skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, your argument is a straw man. I'm not referring to your personal work ethic here. The general idea that you will get ahead by doing less is just bullshit. You seem to have a narrow focus on the white collar workplace as it pertains to you. I'm speaking about life in general.

"It's a broken system, and the Zoomers can easily see that -- they've had smartphones since they were like 8."

If you're referring to the poor decision making on raising kids with smartphones I'd agree with you, but that's a lack of good parenting and bad moral judgement. It has nothing to do with capitalism or modern work ethic.

The irony and cognitive dissonance in this statement. That means by every economic measure they were doing quite well at age 8. Did boomers get cell phones when they were 8? How about survivors of the Great Depression... do you think they had anything close to the equivalent of a cell phone at the time? The other issue here is that you believe constant negative influx of media as always truthful.

The issue with you is that you assume that a generation having slightly less than the previous means we need to scrap the whole system and it doesn't work. You need to put some things in perspective and maybe realize that the life you had growing up was WAY above average so a slight decline to a lifestyle that's still magnitudes better than what the average world citizen deals with isn't all that big of a problem. There are generations and generations of people that died to give you what you got, went through world wars, civil wars, great depression, pandemics. I'm sure they'd have loved to be "slaving away" in your climate controlled office environment with a smartphone.

"And that was 40 hours a week with one person working and the other staying at home."

You can blame feminism for that. It tricked the average woman into thinking they would have more meaning working in an office 40 hours a week than they would doing the most important job in the world... raising kids. It turns out that when everyone starts having a higher average family income, the market adjusts to that. And, the staying home and raising kids part is key, they weren't just sitting at home doing nothing while their partner worked.
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I will accept that they make that claim in one place.

However, there is no backreference from LAION, and LAION explicitly states that they are not associated with similar sites:

( from https://laion.ai/faq/ )

> I found a dataset containing images while searching on the internet. What about copyright then?

> Any dataset containing images is not released by LAION, it must have been reconstructed with the provided tools by other people. We do not host and also do not provide links on our website to access such datasets. Please refer only to links we provide for official released data.

So this is probably LAIONs answer, or close enough to it that I don't feel a further need to directly contact them.

Do you have any statement or evidence that might be more specific than this blanket denial?

(Edit: specifically [ laion site:haveibeentrained.com ] returns 1 google hit, while [ haveibeentrained site:laion.ai ] returns 0 hits , Many references to haveibeentrained are found in source texts that are not particularly friendly about laion. )

(Edit2: I just gave haveibeentrained.com a random photo that I took this afternoon, and that -therefore- couldn't possibly be in the LAION dataset. It found a large number of near-matches. This could be somewhat misleading to some people).

(Edit 3: TL;DR of this thread: I have encountered several sites that have made similar claims. I suspect they can't all be telling the truth at the same time. LAION makes a blanket denial about being associated with anyone like this. Therefore my assumption now is that possibly none of them are telling the truth. To refute this assumption, we would need some sort of 2nd or 3rd party positive evidence to the contrary. This might include such things as having the specific claim be corroborated by LAION, or by a known LAION associate. I am somehow doubtful that they would actually do that here though, as that would seem contradictory to the LAION FAQ. )
Sleeping well. Getting enough sunlight (even if it is cloudy) for sufficient vitamin D, but also not too much UV radiation that it causes skin cancer.

At least that is what you might be able to control.
I didn't think AP classes were considered "grade level". More like college level.
Exactly! I want a printer, because my Brother b/w laser printer is a solid piece of equipment that prints many, many pages on a reasonably affordable ink cartridge, and it will last for years. What I didn't want was another crappy inkjet that was made as cheaply as possible to sell overpriced ink cartridges, and will have to be replaced in December.
No. California does not have a large Black immigrant population. The Black population speaks English and does worse than the average (including ESL students). Language alone doesn't explain the gap. Particularly since immigrant Asian groups are above average.
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The method in the blog post uses two bit shifts and two additions. I don't really see how to beat that with this.

You can fit twenty-one 3-bit entries in a 64 bit int, with one bit to spare.

So naively you get:

table[nlz / 21] >> (nlz % 21)

Which involves a division and a modulo. And that's assuming 63 entries in total, I'm not even trying to handle fitting the 64th entry in those three leftover bits somehow, or spread them across the three ints (again, I don't see how to do that without division).

Alternatively, each integer could contain one bit of the output, so:

((table[0] >> nlz) << 2) + ((table[1] >> nlz) << 1) + (table[1] >> nlz)

Which is five shifts and two additions, so more work plus lookup.

If you see another method I overlooked please tell me.
This is surreal to read. I've always had a printer.

The last one we got is a Brother MFC-J5945DW. What's really nice is that it has refillable ink tanks (I'm using 3rd party refills to save a ton of money) and it'll print on ledger/tabloid/A3 paper (as well as regular sizes). This is particular nice for printing booklets.
What would you recommend for a color printer?
It is not like we don't do research into effective teaching methods.
It is not also like some schools have 90% of kids above grade level.
> > Despite all of the praise USB-C gets for its universal connector, there are a lot of problems with it too. It is nearly impossible to tell what capabilities a cable might have just by looking at it, which could potentially damage a product if connected in an unexpected way.

I wish USB C was forced to be color coded like USB 3 typically is. Some visual indicator that the drive you're using might be compatible, it might also not work as expected because the colors don't match.
What can be done is prevent them from becoming near-monopolies with a captured audience.
Cory Doctorow calls this "enshittification" - his term.

The basic idea is that in the beginning, new companies are all about their users, luring them away from competitors, providing the best experience for cheap, with great service. That captures them. Think amazon, underpricing everyone, shipping for free, taking all returns, making a loss for years until everyone just uses amazon to search for products.

Once you have their market, you shift gears, from serving users to serving your financiers, selling the user data/user attention/user experience to them: Amazon selling ranked listings in the search that all the captured customers now use as a default search engine. This makes every seller use amazon to sell. You have to, to reach the captured audience. And you have to pay amazon to be seen.

And finally, using this machine you built, with captured customers and captured sellers to squeeze the most of it. Amazon copying the best-selling items and top-ranking their own products, without of course charging itself fees for either the listing or a cut of the sale, as the do with third parties.
This device would be on wifi in small retail stores. Seems everyone is saying MQTT.

Curious if you have similar thoughts about how to update firmware remotely? My original idea was running docker and watchtower but maybe that's not the typical in production way either
1.3 million in 2022. But yes that's a lot.
Yearly vacations are a fairly modern thing. My older relatives have stories about not being able to afford food, either due to the depression, or rationing during the war. Car ownership in the US broke 50% mid-century. The majority of my silent-generation relatives never, in their entire lives, traveled more than 100 miles from their birthplace.

Poverty and unemployment continue to exist in other places around the globe, often in places with very low suicide rates.
I can't speak to the leaker, but the 14 Pro does have separate pill and hole for the sensor area, it's just unified by the dynamic island to appear as one hole.
So called “science” is on a ten year cycle of disproving itself (and it has been so since the dawn of its likeness.)

Science is methodical ignorance and curated results.
I have been using a Brother b/w laser for approx. three years and have had zero issues or headaches. Just works.
Arrays are already distinct types.

char c;
&c; // type is char*
char arr[20];
&arr; // type is char (*p)[20], pointer to array of 20 char

(A small quibble: the term "type compatibility" in C doesn't mean implicit convertibility. Two types are compatible if they're literally the same type, and in just a few other cases. You can assign an int value to a long object, but int and long are not compatible, even if they happen to be the same size.)

The problem with dropping implicit array-to-pointer conversion is that it would break most existing C code. It would be a great idea for a new language.

Suggested reading: Section 6 of the comp.lang.c FAQ, <https://www.c-faq.com/>. The relationship between arrays and pointers in C is admittedly confusing; this is the best resource I know of for explaining it.
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I'm not an american — what level of math proficiency for at what age are we talking about here? Is it about being bad at integrals or not being able to solve a simple quadratic equation?
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As someone who creates flashcards often, the creation is definitely not low effort. Reviewing is.
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I dunno about your second point.. some of the worst stuff I've ever seen online was in Facebook-powered comment sections on news articles, sitting next to pictures of smiling grandpas holding their grandchildren
What are you basing "not good" on, though? Not good for what?
That we can microbenchmark any aspect of the education system looking for improvements but and the end of the day colleges are packed and you'll be hard pressed to find someone who is genuinely illiterate -- you'll find people who don't read and write English super well but it's because it's their second language and they're perfectly literate in their native tongue.
I'd sure hate to be taught math from a workbook alone.
Your chart show’s declining life expectancy from 2014-2018, but it’s recent data also disagrees with other sources.

“In 2021, an American was expected to live 76.1 years—down 2.8 years from the 2014 peak of 78.9 years. This backslide has erased all life expectancy gains since 1996, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/life-expectancy-is-declini...

For more data check here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr023.pdf
Not strictly true, there is science that states there are many unknowns. The latest U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly and starkly lays out the risk around positive feedback loops[1]. There is also some recent research out of University of Oregon stating similar[2].

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Look I'm a huge fan of his games! And I really can't understate how influential his game design nor the work he does for the indie community. However, I think a lot of folks tend to assume his software engineering skills are great because his game design is excellent. I don't think that's an earned position. Releasing 2 games in 18 years that are not pushing the technical envelope does not scream software engineering expertise. You say he has more credits but only one of those is programming since Braid. On the other hand, on a software engineering level those paint by numbers Modern Warfare and FIFA games are both more technically impressive and are designed for fast iteration.

Moreover he's pushing a particular paradigm and view point that is in many ways the opposite of clean code. He pushes for still doing very low level design with minimal abstractions. But even at the time Braid could have been written in python SDL wrappers and probably had similar performance, and the witness could have used unity. If clean code is about maintenance and time to market, the Blow paradigm hasn't proven that its needed or fixes the holes in clean code. This is not to say clean code is perfect just that Blow hasn't cracked the nut either and I don't know why people act like he is the final word, or honestly even a respected voice, in game software engineering. On the other hand, if Blow wanted to talk about managing indie studios or game design my ears would prick up instantly.
Some screenshots and pricing would be nice!
Unfortunately due to how bad the media is now, truth is is always on a time-delay release.

I think in alot of cases if your understanding of a topic is based purely on what you've heard in the media, then you are less informed than someone who has never heard of that topic.
Ironic considering we have a German MP saying the following only a few months ago.

> This is in no way about sanctioning the Orbán government, but about sustainably strengthening the rule of law — which Hungary voluntarily committed to when it joined the EU

- Michael Link, https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-lawmakers-push-hard-...
> Why do people choose Windows or macOS over Linux time and again?

that's not how this works. They choose apple and get macOS or they choose pc and get windows with it.
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When there's no incentive for the teachers and schools to get kids to grade level, they aren't.

I've proposed before having a bonus to the teacher for every student that reaches grade level at the end of the year.
Yours is the correct answer (B&W laser). Ours reports 8,620 pages successfully printed. The laser cartridges last an absurd amount of pages, and they don't dry out.
I've had to replace our Brother printer's feeder cam lever (part #LY2579001) twice. I expect I'll have to do that a few more times before I'm done with this printer. But, what do you expect after 12 years?
It's a different style of work, but check out Opus 40. An artist bought an old slate quarry north of New York and spent nearly 40 years turning it into a drystone sculpture garden.

One person can make something fairly impressive given enough time.
Love that cultured pun
In Seattle, a converted apartment will generally have much lower build quality (e.g., wood walls rather than concrete), so it's not going to appeal to someone in the market for a purpose-built condo. The business of selling condos is also significantly less attractive to developers.[1]

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The more I looked at it, the more it seemed obvious that Lucid/etc super small, non-scaled EV startups were to be treated as rich boy toys.

It can't be your primary car. It might need to travel 500 miles to get service and be gone for weeks. It might never get the ADAS software they claim they have in R&D. It might go bankrupt before your warranty is up. It may go to $0 before you can resale it. Etc.
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We need to remember the average adult only reads at a 6th grade level... Not that that's good, but I'd say there's many other factors involved than just the schools (parental involvement, do they read outside school, etc)
and battery life.

Intel did it with some firmware / microcode, and it took too much energy.
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Public transit only works in high density areas. Much of the US isn't suitable for it at all.
Yes you do https://skift.com/2018/09/27/hyatt-ceo-says-hotels-will-ban-...
In the foundational sense (i.e. prior to 1990):

Engineering manager: Responsible for all engineering resources, processes, training, IR&D and career advancement opportunities for engineers within the company.

A typical day might involve meeting with engineers to discuss work situations, working on the IR&D plan with the CTO, meeting with HR to schedule interviews, conducting an interview, and discussing data with the QA manager.

Product Manager (Technical Project Manager or Lead Engineer):
Responsible (ownership) for the requirements, design, development, testing and delivery of the product. A typical day might be witnessing a test, talking with the customer about an engineering change order, working with the project manager on a revised budget, building a design presentation, assisting on a difficult code problem, or talking to the engineering manager about upcoming resource requirements.
I disagree with the statement. It privileges economic factors over social factors, environmental factors, sexual factors. If it's easier today to inaccurately broadcast doom, then that is an indication that life got objectively worse in one respect.

There are plenty of distopian SF societies that are wonderful from an economic basis, but horrific from another basis (Brave New World is the most famous, but by far not the only example).

I think the biggest issue here is the normal headline/article disagreement.

Edit to add:

As for "objective data":

Social: The collapse of friendships and group activities. https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the-state-of-a...

Environmental: Things have improved in some respects compared to the smog and burning rivers of the 60s. But in other respects we now have historic droughts, historic wildfires, increasing frequency of cyclones, sea-level increases, decreases in green spaces, climate change, and still a variety of pollution events (which get more airplay than in previous years).

Sexual: Incel communities. Breakups by text and ghosting. Finding partners online balanced out by not having the support of shared communities with sexual partners.
> I've been learning Japanese for 2-3 months on Duolingo, and I do feel I'm getting more and more comfortable with the characters.

Well you see the exact issue with Duolinguo as pointed by others is that you feel you progressed for some months while in reality you didn't. If by the "characters" you mean hiragana and katakana both set can be learn to basic proficiency in a week (actually over a weekend for motivated people). If you mean kanji, the first set of 80 can be done quietly in a month (3 weeks in my case, when I was in high school, no tutor, no class, wikipedia only).
Sure, because it's OOP: everything needs a Printer which encapsulates the printing process.
I agree with where you are going with that, but the person I responded too mentioned that they could buy a part part of qualcom but instead just made their own.

But instead they bought part of intel. It doesn't diminish what Apple is building, but I think given the context it is important.
A population of ignorant and illiterate peasants is great for maximizing political capital. They are receptive to propaganda. They are an energetic bloc of voters. They know something is wrong, but are too ineffective to correctly identify the problem, which means politicians will continually entice them with "solutions" that solve nothing but increase the political or financial capital of interested parties.

We're headed toward a medieval "Three Estates" type system reupholstered with a post-modern aesthetic: the ruling class (brokers of power), the intelligentsia (white collars), and the peasants (everyone else).
As long as they let the phone charge with the same USB-C chargers as used for other gadgets. I have one older Apple product (a child's toy at this point) which simply says "Unsupported accessory" or such and refuses to charge through a particular generic Lightning cable (which another Apple gadget charges through just fine).
If a human had only ever seen Othello moves in notation form and never seen the board and had to infer the rules, they'd probably be about 99.99% accurate. They might make a mistake about 1 move in 1000 - fail to spot something, or encounter some edge case of rules they hadn't been able to infer. That's how accurate GPT-2 was.