skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of virtualization, for what varies by the day.

Usually testing something -- automating building the latest trend, or getting an understanding for why a particular upgrade went poorly.

My longstanding VMs are... a general purpose 'game server', a couple DNS resolvers (spread among two nodes), and a password manager
I'm still baffled as to why people treat Github like a public library despite being owned by what was at one time the greatest enemy of free and open source software in existence. Not saying they haven't changed their tune somewhat, but a library owned by Barnes and Noble is going to have very different incentives than an actual library.

Made all the more silly by the fact that it's Git. You could just host it yourself for five bucks a month and that's probably overpaying.
There's certainly a spectrum of teacher quality out there but I worry you're falling into the same trap as those who target their aggression at customer service representatives. Public schools have a lot of issues that start at the top and teachers are just the most visible endpoints.
> Audiophiles might point out that analog audio sources can theoretically hold details you can't hear in digital. This is true because values in analog media are continuous. Over imperceptibly short periods of time, the numbers that represent different values on a sound wave in a digital recording jump instantaneously from one discrete value to another with no gentle slope between. Analog signals instead form smooth curves, so at some level they can contain tiny variations in slope that are too subtle for the digitization of that signal to represent.

> The problem with analog superiority in general is that, when that digital signal is of standard CD quality (44,100 samples per second at 16-bit resolution), whatever details in the analog signal are too subtle to be captured digitally are also too subtle for me or really most people to hear.

This so wrong it makes my head hurt. It's 2023 and people still think that digital doesn't produce smooth curves and that typical analog media -- cassette tape no less -- can store more details than a CD. These people need to be tied to a chair, have their eyelids taped open, and force-fed Monty Montgomery's video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM
I'm pretty sure that it's saved where any other custom changes you make in the EFI screen would be. But instead of using the GUI you're just directly editing the config on NVRAM.
The residents of ski towns aren't rich just because they provide services for the rich. In Switzerland residents in the alps are generally poorer than those on the plateau.

Sure they're "rich", in the same way everyone in France, Italy and Austria are rich in a global context. But those areas are still going to need government support when the basis of their economy is wiped out.
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Humans can't drive emotions from text alone without external contextual clues.

Such has been the source of much miscommunication online.

Amateur fiction writing, which tends to overemphasize how things are said ("I guess I can go rescue your cat", the exasperated detective said wearily) might be easier for AI!
Cheap walkmen are available readily, most of which can record off 3.5mm. Better experience would come with a used full-size deck off eBay to make the recordings themselves, then you play back on the walkman.

I'm in the same boat. I'd ruled out cassette as unavailable and cumbersome, but my 10 year old took to it instantly when her friend bought her a Jensen walkman. I wrote another comment above on that.
Ooooohhh, that's clever.

I've never had a need for such a device, but I worked for a company that wrote Skype for Business plug-ins, many of which revolved around "presence". You were considered active on your computer[0] when your mouse moved. We had a tool that we used for billing our time which included a graph of your Skype for Business presence state for the day you were entering time for[1].

I noticed, one week, that I was active 24-hours a day for three days in a row. I discovered that I left my mouse plugged in, it had fallen onto the carpet, and the minor vibrations that would occur in the house mixed with difficulty tracking would cause the mouse to move on its own "little enough" for me to not notice but frequently enough that it kept the computer from sleeping and kept my Skype for Business state bright green.

[0] Similar to Teams, today, you could be logged in from multiple devices; unlike Teams, a toast message might not reach your phone (or appear and be dismissed immediately) if you were active on a computer.

[1] This was entirely to assist in accurately filling out time sheets; it was never used to make sure "butts were in chairs".
I don’t entirely agree with this. My math education relied way to heavily on mechanical substitute-and-compute, but there’s definitely value in making sure that children can actually do and understand what computations are actually happening.

I would imagine writing is similar - the endless essays full of bullshit I pumped out in high school were obviously pointless. But being forced to write much earlier in school was super foundational for having the skill in the first place.

As to the SQL example, I also think it’s flipped - learning the basic sql queries is probably the most valuable as it’s a foundation.
One point of fact that Pew gets wrong (and is part of the teacher union disinformation campaign) -- charter schools are also public schools.
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I was recently listening to a podcast in which a professor was introduced as being the author of over 250 articles. I immediately discounted the guy as likely an unserious thinker. (It was Tim Rasinski being interviewed on The Literacy View podcast). Sure enough, he didn't impress me at all as the interview progressed -- apparently he is just a guy who has learned how to play the academic game and can't think critically.
When I was playing with extracting stories from ChatGPT my feeling was always that it writes like an 8th grade honors student.
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I loved mine but it started eating batteries after a few months. I guess I should try other models.
To be fair, this kind of thing even happens in JavaScript. Some use functional programming with immutable datastructures, higher order functions, super generic code, using some niche FP library with its own idiosyncrasies - when simple and imperative would do just great.
Yeah. I'll qualify what I'm saying by specifying I'm talking about the USA.

There used to be two good, big dev conferences a year in my metro area. Now there are zero. The meetup realized it's now or never for them and recently tried to get rolling again.

Regarding cities and urban areas, the social unrest of 2020 and its aftermath must also be taken into account.

Broadly speaking, there's two things going on. One, just getting out of the habit of regularly meeting and socializing has been detrimental to the social capital. Secondly, the national political dialogue ended, and in many cases people have applied this accordingly at a personal level.
This is some really nice documentation, and in one spot rather than strewn about. Major props for consolidating the information here!

In contrast, Ocarina of Time has been thoroughly torn apart, but the documentation isn't centralized anywhere. A lot of it has ended up in pastebins and shared through discord servers. I do worry that a lot of the knowledge will be lost once reversing the game is less in-vogue.

An example of this is that someone read through the assembly of how the fishing minigame works, which has many dependent variables. Various factors affect how quickly you can catch a fish, and which size you will catch. Speedrunners have abused this information to make the fishing minigame as 'easy' as possible despite it being based on random chance. It's a really fascinating read[0][1]... too bad it will eventually be lost to the sands of time.

[0] https://pastebin.com/WQrpxRCM

[1] https://pastebin.com/tsWjERR5
GitHub's TOS is subject to change so that doesn't hold water. Tomorrow they could claim in their TOS you owe them your firstborn if you upload code to GitHub but that doesn't mean that you are bound by those terms because they cross the reasonable expectation of what you are signing up for. Granting Microsoft a blanket license to use your code in any way they see fit was not a part of the deal for GitHub, and as far as I know it still isn't for code that you claim copyright on. If you release your code into the public domain or use a license that is so permissive that anybody can use it at will, even without attribution that would make it fair game.
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> Some Rust programmers, when faced with performing operations on a sum type (like Result) or container, tend to reach for point-free map-filter-reduce code stuffed with higher-order functions, lambdas, trait generics, and return type inference, requiring looking up the documentation or implementation of multiple helper microfunctions, and asking the compiler for the inferred return type. My preference is usually to write imperative code matching over objects or looping over iterators, except in cases like "minimum of list" where the loss of clarity of a loop exceeds the loss of clarity of a reduce() method call.

More and more, I find this is just a general problem and not a rust specific one. Any language with enough syntax flexibility will have a group of programmers that try to treat the language like lisp or haskell. (I recently ran into exactly this with a typescript lib I've been working with).

C++ is no stranger to this problem, it's famously the reason Java doesn't have operator overloads.

What I'm also finding is that complex style of programming is annoying to find in the company code base, but is rarely one that catches on in the ecosystem as a whole.
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unRaid is basically this.

Happy user of unRaid for years, just chugs away, easy updates, lots of apps available.
Can you recommend the specific hearing protection you went with?
I like Lisp but I've had one perpetual problem with debugging it that makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong. Once I've hit a breakpoint, and SLIME or whatever presents its options, HOW can I get into a REPL in the context of the stack frame, so I can eval expressions that reference variables in scope there? The best I can find is pressing `e` over the stack frame to evaluate one expression, but that's garbage compared to the full repl (and hotkeys that send expressions to it like C-c C-e).

I feel like there must be some way to do this that I just haven't found yet.
I bought three wireless phone chargers/stands, one for each of the bedside nightstands and one for my desk. Having a phone that's always charged and not having to fumble with charger cords has been amazing.
> The problem with analog superiority in general is that, when that digital signal is of standard CD quality (44,100 samples per second at 16-bit resolution), whatever details in the analog signal are too subtle to be captured digitally are also too subtle for me or really most people to hear.

Not "you". Not most. None.

Nyquist-Shannon means a 44.1kHz-sampled signal can perfectly capture an reconstruct a signal up to 22.5kHz freqs, and it's not like it's a flat cut off after that.

> The commonly stated range of human hearing is 20 to 20,000 Hz.[5][6][note 1] Under ideal laboratory conditions, humans can hear sound as low as 12 Hz[7] and as high as 28 kHz, though the threshold increases sharply at 15 kHz in adults, corresponding to the last auditory channel of the cochlea.

So yeah, some rare specific humans can perceive a single isolated sine at up to 28kHz in a an anechoic chamber. That's completely different from listening to actual music.

> Our gradually degrading analog audio media may not sound “better” than digital, but they do sound different, and for some they can sound different in a way that's preferable to digital perfection.

That, is totally on point though. Beauty is as much in the ear of the listener as in the eye of the beholder.
I feel like I've been hearing this my whole life and if true at some point we should have already run out of people holding doors decades ago!
Also, many orchestras have only 2 oboe players. I don't think I've ever seen a pop/rock band with an oboe in it.

The lack of french horn players in pop/rock bands was part of why I quit playing. The neighbors complaining about my practicing didn't help. Yamaha's Silent Brass system worked pretty well while I still had one.
Easiest way I can think of is that you can use text substitution (System Settings -> Keyboard -> Text Replacements...) to set a string of characters that should substitute to the superscript characters (you can look it up with the globe key to set it up initially). So you could make e.g. [1] map to ¹, [2] map to ², etc. You could also use this trick on i(Pad)OS (Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Text Substitutions). In fact, the substitutions should sync across if you're logged into the same Apple ID.
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If a student can look up anything on ChatGPT it could very well inhibit their ability to develop critical thinking skills. They could just copy the output of ChatGPT rather than actually engaging with a text like Of Mice and Men, for example, and considering what it's trying to say about the American dream or interpersonal connections. Lots of learning exercises are relatively meaningless in isolation but are a part of a greater skill development journey. It's like just taking the answers from the back of the book rather than working through exercises. Getting the answer isn't the point. The point is actually doing the work so you develop skills that can be used beyond your current homework assignment or exam.
> The vast majority of hyperprolific authors (7,888 author records, 86%) published in physics. In high-energy and particle physics, projects are done by large international teams that can have upwards of 1,000 members. All participants are listed as authors as a mark of membership of the team, not for writing or revising the papers. We therefore excluded authors in physics.

While this is true in general, I'm part of one of these Collaboration at LHC and I find that publishing a paper is taking a lot of effort and revision (not talking about actual research) and would involve a couple of hundred people between the review committee, physics group and the collaboration at large who post questions, comments and revise every bit of information. It is amazing to always see how to final product is almost very different from the first draft in each aspect. This process on average takes a couple of months. I will confess that I'm guilty of not participating into this duty for each paper but I'm always sure that there are many people who will do that.

Regarding authorship for papers I did not involve in writing directly, I'm fine with that norm in our field because that's fair. Most of the work needed to produce results is not doing the actual analysis for the data but operating this huge machine and the service work (software development, control room shifts, hardware R&D Data quality …etc) is most of the work.

People usually find this strange (more polite description of them saying it is absurd) but let's be real. The era of individual contribution (or small group) in experimental particle physics had almost ended by the cathode rays.
I'd like to propose a "golden rule" test. If Copilot was truly not at risk of regurgitating large blocks of code verbatim, why didn't Microsoft train it on proprietary Microsoft code as well? Why was it limited to user-submitted code on GitHub? If there is any argument pointing to licensing or copyright or patents, it stands to reason those concerns would apply to any corpus of user-submitted code since users could easily misrepresent the licensing.
I’d rather ask about body/brain ratio and % energy consumed by a brain.
"If you can't correctly implement a for loop using assembly, then the language can't save you, nothing can"
"Does brain size always correlate to intelligence?"

Not really, otherwise whales and elephants would be way smarter, than us.

Well, some people say, they are, but it does not show in our intelligence tests.

And birds brains evolved differently than those of mammals, so maybe they are more efficient with their relative small brain? Because yeah, they are definitely smarter than dogs, who have a bigger brain.
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> So it is not okay to infringe copyright at a small scale but okay to do it in a large scale?

No, I think you're missing the "transformative" part.

The line of argument isn't "we're going to resell millions of codebases as-is for pure profit", which would be undisputed copyright infringement.

The argument is that something highly transformative (e.g. training models) isn't infringement at all, because transformative works are covered by fair use. And that, if we still wanted to explore interpreting/changing the law to force opt-in for highly transformative things, it's logistically unreasonable, to such an extent that the transformative thing couldn't occur at all. So that it's a waste of time to even be discussing asking for permission as some kind of potential compromise or requirement. If it's transformative and therefore fair use, asking for permission is an irrelevant distraction.

That's why this type of argument is valid. I'm not saying whether the argument will/should win in this particular case, but I'm definitely saying there's nothing absurd whatsoever about it.
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I'm from the cassette era but at this point I think they are just plastic pollution.

I have a single 16GB thumb drive in my car with an absurd amount of music in it. It would take hundreds of tapes to store the same amount of music. Plus, mp3 files can store metadata for the songs: author, artist, year, etc.
I love the Y. The extra storage and more upright driving position are great, and I am able to take more adventurous roads that would bottom out the S. My dog also has more room in the back.
Exactly! That's the thing happening here - "I'm going to keep my convenience until everyone else changes their mind!" being used as an excuse to do nothing and just point fingers at others.
Have you handled any of the industrial tanks?

They are absolutely massive. The tank that holds 13kg itself weighs about 30kg. So the amount of force to 'dent' that amount of steel would need to be ridiculous.

The weakest part is (by design) the valve. Technically I rent the bottle and buy the gas. Each refill is an exchange of the bottle after which the bottle gets pressure tested, etc.
The Gaming Historian has a good video about the development of the game (https://youtu.be/pfvk6CJ3v34)
Murder rates are an important indicator because virtually no murders go unreported, while reporting of other violent crimes can vary. For example, as your source notes, NYC doesn’t even report violent crimes to the FBI:

> In the latest FBI study, around four-in-ten police departments – including large ones such as the New York Police Department – did not submit data, so the FBI estimated data for those areas

The homicide rate rose 30% during 2020, taking us back to roughly mid-late 1990s levels: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-kno....
With the tiny nitpick that there is a distinction between signalling status and having status itself. And the relationship between the two is not always straight forward.

Status symbols are more related to the former.
I have not noticed, but that sounds great. Getting waved through a stop sign is a peeve of mine. If we all just went in the order we got here, we'd all be done sooner than doing this pointless dance. I guess that makes me the problem.
Almost all instances are run by volunteers, in this case you'd be using an instance you pay for, which should mean it will be more reliable and won't suddenly disappear.

But if it does then you can just migrate almost everything over (was something left behind that I cannot remember, but everything important is moved over).
Have you used it? It can generate code. It can correct grammar. It can create Haikus (poorly). It can give you ideas. It is NOT just a knowledge base.
Same, I've been torn between learning Clojure—which I think is brilliantly designed, but I dislike its reliance on the JVM and exceptions vs conditions/restarts—and Common Lisp, that comes with a standard library that feels older than POSIX and C, but a REPL experience that is unrivalled and decades ahead any compiled language.

I decided to go with Common Lisp for its REPL and inside-out development experience, and just hope there's someone that will eventually take Clojure and CL, and fuse the two together.

The more I dive into Lisp and Smalltalk, the more I am convinced we are in the stone age of computing. We have reached the local maximum of UNIX and the basic abstractions over machine code we call compiled languages.
Would you say Kagi has escaped the Google SEO deterioration? Google has essentially gotten so bad for me that DuckDuckGo, without noticeable improvement, is now on par with Google.
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It’s funny. If you talk to teachers the problem is the 10% of students who make the whole place miserable and no parental support. In fact, the parents make the problem worse by siding the problem students instead of helping the school fix the problem.
Did you even read the article? You completely side stepped the argument they are making:

> While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic and lifelong success
Is the name a reference to Pascal's P-code machine?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine
There's a NUC in my basement connected to my router over gigabit ethernet:

- Caddy acting as a reverse proxy in front of the other apps

- Wallabag to capture articles I want to read later on my e-reader

- Calibre Web to manage my ebooks & PDFs

- Two Minecraft Bedrock Edition servers for my kid & their friends

- Yopass for secure password & secret sharing

Prior to this, I had a Raspberry Pi in the closet for hosting and it was frustrating. Not only did I have a hard time finding Docker containers for some apps that were actively maintained for ARM, but one time my SD card died and took everything with it. Since then, I've started mounting directories on my Synology NAS and using that as RAID-enabled storage that gets backed up to the cloud every night.
Does such a static analysis exist? I think the most realistic solution is to write an archetype class for each concept and instantiate each template with its relevant archetypes.

Now can we automate writing archetypes from concepts (and viceversa)? Maybe in C++64 when we finally get static reflection.
This isn't how you do things when there's the possibility of injuring people. Even worse, those being injured aren't necessarily those who made the decision to buy the vehicle - it's everybody else on the road.

I don't think I'm being unreasonable in saying I don't want my life dependent on the whims of Tesla.
I started skiing in the 80s, and even then they had snow machines to make snow when it was lean times. Seems much more practical than using helicopters.