformers should be part of the solution - a huge wealth of material is on YouTube, and its subtitles do not use punctuation.

I can confirm that requesting LLMs to format bare subtitles adding punctuation (from commas to paragraphs, with quote marks, dashes, colons etc.) can work very well.

It may seem a minor feature, but it is something that information consumers easily benefit from (when you need to process material in video format you can download the subtitles, add formatting with an automation, then efficiently skim, or study, or process transcripts and video together...).
They do sell NEMA extension cords too… but of course depends on your situation.
If the Israeli Supreme court allows his actions, then that sounds like it would fall under the "unwilling" part of "unwilling or unable to do so".
> The issue with this mentality is it ultimately leads to doing nothing at all.

Not necessarily - but too often to be important.

Surely kids left alone would do wonderful things by themselves... if they figure out what are those wonderful things they'd like to do. Most often they don't know. Have no idea what are those wonderful activities, which they like, and which they can participate, or solo, in, and how to organize whatever is needed. Now it's the ball in our court - and we don't have a good solution for how to present those opportunities to kids, so that they'd not just sit and figure nothing interesting to do, and get distracted with more passive things, like TVs or videogames, but something which strikes a better balance between enjoyment and benefits in learning.

It's interesting that the problem is literally ages old - yet we as civilization still have rather crude solutions for what to offer our kids so they'd grow involved and benefiting from learning opportunities. Seems like a good topic for a targeted efforts for a company or a non-profit, if government is moving too slow.
That's… A good reminder, actually. At best it's just some random guy. At worst it's a three letter agency's botnet. Maybe influence ops would be less realistic of a concern if we all put somewhat less stock in social media.
Not all do and the ones intended for desktop search likely shouldn't. Something like an inverted index would be a much better solution imo
> The Texas state government just pardoned a guy who drove a car into a blm protest.

And to clarify, that guy was convicted of murder for shooting a protestor. His defense was that the protestor was carrying an AK-47, but Texas (notoriously) allows open carry, the guy even corroborated witness reports that the protestor wasn't aiming at him ("I believe he was going to aim at me. I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me."), and he had a history of racist text/Facebook messages that threatened violence against protestors and black people.

The dude went looking to kill BLM protestors and Abbott let him off scot free.
I work for a lumber company. We have no connection to, or use of, any of these substances. I just work on toxics issues in different arenas (e.g., air toxics and pesticides).
Can we filter journalists that use ads, paywalls, or bullshit, and curate an association of trustworthy volunteer journalists and news editors?

I want to connect with journalists that share the news accurately, for free, and without abuses of my attention. I'm sure they exist. I think it's a matter of finding them, tracking reputations, and moderating the resulting Libre News Desk.
That's why you don't. Designers often want to assume fixed sizes for their designs and the result is beautiful, but not flexible. You want to assume that everything is reflowable and define devices classes. Optimize for use cases instead of branding/marketing.
Ask HN: Is it okay to introduce a 6-year-old to Nintendo switch?
I've been thinking about the impact of console-based video games with kids. I feel it can empower them to fail but it can also make them addictive. Any thoughts?
> What would have been an impressive final-year project when I was in university is something high schoolers are churning out as a bare minimum. How do we ready our kids (who are competitive) for this if not by ensuring that they don't miss out any opprtunities?

This sounds US-centric, looking from the outside it appears that you tried so hard to not use tests and marks to rate students that you made it all about projects/volunteering which mostly benefit kids with a lot money and time support from parents. It very much looks like performative kabuki for admissions officers where teenagers have lost interest in building something for the sake of it.

Anywhere else in the world, bar the US and the rest of the Commonwealth, it is all about grades and having exams with normal distributions as the great equalizer. For all the pros and cons at least anything else you do in your spare time as a teen you do it without any external agenda. A 16 year old shouldn't be worried about how something will look like on their CV.
Is it not currently asp.net core?
If you write your demo in a recording editor, then when you're done, you can go back and watch the playback of all your edits and add commentary.
The "toxic" metabolites aren't a sustainability problem though as long as the ecosystem forms closed cycles. Presumably it even helps biodiversity.

Generally I'd probably judge metabolism mostly based on power density and energy availability. How does anaerobic compare on that front?

Though archaea tend to be anaerobic, and we should obviously all strive to be more like archaea, so maybe you have a point…
Discussion [0] (96 points, 3 days ago, 64 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40389574
The advantage is the network / badge that comes with it. That and you tend to have great funding / access to more opportunities.

So, I'd argue there's a great advantage.

But it's more accessible to those who already have advantages, since they look for these "early life" markers which many normal folk have little to no control over.
The newly standardized css `zoom` property might help with this.
Adrian Lamo, in case it is not obvious from this post, has died.
That doesn't help at all. These symbols don't have to be produced by the reader. All you need to do to get access to these symbols is to call FN once. That gives you a list whose first element is LIT and second element is CLO. So all you need to "stick a fork" in the Bel toaster is to be able to call FN and XAR.
I will start refer to them as trioltodes.