skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is EdTech product engagement important?

On average, only 25-30% of users actively engage with EdTech products. This means a large number of users either drop off or interact very little. But by adding features like gamification, personalized learning paths, or virtual reality, engagement can increase by 40-60%, leading to better learning outcomes and higher retention rates.

For example, 81% of students say digital tools help improve their grades and efficiency, while 92% of teachers agree that technology boosts student engagement.
http://slothulence.com/

Various slothy art and coding experiments - a 1 level melonjs sloth platformer,
A vanilla js game with lots of animations and audio and mobile accelerometers usage using no JavaScript libraries- just html, css and js callong browser apis.
Lately they've begun embedding the same C# analysis stuff they have in VS into VSCode if you pay for the license. I haven't used it in anger (long since left for Rider), but it has come in handy when troubleshooting people's VS issues at work from my Mac. The test explorer now blows up in exactly the same way in VS and VSCode :)
LLMs are already better than books for exploring some ideas. But in conversation form.

Until we get better versions of o1 that can generate insights over days and then communicate them in book form the loss of interactivity and personalisation makes LLM books pointless.
That's only if you're targeting a given filesize, with a target quality you only need 1 pass
That is the goal.
A commercial venture can observe movements in the millimeter range from space? If this is true, I'm equally impressed as I'm terrified.
The human race is hopeless. Listen to yourselves. This banter is so pointless. Let the man dream and share his life story ffs
That’s great; we also have “Oktoberfests” and drink from big mugs. What does that mean; we know German politics or at least royal traditions?
Not this nonsense again.
So you’re basically saying filler music, elevator music, backgrouound noise or whatever names it may come under. Since there’s already so much of it out there and since AI one isn’t novel in any way, I have a hard time understanding why you’d choose AI generated one.
If you are looking for employment, apply for jobs with large companies that are able/willing to sponsor a visa.

For Europe, look into the Blue Card https://immigration-portal.ec.europa.eu/eu-blue-card/essenti...
Several countries count professional experience towards qualifications.

Don't try to get everything at once. Moving to another country AND Getting a Visa AND Getting a work permit AND Working from home all at once might be a stretch.

If you are looking to live off your passive income, if it is a business income, it might be possible to get an entrepreneur visa in several places if you start a company there.
That was 15 years ago? I was talking about the usage today.
Author here. This decision went through all proper architecture channels, including talks with our engineers, proof of concepts and the like.

I’ve been doing this too long to shoehorn in my pet languages if I didn’t think they’re a good fit. And I think that scala/FP + Flink _is_ a good fit for this use case.

We did also explore the go ecosystem fwiw - the options there are limited (especially around the data tooling like iceberg) and go is simply not a language that’s popular enough in the data world.

Python’s typing system (or lack thereof) is a huge hinderance in this space in general (imo), and Java didn’t cause many happy faces on the Eng team either, but it’s certainly an option. I just find FP semantics a better fit for data / streaming work (lots of map and flat map anyways), and Scala makes that easy.

Also no cats/zio - just some tangles final _inspired_ composition and type classes. Not too difficult to reason about, not using any obscure patterns. I even mutate references sometimes. :-)
Yeah, I'm baffled by the whole thing too.

- "According to a spokesperson from Dresden's Road and Civil Engineering Office, the bridge was frequently inspected"

Implies it frequently passed inspections–multiple, recent ones. How did the civil engineers make such an egregiously wrong call on this one? They didn't make enough alarm to even temporarily close it; it was a near-disaster,

- "The last tram crossed the span just 18 minutes before the collapse, dpa reported."

https://apnews.com/article/dresden-germany-bridge-collapse-c...
This is awesome, thanks for sharing
> No overriding the on submit callback, no having to wire up a validation hook, no having to think about where things are running.

BTW, forms are broken in Web Components. From needing to wire them manually with Javascript via Form Data to custom submit buttons not working in forms (will be solved with another Javascript-only spec maybe in the next ten years)
As a wise SysAdmin once told me when I was struggling with my tone in writing: “assume what you’re writing will be read aloud in Court someday.”
A Guided Tour Through the Preempt RT Castle [video]
> So, the bridge was under stress and moving(breaking off?) slowly by few mm each year causing the eventual collapse?

This is what it looks like from the data. The key here is "diverging paths", which means different parts of the bridge were moving in different directions, putting strain on it.
In light of this post, and ignoring Sublime Text as I’ve tried it and don’t like it, what commercial IDEs are worth looking at for a generalist like me who bounces between C, Python, Terraform, YAML, Markdown, and more? I’m on Linux.
As content suggest 'solution' in the title is bit stretch. You would need several generations of forest covering the earth in order to make it solution. Not counting in the growth of CO2 emissions.

But still this can help.
With such technology, we are becoming less and less like human beings and more like technological beings augmented with a biological base. I think it's a bad thing because at least the average human being in modern society is not brought up with wisdom, but only the drive to advance technology and operate in a highly capitalistic world.

The augmentation of human beings with tech like this is a proto-type for a dismal world where wisdom is lacking and the pure pursuit of knowledge is becoming a more and more seductive path to destruction.
DirecTV and Dish Are Merging
I enjoyed your site. Queries seem to be sluggish, but that's likely because you're getting a lot of traffic on HN. Well done!
Don’t worry, the EU regulators will probably “fix” that workaround soon.
It's tough because proprietary software also has risks.

See the Unity license change fiasco. https://www.engadget.com/unity-apologizes-and-promises-to-ch...
That's a lot more effort than using Discord and getting on with my life.
Trauma therapy has three components: safety from continued abuse, stabilization/resource building/(co)regulation, and confrontation. It would be ill-advised indeed to start confrontation when the other two are not in place, however it is perfectly possible to use trauma therapeutic methods for stabilizing, also for patients with psychoses.

Build a stable base camp. No need to go in deeper yet. But if you are preparing to go in and face the truth, you cannot do it with meds that blind you.
The challenge with out-of-band RF networks in certain situations is that they can be triangualted by a hostile power. In places like Ukraine, that can trigger indiscrimante artillery or rocket fire onto civilians, for example. In China that can get people disapeared. Sometimes sneakernet is safer and more secure.
You absolutely can and it is true.
It would be more useful to build a bluetooth mesh network (like what airtags already uses) to carry small pieces of information across long distances without internet access instead of having physical couriers that need to deliberately stop and have people connect to them to store data and potentially charge a fee

It should be ubiquitous and something that just works when someone passes by
JetBrains IDEA. It can do pretty much everything and has been my daily driver for almost a decade now.
When someone is hypocritical, I'm inclined to question their motivations and lower my trust in anything they say on that topic.

Musk claims he bought Twitter to champion free speech. This is undermined by the fact that the site selectively censors posts or accounts for e.g. criticising Israeli policy or publishing publicly available flight data.
Marvel and DC lose 'Super Hero' trademarks
Show HN: Tool to Remotely Install, Update, and Monitor Embedded Devices
Lessons from AirSim – reflection on a decade of robotics research at Microsoft
If it's all done locally, this is just a more efficient way of taking notes.
You're not wrong. That said I want to take issue with one thing: Between the lines there is a suggestion that doing a small positive action is useless. But that implies that there is either a silver bullet-type solution where doing only one major thing will resolve the problem of climate change, or that there is no possible way we can resolve it.

I want to counter the implication by saying that the problem of solving climate change is easy in concept but complex in implementation.

The concept is that we must reduce GHG in the atmosphere and oceans, and reduce the amount of new GHG added there.

The solution can contain hundreds of minor actions working on concert, some certainly have more impact than others, but they all contribute, such as for example:

- Taxes on emissions.

- Incentives on sustainable actions.

- Local changes such as improved public transportation and cycling.

- Electric transportation.

- Large scale battery storage.

- Renewable energy sources.

- Better insulated houses can avoid peaker plants needed in winter cold snaps for heating, and summer heat wave air conditioning.

- large scale (industrial) carbon capture.

- Re-forestation (where the tree is not immediately burned but instead used long-term in e.g. housing and furniture).

- High speed rail to offset flights.

- Incentivise local tourism rather than long-haul flights for vacations.

- Social changes such as adjusted diet to be better (e.g. less beef, more lamb, poultry, and especially vegetables).

- Right-to-repair and related social changes that lead to a thriving second-hand-market.

For example, the EU Common Charger Directive (aka the USB-C Law) is expected to reduce e-waste by 12 000 tonnes yearly in the medium-long term and reduce GHG emissions ~to~ by 900k tonnes yearly. That may not look like nearly enough in the grand scheme of things, but once you do a handful of those it starts moving the needle.
> there is plenty of movement visible on all kinds of bridges

Sure, but "the movements in the cluster began to show an atypical pattern with diverging paths" does highlight that even though movements might be common for all bridges, the particular pattern they discovered for this bridge was uncommon.

Agree that the maximum value one could get from a process like that would be "When will this bridge fail?", but better than nothing, is to get a "This bridge looks like it will fail soon".

Besides, could manual human-driven inspections even be able to give a "more or less exact prediction of when a bridge fails"? If not, then at least a somewhat automated way of getting the same answer would be cheaper for local governments to run, and for the cases where it makes sense, send the human bridge inspectors there.
>the pure pursuit of knowledge is becoming a more and more seductive path to destruction.

How so?
Spruce Pine devastated by Helene – Semiconductor production
> lit-html is much better and based on existing browser APIs.

Ah yes. A new framework with its own custom DSL, its own custom hook, sorry, "directive" rules, it's own incompatible flavor of SSR is definitely the way to go, and whould be a part of the standard unlike Polymer before it which was also touted as the bee's knees.

> We should make it part of the webcomponents spec! Which is a work in progress:

Whatever the outcome of that discussion, it won't be lit.
Purchase was not economical decision but political one.
Sometimes? lol
Database as a Value (2012) [video]
Hi there. I’m from India (the world’s capital of Internet blackouts). A major reason for Internet blackouts here is because in many areas, there’s a deep seated animosity between different communities due to historical and ideological differences. Internet blackouts are done close to any sensitive event, to prevent malicious actors from spreading misinformation/rumours and provoking riots. Have you considered the ethical implications of your service in such cases? Are you willing to take the moral responsibility for the damage to life and property that could be caused using your service?
The End of Private Libraries?
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Show HN: I made Chrome extension to check grammar in Twitter posts with ChatGPT
> In which case I think you can prevent contagion from being too terrible by enforcing smaller modules and single responsibility in a compositional way.

I would classify that as thoughtful interface design.
Thanks, a foreigner here so I just parrot what the locals say :). I do have an oil furnace/boiler, which heats the water in the tank. My "immersion heater" then is so far never been switched on because I just run the boiler for 10 minutes a day.
I guess no one with loud music considers themself an asshole, so this should be actually giving the information on exactly what you mention.
Which is a can of worms by itself which we saw this year with xz-utils.
This is very well put. If the open source repo was named "VSCodium" it would communicate better what is going on. (Chrome / Chromium.)

Edit: to be clear, I think Microsoft should offer VSCodium themselves and state clearly that they take that, bundle it with other stuff, and are calling that blob VSCode.
Any volume which makes your music become my music too without my consent is at asshole level.
The issue is that they do not work. If your constituents made bad investments and are stuck with oil heating because they heard that solar is woke on Fox, you cannot actually have them face the consequences of their actions. You will either not be elected or the media response will be so bad that you won't be able to govern. You will have to bail them out or add exemptions
The fact that such documents even exist is incredible.

Did the Soviet Union keep any such records? Im assuming this is an important leak.

What's frightened me the other day was to look at the BRICS bloc vs NATO in GDP adjusted PPP. BRICS is now the bigger bloc. China holds enormous manufacturing power, Russia is a petro state with a giant military complex being built for Ukraine (and presumably will be used elsewhere if they prevail there). Brasil is pretending to be non aligned but under Lula increasingly China friendly. Our luck is that India is unaligned. But it's impressive to go to GDP PPP and see what BRICS are now some of the biggest economies in the World. Russia is at the size of Germany.
I doubt you're authoring all web components by hand. I doubt you're not using any external dependencies.
> which means different parts of the bridge were moving in different directions, putting strain on it.

Thanks! But how was this not noticed[1] by the maintenance and renovation works? I would assume, such patterns should show visible cracks or some symptoms beforehand.

[1] I know that, for a huge structure, a few mm movement is tough to even notice without major equipment and monitoring, but still I believe inspections are done frequently for structural changes and damages.
I could find some discussion references on the mailing list, but nothing on the main website/wiki. Would be great if this could get documented on the website. (I'm filing a PR for endoflife.date/ffmpeg)
Article has a minor misconception, D&D sword weights include the scabbard which mostly brings them in line with historical weapons.

The ‘large’ weapons are excessively heavy, but players can be a lot stronger than actual humans.
That means that, beyond all the movies, although germans have been watching Magnum, The Denver Clan, The Duke Brothers, etc. I doubt their american counterparts have been watching DSDS, Die Rosenheim-Cops, GZSZ, usw.

They're not buying red cups because they've heard about them, or have seen them on product tie-ins; they buy them because the american media they consume includes them, and red plastic drinking cups stand out as something peculiarly american.
100%, some people do work better from the office. But, from experience managing teams in the company above, those are far and few between.
I love this and I remember your amazing work on wavepot from back in the day <3
It was what got me excited about audio dev, now pursuing a similar quest.
Oh Shit: AI Works
Yes. Temperature and flow rate are adjusted by the two knobs. It has its own 40A breaker at my distribution box.
Have you considered leveraging steganography in the sneakernet transport layer? Maybe something like https://steganography.live/info
Perhaps I should have clarified that “success” is relative. Success for someone born into poverty is different than someone born into royalty.

I’m focused on the qualities we should focus on in our adulthood to maximize our personally determinable chances of success. I believe all adults should do that for our own lives.

With that view, the question is whether homeless people benefit from being clever, brave, and persistent more than any other mix of traits, for example towards the pursuit of getting off the streets. I would say yes!

What do you think?
Can anyone recommend a good book on the subject of microtubules and consciousness?
What political decision influenced the purchase? What would have been the expectations of such a purchase?
I was just looking at their products. Looks like IDEA is aimed at Java developers, but I assume that doesn’t prevent it being used for other languages?
Scientists Made an AI Model That Beats CAPTCHAs Every Single Time
That's not how things work in many countries, so it's a legit statement to find it creepy and dangerous, even though it is not illegal in the US.
Anecdata, the younger people in my team are reacting worse than the more senior ones. Senior / more tenured their response has been: "well, this is how it was for the past 20 years before COVID". While the juniors are the ones who dislike the idea of long commutes, less WLB (no more quick errands during work) etc.
Murder is a bad behavior. Am I a fool to think there should be laws against murder?
Not sure. Perhaps a further investigation by the authorities will reveal the reason.
As knowledge becomes more powerful in the sense of enabling us to do more things, it becomes more tempting to use it to gain short-term advantages that typically have long-term detrimental consequences. Such as AI for example, which is too quick at disrupting employment or cheap energy to generate bitcoin but is problematic for local energy grids. The more powerful the knowledge, the easier it is for people to ignore the downsides at the expense of fellow human beings.

That is especially true because we have an economic system that rewards short-term improvements in the efficiency of the system, regardless of the long-term costs. Fossil fuel use, cutting down local forests (has relatively litle short-term impact, but adds up).

And, as we pursue knowledge and technology more vigorously, we slowly lose other forms of gaining knowledge such as a relationship with nature.

Human society is advanced with regard to its knowledge capability, but exceptionally primitive with regard to basic wisdom about community, love, nature, and friendship. We continually donwgrade these things to make way for new technology, and the prisoner's dilemma (tech gives some people advantages, so everyone is pressured to use it), makes it hard to make decisions for the long-run like the Amish do.
That's not quite true though, you can get a pretty well paid job in FAANG adjacent that leaves you with enough free time too.

Living in expensive areas has a lot of cons too, a social life for instance, which you don't really have in a rural area. If that's not important to you, great, seems like you have it all figured it out, live on a small income in the middle of nowhere, but not everybody's dream looks like this
There was a video, I don't remember who the host was but it was a STEM educator, who picked up a medieval sword at a museum (with permission) and remarked at how light it was. Since then I've internally thought about how unrealistic so much of everything is. Of course it needs to be light, just like everything in modern day. They lug it around the countryside, swing it, etc. Heavy swords just don't make sense.
Godot just posted their damage control response on X:

https://x.com/godotfoundation/status/1840721449364988300/pho...

https://x.com/godotfoundation/status/1840721449364988300/pho...

1) On Friday, we made a tweet that unexpectedly led to a wave of harassment directed at our staff and community. We unequivocally condemn this abuse.

The volume of negative engagement overwhelmed our moderation efforts. While attempting to protect the Godot community we mistakenly blocked individuals who were not participating in the harassment. The Godot Foundation Board takes full responsibility for these moderation actions.

If you believe you were blocked in error and have not violated our Code of Conduct, please contact us with the form linked below. We are committed to swiftly rectifying any mistakes.

We firmly stand by our mission to keep our community spaces free from hate, discrimination, and other toxic behaviors.

– The Godot Foundation Board

2) On community moderator Xananax

We strongly condemn the harmful language used by Xananax, moderator of an unofficial Godot-related Discord server.

We want to clarify that Xananax is not hired by nor a spokesperson for the Godot Foundation.

As an organization, we have our own official Discord server, moderated together with new volunteers vetted by our team.

– The Godot Foundation

I found their responses to be... insufficient and potentially blind to the amount the debacle affected public perception?
You think they want to compete? None of them want to compete. They want to be a protected monopoly.
If it wasn't too old to be the case I'd think that article was just A.I. Slop or charitably something like technobabble from the Sternbach and Okuda era of Star Trek. "I can do math because I'm a thetan" shows that emotionally true stories can beat out factually true stories in science as well as politics.
>Russia is at the size of Germany

You cannot trust any numbers coming out of Russia. They stopped publishing a bunch of them, and those they give out are clearly doctored.
Thanks, so I guess the actual plumbing might not be pressure rated, so the power shower is a cheaper upgrade compared to redoing the whole house's plumbing.
It's an efficient way, but I vehemently disagree with "just". No technology is "just" anything. All of these little "improvements" constitute a very advanced modification of human beings to become more mechanical and less empathetic towards life.
Thanks for the info - curious to look at these trials and see if there are sustained long term positive outcomes on the PANSS or these are just safety /tolerability studies.