skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the thing, any mandatory costs (textbooks, meal plans, etc) should be bundled into the standard tuition price. It needs to be bundled into the top line price that people are actually aware of when they’re making their “purchase decision” (where to go to college)
50 percent of Boomers owned their own home as 25-to-39-year-olds, compared with 48 percent of Millennials, hardly a difference deserving of headlines or social-media memes.

That's a ridiculously wide age range to use for comparison. And you'd be better off showing the median age of first home purchase or mortgage payoff. A modest increase in income or net worth is meaningless if housing has skyrocketed in comparison.
Voat was hijacked by neonazi communities that used bots to massively pre-register popular community names and effectively prevent anyone outside of their circle from using the site. It also was absolutely full of tech issues and spent at least a quarter of its first few years down.
If you want some peaceful atomic tourism and happen to be driving through Idaho in the summer, I can't recommend the Experimental Breeder Reactor museum enough. Then again, I'm a nuclear engineer, so maybe this is too personal of a recommendation.

https://inl.gov/experimental-breeder-reactor-i/

https://visitidaho.org/things-to-do/museums-exhibits/experim...
Sure. All aggregated data is ultimately derived from raw, unaggregated data. One can make the argument that training an LLM is "just" an unusually complicated form of aggregation.

Whether that would hold up is another question. But yeah, I agree with the conclusion that they need to clarify this.
The first paragraph of the article talk about “workers forced to watch videos of murder, rape, and ethnic cleansing”. Idk about you but that doesn’t sound easy to me. I think you’ve thinking of power tripping reddit mods where as this is more people being forced to watched gruesome content that is getting reported to the platform
But then the training can surreptitiously be called data aggregation. We don't look at the raw data, we aggregate it and then query the aggregation.

Definitely needs clarification, though somehow I suspect this is all by design.
Lemmy's community is one of the worst I've seen. I'd stay away.
ACTUALLY it is not animal agriculture, but plant agriculture, which is responsible for this devastation among birds. It is the thousand-acre mono-crop soybeans and wheat and corn fields that destroy habitats and flood the world with pesticides, which kill the bugs that the birds feed on. Animals, on the other hand, tend to regenerate grasslands and restore wildlife habitats. If you really want to help fix the environment then you should consider not eating plant-based food.
This blog post explains how it works: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...

Disclaimer: I wrote that article and was somewhat involved in the other sqlite over ipfs project this is forked from.

Yes, for MB size files just downloading the whole thing will be faster and much easier - even if running in the browser. I'd say the boundary is somewhere around 10MB compressed (~20-200MB uncompressed). Looks like the sqlite dump used here is ~400MB in size, ~180MB compressed. Loading that in the browser would probably work but it wouldn't be too great.
I am totally going to start putting cartoon section summaries in my technical docs.
Absolute numbers tell me absolutely nothing. What matters is per capita. But if we're going to go by absolute numbers... Sweden had over 100-200k immigrants per year several years. That's over 1% of the population in just a year. Sweden has a higher rate of foreign born people than the US.
Take my word for a grain of salt, I think it's just trying to control who can access what. Richer get more stuff.
Bold prediction we've got 70 more years.
Isn’t the main issue that they cause a lot more wear on train wheels, making it a very bad idea to run them at speed?
But it doesn't cost tens of millions of dollars to stand up a new server.
Adding another sparkle to the dog every time someone complains.
Is this to blame complexity of Rust ?
San Diego Police Reveals List of What Surveillance Technology Tools It Uses
The Wikipedia article also acknowledges that Friedman's NIT is equivalent in operation to a UBI [funded by income tax]. A UBI can theoretically be funded in ways other than income tax, and in theory the payment timing can be different, but the net effect of an NIT and an equivalent size income tax funded UBI on a government budget is identical

(The fact the same page contains incorrect arguments about differences illustrates why Wikipedia is not a good place to learn anything about economics...)

Neither have "work incentives". Both provide a modest work disincentive firstly by reducing an individuals' need for income, and secondly by increasing the tax burden on earned income (in the case of the UBI this work disincentive might be less if the payments were funded by something other than income tax, though this is unlikely).

NIT can only be "cheaper than existing programs" if the majority of current program recipients receive considerably less money than they currently do (in order to pay for NIT "prebates" paid out to the large number of people who are not entitled to existing welfare payments but dont pay much or any income tax either). In many cases, this would leave them homeless. As I said, a questionable priority.
My first thought, on reading the title, is maybe the sparks sometimes thrown off by the trains would catch dry weeds on fire if they were near the tracks, so the crushed stones give the sparks somewhere safe to land.
True, I suppose. Though the implementation details are certainly refreshing :)
Other areas of medecine do do things in a rush - like an ambulance breaking the speed limit to maybe save one guy. Yet we wouldn't allow breaking the speed limit when delivering a new treatment to save thousands of lives.
DreamBerd is a multi-paradigm programming language, which means that you can delete the keywords and paradigms you don't like.

delete class!
class Player {} // Error: class was deleted

When perfection is achieved and there is nothing left to delete, you can do this:

delete delete!
> I assume there must be an order of magnitude mistake somewhere here, either in the currency conversion or in the timeframe.

I guess the GP meant "USD per year". With that the numbers work out.

To clarify. 1M ISK ≈ 7,150 USD. So 1M ISK per month translates to about 85,000 USD per year.
The article says that they alleged they were fired after trying to organize with fellow employees
The numbers are not wrong. 1 euro is 150 ISK. Which means yearly salary od 80k is about 12M ISK, or 1M ISK per month.
> SQLite compiled into WebAssembly fetches pages of the database hosted on IPFS through HTTP range requests using sql.js-httpvfs layer, and then evaluates your query in your browser.

Please don't do that with the non-static data. This is okay only for archived project, except the moment when my PC downloads SQLite indexes from some blockchain based paifully slow storage for the first time. BTW, how about a user-governed local data cache, is there any recent quirks in browsers for that? LocalStorage is still inconsistent and unreliable, right?
How would you be able to pick and cover specific covers without buying the book?
Should this be IPv13 then?
There is a massive distinction between an adolescent working along side a parent or other family, and being individually employed by an unrelated employer and directly subject to the economic/social grindstone. (why are you wasting time on fall protection? why are you asking for a mask just to drill some holes in concrete? try being a man!)

The former is going to happen informally regardless of what the law says, but I agree the law should be more conductive to it. The latter is fraught with misaligned incentives, and is mainly what people are reacting to. If workers' economic power were generally rising, the whole topic would be essentially moot. But economically empowered workers are generally impossible due to that rarely questioned policy of continual monetary stimulus and other business-uber-alles regulation. Hence the specific concern about working conditions and workers' rights.
For me, the paper contained many gems. Besides the superficial alignment hypothesis and its consequences on the fine-tuning dataset, Figure 7 about instruction alignment vs conversation alignment and Figure 9 about the positive correlation of the perplexity number with the quality score (i.e. negative correlation of the perplexity based model quality and with the response based quality) were very insightful.

What I missed: How does the superficial alignment hypothesis related to model size (they only investigate disjoint aspects on 7B vs 65B llama models). Since the paper focuses on data quality, I would have expected an annotation guideline.

Still, I think the paper is an excellent read.
I still have my "Fundamentals of Physics" (5th edition, I think they are on 12th edition now). This one I still occasionally read from time to time just for the fun of it.

The other textbooks I still keep just for when I need weighted objects to stack something. I don't actually read them.
I once used a MySQL database as a replacement for a message queue. This was the easiest solution to implement since all the servers were already connected to the database anyways. A server would write a new row to the table and all the servers would remember the last row they had already seen. Occasionally the table is cleared. I'm sure there are some race conditions in the system but its only purpose is to send Discord notifications when someone breaks a highscore in a video game, so its not really critical. It's still working that way today.
Assuming high sensitivity this is good stuff to learn - anxiety of a correct diagnosis is healthy.
A famous financial news paper used an FTP server as its kafka "fan in" node.

It was so old that the 1u case started to droop in the middle. (it was an sparc something or other with real SCSI ultra 320 drives in them)
a.k.a the most nutters.

I can't see praising this as a good thing. The vast majority _of people_ do not post things online. Now you just have an extremely small community of talkers.

Imagine instead that social media was a house party. In the case of Mastodon, only 5 people showed up, but they talk endlessly about every (or their specific niche) topic. You wouldn't want to be there.
Here's the secret for why my cartoon dialogues work so well: I use the Socratic method. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34461459
Have you read about hedge ecosystems? Particularly in England where forest cover is low, hedges are habitat. I think a lot of exurbs in the US could learn from that.

On a side note, I share your philosophy. This year we have had deer and even a fox in the yard. Downside of it all though: ticks.
We have a process for allowing it to change with time: amendments. They've passed many times before!
Sometimes missing in these debates is that right to free speech isn't the right to be listened to.
So what I'm seeing is Africa/Asia with the lowest drug use, continental europe with significantly higher drug use, the Anglo countries (which are more individualistic than continental Europe) even higher, and the U.S. (which carries western individualism to the greatest extreme) at the top of the charts. There seems to be something weird going on with the former Soviet bloc countries, but overall the chart seems to strongly support the trend I'm talking about.
>Add user agency back in

What do you mean by this? Twitter has following, likes, watch time, Not interested in this tweet, etc which give you agency on your recommendations.

Mastadon gives you less agency over your feed because it has a primitive recommendation system which isn't able to find as relevant posts as twitter's can.
If we remove the nuanced semantics, a logical tautology can be discerned in the syntax "it is what it is", namely:

(it = what?) ∧ (it = what?)

The left expression says that "it is what?": it binds the meta-variable what? to the it object. The right expression has the binding of what? in scope already, and just redundantly asserts it; the two what?s unify. The right side is saying "it is what; and as for what that is, see the left side".

It's basically a more elaborate form of the P ∧ P tautology.

BTW: I just intuited that I can get ∧ using Japanese IME by typing "ando" (あんど); it appears as one of the replacements.

Japanese IME is useful not just for Japanese. Need ohms? Just "omega" (おめが) and there it is.
According to the article, it's for two years.
Look, if 10-year-olds think it's wrong for them to be allowed to work at low-paid and dangerous jobs, then they should have voted for someone else.
I think you could have made your point without resorting to baseless ad hominems

> people who have never done a day's real work in their lives

What a dumb statement to make. And you know it.
The agent loop is too frail, and too prone to lose focus, especially if you also want to combine it with some sort of persistent chat context. Hardcoding the control loop instead of letting the ai ficlgure it out was the only way tlive found to extract actual work out of gpt, and works,to an extent, with smaller models as well.
> after decades of school drilling into my that it was a bad thing.

I'd argue that's just school teaching bad style. They're doing it because they are optimising for something else: exposing students to wider vocabulary.

To write well, call a spade a spade. To show off how many words you know, call it a spade the first time, shovel the next, digging device the third time, then earth moving tool, substrate projector, historic agricultural staple, etc. School optimises for the latter.

If you feel like your vocabulary is sufficient, forget everything school taught you. Write simply. A spade is a spade.
There is also the issue that it seems safe to assume that many people at the CIA etc consider him a traitor and would like to assassinate him, given the opportunity, even if he could be assured of immunity from prosecution.

In his position I'd never set foot in the USA or a USA-friendly place ever again, and I'd just have my frozen pizza rolls and hot pockets flown in.
my dear child, the fun is not the destination, the fun is the slow decent into madness to get there. For other people: don't read the summary, read the whole thing. its a work of art.
I would have gone to the book store, fotographed the two chapters. - When I was a university student, our professor would copy relevant chapters and hand them to us (in Berlin). We would only buy those books we used extensively.
I can't share personal messages or such here. I don't feel it would be ok to share either of their obituary.

One of them was a very close friend. I knew the other one and there were articles on her published online.

Piracy could hurt someone several ways...
In Germany it's legal to start working the moment you leave the compulsory 9 years of Education, where you are 15 or 16.
Granted, you are then in the apprenticeship-system where half of the time you have to visit an apprenticeship school and the other half of the time you learn a trade, but noone bats an eye.
Textbook prices in North America are just plain criminal. The racket is exacerbated by the requirement by profs to always be on the latest edition, even though there is no material change in content. It is a disgrace.
>In 2015, Congress rewrote the law that allowed the NSA to scoop up everyone's records. The U.S.A. Freedom Act now prohibits the bulk collection of phone records by American citizens.

Leave it to NPR to run interference for the government. The Freedom Act reformed the reauthorization of the Patriot act. At least on paper. NSA's PRISM project that Snowden revealed was authorized under section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendment. This law has not been changed.
The Nix store is world-readable. Storing plaintext secrets in the Nix store is absolutely insane and foolish. Who does this?

Either don't store your secrets this way or don't use Nix. Please.
Why the DisplayPort outputs? I could understand if the card took an existing video signal and spliced it into the USB-C ports via alt-mode, but just outputting it in a separate socket doesn't seem very useful.

Also, where is the video signal coming from? I assume the card doesn't have a GPU, but I don't see any internal ports either.

Or did the article get it wrong and the DP sockets are really inputs that are then spliced into the USB-C outputs?
Reminds me of HibikiHtml [0] and Imba [1].

[0]: https://www.hibikihtml.com
[1]: https://imba.io
This is fair, to a point. A sixteen year old should be allowed to train or practice some skills on a construction site, but shouldn't be there for a full 10 hour shift.

The reason young adults are restricted from certain work activities like a meat slicer or fryer are because they don't necessarily understand the physical risks associated with it.
Typically charity. That's my one of my other comments suggested that the person moving should reach out to churches in their preferred destination. It may help them meet new people and start a network, including landing a low skill job they can utilize to make rent while they search for a better one.
Please no! Someone may try to actually use this in some corporate production model -- I can see the carnage now - the language, editors where you can write left to right, right to left, or even vertically with an exta cost plug-in, training courses at $1500/day -- the horror of it all! Don't forget the vertical camelcase variable names where letters appear, not only in both cases, but on two lines. You know of course, tehre's a special place for you when the mist clears. You'll either be stuck in the Bank of America customer care department for eternity, or, be stuck in the other Big Red helping to get Larry Elisson's network computer workig -- FOREVER.
> Sensible rules about dangerous work of course make sense. Roofers should wear harnesses when appropriate, everyone should have ppe. But calling a sixteen year old construction worker a child laborer is just ignorant. It's a young man working a good job and staying out of trouble.

Okay but, FTA:

>It also limits employer liability for the injury, illness, or death of a child on the job. Adolescents are almost twice as likely as adults to be injured at work.

You’re envisioning Dad bringing Junior to work to help haul off cinderblocks in the back of the family F150, you’re imagining something that isn’t the case. People under 18 are children. They are being endangered while the companies that profit are being protected.
A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will
It's worse because people use more phones then desktops, and they commonly use them for payments which makes them juicier target than desktops.
What is this no id thing? They should have one from their current state.
The distortion (and reality of exploitation) occurs in the value created by employees. Skill is a resource, and they deserve to set the price on it, collectively if they choose.

When their compensation is only a small fraction of the value they create, is their obligation to themselves, their families, neighbors, and governments not to extract the best possible deal? Or is the unfairness of their wage only set so low to subsidize the salaries of highly compensated employees?

The challenges of globalized workforces are not only written from the wealthiest's perspectives. Otherwise, how would Google defend itself from the accusation that they only come to Kenya to take advantage of its minerals and relative poverty?
I might entrust a 16yo to physical labor overseen by a parent. But overseen by some managerial type incentivized to neglect and exploit ? Umm.
Some jobs are probably ok for certain 16 year olds, but it's disingenuous to ignore:

- many 16 year olds are not ok to work around dangerous machines.

- they are working in environments with risk that they may not fully grasp.

- they end up being paid less.

They should probably be in apprenticeships. There should be guarantees about expert supervision when it comes to dangerous work conditions.

They shouldn't be exploited in minimum wage dead-end jobs like fast food.
Let's see: you don't live there, but you're arguing with someone who did? Have you ever even been there?
WWDC 2023: the 3 big reveals we need from Apple
This feature really isn't all that bad!

> To declare a function, you can use any letters from the word function (as long as they're in order):

> function add (a, b) => a + b!

> func multiply (a, b) => a * b!

> fun subtract (a, b) => a - b!

> fn divide (a, b) => a / b!

> functi power (a, b) => a * b!
I wish I had been learning a trade at a young age instead of wasting my time farting around with friends.

Even if I went into a different profession any trade is very useful.
Same here, tried both autoGPT and autoGPT.js with GPT-4, kept failing at even the simplest of tasks.
I don't know if this is sarcastic or not.
I have never worked a real farmers day of work in my life. I sit at desks and use computers for up to 8 hours a day. I have never worked a field, built a house, or done anything significantly physical for work ever. This is not unusual.
can you elaborate what IPNS is and how it helps with getting newer torrents up there?
It's probably sarcastic.

Probably.
> After five years, 88% of patients who took the daily pill after the removal of their tumour were still alive, compared with 78% of patients treated with a placebo.

My chance of living 5 years goes from 78% to 88% by taking an expensive pill everyday with side effects? That's not an amazing thing. If it was 78% to 95% with one or two pills, or a positive healthy lifestyle change, then that's something.

I'm going to push back and say this is garbage. The fact that this is being billed as "thrilling" and "incredibly positive" makes me want to puke. This is par for the course in the cancer industry.

I'm going to call this what it is: an advertisement for two crappy new lines of business. First, we have a new genetic testing business: "Not everyone diagnosed with lung cancer is tested for the EGFR mutation, which needs to change, Herbst said, given the study’s findings." Cha-ching!

Then, we have the actual new business of the pill. What are they going to charge, $50,000 a year?

Imagine if you could choose 2 options:

1. Take a pill everyday. Have side effects. Pay $250,000
2. Don't take a pill. No side effects. Keep the $250,000

If that was the choice I'd bet people in group #2 live longer.

This isn't science or medicine, this is advertising.

Pardon my bluntness, but sometimes anger is necessary to get people to wake up.
I first looked for work when I was 14-15 and got my first job at 16. No one forced me to do it. It was liberating to have some money and I liked taking some responsibility. But I had trouble finding an employer that hired minors. As far as I'm concerned making it easier for minors to find work is great. And when I see "child labor" I think of 8-year-olds forced to work, not 16-year-olds doing so of their own volition. Sounds like lowering the barriers will benefit poor families the most, despite the clear bias against it in the article.
One of HTTP's biggest strengths here are that it's essentially perfectly language-agnostic (in practice, not just theory) and it lets you solve basically all networking problems (hardware and software) in normal, off-the-shelf, trivial-through-Google-scale ways without having to change it. And if you want to build something custom, there are more experts and documentation and examples than any other system.

I agree it's suboptimal for performance. But it absolutely cannot be beat for business stability and flexibility. And your IPC costs generally do not dominate your request times anyway.
Spend 5 dollars saving a mature tree. Half of all tree bound carbon is stored in smaller trees by diameter.

The other half is in the top 1%.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-keeping-mature-forests-in...