skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the logic here is "it's the right thing to do, but it should have been delayed to annoy our political opponents and maybe cause them harm". I feel it is extremely hard to view such approach with any sympathy.
I agree, if you spend all my money i bet you can find a safer solution.
>There is a quote: bad times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make bad times.

careful, that phrase and kind of talk will have you labeled a misogynist incel that hates women.

Anything that recognizes the need for (strong) men in society is inherently bad.

We will soon reap the reward of that cowardice.
Wood dust was added to the list in 2010, and therefore, all wood products sold in California must bear the Prop 65 warning.

At some point, it really is about the ubiquity of the warnings making them virtually useless. I think we’re past that point.
It's super easy to extend packages. For example, I was playing with Kafka and wanted the standard package to coexist with a separate install of Kafka with some jar files I needed. It was super easy to create a new package of Kafka with extra install steps that downloaded and placed those jar files where I needed.
Yeah, that's a bummer. Statistically speaking you're better off finishing it if you want to maximize the number of places that would be willing to hire you. That said, it can also work in your favor not to finish since it might weed out companies you wouldn't want to work for anyway. I'll say anecdotally of the half dozen or so places I've worked and been involved in hiring software developers--a college degree would only be relevant if you had no other experience to speak of. When I look at a resume I'm looking for "stuff this person has done". Even for entry level, I'd rather talk about a hobby project they spent some legitimate time on that whatever a candidate did in college.
The three of these I have done have communicated with me via SMS or email.
> Food companies can raise prices. Consumers can’t do much about it.

Yes, we can avoid to buy those products, but the issue is, like the article says, the monopoly. If all the products are made by the same company/ies, only with different sub-brands, then the politics and magistrates should take a look into it.
If you've ever enjoyed the game Rogue or roguelikes, Macromedia Flash, or the famous Mahjong Solitaire (among countless other influences), PLATO's influences are at hand.

You can also experience the wonders of PLATO through emulation: https://www.cyber1.org/
Yes I am currently learning one word/phrase (it depends on the language) daily in about twenty different languages. Again, I wouldn’t claim it to be equivalent to serious study and conversational practice, but I have absolutely learned various phrases in all of the languages.

I think most people make “language learning” a heavy task that seems insurmountable. In reality, once you understand the basic sounds of a language, it can be as simple as learning a new phrase everyday. Just think of it as learning the names of capital cities or elements on the periodic table: a lot of information that is organized into patterns.

No, you won’t be fluent quickly, but it is absolutely beneficial to know “hello”, “thank you”, “where is?” and 100 other phrases in a language. Or in the case of Russian or Hebrew or Greek, it’s awesome to just be able to read the alphabet, even if you don’t know many of the words.
This kind of static information retention is good for me. I’m an electrician so it’s nice to know off the top of my head that there’s a 10’ spacing on supports for EMT without going to the code book every time. Some of that knowledge gets beaten in through repetition, but there are enough fringe cases and things I don’t touch for years that are nice to have memorized.
Second the recommendation. Great book.
UHM.... is there any way a wistleblower can release ANY blackrock, vangaurd, the other guy's internals?

BR and VG need to be out in the sun's light.
There is a LOT of discussion here about the Microsoft Web browser Edge and Windows 10/11. I have some questions.

Background: At present I'm a heavy user of Windows 10 Home Edition, Firefox, KEdit, Rexx, etc. From a move, I have a Windows 7 Professional system in a box and am eager to get it running. That system has the 100,000 lines of code for my Web site I'm eager to get on-line. I'm considering plugging together a desktop computer for a Web server, with, say, some 16 core AMD processor, solid state memory for much of the file system, e.g., the SQL part, running some version of Windows Server 2019.

(1) Simple question: This thread has many mentions of a widget. What is a widget? Maybe I use them nearly hourly, but I don't know just what they are, what the definition is.

(2) My understanding is that with Windows Server, can turn off the automatic updates. Is that true? Hopefully.

(3) I am guessing that with Windows Server I can still run software that has long, commonly run on Windows, e.g., KEdit, Firefox, Rexx, some IBM code in Fortran for the classic applied math of linear programming, a Fortran compiler, Adobe's Acrobat PDF reader, Knuth's TeX mathematical word processing software, .... Is this true?

(4) I'm guessing that Windows Server will have less of the intrusive, unrequested popups, suggestions, recommendations, etc. about shopping, weather, travel, news, celebrities, etc. than Windows 10/11 have. Is that true?

(5) Generally, if I want or need to leave Windows 7 Professional, I hope to move to some version of Windows Server and just stay away from Windows 10/11. Is that doable?

Thanks!!
It was crisis acting
> Several excellent physics and math students I worked with have never used spaced repetition software, but were excellent at their studies because they consistently solved textbook problems.

Isn't it the case that only minority of students uses this software or flashcards in general anyway? I mean, of course it is possible to succeed without it, because overwhelming majority of students/learners are not using it.
> I asked GPT-4 to produce a simulated argument about Electron which devolves into name calling. Here's the 2 page of result it returned:

How many attempts did the above take?
This will result in hyperinflation. Hence why Yellen did not commit to the vast majority of banks. Did you not see that?
Am I the only person who sometimes makes an exception for "two" ?
I absolutely love Anki.

A lot of software make empty promises around productivity improvements. Especially in education. Anki is one of those rare tools that genuinely 10x's you over your peers. I used it when studying Japanese and it was a massive help.

However, having used it for over 12 years to memorise many different things I have noticed one caveat.

If you're not also using what you're memorising outside of Anki, I feel like your ability to recall gets trapped within the context of using Anki.

For example, if you're learning Japanese vocab through Anki, and also trying out your new words via conversation and reading/writing, you'll rapidly learn new vocab AND be able to recall it anywhere.

However if you're learning Japanese on your own and not really conversing/writing, no matter how good your recall with Anki is, you'll struggle to recall those same words anywhere else.

The cool thing about Anki is you can also use pictures/audio. So if you're learning music theory you could memorise chord shapes/intervals. Or human anatomy.
I live in Chicago and went to that place once. I actually wasn’t very impressed. If I have to eat deep dish, I will go to Lou Malnati‘s. Otherwise give me a good Midwest style thin crust. Something similar to D’Agostino‘s.
Don't split hairs, "progressive" and "left" are the same thing.
What Worked Against Covid: Masks, Closures and Vaccines
Its not either-or. Price gauging versus stimulus.

Corporations wouldn't have these profits if people didn't have excess cash to pay. The entire plan for the fight against inflation is "demand destruction", which is a euphemism for creating unemployed homeless peasant families that are intended to die under a tarp in Los Angeles. It means "run out of money and stop buying" with no plan for your survival. Corporations can try eek out higher earnings with any price, a different corporation or group of people will notice that there is a business model for undercutting it. Good for them, it has nothing to do with how fast or slow they can get into the market, and it won't matter for you if there is a disruption in your income and savings. But that's the reality.
You can increase your margins by double digits and still account for a small fraction of the overall increase. The determining factor is net profit of the grocery industry which is usually 3-5%. If you eliminated that entirely it still wouldn't put a dent in food inflation.
Reverting my settings changes isn't "making things easy for me"; it makes things more difficult, because I have to go back and change them again, and again, and again after every upgrade, sometimes after every update.

Arbitrary UI changes aren't "making things easy for me," either.

Neither is forcing me into value-added services like iCloud.
Grocery prices aren't "keeping up" with high inflation they are causing high inflation.
> Killing Caesar was a noble act

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.

He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
It sounds like you didn’t learn the information sufficiently enough before making them into cards. Anki isn’t good for teaching you new things, it’s good for remembering stuff that you already know - or are at least familiar with.
10% inflation is average, many things will inflate a lot more, but people don't post about stuff that was inflated less.
Spaced repetition systems are not used to learn things. They’re used to remember things you’ve already learned.
Production happens over time. Businesses pay for their inputs at one price level, do production things, then sell their final outputs at a higher price level, resulting in higher margins than would be possible under stable prices.
I got onto the internet in the second half of the 90s and as a rebellious teenager I, of course, started by downloading the various 'cookbooks' (anarchist, phreaking, etc) that were very easy to find through Alta Vista just to play cool and boast to my friends.

I would not ask Google about those stuff today and I would certainly not dare downloading them for fear of triggering so many alerts and red flags. Today it would probably be possible to be jailed (in the UK) just for having this material on your computer.
I don't know why folks put down college sports. If you do 4 years on a D1 team, you can certainly call yourself an expert in that sport. They're not just messing around, they're learning and developing their skills.

They may not go pro or use that knowledge directly later in life, but neither do a lot of degree holders in their field.
Is there a second part to this article? It felt like it ended only part-way through. What happened after being invited to the space? History I suppose.

Engaging writing in any case. So engaging that I thought there should be more lol.
> … "definitely heading towards setting up a test computer with Linux to see how much I can get to work."

I've personally been on Linux since my Windows XP / Windows 7 days (used to dual-boot before gaming on Linux got hella easier). I learned that the secret to successfully sticking with Linux as a "daily driver" is to stay fully aware that it's not Windows, and trying to forcefully shoe-horn it into Windows-like habits is a recipe for reinstall.

First and most important Windows habit to break is downloading your software from random websites. Install everything from your Linux distro's "package manager" (basically similar to an "app store" on other operating systems, except it has nearly all of the software available for Linux in it). Only install software from outside the package manager when you've no other option available.

Secondly, you should not generally be trying to find ways to run your Windows software under Linux for the most part (unless there happens to be a Linux-native version available), but rather seek out alternatives to the software you'd normally use. Instead of seeking out programs by name or brand, seek out software by the task it performs. Look for the Linux program that does the task you need done (example; Instead of wasting time trying to figure out how to install PhotoShop on Linux to alter or create an image, try out GIMP or Krita).

The "easy-mode" way to find these software alternatives is this nifty website https://alternativeto.net/ - where you can search the name of a program you know does the task you need, and you'll get a list of similar software that does that task. You can then further filter the search results by software license, operating system, and other details. Also handy for finding neat software for your phone or tablet as well.

Anyhow, you absolutely should not be afraid to follow through on your thought to give Linux a try. It ain't nearly the same beast it was way back when I first started using it. It's generally for the most part easier to work with than Windows (and sometimes even easier than Mac), and it's lighter on system resources and runs on a wider range of hardware. You may find you enjoy it enough to install it on your entire network, as I have. Hell, I don't even keep a Windows virtual machine around anymore, thanks to WINE (and Valve/Steam's Proton fork of it) making even that need mostly obsolete for me.
I.e., pay to quality of life at work ratio (which includes volatility of pay).

This is always the answer to the question “why can’t we find workers for x job”.
I like how that presciently anticipated LLM's problem with being tricked by a confidently wrong premise.
With GPT4 image capabilities its completely gone.

https://twitter.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1636479850214232064
I took an experimental economics class in college where the small lab fee was supposed to be paid out as prizes for doing well in the games we played during class. I never got a payout, but the class was pretty interesting regardless.

I did sort of "cheat" in one of the games, I recognized that the software market game was really a software monopoly game (this was circa 2000) and put the other providers out of business in the first round by paying people to be my customer.
> The point is that sprawl is bad for the humanity, but if you see humanity as blight then letting it sprawl is probably the faster way to exterminate it.

Where is your evidence for this? This is nothing but a supposition.

> They already exist, go to Singapore or a few other places and see.

Ah yes, the country that maintains the peace by handing out the death penalty for 30 grams of cocaine. Truly a model society. On a side note, you should make up your mind about whether these places exist or not.

> The fact that you want to buy a gun and walk around with it shooting people wouldn’t make it an OK thing to do, and doesn’t mean it suddenly falls within the accepted meaning of the word “comfort” (though admittedly it is an analogy, which based on your first paragraph you may have trouble understanding).

LMAO. This deliberately emotionally charged "analogy" is only relevant if you've bothered to first establish that rural living is harmful to others, which you haven't even attempted to do. You expect me to take it for granted that a cabin in the woods spells Armageddon, and that the only remedy is for all of humanity to hand over their autonomy to people like you.

Thankfully you're a nobody, and I can go happily about my day knowing you'll never be entrusted with the tiniest fraction of the authority necessary to carry out this disgusting plan :)
Hot take: The Republic was always a plutocratic/hoplocratic oligarchy where real power was only superficially related to formal process. Talking about when it “died” is mostly debate about how to selectively romanticize its “life”.

But, romanticizing either the Republic or the Empire or both has been (and remains) pretty foundational to political society and national identity for a wide swathe of the world...
> It's hard to believe that you're not actively being disingenuous rather than incidentally illiterate in regards to the broader historical context.

Please don’t. The rules specifically discourage this.

Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Macintosh – The Value of Documentation (1982)
Making friends is a really valuable part of school in my opinion. Possibly exceeding or at least equaling the value of whatever you're learning.

If theyre the right kind of friends you will be able to learn more with them than from a 1:1 teacher.
> I don't use it myself.

Out of curiosity, is that because you don't DJ, so have no use for the software; or, because you do DJ but use something else? :)

Either way, I concur with your Mixxx assessment!

While I haven't mixed or mixxxed for a while (too long?), I have used Mixxx for all my DJing (with a Vestax controller) over the years in a variety of environments from house parties to the playa to camp outs to a community hall to a local bar (perhaps the pinnacle of my DJing "career" as the dance floor included an A-List actor who I didn't even notice because I was just happy that I'd managed to get dance floor so crowded :D ).

It was a reliable & useful tool and even at that time offered features that other "free" versions of closed/proprietary DJ software specifically excluded such as set recording.

At one point I was exploring running Mixxx on a Raspberry Pi 3 with a dedicated small screen in an attempt to move past the "DJ Staring at Laptop" look but while I did get it (barely) running on that platform it really required more RAM & processor power. (My understanding is that people have by now successfully gotten it running on RPi 4 in that sort of configuration.)

Mixxx has the potential to be an interesting FLOSS project case study, I think, because they have unusually thorough & well-presented documentation (https://manual.mixxx.org/2.3/en/); they compete with multiple extremely popular "free" versions of commercial/proprietary software in the non-trivial audio software niche; they have what I consider one of the best (if not the best) custom UI styles in FLOSS which is functional, visually distinct & stylish (e.g. <https://manual.mixxx.org/2.3/en/_images/mixer-section.png>); and, have enough community participation to manage at least yearly releases of various sizes.

So, yes, Mixxx is a great project & surely one that is more exciting to work on for GSoC than... I dunno, some database system that isn't used by super-cool DJs to entertain hundreds of people around the world. :D
Anchor Economy Dashboard
Does your library restrict the number of copies they "loan" out? I have waited for 6 months to check out an audiobook, and sometimes a few months for other less popular ebooks where they only have 1 license.
Right, but it's not pizza.
What a lovely idea, using AI to automate the rich. It should all be free and open source as well.

Instead of Tim Cook revealing the next iPhone, let's create an AI generated hologram of Steve Jobs to reveal the next iPhone.
It violates the HN guidelines to ask did you read the submitted article. You posted your own citation they didn’t say what you seem to think it says.

“Words mean Things”. A “monopoly” isn’t something that have 4 major competitors and when another alternative that 95% of all IT spend is not on any major cloud provider.

And just because you don’t like the legal definition doesn’t mean it isn’t the real definition.

And since the citation is from the American Federal Trade Commission. The EU definition is meaningless.
There are just a few big companies left in many industrial sectors. Easy for them to reach an agreement to raise prices together. The people that run the two parties are not going to do anything about it (or let government administration do anything about it) until the people go out on the streets.
Can't argue that Harold is the OG. It would be nice if he'd release a new edition of On Food and Cooking though. But as I understand it, it still holds up really well after all this time.

Alton Brown is certainly another name I'd add to the mix. Good Eats was brilliant, and his I'm Only Here For The Food / More Food books are really good.
Sounds like they're just badly describing copy-on-write.

The original slice uses no extra memory because as long as you treat it as immutable it won't actually make a copy. As soon as you try to modify it, then the copy is made and the extra memory used.
Even though supermarket prices have gone up, what's really gone up is prepared food, even at cheap places. You can almost feed yourself for a week for the cost of one visit to McDonald's.
So do they just install the kernel?
The whole article appears to be about a few hours on Friday

The entire SVB situation was made to be much ado about nothing by self-promoters. You didn't see veterans from Sequoia, Kleiner, etc, screaming on Friday.
Good to know.

And fair enough. I won’t pretend to understand just how much risk there was to the entire system. But obviously the officials felt it was immense.
Vercel's next.js and sveltekit are both SSR first because that's its business needs, which has nothing to do with mine(CSR only case), and Vercel is actively pushing the SSR-can-do-it-all in the open source space, I feel it is very much short-sighted.

Just use vuejs which is the only one truly never forces SSR on you if you do not want to have anything to do with it.
It's an excerpt from the book Space Rogue: https://books2read.com/spacerogue
Why Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise
Part of why I moved out of the Bay Area and to NYC!

I'm not anti-monetization by any means, but so often I'd end up in conversations that the other partner wanted to be a startup pitch, and I wanted to just talk about something cool. There's so much premature optimization of monetization out there.
> It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought. It also builds professional networks. If a person is smart enough to receive it, more education is almost always good.

That's the "finishing school for the elite" function. If you have to ask if you can afford that, you cannot.