skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, and this does not directly contradict your post, because I do think you are not far off, but formal education is supposed to help a person find their place in society. Not everyone becomes plumber, electrician, lawyer, mba, or engineer. Some become artists, activists or, heavens forfend, politicians.
The speculators people are referring to are investment funds, which are a relatively recent development. The original source of these laws was ordinary homeowners who bought a home to live in but then enacted local regulations to raise housing prices now that they own one.

Right now housing costs are high because the market is gridlocked. Existing owners can't sell because they can't buy, because the interest rate on the new mortgage would be much higher than their existing one. No inventory on the market keeps prices high. But it also promotes construction and promotes political change to enable construction, because both the buyer and the gridlocked seller want something to change.

Then some time passes and the combination of new construction and the low interest loans deterring sales getting paid off and reticent sellers being forced to move because they can't hold out any longer brings inventory back to the market. Which at prevailing interest rates ordinary buyers can't pay today's prices for, so prices go down and speculators lose.

The theory is that speculators with political power will prevent this and keep prices going up because they historically have, but that is unsustainable because then people can't afford housing and people owning housing is what creates the political demand for high housing prices. As soon as it starts to shift to being owned by non-occupants, local voters have no interest in raising the value of their landlord's investment and the laws change.
13 year old me learned to write code on FurryMUCK. No idea at the time what a Furry was, or why strangers in game were trying to "yiff" me.

It was incredible though; I was big into books like Redwall, Watership Down, etc. So a social game of animals seemed fun.

The language was MUF; Multi User Forth. Stack based, push, pop, etc.

I helped port software into other MUCKs, like FluffMUCK. The people there were so kind and taught me all sorts of things about Linux, programming, building PCs, etc. I wouldn't be who I am today without the early MUCK communities.
After reading this post and the comments, I went out and got some falafel for lunch.
I think they were trying to turn food into a subscription service? Having complete control over a person's food supply sounds like an 8 million dollar idea. It still sounds like a really bad idea, but I think that is how Juicero was pitched to investors, rather than a spaceship that squeezes bags marginally worse than a person can.
Here’s a New Yorker piece from 1962 mentioning them, at least:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/10/27/comment-4830
An interesting trick I found here was to ask ChatGPT to produce tables of concept definitions and include a metaphor for each concept to help understanding. It was quite good at coming up with metaphors and that actually felt kind of magical.
I've watched Nirvana perform on local public access TV (ironically on Youtube) in 1989, so some level of public distribution was possible.

Similarly 50 Cent sold mixtapes of his music out of his car trunk to get the word out in the pre-Soundcloud era.

In the mid-00s, Kevin Hart (comedian) would maintain his own email lists when he toured, and would send out email blasts when he returned to those towns College bands used to do this as well, especially as email was adopted earlier there.
Yea, Seinfeld phone numbers were all over the place. Letters in the numbers, 5 digits numbers and then towards the end the standard 7 digit and 10 digit. I didn’t watch it contemporaneously, but rather pretty recently and I kept thinking, there’s no way the show is that old that they were still using letters in phone numbers in NYC.
this feels like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. is this a common attack vector? frustrating that we sacrifice so much usability to prevent niche problems like this.
Sometimes it’s just implied. At the pizza place where our cabin is (ok, it’s like a 25 minutes drive), you can just give them your last 4 numbers and they assume the rest.
> I want Bowser, but I can’t justify it.

They have a Rivendell model, and it looks absolutely beautiful, and I can't justify it to myself. Ah, well.
I assume they dropped it because they couldn't monetize it, i.e. spam you with personalized ads and the like. Probably the same reason why RSS News feeds were dropped.
I would love to be able to thread the chat, and if responses were faster would be helpful.

Imo the description generator is not that helpful but good tool for discovering new nocode tools and niche ecosystems
Whoever cracks this problem will single-handedy restore the entire news industry.
Keep your files inside your VM
May I ask what your point or intent of these questions is?
Adjusted R^2 of 0.14. Call me a cynic
And even that you essentially disassemble them and see how they work through using them. I suppose a lot of people only know or use one or two ways and may be completely unfamiliar with others though.
Huh? You don’t if it’s a “local” call. Probably more of a US thing where mobile phone long-distance charges went the way of the dodo a long time ago. But they’re still very much a thing in Canada and just starting to die off.
Just use something like llama2-uncensored then, they're on ollama.
I think we're reading different articles, no employee leaked any PII. You're angry about something that didn't happen.
IMO ’Prompt engineering’ is an implication that the LLM:s are really immature technology. There is no intrinsic value in prompt engineering - it’s ok to wait a bit until LLM:s get a proper product shell you don’t need to walk on eggshells over. I would not promote LLM:s as production ready offerings until this aspect becomes better.

Using an LLM is like having a therapy session - where you the user are the therapist. Humans should not need to learn en masse become AI therapists, that’s a the inverse of what should happen :D
What's wrong with paying for the software? You get the source code, they provide you the service if you don't want to handle it by your self.
> (or whenever dial-up got "cheap")

Right, but that was not due to nntp, it was due to the bandwidth economics of the times. I ran a small site that only connected once a day when the phone call was cheaper. But if you have a permanent connection largely unconstrained on bandwidth, it'll be faster.

> This may, incidentally, help to explain why discourse on Usenet was generally considered to be superior to that, say, on Twitter.

But yes, that as well. When a response takes at least 2 days, there is an incentive to write well and thoroughly. The instant response chat-type forums of today encourage meaningless ping-pong responses.

> Also, Usenet was very much censored, in the sense that most sites would not even think about carrying most groups

This is a very fundamental difference between a distributed ecosystem like usenet and a centralized walled garden. A specific usenet site, as you say, might choose to not carry certain newsgroups. That is local control, not usenet censorship. Usenet as a whole still distributes it. If you want access you can just switch to a different usenet provider. You can also run your own provider! That's what makes it so wonderful. You are in control, not some single central site. There is no central site.
Please look at my example up thread. It’s the combination of mistakes amplified by the dots. The dots make it worse by far.

I just searched for my name with no dots in my gmail. Man. It’s a dumpster fire. I have to put up with hundreds and hundred of wrong mails monthly because this feature amplifies the mistakes so much. And it adds to spam because other people type the wrong mails into forms and gmail “fixes” it by ignoring the lack of dots. It’s honestly infuriating. We know we own all versions. We get it. That’s what causes extra work for us and makes us like the product less.

My experience would be significantly improved if I could have all the non canonical addresses bounce. I agree that I would also like nobody else to own one of the other dot versions but that’s also possible.
I agree, most don't even know they can tell it how to behave.
Corporations don't incentivize good engineering, they incentivize functionality at any cost. This leads to giant codebases, over-engineering, bad engineering, fragility, unmaintainable, useless code, and duplication. The FOSS/FLOSS community must push back against the hot mess turds corporations want to dump into their source.
Parents annoyed that I'm not hyping myself enough in Data Science
"We are going to use powerful AI to teach kids to do jobs that AI will almost certainly do better in 10-20 years?"

I think understanding how to work well with AI and what its limitations are will be helpful regardless of what the outcome is.

Even if silicon brains achieve AGI or super-intelligence, I think it's highly unlikely that they will supersede biological brains along every dimension. Biological brains use physical processes that we have very little understanding of, and so they will likely not be possible to fully mimic in the foreseeable future even with AGI. We don't know exactly how we'll fit in and be able to continue being useful in the hypothetical AGI/super-intelligence scenario, but I think it's almost certain there will be gaps of various kinds that will require human brains to be in the loop to get the best results.

And even if we do assume that humans get superseded in every conceivable way, AGI does not imply infinite capacity, and work is not zero sum. Even if AI completely takes over for all the most important problems (for some definition of important), there will always be problems left over.

Right now, just because you aren't the best gardener in the world (or even if you're one of the worst), that doesn't mean you couldn't make the area around where you live greener and more beautiful if you spent a few months on it. There is always some contribution you can make to making life better.
I had a college professor (English 101) tell the class on the first day, "You're going to learn how to mutilate and kill your babies." He was brutal in draft reviews, but he pushed me to learn the process of drafting and writing. I produced work in that class that I didn't think I was capable of.
What Does Your Money Vow?
The issue here is that you are making a decision for someone else.
You must live in a very remote area to still support that. Not to mention to still have a landline, no one I know in my area will even give out a POTS line, you can only get VOIP and most households don’t have that anymore either, aside from the outrageous cost all the providers charge for a single line, there’s so many taxes and fees you end up paying close to 100% more. (E.g $40/m for the line ends up being $80).

Most families that have young kids who are old enough to place calls but not have a cellphone appear to just some form of internet VOIP like ooma.
I worked at AWS for 7 years and only got 1/20
Discoverability? A novice could type something into Web Crawler and get a forum back as a search result. Then they could click the link and begin reading and participating immediately. Was Usenet ever that easy?
Web rot is erasing our images and videos
> Four studies showed that laypeople tend to believe in cynical individuals’ cognitive superiority.

Consistent with my experience on social media (including this website): cynical perspectives always get the most upvotes
But you have to ship the used birds back. Any given pigeon can only be used to send data to one location. Two flocks and some sort of animal-safe package delivery service.
They aren't intended to weed people out through difficulty, they weed people out through honesty. They don't dumb it down or make it easy just because it's the intro course.

It's very clear in the catalog that the course is not for non-majors.

It sounds to me like you learned how to study after you did the 61 series, which is why you did better in upper div (I also did better in upper div for that reason).

Also, 61B was graded on a curve, and you did better than average. The tests were hard so that the people who truly grasped the material could demonstrate that. Profs hate it when a bunch of people get a perfect score, because then they don't know who the best is (and so do the top students). It's done that way not to be hard and make you drop, but so that talent can be truly differentiated.
Why do they have to be mutually exclusive? It's a backup. It's like saying "yeah my server runs super stable and I haven't had any power outages in the last few months, so I don't need a UPS, so I'll throw mine away." Which is great, until your data is irrevocably corrupted and you regret your decision.

You're right, marching with guns doesn't resolve civil issues most of the time. That's not the point. It's for when all other options are exhausted. And we won't truly appreciate it for what it is, until that time comes, by which point I hope we haven't complacently thrown it away because we couldn't learn from history (again).

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." ~ JFK

It's really based on "hasn't happened to me, so it probably won't happen to me" logic. Which is stupid when you're setting rules for generations to come. All good things come to an end, and the US will too. It will be a slow boil until we realize we're in a seriously corrupt and unrepresentative state that can only be fixed through force. It has happened time and time again, and to think we won't meet the same fate is incredibly naive. At least we have an enshrined fighting chance to reset the way we want.
I put in "8th grade french" and it gave me a guide on how to develop a teaching guide, not the teaching guide itself. Like "Step 4: Prepare instructional materials", "Step 5: sequence the lesson", etc., with generic instructions for each. The Test Questions tab has questions about my knowledge of lesson planning, not questions for French students.

"College-level calculus" was similar, just vague generic high-level advice with no lesson plan or specific guide.
What is close?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.01478.pdf
Related HN discussion about UK power demand surges due to millions of kettles being simultaneously turned on during TV breaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5018560
I'm not sure I follow. Obviously cell phones and cordless phones have a talk button, but that's not very digitlike. When I operate a landline, I just enter ten digits: 9095551212. Are you implying a leading 1 would be necessary? IME, it isn't for local 'ten digit dialing'.
Massive thanks to Reddit for going ahead with their API changes and killing Apollo. Since then, I waste probably no more than 10 minutes a day on there, and I don't doomscroll anymore.
I'll do it for 10¢ on the dollar.
You're using Mastodon incorrectly. If you put hashtags in your posts and comments, you will get lots of interaction because Mastodon users follow hashtags more than people. This is especially important starting out because you won't have many people following you starting out, but if you use and follow hashtags, you are immediately immersed in conversations you are interested in.

There are few people who I want to see all of their posts. All I want to see are their posts that are relevant to my interests. So instead of following people, follow hashtags and you will see lots of posts related to what you are interested in and very few posts you aren't interested in.

By following hashtags instead of people, the signal to noise ratio is almost 100% signal. I'm following dozens of hashtags and only three people.
I am not sure what the point is, but if this theoretical person were willing to work for $7.25 per hour, then they would not be offered to be paid a $55k salary anyway.

Of course, the federal minimum wage is also needs to be updated, but I don’t think that has any bearing on increasing the exempt salary threshold.
Hugging Face Tutorial for Unity RL Agents
Not taking anything away from the scientists and engineers, it is their achievement completely.

But is this the way to talk about the party that has the support of 80% of Indians? Hate to see such uncultured speech.

@dang please flag parent comment.
A listicle created as a demo site for a coding video From Zero to CMS in 2 Minutes with CloudCannon and Eleventy. Whoop
Another Diesel Tuner Nailed with $1M Fine for Emissions Tampering
From what I understand, there are at least two major types of pipe organ: the theater organ and the church organ. The difference mainly lies in the types of stops and sounds that can be elicited, and of course, if this organ is suitable for the theater, then it may not be of much use to a church. Not even a church with several million bucks in their Music Ministry fund.

My church featured a very small vintage pipe organ for several years, but its position in the choir loft and complete lack of climate control made it a great burden of maintenance. Eventually the pastor relented, and purchased an electronic MIDI-based organ, which sonically could run rings around the old mechanical one.
O man!, I used to use OffByOne web browser when stuck with a lowly Celeron at work. I ResHacker'ed the executable to add lots of keyboard shortcuts (and maybe standarise a few others). I vaguely remember some guy to whom I'd sent instructions for adding his own keyboard shortcuts surprised me by publishing the instructions on his blog.

If I had to use IE for some site that broke in OffByOne, I'd open a window, hit Alt-L, and blindtype the URL long before the IE window could complete its first draw or even show what I had typed. For performance, OffByOne was my only hope, and so had to smile at the filename: ob1.exe.

Edit: When paired with Proxomitron, which is also on the TinyApps site, it had decent adblocking, too. Looks like there are a bunch of tiny apps there that I used to use.

Including TinyIRC, which was written in assembly. Wonder if that's an original copy of TinyIRC; a few after I started using it, the shareware version was abandoned because too many cracked copies with multiple viruses were coming up in search results ahead of the real deal.
The Fish Doorbell
> I don't want to buy furniture anymore, I want to make it.

Why would you spend $400 on a piece of furniture when you could make it yourself for $800?

I too have been bitten by this bug.
My department is pretty siloed, so I don't offhand know who all normally works closely with whom. I don't consult the org chart when I see people praise or thank each other, either, so I don't have a good sense of how much public praise in my department is intra-team puffery.

I can say, though, that I've (so far) never used that channel to thank anyone on my own team. On my own small team, my manager already knows when someone has been especially helpful to someone else. I use that chat in part to make things visible to external managers who otherwise might not know.

> And management sees those who are visible, even if it is not fair.

I admit that even in the best circumstances this could create some bias, but I don't think it has to be that severe. Managers should have other, better sources of information than that which should weigh more heavily than that.

> It can quickly get artificial

Yeah. I think keeping it low stakes and not treating it as some kind of informal metric is important for preserving some level of authenticity.

Truthfully, though, I don't really find myself evaluating the authenticity of exchanges of gratitude between others. I just know that when I use it, I'm genuinely thankful to whomever I'm thanking, and so far I feel like the thanks I've received have also been genuine.

> a bit depressing for the people who don't really appear there.

That's true. I've even felt a bit of that myself. But I think ultimately it's imperative for organizations (especially managers, but to a lesser extent basically everyone) to try to ensure that all kinds of people feel appreciated for their work, including people who are introverts and people whose work is solitary or unsexy maintenance work. And that means that recognition can't just be formulaic or systematic or happen in only one place.

Ideally, feeling underappreciated or left out in a certain system of recognition/thanks would be something you'd bring to your manager during a 1:1. And they could try to answer it by making your impact visible in some other way, like organizing a presentation or a demo of your work, or writing up some kind of report on it and sharing it somewhere, or just DMing you every now and then and letting you know that they had a conversation with so-and-so about how whatever you did was nice, helpful, vital, or whatever, or (hopefully!) arrange something more substantial like a promotion, raise, or bonus.

I like our gratitude chat at work but I wouldn't begrudge anyone still feeling underappreciated for whatever reason or saying that it doesn't do much for them.
You don’t get the option to renew an H1B more than once. If you don’t go the green card path, then what? You are going back home?
> Did your parents know the answer to that? Did your grandparents?

No. But it's not really relevant to me.

My grandparents' generation was largely motivated by religious faith (and lack of birth control) to have a bunch of kids.

My parents' generation mostly lost the religious motivation, but inherited the inertia without questioning it. It's not to say they didn't want their kids, but having kids was just "what you did".

None of that's the case for me.
I used a drill on my foot and it made a hole in my foot.
The changed river eventually washed out the road leading up to the dam: https://kvalhe.im/@andrew/107798167488087326

You can still hike up to it and walk on top of the remaining dam structure, and since the washout the area has the feel of a ghost town.
Fun fact: you can still call Pennsylvania 6-5000 and get the hotel which has closed in the last few years. They used to play The Glenn Miller song when you called them...
ah, yes, a throwaway account.

At least, provide for some citation to be worthy.

https://www.globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archiv...
New release of Pheix web framework for data storing on Ethereum
Today Pheix Nomad Release was issued. A lot of improvements, fixes and updates were done far a way from my home, hence I feel this release as some kind of nomad's work.

A few breaking changes, initially planned to be released in RC2, were included in Nomad release. The most valuable updates are binary compression, Ethereum signatures support, unit testing automation, decentralized configuration files, CMS extensions, basic functionality for light-weight data service providers and administrative layer with authentication on blockchain.

Ultimate changes list is available at official Nomad Release announcement: https://pheix.org/embedded/nomad-release
Wow, AI is really taking over all of our jobs..
My soccer club's message board is exactly like this. Old school phpBB, lots of cantankerous regulars and useless back and forth chatter, just like a pub. Design wise it's completely unchanged from the 00s look except for a mobile friendly stylesheet introduced some years ago.
Painting miniatures; saw a friend do it, then for Christmas got a kit to try it out together with my kids, and it turned out to be a surprisingly de-stressing form of hands-on tinkering.
If you are from India or maybe China, yes.
ChatGPT: How can educators respond to presenting AI generated work as their own?
I have always done this since way back in my early days of working. I have never understood people who follow "Art of War" tactics in the job world. I suspect those people feel they have no talent and assume they have to play dirty to succeed.
Thank you for the feedback! We will probably put there a list of all tools a little later