skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you can join the army you can sure as hell go down

I hate arguments like these. The same one for the drinking age and joining the army. The world isn't black and white. There are merits to 18+ enlistment and 21+ drinking age both (along with downsides).

It's just noise in the form of words that doesn't go towards any way of proving a point.
Because the focused has shifted to outcome over equal opportunity or treatment in the present. Some of us think that's misguided and the equal opportunity approach was working.
If crypto is “scam”, why Fidelity and Blackrock are trying with ETF?
I thought it was %100 scam and these trillion $ companies can't see it? interesting
I hope this questionable categorization doesn't result in aspartame being removed from sodas; I much prefer it to other artificial sweeteners. Can definitely tell when Diet Coke is formulated to include them.
Why is it awful reporting? The WHO’s cancer division (IARC - International Agency for Research on Cancer) is labeling it as being, quite literally, a “possible carcinogen.” That’s the actual name of the category. It’s either “Not classified,” “Possible Carcinogen,” “Probable Carcinogen,” or “Carcinogen.”

Don’t like it? Bring it up with the WHO.
I have a similar mapping to use `json.tool` inside of vim buffers. Very useful tool that's gotten a ton of mileage from me over the last ~decade.
But how does this work for YouTube for example? People still upload copyrighted stuff, even if the ToS says you shouldn't.
And choose your parents well!
It's not technically C stdlib, but POSIX.1 is the next best thing:

https://linux.die.net/man/3/hcreate

That said, the implementation leaves a lot to be desired.
Slave societies are generally poor. Africa's economy was largely slave-based until relatively recently (and still is the only place where you have active slave markets, the reason why slaves came from Africa was because it was the only place where there was a local slave industry, largely due to the trade into the Middle East), Brazil's slave trade was 10x larger than the US (the US never actually had a large first-generation slave population because mortality was so low and fertility so high), Caribbean the same, the Middle East the same, India the same.

There is a lot of research on this subject but it is worth remembering that slaves were capital that had a price too. So it wasn't "free labour" in any sense.

Most plantation owners didn't end up rich either, there were economies of scale and the price of cotton collapsed over the 19th century.

Over the long-term though, slave labour has typically inhibited economic development.
Why would an immigrant care how much housing prices were in a city 3, 5, or 10 years ago? That has absolutely nothing to do with how affordable it is right now.
agreed, it's really hard with lobbyists, captured agencies, flawed studies, social media noise, political narratives, etc etc etc. We try our best to just go back to first principles: as close to the food source as possible, as few added ingredients as possible, organic, etc.
Space itself means the metric of spacetime: how you measure distances. Locally, if there was no gravity, you could think of space as a plain reticule where distances would be calculated through eucledian geometry: that means cartesian distances, parallel lines would be parallel and the angles of a triangle would sum 180, and the shortest path between two points is the straight line.

General Relativity successfully establishes that the presence of mass distorts this, so it defines a mathematical object (the Einstein tensor) that reacts to the distribution of mass and energy and precisely describes the changes to the metric. For example it can model how the mass of the sun distorts the space so that light from distant stars appear to follow a curved path because very close to the sun a curved path is now the shortest path.

The Einstein tensor defines how distances --and time-- are measured and it's the best mathematical model that we have about what "space itself" is. Future theoretical advances could take us forward and demonstrate that space itself emerges from other more fundamental elements, but this needs bridging quantum mechanics and gravity. We don't really know what space is made of, but scientists have precisely modelled how it reacts to mass (and energy) with utmost precision.

NB: At cosmic scales the exercise becomes more difficult, as there is an expansion of the metric of spacetime that is not due to the presence of mass, in fact it is caused by the _absence_ of mass as it seems to be due the energy of empty space: the phenomenon called Dark Energy.

Hope this helps!
I see you got downvoted. But I will upvote your pun!

If we criminalize puns, only criminals will make puns!

Vote No on Pun control.
I absolutely believe hard work pays off. But different people value different things. If one person works incredibly hard to get their grades and test scores up and the other works just as hard to start a business who is the harder worker? The academic criteria says it's the first person, but I don't think that means they will have more success in their career. And in the end maximizing career success is what admissions is trying to do.
I recommend trying to use ChatGPT anytime you were going to use StackOverflow or Google.

Just try it and see what the results are. You may be surprised how good they are.

And if you weren't planning on using SO or Google, then you don't need to think about it.
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You must have never seen the original Bladerunner if you found this line of thinking as original...

"you think I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?!?"
I'm dense and just saw this. Its awesome fwiw!

If you could do something simple in the style of POSTMAN, but with less options - I'd pay fwiw. Not a lot, but if it existed - I'd want it!

Send a POST request to ${url} with ${headers} and ${body} and tell me how long it took from your servers...that'd be awesome!
Just a note on not selling for cheaper:

Register a second company that is exclusively for distribution on amazon, with that company selling at the higher price.

Best done using corps
Yeah, sign a DNR - Do not recover.
Risk management. AI generated content has high likelihood of copyright infringement.
Everything might cause cancer.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...

The current system (especially CA Prop 65) makes it impossible for these pronouncements to carry any meaning whatsoever.
Until you install the enough addons to VSCode to give it the same functionality JetBrains products have out of the box, then it gets slower.
Right, but worth noting that distributed DBs don't necessarily play nice with sequential pkeys. Spanner explicitly tells you not to use a time-based pkey.
Diet Coke is undoubtedly America's biggest source of aspartame. Diet Coke has massive market share.
It actually sounds like if you claim to have ownership of the training data you can still use AI generated assets. For most people this is a distinction without a difference however.
Do you think your description is accurate for Gentoo with OpenRC today?
I wear one of these, it's a Casio calculator watch, I love it
Because not everyone has the same needs and preferences as you:

- Some people like to cook. I ran into a guy on a recent vacation to Lyon (one of the best cities for restaurants in the world) who was in a rental house because he wanted to cook himself at least every other dinner.

- Some people can't afford to eat out every meal and can save a lot by cooking many of their meals

- As others have mentioned: people with families

- Sometimes you're in an area without good eating-out options. If you're in a rural area, your options might be "drive 30m into town" or "wait 1 hour for the exactly one pizza delivery place."

- Sometimes you're in a place for a specific reason, and that reason's not food. For example, I've visited the Tahoe area in California to ski. I'm not there to experience Tahoe cuisine - I'm happy to make simple dinners every night and spend the rest of my time doing what I'm there to do.

There are a ton of reasons to want a full kitchen, depending on your needs + style of travel.
On the one hand...yes, school systems very often treat teachers like crap. Ditto for modern America and mothers.

OTOH...at least in my family lore, trying to time childbirth for the "slow season" - between the Xmas holiday and beginnings of spring planting - was an obvious and normal strategy for farm housewives 150+ years ago.
It's similar to using Google or SO in that it's a tool you can employ to help solve problems, but you can't rely on it to solve the problem. I've found most value in

1. A better IntelliSense, and
2. Getting up to speed on things I have less experience with

Are you hurting yourself? Only you can answer that. I know I would be hurting myself if I didn't use all the tools that were useful.
"Baseball-sized" hail will do that. It will also break or badly damage a lot of other things, including buildings, homes, automobiles, animals, and people. For example, here are some pictures of car damage: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=giant%20hail%20car%... .

We are, after all, talking about big balls of ice hurling down from the sky, their speed increasing by 32.2 feet/second every second.
Microsoft and Nvidia join $1.3B fundraising for Inflection AI
The wave of dismissive comments is quite informative to stay far far away from D:

> I would love to ensure that every release of the compiler doesn't have any bugs, please let me know when you have figured out how to guarantee that.

Oh dear
Untold best practice: Keep your phone, passport, wallet etc on your body always while on a flight. Imagine being stuck in this situation in a foreign country where they'll keep you at the airport for days waiting to figure out how to get you back home without a passport. Your renters/homeowners insurance may cover anything left on the plane that is lost and not covered by the airline.
Well, that's over 30 years, but yes, I think we can come up with examples. Broadband, videocalls, "free" (bundled, unlimited) long distance.

I remember when I first started seeing people with broken ankles/feet using those one-leg scooters. It took us until the 2000s to think of that!
This example is about generosity. In this case you don't owe anything to your less fortunate peer, but not sharing it is greed and when greed is the driving force of our society, it's not surprising nobody wants to share his wealth. In a society of a far future that will run on generosity, being obsessed about possessions will be seen as a weakness. It seems that some proponents of the "affirmative action" sense that future society, and try to implement it here, but since they poorly understand human nature, and since their own nature is imperfect, they pervert the high ideal.
> - Want an interstate in your city? Run it through a black or brown neighborhood.[1]

A lot these debates really come down to just how impressed one is by arguments like this. It so happens that an Interstate was built through the neighborhood my entire family occupied in St. Louis in the 1950s. Some of them were "displaced." I can't for the life of me figure out how this is supposed to be relevant to my life today. I'd wager that I'm the only one of my cousins to even know about it, since I'm interested in local history and bugged my grandparents about this stuff before they died.

It just doesn't amount to anything. My family members had a trillion decisions to make -- big and small -- both before and after that singular event and the sum of those decisions had a much bigger impact on familial wealth -- note: there was none -- than that one time in the 1950s they were forced to move.
> because they would keep finding vulnerabilities in the phone system

that is certainly rewriting history there! The FBI was involved more than once, several young men went to jail over this. You said "loved" ? thats actually twisted to say that
> We're on the cusp of a profound content shovelware crisis.

No, we've been inundated with low-quality content for decades now. This is nothing new.

Fortunately, ratings and reviews and popularity have always been an extremely effective antidote.

Even if 99% of stuff on a platform is total crap, nobody cares. It's a non-issue. Whether you're talking about music, books, TV shows, or whatever. The 1% rises to the top and you don't honestly need to pay attention to the rest.

If you choose to pay $20 for something that has 3 reviews that are all 1-star, then that's more your problem than the system's problem.
The most surprising bit of this for me was nuclear winter. I thought the idea fell out of favor, but they cite a recent Nature paper claiming up to 99% of the population of the global North would starve.

Do any governments stockpile food? Afaict, the US doesn't keep emergency stocks of non-perishables. Though according to the paper it would take ~8 years for food production to pick back up substantially, so that might just be too long.
Or maybe the developers of those games have given their assurance to Valve that they own all the relevant copyright, and therefore the same standard is being applied?

> As the legal ownership of such AI-generated art is unclear, we cannot ship your game while it contains these AI-generated assets, unless you can affirmatively confirm that you own the rights to all of the IP used in the data set that trained the AI to create the assets in your game.
Ive gotten some use out of ChatGPT for system design. I describe my problem, it recommends solutions, I ask follow up questions and add more context etc… Just like I would work with an actual collegue. Then in the end I still have to go to the source docs but the option space is often so large that I find this initial back and forth very helpful.

Coding tools, like Copilot, are completely useless on the other hand. I think they would need to be integrated with the compiler and the IDEs indexes to be of real value. Perhaps you would also need another network architecture than transformers to really understand the tree shaped nature of code as well.
> Racket executables are not to be compared with those of a compiled language that aims for speed.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/implementations.html

"The CS implementation is the default implementation as of Racket version 8.0. This variant is called “CS” because it uses Chez Scheme as its core compiler and runtime system.

The CS implementation typically provides the best performance for Racket programs. Compiled Racket CS code in a ".zo" file normally contains machine code that is specific to an operating system and architecture."
> 12 month mobile communication retention

If you can't control what people think, you just scare them into not speaking.

Sounds like state sponsored terrorism to me.
--alwaysStrict

So when the JavaScript doesn't type check, the authors measured a different program that does type check.

Even so, that only messes up the results because the mean is used rather than the median, and the data tables published with that 2017 paper, show a 15x difference between the measured times for a single outlier the selected JS and TS fannkuch-redux programs.

That single outlier is enough to distort TS and JS "mean" Time difference.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> nebula19: $199

Way too expensive for anywhere outside of the US, I bought my GPU (RX 6600 XT) for the same price..
The right time to grab wallet was after the pilot explained the issue and next steps.
Vertasium has a great video on the invention of leaded gasoline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA
SecureFlag integrated with Gitlab for rapid vulnerability remediation
This is the big one, for me personally at least. I spend most of my time writing C# and Vue. When I need to write Python, or React, or Go, which happens from time to time, it will take me 10 minutes of back-and-forth with ChatGPT instead of an hour, or multiple hours, looking up tutorials and just figuring out what I even need to Google to find what I'm looking for.

I've tried using ChatGPT for my strengths and sometimes it helps for minutiae but for the most part it's faster for me just to write the code.
Interesting... what would an AI trained only on the Commons/public domain be like? Would it be a clean source for new images? And would new images need to inherit a public/Commons license (GPL style)?
Building Boba AI: Lessons learnt in building an LLM-powered application
I wish this was the stance that companies I'm applying to would take.

Words from a recruiter at a company I won't name for now:

"Unfortunately, at this time, we do not offer a take-home test option to our candidates. It is definitely something under discussion, and we will continue to evaluate this as we scale. The decision stems from a couple of our leaders who have had unfortunate experiences in the past with candidates who used outside resources to complete their tests, which has given them concern in allowing this as an option moving forward."

And then they added once I was rejected, presumably for continuing to try to push the take-home option and evaluate it on accommodations-for-disabilities grounds:

"I know we talked about adjusting the process with you for your preferences to do a take home test in lieu of live coding, or at least have you speak with a hiring manager before doing the live coding which is what we would be able to do if the team had interest in moving forward. However, the team did reach the conclusion that if doing the live coding wasn't something you were going to be interested in/had general trepidation around, would they really be getting a great read of your skillset if it's not something you're jazzed about?"

I hate how much employers seem to not want to evaluate candidates based on real conversations and instead rely on arbitrary assessments that don't map to the real-world day-to-day work.
I personally find ChatGPT really helpful for getting unstuck when coding. Writing out the problem ChatGPT often provides me with code that nearly works and a framework for figuring things out which is pretty nice. I think it won’t affect you too much learning things the old way but you’ll be much more productive/less frustrated with ChatGPT helping you.

I found it quite a leap at first to trust ChatGPT to understand my questions and system but it really does give reasoned answers even if some of them are wrong. It’s worth knowing this and asking it questions about the code, in fact it’d be great to get definitions of functions used inline in the ChatGPT ui to be able to at least quickly check if the right parameters were being sent. Maybe this checking of lies is much harder for junior developers when they get the slightly broken output and struggle to refine it?
I find the YouTube ecosystem amazing. If there is a popular niche topic that has at least some amount of following, you’ll find several “competitor” channels.

VASAviation is one of the “air traffic control recording” YouTube channels but there are a few others that are equally as good.

There are at least two YouTube channels[2]
dedicated to recording the crazy boat ramps around Miami. Nothing is more entertaining than watching all the chaos around a boat ramp. Especially ones are busy as those around Miami.

There are dozens of channels publishing multi-hour first person view trips from rail conductors traveling through various scenic rail lines[3]. Some get 100’s of thousands of views per video! I wonder what fraction of that traffic watches the entire trip!

Let’s not forget Australian jetters [1]! You too can watch at least two channels worth of drain cleaning videos complete with all manner of foul disgusting water bubbling up out of random bits of pipe. Kids love this stuff!

These channels publish frequently and get a reasonable amount of watches. It’s nuts how a platform like YouTube can grow such strangely niche channels.

1: https://youtube.com/@DrainAddict

2: https://youtube.com/@MiamiBoatRamps

3: https://youtube.com/@RailCowGirl
I've found water to be a rather poor sweetener.
I still know wwdc is dc101. Impressionable youth and all that.
For 350 years of US history africans and their descendants were enslaved. Native Americans were ripped from their land and relocated, often with genocidal levels of casualties.

After that, these two groups were substantially discriminated against in law, and other races were added to the mix to be given less rights than others.

Today, there are huge disparities between outcomes for different races in large part due to this historical discrimination. There's also an ingrained culture of stereotyping and discrimination that's hard to lift. It doesn't matter if you're the first generation of Americans descended from African immigrants who came in the 1980s... you still are impacted by this legacy.

The concept of affirmative action was to specifically counteract the effects of these negative, historical circumstances and provide a countervailing effect.

I can't speak to other countries, but in the US, it is definitely the case that poor people of color have a harder time getting ahead than equally poor white people. (I suspect it's similar elsewhere, but we are also a pretty racially diverse country, so the effect is larger)
The whole war on sugar is baffling to me. After I had my first glass of soda in a decade, my impression is that artificial sweeteners are garbage. Poisonous, too. But this has been known for decades, hasn't it. It's cheap, though.

As for me, I am off to the toilet for my drink. It has served me well so far even though it has no taste or electrolytes
For those interested: the video lacks a lot of audio, since not all frequencies are/were recorded. I think the most interesting stuff is missing.
> Also with all rental properties being government-owned there would be zero uniqueness and everyone would be forced to make due with whatever the government thought they needed. A good example of this is old Soviet-style tower blocks, where no matter how big your family you get the same size apartment.

That part is just not true. See Vienna.

This is public housing: https://www.wien.info/en/sightseeing/sights/hundertwasser-ho...

So is this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d6DBKoWbtjE
The application essay will become a place to talk about race
I'm still surprised Sussman describes the 2000s as a "new" job whereas to me it's just mediocre soil from an unstable industry. Mucking around is not engineering.. it's alchemy.
FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business
The greater corpus of American law is based on case law, meaning it is based on court decisions. It is a common law system.

This is in juxtaposition to civil law systems that are based on codified legislation, for example in France or Germany.
Clarence Thomas is the epitome of what makes America the greatest country on earth.
The improvement was clear and obvious in many aspects of society, but the question is whether the cost was worth it, and whether it's really a long-term solution, since it may exacerbate some aspects.

Further, it left open the question of the goal: is it to assimilate cultures? To ensure equal resources? participation? representation? respect? understanding? freedom to be different?

Which means different affirmative-action programs had different cost/benefit and no one really knows the path.

In logic, not-not-A is A, but it's anything but in reality.
So they can weasel out of worker's comp payments, of course they want them.

OP was describing a thing they obviously dislike, don't want in their life, don't seem to want to exist anywhere. "Because someone paid me to" is such weak justification for it.

The idea that remunerative & interesting work is at worst morally neutral is one of the foulest norms of this site.
It was never about competence. Most of us were of different backgrounds.

It was about the need to track down, secure licenses for and install the dev environment that you'd use for those 4-8 hours per year that it took to add support for the new API.

The entire company lived in the JVM otherwise.