skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure... You could also reframe it as the cost of building a big gate around your low homelessness neighborhood to keep the homeless out and to have security personelle to boot them out of the neighberhoud if they do get in...
For me, laziness mostly. OED isn't free, and I don't care enough to pay for it, or figure out how to get it free.

Even if the correct date is 1830 or even 1820, it is a distinction without difference. It misses the middle ages by more than a hundred years.
School curriculums need to adjust how they are creating assignments.

I had a great assignment in college where the professor gave you all the materials required. You could only use the various articles/essays/news clippings he gave you, and you wrote an essay based on that.

Assignments that don't rely on the internet for research would do a much better job teaching the material and forcing students to read the material. Students wouldn't be able to SparkNote or ChatGPT an essay.
> 1. I'm not going to take the moral highroad here. He's clearly going for an IT education. I think it's great that he is exploring these options.

Every developed country has a general path to education because you want well balanced citizen and not ultra specialised tools.

> 3. Face the facts. This goes really fast. If you don't use an AI, your essay is going to be at the bottom of the heap. I'd estimate that out of the 35 essays, maybe 25 used AI for assistance.

Why didn't you write his essay before AI was a thing ? They'd be on top of the heap.

Why don't you pay a cheap freelance copywriter for like 1$ an hour to write the essays ?

The goal of education, especially at that level, is to build your basic skills, not to perform and deliver
I agree that students using LLMs to do work for them is akin to your example. However, what is described in the article shows thoughtful exercises on engaging the same critical thinking skills you mention, so I see no problem with this approach. Might not want to do that for every assignment, but it seems the author had a pretty skillful approach to developing well rounded students in the context that students will be dealing with outside the classroom.
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Hey we can help everyone out there. Just not in my backyard bro and definitely not with my tax $$ /s.
Of course, because they didn't keep them anywhere near themselves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Dutch_slavery

It did help them jumpstart their economical development by.. quite a lot tho and they have been very prudent with their money ever since.
I can't remember which article it was, but Steve Pavlina said people often ask him, "ok I've written my book, now how do I sell it?" and he's like, "you dingus! You're supposed to get the audience first, and then create for them!"

So there's a spectrum, from creating in silence to creating in public, which is perhaps down to personal preference or temperament (introversion / extraversion?).

I've often seen people launch mailing lists and pre-orders for products, books, courses, of which they have not yet written a single line. So their early users get a discount in exchange for providing invaluable feedback during the development process.
If the millions are yours you can certainly do as you wish with them tho.
The programs in the Benchmark Game for example?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
How do you solve the GPU reset problem? I've given up entirely with my Radeon 6000 series. First, there was one feature that had to be disabled, hurting performance (can't remember; had to do with 4 GB RAM/mining or similar). The last straw was just VM hanging while installing the drivers and/or when shutting down the VM.
Do you look at codebase quality?

As in, have someone good at Language X go through the target's repos and deliver a verdict on how good the actual code is, and how well it's organized etc?
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Not only that, but it seems like any time I mention struggling to focus on some task, I instantly get told, no, I do have ADHD and need to get tested for it. Like, no, I just don't want to sit here and correct these math equations my code couldn't copy right.
My guess is it comes from drug related policies, education, culture and enforcement. The USA is the developed country with the highest per-capita rates of alcohol & drug use disorders and drug related deaths. I believe this is due to the geography and high purchasing power of americans, not due to any flaws in character. You're in a place it's easy to get drugs into, and people earn enough to buy them. This then creates a mental health and drug epidemic which are the true cause of most homelessness in the cities you reference, as opposed to purely being lack of money, job or housing, though these problems are obviously not mutually exclusive.
Unless you have something outside of the queue monitoring the size and limiting items being entered into the queue, a queue is always either growing or shrinking. See: https://blog.danslimmon.com/2016/08/26/the-most-important-th...

70-75% is just a rough number, the real number depends highly on several factors related to your specific use of the queue.

It may not make sense but it is the reality.
In 1998, Microsoft asserts that their browser was an inherent component of the operating system and could not be extracted. In 2020, Microsoft miraculously defies the impossible! What can't Microsoft do?
Yes, I know talented engineers from several companies that were laid off simply due to being unlucky enough to have ended up on the “wrong” project
$20/mo x 12 months = $240 annually.

$240 annual x 75 years = $18000

Almost free huh?

$12000 a year x 75 = $90000

If I could pay that in and lock it in for the duration, maybe I'd consider that, but no one is going to let you do that.

Y'all got some funny notions on "Free".

Then there's the whole issue of "What if Google gets bored?"
Thank you, you’ve made my day with this comment!
> I understand that you are fine being called an idiot and that the proper response is a smile and nod of understanding. Some do not. I do not.

Because the only possible responses are "smile and nod of understanding" and "call the professor an idiot in return", and no middle ground exists where you can draw attention to someone's mistaken beliefs without escalating the situation, or even without putting them on the defensive?

I don't believe you believe that.
In my country most exams are in person with no phone/internet.

You can cheat all year if you want for homework &co, they're just here to help you get good for the monthly/yearly exams
It's all made up?
You can help your kid understand something without telling them the answer directly.
Flash storage uses QM [1]. Who knows what other advancements could be made with a better grasp of reality, at these scales. It doesn’t seem like a waste of time.

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/contributions-quantum-mechani...
There is free movement between countries in Europe. I suppose there are generally some language barriers, but to me the situation seems fundamentally the same.
I've been a part of a few of these, and it really just depends. Overall, though, the report will break down the company into a bunch of different categories (and not just from a code/tech stack standpoint). Sometimes you'll get a point-rating (1-10 or whatever) or a market-based rating (e.g. degrees worse, comparable or better than their competition in a category).

The audit may encompass anything from code quality, technical debt, tech stack, architecture, infrastructure, to the product roadmap, licensing of dependencies, corporate structure, hiring/retention of talent, etc. It really just depends on what the company paying for the DD asks for (which could be either side, and that also matters a lot).

Each category in the final report will have a summary, a score, notes about risks/opportunities, suggestions on how to improve, what things are strengths, etc. It can be really, really long, and often it's broken up and worked on by multiple people based on their area(s) of expertise. Usually you'll see a high-level summary chart at the end of the report that just kind of puts everything in front of you.
There weren't really a horde of "Lincoln bodyguards" though. The Secret Service didn't even handle guarding politicians yet (They had just been created, but for their primary task of fighting counterfeiters). It's hard to imagine, but back then it was considered normal for politicians to just live like other people rather than being surrounded by bodyguards. You could even go as a normal citizen to the White House and ask to speak to the President (he might not have time to do so, but you could ask and people did)
Haha it’s not something I had considered before but yeah you have a point!
A mono-browser-engine culture is no more harmful than a mono-kernel culture. It's worked great for Linux (despite the existence of POSIX) and work likely work great for browsers too.

Unfortunately there is too much meat on the bone and commercial interests would never cede that power to a community effort like Linux.

Browsers could still be dime a dozen but with a shared engine core we could have results instead of bickering over standards and implementation differences.
>> How much does continuously streaming 4k bandwidth alone cost over the life of a GPU?

Doesn't matter - the bandwidth used by an average user costs a small portion of a montly subscription fee. High prices for GPUs may be a good way to get more subsribers, who will pay a lot more money over the years.
sure, then why would chatGPT hinder that process? ChatGPT, will just assemble the words. You can still create a better document working along side chatGPT by critically thinking about the output it's spewing and correcting it. There is probably nuance there but I that chatGPT creating a generation of zombies is over stated. chatGPT is like a calculator used in mathematics.
> I know this is a bit of a shortcut but have pocket calculators rendered mental math extinct?

I've witness several cashiers getting their phone out to calculate basic change. Things like 1 euros - 20ct

So yes definitely
It doesn't feel like it right now, but you're going to get through this.

If you need to vent, feel free to schedule a call with me

[1] https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min

or shoot me an email

[2] hello@taylor.town

I'm not a professional, so definitely consider finding one. I've been doing therapy for years, and it's really helpful:

[3] https://www.betterhelp.com
Where I live it's illegal for adults to ride scooters (or bikes) on the sidewalk and thanks to everybody riding scooters on the sidewalk the police have begun enforcing the law. People don't want to ride the scooter in the street with traffic so scooter riding has dropped tremendously.
How will new users install Firefox or Chromeium without any browser at all? Someone going to train them in WinGet?
It’s been said before, in better words than mine, that professionals that wish to grow in their respective industries cannot stay idle. They’re ever seeking more knowledge, in whatever source they originate from. This is no less truthful than for software engineers — or even any professional in the software development industry.

My surprise came when I reflected on how much I felt I grew as a software engineer from the time when I was working as a QA analyst.
Or the audio based ones like this Commodore cassette as stage device. A guy in my neighborhood had one as part of Pac-Man contest winnings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
Also interested on your answer. I'd love to work on this full-time!
If you can't open it, you don't own it.

(Optional: "It owns you" ;)
> Based on the title alone, you might think that this is about needing silence to be creative

On that tangent, I believe this is very much dependent on the person in question. I personally like to do knowledge work in library silence. I even find music distracting, although instrumental music without vocals is better than open office noise. On the other extreme I've heard stories that Richard Feynman liked to do physics in strip clubs. I'm not ashamed to admit that Feynman was more creative than I'm likely to ever be, but I don't think that my relative inferiority in that regard is because I'm not working from a strip club.
See you in 400-million years.
There's a whole book about this sort of thing called The Phoenix Project that you may be interested in reading. A lot of what you're saying falls under "the first way" which covers systems thinking and the flow of work.
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The problem is, that certain old software like Volvo's VIDA needs IE. And while Edge's IE Tab works it's much much slower in loading.
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I agree mostly with your post and wanted to ask about:

> By 17 you have a kid capable of scoring 1500+ on SATs, with a deep resume, and no ability to handle adversity.

How would the wealthy children in the olden days mentioned in this post be any different with handling adversity?

How does one create an environment for their kids to learn independence, but also have academic rigor without being spoon fed and developing no deep curiosity/passion of their own?
Nice, until Google introduces a new compression algorithm that says: hey this looks like noise, let's replace it by this other user's noise so we can save on storage costs.
Can you also run this in an actual terminal perhaps?
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Banks don’t conduct payday loans and make very little from the poor. The payday loan industry != banking industry.
The warnings started how long ago? The compatability mode is available and works.
Jim Crow, redlining, and other “official” forms of discrimination are not things from many generations ago.
I've always felt there might be something to the Hunter vs Farmer hypothesis[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_versus_farmer_hypothesi...
More or less yes. The tooling for this is getting much better.
Perhaps we should organize....
You posted this 1 hour after he originally posted? Yikes, chill out
The problem comes when one assumes someone with a binder full of pirated games would otherwise have a binder full of legitimate games. Pirating is likely their hobby. If they couldn't pirate Dreamcast games they would just pirate something else. What they likely wouldn't do is turn into a legitimate collector if pirating weren't an option. These people got into pirating because they were cheapskates.

And Dreamcast game pirating, while it had a very visible scene, was not something a common user would do.
Pretty much, yes. But PIDs are great for linear control, and not so great for nonlinear control, so tuning a PID becomes a full time job compared to keeping things "plain code". It's easier to understand what you're tweaking and why.

(That said, I'm working on a rewrite atm -it getting turned into just JS- with a follow-up that goes into PID a bit)
As a person who went to a school specializing in treating children and teens with autism and other mood disorders I really have to disagree with this newfound thing with newly diagnosed adults with autism who say that autism isn't a spectrum disorder in the way that you can have a little bit or you could have a lot of autism. They just have not been exposed to people that are just non-functional with autism. It 100% is a linear spectrum it just becomes less linear when you get into the more functional in everyday life part of the spectrum.
I'm in the UK, and not concerned about our children's educational/career prospects. As well as being ridiculously expensive, London isn't great for schools unless you pay for private or carefully live right next to one of the best ones. But there are plenty of nice places outside London and there are areas that still have grammar schools if your children get in. We're not in a grammar school area, but still feel like with some support from us, our children should still be able to get into very good universities.

Housing is more expensive than Europe generally though and universities are more expensive, but you get massively more support generally in UK universities from my impression (my sister is doing a degree in Austria and the contrast is striking; I've worked quite a bit with academics at various European universities so my impression also comes from talking to them).

But you need to be happy too with wherever you are. Unhappy parents will probably have a bigger impact than anything else.
He's well known as the only President to file and be issued a patent. It was never put into practice, for some reason.
London is handing out free meals for all primary school children
The larger barrier will be coming up with products that people are willing to pay for.
> the larger end tends to be more established advisory firms who work on large and or complex deals.
Wouldn't a preface achieve a similar outcome without changing the original work? The conversation about things having changed is valuable as it demonstrates how society is progressing.
Good news: it's an AI generated image, it's not real on multiple levels.

Although in other good news, I'm current reimplementing the whole thing in JS so the python parts are getting rewritten soon and the image of a fake snake on a fake plane will have to go, too.
People do this all the time with any web connected service that accepts data. People use open strings in AWS services, like lambda function names, to store arbitrary bits.
Well, I said extinct, but I wouldn't bet that on average mental arithmetic skills went down, perhaps they have, on the other hand it freed people up for learning about more complex operations and allowing them to perform those operations where otherwise they would be too costly.
I’d expect you’d need to catch more wind than that to power something the size of a cargo ship.

The old sail vessels are basically all sail.

Are we violating conservation of energy here? Why or why not?
Over-diagnosed, yup I'd agree with that, but I'd stick to my original "mostly a scam" statement.

The pharmaceutical companies have taken a real disease, and spun it into a scam where they're pushing for wider and wider definitions for diagnosis.

It's happening in Europe right now, but it's more apparent for those watching because we're not used to this frankly evil practice over here. And it is evil, because you're essentially getting kids as young as five hooked on speed.
The answer is right there, so obvious. More mass in motion at high speeds, all things being equal, is more danger, damage and destruction, more wear and tear on roads. Simple physics.

It is a tragedy of the commons. Any individual rationalization is in effect making the situation worse, and a post hoc justification of the current arms race.

This needs top down regulation, not bottom-up convergence. Many cities are objectively worse now than 15-20 years ago, because cars have gotten more foul. Note that the only places where this noxious effect is countered, are the places that side-step the issue by curbing driving as a whole. The galvanizing program of every western european city the last 10-15 years has been calming traffic and encouraging walking, cycling, transit. The effects are clear. Cars are trashing up those cities less than before, they've improved quality of life. In most of the US, the effect is the opposite. No efforts to curb driving; and the bigger cars and trucks have made cities worse; deadly, dangerous, scaring people into bigger cars, scaring people from riding bikes, walking.

Things can always get worse, and we've been finding out.
I like that one.

https://omnifixo.com/
The key messages of strongtowns are unambiguous 1) fiscal conservatism and 2) small-scale self dependence.

Small scale self dependence is a significant problem in the US (and many parts of the world) where the poor have been, through intentional historic policy, ghettoized. If you first scale back spending to maintenance levels, and then push against state level redistribution, you end up with pretty predictable results that look alot like the ghost of redlining come back to life. Even if you excise #2 from the platform, it's still the end result. By explicitly adopting strongtowns brand fiscal austerity, there just wont be money left to fund schools in poor neighborhoods.

Look, I'm not saying what we've got now is a perfect solution, far from it. I even think that if we could start from absolute scratch, there are some aspects of strong towns that would solve some of today's ills. But we have poor cities, of every makeup, size, demographic, and skin color, and I don't think that "market urbanism" (ie the same market forces that got us to where we are today albeit with stronger federation) can get us out.

Edit: I guess I should clarify that my criticism of strong towns applies equally to economically destroyed rural communities, who make up the largest recipients of food stamps in America.
This is a very good summary of what deliverables look like.
Cool idea. Let's use technologies to beat "sharks".

In my ideal world, those who only have money, should work for highly skilled techies.
This is absolutely not the first (or second) time I've seen an outage triggered by a well-meaning security rules update on a WAF.

To be honest, a lot of security-related deployment processes would be regarded as unacceptable, wild-west level shit if they occurred in the software lifecycle - like difficulty to identify that a change had even occurred, inability to see before/after for the change, release processes effected manually via consoles, change deployed directly to production without going through a lower environment, and big-banged as opposed to canaried etc. etc.
Which cognitive dissonance ?

Some people are here to learn basic skills they'll use all their lives, the other is here to do his job
These folks are building a 250 metric tonnes capacity wooden sailing cargo vessel by hand: https://www.sailcargo.inc/en/ceiba
Many people claim to do it.

It's a plot point in a Patriot Games, a 1987 Tom Clancy novel that introduced the term "canary trap" for this trick. He says he invented the term, but not the technique, which was already in use.

In a spat over the plot of Star Trek III (so, early 1980s), Harve Bennett distributed slightly different versions of the script, allowing him to track a leak back to Gene Roddenberry.

The book SpyCatcher says it was in routine use at MI-5, and you can find variations of it in lots of fiction too.
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Without reading the article, they're obviously doing this to force Edge on people.

Also, without reading the article, I wish they'd done this years ago. Long before Edge :).
No defending, merely pondering.

It may be, and this part horrifies me, like using a calculator. I remember when they first became affordable, and at that time, the same horror. And from what I've seen, that horror came to fruition, as I see younger(20s to 40s) adults sometimes struggling with simple math.

EG, if the power is out, and manually handling change at a cash register.

Yes, there is intelligence, but also the honing and application of the same. And calculators reduced some of that.

Now enter chatgpt. Here goes the ability to hone arguments, forge essays, etc, etc. Gone!

Imagine when everyone gets a brain link, I bet all long term menory will fall into ruin, too.
This seems like an argument in favor of social darwinism — a school of thought that has been (and still is, with any amount of thought) thoroughly debunked.
You could try chatgpt to help you formulate it properly. I'm not native so I've used it a few times to come up with a first draft. More often than not the result is pretty bad, but it's much easier to work with than a blank page. I remove 2/3 of what was generated and I write the rest myself, then ask the AI to point out spelling or grammatical mistakes. It's a bit tedious, but less so than having to translate or writing in a foreign language by myself.
As long as your control loop's stable enough, it's crazy what you can do!
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