skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone here seems to miss the point. The point is that a large population of the world (and likely almost everyone on this forum) live an over hedonistic/decadent lifestyle that overconsumes and contributes to environment destruction. The fact that most people can't seem to grasp that astounds me. This being a more politically liberal crowd whike being generally more wealthy crowd and consumerist is also striking. It seems like every day there is a new post about the climate change and the comments are quick to point fingers towards the fossil fuel conglomerate yet nobody ever confesses their excessive consumption that fuels thise conglomerates. Everyone here is too busy trying to sell their software that doesn't really do anything positive for world.

To your point directly, it is totally possible to "live" in a single location. Nobody said anything about being sedentary. There are many ways to make oneself useful every day. But if you live in New Mexico, maybe fresh salmon from the grocery store isn't an option society needs. These things are nice, not necessary, and it wasn't that long ago that we all got along fine without all the options required to feed every hedonistic impulse we have.

On mobile. Writing is probably fucked up. Sue me.
From the one data science course I took: compared to a traditional stats class, there is a bit more focus on data acquisition and pre processing, and more usage of our of the box tools, a bit less on some of theory (I don’t recall hearing about type I and type II errors).

Of course, since it was a professional course there is probably the assumption that students already know these things…
you probably shouldn't abuse shell scripts to build a complex system, and beyond a certain level of complexity, a programming language is the better tool

but the only free programming languages available at the time were C/C++, various shells, and awk. everything else was expensive or not generally usable for other reasons. all the really useful languages to build complex systems didn't really appear or become freely available until the 90s. and perl was first among those.
I don't think it's quite that 'settled' (although, comically, I made my own [much worse] overstatement in a comment this morning).

But, the landscape is certainly a LOT less friendly, at this point. Threads has obviously sucked the oxygen completely out of the room, so to speak, for the moment. Bluesky is likely consigned to a much more niche position, and may have difficulty surviving.

While I think your conclusion is a bit strong at the moment, within 1 - 3 months, it'll probably be far clearer. In particular, depending on how Threads is actually functioning ... if "Meta" plays it smart (and they do seem to be doing a surprisingly clever job, so far) in catering (enough) to users for that initial buy-in ... (the classic "first hit is free" of drug dealers everywhere [though, I don't consider these platforms to be straight-up just person-wrecking drugs, that use-case does hold across plenty of the population, I'd argue])...
The large number of housecats in Poland dying of H5N1 flu right now despite no contact with live birds has strong 'early covid' energy.
>Nearly every aspect of flying in the US is abusive. Over-booking a flight should be illegal. I don’t care about being compensated for it - if I book a flight, that seat should be mine.

I agree, but if you want that put in place, expect the price of flights to at least triple in cost. I'm fine with that - most Americans would lose their minds and demand the old system of overbooked cheap flights come back.
Live reload means I can inline edit classes as styling to quickly create components and not have to context switch to a css file/section. It feels easier to create structure and style as I go.
^This. After using it for the first time in my last next js app; played around with the basics of tailwind when I built typefaster.app and it’s my favourite css library.

Also, their discord is very active and very very helpful
I think this is mostly poor writing on the part of the author. You being able to "immediately notice" is contingent upon having read the data sheet, which was not linked nor reproduced, but the way it was presented made it seem like the diagram was sufficient. If you were to have read the data sheet, it would have stated up front that the circuit performs four-bit addition. But the page did not facilitate that...
My school system had a similar progression, though trig was on its own and you either took basic calc (essentially just limits and differentials) or AP calc, or a statistics-lite course that was basically "business math" for kids who weren't on a college track but might try for an associates degree or maybe community college. Though, arithmetic and algebra 1 were just called "math" (all pre-common-core, of course).

This was at a somewhat rural school in the Midwest, for what it is worth.
Teachers make very little money. Society has deemed them worth almost nothing despite the fact that they're pivotal in shaping minds; the future of america, and that they do very hard, frustrating work taking care of our spawn in a country where parents treat school like daycare instead of a place to learn.

They wouldn't need a union to collectively bargain if they were taken care of properly. On the flipside, I acknowledge that it is unfortunate that teaching seems to be a drip pan to collect people who do not succeed in primary careers, and that should probably stop also.
This is false. My children went to top rated public school and my older daughter is about the graduate a year early from Berkeley in math.
The only incentive that works is letting such institutions crash and burn and be replaced. Even giant monopolies can end up losing money and going under.
Roberta is tuned on Hellaswag so the comparison means nothing. There's a big difference in the uality of responses between 3.5 and 4, nevermind anything before that.
The issue with most explanations of relativsm/subjectivism is they don't tie it back to intuitions about scientific knowledge. And so the reader is left confused, and rejects relativism because they have stronger intuitions about an objective reality.

Empiricism, taken most literally is, a relativist point of view. Your own consciousness is the only thing that must be real. If it appears that your percepts have predictable patterns, then so be it. Reliable prediction of future percepts is scientific knowledge to a relativist.

You may notice that there are other things in the environment (people) who also make predictions. In so far as they make similar predictions to you, that is what the realists call objective reality. But to the relativist, it's just a pattern of objects in perception, making predictions about perception.

The environment predicting itself, and agreeing with you, is realism to a relativist.
It would make a LOT more sense to be pushing LifePo4 than more lithium ion powerwalls. Far better durability, less risk of runaway thermals, and the slightly lower power density is irrelevant for a static deployment.
You can admit a problem to yourself in private to get to work on it, you don't need to declare you're an active drug addict at every job interview.
The title should contain the year 2016 to reflect when this video was created.
I think this is an orthogonal point. Certainly there are lots of bad developers in the industry whose code appears to only work by accident. But there are just as many of them doing greenfield projects as maintenance tasks. In fact, I would guess that in growth-oriented companies there are far more of these bad developers doing greenfield projects.

The issue is that in many companies there is constant pressure from management to "innovate" by building new features or new products, even if they are of no particular utility. New stuff will bring new customers (or new subscriptions from old customers) and that will either make you personally rich, or at least look good on your CV so you can leverage the experience into the next job where you can get rich. And if the project fails, it still leaves you looking more valuable to the top brass than the people who quietly kept the systems running, because you took risks and had big ideas and showed a growth mindset.

I didn't really notice this at the start of my career, but once you see the pattern it makes so many jobs incredibly depressing. People just keep building more and more crap to advance their careers and enrich the shareholders, even when very little of it is actually useful. It's even more depressing in B2C where it becomes apparent that a large part of the money comes from exploiting individuals who simply get a buzz from buying new stuff, no matter what that stuff does or how good it is.

Personally, I am much more happy to work on an established system that already has real customers that value what it does. The phase of throwing huge amounts of crap at the wall to see what sticks is over, so what remains is an actually-useful piece of software that's full of bugs and superfluous functionality that the "innovators" (comprised of both good and bad developers) left behind. I think it's worth it to have good engineers dedicated to this role of taking the mess and refining it into the best version of the thing that customers actually want. Leaving that task to the bad developers will just result in the system eventually collapsing, which might not matter to the entrepreneurial types who only care about growth, but it does matter to the customers who were getting value from it.
Where I live, in a desert with a rain shadow ensuring clear skies most days? Sure, in my solar design class we took out a lightmeter and measured 1200W/m^2. Maybe on a good day it could push 1300W/m^2.

In many other climates, 1000 is honestly a generous estimate. (Presumably they're aware and that's why they hedged by specifying peak power).
A year long waitlist is equivalent to dead in the water imo. They'll never win.
To people where math (to some higher level) is kind of okish, this seems bad. But in my experience, most people coming out of school ( and I'm 50+ so going back decades now) don't really have a useful working knowledge of mathematical ideas. For many they just end up hating it, instantly forgetting everything they learned through pain when they leave school, and never want anything to do with math again. I'm all for people trying new ideas to teach math, also changing the way we assess it. As long as there is a path that preserves "academic math"
>(that's why they "copped out" and did MoE for ChatGPT)

MoE outperform dense counterparts significantly after instruct tuning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14705
What problem specifically is the away team solving? It sounds like DLL dependency hell except at a higher scope.
I was a console and laptop guy for my whole life, built my first PC I think age 32-33. It was initially daunting but /r/BuildaPC and analyzing many builds on PCPartpicker.com really helped. I also had a couple of people at work who helped me physically assemble it, which was huge.

Honestly, it's much more straightforward than it seems when you think about how complex PC internals seem without much prior knowledge. I would say find some builds you like on PCPartPicker.com and try to emulate them. When it comes to assembling specific parts together, find YouTube videos that closely emulate your setup. For example, the last PC I built used a Lian Li mini case which is very small and can only house very specific sizes of some parts (mainly MoBo and power supply). But it's a very popular case, so there were a ton of very detailed youtube videos on doing a Lian Li mini build. That stuff really helps.

Another thing, highly recommend getting some type of screwdriver / tool kit like this: https://www.ifixit.com/products/mako-driver-kit-64-precision.... I am sure some frugal stickler will come along and tell me why I am dumb for overpaying for this kit, but I really enjoy the convenience factor and did not exactly have a robust set of hand tools laying around - which I expect is the case for many building their first PC.
Seems like it was written in [2000].
The homelessness industrial complex is quite profitable.
Thanks. Like you said, industrial software isn't exactly on the bleeding edge or attracting lots of startup attention.

I don't have any specific questions, and I'm not necessarily interested in any single piece of industrial software. I think it would be interesting to eavesdrop on folks talking about these things.
i think its important to mention that the linked page of temperatures links to a podcast called

"debunking the climate change hysteria" by munchie and the bearman
I think we significantly overestimate how much school actually matters compared to family milieus. My wife and I highly value education, so regardless of when the school says children should learn algebra, I am already tutoring my 6 year old in basic algebra. If school did nothing other than be a daycare for my kids so we could work, they'd probably still be better educated than most kids going through public school because my wife and I will make sure of that because we teach our kids a lot on our own (and we're not hiring tutors or after school programs). If schools were more rigorous then it would save us time from having to do a lot of the educating ourselves, but it won't change family values.
Would you explain it? I'm self taught, have programmed in Python, C, and am looking at Pascal, and I don't understand the difference.
I thought it was this official "Handbook"

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/intro.html
Count me out of yet another cool clique where invites from friends get you a foot in the door of a social popularity pageant. And tracking, of course, we must know who knows who.

Insepid, undemocratic, uninclusive. Deeply unsocial.
The companies that view this sort of thing negatively aren’t ones you want to work for.
From a cross-compiling standpoint, Makefiles are usually a nightmare. Please stop using them. CMake or Meson are infinitely better.
The strangest thing to me is that American education professors wield power in setting educational standards, when their own field is completely allergic to any serious empirical work on what works. I guess to a state legislator a “professor of mathematics education” sounds like the kind of person who should know about these things?

California math standards resemble New York reading standards in their lack of engagement with studies of what works. There are too many examples like this. We would all be better off if education professors stayed completely out of the business of setting state standards.
Have you seen PIP, conda, asyncio from 3.4 to 3.8, the standard library documentation, the great 2 to 3 migration, type "annotations" and mypy, the variable scoping "rules" or the multiprocessing module?

We python users are more than ready for whatever pain we have to deal with in the future, we are used to misery we live it every day.
Pitched competition between well-matched opponents is the only sure-fire antidote. It either keeps the players perpetually lean, or picks off the ones that ossify. You are simply left no choice other than to play seriously or lose.

Tricky to arrange in education, to be sure, because results are difficult to measure objectively.
It's arriving at it with trucks and bulldozers and other equipment repeatedly, but essentially yes.
join(“ “, @{$ounds->{really}{&fun}}) =~ /^[a]n+d\sgr8 4 (you(r|se) eye$/g
Agreed. I would turn to Python for anything more involved that couldn’t be done very directly and efficiently using awk/sed. I would never use Perl for anything.
> What is that?

For me it's a web-app tied to a PG database. But I started on SQLite. And it keeps notes, links (tagged), archive-page, put my own notes on it, etc.

Many folk use things like Evernote, Pocket, Notion, DokuWiki, etc for their "stuff".
I think a lot of the organizational dysfunction in education and more broadly comes down to a poor understanding of rule utilitarianism.

In short, rule utilitarianism is an idea that a standard procedure you can't be better than a complex system that attempts to maximize each individual choice.

The classic example that Economist Mike Munger likes to talk about is stop signs. You could replace stop signs with a complex debate and decision tree to try to decide which car at an intersection has greater need and gets priority. However, this complex process may result in longer wait times for all cars, including those that might have the most urgent need to go through the intersection.

This manifests in education through a million rules which try to optimize performance for very specific and conflicting purposes. As a result, you get a complex system weighed down by its inefficiency that doesn't meet any of its goals.
Very much agree that Pocket has gotten worse as I've used it over the years. It's so bad I've mostly moved to the much better Readwise (https://readwise.io/). I'd be fully over if they actually supported a decent export (see below). It's sad because I'm probably in the 99th percentile of Pocket users in terms of usage and am happily paying them for Premium.

I can't remember a significant improvement to Pocket in 2 years. Meanwhile, here's a non-exhaustive list of major, basic features that don't work:
-Searching my own archive. This works maybe 75% of the time on articles I am 100% sure are in there.
-Having a "permanent copy" of articles. This is Pocket's version of "full self driving," in that it doesn't mean what you think it means.
-The ability to do any sort of advanced search. Pocket's web app has had a regression for exact match searching or multiple word searching for the longest time. I've raised numerous tickets with support and never get any meaningful responses.
-Reliability of text to speech. There have been weeks-long spells where the better TTS voices just don't work.
-Highlight exports or really any decent API interactions.

I'm guessing that this software is just on life support now. I'd love to hear from someone actually at Mozilla on what's happening with this software. What's been the headcount on this project?

Anyway, anyone on Hacker News is almost certainly served better by Readwise. Matter also looked promising but they didn't have an Android app so I never bought in.
Show HN: Poozle – open-source integration infrastructure for AI Apps
I tried using OpenAI to find a song with a particular few words in the lyrics (all the music recognizing apps didn't work because there were people talking in the audio sample). It just answered with some random songs and said "Sorry" when I pointed out those songs didn't have those words.
And its good because Excel is a horrible tool. Much better spend your time learning a language aimed at data analysis.
This is absolutely an advertised feature of Pocket and it's frustrating they're so inept in supporting this.
I think it's pretty clear now.

Threads is the fastest growing social network and app in history and by now has ~100m users.

Network effects will take care of the rest.
If you’re using JS/TS and want to have a nicer API for LLM calls (and a bit more), check out https://github.com/lgrammel/ai-utils.js
Ask HN: What is the equivalent of a shopping mall for engineers/programmers
Agreed. The Wikipedia article and other summaries always present a strawman that I've never heard anyone accept as their own position. Except for maybe politicians.

The steelman I would present: Moral Relativism is the belief that moral statements only make sense in the context of a "valuer" or thing that can perceive the goodness or badness of things. Absent a valuer, moral statements are under-specified or nonsensical.

Humans, animals, and anything with a self preservation instinct, all clearly seem to be valuers. There does not seem to be any evidence for the universe itself being a valuer.
That is a sobering thought.
Exactly!

I do think that while "Threads" reduces reach, clamoring to get in, etc., OTOH, it will suck up most of the "worst of social media".

This may mean that Bluesky grows slowly and ends up with the best discussions, insights, expertise, etc.

I don't know if that will really work out / come to pass, nor how "viable" that could be on the business side (though Bluesky WAS founded as a "PBLLC" - so, immediately signaling no pursuit of the growth at any cost mentality that makes everything garbage constantly)... There are obvious reasons for and against this scenario, such as the strong inclination people have for "single sign-on" / "one app for purpose X" type structures (i.e., using both Threads and Bluesky might be too annoying), though, it does seem like Threads is planned to have some type of "fediverse" integration. Of course, knowing "Meta" and Psychoberg, I'll be surprised if that's even initially angled at integrating with, say, Bluesky and creating more value for everyone ... Unless the goal is simply to "embrace, extend, extinguish" ultimately, to create more value for "the (Zucker)Borg".
Part of this is inspired by a recent pull request: https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru/issues/3938

That's using a camel, but it's not anything like the O'Reilly camel and that in itself is what some people find a bit confusing.
I’d add ‘For and Against Method’ in addition to / instead of ‘Against Method.’ I like FAAM because it compares Lakatos’ position to Feyerabend’s. It also has a jovial tone that made me smile a lot when reading it.
> ai friendly licensed content

> The issue is using copyrighted content without consent

the consent is given implicitly if the content is available to the public for viewing. The copyright isn't being violated by an ai training model, as it isn't copied. The information contained within the works is not what's being copyrighted - it's the expression.

If the ai training algorithm is capable of extracting the information out of the works, and use it in another environment as part of some other works, you cannot claim copyright over such information.

This applies to style, patterns and other abstract information that could be extracted from works. It's as if a chef, upon reading many recipe books, produces a new recipe book (that contains information extracted from them) - the original creators of those recipe books cannot claim said chef had violated any copyright.
Also vimwiki
Australian music in ARIA charts has plummeted since counting streams
Excuse the sensationalised headline, but the article itself is a great look at how numbers show it's much harder for new music to get discovered since Spotify etc have become dominant.
Stop doing prompt ops.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzZxxmIacAEBPof?format=png&name=...
Since neither of them will be alive in 1000 years to collect, it is rather moot, no?
By the way, I'm curious if there are any Pocket communities anywhere. Readwise, for instance, has an active Discord. I haven't been able to find anything for Pocket, which is perhaps telling.
In the context of Education or you have an entranched monopoly, this means voting for private school vouchers.
And I also lived two blocks away from Moscone for two years so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I understand that anecdata runs both ways, but the tolerance for bullshit here is too damn high, especially how high rent is.
So, they don’t promise they won’t look at it - just that they won’t use it for training.
This. I strongly suspect that the biggest problem in school for children from good families isn't the schooling but rather the presence of children from bad families.

My sister is a primary teacher and the things I've heard make it clear that the system tries to make up for bad parenting but it's and uphill struggle.