skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, the "Top Comments" is sourced from the "kids" field of the "items" endpoint. As the API docs (https://github.com/HackerNews/API?tab=readme-ov-file#items) says, it is "in ranked display order" so I just used it to sort the top comments.
If your blog provider supports it, adding a “Open a Random Post” button on your blog makes the experience much more fulfilling in the long term, as you (and others) can revisit different posts from different eras. Websites don’t have physical form that readers can navigate, so we can take advantage of that by adding serendipity manually.
Would just like to note one issue i have observed with the MPLS light rail: multi-car transit has less oversight and is more attractive for drug use and shelter for the homeless which lowers use by commuters. Our busses running the same routes are safer and better options.
It typically means that it's written in JavaScript or Rust, depending on the intended audience
> There's plenty of evidence. He confessed to his girlfriend, and a cellmate.

Be careful, this is hearsay and not evidence. Those people claim that he confessed to them, but there is a lot more context. Here is what the linked story says about the "he confessed" part:

> The investigation had gone cold until a jail inmate named Henry Cole, a man with a lengthy record, claimed that Mr. Williams confessed to him that he committed the murder while they were both locked up in jail. Cole directed police to Laura Asaro, a woman who had briefly dated Mr. Williams and had an extensive record of her own.

> Both of these individuals were known fabricators; neither revealed any information that was not either included in media accounts about the case or already known to the police. Their statements were inconsistent with their own prior statements, with each other’s accounts, and with the crime scene evidence, and none of the information they provided could be independently verified.
:facepalm: I had changed it from textContent to innerHTML when supporting line breaks...

Fixed!
I had the same situation, maybe gods are angry at us due to some reason.
Sure but the first real estate agent I met is the one that was most highly recommended by my friends and colleagues, and has stellar online reviews. It wasn't some random person...
I wanna know what they paid Jacob Devlin.
The lore of secret space program insiders say that there are octopus/cephalopod species under that ice in that ocean. And, more so, that they are related to the ones on our planet. Wow.

For those who don't know "SSP lore" is the idea that a technological breakaway civilization descended from Mars-via-Antarctica "Space Nazis" who back-engineered anti-gravity tech in the 1950s (the bell craft) with the help of psychics who channelled aliens designs, and then began retrofitting submarines with advanced propulsion systems, before graduating to more advanced "interstellar craft", have long been out among our local cluster of stars, pushing humans beyond the limits of public space programs, and now consist of an international cadre of Earth humans (and born-on-Mars humans), involved in intergalactic trade and exploration....Aaaand it's so secret that if you are recruited and then allowed back to Earth, you are mind wiped and age-regressed/time-travelled back to the moment you signed up after a 20 year stint, the fabled "20-and-back" program.
This has nothing to do with Fascism. Communists executed people with a fervor. Monarchs executed people.

There's plenty of evidence too. This specific case is being amplified by an activist class you'll find commonly in prison/death penalty abolitionist circles. They don't care about justice, or guilt of the person; they are high on a savior complex.
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Show HN: Alphabet Tracing Book: Fun and Educational Learning Tool for Ages 3
Looking for a fun and educational tool to help kids learn the alphabet? This Alphabet Tracing Book is designed for ages 3+ with 56 pages of tracing and coloring activities for each letter. It’s great for building fine motor skills and confidence in writing. Perfect for parents or teachers working with preschoolers! Get your copy and make learning fun.
Kubuntu Focus Ir14 Gen 2 review: Using Linux instead of messing with it
A lot to like here, a couple of things to comment on:

> "If you tell people that their systems could be 1.5x faster or 5% more effective, that's rarely going to beat inertia. In my view, you need to find problems where there's non-zero hope that you'll make things, say, 20x faster or 30% more effective, at least after years of work."

This works for up-and-coming fields, but once something is stable and works at large scale, it's all about the small improvements. Making petrol engines 1% more fuel-efficient would be massive. Increasing the conversion rate of online ads by 1% could make you very, very rich indeed. Good advice for AI probably; bad advice in other fields.

> "Invest in projects, not papers"

The best way I think you can go about this is allocate some fraction alpha of your time to projects, and (1-alpha) to things that produce short-term papers. Alpha should never be zero if you want a career, but it will start out small as you begin your PhD and gradually grow, if you can make it in academia. At some point you'll reach a compounding return where the projects themselves are spawning papers - one way to do this is to get to the point where you can hire your own PhD students, but there are several others.

As long as your 2-years-into-a-PhD review as some unis have them is about how many papers you've published (somehow weighted by journal/conference rank) and how many others are in the pipeline, you need to focus on papers until the point when your institution will let you do something more useful. Think of it as paper writing bootcamp so that once you do get more time for projects, you'll have practiced how to write up your results.

> "Make your release usable, useful ..."

This is excellent advice, also for anything else related to code.
I agree but I just wish, I wish it had three things:
- customizable native menu bar
- native file dialogs
- drag & drop support from the outside world

that would make it would be an excellent option for desktop app development.
My son is in the same age group. These are some notes for what worked well for him.

Godot and Gamermaker are great because they have loads of tutorials on YT. He can sit down and work through those pretty comfortably. These work better than Unity \ Unreal because those have so much to learn and a long time before you have something playable and many tutorials would switch out to an IDE and had loads of files which overwhelmed him.

He started with Scratch and built up to some pretty complex gameplay. What's nice with this is that he was able to remix existing games he liked that others have published. This meant he learned more as he modified. Checkout griffpatch on YT for the more complex stuff.
The men's clothes are still larger than they were in the 80s.

Really men's clothing right now is just a game of doing whatever gay men do but, like, 5 years later. So that means in a year or two men's clothes will be back to thick pant legs, flares, and maybe even pleats.

Don't worry, the cropped shirts and booty shorts was just a phase.
Molmo: The Most Capable Open Source AI Model yet Could Supercharge AI Agents
> the impending death of a society

A society. The old society. To be replaced by a new society that doesn't work like the old one.

The new society is evolving towards humans that behave like frogs: They're born in a certain area and don't roam too far from that original spot because everything they could ever want is available at their fingertips or only a hop away.

To be fair, this is the primary factor why frogs (anura) have "survived" with few changes for about 250 million years. Innumerable creatures have come and gone in that time yet frogs are still around. Not a bad evolutionary strategy if you ask me.
Here's a counter point:

- They are saying that maliciously as signalling for cost savings.

- They know this will slowly rot and destroy long term development. Probably screamed from all sides internally.

- They are doing this to meet their own targets.

- If everyone is doing this, it means their competitors are also taking the hit, so it might not be as bad for them long term going this route. It's a similar thing as everyone having bad call centers.
Somehow LLMs unearth peoples' forgotten wishes to believe in magic and miracles again.
If you build the probe so that it has the spool of cable in it, then the probe has to be as large as the full load of cable. If you make the probe just big enough to do what it needs while pulling the cable from the lander then it can be much smaller. If using the smaller probe, then the cable will need to be fully movable as it melts deeper. The larger probe with the full length of cable will require much more energy as it needs to melt a much larger hole.

Where is all of this energy coming from?
I wouldn't trust those sources. Google funded sources (Wikipedia) and other major political lobby participants shouldn't guide a well formed stance on any topic. Statista's Wikipedia page itself demands for its own deletion due to being a poor and unverifiable source of data.

Outside my window is a line of billboards with digital displays that show the ER wait time at the hospitals beneath them (there are 7 within a 5 mile radius). I can see them without having to actually go to the ER. Maybe I could post a photograph for you somewhere. When I go (I've been over 47 times in my life, or at least that's what I have records for) in this state I've never waited more than 30 minutes, and there's rarely more than 4 or 5 people in the lobby. If you are really having a hard time getting care for your children that's a good reason to move to another state.

All that being said, I can agree with you in some cases. In Los Angeles I waited far longer and I don't blame people living there for believing it's bad everywhere. But in fact, it's common here to have no wait at all. The last time I took my elderly mother in for care (three times in the last week) the wait was for the front counter clerk to get back from the bathroom. The lobby was completely empty of patients. Her circulatory system was imaged. We were in and out within 2 hours.

Most of the hospitals here are owned by an insurance provider, and maybe that helps. I'm not sure, really.

>Actually the US ranks rather poorly in terms of life expectancy

Again, check that you are using reliable sources for your claims. Life expectancy is right around 80 in most civilized countries and the US is right there with Europe.

Keep in mind that large corporations don't like paying for their employees' health care and they don't want you to like the health care system that they are forced to pay for. They want you to get online and rally efforts to vote against it so that it will be as bad as it is in Europe.

I live in both places, and I can say with confidence, you will absolutely pay more (in taxes) for health care in Europe, and the wait for care is often so long that you'll pay for private care anyway. Same doctors, you just skip the long wait if you pay. I'm literally paying for it today for a family member.

I'm not saying the US is perfect, I'm just saying that it's partly socialized, and that if you fill out the forms you can get care, same as in Europe, and at least in some states, it's better.

The overarching reality is that even socialized care requires filling out forms and registering in some system. And the rich still get to go to the front of the line. It's no different in Europe.
> Leading comma ensures one line diffs

It does not. It just moves the edge case to a different position: trailing comma has the "issue" when adding an argument to the end of the list while leading comma has it when adding an argument to the beginning.

Also, as pointed out by the other commenter, any decent modern diff tool will make it obvious that the change to the existing line is just the addition of a comma, which makes the difference basically moot.
The Social Web Foundation Is Shaping the Next Era of the Web
Mexico is doing everything the US did of what? This isn't an explanation, but just a random idea.
GDPR compliance is easy if you are not selling your users' data.
Show HN: Test your website on 180+ device viewports (with multi-device mode)
Hey HN! We do a lot of frontend testing, and one thing we find frustrating is the limited tooling available to observe how a URL renders on different viewports/devices simultaneously.

For example, we can use Chrome Inspector's "Device" previews, but we run into the following:

- Chrome doesn't keep those devices/viewports up to date, and adding new ones is pretty annoying (we've open sourced our collection of 180+ viewports/dimensions under MIT).

- You can’t see multiple viewports at once (and it’s cumbersome switching back and forth)

- When you notice a problem, there's no simple way to deep-link someone on your team to take a look at that viewport (likely have to open a Jira/Linear with the specifics)

- You can’t favourite viewports (for tracking the viewports specific to your project/client)

We’ve built a product with the goal of addressing these limitations (among others), and would love to hear your feedback.

Finally, feel free to use the open sourced data for your own projects :)
Intel Launches Xeon 6900P Series "Granite Rapids" Processors Review
I really hope this mission is designed with VR in mind. Obviously any feed will be delayed, but it would be amazing if Nasa figured out a way to package the vessel approach and other key moments as a livestream VR experience. It should feel like the modern version of everyone watching the moon landing (not that i was there).

They could even create an abstract visualization of the total number of people of viewing, so that when you look back into outer space you are overwhelmed with the realization that this is a moment for all of humanity, not just another stream amongst so much drivel.

Best VR use case I can think of!
A lot of the advice is good but this is sad:

> First, the problem must be timely. You can define this in many ways, but one strategy that works well in AI is to seek a problem space that will be 'hot' in 2-3 years but hasn't nearly become mainstream yet.

I think about research as, what can I bring that's unique? What can I work on that won't be popular or won't exist unless I do it?

If it's clearly going to become popular than other people will do it. So why do I need to? I'm useless.

Yes. You'll increase your citation count with that plan. But if you're going to do what other people are doing go to industry and make money. It seems crazy to me to give up half a million dollars a year to do something obvious and boring a few months before someone else would do it.
I have had a blog since 2001 (wow! about to hit 25 years soon), while many of my peers have dropped off. Remember, this was the time when Wikipedia started. I’ve neglected it and have not taken care of it as much as I used to 10+ years ago. I did away with analytics about 5 years ago. WP-Engine grandfathered me while I was on WordPress, but I gave that up, too.

Now, I write for myself, mostly to remember things that I can re-read later. And to have a URL on the web that I can give out with answers to topics that I have to answer repeatedly. I write plain text without any front-matter, or tags, as simple as it gets that GitHub Pages can spit out. If the basic CloudFlare analytics is to be believed, it continuous to be pretty well visited.

But I like tinkering with it, and there are many unfinished articles. I think I will keep it for as long as I can. https://brajeshwar.com
I believe there was a defense pact to sweeten the deal, but that seems like relationship building on top of a very competitive bid for nuclear power stations.

https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/risky-business-south-koreas-...
> Can you provide the source for that?

There has not been an official ruling, but that was not necessary because there is a soft commitment by ISPs to provide bridge mode which was enough for the RTR: https://www.rtr.at/TKP/was_wir_tun/telekommunikation/konsume...

But they are very explicit:

> Gleichzeitig gibt es eine gesetzlich garantierte Endgerätefreiheit (Art. 3 Abs. 1 TSM-VO). Auf Grund dieser haben alle Nutzer:innen das Recht, einen Router ihrer Wahl zu verwenden. Stellt der Anbieter einen Router mit integriertem Modem zur Verfügung, muss es möglich sein, diesen Router in den sogenannten "Brigde-Modus" zu schalten.

> Because the Wifi 6 enabled Modem from Magenta doesn't support bridge mode.

It does. Call customer support and they enable it for you. It turns into a dumb modem afterwards behind which you need to put your own infrastructure.

It's also mentioned on their FAQ: https://www.magenta.at/faq/entry/~technische-anfrage~kabelin...
Surely kids can do both? The fact is that kids of that age are going to end up spending a lot of time on screens, so the more time that can be educational/productive the better!
I've bought multiple homes in my life and my buyers agents always did that type of thing and more.
I just sold a house. In August I signed some paperwork saying we would offer 2.5/2.5 to buyer and seller, just verbally. The seller agent heavily pushed this, saying that we don’t want to work with an attorney and put everything at risk; he wants to work in his network.

All the buyer offers we received were also expecting 2.5%.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Commonwealth Fund: The U.S. Health Care System Is an International Embarrassment
Because they signed away that right: https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-a.... That same article mentions a lawsuit about IBM changing its pension scheme, forcing them to revert to the old one and a $300M settlement amount.

That said, there have been a number of age discrimination lawsuits, just no major class action it seems: https://www.cohenmilstein.com/case-study/ibm-age-discriminat..., https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/ibm_and_kyndryl_again..., https://www.hrdive.com/news/ibm-hr-professionals-suit-age-di..., https://thenationaltriallawyers.org/article/ibm-hit-with-1-5...
I welcome it. I've been preferring restaurants that don't serve crazy portions of food for many years now because I can't eat it all, I hate taking uneaten restaurant food home, and I feel terrible about the food waste.
Has anyone ever read an IBM Redbook?
>Not only is it closer to Earth and easier to visit than Enceladus, but evidence suggests its ocean may have existed for 4.5 billion years—longer than Earth’s oceans

Here's what I don't like. Nothing living appears on Europa's surface. In the same 4.5 billion years, Earth went from single-cell life to whales, jungles, and humans.
I guess I've been blogging on https://blog.jgc.org/ for 19 years now. I don't know where the time went. I keep doing it because I have new stuff to write about (from time to time). I suppose I'll keep doing it until I don't (have new stuff to write about).
Aside, if you want to write C apps but aren't comfortable writing the public facing parts, 'Kore' is a great framework with some handy builtins like ACME cert management, Pgsql, curl, websockets, etc.

Essentially build and run modules, and they can be combined (including mixing Lua/Python + C.)

https://kore.io/
There's nothing theoretical about price competition. Large self-insured employers and other group buyers are very price sensitive. If a company offered Aetna health plans to their employees this year they would happily switch to Humana next year to save a few dollars. There are sophisticated analytics tools available now which let those customers predict future costs under various options.
You need to be GDPR-compliant, but you don’t need to automate GDPR compliance yet.

You have 30 days to comply with e.g. right to deletion requests. That’s easily long enough to write backend code to delete someone’s data. So don’t write that code until someone requests that you delete their data (unless you need to write it before then for other reasons, ofc).
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My Ideal Number of Direct Reports Is Seven
IBM needs help, and cutting costs isn't the answer.

Their revenue has been falling for a decade now [0]

I don't even know what it is that they sell anymore. I wonder if they do.

Also, I found this paragraph interesting:

> "Senior software engineers stopped being developed in the US around 2012," Blake said. "That’s the real story. No country on Earth is producing new coders faster than old ones retire. India and Brazil were the last countries and both stopped growing new devs circa 2023. China stopped growing new devs in 2020."

The ROI of one good engineer who understands their computer can be absolutely immense. The logical thing to do is to have some good ones and build an organization around them to help them focus 100% on building profitable things.

I get the feeling this Krishna fellow sees engineers as a cost to be reduced and thinks the value is added by the rest of the organization, rather than the other way around.

[0] https://valustox.com/IBM
This one is 32x48, 1 bit and based on gut bacteria: https://www.engadget.com/heres-a-video-of-doom-running-on-gu...
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41141112
In Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia they put major chargers next to large malls, so you have all the convenience of a mall while the car is changing.
Convert Laser-Engraver to Plotter
That post is marked as dead. Users with high enough reputation can flag new posts, which essentially marks them as spam and limits their access.
> Where is all of this energy coming from?

A nuclear reactor, probably.