skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a system design oversight. Permanence was long sought for. I'm not claiming I've got all the solutions but it's yet another example of how the web is incomplete.

If you read the contemporaneous history from the early 1990s when the concrete of the web was still wet it should become obvious that it's worth a revisit of the fundamentals

For instance, DNS could include archival records or the URL schema could have an optional versioning parameter. Static snapshot could be built in to webservers and archival services would be as standard as AWS or a CDN; something all respectable organizations would have, like https.

These only sound nutty because it's not 1993 anymore and we've presumed these topics are closed.

We shouldn't presume that. There's lots of problems that can be fixed with the right effort and intentions. Especially because we no longer live in the era where having 1GB of storage means you have an impressively expensive array of disks.

Many unreasonable things then are practically free now
While I agree with you and support the same views personally, we, collectively, should better and fight against the censoring ideology from ground up instead of using (potentially illegal) workarounds like piracy.

Having said that, I'd happily pirate any content that someone censors, and not give any single penny to any censoring authority (for other non-censored content too) and wouldn't feel any guilt doing it.
“Growth” at the individual level has become a euphemism

It really means extrinsic motivation. It means being willing to play the game to hit whatever milestones are laid out for you. To push yourself for those milestones to reach a reward.

Not because those goals are intrinsically rewarding - but because you want to demonstrate what you need for promotion or raise. If the goals were intrinsically rewarding, we would need to internalize them and fully believe in them. And I don’t think that’s possible - or not even desirable - for many jobs.

Because after all 90% of goals are given to you, not co-created with you. Even when managers feel like there’s co-creation happening they don’t see how heavily they mold that process, how the power dynamic leads to the employee trying to guess what the manager actually wants, then adjust their goals to please the manager for the next career milestone.

See Googles graveyard of failed products - all to hit the next promotion - abandoned when people check that box, lose interest, and move on. Google thinks it’s a sign of growth mindset. In reality it’s a case of employees seeing a behavior-“shipping new products”- being rewarded.
I think they were referring to the bootloader not being locked down.
I would think even more important to universities should be the raw number of high schoolers and high schoolers’ parent that are questioning the ROI of universities, especially private universities.
If I buy or license something in good faith and the seller or licensee changes it after the contract is set or done is not the way business is normally conducted. It's a breach of contract.

Here, the publisher has altered the contract without my permission or knowledge. I no longer have what I paid for.

As far as I'm concerned the publisher has not only deceived me but also has committed fraud.

_

Edit: here's an analogy: I license Windows in perpetuity on my computer (which is the usual arrangement), and unbeknownst to me Microsoft has placed a timer within the code to disable the O/S after say 18 months then all hell would break loose. This is effectively what the publisher has done here (the contractual mechanism is the same).
Beginner pytorch user here... it looks like it is using only one CPU on my machine. Is it feasible to use more than one? If so, what options/env vars/code change are necessary?
That's all fantastic, but this guy actually has a point. Software quality at large is pathetic, anybody who uses technology knows this, and especially those who develop it for a living. The lack of regulation plays a big role in this. The field can barely call itself engineering. Yet the guy's comment also just happens to make the fanboys uncomfortable, so he gets immediately down-voted (didn't even last two minutes). On the other hand, look at that motherfucker up there who dismissed my comment saying that all I do is type too fast. Now that is clearly against the guidelines, yet no down-votes? Fascists, too, are very good at applying double standards.
Munson advised authors use a different image if they could. And suggested more variety would produce better compression.[1]

[1] http://www.lenna.org/editor.html
>retaining David Boies to represent us,

That name!!!

I followed the SCO lawsuit closely through Groklaw and /. back in the day.
See the Achilles/Tortoise dialogues from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

to see what it's like to push a bubble under a rug like this.
Sure, but that doesn't mean that the liability costs does a good job at gauging that tradeoff. Cost may not be proportional to harm, and may not include to cost of inaction.
Include title in URL.
No, it is basically only useful as a programming exercise. You only need like 40 digits to compute the circumference of the universe to the precision of a hydrogen atom.
Sorry, this is simply not realistic. This curriculum expects people to spend an entire day to learn strings, but then by the end only spend a day building an entire web server? Similarly with web scraping, these are very involved topics which could probably take a full course to introduce.

If the purpose is simply to expose learners to the concept then perhaps the advanced sections are justified, but then there’s no reason we need to spend a full day on each of the data structures. One or two days is enough.

Further, the author goes into extensive detail about strings (which is great) but then says basically nothing about the more advanced topics.
I wonder if farriers and ice deliverypeople mumbled amongst themselves about job security as much as I see devs do it these days. A lot of us are in the business of deprecating people’s careers. Hopefully the irony isn’t lost.

I feel like for the actual job lots of us do day to day, we’re ridiculously overpaid. I’m not even on a rooftop with tar and a mop! I’m enjoying it but I’m expecting the gravy train to stop eventually.

I think for my next career I’ll do something with… hmm drawing a blank. Let me ask ChatGPT.

…well… it suggested project management.
PMC Ryodan: The Strange Story of Anime Teens, the Sworn Enemies and the Kremlin
On most weeks I'm doing 2k or better. So, assume 50 weeks a year, 100k per year.
Assume most developers do at least 10% of that (which is crazy low, has to be much higher in general), so 10k per year. You have a 30 year career that is 300k in a career.

Even that is extremely low. That is only 37 lines of code per day. Anywhere I worked you are getting fired if you are only doing that (unless you are just bug fixing all day, etc).
most soils contain some clay; if the problem is that all your clay is impure, you can mix it into a slurry and 'decant' it (let it settle, then pour off the water) and let it mostly dry

the clay is far finer than the sand and silt, so it will settle most slowly, and the topmost layer will be mostly clay

some soils deflocculate the clay, so you may need to add a flocculant to get it to decant properly

if your clay is very expansive you may need to add a lot of temper to keep your work from cracking while drying; the good news is that very expansive clays like bentonite are also highly plastic and so can tolerate a higher temper fraction. you probably want the shrinkage on drying (from the fully plastic state to the bone-dry state, though leather-hard is usually a good enough approximation) to be about ⅛. if you have a lot of kaolin you may be able to go lower than that but if it's much more than that you're going to have a really hard time with cracks during the final stage of drying (from leather hard to bone dry)

making things from clay requires a lot of knowledge but fortunately the humans have been doing it for twelve thousand years and so have accumulated that knowledge already
The future is clear, it’s only the past which is uncertain.
Thank you for posting this! This is exactly what I was looking for.
A group at my fathers university bought a system, the liked it so they bought another, four floppies, four hard disks, for both systems. The company could not believe it. The called to confirm the order, they wanted to know why they needed to have so much storage: Image processing for MRI. Cremenco for the win, turned out to be extremely reliable.

They complained about the 92k disks, so I got them a notcher. They took me out for a wild night of drinking.
I know that foreign nationals and foreign governments are prohibited from donating money to super PACs. They are also prohibited from even indirect, non-coordinated expenditures for or against a political candidate. (which is basically what a super PAC does).

However, foreign nationals can contribute to "Social Welfare Organizations" like the NRA which, in order to be classified as a SWO, must spend less than half it's budget on political stuff. That SWO can then donate to super PACs but don't have to disclose where the money came from.

Foreign owned companies with US based subsidiaries can donate to Super PACs as well. But the super PACs are not allowed to solicit donations from foreign nationals (see Jeb Bush's fines for soliciting money from a British tobacco company for his super pac).

I would imagine that if foreign nationals setup a corporation in the US in order to funnel money to political causes, that would be illegal. But if they are using established, legitimate businesses to launder their donations, that seems to be allowed as long as we can't prove that foreign entities are earmarking specific funds to end up in PACs and campaigns in the US.
(V/U)HF communication range is limited mostly by the distance to the horizon.

There's no horizon if you're talking to someone straight up.
'salary' is part of the constructor's body and the constructor is being used, it shouldn't warn. Look how it just warns about 'salary' but not about 'name', in the image, only 'salary' is gray out. It's not even consistent.
I’ve bought and read thousands - I don’t often reread them. Maybe a couple dozen I’ve reread in the last 25 years. So the convenience more than makes up for the lack of ownership.
Stallman was always in support of drm free ebooks. The problem is that virtually all consumers are using drm restricted books.
Have you read the 4chan threads? Anons will figure out how to make convincing waifus that they run locally so they can explore their weird kinks that no company will consider. There are a lot of extremely intelligent, sexually frustrated, and emotionally immature coders. Cf Fiona from Silicon Valley, Her, Westworld, simulator scenes in Star Trek, etc.

Pandora’s box is open. We should be funding research and social services to help these people better integrate and find a healthy balance between their fetishes and escapism. We probably won’t since even healthcare is too much to ask for from half our legislature.
Y-cruncher is closed source, there’s no way to know the number of lines of code it uses compared to Julia.
What’s great about meow’s macro system?
> Even if you have a monopoly, your profit maximizing quantity is determined by where marginal revenue matches marginal cost.

Yes, and we established that the marginal cost is near zero so the profit maximization strategy depends entirely on the shape of the demand curve. AGI isn’t going to have a linear demand curve because it’s value to me is not proportional to its value to a billionaire. The curve with have an exponential shape and therefore setting a higher price can potentially yield more profit than a lower price.
This change I feel is one of the least objectionable, IMHO. The point of the paragraph seems to be that Mathilda read kind of stuffy old books, and fed her imagination with them. If the namedropped authors aren't well known by today's children, why not adjust them? It doesn't much change the tone and it's not really relevant to the plot.

I do think there's something a bit off in selecting an American writer instead of a Brit though. That and replacing ladies and gentlemen specifically with folks removes some of the Britishness and offends me as an American.

At the same time, these edits feel substantial and I don't think they should be pushed without consent of the purchaser. Otoh, I would love for ebooks to magically get mistakes fixed (and even more so, if I could report mistakes, so they could get fixed).
For reference, a typical adjunct (non tenure track instructor) will make $5000 per course per semester with no benefits. Tenured and tenure track faculty in STEM are typically paid around $60-120k per year with benefits and will teach, at most, six courses a year.
Without getting into it, I've had a number of "unfortunate events" in my life, many during college. As a result, I sort of recognize that "life happens" and it can suck at times. If its any consolation, the videos have saved me hours of time. They can be annoying to make, but I do always get a kick when I see a "thanks" notification from someone out there just trying to learn Microsoft Access.
You've pasted this numerous times in this thread. And been told just as often you are plain wrong.

Why are you spreading this misinformation?
Refounding Vise. Returning to our roots and core values
Now run it on a potato.
There should be a law preventing any publisher from censoring or revoking access to the people who have already access to some content. (Other than extreme cases that put people in physical danger)

If you can read it today, you can (should be) read it 50 years from now, the exact same unaltered book.

If someone can access a version of the content, they should always be able to. Revoking access to future versions with updates? Fine, that's fair. But revoking access retroactively? Nope. This should be illegal by the law, otherwise licensors will keep doing this out of control.
I have a technical question. If the original version copyright expires, will the updated versions have a new copyright, starting now? Will the updated version have the original copyright that will expire at the original date?
For the field as a whole I guess, the rate must matter, right? Like, if the birth rate increases, then a higher percentage of the population will be employed in teaching related jobs, because there are more kids per adult.
I had a chemistry prof with the same story: a PhD who had to work in two different counties to scrape together a living while avoiding limits on hours. And the department chair was younger and only had a master’s degree in education.

The situation with adjuncts is terrible everywhere in the US, though. The situation at Hamline University could only have happened because the professor lacked tenure, otherwise academic freedom protections would have kicked in.
So this begs the question: where did the money from the cost savings of hiring part timers go?
Thank you for the feedback. I will try to remove as many of the explicit type hints as possible. The main reason I added them everywhere is because I found sometimes there would be instability at super low decimal ranges because of type promotion
I'd challenge the idea that this is unsustainable because of the specific system. Entropy and resource limits mean whatever we do is unsustainable under any system as far as we tell, both theoretically and in practical timespans. Nobody seems to have an argument for where the physical resources will come from, or how we deal with exponential population growth without just having regular famines (even worse than losing a job!).

Life looks a lot like cancer. Cancer looks a lot like life. "Being cancer" isn't a bad thing, cancer is only bad when it is a disease in humans. Otherwise it is the way of the world. We are surrounded by patterns that propagate themselves quickly.

Also; the people who are anti-growth have a much, much worse track record in every way than the alternatives.
Same instructions, different reason. In a skid, your tires have lost traction and are no longer pointing in the direction they're moving. You steer into the skid to return to the usual "static friction" regime instead of the "dynamic friction" state of the skid. Only once your tires are gripping the road again do you have much ability to control your direction.
Are you two in the same city? This would be a great conversation over a beverage of choice and in person.
You’re in good company: dang himself once forgot that link was there.

There’s also a “past” link in the top bar that allows you to look through the most popular stories from previous dates, so I’d suspect it’s all a bit confusing to most users.
Can't help but notice that we keep wanting to make content that should be flat more 3D (e.g., animated 3D backgrounds, scroll filler on corporate pages, the entire metaverse), and content that could benefit from being 3D more flat (like UI buttons losing their pseudo-3D bevels and not looking like interactive widgets at all).
Show HN: Typedotenv – Generate TypeScript code from your .env files
The edits are so dumb my conspiracy theorist brain wonders if they are doing this to pump sales. They are certainly getting headlines. Headlines mean money!

I sometimes look at left-leaning websites (other than HN) to get a broader view of the world, and the support for the bowdlerization of Dahl seems near 100 percent among our more righteous, liberal, blue-stockinged thinkers.

Example: https://www.metafilter.com/198336/Dont-gobblefunk-around-wit...
Younger people listen to podcasts. I listen to the wbez app on my phone while on the train.
Minneapolis is also at 45 degrees; in fact there's a plaque in a public pathway that marks the exact spot. We just recently started getting sunlight at 5 PM again, but that will change soon once DST takes effect.

Europe is going to be in big trouble if the gulf current ever stops flowing.
I would have learned that I wanted to kill myself rather than ever do that again.
Which logo?
> so what’s the use of something “interpreting” the API?

Mostly to not be restricted to only ones that were known in advance and so could be hard-coded.
You make it sound harder than it is. Most (if not all) ROMs offer the boot image as a separate dowload, often referred to as the "recovery"; LineageOS is one of them. You only need to patch and flash it once, after that you can just open Magisk after the OTA update has been installed but before rebooting, and choose the "after OTA update" install option.
Sad, but probably true. Bullies pick on kids to get a response, if he didn't let them bother him he wouldn't get bullied.
I'm pretty sure that with careful prompting we can use LLMs to regenerate the text of the book (that is, "a close approximation in the style of the author") and escape copyright entirely.
It looks like the Tensillica is only DSP. The control core is M0. 1mW is quite low though - typical M0 running at full speed would typically be 10-100mW and they have the neural unit on as well.
I occasionally use VSCode/VSCodium when I want to use a particular plugin like XState but for most of my command-line work nothing works as well for me as emacs shell-mode. I especially like it allows me to search and copy details from command output as easily as I would any other file or data.

But in the past few years I've noticed more and more nodejs and python programs insist on providing "enhanced" output which do not work well in shell-mode. Things like little multi-line progress bars with colors, checkboxes, weird unicode spinners, etc. Most of those depend on cursor motion and ANSI sequences not supported in shell-mode so when I run those I often end up with junk. Setting various recommended environment variables to prevent this rarely works. For example here's what I get if I run a node app that uses a vorpal.js-based REPL in a shell-mode buffer:

myapp$ ^[[7D^[[7Chelp
^[[1000Dmyapp$ h^[[8D^[[8C^[[1000Dmyapp$ he^[[9D^[[9C^[[1000Dmyapp$ hel^[[10D^[[10C^[[1000D
myapp$ help^[[11D^[[11C^[[1000Dmyapp$ help^[[11D^[[11C

Here vorpal's attempt to enhance my terminal experience by colorizing the command I typed effectively ruined my ability to use it in shell-mode. Having to shift out of emacs shell-mode to run these commands is a huge pain but I haven't found a very good solution for this. The ansi terminal emulation emacs provides with things like vterm partially address his but they have their own problems and don't provide the search features shell-mode does.

I suspect few enhanced output terminal CLI developers care about emacs shell-mode users, but I'm hopeful some of them might read this and take a little time to read https://no-color.org and ensure their programs honor things like NO_COLOR, npm config set color false, TERM=dumb, INSIDE_EMACS etc.
I still remember the first time I saw the Wii head tracking video. I had no idea anything like that was possible. I don't get why it didn't take off
This one also fits:

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
So they are removing the original copies from e-readers and then forcing people to buy it again? What a grift.
I've done 2.5 billion digits in 88 seconds with ycruncher. That's about 28.4 million digits a second?

http://ewams.net/?date=2020/04/17&view=sockets_vs_cores_for_...

Though that is with a broadwell CPU and about 3 years ago. Might see if I can get my hands on a 6348 ice lake CPU and see how she burns.
Its actually must worse, that's a very surface view. This is subversive political warfare.

They are retroactively editing history, and no copyright grant should ever allow you to do that or to damage property that you have already legitimately paid for, especially without consent.

Its a violent subversive attack on ideological aspects of people's culture, lives, and property rights.

Honestly, they should have the copyright immediately revoked if they start pushing ideological or subversive edits into classic works. Make a clear statement that you only get these granted protections if you play by the cultures rules, and corruptive behavior will not be tolerated.
I know this is from ‘07, but I wish that in the browser on mobile the karma point location and logout button location were swapped. I always accidentally hit the logout button when I mean to hit my username, super annoying.

Also wish for notifications of comment replies but I understand that maybe this isn’t done for minimalism purposes.
That is true, but isn’t it then more useful to provide an open source method of computation at these ranges?
lol!

something funny about the way I interact with ChatGPT, I basically never give a shit about correcting mistakes or bothering with good grammar because no matter what, it pretty much always understands me. and it's insanely good at solving tip-of-my-tongue type problems.

I guess maybe we should go back to SOAP to eek out a few more months of job security?
Such a great soundtrack too! I rewatched it last week just for the jams. Also, for those into the glitch art genre, the dream sequences were WAY ahead of their time.