skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I studied my engineering degree (not in the US) at a pretty high-ranked institution, textbooks were rarely used. I think I only actually purchased and used one, and it was approx $50 (brand new, used was cheaper). Often a course text was set, alongside the instruction of "don't bother to use it" (!) One prof did use his own book (the only time I saw this) for teaching, and had uploaded the book as PDF chapters (searchable text format, no less) to the online course page.

I therefore have a double-take when I read about people spending upwards of $1000 for books in a semester - I just can't imagine what that course would be like, or how students would feel with that kind of teaching that is presumably very heavily reliant on the book.
> All indents must be 3 spaces long.

That's what a former colleague, who shall remain unnamed, suggested as well.
Why not just impersonate the official mobile app and use its API?
AFAIK Virtualization.framework is built on top of Hypervisor.framework. Former is high-level one allowing you to create Linux VM with few hundreds lines of code. Latter allows you to run your whatever you want with few tens of thousands lines of code, but absolute freedom when it comes to drivers and every low level detail.
Good point. I mod a small subreddit, and the Reddit app interface for this is... bad.

If I use modmail to communicate with a user, it shows up as an unread message for me from me.

I don't get it.
An increase in the number of properties perhaps, but I would like to see the number of people each property can comfortably house. There's a difference between a three bedroom house and a 1 bedroom flat or bedsit.
Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act (2012)
"ad hominem" is an attack on a person instead of the positions they take. The post you're replying to quite literally is discussing the person's position on COVID which would naturally influence their COVID-related work.
if I bought a used Xbox that has the name Jimmy scribbled on it, I know it used to be Jimmy's but now it's mine. I don't refer to it as the Jimmy Xbox, or Jimmy's Xbox. it's my Xbox.

These may have been sourced by NATO but Ukraine can do whatever they want with them.
Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act—to require the Federal government to grant the majority of federal land in the state to the state of Utah after 2014.

I think you can guess how that's going. I'll be fine with the transfer as long as we also require the state to turn over all state-held land to the county it resides it.
Network effect is the biggest one IMO.
Thanks! FWIW, this is the only prior submission with more than 2-3 comments.
> Who do you decide gets to vote?

Proof of work, the human version. Like a giant captcha.

So, if you spend enough work on a certain task you prove that you care about the issue at hand, and you can vote.
> COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point.

On a population level, it's the most lethal virus in the last 100 years. A virus that infects everyone and that kills 0.5-1% of those it infects is almost a worst-case scenario for public health.
How? I clock in when I start a work session and clock out when I finish it. It's really just that simple.
> State colleges already receive and enormous amount of public money.

So do the roads. Are you making a case that it's too much or too little?
That's a better link than the twitter posts.
It's complex, but it's that what governments exist for? Solving large complex problems for the greater good?

1) Totally agree, there needs to be competition and humility to say, "Hey our regions Math book is inferior, let's use X".

2) Absolutely and I don't mean to dismissively hand wave away the hard work that will be required ("just code the app" is a good comparison) but rather trying to simply state another direction to take.

It requires money, but I think less than many suspect (without the publishers margins!). But the investment would pay for itself and would be a good _start_ to tackling the inflated costs of education.
Would love a link to this if anyone knows the paper?
I spent less.
First off, other people have mentioned average.

But I'll just throw in that this sentiment is dangerous. Squabbling over the difference between 40k and 260k, is missing the mark, and exactly what CEOs want you to think about because ultimately... The difference between the CEO pay and the upper end of the writers is 0.26/76.8M vs. 0.04/76.8M

Or 0.3% of CEO salary for the average, and 0.05% of CEO pay for the lower end. You can bet the CEO wants you to be fighting about how much more pay the other writers are getting over you, and not how much they're getting over everyone else. Like, yeah, by all means let's worry about how one writer is making 15% of another writer sometime after we've dealt with the obviously larger problem.

Also, what have they legitimately added to the company to deserve that much pay?
Side note: It's free for now but will be a paid service later.
Any normal person wouldn't become a famous/infamous edgelord.
That only works for the top few dozen subreddits, the ones that were once 'default' subreddits, they can't afford to pay people to sit and moderate the other hundred thousand subreddits all day long.
Sure. Since you asked so nicely, here's a datasheet that illustrates a device which integrates overvoltage protection. Plug a malfunctioning 20V USB-C power supply into your phone, and the phone will internally disconnect the USB-C connection to protect itself.

https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps65987d.pdf

I incinerated 250 seconds of my time, or about a billionth of my life for this answer for you - for free! Hope the little dopamine hit was enough for you today. I won't be back.
When a publication has no credibility, it's entirely reasonable to point that out. This is the publication arm of Falun Gong, which is a cult that could be described as the Chinese version of Scientology.
> Third party clients seem to be fairly niche with limited usage

Reddit's "new" UX is so dismal that they keep "Old Reddit" alive so that they don't lose their mature users en masse. On mobile, I would not even try to wrestle with Reddit's own - I depend entirely on the "Reddit is fun" Android third party client.
Do we need Attention? [pdf]
Why are sales up so high this year? Hasn't this been a market for years?
> "Use the correct intrinsics" ... the Rust library contains retrofit implementations that are used when the target CPU doesn’t support certain instructions. As you might guess, these retrofit implementations are not nearly as fast.

I noticed something similar with clang today, which emitted code 10x slower than gcc or icc for what looked like an instantly vectorizable masked add. Turned out that clang ships without __builtin_ia32_paddw256_mask, and we timed clang's unnecessarily synthetic _mm256_mask_add_epi16 at 30% slower on some targets. So we rolled our own (https://godbolt.org/z/84GT7eo14). I'd heard that the state of AVX-512 was sketchy, still surprised to see as much for an apparently straightforward usage.
I see it as an upsell.

"Hey HR, do you want an early peek as to which of your employees are about to quit?"
Fascinating. Was this the basis for Sci-Hub's optimism in India?

https://news.careers360.com/sci-hub-scihub-libgen-alexandra-...
Is it? The article quotes:

> OpenAI does not use data submitted by customers via our API to train OpenAI models or improve OpenAI’s service offering.
I.e. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

(Probably not a real quote, and probably not even accurate.)
I can vouch that it is not infinite. You couldn't pay me to do that shitty job.
> Vanuatu is sinking

This implies that Vanuatu's absolute elevation is decreasing. I can find no reference for this. If this decrease is true, please supply your sources.
HAProxy 2.8
If you read the original arguments in favor of freedom of speech, it's actually quite easy to determine who should prevail. Back in 1644, John Milton argued in favor of allowing bad ideas to be published for the following reason[1]:

> Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.

Thomas Paine said something similar in his introduction to The Age of Reason[2]:

> You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

As did John Stuart Mill in On Liberty[3]:

> But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

In short, freedom of speech isn't some deontological argument about the rights of the speaker or writer. It's a consequentialist argument about the rights of people to read or listen. Every time you silence someone, you are denying others the right to read what they want to read or hear what they want to hear. If some protesters are disrupting a talk, they are the ones who are in the wrong, as they are denying others the chance to get the information they want. Many in the audience might not agree with the views expressed, but they want to understand the ideas so they can strengthen arguments for their own views.

If you don't think people are rational or intelligent enough to consume certain ideas safely, well then you might as well get rid of the entire idea of democracy, as you shouldn't trust them to vote either.

1. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Areopagitica_(1644)

2. https://www.ushistory.org/paine/reason/intro.htm

3. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Liberty/Chapter_2
Ignoring your gross misrepresentation of the Great Barrington declaration, one might ask why you aren’t commenting on the scientific merit of his critique, but rather shouting “wrong team!”
Ars Technica had an article about this a few months back, used thin-client PCs can fill in some use cases https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/used-thin-client-pcs...
There's nothing that says you can't develop this without depending on child labor.

I work hard, and my first job was when I was 18. Nothing about a work ethic is special to working hard in a job. Some of the most impressive people I work with had really impressive school work ethics.
It is nobody's fault, it is intrinsically difficult to organize a large group of humans. Some countries deal with it better, many examples come to mind from Europe, but they have many advantages and still are far from being efficient in general.

Look I am not a political philosopher, not even close. But I can refer you to Robert Nozick's the Minimal Estate. I am not sure I agree with everything he says there, but I think he describes interesting points regarding govnmt efficiency.
The 'previous' feature sounds like a great idea! The compiler could even decide which variables it needs to keep track of.
I quickly glanced over docs and didn't find anything new since 2022. So it seems that nothing new indeed. Hopefully in a few weeks something new will appear.
i don't doubt it lol, it's just the first time i saw him in action
While the repos are racially provoking bordering towards outright racist, I’m not sure why that’s even relevant.

If this stable diffusion code is good then the code stands for itself. What point are you even trying to make with this context?
Not trying to troll, but why wouldn't a virus that infects everyone and kills 5-10% or more be the worst-case scenario?
I feel that the array starting index should be adjustable at runtime via increment/decrement overloading for either the [ or ] character.

var var meanings = [42]!

print(meanings[-1])! //42

[++! //temporarily change to 0-based indexing

print(meanings[0])! //42

print(meanings[-1--])! //42 (because of the --] pre-decrement)
I knew it. I went years without getting covid. It wasn't until I stood in a hotel lobby with some children sitting nearby that I caught it.
For SWEs, some combination of good personal finance practices and working towards being able to be hired at higher paying companies are probably your highest ROI activities.
Some books I pay for, some books I pirate, some books I do both because sometimes it's handy to have a pdf.

But I mainly pay for books because it tends to be cheaper than printing them myself.

If I were born as a westerner with my mom and dad being there always to catch me if I fall I would always pay for knowledge, sure. But I pretty much feel entitled to free knowledge. I will happily pirate a 200 eur math textbook, 200 eur for me is a lot more than for your average westerner.
Incredible that this kind of corruption is tolerated in the credentials industry, most other industries would not tolerate someone making money from customers that way.

Can you imagine going to McDonalds and the guy won’t serve you your drink unless you buy a cup from his side business?
"unless" operator is missing to make it complete complete, maybe with double unless if unless unless
after all, wasn‘t „ad hominem“ more or less the overall strategy towards any criticism of a country’s covid policy?
wowww just tried it.so sick
Nvidia Reveals Grace Hopper Generative AI Chip (Computex 2023)
Might be worth opening a pull request! Lots of people might prefer starting at something more intuitive, like -0 or NaN
WSL2 is a complete solution. Virtualization framework is just a library for developers. One can build something like WSL2 on top of this library.
Hmm… and how do you propose to “solve” the problem of “the left”?
the source engine is horrible for making games. There are basically zero examples of a decent game made with it. Except Apex Legends, it was a herculean effort, and it still sucks. You inherit a ton of exploits and bugs(apex came out and you could do a 2005-era speedhack). Netvars are still bad. I almost guarantee they will not do another game in source.

idtech still towers over the source engine for any real "small" projects. The community support + license + codebase is just so much better.

The only reason to use source is if you are a superfan who wants to make derivative stinky cut-content projects, and VR ports. Otherwise, you're just enslaving yourself to the valve megacorp(unless you can afford an apex-style deal).
Irrelevant to topic and counter to guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The pre-tensioning isn't what prevents expansion.

The rail can only expand if it can move. If the rail is clamped down tightly to the sleepers, and the sleepers are tightly packed in the ballast, then it just doesn't expand. The only thing that happens is that stress increases / decreases as temperature changes.

The pre-tensioning is only to ensure that the average tension in rail in the course of an average year is in a certain range.
A "tough boss" is very different from a "yelling boss". If you can't control your emotions enough not to yell at your fellow people, you should have no power over anybody.
I am not sure if I agree. Govmnt has to deal with much more than mere function of their programs. It must have approval, integrate with other social databases, be somewhat resilient against fraud. Not to mention this assumes everybody can be reached by electronic deposits which isn't a given.
“Discussing the person’s position” starts with discussing their reasoning.

You don’t get to take the conclusion that someone has reached as a basis for dismissing the reasoning that led them there.
Microsoft apparently.
Depends on the hardware, even consumer networking hardware often support VLANs. Sometimes it's hidden behind settings, other times you'll have to use something like OpenWRT. Some hardware lets you run multiple APs at once, and you can have an AP for your VLAN.

Sometimes it's cheaper/easier to just buy a shitty router to use for your untrusted devices.
Kids have much better innate immune systems than adults, so when no one has immunity through the adaptive immune system (what antibodies are a part of), kids do better than adults.
Caged and cut open for bile: The fight to free Asia’s farmed bears
Before there was REST and other http based standards ebXML was a hotness and tools like bizspark etc. You could see the logical progression through:

I fill in the order form and post it. They mail back an invoice.

I fax the order form, they fax back an invoice.

My computer sends the order form in a structured way over email.

My computer sends the order form in a structured way over http.

And that's why many large telcos and banks still use ebXML in their B2B transactions. It's fundamentally the same business process and logic it's always been, with glacially slow improvement in performance over time.
These articles are from May 2020, Nov 2020, and Jun 2021. That's pre-vax, pre-delta, pre-omicron, etc. I wouldn't expect the science to be anywhere near definitive by those times. Personally I discount just about anything covid-related that was published in the first 12-18mos because the situation has changed so drastically and the science was rolling in really fast and loose early on.
The market is a magical system that both creates value for necessary jobs, and also can't pay people wages for those same valuable jobs, so we need to put children to work.
But on the other hand, our knowledge and classification of the natural world is built on the shoulders of the "obsessive"s.

Most areas of naturalism require digging deep and obsessing over minutiae to unearth new discoveries.
That's not true is it? There was much more CO2 during dinosaur times than today.

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/09/20/you-asked-dinos...
Not really what?

I’m giving my personal experience and explicitly calling them anecdotes

It’s perfectly alright for you to have a different life experience

But don’t deny mine because yours is different
they say "smartphone" but surely phone makers will find a way to sell it as an uber-expensive accessory, because apparently selling phones with 60% profit margin is not enough for the sorry greedy crowd that is now called tech.

My old samsung S10 was and is a great phone, with built-in SpO2 monitor, headphone jack and FM radio. The new ones are heavier yet don't have any of these because samsung wants to sell watches and earphones. it just really bothered me and i feel scammed
> What kinds of specific policies do you have in mind?

Limit the amount of office space density (cap&trade style, or with a direct tax). Promote decentralization via tax credits, etc.

These are all old ideas, but these days they can be turbo-charged by promoting WFH.

> Seems like the reason people in the US don't build houses in the empty patches in the US is because the economics of agglomeration mean much greater efficiency/economic growth when you build them in existing large cities.

Yes. It's more efficient to open an office in a large city, where you have access to a larger talent pool. And in turn, it's more advantageous to live near a dense city core, as it provides you with more options for employment.

This leads to a never-ending densification and price growth spiral. Manhattan is a good example of the end-game of this kind of death spiral.

And these are exactly the same kinds of market forces that forced companies to dump toxic waste into rivers. After all, if you take care to clean up your toxic waste, then your products will be more expensive and less competitive.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10149 maybe
“via our API”

They do train on prompt data submitted to ChatGPT directly in the app, though there may be a way to opt out?
You could do it with 'const const const' if you don't need it mutated, but perhaps a 'const const var' would serve.
Compare Sweden vs "their neighbors" as I said above. They had much worse COVID death rate from their Nordic neighbors (Norway, Denmark, Finland) through initial COVID and the vaccine rollout to summer 2021.

Go to https://ourworldindata.org/ and check Sweden vs Norway, Finland through the vaccine rollout.

https://tinyurl.com/sweden-vs-nordic-covid

https://tinyurl.com/sweden-vs-nordic-cumulative

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7797349/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01097-5
Assuming you cannot work from home and have finite sick leave.

Both of which are reasonable assumptions for most people, but it would be great if more people didn't have those assumptions work for them.
The worst mistake these naive proponents of free speech absolutism make is assuming that everyone is arguing in honest, good faith instead of exploiting founding liberal democratic values to undermine it.

Time and again we see fascists demanding their fascist and outright racist views are entitled to all the air time they can possibly get because "to defend free speech you must defend our right to defend our views everywhere we can". Yet, when the subject of defending views they oppose pops up, they are quick to try to silence those with threats of violence and intimidation as they see entitled to it.

Worst, when their threats of intimidation are faced with threats of violence, they cynically hide behind the very same liberal and democratic values they undermine, arguing that their oppression campaign should not be subjected to any form of oppression because they are only defending what they believe.

This loophole is known for ages, and so is the antidote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
"My undergraduate experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be a physicist, and that computers were quite neat."

Thank god I am not the only one!
Well, now it just takes them to train on hackernews post data to know about Qwitzatteracht. You kinda played your hand.
It's rf circuitry at the chip boundary. It isn't like the high-level digital code like Verilog/VHDL which is relatively straightforward to port.

The people who do that are the true gurus honestly.
Also
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10081539
and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3329668
That's another option. Scraping the webpages isn't actually that difficult (though admittedly it is likely to be less reliable).
…REDUCE functions can be called with zero, one or two list values.

No, it's either two or zero arguments.
It's not at all like INI files. INI files have field names and section delimiters in them. An INI files might be:

[UI]
DarkMode=1
Theme=solarized
[Options]
Indent=4
InventMode=tabs

Whereas this file system config would have individual files per value.

<user-home>/.config/<app-name>/UI/DarkMode.bool --> 1

It's a single byte file. You read the entire file contents and if it's not zero, it's true. The existence of the file tells you whether or not to use a default value. An INI file would have to be fully parsed before we know whether it contains a value for that config value.

<user-home>/.config/<app-name>/UI/Theme.txt --> solarized

You read the entire file contents, trim leading and trailing whitespace and toLower for good measure if you want, then validate against your list of installed themes. Done. No goofy JSON or YAML parser in site.

And what reinvention is there? If you're just using a system that already exists, you're not reinventing anything.
At least in Chicago they kept trying to open back up, but the teachers refused return to the classroom.
So busybody NIMBYs get more influence. Not different from the status quo.