skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point I'm driving at is that most illustrators, given a commission like "cottagecore tech-adjacent young robert moses", would reply not with art but with something like "I have no idea what this means or what you want".

Cottagecore is not exactly a common term after all, it wasn't even clear to me until your reply that it's meant to be an aesthetic at all. For the curious, "Cottagecore, also known as farmcore and countrycore, is inspired by a romanticized interpretation of western agricultural life" [1].

That would be hard enough to draw because it's such an obscure term and even the Aesthetics Wiki doesn't seem to actually give many examples of it. But here it's being asked to modify the style to include "tech adjacency", and also a "young robert moses". Again, most artists would have no idea what this means without looking it up. Even I don't know what it means and I just did look it up (seems to have been some US public official in New York who was involved with centralised urban planning).

DALL-E by its nature can't refuse to draw a picture and so it came up with a looming besuited man with inviting looking cottages in his hands, in a sort of vaguely modern art style that de-emphasises photo realism. That seems pretty astoundingly on target. I don't think I could do better.

Edit: seems this next section is invalid because - indeed - the tweeter was giving DALL-E more than just the prompts he claimed to be giving it, sigh ... leaving it in for posterity

What's amazing about it, is that DALL-E seems able to pick up on very subtle social cues here. Hyper liberal types tend to dislike classical Renaissance style art that's very precise and realistic, much preferring more abstracted styles. Although nothing in the quote asks for a specific style - and assuming the tweeter didn't give more guidance than he claimed - it seems to have picked up that terms like "cottagecore" are only used by a very specific subset of the internet. The linked wiki page starts with a trigger warning, then goes on to explain that "Cottagecore has been also criticized for its romanticism of eurocentric farming life" and being "an inadvertent celebration of the aesthetics of colonialism". "The use of Cottagecore aesthetics has been adopted by the TradWives community and members of the far-right as forms of propaganda".

Again, this use of language is totally bizarre and weird. Maybe the people who use it don't realize how far from normal English they've drifted but DALL-E is clearly able to make the link between "this word appears mostly in web pages that also contain phrases like 'celebration of colonialism'" and "the sort of people who use this type of language like this type of art style". Which is exactly the sort of thing we'd expect it to be able to do given how it works and what else it's capable of, but it's still astounding.

[1] https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Cottagecore
In my experience, international students are very active in grad student unions. Also, good luck bringing in scabs during finals week. Admission runs on a schedule, visas add delays, and even if they show up in time, they'll soon be informed that it's a closed shop and scabbing has financial penalties. Oh, and there's typically a high degree of solidarity between profs and their grad students -- you don't just get admitted by a university, you get admitted by a committee of professors in the department you apply to.
Seems like the reasonable position to hold is that china may not be telling the truth, but it's also probably true that they have very low death rates (eg. in line with taiwan/south korea/japan). The parent post did say "broadly accurate", after all.
Jimmy Carter saved Canadian nuclear reactor after meltdown
I'm a huge privacy advocate, so I'm not trying to do anything nefarious. However, I would like to know if my per visitor type numbers are accurate. As a small business, these numbers are useful even without having any desire of removing anonymity. There's a huge difference from wanting to tracking users and just know the correct number of people visiting.

How can you honestly not think that knowing an accurate count of visitors is a useful metric?
It's free by the way :-)!
I doubt that.
Data hoarding, yes.
Creating unsupportable spreadsheet solutions, yes.
In Sweden, students and graduate students are well-organized/unionized, but the situation for PostDocs and other post-doctoral fixed-term employed academics is dire nonetheless, in particular for immigrants, for whom the fixed-term contracts cause problems with their residence permits, considering recent changes in immigration laws.
I guess maybe the Netherlands seems special in that all education is already split into 3 levels after elementary school, with similar (corresponding) levels for university education.

If any distinction is made, it’ll be on the ‘level’ of education you went to, not what school.
No they shut down all deliveries of food and food stuff like a week before the lockdown. You could still get some during that time, but I have many orders that never shipped. After lockdown started, all deliveries stopped.
I think that you've made your point clear already regarding the literal interpretation of the immigration laws but I think that affected parties such as H1-B visa holders have the right to push for immigration reforms and pressure policy makers for a better outcome for their livelihood.
This looks very nice and the YouTube/Loom integration is very nice.

What target user group are you aiming to serve? Given the number of video tools in the past two years, I find that the vertical served largely determines what features are most valuable.
There are two kind of issue there:

- have no "buffer", meaning living in houses where you can't store food in quantity sufficient for a certain, not little, period of time, in some countries there are even official recommendations like Swiss who recommend one week of food and three days of water (I think, not sure about exact data);

- live in a not-united population that can arise effectively, no government, no power can stop an angry population, they can only try to avoid communications, create confusion and divert anger towards against false/others target.

The first issue might be sorted out if economical conditions allow citizens to live in large-enough homes with room for freezers etc to guarantee even a month of autonomy. The second unfortunately is a tricky business that can change in decades, no less...
I am terrified of the day when Trumps, Putins, Kochs, Xis of the world will transcend the inevitable natural limits to their influence and power imposed by mortality.

If I were faced with a choice where one option is my own immortality and of those who I care about, but also accompanied with a path to immortality available to every tyrant and sociopath at the top of the wealth pyramid, and the other choice being that we all continue to pass on at the usual rate, power and wealth having no real say in the matter - as much as I’d like to hang around longer, I would be agonized by the implications of such decision and am not quite sure what I would pick at the end.
I don't have much to add to this. These are real issues, and we have encountered and needed to fix them, and we probably will many more times. I would like to one day use tools that don't have these problems but also don't compromise on composability.
All the examples you brought are from things where the "changes" did not threaten the industries involved or helped consolidate the market into an oligopoly. They pretty much favored the status quo.
FIRST:

Best resource:

https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2019/article/wages-and-ope...

Now...
The answer to your question is a simple equation which has been written numerous times around the internet, in various forums. But I'll chart it out here, yet again.

First define your goal. Looks like you've already done that.

Programming is just a tool. And so, as a tool, it can help you build various things and a career along the lines of the ones you've mentioned.

Such as skills in: full stack web app dev. Full stack Phone App dev. data science. Web or Network Security.

Either way-- Whether you become a web app developer or some other technical role-- The following still applies:

- Build projects (A. Study how to make small projects via tutorials on Udemy.com / Youtube / www.Libgen.is books B. Extrapolate what you learn (such as writing functions and REST API + UI) Let's say you want to be a BUsiness Analyst (btw, what the heck does Business Analyst even mean, lol? I was a Business Systems Analyst for a bit-- guess what: I mostly did programming work >.< it was my first programming job and led to web dev) That said, lets say you want to do economic analysis of something... make that project into a case study. And now your case study is a 'project' you built. Now you can publish it on your website to get traction (i.e. market yourself).

- Publish your projects: to Github to show your code off, and link to those projects from your website (i.e. web portfolio -- look for web portfolio templates. For example, you can mostly copy and paste html/css from some of these (mix and match) https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/ <-- example of a css framework, this one is called Bulma).

- Create a LinkedIn Presence

- Start working: Don't worry about getting paid much especially if you don't yet have a strong, productive skillset. I started at a e-commerce website for $13/hr (In USA). I also did contract consulting work (in this case, accounting at $25/hr (In USA)). This allowed me to: A. Learn how to conduct business B. Grow my network Later I did digtial marketing at an IT security company. The CRM I used (Marketo) led me into other jobs because the skillset of using Marketo is in demand for marketers. That led me into a role as the business systems analyst I mentioned above. Which led into web dev -- which was my goal.

- Be willing to move: If you live somewhere without a burgeoning tech industry, you'll obviously have a higher probability of landing for your first jobs much more easily, if you move to a place which does have a burgeoning tech industry. Personally, I camped in a tent in the San Francisco bay area for 2 weeks, then couch surfed for 4 weeks because I was adamant about becoming a software developer. So, you might have to make some strategic sacrifices.

Other than that... Just go, sit down, and study and build and market yourself. That's all it takes: a strategy of studying, building, and marketing.
the worst thing I hear that highways around Tianjin and Beijing are closed. If you have friends living in those places, please message them to reserve a loooot of foods
For people in the UK who would like something similar:

Dunstable Downs Radio Boot Sale, 22nd of May 2022, Luton

http://www.ddrcbootsale.org/
Hey, thanks. I haven’t figured out customising time ones just yet, but the wrong today problem should be fixed now.
Apparently he was taken to court in March 2022 for a song that was released in 2017. Anyone else think this is very quick result from the justice system? Or did he have this hanging over his head for years before it actually went to court?
There have been stories and rumors about this for decades. It definitely happens with prisoners that are on "death row". I guess if you're a high level CCP member and need a heart that's just what's gonna happen. You don't really have any rights there just whatever "freedoms" the government allows. I try to warn people who think Trump should be dictator that it's not a good idea.
The majority of western countries did this.
Optional vaccines, restricted from public gatherings if you choose to not get it.
They do auto expire, but it’s not a great user experience to tell someone to ‘just wait an hour’.
Hey, thanks for sharing the time one. Helped in identifying the problem more accurately. This should be fixed now.
Are you also one of those people who pretend that twitter, facebook, and google don't lean left in their moderation?

>Can you describe which right wing opinions are being suppressed -- apparently to the point where I haven't even heard these opinions?

Another in a series of strawmen. Again, I called it soft censorship. The fact that these opinions exist on these platforms does not imply that they are not made more difficult to communicate. But it sure does make it easy for people to weasily claim that no suppression is occurring.

This "show more replies" trick typically loads 3 comments at a time with a half second delay. Compare that to scrolling through hundreds of posts in an uncensored thread. Far fewer people are going to see those tweets. It's an obvious form of information manipulation - why else would it be done?

>Or tell me why I shouldn't be able to compel you to carry posters/signs I'd like to see displayed on your property.

My property is not a public square frequented by millions of people, including world leaders like Trump, whom I'll remind you was banned from twitter. I don't care about your weak rationalization for the ban, the point is that twitter does not need to be a nation state satisfy the definition of a censor. And if millions fewer eyes are landing on certain topics because of what is effectively a dark pattern, that's suppression, that's censorship, at the very least in spirit because certain information is being made more difficult to communicate. It's dishonest to pretend it isn't happening just because you agree with it, but I guess it helps with your cognitive dissonance over authoritarianism?
I mean, it certainly seems like China could just figure out some way to get the last 5 meters
of food delivery solved.
Yes, and no. Many depend on PR to develop, many use GH CI and other services. So yes, if you have the repo you are not tied, but no, if you use other GitHub services, have no ML to communicate, have no personal project website etc you are in a very dangerous position.
Inflation everywhere.
The first time I saw the Canyon in person I kinda went "Oh, cool." I think I was 16.

I saw it again a decade later, and got an overnight permit to hike and camp at the Indian Garden campground.

I have never seen anything more awe-inspiring than the view from Plateau Point. I cannot do it justice with words.

I cannot recommend that hike and view enough.
These drawings... they have personality.
You had an unusually positive experience with UAW. They own the UC system contract, and negotiated pay caps, lowering grad student pay on some campuses.

They also negotiated to discontine coverage for various women's health issues.

Just before COVID, UC Santa Cruz went on a wildcat strike because the union negotiated pay for that campus below the cost of living. A bunch of foreign students lost their visas as a result.

In the second two cases, the grad students tried, but failed to organize against the union.

Most obvious routes to correcting the situation are illegal. In particular, organizing a strike against the union, or organizing a replacement union would have been illegal.
I often read SWE research that is just kind of common sense to somebody in industry. Of course, it's worth trying to take an empirical approach to quantify merits of certain techniques, but the vast majority of the research that's done does not seem that novel.
My Cautious Thoughts on Shanghai/Covid-Zero-in-China
> If rand() gives you trouble who knows what else in the C library may give you more trouble.

Ooh, I can answer this one! It turns out that I know what else in the C library can give you trouble. Newlib is open-source. For embedded projects, I find myself reading the source code to Newlib, and sometimes looking at the disassembly to double-check what version of a function I’m getting.

If I had gotten burned by having malloc included when I didn’t wanted (never happened to me personally), I would consider running "ar d" to remove it from the copy of the library I’m using. It’s pretty easy to modify static libraries.

> For me I’ve found GitHub Copilot great for filling in basic stubs for C stdlib APIs.

I might want a decent implementation of snprintf, might want some decent implementation of memcpy/memset/memmove. I’ve implemented all of these myself, but it’s a pain, and I generally would rather grab Newlib rather than trust Copilot.
I don't know for certain, but I suspect most jurisdictions in China maintain large amounts of riot control supplies as part of their "public safety" equipment.

One thing that struck me in living and traveling in China was the number of emergency supply caches. There are signs pointing them out in parks, metro stations and many other public spaces. In my head I always imagined those store rooms and bunkers to contain things like potable water, blankets, sandbags and so on, but perhaps that's also where they store the barriers and truncheons?

Either way, if there's one thing the Chinese government historically does well, it's the logistics behind controlling the movement of over a billion people. That's why the current situation in Shanghai is such an embarrassment - the one thing that everyone trusts the government to be able to do well is failing. I expect they'll get on top of it sooner or later, same as they did in Wuhan 2020, and then the narrative will change, but for now people are feeling pretty upset.
Functional Web Apps – How to Build
Yeah, I’d thought about that after reading a few comments here, but it feels a bit like using a shotgun to kill a fly.
You don't have to be talking about Oxford or Cambridge for this to be true. There's a world of difference between warwick and Wolverhampton universities for example
Yeah if you completely shut down private services there, then there's no way the government has the resources to help everyone. They'll end up killing and traumatizing far more people than they're saving from covid. Rather than forcing everyone to get a vaccine they do this--I mean if you're going to be a totalitarian system at least do it logically. Just goes to show you how shit the CCP logic is.
>In a country with complete control over the information ecosystem, how can it be that so many old people don't want to take the vaccine?

Because nobody wanted to be held responsible for any adverse reactions to the vaccine. The sordid state of medical liability culture and vaccine hesitancy in China would take too long to explain here so let's just say that the distrust runs pretty deep, and the government is understandably cautious with the vaccine program. One might even say too cautious as the vaccine came with a long list of contraindications that cover every category of geriatric illness, and it was not even approved for the 60+ age group for quite some time.

The propagandists in China did all they could to portray the vaccine as safe and effective but stopped short of actually enacting a vaccine mandate. The medics were more concerned with self-preservation, going as far as telling young couples to avoid pregnancy for 6-12 months after getting the vaccine just in case it might cripple the foetus. All of the these mixed messages only reinforced the existing suspicions that the vaccine was rushed and unsafe.

Of course none of these actually matters. Why waste political capital when the problem is effectively socialised among 1.4 billion people? Just keep covid out of China and everyone will live happily thereafter, right?

Australia and NZ, in contrast, deliberately made it very difficult to get any kind of exemption for the vaccine. Not to mention that both countries had endemic Delta variant by the time vaccination began in its earnest. Fear should not be underestimated as a motivator - ethnic Indians topped vaccination rates in multiple western countries because everybody had lost a relative to covid in India.
And a lot of people don't. That's always been the case, but because our culture tends to erase those identities' visibility and expression by enforcing heteroconformity, sometimes legally or with violence, it simply hasn't been as apparent.

Also, what 'heteronormative' is changes over time. It's perfectly heteronormative for men to kiss one another on the mouth in some cultures. And ancient cultures didn't even recognize our modern 'homosexual/heterosexual' axis, preferring to consider sexual behavior as normative within class or tribal lines, but considering same sex and different sex attraction as being not worth distinction.
I wish this was true but I'm skeptical, how is the change going in North Korea? 3-12% of their population starved to death [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine
Interesting, why is there a separate operator for strings?

Are there scenarios when either operator (cmp or <=>) works, but they have different behaviour?
Wikiverse: A Galactic Reimagining of Wikipedia
Any source on "held since November of 2017"?
> Created an edge if the two businesses were within half a mile

Well it certainly looks nice but it also seems to mean nothing at all.
You misunderstand grad school.
Typically you and your PI will be the only people with a given specialization at a given school. You will mostly be competing for grants with your colleagues from other schools. Even students under the same PI will often have focuses so different as to rule out direct competition.
Additionally
"The purpose of graduate school is to put(out) compete your peers."
is not /the point/ of grad school at all.
You can't 'win' academia, you survive it long enough to pursue your research interest.
Moreover, the 'competition' for grants is more like a lottery than anything else for reasons too complex to get into here.

"What this will likely lead to IMO is more “equity” among the less capable (grants, funding)"
Putting aside your assertion that "equity" is bad, grants are not decided by people that know or care if the applicant is in a union.

"which will reduce the opportunity for meritocracy and more capable"
Not all games are zero-sum and 'merit' based, I'd recommend that you not universalize this outlook.
The main use case for Newlib is embedded systems, and Newlib supports more architectures than FreeBSD does. Newlib also includes a few assembly routines for functions like memcpy and memset.
Sure, in principle it's interesting, and I can fathom that statements like these could in principle be provable. This 'graphical' perspective could lead to interesting insights eg in proof theory (I actually wouldn't be surprised if things like that had already been done).

My point was rather: making any statement in modern mathematics is hard. I was wondering how serious he is about formally establishing any insights about his ideas, eg a connection between proof spaces and Einstein's equations (presumably general relativity).
So, you're using "status quo" not in its usual meaning of things staying the same, but instead which corporate entities persist?
The main benefit (to our users) of being in Jupyter is that we don’t have to force them to switch up their whole workflow. If they want to layer on a spreadsheet, bring an extension mak it easy to do this. We don’t want to lock people into our platform vs just provide the best spreadsheet experience we can!

For us, it’s nice because we don’t have to reinvent the wheel(s) that Jupyter comes with :-)
FWIW it would be nice for the README to link to both Filament and Assimp, since they're doing quite a bit of the heavy lifting here.

Also because, in the case of Assimp, it supports a lot more formats than you list. However even for the listed formats, it has several issues. Especially for reverse engineered formats, which might not be an intuitive thought for many users who don't know what's backing this.
Well, personally *my distro* (custom NixOS, just a small set of configs and an oneliner to build the custom iso) just work OOB, OSX for me do not work at all, certainly not with the default setup.

It's empty, it completely miss tools I use, and makes automated deploy of them not much easier, so...

IMVHO "just work" means: "i know a certain environment and I'm lost outside it so I ask why others are not equal" like you go to another country and ask why people there talk another language, differently written and so hard to use (for you, of course)...