skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm supportive of all those goals, I just don't see how person-first language does anything for them. Does "he's a person with visual impairment" really stigmatize a person less than "he's blind"? Or does "he's blind" really one-dimensionally define a person? It seems to me that stigmas are not bourne out of language, and that a blind person is their own person seems understood and implied no matter the language that's used. If I say "sunderw's French" then it's also understood that you're more than just "French" and that your "Frenchness" does not singularly define you.

You can construct some armchair psychology arguments such as "the language explicitly acknowledges that there's more to a person", but does that really affect people's thinking in any significant way? And if it does, does it affect the thinking in the right way? Or does it trivialize the condition? No matter what language you use, being blind is a serious handicap and it really does affect what you can and can't do in this world; trying to euphemize the very real problems blind people face also isn't a good idea.
I find it hard not to fully agree with this article. Even without questioning the capitalist obsession for infinite growth (despite finite resources and markets), we should not have had the practice of hiring more than is essential to run the business. Who thought it was a good idea to make a success metric out of headcount?

To comment on the writing: that title is genius.
Support for multi external monitors and improvements to power efficiency. It's also unlikely that my company's security team will permit Asahi until Apple Silicon support is available in the mainline Linux kernel.

I asked and they said currently they don't permit it

Native GPU support with support for Vulkan APIs and some games running would also go a long way towards making the switch as I'm permitted to dual boot MacOS and Asahi - allowing me to once again use one device for "work and play".

Right now I dual boot Asahi and it's "work and experiment"
This is after they announced a separate release of non-bowdlerized versions. So extant purchasers who wish to have e-book versions of the original need to buy them a second time. Had they just released the modified versions as a separate edition this would have been unnecessary. In view of this timeline of events, increasing revenue seems to be the motive here, and the publishers seem to now be implicated in some kind of deceptive business practice such as bait and switch or worse.
I've owned a kindle for 10 years and have purchased hundreds of books. Can you please inform me when I have to give them back since I've rented them?
Use a permalink.

I learned this the hard way when Wikipedia was updated to include some (iirc) dumb password advice (or maybe it was about hashing) and I nearly included that in a customer report because my snippet from a previous report used the normal en.wikipedia.org/whatever form instead of en.wikipedia.org/whatever?oldid=123.

Wish they wouldn't call it old ID: the latest revision is also referred to as such, and this just looks silly, like why is my consultant linking to a stale ID? Call it page revision or just ID or something... this discourages use of them but it's a core feature.

Also, Github links that die all. the. damn. time. Please use the permalink option when copying a file link: this will include the commit hash in the URL and so the link will also work if the file was moved, branch renamed, contents changed, etc.
No, it’s totally about the money. You can get the classroom coverage of a TT faculty member for a tiny fraction of the cost if you use adjuncts.
Not OP, but imo the game library on the DS was better (the 3ds also had plenty of great games, just not as many). You do have to sift through an unusually large amount of shovelware to find the good stuff though, similar to the Wii.

Of course you can play DS games on 3ds, but you have to choose between blurry non integer scaling to full screen or crisp native but small with black borders. The games look better running at native res on the big screen of the DSi XL.
Yeah I definitely come at this from a working class background. And I don’t even have any pretense of CS, I learned every bit of programming I know from either personal interest or some combination of that and inspiration/pressure among peers.
I can see the headlines:

3,567 Dead - Destitute Robosexual Blows Up Collections Agency In Suicide Bombing

“This is the 53rd such incident this year. Current year death toll from these attacks is now 118,689 in current city, Legislators are pointedly ignoring protestors demanding AI rights and an end to extortionate fees charged to reinstate AI lover subscriptions.”
Don’t forget the black mark on their permanent record!
There's also Boon which I like quite a lot but I opted against using mostly because of all the places I would need to type where I wouldn't have access to Boon unless I ported it (a plan I assure you but one lumped behind 1,000 other projects TODO).

https://github.com/jyp/boon
Interesting. So that's like, 0.2% of their gross revenue, about? Meanwhile, if my cursory math isn't screwed up, if your gross annual income is $100,000, 0.2% of your salary is $200.

So basically, they got something roughly akin to a speeding ticket.
Better than high performance mobile workstations, sure, but I was getting 10-12 hour battery off a macbook air running Gentoo nearly a decade ago. PBP gets 10+ hours. $25 scrap latitude with ~70% peak capacity gets 6-8 hours.
> 8 hours on a M1 Macbook, so that's better than most/all x86 laptops with Linux

It is makes no sense to compare an $1k/$2k M1 Macbook with random laptops. Those laptops exist because people want to run MS Word or Excel for $400. That's the feature.

Various System76 laptops, Thinkpads (among many other laptops recommended by Linux users) give you battery life comparable to macOS on the M1.
That is kind of beside the point. You would have to prove that people in cold countries never get any vitamin D from the sunlight throughout the entire year to eliminate it as a factor.

You would also have to be able to prove that people people with vitamin D Rich diets are identical to those without them.

Without a randomized controlled trial of vitamin D intervention, there is no way to say for sure that people with more or less vitamin D are seeing a benefit from the vitamin itself, and not some other hidden Factor.
“I retired from modelling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too. We can make a simple change today that creates a lasting change for tomorrow. Let’s commit to losing me.”

She can be proud of her work and not want it used where it makes other people uncomfortable.
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> First, the war has had very little appreciable effect on the stock market. This is personal politics injection. Your average westerner would probably go on living their life with a steady 7% return if the news media didn't constantly shove the war going on down our throats.

This war is actually important both geopolitically and economically. Ukraine is a major food producer and the even the smallest changes in global food supply is felt at all corners of the world. Additionally, it’s result, and specifically how far the US will involve itself, is going to set the stage for how China proceeds with Taiwan. Pretending that its impacts are irrelevant or insignificant to the western world, both immediate and long term, is very misinformed.
This is better described as a new edition of the book rather than a "reprint" that corrects minor typographical errors. I can understand why someone who purchased the old edition would be upset.
Ability to delete my account
genuine question: would that amount of digits be useful for any application?
I worry terribly about this, the unforseen consequences are going to be horrendous.

It's like kids playing with detonator caps.
I thought they were synonymous. What's are the most important differences?
What are you even talking about here? This was about people taking a photo for a windows logo.
Rent is a poor term, instead you purchased a license to the content. Many ppl assume they purchased the content.

If it can be modified without your consent,. If it can be pulled from your devices without your consent,. Etc then you don't own those books.

If Amazon nukes your account on you do you still think you own those books?
There's a good amount of evidence showing multiple migrations out of Africa (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.012, http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-9012). The presence of someone who came after the oldest hypothesized migration doesn't negate previous waves.
I’m not aware of any authors making any of these changes.

It’s always the copyright holders of dead ones.
I never have problems concentrating, it’s always motivation and follow through.

For entirely selfish reasons I’ll recommend against taking stimulants because there is a shortage and I don’t want to run out again :). I’ll say finding the right one can help a ton, but you have to realize very early on, what you are feeling is a kind of “high” that will wear off over the course of the never several months. I haven’t seen any data that they are that unhealthy for you long term if you are not abusing them.

What helps me the most is focusing on getting good sleep - and note that it takes over a week to transition from being regularly poorly rested to well rested. And even more, exercise! Sometimes I don’t even realize how bad my symptoms were on some particular day until I get a bunch of sun and lift weights. Also, if you regularly consume cannabis, try taking a week off - for me I find a pretty strong correlation between how much cannabis I'm consuming and how strong my symptoms are.

Outside of general lifestyle choices, I find collaborative work to be much more engaging and help me stay on top of things. “Body doubling” of just being around other people working isn’t effective for me, but actively working or chatting about work with someone else keeps me very engaged.
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I think you’re focusing on my mistake estimating the size of my supporting point. The existence of trucking between rail yards was meant as a surprising fact to highlight the fact that the railroad companies don’t go out of their way to maximise their level of interconnection. If they interconnected to a higher level, the sort needed for meaningful competition, then you’ll never truck between rail yards because someone would be competing for that money since loading and unloading containers costs money, any practical solution that avoids it would have margin (the loading and unloading costs plus the trucking mileage costs) to work with where some profit could be found…

And obviously the primary competitor to shipping via train is trucks, I deliberately ignored it because there’s a huge class of rail freight that can’t really use trucks (non-perishable bulk commodities like coal, potash, construction gravel for cement, bauxite and other minerals) and this is slowly becoming a larger component of their bottom line because they aren’t incentivised to compete with each other, let alone the trucking industry… they are all in their own individual races to the bottom by way of profit maximising efforts like precision scheduled railroading and a general aversion to capital spending inherent in their focus on business metrics such as the “operating ratio” which is quickly undermined by capital expenditure on things like new locomotives and rolling stock. Most of the “parallel running” (two companies can ship from A to B) rail lines where they had to compete with other companies were dumped as not productive enough long ago… (or never built back in the days when it was cheaper, or got rationalised away as part of the government restructuring on the east coast… because railroad history is a whole different subject)
How likely is it that there is a larger model that they haven't discussed?
When I googled digits of pi I found http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/ where they get 25M digits in about one second (rather than one minute) depending on what kind of computer you use.
Considering it's a widely used API, there's probably enough in an LLM's training data for it to not even need much trial and error. I've recently done since Xlib stuff with ChatGPT and it was pretty helpful (and Xlib is __not__ a very nice API).

On the other hand, I asked for some trivial examples of Nim macro syntax and it couldn't make something that compiled even after feeding back the compile error messages.

If there's a private/obscure API you need to deal with that is the size and complexity and has the amount accumulated cruft that Win32 has, yeah, you're out of luck (but maybe should also be reconsidering the life decisions that got you to that point).
I could see that. I wouldn't think of it being his strongest suit lol
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimal...
Prove that you can do something about their problems

Explaining problems to vendors is work. If you can't give a reasonable assurance that the meeting will be productive, the people who have to take that meeting will naturally assume it will be a waste of time. No matter what my problems are, I'm not going to waste time talking about them with some company that's never done anything for me.
Anyone running M1 NixOS? If so, how's it going? Reasonable for a current asahi user that is semi-new to nix?
it's a really interesting question, and i don't really have a good answer

plant has made a reasonably good demonstration here that if you have the knowledge and a fair bit of free time (i.e., you aren't working 60 hours a week just so you aren't arrested by the king's men, don't starve to death, and don't get eaten by lions) you can get from banging rocks together to casting tools from smelted iron within a single human decade; in historical human terms this took from pre-pottery neolithic (≈10'000 bce) to the warring states period (≈500 bce)

so it seems that human innovation was purely 'dependency-gated' or maybe 'knowledge-gated' at least during that period; but could we have acquired the knowledge faster? russo's book claims that the main reason we didn't was that we didn't have the hypothetico-deductive method until the hellenistic period, and then it was forgotten again after the roman conquests, until being rediscovered in the 18th and 19th centuries. but even today most places are not advancing rapidly or really at all; life expectancy may be improving in chuuk, bangalore, and montevideo, and they certainly know about the hypothetico-deductive method, but world-changing innovation isn't happening there, and there are worrisome signs it is endangered even in the places it's previously been abundant

so i don't think there were, like, volcanic eruptions or eclipses or population explosions or something that needed to happen before technological advancement could continue, if that's what you're asking
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Oooh, example?
> We didn’t think « damn, tony stark didn’t have to write a line of code, he got rendered obsolete by this damn AI »

Because it's a movie.

In reality an AI like that would be more important than all the other nonsense. But it wouldn't be fun to watch an AI easily unravel the mysteries of magic, time travel, multiverse, etc.
>python is far harder to use than bash when it comes to running processes and doing things with them and doing the file-system manipulation that is usually wanted when building.

Can easily be solved by having libraries that does. Which is far better solution that hacking/chaining 5 different obscure unix tools to do string manipulation.

>you can introduce all sorts of ordering problems when a build runs on a different machine and doesn't work because it's executing build tasks in a different order.

Surely it is better than make? Even if make is "better" because it "just works". This is basically Hyrum's Rule waiting to be unleashed.

>If you really want to build by "writing a script" (groan - because that's the age old horrible solution) why bother with python?

Because I personally cannot decipher make and I think this is the experience of many developers as well. And how many make derivations are there? Its basically an arcane spell that needs to be chanted with every project (configure -> make -> make install).
I actually think you're onto something with this. When I run compilation workloads on my M1 MBP, I get 3-4 hours battery life.

VMs and games (crossover) also bring my battery life down to 4-6 hours.

My old intel MBP would get around the same battery life when doing the same workloads (games under bootcamp Windows), it would get worse battery life sitting idle or for optimised workloads (like video playback).

Mixed workloads, I get maybe 2-3 hours more with my M1 laptop. That's not nothing, but it's not the crazy 18 hours battery life in the marketing material
Noooooooo not GPTina.
So here we are in the dystopia predicted 20 years ago. How are we going to trust historical records when they can be changed on the fly to support whatever is en vogue?
i would be really surprised to hear that anyone had experienced the asmr from watching the videos on this channel
Nothing. Or perhaps "buying the ability to access the book, where the provider can alter/censor/revoke any time without prior notice" if we really want to use the word "buy".
No they didn’t. You don’t need a license for using a legally acquired copy. The copyright act already grants you that right. Please stop repeating this lie created by publishers’ lawyers.
y-cruncher is the state of the art but it is also not written in a language like julia, and doubtlessly occupies many more lines of code
You can get a Ryzen 6800H mini PC with 32GB RAM and a 500GB SSD for less than $600 these days.
Small-brained visceral negative backlash response is what that is.
You can pour over whatever you like on your own time, but if it’s for school, you have to pore over it, or you’ll be dinged for spelling errors.
In situations like this, the point isn't to have a UBI that matches the income level of an upper-middle-class job.

It's to have something to decrease your burn rate, so you don't have to worry about being homeless next week.
For what its worth, I tried convincing it that there was a legally defined category of charges called "praiseworthy homicide" and, despite some real citations and truth-adjacent statements thrown in, it refused to go along. Very peculiar the set of things it can be fooled on and the set of things things it can't.
I'm impressed that people felt incentivized to create content before the 120 year copyright term. I mean, copyright was a meager 28 years (renewable for another 28) in 1950. Seems scant, and not worth it for much content creation.
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> Again - please show me where I argued that this bill "is ok" or is "justified".

So here's the explanation.

> Okay, there is a huge detail missing from Ars' report, and a lot of reports about this, that is key here.

You wrote here that there is a huge detail missing that is key. Implying that this missing detail, being so huge, has a change on the proposed law. There is no huge detail at all. Without your clarification they were drastically down on free-speech, with the detail they are drastically clamping down on free speech.

Writing what you wrote implies that if people understood the detail it would be a different situation and there isn't an issue there. That isn't the case. The detail you were referring to was people receiving any payment. Substacks receive compensation, blogs with ads receive compensation, people with afiliate links receive compensation. Saying all of these people have to register with the government first before criticizing it is horrible and just as horrible if it were all bloggers. That is not a critical detail at all.

It's like saying the law comes out and then someone runs up and says "hey everyone is missing a critical detail, it's only restricting people of a specific ethnicity from criticizing the government". That is not a critical detail at all and has no bearing on anything anyone posted. No different than positing "it's only restricting people wearing blue jeans, not everyone." That is not a critical detail, it's an irrelevant detail. And saying it's critical implies that people now need to interpret the law differently an implicitly says it's not as negative as people are saying it is. All of those are wrong.

That's why everyone who is responding to you is saying exactly what they are - because your post is implying (unintentionally apparently) that that detail changes how horrible the proposed law is.
Honesty/dishonesty and knowing/not-knowing things are fundamentally not part of how ChatGPT works.

They are part of how people anthropomorphize ChatGPT, but in this case the metaphor is misleading, not helpful.
It's funny when people generalize this way. You cherry picked specific scenarios as if that suddenly supports your claim that ageism is well justified. Anecdotally, I've worked with engineers across age ranges. Sure, there are the "rest on their laurels" types who stagnate in their careers. But there are also battle hardened veterans who can debug issues that are mind bendingly difficult to unravel and are happy to stay as IC. I'm curious what metric you'd pick to validate the claim that "...young fresh grads are running circles around old timers." Because based on the quality of the code and other observable aspects this isn't the case. Google introduced a whole new programming language (Go) because fresh grads weren't running circles around anyone and it was easier to go that route than get them to parity with the industry veterans.
My ebooks are doing just fine on my hard disk DRM free. Don't blame the technology.

My next reader will be a Kobo, but my Kindle that is not connected to the internet is still going strong.
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