skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh… it says right there in the article that some went to private schools, some are now home schooled, and some were never born (declining birth rates means overall number of potential students dropping).

Anecdotally, I heard from some public school teachers that when they moved to online school during the pandemic, some students, who previously were failing, blossomed and excelled, but went back to failing when in-person school was brought back. It turns out that in-person school doesn’t work well for everyone.
I'm a very big fan of using sbcl's (sb-profile:profile function1 function2) (sb-profile:report) and (sb-profile:reset) and finally (sb-profile:unprofile)

For large production systems that may be running some functions millions to billions of times during a given process, the profiler is amazing for reporting how many times each function ran, how long each run took and the ranking from top to bottom of slowest to fastest enabling finding and fixing the slowest functions and achieving incredible application efficiency gains.
If you're interested in this kind of thing, you may also want to check out:

- the Distributed YouTube Archive Discord: https://discord.com/invite/PQqks7eSKc

- ArchiveTeam also do a significant amount of YT archiving: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube

- a similar, but private effort: https://reddit.com/r/Archivists/comments/5uvfpw/youtube_arch...
Meetups and conferences are a white collar professional thing. What fraction of the population goes to meetups and conferences, compared to the fraction of the population that used to go to church or union meetings or local fraternal lodges?
The Dangers of Using ChatGPT for Content Creation as Explained by ChatGPT
Prompted ChatGPT to tell me why not to use it for content generation, here's what it said.
I last tried DDG a couple of years ago, so it may have improved. But I gave it a good hard try for several months, and I just kept finding instances where I couldn't find something that I knew should be out there. Then I switched back to Google and it was like a breath of fresh air, I was finding things easily again.

But I'd say with Kagi it's almost the opposite - it finds things at least as well and there aren't ads to get in the way. It feels like old-school Google.

I actually found that I was getting annoyed on my mobile devices because they were still searching on Google and I need to scroll past ads etc., before I recently switched them over.
>You can get a million hours of playback with enough battery.

That is why the OP specify 99Whr, it is the maximum battery size in laptop limited by Airline regulations.
How do snowboarders wreck the slopes anymore than skiers?
Unlike Newtonian theory, in audio engineering all points in space are not equivalent. Some points are between a pair of ears, some are not.

A common audio engineering strategy these days is to direct phase shift effects of multiple point sources vertically, e.g. linear speaker arrays. For audience members, reinforced and canceled frequencies fifteen feet off the ground don't effect musical experience.
If you liked Dobson's book then I heartily recommend Zelazny's "Doorways in the Sand", which I've read half a dozen times over the years with equal pleasure.
I bought a trackball mouse. (Elecom Huge).

I found that it ultimately ends up saving deskspace (since the device doesn't need space to move around). I found the device's size to be more comfortable for my hands than the small Logitech bluetooth mouse I was using.
> An answer on SO is either helpful or not. Who cares how it was written?

"Who cares if the diagnosis is done by a medical expert or someone pulling out random drugs they tried before? As long as I feel better immediately after taking them, who cares how they were prescribed?"

The case on SO is clearly different, as ChatGPT might answer incorrectly or answer with something containing subtle bugs. There's also a good chance that you won't be immediately able to spot those bugs, as, if you were sufficiently knowledgeable in the topic yourself, you would have most likely not asked that question.

The case for art is a bit different, as there is no technically correct way to do it, but there is still a value to the way it is created. Would you think the first picture drawn by your child is worth the same as any other bad painting? Would you agree that a perfect copy of the Mona Lisa has equal value to the actual object? If no, it should be pretty easy to see why a painting generated by an AI is different from one created by a human.
this has not been my experience. I have tried for up to four days before and it's just miserable, it's like all the bad parts of being stoned and drunk and none of the good parts. when you've been on something since adolescence it's hard to break away. after I re-accrue time off after my wedding this coming summer I'm thinking about about taking a week off to try to go clean again but I'm deathly afraid of the sheer drop-off in productivity that will occur. I have lived more of my life on this drug than not, and getting off of it terrifies me, even though I hate it.
Just make sure you're getting Co2 can from beverage suppliers (and not industrial places)

You can get Co2 tank and parts from beer supply company.

https://www.morebeer.com/category/co2-tanks-regulators-parts...

plenty YT videos on how to put them together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cb43p5dJBE
Since you ignored my main point in favor of ad-hominems, I’ll repeat it: the idea that any degree will do is well supported by the fact that degree holders earn 2x over non-degree holders on average. The only relevant question in this thread about gender studies majors is what their income is compared to people without a college degree. It’s irrelevant what their income is compared to EE majors.

BTW, you used the word “value” with gender studies but then acknowledged in your last sentence that education has value that is non-monetary; please be careful about using language that conflates income with value (only mentioning since you did it in another comment as well). Gender studies might have people earning relatively lower incomes compared to some other degrees, but that doesn’t mean it has low value; as sub-branch of history and anthropology, and at a time when society is fiercely debating gender, gender studies is particularly relevant and useful and socially valuable today.

As far as underwater basket weaving, if you don’t have any actual examples and have to make up a fake one, then it sounds like the point you’re trying to make probably has no basis in reality, and probably isn’t true. That’s what use of the term “underwater basket weaving” by anyone tells me, and it tends to get trotted out more often on Fox News to make a straw-man point than by reasonable people having a reasonable discussion.

As far as Wikipedia links (or any references), it’s true that not everything needs one, but sometimes they’re helpful to support & clarify a discussion. It wasn’t clear that you knew underwater basket weaving wasn’t a degree, but I also added it because the article contains some interesting and humorous history behind the term “underwater basket weaving”. You could maybe use one or two links here in this thread to back up your claims, for example, about what “people” lambast & talk about, and what “widespread cultural awareness” exists. As it stands, you’ve stated a lot of opinion and assumptions without demonstrating much relevance. Who cares if someone somewhere lambasted their biased idea of a useless degree? Why should that have any bearing on what anyone else does? Answering those questions thoughtfully might require a link or two…
>If you doubt this, notice that co-pilot was trained on public, open-source code on Github. Not on Microsoft's/Github's own proprietary code. If co-pilot is truly so transformative that copyright doesn't apply, why not feed it all of Microsoft's code to train it better?

Presumably because there might be trade secrets in there that they don't want to leak. That seems entirely separate to copywrite to me.
Reddit is one of the smaller social media sites at 430m yearly users.

Yes absurd number but TikTok, FB, Instagram etc all have more.
I tried salo recently and liked it, but it didn’t have as much flavor as boczek. How does slonina compare to either of those?

I had success last year with braises too, like hong shao rou, but also barbacoa and even Texas chili. Maybe I need to work on my tofu this year.
And even more so, re: distance, Australia.
I like how people in here think that someone who just spent 12 hours digging coal out of hell has enough energy left over to give even half of a shit about some bird. You think they went on a strike until the company invented this thing? Saving the birds was not a thing LOL
This comment pulled me in and I've reread it several times. Tere is a lot of truth here. I appreciate how information hoarding can be a sign of status seeking. More knowledge, more skill, more times being the person who just knows the answer. Fear (of missing out) is a classic symptom of status seeking.

The problem is that some degree of information hoarding has paid off for me. It sometimes really does improve your skill and impress your peers. Aside from fasting type interventions, what I think is needed in addition to this is some form of wisdom relating to knowing what is valuable to hoard, read, or study. It's like drinking alcohol. If you are getting drunk all the time it is probably a good idea to stop completely. But there are real benefits of social drinking.

This makes me convinced I need more skill in establishing and recognizing priorities when it comes to information gathering.
At least on Windows the solution is easy, https://www.dependencywalker.com/
Dolphins and orcas specifically actually have higher density of folds in their brains than human brains in addition to being big.

The book Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises is quite good.
Technically, digital can pretty academically produce an analog tape sound and/or a vacuum tube sound. Analog is really just an effect, types of harmonic distortion.
Schools closures were really a disastrous policy.

Experts and parents alike agreed that schools should have remained open. Instead, the US was the standout among Western nations at not getting kids back into the classroom: https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20220629024039/https://en....

Teachers' and their unions also became somewhat bad actors here too - undermining good faith attempts to resume classroom teaching and constantly moving goalposts well after the vaccine was available. It also pitted teachers directly against their local policymakers and voters.

The irony is that while everyone stayed home for a year and studied up on social justice, the lack of schooling will hit poorer families much worse. We were able to put our kid in a private school. Time will tell the lingering effects on less fortunate families.

Really telling is that almost no one is attending PTA meetings anymore (unless to yell at teachers or to yell at the people yelling at teachers). Anyone who actually cared about partnering with/challenging teachers to improve education has since moved on.
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Print server
Sometimes a Minecraft Server
Actually, maybe I need to think bigger. When you said “coop”, I was thinking a small number of people playing in real-time, but what about a large number of people playing asynchronously?

Maybe you’re just creating programs/automation and anyone can come along and make them run faster or use less memory.

“Community coop”
I have an autonomous standing desk (only company I could find march of 2020 that sold solid 71" long desks that are over 30" wide/deep).

The lowest setting on mine is 26.0", that's still too high? I would imagine a keyboard tray would drop it another 2-3 inches setting your keyboard below 24" from the floor.
Cleaning mine is extremely easy. It's just a basket with a detachable grate.
I immediately got reminded of an interesting video I saw from The Honest Carpenter titled "THE TRADES ARE DYING...But The World Still Needs To Be Built! CAN WE FIX THE SKILLED LABOR SHORTAGE?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DRm86qmXbs
The brightest minds in the Rust community are investigating! https://github.com/dtolnay/watt
I don't because I drink a ton of water, which helps a lot.
My setup at home is 3 monitors, and I switch between a connected laptop (work), and my home desktop machine.

IT means when I finish work I have to hit the switch to change input on each monitor (and with one setup vertically, it can be awkward, and one requires going through a menu, which is annoying).

I also have to swap the USB dongles for keyboard and mouse from the laptop docking station to my desktop.

Would a KVM fix this for me ?

SO I can just hit a single switch and it will swap over the keyboard / mouse and my monitors?

I'd love that.
Oil will typically cause eggs to stick unless you use a lot of it. You can use less butter and have less sticking. 1 Tbsp butter for cooking an egg is much easier than 1 Tbsp oil. And it’s not nearly as bad, at least in this amount, as commonly thought.
It's a web forum for shitposting, not a government for a country. Using hyperbolic language like "private tyranny" to talk about unpaid moderators curating a stream of news articles and posts typifies the terminally online madness of the current zeitgeist.
URN are the "missing link" in the semantic web. If you look at examples where somebody writes an RDF file they typically use identifiers like

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tin>

which are fine for cases where you want to publish the data on the web but not for the much more common case of "our own private data".

It is straightforward in principle to use URNs, but it is not easy to find examples or discussion of best practices with URNs. For one thing you can always write

<urn:uuid:6e8bc430-9c3a-11d9-9669-0800200c9a66>

so you can generate as many unique ids as you need.
I don't know the classic version all too well (because I never got into it despite multiple attempts), but the Steam release is generally much more approachable (so far I have put over 50 hrs into it and love it).

It has a simple tutorial, the interface is fully mouse driven, there's sound effects and music, and the tile graphics really do a great job to visualise what's going on in the game.
Ah, so like Valve Software then.

On a related note, the only reason the United States' citizens directly vote for the President is at the pleasure of the State Legislatures. The Constitution allows them to choose the manner in which electors are elected, and they in theory could elect them directly (by specifying this before election day), usurping the power from the public.

https://www.justsecurity.org/73274/no-state-legislatures-can...
No, it suggests that there was an optimal path around the world in 80 days. The geography of many regions would have made them more remote than the optimal path.
/r/Hololive is like that
A now-flagged sibling post objected to the description of academia as a pyramid scheme and asked how that description could be justified.

If we're splitting hairs, it's closer to an MLM than it is to a Ponzi.

Each professor has to run a lab, which requires several students. Those students are nominally being trained to become professors who will run their own labs, and so on.

What this ignores (like MLMs) is that market saturation will ensue, and the "infinite chain" nature of recruitment cannot be continued once that point is hit. At equilibrium, each professor can have only one student over the course of their career. Or, allowing for losses to other fields, only a very few students. Certainly not enough to continue the prolific paper-mill output we see today.

The system only continues to work today (and only in engineering and some sciences) because there is a large enough market for PhDs outside academia.

In the humanities and arguably in physics, the system already does not work.

To be as offensive as possible, it's as though a primitive people continued breeding beyond the carrying capacity of the land. Malthus says mortality will start going up. What we actually see, non-metaphorically, is serious distress from humanities PhDs who languish in poverty-level adjunct roles.
The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop Is Not Looking Good
Steam Deck. Fantastic for catching up on your gaming backlog when traveling.

Origami pourover brewer. Beautiful, and it’s been a lot of fun trying to get better at brewing great coffee.
There are also incentives for others to include him as a co-author despite the fact that, presumably, he has come nowhere near the minimum work that would be expected to allow him to be included as such.

The question "Did you publish a paper with [famous scientist/researcher]" is not too different from the question "Did you go to dinner with [famous actress/entertainer/]" in other contexts. The give some clout, recognition, some minor envy from others.
It sits somewhere between a pour-over and espresso both in terms of what it makes and the grain size that suits it well.
What if this service stops to exist after 2 years? Then any place you advertised/published this subdomain will need to be updated. With your own domain you won't have that issue, ever. Why would you give that up?
This is funny, I went the other way. I used to keep text files of links quite similar to this, but then after several years I realized I rarely (perhaps a handful of times over years) went back to them. So I started using bookmarks with tags because it was much faster. I still rarely go back to bookmarks, but when I do, I find there is much less friction compared to scanning a text file.
I don't think it'll take too long for "Prompt Generation and Processing" to be a paper as part of Law courses.
For anyone price-sensitive, I highly recommend getting the cheapest 88-key hammer-action keyboard you can find and hooking it up to Pianoteq Stage rather than buying a dedicated digital piano.

Exception if you're going to travel with it. Built-in sounds save you on setup time.
Can you rephrase your question? I'm not sure I understand
Is it such a bad thing? Anecdotally, the student enrollment in the school my kids are zoned for has gotten to the point where they had to bring Portables and put them in the field next to school to continue to support all the incoming kids. I dont know the specifics about why there isn't funding (or viability) to build a permanent structure. We also have not heard plans about building new schools to alleviate the overflow. Just to be clear, I realize schools are a mechanism for many kids to escape abusive parents, get proper meals and the numerous benefits of getting a structured education and companionship of peers. I just feel like we are trending towards blaming the pendemic for literally everything while systemic issues in education have existed long before pandemic ever happened.
Sorry, I'm far from an expert here. They started recently and just went out of closed beta I believe. I've been using it for a few months now.

They have a lot of nice features pulled from Google and DDG:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/index.html

I haven't done any objective tests, so can't really say much about search quality except that it definitely works at least as well as Google for my searches (usually tech or legal stuff), and it doesn't have ads. Whatever I'm looking for is usually the top result if my query is good and it's not something that's ambiguous.
This seems like a good argument for adjusting copyright law, but seems unhelpful in interpreting it. "This law isn't a good way to achieve the government's objectives" is not the same as "this law wasn't broken". Judges do have some discretionary power in interpretation and that can take into account congress's intent, but here that would be a massive stretch. A judge would simply say it's congress's job to fix copyright if it's not the best way to achieve certain policy goals.
I’ve been using the same pair for hiking for 14 years and not a single hole!
In languages that are statically typed and support enums, symbols are not necessary IMO.
Clearly it’s working for them but it also I think loses them sales from people who would absolutely buy an oven that evenly cooks (if you’re an apartment dwelling baker you know the pain) and preheats in seconds where “air fryer” sounds like it does something totally different.

It’s the same thing with instant pot where they probably lose out a bit by not marketing themselves as a serious electric pressure cooker that can also do other stuff.
Don't you have to work pretty hard to get copilot to reproduce snippets verbatim? My understanding is that, while its possible to make copilot reproduce snippets so long as they appear in a large number of files, this basically never happens under normal usage.
> Seems there is a bit of vendor lock-in here with flyio, the way he's throwing custom http error codes for their infra. Can I just run LiteFS on a few virtual machines and forward writes back to master?

LiteFS author here. You can run LiteFS anywhere -- even on a laptop with a few instances. There's no special Fly.io lock-in. The "fly-replay" is some syntactic sugar for our proxy that makes it easy to redirect requests but you could do the same with regular HTTP proxying.

> With LiteFS, what happens if master goes down? Can a new one be elected?

Yes, if you use Consul-based leasing then a new primary will come up automatically. Consul sessions have a minimum TTL of 10 seconds so you could lose write availability for up to that amount of time in the event of unexpectedly losing the primary. If you cleanly shutdown the primary then it will release its session and another node will pick up the lease right away.

The other option is static leasing where a single node will always be primary. This is a simpler option but you do lose write availability if your primary node goes down.
Or Spain and South America?
Does the fan get all oily & grimy? Is it hard to keep clean? I like being able to wash greasy kitchen items in lots of hot water and detergent. I can't imagine it is possible to immerse the business end of an air fryer in water?
There are parts that are almost certainly not under functional selection and provide no benefit whatsoever- with Alu sequences being the best candidate. Even in tthe case of Alu, they do seem to have some vague effect on regulation of transcription... although they're not what we would call "genes" or "regulatory regions".

In other cases, there are just lots and lots of duplicates of the same genes over and over. Other parts appear to be forges of gene creation- either through gene duplication and divergent evolution, or through some other mysterious mechanism we don't know yet.

Certainly, we've had parts that looked like they were nothing at all and ended up being very important, and other parts that looked like they were incredibly important, but were really just the side effect of some effective parasite.

It's sort of not even an interesting debate any more, as most of the initial positions everybody held were changed when we interrogated more, and better data.
Didn't get them this year, but yes those are amazing.
As long as you don’t claw back after you die.
I was OK with the section because includes "at scale", "consumer devices" and it ends with "Figure out a way to cast your metal parts." The advice is not wrong, just not complete. It would be better if it said "Machining might not be the best process, figure out the best way to make your parts -cast metal parts, use plate, sheet metal or simple extrusions, change metal for reinforced plastic, etc."
Oh, the internet!

Just yesterday, I bought a nice domain name for an idea that's very close to what you mention, monetize on snippets of code.

If you want to team up, hit me up!