skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this a bad thing? Its possible I'm missing some nuance because I have not dealt with the US education system in a long time, but I think one fundamental problem with universal education is that one really bad student can easily ruin the education of dozens of others.

If anything, there should be some sort of behavioral/educational reform schools, probably operated in something closer to a military fashion, to help out not only these kids, but the countless others who they'd otherwise be disrupting.

This issue is one (of many) for why if I did decide to have my children go to school in the US it would be at a high performing private school. I'd actually prefer they have the less bubbly experience of public school, but I'm not willing to tolerate having their classes disrupted by kids who are just bee-lining to jail anyhow. I had that upbringing and I think it substantially delayed my 'educational maturity'.
You have a bad DVD player and good internet. Lots of people have the opposite: crummy internet where there's no guarantee that they'll get through a streamed movie without buffering issues.

On the article itself: indeed sometimes I enjoyed the directors commentaries as much as the films or shows themselves. In particular Requiem for a Dream, where the director's commentary adds a lot of context.
it's right there, in the post that you've conveniently ignored for two days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364178
Have you looked into something like Materialize? That’d give you realtime updates over even materialised views, works to back Hasura etc.
> call htmx "minimal JS"

"Minimal", maybe, "small to no", nay :D
The web has been plagued with ads for decades. Pop up blockers were the old thing, and everyone knows the screenshot of the internet explorer loaded with toolbars.
It's in the constitution so it's quite difficult to change, requires more than just a simple majority.
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I didn't like DVD. Those screens and advertisements that only made you loose time.

I used those to "learn" French and German and the subtitles never matched what was said. When you are advanced in the language you don't care, but when you are learning it is a big flaw.

The DVD usually only had English (and another one) audio tracks, subtitles in several languages, but not audio. You had to buy another DVD from Amazon.de or something, when it was way harder than today.

I find arcade games or classics like Sonic or Mario, brilliant, even today. Sometimes the emulator is not properly setup: Nobody saw individual pixels on CRT screens.
iOS is great for subscriptions - there’s a list in the App Store and I trust apple to allow me to cancel them if I’m no longer using them. It’s clear whether I’m signing up to monthly or weekly.
It means the common use of "fair use" is different to the legal definition. It doesn't mean either are wrong. It isn't wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable. In common use it is.

Similarly the common use of "open source" is different to the OSI's preferred definition. Note that the OSI's preferred definition is not a legal definition. It's just what they prefer.
IMHO the number 1 threath to look out for is premature 'maturation'. The strenght of a small business is in agility and getting things done. As you grow there will be people urging you to become 'more professional' and introduce more process, management and a formalized approach. After all, the big succesfull companies work this way, and you want to be big an successful no?

Wrong! Allthis will achieve is an explosion in overhead, deffered responsibility and learning, and as you get mired down into the spiral of ever more CYA instead of agile GTD your top delivery performers will leave as an MBA cadre and their process drones take over leaving you wondering where it all went wrong.

This is the famous 'wall' business hits typically around the 50 headcount. Meanwhile truly successful scalers postponed 'growing up' as long as possible and even then some, keeping the startup mentality even when they hit 1000+ people and many product lines.
It isn't so straight forward.

Van Morrison is a world famous musician who has performed on stages since the 1960s. When he last visited my city about a decade ago he played for nearly the entire duration of the show with his back to the crowd as a way of minimizing the performance anxiety that he felt.
That's as steady as she gets, baby.
If you look at the lifecycle analysis of ICE cars, burning the fuel is the major contributor.

So if you drive an average amount with those cars you're not saving the planet by continuing to drive them.

In a well functioning system you'd be selling them on to people who drive very little and are old and set in their ways and replacing them with an EV.
How does it compare to Lens?
Yes, but it was trained on 2018 data and earlier.
You might be easier to track with it, but it is not hard to end up with a unique signature anyway. I can already be uniquely identified, so sending "Do Not Track" only has potential upsides. I have seen websites that claim to honor it so it seems to be doing something and I wish they wouldn't remove it.
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It seems to me that the extra features on DVD were originally part of the marketing benefits driving people to adopt the format because the studios preferred it to VHS because of CSS and region-locking. Then they found they had painted themselves into a corner making all these extra features that people came to expect, until finally streaming let them get back to “just the movie”.
My computer illiterate friends use to ask me to download this or that movie for them from torrents. I don't use streaming because I dont like proprietary software, but seems that there is not every movie on those services, also some kinds of censourship use to deplatform the content from time to time. From my experience, licensed CD and DVD plays well, music CD plays excellent even if it looks too scratched to be good, but any self-burned disc from 00s is a lottery and typically requires some error-recovery software to be read.
You mention national and international phone calls. Do these virtual devices appear local to the customers region, to where your servers are located or are there options?

Could someone use your service to run an Android device that behaves as if in the United States, for example, to use Android apps or web services that are region blocked and restrict use of VPN/Proxy?
> Full-page reloads are, ceteris paribus, always slower than some JSON payload

That must explain why websites are so fast and responsive these days! /s

If you're wedded to the idea of dynamic reloads, which - imho - you ought not be, HTMX or Turbo are ways of achieving that without needing to write any JS. HTMX is designed to complete HTML as a hypermedia language, which it does using JS, but it itself does not require any additional JS to use. I'm sure the authors would dearly love it if HTMX's ideas were taken directly into HTML5, and they could scrap the JS library altogether. Its use of JS is an implementation detail borne of necessity.

If you're coming from SPAs and can't imagine websites working any other way, I highly recommend reading something like Hypermedia Systems (https://hypermedia.systems/). Come with an open mind, let it be your gateway drug. HTMX builds on a very old tradition of hypermedia, all the way back to Computer Lib/Dream Machines, through systems like HyperCard, to the actual, original definition of RESTfulness (that modern Ajax SPAs generally do not meet). It draws deep from the hacker ethos (you know, that thing that this website is about!).

Personally, I don't even think HTMX is all that necessary. What I feel like you're missing is that the overwhelming majority of websites are technically very simple, and their value to their users is in their contents, not in their stack. Did you notice the full page reload when you hit Reply on your comment, here on HN? Were you terribly put out by it? Would HN be an improved website were it full of spinners and Ajax? I would respectfully suggest it would not. It delivers amazing value running as a Lisp program on a machine under someone's desk.
*Cinephiles took the DVD boom era for granted

The reason it ended is because the general public doesn't care.
> I've always wondered why the US didn't change this law (to right of blood)?

Because that is enshrined in the Constitution [1] and amendments are very very rare to happen [2] even in a time when politicians were actually interested in running the country vs just "owning" the opposing side.

And there's many things that more desperately need constitutional reform than getting rid of "anchor babies" - FPTP, Electoral College, executive orders, or actually enforce the separation between state and religion to name a few.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt14-S1-1-1...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_Cons...
Not that I am aware of. But I am trying to adopt some ADHD strategies to better handle some anxiety related problems.
Tesla is a distant first.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoZhER_-nhg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeNKYRWGgBc
> it was a good deal for everyone involved

It wasn’t, though. There were no immigration limits and those immigrants could come to the Americas freely. They just couldn’t afford the trip due to the extreme poverty in England.

In the 1740s one way trip to America cost around £8. An entirely unskilled laborer could hope to make at least £10-15 per year in England and about double that in Massachusetts.

The standard contract for indentured servitude was 4-6 years. That is an extremely bad and exploitative deal. About 40% APR especially considering that the maximum legally allowed interest rate on loans was 5% (which might have been a part of the problem; if 20% loans were legal maybe someone would have offered them to immigrants).

However unfortunately with no disposable income and no credit facilities you didn’t really have a choice so in that sense working for food and board for 5 years and possibly getting some land afterwards (though it became somewhat uncommon by the 1700s unless you wanted to move to the frontier) might not have been such a bad deal.
Note his "build a business on it" angle. It's not an open source problem. Greedy techbros want free support forever from the community while contributing almost nothing back. Same for large corporations.

They see this as "rug pulling". I think developers need to do a lot more of that for things to change.
Size of the market is for all practical purposes function of price. The competition to robotaxis is first and foremost humans. The major question is if robotaxi companies can provide the service at the cost of ubers *profitably*.
"God does not play dice with the universe" said Einstein.

But he hasn't met my Dungeon Master...
Gliding bomb hitting an apartment building must have been mentioned in the news, care to provide a link?

I googled a bit, but all I found was gliding bombs falling nearby and doing some damage to the buildings, but not direct hits.

After seeing reports like this one[0], saying that those inhuman Russians hit Kharkov residential area destroying a shopping mall and then seeing true picture where two Ukrainian MLRS launchers were parked nearby and were hit by Russian missiles during the night when mall was closed[1][2], I'm a bit skeptical.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/world/europe/russia-ukrai...

[1] https://t.me/ASupersharij/28133

[2] https://t.me/aleksandr_skif/3150
Was it just me who thought that this was _already_ how LLMs worked? I'd always assumed they were -- so to speak -- swimming in their own embeddings space before coming out on the other side with language. But it turns out they're just feeding their own incremental outputs back into themselves, without a memory of the path they took to get there. Yowzer!
Taking scientific knowledge to their weird limits might also signal something perhaps more likely: a missing puzzle in our knowledge
You should have invested in a good quality player. One with lots of buffer memory, and hardware acceleration of formats. People bought the cheapest they could find and then they ranted. At first good players were very expensive but then they became just a little more expensive that bad ones.
Go can actually decode numbers into an “arbitrary precision” raw token (json.Number, which is a wrapper around []byte). You can turn this on at the decoder level or for a particular field. I often do this for more fine grained control of number decoding without needing to drop to the tokenizer.
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I am no tech bro, I am just an old retired bloke who enjoys using tech exactly how I want it to be.

I HAVE NO ADS ON MY PHONE.

How is this, that an old non techy can manage this seemingly difficult task.

First, I change. the DNS settings on my Pixel 4A and my families and friends phones.

Mullvad provides this as a free service for anyone not using their VPN.

I use the family filter on our phones: There are others.

family.dns.mullvad.net

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

secondly I install, either a Lineage or E/OS rom on our phones. Some of my family still use google apps so they prefer the E/OS roms which has microG.

easy peasy, no ads
I've tried searching for C++ but the search bar straight up refuses it
If you can get a quantum computer to take discrete logarithms on secp256k1 or mess with SHA256, then you can either get $$$ very quickly or you nuke almost the entire crypto market. For the former, you'd have to keep your discovery secret but just be unusually good at minting new coins.

Getting crypto coins to move over to post-quantum seems to me to be a much harder problem than e.g. rushing out a new version of TLS or SSH.

The key to Satoshi's original coins is a rapidly _apprecicating_ secret at the moment, but paradoxically also one that might immediately crater out if someone actually discovers a generic way to break the crypto involved.

I'm not an expert on this angle of things but: as far as I know, Shor's quantum algorithm breaks both RSA (factoring) and DSA (finite-field discrete logarithms). But I'm not sure if it works the same way against elliptic curves - or at least you'd probably need a bigger computer to attack the same level of security.

It's not clear to me if a quantum computer could effectively attack SHA256, either: Shor definitely does not help, Grover cuts the search space from 256 to 128 bits but that's still not practical to iterate over.
Because it's all just scaled perceptron isn't it?

The reality is that we had to solve vanishing / exploding gradient problem. That wasn't accomplished by getting faster compute, but by devising better architectures and using activation functions with properties we needed.

That's how ANNs got out of the "somewhat useful" into "really useful" categories. Hardware helped move it even further. But without the work of computer scientists and mathematicians we would never get to the point when the hardware matters.
As long as your old cars are like Toyota corolla/camry’s and not like giant gas guzzling SUV’s or trucks keeping them on the road is better than buying a new EV IMO. I think the current EV gen is kind of doomed because of the fact the next EV gen is going to have massive QOL features the current one doesn’t and waiting for a more compelling car is worth doing IMO
My fav was when a bus driver killed a pedestrian but Muni blamed Cruise for his death because it was allegedly blocking responders. They managed to completely shift media blame from bus drivers to evil robocars.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/12/muni-bus-killed-san-franci...
> I can't even imagine why I should bother trying to understand it

Why should you? I agree with your sentiment, super advanced quantum physics is probably out of reach for 99% of the population (I'm estimating here but I think it's reasonable to assume that's the average IQ of the physics PHDs who can actually understand this stuff to a deep level). You can probably make the effort to understand something about what's going on there, but it will be very superficial. Going advanced quantum physics takes a huge amount of effort and an incredible capacity for learning complex things.
And even the advanced physics guys don't and can't understand a bunch of very elementary things about reality, so it's not as if the feeling of not understanding stuff ever goes away.
Controversial statement I fully believe in. It is not a decline. Tech workers were always like that. We just liked to not talk about it and call everyone who notice "sjw". Because it felt shameful.
There were footnotes I've seen on Navajo topics that they tried Satsuma(Kagoshima) dialect for the same purpose, but there were no shortages of speakers at the Allied side and the use ended quickly.

Uniqueness of Navajo and other Native American languages was that they were all complete multi millennia isolate from English thanks to how USA came to be. Japan wasn't like that so dialects aren't divergent enough for this use case. Ainu might be a candidate but it's way too high profile.
> why not? it's just a matter of ..., discipline, and ignoring peer pressure at social gatherings.

Both of which are very dependent on willpower, and as much as we would like to believe we have control over, it's highly affected by emotions depending on the individual.

Great that you can sustain it but phrasing it as an easy thing to do is ignoring the fact that simple things are not necessarily easy to do.
Cool I had this idea about 10 years ago. I was walking around a city alone with headphones on while Google maps told me how to get to my destination. Thought how nice it would be to combine gps and audio to let me explore and learn. Glad to see someone executing on it!
Why? There has to be some pleasure or goal derived from it. I don't think I'd particularly enjoy learning to speak Swahili.
Geomagnetic storms cause "mass migrations" of satellites
Why? There has to be some pleasure or goal derived from it. I don't think I'd particularly enjoy learning to speak Swahili just because I'm learning.
If Tesla's Powerwall's are so safe, why does the legal agreement to buy one absolve them of all responsibility if there is a fire? This is what has been preventing me from considering buying one in Vermont.
> After spending more than $10 billion on its robotaxi unit, General Motors
is abandoning its Cruise driverless ride-hailing service.

Where is the money?
I don't mean to be as snarky as Cruise founder, but how can you burn that amount of money and not show results?
I’ve worked with quite a few mi/redmi for a project and even owned one (for a while) and never experienced the described few-days settling period. They just worked without any slowdowns. I literally set up a few new phones a day and put it into work. I guess gp describes some sort of misconfig or otherwise irregular behavior.

It was a couple years ago though, software could change.

Anyways, paying a shitload of money and getting ads in your face every few minutes or every other tap is unjustified. But that is android’s nature, honestly what did OP expect? That google will save them from itself? I’d buy a decent non-android instead.
I mean Waymo already has competitors, Uber, Lyft, and regular taxis. Right now Uber and Lyft are typically strategically priced to be slightly cheaper than taxis are but I think Uber has enough margin to cut costs to compete with Waymo as they enter more markets, and Waymo needs to get people on board to make robotaxis a real thing people use and to offset their dev costs.
> With streaming, you click on it, and it plays.

Unless your provider or server is running low on bandwidth, then it stutters or lowers the quality :D

With both disks and internet my method is to copy the entire content locally before watching it. I do it even for youtube videos (also because the browser doesn't prevent screen dimming but the video player does).
> he only needed the story as a vehicle of meaning

Agreed and I wonder if the same could be said of 2001?
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Techbros and large corporations still have the original source code they built their business on. What they want is free community updates and support forever while they give almost nothing back. So it's not a licensing problem. It's not a free software problem. It's a "free as in beer" support problem.

AGPL only slightly prevents this by forcing them to share their changes to the source. And usually this is not very useful to the community, anyway. And very little effort. And the same people scream it's an evil license. They want free (as in beer) stuff forever and it's not just the source code. It's very ungrateful of them.
One thing I'd be interested in, which kind of belongs in this space:

In the last years, there were lots of performance reducing software patches for security flaws in CPUs, e.g. meltdown, specter and god knows what. Is there a way to disable those security fixes and increase performance, e.g. for servers that only ever run self written backend code and if so, is it common practice?

I feel like I wouldn't want those security fixes on that server I am running which only runs postgres, is only accessible to other servers via the postgres port and does nothing else.
I would assume the inverse relationship. That enabling the op cache would reduce power draw. Though I also wouldn’t be surprised if they’re always running the decoder.
Wow, I've been looking for something like this. Can I bring my own esim?
Doesn’t that lock you out of banking apps?
bro is entering his midlife crisis
Nah thats old. They now use https://www.sony-semicon.com/files/62/pdf/p-15_IMX490.pdf and they run multiexposure on every frame. Stupid high dynamic range
Hmm, I think I see. If I understand correctly, your opinion is that independent of the motivations of the forks, independent users switching to the forks could have been avoided with better communication? I guess that's a fair stance, although I'm not sure I fully agree with it. From what I can tell, there's a fairly large contingent of open source users who won't be happy with a license being changed to something they don't consider open source regardless of the rationale.
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Self driving cars don't have to be on par with human drivers, they have to be WAY WAY safer else public backlash is likely to ban them.

It's not like Waymo couldn't be rolling out faster, but it's obvious they're doing everything they can to maintain the public's trust in them because once that's lost it'll be incredibly hard to get it back again.

And ultimately the law is one thing, but if people legitimately see Cybercabs as dangerous to them personally they'll take things into their own hands. Someone assassinated a CEO in New York a few days ago, you think pissed off people won't molotov a cybertaxi?
I thought that was the PAL, not the presidential part.

Basically, engineers added a new layer of security, personnel on the ground promptly found a workaround. Nothing ever changes.
Eh at least on linux you could skip the ads. On windows or hardware players it was annoying.

Not that VHS didn't have ads. I remember my little mermaid VHS that had a few minutes of promo for disneyland before starting.