skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure if there's much value in learning things like basic SQL queries anymore which was something I had to learn when studying computer science.

I really disagree, a major function of education is to teach concepts before introducing tools. I took a physics class in undergrad that required a graphing calculator, does that mean I wasted years learning all of the mathematical concepts that could be performed by a graphing calculator?

Having an understanding of what's going on is so important, especially when something is broken. If we encourage students to start with AI and not learn the fundamentals themselves, they won't wind up learning how to identify root cause when the tool causes an issue (and ChatGPT is by no means perfect).
method papers that produce reference data are absurdly valuable yet greatly undervalued because science incentivizes sexy discoveries.

but so much of biology is "the first 8 PCA values explain 70% of the data" that most discoveries are really only the "obvious" stuff in the first 1-2 PCA.
Great marketing stunt Toptal team.
Here is response I got.

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Fraud is what the government decides it is, the governments have deemed this to be fraud.

Telecom companies don’t necessarily care about this, it’s often the governments who want to tax incoming international calls as an easy revenue source.
Windows > Tabs every single time.
What helped me most was a good window manager:

• A single floating window acting as an opener*

• windows are always arranged in the case of tiling wms.

• In the case of Firefox user.css can help u remove the tab bar entirely. And opening in windows rather than tabs can be configured.

• I built my own window fuzzy searcher for finding windows.

The effect is compulsory need to close windows asap but keep a couple of windows forever that are actually for doing work. In my case :

• newsboat > firefox.
• Cmus > firefox.
• Aerc > firefox.
• Irssi > firefox.

The list goes on and on.

The benefit is this: every job has it’s own window.

Note that still it is 100% the case that when not in “production/building” mode the default is consuming. This setup merely helps heighten awareness to the fact.

Hope it helps!

* lf, ranger, nnn are all good choices.
Honestly, as a 30+ year DM who has played every edition from 1st to cap (except 4th- only made it to 6th), what people play at their table is wildly different from group to group. I don't know many experienced DMs who don't do a huge amount of homebrew.

And there is no legal threat to 95% of homebrew, never will be. Why? Because I just do what I want with their IP (Wotc) and it never reaches further than my players. Most people do not publish to the world, they present to their players. Very few folks make an official doc, get it printed, add their own mechanics, build a world atlas etc.

It will stop things like the "wheel of time" (books not tv) adaption, the reasonably widely available dark sun fan made version, "one night strahd" etc.

Now that is a shame. But. 50% + of it was drek. And half of what was good rode rough-shod over other folks ideas, vision and IP and made money for the writers for it. If you are re-doing elric's world in 5th ed, you owe a bit to Michael Moorcock (which is ironic as he dis-owns it as pulp and beneath him), and owe a bit to wizards-o-t-c because you are probably re-skinning their hard work.

What is more disappointing is that Wotc is actively trying to model their monetization of DnD in the future on mobile gaming and free-to-play computer games.. I kid you not. Luckily there are basic, adnd 1st ed, 2nd, 3rd, 3.5 and 5th ed to choose form for cool playable systems, and that's if you want to stick to "original" dnd. So 6th ed, with whatever horrible monetization they formulate may well just rot in it's own lonely purgatory with it's older brother 4th edition. (which, to be fair has a couple of cool things but overall was a failure, IMO)

*edited, spelling
Oh, yes. The long and pompous drivel that scientific papers seem to be padded with these days makes me wonder if they're all busy gaming "paper length" metrics, playing to an imagined audience of clueless could-be-donor billionaires, or what.
Sensata Launches Sensata Insights Proprietary Platform
Dropbox support for macOS FAQs (paths broken with recent update)
Yes... but one million students, what percentage surge would that be in private schools if they all ended up there? I think it would have to be much larger, especially considering many private schools don't have that much additional capacity. (Edit: Also considering marginalized groups are the most likely to drop out... they are the least likely to afford private schools.)

I strongly suspect many students have just completely fallen off the radar. Who knows what will happen to them.
Transform Gist into your personal key/value data store
So, not entirely on topic, but I've been searching for a cheap portable cassette player that has a 3.5mm input to record audio from other sources. Maybe anyone can recommend something?

Goal is to give the kids something unconnected to the Internet to play music, and I want them to be able to make mixtapes by recording audio playback from another device. Hence the line-in requirement... preferably I'd buy something mass produced, not spend 400 bucks on ebay on something that might break within weeks ;)
I bet that it enabled miners to get back to mining quicker, as they didn't have to bring in a replacement canary to check if the air was safe yet. So I bet that's the financial justification for the expense.
People tend to be a lot less indispensable than they appear.

Ask a small dev team "what would happen if the main technical person left suddenly?", and they'll normally tell you the companies product would collapse.

But when that happens, the usual outcome of a key person leaving a small team is usually that the teams productivity is reduced for a few months while someone new is found and fills the space.
If the fine is higher than what they can feasibly gain from the product in a reasonable time, it'd make them drop the product entirely even if they are able to adjust it to conform to the laws.
Most research amounts to nothing. It’s why they call it research. But we can’t get the 1% of breakthroughs without the 4% of hits, 93% meh’s, and 2% frauds. Not to mention that much published research is mistaken.

Above all, it’s hard (at least in the sciences). So anyone willing to follow the scientific method and package their results into a whitepaper is doing good science. The scientific method is ultimately the only requirement.
Yes, sorry I could have worded that more precisely.
Check forecast, in few days there may be up to 1m of additional snow cover. Places like Chamonix should be fine even in lower parts
They're releasing plenty of products that excited people, it's just that the Roland products that are exciting all came out 20-40 years ago, and they just keep re-issuing them in various formats.

Personally I'd buy the crap out of a Jp8080 Boutique :)

They haven't invented anything new AND exciting for a good decade, though.
"and million of dollars of funding talks to your future wife, she will be in love with him and not you, so you lost the competition."

Or not, because while you were always working, working, working, you never had the chance to build up a real relationship and that golddigger who does one day agree to merry you, will exploit you and leave you broken and divorced in a ditch, with children in therapy, because you noticed too late, because you were occupied.

Life is also a competition, but not just that. Mainly it is about finding a healthy balance.
I'd say the outrage is caused by the symbolism.

Alpine skiing is an activity that in the long run is on the way out due to climate change. As a result of a warming-induced deterioration of conditions we are burning more fossil fuels to support the industry that we're extinguishing with said fossil fuels.

The fact that it's an activity heavily associated with affluence aids the rage-bait.
See my earlier point. Momentum.

They used to do something well and they're riding the momentum, deceptively, and they happen to be doing it during a time where less-techy folk and business are beginning to more see the value.
Saved me from having to get massages. I use it for my neck from sitting at the computer all day. It's also been useful for super random things like punching cushions outside or some random thing. I've seen someone use it to help them sift flour easily.
of course, you reap what you sew.
Even if it reproduces (proportionally) small sections of code it's been trained on verbatim, its function is transformative and will likely be deemed fair use. This lawsuit is going nowhere other than the HN front page.
Agreed entirely. I guess I saw the two things as linked - if you get enough network effects, there must be some way to make money - but perhaps Twitter has shown us that this is not the case.
Hey, you basically worship credentials, so you're not going to be impressed with a person who doesn't have them regardless of their breadth and depth of knowledge. I don't know what to tell you.
It seems like the choice to use RN is usually made by the business side rather than engineers. I'm biased because I work as a mobile engineer but I've never heard an engineer emphatically love working with RN. In fact, I've usually heard horror stories about how it works, still having to write platform code, finding the talent that knows how to properly write RN, the fact that it's technically single threaded, etc. But hey, at least the higher ups get to hear "there's one codebase and therefore it's cheaper."
I see ChatGPT more akin to Wikipedia and Google than a calculator. We don't consider Wikipedia or Google as much of a tool as they are a knowledge reservoir of truthiness.
Also anecdotally, I don't think truancy enforcement has been particularly strict during the pandemic. I know our school has given a lot of grace to students going on vacation, etc compared to pre-pandemic.
Folksonomies was one of the terms used back in the day when delicio.us was one of the current hotnesses. I still use pinboard and it's handy. But, like RSS, this sort of thing mostly appeals to researchers/analysts/journalists/etc. The average person mostly doesn't care about saving and even loosely organizing a lot of information.
It would be interesting to see the ratio of deaths per 100 million miles driven in motorcycles vs all other motor vehicles across countries.
The author worked at a wolf sanctuary where pet wolves and wolf/dog breeds were kept. Cool, but not actually living with wolves.

I live in a rural place with wolves. (I live in town) Not that the author implies this, but you absolutely would not interact with them as she did when they make their semi-monthly circuit that takes them to the outskirts of town.

> resume once-outlawed hunting practices that brought the predators to the brink of extinction by the 1960s

This isn't exactly true. I've spoke with old timers who used to kill wolves and the folks who currently try to.
The old timers used indiscriminately poison and killed everything to great success, the current folks use snares and rifles and aren't very successful at all. Wolves are cagey creatures that aren't all that easy to find or trick.
Instant response != Instant resolution. Getting support at Stripe is easy for easy things, but hard when it actually counts. Based on what we've seen here (and what I've personally experienced) getting your payouts paused while not being a fraudulent actor is not that uncommon. Any other provider would not be like "Your case will be reviewed by our specialized team at some point this week, or maybe the next, nobody knowns. In the mean time, please tell all those employees you need to pay next week to take a chill pill." Can you see how this can be frustrating? We process >$10M/YR with other providers and ~$2.5M/YR with Stripe. Our other providers show a lot more urgency when something serious goes wrong, while Stripe feels like they're too big to care if we leave.
I second that. Jarring indeed. Maybe there's some ligature history I'm unaware of but ligating c and k seems about as useful as gluing the letters 'wq' together.
That’s a new selling point: if you’re an experienced pilot, you can probably learn to drive our car in a mere six months!
How? The blockchain doesn't store names or SSNs for every address. If the victim/user uses a mixer they can get their coins out easily and anonymously.
That's a shame. Tableau is one of the few commercial software pieces i've used in the past decade which truly impressed me (excluding games, of course!). With a handful of clicks, i was able to produce amazing reports from it for my last employer. A truly impressive tool.
I wonder if the script can be flipped to both encourage the use of ChatGPT and scrutinize its output among students. I imagine that analyzing the results of ChatGPT output for something like a routine essay prompt requires a higher degree of precision and subject-matter expertise than writing the essay itself.
Most large supermarkets in my city already have automatically locking wheels if they’re taken out of the stores proximity.
Have you read past the first sentence?
On the other hand it's left me without when I really needed it :( I would love to have a huge jar of this. There's so many ways to commit suicide and we can't stop them all.

I think medications in general are too restricted in the EU. Many medications that are really innocent require a doctor's prescription (which when I lived in Ireland cost me 60 euro just for the visit - at least here in Spain it's free to visit the GP).
Not "excellent" at all. This Richard Roe plaintiff is trying to use the notorious DMCA as an end-run around having to prove copyright infringement and withstand a possible fair use defense. That shouldn't be allowed, as a matter of Constitutionally-relevant protections.
If you use Go you should use: https://pkg.go.dev/bufio

"Package bufio implements buffered I/O. It wraps an io.Reader or io.Writer object, creating another object (Reader or Writer) that also implements the interface but provides buffering and some help for textual I/O."
The private school my kids attend grew like 20%.

I think there are enough private schools to handle much of this.

And homeschooling is not “fallen off the radar” either.

But I don’t doubt some have fallen off the radar.
Ok, but why do they need to be exciting and innovative? I would almost rather they didn't, lest the company pivot into something of the sort and eventually abandon their existing product line.

Besides, a lot of "innovation" in the music space seems to be about how many different ways we can bolt on cloud functionality
public schools in this coastal California urban area include a litany of daily, relentless vices; are some of the only school districts in US history to be seized by State government (more than once now) for gross fiscal mismanagement, and have had shooting resulting in death often enough that it is not reported in the news generally. There are more than forty human languages spoken at home in the greater county schools, and many, many homes are dysfunctional including abuse and neglect.
Marketing. He's a one man marketing department. Some might say that that's all he is, but apparently it goes a long way.
i'd be interested in how many are dead links now. i'm nowhere near (hovering around 500 at the moment) and when i frequently do a healthcheck i see that most are already dead. are you archiving (using archive's wayback machine or something?) to ensure they're alive when you need them? for some definition of need lol
GitHub is still subject to the terms of your license though; they can impose whatever rules they want on you service-wise, but their use of your software should be dictated by the accompanying LICENSE file.

To illustrate: GitHub could delete any project they want, and there would be no real recourse for the project's author. That is a service decision that they reserve the right to impose via their TOS. However, if they were to steal code from a user's private repository and violate the license therein, the author could sue for theft of intellectual property.
Intel also decided to disable AVX-512 on their consumer CPUs going forward, presumably as long as their P+E core strategy remains in place.
The problem is, people assume the tools they use are correct 100% of the time.

An early example: http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simul... (see Bugs and limitations).

More contemporary (I think): https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/resources/example...

Granted though, ChatGPT is confidently and convincingly wrong more often. I expect that will improve, but in the meantime I think it's an opportunity to question and evaluate the results rather than ban outright. That's a sticking plaster that hopefully needn't stay on for long.
Yes but it means there is no one thing that all the people I want to follow all use. Everyone ends up in their own sandbox. Network effects are really useful and positive sum, I think.

And there are very few things like Wikipedia that both have the benefit of being dominant and not monetized. Are there any other examples at all?
I have rarely seen more than one or two people understand how all those sub-systems work together in any org I have ever been in. So few people look over their own fence.
Just chiming in - my absolute favorite GB game growing up. Fantastic storyline, amazing music, fun secrets. One of the best ever made for the system without a doubt.
> Rewriting Setup-EC87D643-EBA4-4BB5-A1E5-3F3E36B20DA9 with a modified value in offset 0x39 will allow direct manipulation of the config option

Looks like a simple write to UEFI vars. The option is still grayed out, but it is now in the correct state.
Do you consider WTFPL a FOSS license? The polite versions are MIT0, BSD0 and CC0. I guess anyone using them is fine with Copilot been close and doing whatever they want. But people using AGPL may have a very different opinion.
This same argument is valid for people.
That does not mean people are useless, for example as assistent.
Maybe we should just use that knowledge and still try get the best out of it.
With ever decreasing EROI though
Tesla's average transaction was $65K in 2022. There were 1.3 million transactions. That's $84.5B in transactions. Companies are typically valued at 7x their transactions which would be $591.5B - which we'll just call $600B. If Tesla is currently valued at $400B then they're undervalued by 33% and that would put Tesla at a BUY.

These are all back-of-the-napkin calculations and assumes Tesla will sell as many cars in 2023 as they did in 2022 and in fact will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I'm not an automotive industry expert but I don't see any reason why Tesla wouldn't. I think part of the reason Tesla's stock pulled back so much in 2022 is the realization that Tesla may not have that much GROWTH left.
FTC proposes to ban noncompete clauses. Move will help workers, entrepreneurs
Yes, but I was referring to the person atop who said

"I’m not giving funds to rich ski towns."

Me neither. The swiss might do it themself, but I thought we are arguing here on a more global level.
A quick historical review of the Sound Blaster
If you're not colorblind, you may notice the rainbow progression of navlinks under the title. Then there's the choice to include pronouns as a special data item in the markdown, and the specific choice of "they/them" in the example, even though that's probably much rarer than the two more traditionally-expected choices. Then, of course, there's the affiliation with a Mastodon instance; we're all aware of the developer's politically-motivated choices and limits on federation with the main Mastodon instances.

Is "burning crosses" over-the-top? Yes, obviously. Does it say, "You're not the kind of social we have in mind," to a sizable portion of potential users? Yes again.
I'm by no means an expert, but I don't see a lot of your "bad" points, they mostly seem like gripes about not being able to use Rust exactly as you are used to in C++ as opposed to pitfalls of learning the Rust way and doing it with Rust patterns, which would be true any time you move from one language to another.
Frink (which OP mentions for its datetime syntax) has the concept of units and unit conversions built into the core language - but that's about all it does! I'd love to have this feature in a general-purpose language.
"Not a paid product" is a gross oversimplification. In many ways it is a "paid product," or at least part of one.

This ain't just hobby stuff anymore. Businesses are catching on and using it, and so they're entrenching an older, stinky, take-it-or-leave-it way to do software, and what's worse, they're doing it on the back of a free-software-spirited labor.

It doesn't violate the letter of the GPL, but it sure as hell violates the spirit.
I've always called it getting hit by the lottery bus
The violent crime rate has not gone up. Murder in particular has gone up, but not broader measures of violent crime:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/31/violent-cri...
"Declining birthrates, a rise in home schooling and growing competition from private and charter schools are contributing to the decline in traditional public school enrollment, according to school officials."

I think the problem with public schools is really the teachers. They have put themselves on a pedestal and been conditioned into a serious superiority complex.

After the chaos of the pandemic, we put our kids in private school and haven't looked back. Kids are happier and there really is something to be said when the teachers actually have to listen to the parents, instead of dismissing our concerns and telling us they know best.
Here's what might work: maybe not for government jobs or Goldman Sachs, but probably for smaller jobs like connecting with entrepreneurs who want to build the next stupid social network for dogs that play sports or whatever.

Create an LLC, either directly or through a sympathetic friend. If through a friend so your name never shows up on any Google searches, you might have to cut them in on future profits and be treated as their employee even though you'll be doing all of the work, which seems preferable to the alternative.

Create a legit looking website for that company and start applying for consulting gigs. Voila, you're a tech consultant for XYZ Firm and never have to give away your real name.

In video meetings and emails, you can change your name to Brad Smith or Scott Taylor or whatever generic sounding name you want it to be, you're just an employee of that small agency.
That is what external templates are for, pre-instantiate all common cases in a binary library.
If copilot is so advanced that we need to grant it right human has, then it has right to freedom and owning copilot is a crime.

I dony think Microsoft wants to go down this path
Small crates is not a benefit wrt. The wrong 3 lines of code in crate is all it takes to be owned, regardless of whether the crate is 100 lines or 100k lines.
Large number of crates and developers is a negative, because one needs to trust or review all of them.