skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We gave high school kids some time for self-directed activities, like go see teachers for help, make up work, get a snack, hang out with friends if you have your work done.

We had kids standing around looking confused. They didn't know what to do. They asked for directions on what to do. We said to look at their grades and decide what to do. When they finally pulled up the gradebook on their laptops, they would point at it and say "what do you want me to do?"

Something. We want you to decide, on your own, to do something. Anything. Just make a choice.

Most kids did figure it out, though not always making the wise choices (but that's part of the reason we're giving them the freedome). But there was a minority who couldn't grasp the idea that they were personally able and responsible to decide what to do.
It’s these movies that I lose trust in movie review sites like meta critic or rotten tomatos
The code is related to MAP_PRIVATE mappings of the same file that are not written to. Such mappings are effectively deduplicated and thus occupy the RAM once no matter how many processes map the file.
Metallica vs. Napster. https://youtu.be/fS6udST6lbE

Beastie Boys had DRM-free .mp3s of Hot Sauce Committee on their website for a while.

Depends if you want to be cool or be a sell-out corporate band.
In the US, this appears to predominantly impact rural listeners, conservatives, and religious folks, who tend to be large consumers of AM talk radio.

According to publicly available demographic information, they are also more likely to be Ford owners.
They don’t come with built-in chains or snow tires, either.
> Call your elected officials and tell them you don't want to die an avoidable early death.

I'm pretty sure they know that already.
One thing I've been impressed by recently is ChatGPT's ability to explain epigrams.

How can it explain them effectively if it's just a "stochastic parrot" or a "blurry jpeg"? Neither fits what it does.

Don't such effective explanations require some sort of understanding?

Below is an example explanation, and there are more here: [1]

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Explain "In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm."

This statement refers to the importance of early planning and implementation in software systems. In software development, the early stages of the project, such as requirements gathering, design, and implementation, are crucial for the success of the project.

If the early stages of the project are done well, it can set the foundation for the rest of the development process, making it easier to build and maintain the software system. On the other hand, if these stages are not done well, it can lead to delays, rework, and budget overruns.

The phrase "the early bird that makes the worm" is a reference to the proverb "the early bird catches the worm", which means that those who act early and decisively will have an advantage over others.

Similarly, in software development, if the development team acts early and puts effort into the early stages of the project, they can gain an advantage over competitors, reducing the risk of project failure, and increasing the chances of success.

In summary, the statement "In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm" emphasizes the importance of early planning and implementation in software development, which can set the foundation for the rest of the development process and increase the chances of success.

[1] - https://diaphora.blogspot.com/2023/04/chatgpt-explains-epigr...
An HTTP Interface for alpaca.cpp
Very simple, designed to enable automation and not as a standalone way to publicly host the models (no rate limiting, persistence or auth). Hope it's useful to folks nonetheless!
Ex-Grubhub Driver Wins 8-Year Legal Battle in California Court
Ah yeah Vimium, for Chrome, not Vimperator, is the one was thinking of.
No it's not, read the full advert:

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SI...

Location

The post can be based in London (1 Horse Guards Road), Norwich (Rosebery Court) or Darlington (Feethams House).
English is the most international language because of war, expansion and domination. It could be any other language whose "countries" won.

The major currency is USD...
Most English speaking countries are of British origin...
Non-English speaking countries trade with the largest partner(s), which are of English origins...

I don't think it's the features of the language that are at play here.
same :-)

This is not just for green steel, it's largely used for fertilizer and some other industrial purposes. Making it green is going to be big business!
This really got to the heart of what I was trying to say. I find the concept that we all live by the grace of our employers to be alien, coming as I do from a culture and society that prides itself on mobility, advancement, and self-sufficiency. I find the concept of living by the grace of government (or relying on government for more than services rendered in exchange for the taxes I pay from my own labor) to be odious morally and terrifying in practice. Many Americans, even ones on the left of the social spectrum, feel this way. Particularly ones with roots in the Soviet Union or other totalitarian states. But it probably isn't a natural revulsion or posture for people formed under mildly socialist Western European standards, and it seems to have been lost on the youngest generation in the US.

I went to a wealthy enough private school to have had an up-close look at what children do when they never have to work in their lives if they don't want to. It's not pretty. My father made all his kids start working full time at 14.

As far as the one-to-many vs one-to-one argument, you're absolutely right; the connection between having choices in work and having freedom is only not apparent to people who've developed a conveniently conspiratorial view of the world, in which corporations are acting in concert as opposed to presenting endless opportunities and edges to anyone with ambition in the faces they present. As you said, with a monolithic actor like government, it's just a single bureaucrat's opinion of you that matters, with no chance to prove yourself. This is obvious to everyone I've ever met who has lived under a dictatorship. And ultimately a dictatorship must be the ultimate arbiter of any form of UBI, because one way or another, people will be made to work to support people who don't want to work. And that can only be accomplished by force in measure to how offensive it is to the working group.

Whereas I have quit great jobs to work some incredibly shitty jobs and become good, then great at them, and I think I've become a slightly better human being at each iteration. I quit coding to be a taxi driver - I worked 16 hour days and wrote several novels in my taxi. There is your time to make art. I don't think either part of that would have been possible in a world with UBI or the control structures it would imply.
The issue being highlighted is that they suspect suppliers are colluding the drive prices higher. In a collusive monopoly the number of competitors artificially decreases.
I would start with merkle trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

Here's a blog post which is probably basically what you want: https://medium.com/system-design-blog/merkle-tree-and-its-ap...
I only work because I can't retire. I'd rather be bored silly than to work as I work to live, not the other way around.
> Some background the author is missing in his post

The author of the post, Stargirl Flowers, is a woman btw.
We usually use the McDonalds app to accrue points and score discounts.
The rich world’s housing crunch is far from over
I think rejecting status wholesale is also a huge mistake.

Here’s the harsh reality. Many people judge and make decisions based on status. You can purport be above it and bootstrap and work as hard as you want but that one guy with status will get the raise he needed and now you don’t have. You can then try to lie to yourself that that is just superficial status. But it’s not. That guy can now use those resources to get ahead and you can’t.

Bootstrapping can become a toxic independence mentality that focuses on lying to yourself on how self sufficient you are — all while you are going nowhere fast.

Reality is harsh and doesn’t go by pat philosophies.

Also go ask a low status person in society how much status “doesn’t matter” and you’re gonna get some very real answers. Mostly I find people who already have high status are the ones that rant about how it doesn’t matter.
Forced IRC only hours.
Why? I'm outta here as quickly as I can afford to. Life is too short to spend it working.
Parental control software is counterproductive, and will generally only lead to them trying to outsmart you, which is a bad precedent. If you really want to keep your kids safe online, the most important thing to do is establish trust and understanding with them that the boundaries you set are important and reasonable. You need to respect them as people, and they need to understand and appreciate why you set the limits that you do.

On top of that, you need to supervise them, and even then, they should not be allowed to use social media, which ought to be 18+ anyways.

I understand this is all a lot to ask in our society. There is no "good" answer to this problem. But we should all try to do the best we can, and not forget that big tech puts hundreds of millions, if not billions, into making social media as addictive as possible. I'd say we're at a point where it's sensible to conclude it's now more addictive and harmful than tobacco, though our society has yet to come to terms with this fact. Even if we put a stop to it now (we won't), our current social media infrastructure will likely haunt us for centuries.
"So now you need to check everything, everywhere"

If you want to write robust code in C that what you need to do. UB doesn't give you runtime checks nor compile time checks for overflow.

"Does not give you any assurances that your answer will be correct."

Your problem is you think C's int is a mathematical integer when it is not. It's an ordered set.
I also don't care about poor people.
Calling Bethesda games "simulation" is a bizarre exaggeration. You mean the games where NPCs will let you rob them if only you place a bucket on their heads? That's a no from me. I don't think any games I've ever played did world-scale simulation well. I've heard good things about Dwarf Fortress, though. I'd rather have tightly constrained but well executed experience than an unconstrained experience where everything is dumb.
FWIW, for the case of installing Python packages as runnable tools (as opposed to importable libraries), pipx is solid.

For example, you can install oscclip to a temp dir with a dedicated venv and run it immediately:

$ pipx run --spec 'oscclip @ git+https://github.com/rumpelsepp/oscclip' osc-copy --help

Or install it more permanently:

$ pipx install 'oscclip @ git+https://github.com/rumpelsepp/oscclip'

My own Zsh frontend for managing Python venvs and deps, zpy, makes use of pip-tools to accomplish the same, with its pipx clone, pipz:

$ pipz runpkg 'oscclip @ git+https://github.com/rumpelsepp/oscclip' osc-copy --help

$ pipz install 'oscclip @ git+https://github.com/rumpelsepp/oscclip'
Punch is typically referring to a waveform with high dynamic range - the opposite of compressed. Warm usually indicates a sound with rolled off highs and boosted midrange.
That sounds like way less fun, to me.

One of my toy projects is building a "desktop OS" in the CLI, with its own mini apps (python), and a drawille style GUI and windowing. And ANSI color.

There's no point at all, but it's fun.
As the article points out - this doesn’t end at 18. Arguably, it gets worse.
Racism is global problem. Killing black people by white police is a US specific problem. I feel weird to see BLM outside of US, rather than other anti-racism campaign.
When you look at individuals who have achieved things you admire, it's so often true that they themselves came from outside the status system that existed at that time.

They now sit within, or atop the current one, but it's often something they themselves have created to a greater or lesser degree.

There's a huge lesson there, I think. Being in that position in the current status system is not and never was their goal. It came as a consequence of acheiving real goals, real success. It was a reality they created.

If you want to emulate them, you won't do it by 'getting in' to that current system, that's for sure. Instead focus on doing your own thing, and maybe one day finding yourself within or atop a new one.
A market research firm for suppliers doesn’t see issue with what their paying customers are doing? That’s not convincing, even if it provides a second opinion in a well balanced article. In the past most journalism showed perspectives from both sides, so all articles would suggest otherwise for the set of all things otherwise.
One thing to consider: does ChatGPT yet initiate anything? It seems it only responds to input, rather than starting conversations.

I imagine someone could invoke ChatGPT in such a way that this sort of scenario is possible, but unless OpenAI makes some changes, I find it hard to imagine ChatGPT doing this of its own accord.
I had a co-worker whose neighbor died recently not all that much after his 40th birthday from some combination of smoking, occupational exposure to construction debris/chemicals, and long covid. He was on the list for a lung transplant for a bit, but no one seemed to believe that gave him any chance, and it did not. Perhaps if he had not smoked, worn proper PPE when needed, and gotten a covid vaccine, he would be alive today. It seems that his downwardly mobile southern culture failed him quite completely, but I do agree that if you had told him that, you'd probably be thought of as a patronizing.
The exact same vehicle sold through a commercial contract will include AM. So this is really just trying to force people to pay to stream the internet feed of all of these radio stations.

Jim Farley is going off the deep end. If he’s not careful the Ford family is going to can him, and he can live in a van down by the river, with no AM radio in it.
I guess this is the kind of problem where different people have a different meaning for the term 'retirement'.

for some it means having a source of income that isn't tied to working so that they can do anything including 'working' on things they like without worry of it being a money generating activity.

for others retiring means stopping to work in the broadest possible meaning of the term.
Destreza
Thinking in Drafts: A Subtle Mental Shift to Unlock Better Creative Work
I'll keep my M3KS+ + MMU2S + Bear + OctoPrint, but I'm no longer interested in Prusa products.
I have found some solace in gardening that helps me accept mortality.

Life and death is around you every day in a garden.

When you start seeds, some turn to seedlings, some don't. Some seedlings die, some live. If you are as bad of a gardener as I am, you plant triple the seeds so hopefully some germinate and grow, the weak ones I just pluck out and compost. Some of those seedlings thrive and become big healthy plants, some never really amount to much and they die early. Blight killed a lot of tomato plants a few years ago. The soil is teeming with life that is thriving because of decaying (dead) plant matter. I few years ago I bought 500 worms for the garden. They eat dying plant matter and turn it into amazing compost. Some worms died before I could get them in the ground, some helped my cucumbers grow to 15' tall. Living, but, destructive pests do not live long in my garden, but helpful insects are welcome. I plant a pollinator garden just for them. Then, at the end of the season everything dies. In the spring it all stars again. You get to see the entire circle of life play out every day and then again every season. It has a training effect on me. Some people go to church for answers, I water tomato plants.

It has given some comfort to know I'm part of a bigger organism and my death will perpetuate life of another kind, if I choose to let my body feed life.

Also, if you are young and reading this, when you hit 50, and/or when you have kids, that's when mortality really hits you. But that's when you are (usually) most able to positively impact others. The point of life is to have kids and perpetuate our species. The meaning of life is to help others. I mean locally, help other people. People near you. Your mother or your neighbor or the mailman. Maybe you have little impact on the entire world but you can make a huge impact on a person very near you. Do that enough and when you are dying one day you will think of their faces and the faces of the kids you helped and accept the unknown and that you did the best you could.
Options, huh?

Got it. Puts on Google here we go.
"Lawson’s case hinged on whether he was a contractor in his brief four month stint delivering food for Grubhub, or an employee—entitled to minimum wage, overtime, and other benefits. An initial 2018 ruling sided with the company, and denied Lawson employee status. But after an appeal to the Ninth Circuit and a remand back down to the same district court, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley has now ruled that, under California laws, Lawson was legally a Grubhub employee.

"'Mr. Lawson is properly classified as an employee, not an independent contractor, for purposes of his minimum wage and overtime claims,' wrote Judge Corley..."
Part of this simply has to do with nosy busy-bodies ready to pounce on the phone to call Child Protective Services (or equivalent) whenever they see a child out and about on their own. I'm not afraid to send my kids to the park (few blocks down the street) alone, ride their bikes alone or instruct them to go outside after breakfast on the weekend on not come back before lunch, or hell even dinner (not that it matters for socializing--I see hardly any kids their age, pre-teens, outside, even though there are plenty around). I am afraid of what my neighbors would do.

The other part is that, unless one lives in the country, it has become much harder to find neighborhoods where kids can safely roam free. I lived in both a small rural town and a larger, more urban (but not "big city") city as a child, and was able to run around the neighborhood in both places without issue, back in the 80s. I've visited the larger city I spent the second half of my childhood in as a child recently: there simply isn't any space for kids to roam anymore there. Some might say my generation's parents were too extreme in the freedom they gave us. Perhaps, but the pendulum has swung too wide in the other direction, in my opinion.
1 generous cup of sugar per half gallon of tea was my old recipe. I was merely a Virginian so I think it could be increased even more a state or two south
AI doesn't have be out to get us to cause lots more social and economic instability (though ironically ChatGPT seems to be poised to replace a lot of white-collar workers - unlike the robot apocalypse predictions about replacing blue-collar ones... not that both can't happen simultaneously, of course).
How does it compare to Haitian rum?
The TikTok ban isn't about teenage responsibility on the internet. It's just that it's a Chinese owned communications network in an era of increased tension with US gov.

> They’re helicopter parenting the wrong areas of life.

Helicopter parenting is always a bad idea. Either you teach your kids ethics, morals, responsibility, self-respect, and assertiveness or they will fail as adults.
I think a major change over time has been about vehicles, and there are no relevant mentions of "car" or similar in the article. They're larger, often faster, there are more of them and sightlines are poorer. Drivers potentially on their phones too. As a parent of a 10yo, vehicles are my major concern with out-of-home autonomy.

Growing up in the 80s, we kicked a football on the street and towed each other on skateboards with bikes. I barely remember a car being parked out there; they were all in driveways. That same cul-de-sac now is choked with parked cars that are each household's second or third vehicle and left on the street because it's easier than shuffling cars in a narrow driveway. Now, you couldn't kick a ball without hitting someone's car. A car driving down that street will have terrible sightlines with seeing a kid chasing a ball out onto the street or even seeing someone short trying to cross the road from behind an SUV or 4x4.

Out camping in the bush, I'm comfortable letting my kids roam (as long as they watch out for snakes). Lots of other ways for them to get injured, but no cars. There's a difference between a "learning injury" and the bonnet of a 4x4 hitting their head/neck.
That's for England and Wales. In Scotland it's different:

Personal Allowance Up to £12,570 0%

Starter rate £12,571 to £14,732 19%

Basic rate £14,733 to £25,688 20%

Intermediate rate £25,689 to £43,662 21%

Higher rate £43,663 to £150,000 41%

Top rate over £150,000 46%

Source: https://www.gov.uk/scottish-income-tax
Any resources (e.g. YouTube videos, books) you can suggest? At a challenging point in life and this resonates.
I assume you're correct, I'm on the GPT4 API waitlist so I'll be able to better test these things once I get API access.
Of course. Just pointing out how OP was not aware to what extent their choice words was product of that same imperialism.
Yes and kicks in at just over 43k :(
This was an interesting read for me today because, by coincidence, I spent some quality time yesterday trying to figure out how to go back to blogging, which I haven't done now in several years. My early blog was on Blogger then I switched to TypePad. Then I self-published. Then I went back to TypePad. I do wish I had always self-published because, while technically possible to consolidate content, it would take some work that I've never got around to doing.

So yesterday I was reviewing my options for rebooting my tech blogging, and went looking at the platforms. I was steering towards HashNode after reading the advice from another technical blogger to say to just focus on your content. It does look like a quality site for technical blogging. But for me a must-have is the ability to write off-line and it doesn't look like that is possible with HashNode. It has an API but it's WAY more complicated than is warranted and seem to exist just for the purpose of saying that it's technically possible to upload your content instead of using their online editor.

Another thing that happened yesterday is that after searching for over an hour, I was still unable to locate my old Blogger site where I was writing about computer vision some time around 2006. I've changed computers several times since then, and whatever notes I had did not make the transition to my newer workstations. So sad. Clearly this could happen even if you self-publish but I think it's less likely. I still have all of my original self-published blog articles, and those were from around the same time.

Anyway, yesterday I had settled on either using Blogger again, or using HashNode. But after reading this article and the HN discussions I'm not so sure. I am going to look back at my self-written SSG from ~2008, and see how hard it would be to have those same semantics in the cloud (wasn't an option back then). A static site is fine if you don't need the social and collaborative features.

Another thing I'll mention - in the context of the POSSE principle mentioned by others - is that IFTTT is like $5/month and seems well-suited to the POSSE approach of publishing.
It seems obvious to me that focusing on doing the right thing is good, while focusing more on managing everyone else’s impression of you is bad. In fact I thought everyone knew this.
incidentally the original ender 3 is also open hardware