skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A change in attitude, forced by law or social change, would fix that.

I'm not quite sure I follow. Aren't we talking about displacing these workers? How does that result in re-humanization? Can we assume they can easily obtain a job of better quality?
I have to disagree based on my experience. In my country (South Korea), many have voted for conservative politicians under the notion that while they might be corrupt, they come with long careers inside the government and hence more "qualified" for the job.

More often than not, it turns out these conservatives aren't only more corrupt but actually less competent than their liberal counterparts. Their "successful" past careers mean little when they are built upon backstage deals and friends taking care of friends.
perhaps this is my imagining, but it feels like the grip of the corporate elite upon the media is tighter than ever. maybe this is just a symptom of that
> what affirmative action should be... helping people out based on their individual situation

Also, just helping them out. Nobody gets hurt. This isn't creating an allotment of seats for foster kids. The selection process, and thus odds, are the same for them and everyone else.
>There have been secretive child predators ever since statutory rape was invented.

Sure, emphasis on secretive. I'd hope that 'secretive' on the internet would mean more secretive than mistyping a query on a popular site's search engine. Or simply wandering into a linked, public website. But alas.
Inkscape 1.3 Released
Whoopi Goldberg Will Says She Can’t Be Turned into a Hologram After Her Passing
As a taxpayer who funds public schools, I find it acceptable to subsidize the food of those who are struggling, but I do not have any desire to subsidize the ruling elite (who, in many cases, intentionally keep working class pay low). They can pay for their own children's food.
How to Not Build a React App (Part II)
The article is wrong. Rich Hickey is talking about the surface of the function, interface. The implementation details do not matter in this case.
Trek team did not “compete” in the tour this year. Basically spectators compared to powerful teams.
It’s not just that it’s expensive, it’s also ridiculously complex. About the only thing I can think of that would be more complex is launching rockets into space in order to collect water from comets.
You may write 10 or even 100 examples

It's not that important, point stands regardless

Git's CLI UX is terrible.
https://archive.li/ljr6m
Where is the support for the middle class? The ones deemed too wealthy for financial aid, but not wealthy enough to actually afford the cost of college?

Just more tax dollars being siphoned away from my family that got zero assistance.
All humans get an account on the stock markets and all those accounts are run by robots.
[Hyper Light Version]
Robot 1: Winning.
Robot 2: "I'm losing, need to improve, copy winning moves of robot 1"
Robot 1: "I'm losing, improve by adapting to robot 2, wait wtf."
Calculating ...
Robot 1: "Ok, we're good, I'm not making as much, but this way I will never reach a limit."
Robot 2: "Same."
Robot 1: "Sweet, wanna jam?"
ICEs can be fixed. It's pretty rare to have a truly dead ICE. For non-luxury cars, even a replacement is no big deal.

Zero is a pretty low number. A lot of them will have to be replaced. Especially for commercial vehicles where they often drive 100k miles every year.
I think it should be free because of stories like yours. It shouldn't be a requirement to be saddled with debt to participate in society.
Well, there was a what, hundred year effort to poison the reputation of unions—which absolutely succeeded. But management won so completely, that labor is starting to remember why they created unions in the first place.

Which is to say: you're right, but times may be changing.
I agree with Rich Hickey here and I think this is a flaw of sum types compared to union types. If Option<T> was a union type, T would be a subtype of Option<T> and those changes wouldn't be breaking. When writing Rust, I find myself repeatedly writing implementations of the From trait for enums, just because most of the time I actually want union types, not sum types. I think sum types should be built on top of union types by combining union types with a "lexically-scoped newtype", if that makes sense (i.e. they wouldn't be built in, they would be the result of two orthogonal features, while allowing for other combinations as well).

Edit: another nice consequence of this design would be None being its own type, which can be transparently converted to an Option<T> for any T, allowing for type inference to go in only one direction, while still avoiding the boilerplate of Option<T>::None. Unidirectional type inference would make for more intelligible compiler errors. Full Hindley-Milner can get confusing.
Are you commenting on not comment on things that would to apply to you?

It can be easy to say what’s good for another and how to solve them when their problems aren’t ones you have grown up or lived through.
The coastal areas of Australia have literally some of the highest rainfall anywhere in the world. Sydney has more annual rainfall than 'rainy' Seattle or London.

For Australia the correct thing is to store the damn (or should I say dam) water that falls where people live.
> I find it acceptable to subsidize the food of those who are struggling, but I do not have any desire to subsidize the food of those who keep my pay low.

Doesn't the means-testing bureaucracy frequently outweigh any potential savings? Food is cheap. Bureaucrats are not.
That's great, but unlike ldd, readelf won't walk the list of dependencies recursively.
ALL kids in Tennessee can now attend any two year trade school upon graduation from a state high school. Adults can, as well, based on certain additional requirements (that really are easy after you've lived in-state).
I don't find that comment objectionable because it is in favour of freedom of speech, I find it objectionable because it pretends someone with multiple credible allegations of rape and associates who admit to using violence to incite women into sex crimes, who admitted to running illegal casinos and who says he moved to Romania because he doesn't have to follow the law is only in legal trouble because people disagree with his ideas and has done nothing illegal that would warrant charges.
What is the legal status of foster kids with regard to general financial aid? Is their parents' income considered to be $0? Does the government want the parents' income information? (This used to be the norm for non-custodial and estranged parents.)

It feels great to say "California's most vulnerable young people can take agency over their lives by seeking higher education," but how much is this changing? And since we know most high school grads aren't prepared to basic college freshman classes (cough social promotion cough), then how many of these foster kids are really going to benefit, rather than just spinning their wheels before they fail out?

This feels a lot like a big headline that makes people feel good but doesn't actually do much (if anything, or makes things worse).
Agreed, the grid will need to adapt to the changing consumption pattern, but the capacity is a solved problem. And we're building much more anyway.

Personally, I've never found gas stations to be the beacon of reliability. They go down quickly in any kind of shortage situation. During the last ice storm here the local station ran out of gasoline in a couple days and diesel right after that. But I was able to buy propane without interruption, so that was good -- it doesn't rely on electricity to be dispensed. This is why my portable generators are now all dual fuel.
“Let’s fight bigotry by targeting inherent groups of people”

Yass kween!
It's odd that many of the same people cheering this decision are the same ones crying for meritocracy in the workplace.

Handouts and free passes as long as you're characterized by $some_immutable_trait? Then don't be upset when you're passed over for a promotion to fulfill a company diversity promotion threshold.
Go seems to have been developped by true masters that really understand that less is more.

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they're not researchers. They're typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They're not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt." - Rob Pike

Ignoring complexity on the language level simply passes the buck to application code, and developers end up paying that price across the ecosystem in perpetuity.

They've also kept a laser sharp focus on working on things that really matters and took the time to do things right.

Go's async model is underspecified, its implementation of generics incurs runtime overhead, much of the "wonderful tooling" only exists because of severe shortcomings in the language design and/or compiler implementation, its FFI is... difficult, etc.

To be blunt, the values that Go embraces are none of the values I seek in a programming language or community. And I feel sorry for anyone too heavily invested in Go to turn back.
Now we're talking about actually useful policy. Glad that my taxes pay for this, versus all the other stuff.
It seems to me that I have seen some pretty snotty reviews within the last n years, n < 20. Aren't James Wood and Dale Peck known for harsh reviews? But I tend to read only non-fiction reviews, and those can have their own problems.
My hot take: it’ll lead to a new level of programming language.

Right now we’ve got our low level stuff, machine code where you’re telling the CPU what to do. Then C etc: want to read a file? You’re manipulating pointers, reading bytes etc etc. Then we have higher level languages where we just call readFile(). The standard library “knows” what we want to do when we say “read file” via the code contained within it.

I can imagine AI enabling an extra layer. We’ll say “format this string as a US telephone number” and it’ll make “XXX-XXX-XXXX” out of it. But it isn’t going to anywhere near as exciting as the current hype wave makes it out to be because if we want to get unambiguous responses that don’t make unwanted assumptions our prompts are going to have to be really, really specific. The most efficient way of doing that will probably be via some kind of structured prompt language. So… another programming language. It might look very different from the languages we use today (or it might not!) but it’ll be a programming language all the same.
Fair, I was being trite. The idea that the ocean is a closed system that doesn’t include all the solar energy, currents, mixing and everything else added to it plus an osmotic membrane would represent a perpetual motion machine just sounded so laughably stupid I was just trying to be equally annoying and dumb.
SpiderMonkey in Gecko is probably about 3.5 million lines of code. Gecko, the web engine that SpiderMonkey is a part of is about 12 million lines I think, and the front end for Firefox brings the total near 20 million lines. This is all dated info from when I last looked maybe a decade ago but I think it's directionally correct and roughly similar to Chrome.

So, one might save about 35% or so of the browser's code by stripping out JS and any other bits that are there exclusively for JS in the DOM and elsewhere.
> my sister who had a masters and is making $35k as a teacher Tennessee

If it's a public school, those loans should begin falling off after five years and be forgiven after ten [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/teacher-student...
I wonder how many non-foster kids graduate high school?
Swift does have docc that does the same

https://swift.org/blog/swift-docc/

I’ve never had good luck getting documentation working cross language and so I use docc for Swift, doxygen for C++, rustdoc for Rust and Sphinx for Python. Then I just link between them if a project uses more than one language
Fuel profit margins “more than doubled” since war in Ukraine began
I believe he is referring to the more widely known movie.
If it takes 5 seconds to perform the procedure, then yeah. IDK how these systems work, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a explicit time delay added (like a second) to combat brute forcing. But come on, 5s isn't going to make or break your day. Chill with the instant gratification.
Considering Brian May played God Save The Queen on top of Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002... yes, yes she had.
Earworm or Brainworm (Also; Sticky Music, Stuck Song Syndrome)
Whenever i design a lang, i just give option semantics to types of the form `x|none`
Straws don’t work beyond 10 metres. You need all your pumping equipment either at the bottom or distributed along the pipe. Either way, that’s going to put a ton of strain on your “flexible hose” when you try to reel it back in. And what if it breaks? Oops!
> You are changing the behavior of the function. That is a breaking change.

That makes almost everything breaking.
I do not understand why it should be limited to foster kids.

Just make the schools free for all, and collect with higher marginal income / wealth taxes.

It should not be dependent on parents’ status either. I got zero aid due to my parents, but I also got zero from my parents.
I love this policy. If it's free then no-one brings their own, and no-one is looked down at.

BUT... I checked the menu of a school where I used to live...

Pizza, hot dogs, fries... We can make the most delicious vegetables, roasted, ...

And they get carbs. Nutrition taken from nature decomposed in its elemental components put back together for the perfect addictive meal...
Sendy (https://sendy.co/) ticks all those boxes, plus it is self-hosted, so I don't need to share my database with anyone.
As I understand it, faculty positions at community colleges usually require graduate degrees and tend to have many applicants for few slots.

I don't expect that community colleges will be greatly increasing their faculty sizes.
Remedial classes help bring students up to speed without slowing down students who performed better in high school. It’s always been true that not every student who graduates High School received the same education as their peers who went to a different school. Being behind doesn’t not necessarily mean you’re bound for a doomed college experience.

Students grow up a lot during their college years, and part of that growing up is recognizing this is the time in your life to work hard because it may be your last opportunity to get a quality education.

The students that don’t take advantage of it will drop out, the students that do will have been given an opportunity they otherwise wouldn’t have. It’s all around a good thing to give students more opportunities and let them decide if it’s right for themselves.
I dispute this claim. The underlying artifact format for Fossil is compatible
back to the beginning. There have been enhancements, but nothing that would break. And there have been no reports of breakage among the countless users on the Fossil Forum.

I suspect what the OP encountered was that he checked in some things using a newer version of Fossil that had enhanced capabilities. (For example, Fossil originally only use SHA1 hashes, but was enhanced to support both SHA1 or SHA3 after the SHAttered attack.) Then the OP tried to extract using an older Fossil that didn't understand the new feature and returned an error. I'm guessing at this, of course, but that seems like the most likely scenario.

I have never once made a backup of SQLite repo or the Fossil self-hosting repo, or any of the other 100+ Fossil repositories that I have at hand. I've cloned the repos to other machines as disaster protection. In fact, I have cron jobs running on machines all over the world that "sync" critical Fossil repositories (such as SQLite) once an hour or so. But I have never even once made a pure backup.

I did have the primary SQLite repo go corrupt on my once, years ago. Somehow, file descriptor 2 got closed. Then when the SQLite database that is the repository was opened, it opened on file descriptor 2. Then some bug in Fossil caused an assert() to fire which wrote on file descriptor 2, overwriting part of the database. I restored the repo from a clone, fixed the assertion fault in Fossil, and enhanced SQLite so that it refuses to use a file descriptor less than 3.

See also: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/selfcheck.wiki
Good pun :)
Generally state colleges will take any applicant who meets the pre-set bar. Where as tier 1 universities are more a zero sum game.
This doesn't guarantee them a spot at any public university. It guarantees that their education will be paid for at any public university they are admitted to and subsequently matriculate at.
I'm not against it necessarily, but curious about the stats or wisdom on what happens to people who get a free ride like this, as in do they complete university successfully and usefully or do they milk their free room and board and fail out eventually?

Handouts are not generally a great way of accomplishing goals. I don't have a better idea, just thinking if there can be a way to make sure there is some ownership on the part of the students.
This only matters if you're scaling to meet demand and demand is higher than your spare resources, which often isn't the case for hobby projects.
The 10€/mo VPS I've had for over 6 years now still has a few cores and GBs or RAM spare, so running a small model on the CPU for a personal project that only me and a few friends occasionally use wouldn't cost me a cent more.
Actually I got it to work with GTP-3.5-Turbo, without langchain directly setting a system message the messages of user/assistant to act as examples, and it seems to work.

But the total tokens length is ~1000 tokens... Which seems like a lot for each request my users will make :/
The cost of post secondary education is untenable.

Post secondaries are quite overpriced. Community / state colleges are usually priced better.

Can you give an example of a college that you are priced out of?

The increasing gap between graduates and the non market because the rate of change in the world is outpacing the rate of change in curriculum to keep up in post secondaries is an opportunity.

Effective allocation of public funds and ensuring there is value received for the public purse is something that needs to be taken up by the average person to learn about and to ask informed questions about.
The ruling elite don't let their children eat school food in the first place.
Love this! Thanks for sharing
The common belief among all Harrison Bergeron referencers is that resources should be concentrated on those who need them the least, because those are the people who have shown merit.
In California it’s ~85% of high school students graduate on average across all demographics

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/datasummary.asp
> regular people would be jealous of how kids who were wards of the state lived

In this utopia you describe, I'd think all kids lived like kings.
Still not ideal.
Affirmative action was to address systemic inequalities, not individual ones. Bringing it up in an article about foster kids and then further including the bit about gender feels like flamebait.
Yes, 300kW chargers from Ionity and Fastned are pretty common. FR, NL, DE have especially good coverage.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-lev...

"The consensus statement at the moment would be that this is largely anthropogenic forces that have caused the ocean to warm, for the atmosphere to be highly disturbed and to affect the sea ice," Dr Heil said. ...

Either way, she fears a further change in the balance could trigger a tipping point from where it's difficult to reverse the trajectory. ...

"I think a lot of people have the time line too long out, saying this won't affect them. I'm pretty convinced that this is something my generation will experience."
So RAG (retrieval augmented generation) is all the rage, but there are problems with it that make it appear almost conceptually flawed - to the point where results are flat-out poor?

There‘s the paper about non-uniform attention („Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts“) and some other paper mentioned that LLMs may de-focus on irrelevant retrieved content as soon as the ratio between relevant vs. irrelevant content becomes small.

So, what‘s the current best practice to actually embed your content within the model?
Elon Musk Bought X.com for Twitter
The article is claiming that the surface and the implementation are related.

If client code passed a null value before, an error would have occurred. Now it is handled with a default that the original code was not accounting for, and this might be bad.

Thus the change in interface _is_ a change in behavior.
Every 2nd and 3rd tier place that stalls on economic development in certain industries plays this game. Texas, Florida, Estonia, Canada, etc. It doesn't matter. It's always the same playbook:

- Announce government incentives to lure the types of workers and companies you lack.

- Pretend that you don't need these incentives to lure people. No, you're just leaning into an existing organic trend.

- Invest in PR that cites superficial stats arguing everyone is leaving X incumbent place and moving to you.

- Get a tiny bit of mileage from these efforts which quickly stall out, but pretend it's going well. Fake it until you make it.

- Never address the root causes of why your economy failed to develop in the first place and needed to try these gimmicks.

- Wait a few years and try again after everyone forgets about the last time you tried and failed at this.
Doesn't yoga combine all three?
A fuel cell is not a closed system, a battery is. A fuel cell need a supply of hydrogen (obvious) and oxygen from the air and in return it produces heat, water, and some electricity (with pretty terrible efficiency). A battery produces electricity and heat (depending on load).
It's also possible to change effective strength by tweaking the dictionary size --- the total universe of words changes the effective strength of some combination, though lengthening the phrase has a bigger effect.

Coming up with grammatical combinations (adjective noun verb adverb preposition article noun, say: "brown dog ran quickly past the barn") might create more memorisable patterns, though at a cost of key strength.

Taking this to its logical conclusion, we'd have poetic stanzas of epic sagas randomly generated for mnemonic power utilising rhyme and meter....
I would not be surprised if insurance companies who get claimants to call in, deliberately put people through these voice activated systems simply to listen in and see if their story is straight. Putting them on hold when going through the details is another way for the insurance company to listen in and see if their story is straight. People are lulled into that sense of safety that they cant be heard when on hold.

I've listened into conversations whilst someone is ringing my number, its quite interesting the conversations that go on at a company before the customer answers the phone!

Youtube reminds me the voice recognition and thus subtitles is not that good!
On the one hand I 100% agree

On the other hand we've got the phrase "Programs for the poor become poor" for a reason. Having a program that benefits everyone means that we all can support it out of enlightened self-interest.

We can reduce overhead by providing food for everyone and not putting in place a complex government bureaucracy to carefully approve some people but not others, to give lobbyists a chance to advocate for the benefit of their constituents at the expense of everyone else, etc, etc.
Free information is worth what you paud for it.

Authority figures and scientists don't share the expensive info.