skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An odd choice of dates in the charts: 1969, 2009, 2017, 2022. 40 years between the first two and less than ten between the other ones. I would have liked to see more uniform spacing between the first two to understand whether the change across those 40 years was gradual.

Our family suffers this insanity, too. This is one of the few things my spouse absolutely refuses to budge on: she won't let our child walk, bicycle, or even take the school bus to school because of vague "danger" that the news media is pumping into her. School is only 3 miles away and we live in a peaceful rural-to-suburban area. The kid could walk that distance at midnight and not be even remotely at risk. No facts, statistics or reasoning works.
But it does cause it because every car needs to get checked off. When I was a kid in the 80s, there were still quite a few kids that got picked up, but no one was picking them up from the door. They'd park somewhere around the school within a block or two.
And targeted by tens of millions of developers for billions of users.
its crazy that the fridge and coffeemaker needs to talk to the internet
CO₂ is captured from the atmosphere in biomass as C

C in biomass is converted to C in bio-oil, with relatively small release of CO₂

C in bio-oil is injected deep underground for permanent storage/sequestration

If this process had not happened, the C in the biomass would have been entirely emitted as CO₂ through rotting or burning.
My main frustration with the person I was responding to is that a lot of the terms we are arguing about are ill-defined, and yet he's arguing them with a lot of vigor.

There is also a time dimension to software. I have been on some occasions the only developer of pieces software that were tackling hairy problems that teams of "normal" developers would avoid. I always wanted to solve those problems in a way that would make everyone's life easier. To do that I had to spend a ton of deep focus time on modeling the problems effectively, and if I was successful, people who were put off by the problem space would come and contribute, because they found the model amenable. Or they thought it'd benefit them to be a part of a project that's picking up steam. A lot of these people would fix small issues here and there, but some of them actually donated a lot of focus and helped take these projects to new levels. The ones making the deep changes always cared deeply about the problem space, or brought a lot of knowledge from another subset of cs, and I wouldn't call them "normal". I think it is a disservice to the sacrifices they made to do what nobody else felt like doing and throw a blanket statement like "teams of mundane contributors do the really important work".

This is not a dig at "normal" devs - I have been the "normal" dev on many projects, but because of my experiences I try to give credit where credit is due.

I also detest the 10x thing exactly for the reasons you pointed out.
The concept in the article is foreign to nearly the entire planet.
Wait, people actually bought those?
Right re 2000.
At many schools, the school bus was an embarrassment too, or at least some routes as neighborhood demographics changed

The most rambunctious, violent, harrowing and underpoliced part of the day

Not offering a solution, just an observation
> Reticulum network

https://reticulum.network/index.html

https://github.com/markqvist/reticulum
"he decided" is probably one of the issues here. back in the day it would have been "this is what your doing now kid"
You can both love gen AI, and support an artist's right to decide who, when, where and how their work can be used.
Yes, they do it, but usually in devices where it's basically part of DRM. I don't think engineers put that much though in security of soundbars.
And the vehicles are limited by the roads that are available to line up on.

And the roads are limited by the school's ability to acquire land.

And no reasonable school is ever going to set aside any more land for a car line than is absolutely necessary that could otherwise be used to provide more school building/field.
The Photographer Who Takes No Pictures
IME people who say this in the workplace tend to overestimate the importance of one aspect (usually the product development itself) and ignore the importance of things like taking a product to manufacturing, getting technical costing under control, or adapting to user needs. There's a lot of fluff in the article, but this part in the conclusion and your statements about "A people hiring A people" or the example of Linus' place in the kernel all align:

> It’s a competitive advantage to build an environment where people can be hired for their unique strengths, not their lack of weaknesses; where the emphasis is on composing teams

There's plenty of otherwise "10x" programmers who go outside of their strengths and suffer for it.
While I agree with this wholeheartedly, one aspect of the Web that constraint systems don't play nice with is flowing content. Typical example would be text.

The reason is that the width/height of an element with flowing content cannot be described by a linear constraint. (not even a quadratic constraint, since there's a discontinuous jump when text wraps from N lines to N+1 lines) So when you mix these kinds of elements into a Cassowary-based system, you're trying to fit a square into a circle-shaped hole, and run into weird edge cases that require workarounds like manually adjusting constraints based on ad-hoc logic, or running the layout solver multiple times to try different sizes for a flowing element, etc.
I hoped neuroscience, as a field, was on the cusp of a physical theory of learning and memory. I dreamt of an intersection of information theory, neuroscience, and ML.

Alas, state of the art in neuroscience / neural engineering is closer to bloodletting than a mechanistic theory of learning and memory.
Items that are not obvious:

1. Removing part 68 certification & testing requirements for telecom devices.

2. Removing Part 15 certification & testing requirements for digital devices that have squarewaves of 1 KHz or higher.
There are zombie startups. The business has stalled out, but breaks even. The staff and investors are checked out. Ambitious product people show up with big ideas that never work and then leave. They keep going until someone finds a buyer or the business fails.
I'm not in disagreement, robot cars would be awesome, but why do we need scifi technology here in the usa to solve something that is already a solved problem the world over.

It really is a mental problem more than anything else. The inability to imagine a virtuous public realm welcoming to children, conjure its value in one's mind eye, and commit to the necessary material changes.
Those early tokens aren't necessarily immutable, they still could be "edited" depending on UI. Human conversation and even internal compositional cogitation is full of "what I meant by that" or "on second thought" type clarifications and corrections. Sometimes these aren't verbosely disclaimed, there's body language involved. Likewise there could be occasional lookback parsing and later blocks could convey modifications. The UI can then highlight those revisions transparently by applying strikethrough styling, coloration, dotted underline with tooltip on hover, etc.

Like we've seen with human interactions and media, this may be susceptible to misinterpretation by the reader or listener, especially via second-hand clips or screenshots lacking full context. But if the UX is clean and speedy it would be less likely.
> can just wait for this problem to go away as robocars becomes the norm

I live in a well-to-do community where many kids are chauffeured to school. The problem isn't just the parents' wasted time. It's the congestion and lack of agency this behaviour bestows on children. Head to head, I'd bet the kid who can navigate themselves to and from school outcompetes the one chauffered in a robotaxi in novel environments.
But you see, the problem with offline use is the manufacturer can't claw back value in the future. How will you keep shareholders happy if you can't arbitrarily push ads, hobble existing functionality, or impose a new subscription service?
I frequently contemplate the cumulative pollution of all these cars idling in every town across the country 5 days a week twice a day.
Dogs hate this one simple trick
I'm hard pressed to see that going well for them. They were elected in part by isolationists who want to keep the US out of war at all costs. The administration's allies have a remarkable ability to change their minds when told to, but I feel as if a actual bloodshed would be a step too far even for them.

They're used to having the administration say all sorts of absurd things with little to no intention of actually following through. It keeps their opponents fighting against things that don't matter, while making making the things they're actually doing seem like trivial matters in comparison.

There are certainly members of their party who would be thrilled to see the US engage in expansionist wars. But they'll also tolerate not getting it. They're happy enough to see the US send the contradictory messages of both isolation and saber-rattling. Like the isolationist wing, they are used to hearing the contradictions and believing that the ones they like are real -- and yet won't check back later.
I’m across the street from a school and there is always one parent that parks in my condo building’s driveway and blocks it. It would be too much for them to be in the line!

Then sometimes, they leave their car and go in the school and we are trying to home or leave and they get angry with us!
In 2013 I met a close friend of Steve Jobs
Remember when Crowdstrike crashed half the computers on the planet for a full day? Well, if you do, you're one of the few, because people are still using Crowdstrike, and the stock is still doing well overall.
The echo chamber on Instagram is deep. Even when there are a ton of comments, they’re sorted beginning with the most “relevant” (i.e. worldview affirming). So if you’re viewing a controversial video, you’ll see comments echoing your own beliefs, and others will see the opposite. You’ll both move onto the next video thinking “wow, everyone agrees with me!”

I deleted instagram last year and haven’t reinstalled it. Those reels are so addicting. I’m glad I never installed TikTok because I imagine it’s just as bad. I still suffer from YouTube Shorts but at least the mobile web UI is janky enough to eventually push me out of its trance.
Unfortunately we are one of those families.

The bus service is completely unreasonable. They shopped it out to the lowest bidder and the stops are all in terrible spots on busy streets. It also takes longer to sit and wait in the cold with a 6 year old than it would be to just drive there and back.
The pickup point should be 1km from the school unless you have a doctors note. Kids need to walk that much or more anyway for health.
I've never heard of this call-out system. It sounds like how you'd run a prison Our schools just open the doors and the kids run to the cars.
We need busses.

If it has to be techy-flashy, would it satisfy you if the bus was self-driving?
Ask HN: What Agent framework/SDK would use now?
For those who built advanced RAG and then transitioned to a more agentic architecture in established medium/big corporations, if you were allowed to start fresh today, what would you use?
Reading the post, I initially thought you literally went and got donuts and drove around to drop them off to local people in your fediverse. That would be a really cool way to meet people for those working from home, but obviously it would be logistically difficult.

I agree with you that it probably doesn't quite work the same as a 1-on-1 or group interaction since it's all public. In some ways it reminds me too much of the pandemic era where we'd have a "party" over zoom. It never felt quite as authentic as a real party where you could chat directly with a coworker off to the side and really be honest about without worrying about other people listening in.
I guess I’d ask why is something having been first released in the late 80s, or any decade, as positive or negative? Some things are still used because they solve the problems people have. Some things are still used just because of industry capture. I’m not honestly sure where I’d put Postgres.

Are there specific things you’d want from a modern database?
Bringing up UK in the context made me worried about you.
the unhealthy food is basically a bribe to show up, isn't it? so you'd need a replacement for that if it's not going to be a tasty food.

I've seen some that just do coffee which is pretty reasonable health impact to me
We park on the other side of a city park from my daughter's school. ...The five minute walk thru the park together is a highlight of my day.
Just offering alternatives seems to solve most of that issue. I've got some friends who are vegetarian, so whenever they come over, I just grab some vegan sausages or some vegetarian alternative to what I'm making. It's not a ton more work, and everyone gets to participate.
Yes, around 90% of laptops sold in the last ten years have unified memory.
Yeah, this is much better than the numerous suburbs without sidewalks (such a weird thing from a European perspective) but that country road with ample green space left and right? It's fine. Would benefit from sidewalks and bike lane of course, but the author makes it sound like there is a steep cliff left and right of the road.
Robots Refresher: robots.txt – a flexible way to control how machines explore
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Yeah, this seems like a pretty surprising omission from the article. In particular, it stuck out to me at this point:

> In fact, in 2022 only about 28% of US students used the school bus to get to school.1 Using the school bus is trending down, as shown in Chart I. In 1969, about 38% of students used the bus, similar to 2009 with 37.5%, and further dropping in 2017 to 36.5%.

In other words, for nearly half a century, the percentage of students taking the bus only fell by 1.5%, and then five years after that, it fell by an additional 8.5%. It _might_ not be covid, but clearly something became a factor between 2017 and 2022 that wasn't at least as far back to 1969, and I feel like it's the obvious hypothesis that would need to be addressed first.
Sorry, but this one's on the parents. My mom would never put up with driving us in every day. It was either take the bus or walk, you lazy kid.
Anyone can create a CRUD API. It takes a _lot_ of work to make a CRUD API that scales with high availability and a reasonable consistency model. The vast majority of engineers would take months or years to write demo.

If you don't believe me, you might want to reconsider how skilled the average developer _really_ is.
Exactly - that's the flaw in trying to extract infinite growth from finite products. We've turned durable goods into rental services without consent, all to please quarterly earnings reports.

The tragedy is that "respecting customer ownership" is now seen as leaving money on the table rather than building lasting brand loyalty through quality.
Yes, all of those are in the realm of possibilities, but has it ever been the norm?

In my experience, products like this are only get updates when the company finds a way to extract more money:

- add more ads

- add more ads that pretend not to be ads

- to remove functionality, so it won't cannibalize sales of more expensive product
Yes... And why is theft bad?
In a separate system maintained by the DuckDB cargo cultists.
Such CGNAT should also be more likely to support PCP than a normal NAT. It does suck that, AFAIK, no browser has integrated support for this into their WebRTC stacks :/.
> schools need to dismiss the kid to their parent

Schools (EDIT: feel the) need to dismiss the kid to someone. That could be another parent, in the case of carpooling. It could be a bus driver. The root problem is parents chauffering their kids to and from school.
It's supposedly doable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43361159

Maybe hasn't been done, but I agree with some of the other comments around here that if this were truly important, someone would've done it. Or at least if a browser is going to support it, it should only be enabled via some hidden dev setting.
Well I'm not sure what use you'd have out of Skype integration when Skype itself is being axed in a couple of months
Normally I’d ding a comment like this as low-effort, but… I honestly can’t think of any more appropriate reaction.

I know I’m behind the times, but I was surprised recently when, at an elementary school in the US, they showed me painted lines on the floor of the classroom, indicating the zones out of the line of fire for somebody shooting through the small, jail-like window in the door… apparently they train the babies on this.

I wonder what led up to a system like that—overcompensation for a really big mistake in the past? Abstract fears? The genuine wishes of the parents?

(Edit: looks from sibling comments like this [the pickup line technique] might be a hangover from the excesses of the COVID times…)
To be fair, it's not "obviously" better, but it opens a new point on the tradeoff curve. For a lot of use cases full autoregression is clearly better, and for some others ful diffusion will still be better.

Autoregressivity has high quality outputs but is fairly slow.
Diffusion has low quality output but is quite fast.

This allows you to go in the middle, not as high quality as full autoregression and not as fast as full diffusion, but a balance between both.
Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs
The Road to Mainstream Matrix
We bought a samsung tv in 2016 and it slowly became unusable by mid-2020. Fortunately it got dropped by the movers and we were able to justify buying a new TV (LG). The LG UI/UX is awful though, I wish we'd bought a sony. LG TVs don't have a way to simply select "HDMI1/2/3/4" you're stuck using it's "smart" detection system, which can only be reset by physically unplugging the HDMI cables from the back of the TV, which is never easy to get to. Apparently the solution is to buy Sony and just pay the extra price.

I have a "smart" Samsung TV in my home office but it's never been plugged into the network and has a chromecast and various networked devices plugged in to it as a "dumb tv", that has been working out great, the TV still turns on/off easily and is as fast as the day I bought it (makes sense, it's still running the factory firmware).
The title in HN ("(Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss") is heavily editorialized from that of the NIH blurb ("Timeframe of 8-hour restricted eating irrelevant to weight loss"), but actually better reflects the findings of the actual paper ([1], unfortunately paywalled). They found that people who fasted for 16 straight hours a day lost (a little bit) more weight over 12 weeks than those who followed a Mediterranean diet. However, the weight loss didn't represent a loss of visceral fat (around the abdominal organs, fat which is more likely to be associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and so the essential finding was that the time-restricted fasting made no difference.

1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39775037/
At least I'm a little relieved that Firefox and Safari don't support that either.
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For what age? That's similar to what our school has for kindergarten. But if they did that all the way up to grade 6 it would be a giant mess.
Counter point: I used to walk home from school. Got robbed at gun point several times. Jumped for my skin color numerous times. Had a neighborhood buddy who got stabbed three times on his way home and survived. I can go on and on and on. I had to learn to walk an extra 20-30 minutes to avoid these situations. I will never let my kids walk home in 2025.

Edit: no one told these parents to drive up for pick up like a drive-through. In most cases, it is a choice. You can opt to park like a normal person and walk up. This article is absurd. Most of these parents are too lazy to walk 5 minutes. I’ve seen parents show up 40 minutes to be first in queue…just so they don’t have to get out of their cars. Makes zero sense.
Never heard of pgdog before. How does it compare to citus?
Russia/ukraine war shows that quantity and availability of equipment is ans important as features/quality.

Suppose that 4 grippers can be bought for the price of 1 F35.
That will be more combat missions andgreater contribution to defence
This is why I was adamant that my kids took the school bus when it is an option.

Even though my family has the flexible schedule to handle dropping kids via car, by using the bus system I help support the community and others who might not have that flexibility.

Plus, the school bus is one of the first places a kid might be without (much) adult supervision. A tremendous growth opportunity, where you learn how to deal with discomfort, difference and drama.
At very least, it should be two partitions: previous firmware and current firmware.
I live in a relatively residential neighborhood in NYC next to a school (outside of the congestion zone). The morning dropoffs and afternoon pickups are insane. It literally causes a gridlock for a couple hours in a part of the neighborhood that has like 4 intersections. Somehow we have to get back to the days when parents trusted the community that their kid is going to get home safe, otherwise this nonsense is never going to end.
Photoshop, PDF and Excel are all products that were truly much better than their competitors at the time of their introduction.

Every file format accumulates cruft over thirty years, especially when you have hundreds of millions of users and you have to expand the product for use cases the original developers never imagined. But that doesn’t mean the success wasn’t justified.
I don't think I did - https://i.imgur.com/PzLjlp7.png ... ?
Would you mind sharing those people/firms?
Every generation grows and becomes better than the last*.
The article makes a lot of great points, but looks to miss that kids are enrolled in a lot of after school activities these days.

I was never enrolled in any as a kid and never really expected for my kid to be, because I thought parents were the motivating factor for kids to get into a bunch of activities, but IME they aren't. My kid loves her activities and picking her up to shuttle her directly to it is a lot quicker than using a bus or walking.
So something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756679 can be created using this?
> What's more ridiculous is someone probably sued them

I'd almost bet nobody sued them. (I'll extend: I'd be surprised if a parent has ever won such a case.) An idiot parent made a stink at a PTA meeting and nobody could be bothered going head to head with Karen.