skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is musically inept, I'm contemplating learning an instrument in the near-ish future. I tried to teach myself guitar several years back, but it didn't work (per Mitch Hedberg[0]).

This next time around, I'll likely hire a teacher to make sure I get the basics, and a friend recommended starting with a ukulele before moving to guitar. I'm curious if there's a good app/website that can help newbies learn. Anyone have experience here and any recommendations?

[0] https://www.azquotes.com/quote/899858
I was born and raised in CA. Give me a break. If anything, I see myself as more inline with the classic Berkley-style, free will, spiritual esotericism of the 60s/70s. But like I said, political dispassion is beyond your comprehension, does not compute.
When they start letting you put your own cash in, you need cash to start with.
I like the color scheme a lot!
Which is hilarious since they were well known for having an insanely huge data science team supposedly working on really tough problems in personalization. They had a constant stream of (interesting) blog posts but I was always curious how much of that work really touched the product. AI/ML was supposed to be their big market edge.

Not too surprised that didn't work out given my experience with every other company that had built out massive teams of largely inexperienced DS people.
I tried this- someone left a 5lb CO2 tank on my corner and I had it refilled- I was excited since I am a home brewer and have always been interested in kegging. I got a regulator, the cap, and then tried to carbonate a 16oz water bottle. It in theory worked, but I could never get the same carbonation levels that I could from a soda stream or store bought bottle. And doing the shake thing for 30 seconds felt like a lot of work for lackluster results compared to the soda stream as well.
> Or you’ve already spent it all.

This is only true if you never have income in the future. They can garnish and/or reach in and take other assets
This is not written in English. Maybe AI?
>I’m trying to assume you’re asking the question to spur conversation, and not that you actually hold the view that watching child porn, whether synthetic or not, is morally equivalent to playing video games.

I think you're less trying to assume this, and more trying to cast aspersions without breaking HN rules. Barely.
it's the closest major city to the largest VC hub

San Jose has entered the room. San Francisco is cute and that's why people like it and ignore San Jose.
Can I introduce you to the British Empire, pre-steamships: https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/sailingtimes.htm

Or in 1914: https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter1/the-setting... (post-steamships)

The Spanish Empire was probably worse at its height.
No reason why mental institutions cant be compassionate and devote time and effort to individuals. Much better than letting these people live in their own excrement in the subway.
Its easy to use dry ice to refill a soda stream as well.
Interesting. I would believe there is more ear wax when I use them a lot. Does that not reverse to ordinary levels when they are not used? What problems does this (or other non-hearing issues) create?

I agree that we need to be mindful of rapid and dramatic changes to how we interface with the world, since our bodies may not react well in the long run.
Football players bodies do wear out, but most just lose too much speed and athleticism before it truly happens.

Joe Thomas, one of the greatest left tackles of all time, retired because he was going to need a new knee. His back also had a lot of issues. Losing a bunch of weight has allowed him to put off some of the surgeries, but he said his knee was bone on bone by the end.
If you believe that will happen, you should probably invest all your money there. I'll note that in your chart the wage growth rate has plummeted over the last 10 years, and that these are means not medians (meaning the US is $87k in 2021?). During the same 10y period China's debt grew by almost 200% accelerating and the US about 30%.

I worked in China for almost 20 years. When I first arrived bicycles dominated the streets of Beijing. Amazing to watch it grow. I would not speculate there on anything longer than a 3-6month time horizon. I'll note that most Chinese that can do not invest there either.
Dont forget about a GB of ram, and maybe some DC-DC converters. ;)
On the bright side, I believe in 1985 the Post Scriptum was considered necessary to avoid publication having been a career-limiting move, but today it might have been omitted with few other than the deliberately obtuse missing the intended point(s).
> I'm surprised your friends are so fixated on HFTs while there are so many interesting and/or fun other things to spend time on when undergrad on campus

Many of them were or are interested in other things like compilers, home-labbing; a couple of them game, too. It's just that because we're about to graduate, job offers dominate the conversation, and HFT jobs dominate that conversation.
A wheatbuck pillow.

Like 50 bucks, keeps it's shape, keeps it's chills (regular pillows come stoves to me), keeps my head straight without folding a pillow in 4, keeps some support of my head why I tuck my arm under so I don't put much pressure on my shoulder.

Been travelling for 3 months and carrying it, makes every bed a good bed.
Menace (The Machine Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine)
I've had 2 Barista Express units now. They have lasted me about 12-18 months each before something went wrong. In the recent case, I bought a new group head seal and I got about 60 brews before it blew out again. It has been a good intro machine, and it allowed me to go from using auto mode, to manually weighing 18g ground in for 36g output over ~30s (nb. with a $50 external scale) which made getting reliable results so easy. But now.. I really want a Flair 58, but I can't stomach the $800AUD. I'm stuck somewhere between coffee rookie and coffee snob and can't justify it yet.

Would also recommend finding a nice decaf bean if you are one whom caffeine affects easily. Now I can (did) have 3 great coffees a day instead of 1.
El Paso clears downtown of expansive migrant camps ahead of Biden visit
https://chazeon.com/
In the 6th century, big volcanic eruptions, low temperatures and plagues bringed a dark age in Europe and other parts of the world. A large part of the population died. Maybe those recipes were lost during this period.
And if that sociopath is offering you money to take on those organizational problems, what's the according act in that case?
I wrote a little webext to help me find tabs in a visual way grouped by window. middle click closes the tab and left click brings the tab you click on to the forefront. It's simple but something I use many times every day.

feel free to try it out:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
These components are beautiful!
We are talking about different things. We know about speculative research (which I referred to in my first comments), which gets discovered later on because of new methods, technologies, changes of paradigm. It rarely happens, and it makes a "splash" because it is good narrative and it is unlikely. But it happened, no doubt.

I am talking about, just to offer an example, the vast majority of research that is published (please take this as a gross simplification) in journals with impact factors that start with a zero, theoretical work that re-invents linear regression, work based on data collected like a stream collects rain during a storm, that is everything gets in unfiltered.

The justification for thousands and thousands of worthless articles published worldwide every year cannot be, "maybe among them there is the next natural selection-like theory of evolution that will revolutionize our understanding of the world". But unfortunately, left unchecked, scientific production has increased tremendously in volume, and I am quite confident that increase did not lead to an increase in "good science".
One method to reduce cement’s carbon footprint (which accounts for up to 8% of total global greenhouse gas emissions), is to improve the longevity of concrete through the incorporation of self-healing functionalities. The resulting extended use life, combined with a reduction in the need for extensive repair, could thus reduce the environmental impact and improve the economic life cycle of modern cementitious constructs.

I wonder:

How much of an environmental impact this would make given the number of structures that are not useful before the concrete requires repair?

How much of Roman concrete's reputation for durability comes from survivorship bias--the structures that lasted were just lucky?
It's far easier to point at imaginary causes for imaginary problems than it is to talk about the real causes of real problems.
Categorizing 575k signatures as just "some signed petitions" is some unreal minimization of the cost and difficulty to get this done.

2022 ballot measures "Cost per required signature" was $16.18. [1]. Between $6.4m -> $18.8m to get a prop on the ballot.

1 - https://ballotpedia.org/California_ballot_initiative_petitio...
Also small enough to make preheating near instant.
she likes doing difficult things. she's pretty amazing actually

it turns out it's more than a century old; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet#Diet
Buy a 60 pack of soft towels [0] and you will be clean and dry. Did this based on a friend's rec and I'm never going back.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TJ7646Z
Not true.
Utah house and senate districts and seats are allocated based on population.

It is not like the Federal senate where each state gets fixed representatives, independent of population.

For example, Salt Lake country has 12/29 senate representatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_State_Legislative_distric...
https://benoit.paris

It's got one article about complex integrals. There's also my CV in there as well (looking for work atm ;) )
Non-English queries have usually poor result.
A lot of the attempts at this for English before the 2000s failed because they didn't integrate well with the rest of the language, and I think the elegant solution for each language will depend on details of that language.

For Spanish I think I think -e is solid: https://www.jefftk.com/p/ungendered-spanish

Note that you don't need to fully remove grammatical gender to get this benefit, just change the default way of talking about humans.
Most people who know about John Muir love him... Except for people who have studied any history of the indigenous peoples of California. Then he's a figurehead who tried to erase the natural and cultural history of California in an effort to further his own pastoralist agenda. That's the charitable way to interpret that. Much worse things are said about him.

As someone else pointed out with the Salton Sea, Utah doesn't have a monopoly in the west on dumb myopic views on the natural world. And we are really bad with respect to caring about how things were when our grandparents were kids. Or their grandparents. Or the colonists, or the people they displaced.
Because expanding populations using up all their resources and dying is simply a fact regardless of the time scale predicted. So he has to be right sooner or later unless the population stops growing at some point. As a biologist I've seen it play out in miniature many times with cell cultures killing themselves off. Yes, we are smarter than just cells and can stretch our resources through new technologies so far delaying this fate. But assuming that we can always do that is a dangerous gamble.
> 1. The font size on homepage is small, especially for the two columns of dates.

Thanks for the feedback! I just pushed up some changes. Let me know how it looks in ~10 minutes :)

Those dates are indeed created and updated dates. I haven't thought of pretty a way to visually indicate that haha. Let me know if you have any ideas!

> 2. The dates aren't present on the post pages themselves, so someone landing directly on a post won't know how old it is.

It would be very easy to add, but I didn't think people would care!

I'll add created/updated dates at the end of each page so it doesn't pollute the header. Thanks for the recommendations!
As someone who left mid-college to do software development work, I regret not completing a degree of some kind. (I was studying electrical engineering.)

I would say, for me, it actually would have been good to spend a few years working in industry to get a view of what real world programming is like and gain some awareness of what doors might be closed to you without a degree.

In this situation I would recommend being careful to not become dependent on the level of income that most software development provides. If you are cautious with your finances, you could decide to go for the degree with some money saved up as opposed to it feeling like a major financial hurdle to leave your job in order to go to school full time.
I've bought items that weren't defective, but that turned out to not work as well as was advertised, and that's also free.

I don't know the full policy, but it makes sense they would cover the returns of an item that items that are DOA.
The Design and Implementation of User-Schedulable Languages
Main server is a pretty wimpy i3 with some removable drive cages running FreeNAS Core. That runs various things like Plex, FoundryVTT and NextCloud in FreeBSD jails, as well as SMB services to the rest of the house. I used to run my own dnsmasq server with an adblock list, but gave in and set up a small Ubuntu box on a SFF server to run pihole in Docker. Turns out pihole makes some very Linux specific assumptions -- I couldn't really get it working in FreeBSD, and rpi hardware has been hard to come by.
Well I meant two cups a day at home, but yes I would still pay that. Cafes are good and I like them. Way cheaper than drinking at bars, for comparison, also.
For me it was a watch.

I bought a Fitbit Charge 4, originally to track my heart rate/steps since I've never owned one and always relied on my phone for time.

With my phone generally on silent and by not checking it so often, I've found my use of social media/apps has reduced drastically this year. To the point that I recently forgot my phone at home, something that I didn't imagine possible.
I don't know, I have heard that a lot of the newer ovens with an air fryer mode don't work very well at all. I wonder what is different.
What this article conveniently overlooks is the distinction between the high-income person who takes aggressive tax positions to minimize the tax money they pay on their income, and the low-income person who pays little or no income tax and instead receives refundable Earned Income and Child Tax credits.

It's not like the IRS is "going after" poor people who are trying to evade paying their taxes; they are trying their best to carry out the Congressional mandate to administer a welfare system via the tax collection process while countering the massive fraud that such easy handouts attracts.
I used the same, that site is all that's needed to learn.
Then you consider that there are many countries in the world and the whole system breaks down. Sorry, we don't allow this copyrighted code to your country!
It’s obviously ludicrous and I can’t remember the specifics except it seemed very different from my efforts at crimping a cable.

A brief search alerts me to the presence of Cat 6A to Cat 8 shielded pass-through design with triple prong gold plated contacts, supporting POE++. Does your connector have integrated magnetics? Led indicators? Are they ruggedised? No? You’re losing out.

Here you go:

https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/selecting-the-...

https://www.cuidevices.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-rj45-c...
It's too hard to swallow for most people but you're right. There are significant headwinds coming ahead for most markets whilst productivity gains have stalled. See Robert J. Gordon's paper "IS U.S. ECONOMIC GROWTH OVER? FALTERING INNOVATION CONFRONTS THE SIX HEADWINDS".

I really think millenials should consider hedging their bet, maybe even spend 100% of their income.
I'm really not a big "fan" of MT's cheezy wooden propellers. They call them "Natural Composite" but it's really just densified/compressed wood with a thin fiberglass wrapping. Here's an example of what you can expect from in-service damage, a Jetstream 41 recently hit a bird, shed a blade, and it shot right through the passenger cabin. The hilarious thing is that the government investigation called it a "survivable accident" because no one happened to be seated in the row that it shot through. https://avherald.com/h?article=4f2a35e6

I was involved in the evaluation of proposed repairs to a Beechcraft Bonanza with a 3 bladed MT prop that taxied into a vinyl traffic cone at idle speed. The Beech shed two prop blades, bent the engine mount and firewall. There was a slight cut in the traffic cone, but it was returned directly to revenue service.
nothing. a hobby. giving a shit about 24% extraction yields. bullshit science.

i have all the stuff. i still make a french press every morning for my partner.

don't get me wrong, i love it. i love pulling a 'god shot' every now and then. i roast my own coffee and that's a fun learning curve. it's a community to engage with.

but it's not better than any other coffee prep. just very technical, and for me that's fun.
Like the world's worst case of an oxbow lake I suppose?
https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2021.1604...

> Among the 44,197 homeless shelter stays, on average, a homeless shelter stay was about 77 days, with the median 30 days, and the maximum of 5,030 days (the entry date started in 2002 for this extreme case). ... 2,872 (∼6.5%) homeless shelter stays were just 1 day long, 6,726 homeless shelter stays (∼15%) were between 2 days and 5 days, and 34,695 homeless shelter stays (78.5%) were 10 days or longer. About 81% of all homeless shelter stays were by clients who have experienced recidivism.
Btw, I asked it:

> How can you improve GPT3 or ChatGPT?

Answer:

> There are several ways that GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) and ChatGPT could be improved:

> 1. Increase the size of the model: GPT-3 is already one of the largest language models available, but increasing the size of the model could allow it to perform even better on tasks such as language translation and summarization.

> 2. Train the model on more diverse data: GPT-3 is trained on a large dataset, but it could be improved by training it on a wider range of data sources, including more diverse languages and dialects.

> 3. Improve the model's ability to handle long-range dependencies: Language models like GPT-3 and ChatGPT are sometimes limited in their ability to understand and generate text that contains long-range dependencies, such as references to events or characters that were introduced earlier in the conversation.

> 4. Enhance the model's ability to handle out-of-vocabulary words and rare words: GPT-3 and ChatGPT can sometimes struggle to generate coherent text when they encounter words that are not in their vocabulary. Improving the model's ability to handle these cases could improve its overall performance.

> 5. Train the model on more tasks and domains: GPT-3 and ChatGPT are trained on a wide range of tasks, but there is always room for improvement. Training the model on more tasks and domains could make it more versatile and able to handle a wider range of inputs.

It is probably right with every point. So it can improve itself.

Yes, none of this is really novel. All this is basically well know. But so what? This is still a good answer to the question. TacticalCoder suggested this test. I'm not arguing that this was a good test. Actually I already implied in my earlier answer that I don't think this is really a good test for AGI or human-level intelligence.
I’m not sure why you could possibly want all of that information from me.

My original response was about how “kids these days” expect “ass busting results without the ass busting”, and I was pointing out that that is definitely not the case with OP’s job offer of $25-30/hr plus overtime, which is the exact opposite…ass busting without the results.

But if you must, Let’s say somewhere in the top 50% of asset holders is a reasonable line for “wealth”. Do with that whatever you like.
That makes it a great candidate for near-net casting. That way you save the 80% of tre billet you'd be turning into chips, and your fancy CNC gets more parts per shift.
Same here. I actually used one of the >$1k expresso machines for awhile, it wasn't for me. I enjoy holding a cup of hot coffee reading the news in the morning. Expresso doesn't cut it for me.
Thanks for the extra context. The Udacity post is especially educational.
Not living in the US where there's a ton of added sugar in things that don't need added sugar.

Though now the disadvantage is that things like low carb wraps are not a normal store item, and neither monkfruit not alluose are allowed as food in the EU.

But I guess by far the biggest part was actually that I've been working from home since 2008 and love cooking ;)
I love the little animation in the top left as well as the color scheme! What a lovely website.
My company gave me one of their jackets a few years back for being involved in some recruiting efforts. I honestly had no idea how expensive they were- I have an LT hood of some sort- their product line is absurdly convoluted, but I later found out it was about $260. I ripped mine in a bike fall a few months ago, but even after finding the price to replace it, was absolutely resolved to get anther. For a jacket that weighed nothing, it kept me plenty warm down to about 30F degrees, kept the rain out, and looked great. Its almost like magic how good these are.
Take a look at this bug, perhaps it'll give you an idea: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=9195
I'm really excited to hear that this is being used in industry. I think I heard that AWS also used TLA+ to find some very subtle bug in S3, too.
A huge (A0, 33-1/8 x 46-13/16 in-sized) 12-month calendar with the months laid out in long strips.

I wasn't doing enough. Too much YouTube and reddit, so I stopped and decided to do things.

I used different colored markers for different aspects of my life-- health, work, fitness, recreational travel, home maintenance, etc) and decided I had to do something every week.

The different colors even accounted for down time. Too much color? Draw a nice relaxing blue line for a couple of days and do nothing.

I went from being a hermit to a EMT-qualified volunteer at my local volunteer fire department on his way to Firefighter I training, a spotlight operator at a local community theater, an enthusiastic yogi, and by having the year laid out I can look at weekends with holidays and plan my year's travel months in advance. I make notes on when to plant what and have a pretty front yard.

Digital calendars are nice, but they can't beat having a huge-assed poster right next to the front door with everything laid out in black and white and red and blue and green and yellow and........

If you feel like you're not getting the most out of life, get a huge-assed calendar, start googling local volunteer opportunities, write it down, and then do it.

$30, including markers.
The destroyed concrete, yes, but what about the dexpan? <Peregrine Took>
Those are great opportunities to teach your children about the consequences of an apathetic voting base. It’s also a great time to nurture children’s empathetic abilities by teaching them to juxtapose indecent behavior, mental illness, poverty, and general despair.

Want more action? Try protesting and demanding solutions that include no questions asked housing, healthcare, food, water, and basic essential communication technology and interconnection.

Unless people want to misery murder homeless people en masse, the above is the solution. Hard stop. Don’t like it? That’s not my problem, I’m not complaining about desperate people from a place of immense privilege.