skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got my license in Virginia in 1985. No unionization involved and my driving test was 5 minutes driving around the block.

These days in Virginia most people don't take a driving test. Your driving instructor certifies to the state that you have demonstrated the skills required and the state issues a license.
Yeah I know from my tutoring experience that first-year students need a lot of help reviewing the math material, or sometimes outright learning for the first time. It's a bit problem for anyone who crammed before the exam, and then didn't need to use the knowledge later on. I used to spend at least one or two sessions to review high school math before we can start on university-level topics like calculus and physics.

If anyone is interested in a condensed review of high school math, you can check out my "green book" which is just a few hundred pages, but has all the essentials of high school math, see https://noBSmath.com and the PDF preview here:
https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmathphys_v5_pr...

Here is also a concept map that shows an overview of all the topics: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_concepts.p...
As somebody who's worked in games as a programmer, it's hard to have too much sympathy for voice actors, when all the (almost entirely non-unionised) artists, animators, programmers, QA, and more have put up with so much overwork ('crunch periods') and undercompensation, along with constant threat of sudden lay-offs (usually studio closures) since, well, before games had voice acting. A strike could be an additional threat to the projects and therefore jobs of those non-unionised workers.

(Yes, maybe the rest of the industry should have unionised a long time ago, but it hasn't happened)

Voice actors are important these days, but they aren't the 'movie stars' of gaming. The real stars of game development are usually unknown individuals developing internal tools and asset workflows, endlessly tweaking numbers to try and make a game 'feel' just right, doing CPU/GPU profiling and optimization, or doing tedious-but-essential QA work, tracking down those hard-to-replicate bugs.

And not everyone is in agreement on the whole AI issue. The hype/fear bubble is likely to deflate, and IMHO, AI-based tools are more likely to empower creators than replace them.
Why would SAG workers want to "grow away from unions" when management doing their best to screw them over and impoverish them? You do realize that their interests are not the same as managements, right?
EXT4 Lands a Nice Performance Improvement for Appending to Delalloc Files
I can't wait for the games that let you talk to NPCs in natural language, and have them respond in natural language. They might even be able to take limited actions based on the outcome of the conversation.

I 100% support bleeding whatever you can out of the megacorps, but I don't know if I'd rely on VA careers long term
Population-level risks of alcohol consumption (2022)
Not better, saner. By saner I mean they seem to be more organized and grounded.

I mean look at Erowid. Here's the method : here's the report. We have some pudding, we have some proof. Straightforward as heck.

Whereas the meditation scene seems to be full of grifters, dogmatists and hand-wavers.

The psychedelic culture has a substance in hand. If the substance is bunk then that becomes apparent pretty quick. Solid evidence. Good science.

Whereas the meditation scene has a thousand methods and if it doesn't work for you... well.. maybe you are doing it wrong, or maybe you need to try another app subscription...

(not to say that there aren't some very straightforward meditation techniques that pay off quick.)
The biggest issue is to ensure you have good mental health/life situations...

There have been times I've been super depressed and people recommend mushrooms, which I've done my fair share when I was younger and didn't do mushrooms for almost 25 years...

I wanted to do some but I was too depressed, and while it was recommended for depression, I know my relationship with mushrooms, and I know when I am not in a place to do them.

They need to be taken with an open happy heart, or focus and desire for such. They are no good if you're going to dwell on the negative aspects of your path - take the negative from an objective observation, and heal.
>Death at Burning Man investigated in US, thousands stranded by flooding

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/3/death-under-investig...

>Trapped in Mud, Burning Man Attendees Are Told to Conserve Food

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/us/burning-man-storm-floo...
Like threeseed said in sibling comments, it seems strange to make users do this, all the while trying to use it as a free product to drive traffic to the paid one, which is equivalent to itsycal which is entirely free and open source? Why should the users perform free labor for the creator, while the creator gets to keep all of their paid version's revenue? It is not on the user to add it to Homebrew, it is on the creator.

I am not sure why this is contentious at all, except for the sake of arguing. Homebrew packages are usually maintained by the creator, not the user.
You misstate my point either by accident or to build a strawman. The point I am making is that Electricians are fairly paid, unlike actors who already have a sweetheart deal.

Siding with anti-technology rent-seekers seems far sillier.
Pretty disappointing how big of a jerk that one burner guy appears to be, including physically intimidating behavior. I don't know much about BM ethos but this is not the sort of person I want to be spending time around
I bet you've got a valid point, I'm a Rails developer so there is A LOT happening under the hood, but I am free to use any text editor as I like while working in the codebase.

Even Sublime or Vscode is enough!
"In November 2021, N26 announced that it would be pulling out of the United States in January 2022, leading to the closure of approximately 500,000 accounts. American customers were no longer be able to use its app after January 11, 2022."

This is the bank you linked to?
Words can have more than one meaning, depending on context. For investors talking about asset allocation, "cash" means t-bills, money market, or money in the bank.
But how else will the enlightened Federal Government use it's reach to micromanage everyone's lives?

(I completely agree with you however.)
Good thing there wasn't such a thing as a BSL-4 lab then in Kansas...

For sure there would have been a 'lab-leak' theory to go with it.
Honest question - what do they mean by stating that ~10 gigatonnes of CO2 are absorbed by humans each year? What is the way of absorption here?
Did any actors or writers complain when a huge chunk of the studio and streaming tech work went overseas, native workers in the US lost jobs, and tech work got limited to a small sliver of connected individuals in south bay?

Even today, if you are a white or black American it is very difficult to get jobs in the entertainment technology industry. You are told it is because the jobs are uber competitive and the workers are the best of the best...but then you see the workers that actually work there and they can barely speak articulate sentences.
It’s weird how people in tech think they are superior to their less-technical colleagues. Everyone outside of software development is a moron and the entire world would be better if programmers ran everything with no oversight. Somehow only engineers are moral and everyone else is purely motivated by profit. But engineers are above that! It’s so ridiculous.
Ocean temperature visualized:

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

You'll notice something special about the time plot thus far for 2023 ...
It is what I want. Youtube has no value with content creators. But content creators have zero power and steer constantly bullied with DMCA requests for policy violations that are never explained to them.
The point of much of Harry Browne’s work is to be self-reliant and not trust the government nor big companies with your life decisions such as investments. Stop fooling yourself that these big companies are looking into your best interests. They aren’t. They are looking for ways to make activity on your investments and collect fees.
As if executives really know what is truly good for their products.

How much better did Patrick Stewart make Oblivion? How better was the game from him being part of it?
LLM-ops, distributed systems, high-volume data storage, better logs storage/observability across distributed systems, private personalization, AR (Vision Pro), VR (when it becomes less of a box on your face and more of just glasses).

These are just off the top of my head so take it with a grain of salt.
ERP is waiting for a disruptor.

I wish I knew how to code, or just had the balls to quit job and make a company. Since I worked for years in various companies I see that no ERP handles the usual problems.
Not sure why it'd be double the time when you can just point the Homebrew version to the same download url as your app store version. Or is there no CI for this app, and you build and publish manually?
just like living the hermit life, leaving all of these services behind is surprisingly alienating.

I say this as somebody who has done several of these and is trying to continue to expand. but damn, the is a lot of stuff that you miss out on and I'm starting to be squeezed by the losses to move back.

I guess I'm saying, even though I feel driven by a massive moral imperative to engage with technology in that fashion, I find it absurdly difficult to the point of failure. I'm not ready to be a hermit.
I've now presented on this model and worked with it. It's not phenomenally better than other models but has some attractive scaling and speed properties that may or may not be worth the trade off relative to its draw backs which I detail in my other comment in the GP's thread.
See California and the Colorado River.
Appears to be on Anna’s Archive if you’re still looking
I'm more curious about methane in 2004, where the chart seems to show a _negative_ yoy change, and N2O in 1987? The detail page on the N2O graph says that measurements are better from the late 1990s forward, but they don't show error bars anywhere. The detail page for the methane graph mentions Pinatubo, but that was more than a decade before the low point.
Worse still: if there is another pandemic next year I would expect that to fare even worse than COVID because now all of the jackasses that were downplaying the last one will have the prevention paradox to give them even more ammo.

And just to think that we were very lucky that COVID did not have a slightly longer incubation time or a higher mortality, and that vaccine production went from a stand-still to overdrive as fast as it did. Lucky doesn't even begin to describe it.
Perhaps, but it’s still wild to me how many people approach these topics with complete apathy and surrender, as if the AI takeover is inevitable and therefore we shouldn’t try to fight it.

Regardless of how you see the future playing out, it’s pretty gross to characterize a people’s fight for their livelihood as “dumb”. Maybe it’s dumb to you, but they’ve given their lives to their work so we can enjoy the content they have a hand in making.

Imagine the day that your skills are completely replaceable with AI and your attempts to fight it are met with “that’s dumb.” What an impersonal and apathetic attitude to have.
Ick. As a six-year-old I was allowed to walk to school because the eight-year-olds would walk with me and make sure I was safe.
Explained on the details page: https://climatechangetracker.org/co2/breakdown-yearly-human-...
I’ve been chasing security as a pseudo specialty. Being able to design a secure “thing” or service is becoming increasingly important. Not many security engineers actually have a software engineering background.
Agreed, it really is strange how this is a point of contention for so many people in this thread. Like you, I also think Homebrew packages should be maintained by the creator, not some random user. It's weird that people are pushing a user specifically to put it on Homebrew, that's simply not the user's responsibility.
I figured a group trying to eliminate pork would be a good measure.

Remember that the vast majority of pork isn't actually pork but carve outs.

I don't have specifics but take the infrastructure bill. You could have language setting aside $X million for a particular type of work. Then to get people on board you slice up that money to ensure certain areas get that money.

This doesn't impact the overall spend directly and is very much the kind of thing the bill should be doing so is harder to call pork.

And to be clear you couldn't count that money as all pork, you would need to adjust based on how much the original place would have gotten anyway. (Sometimes the allotment is just for show to give someone something to brag about at home)
I don't think the answer to mistreatment is for non-unionized workers to pull the unionized workers down into the crab pot with them -- at the end of the day, we are all labor (unless you control the capital), and infighting instead of solidarity only makes labor's bargaining position worse.
Sounds like you should unionise then?
True, though using “can” in place of “should” or “must” would still be a mistake.
Any random website can implement WEI, using it as a means to deem a website "safe" doesn't make much sense. You could use a list of "trusted" domains for that to mark websites as "safe". WEI's intention/threat is to kill smaller browsers that refuse to implement it.
And this is relevant to the article how?
Ideogram – Alternative to Midjourney and Instagram
Perhaps instead of anger at people trying to improve their material conditions, you could choose instead to ask the unionized people for helping setting up a union for your profession?
> Anything that relies on the generosity of others is bound to fail.

Which is why it is backed and enforced by contracts. Unions in moviemaking, mining or construction have a long (and bloody) tradition... there's a reason why inane-seeming rules such as only members of a specific trade union being allowed to even touch something as a lighting rig, it's to prevent greedy studios from using staff with lower-paying jobs to undercut collective agreements.

Think outside of the box and now you'll realize that as inane as it sounds, what it guarantees is that money ends up as wages in the pockets of the workers instead of profit for the bosses.

> The SAG might be able to force all american studios to not use it, but unless they can secure some sort of global agreement, that just means american studios will get out-competed by non-american studio that don't abide by the ban.

Western audiences generally want Western actors and stories, Hollywood is where the money, connections and expertise is. Many have tried to outcompete American studios and they all failed - it's either survival off of "national production quotas" for TV networks for them or domestic focused/otherwise niche content ("Bollywood", anime).

This relatively simple power balance is what gives the SAG the leverage it has.
Can you explain, why does ambition die?
This is really a strange take. Encoder-only transformers like BERT and RoBERTa have been wildly popular in NLP for years now, replacing pretty much every model that came prior to it and beating pretty much all traditional NLP benchmarks (tagging, parsing, etc.).
Air quality double whammy from domestic firelighters
For me it is mostly freedom. Employment contracts usually go into "all your code belongs to us", "we own every piece of thought you ever had", "if you want to make PR to a project you like first write an email to your manager with approval, then you have to forward approval to owner of project".

If I want to make a side project I don't have to worry there will be any issue with copyright or god knows what. Because I am my own company and single customer cannot include in contract that I cannot do any other work.
> But if I recall the musicians are not on strike and not the topic of the article that was shared.

I know, but you said in general that you don’t listen to any sound. Maybe you shouldn’t have ended your original comment like that lol.
Probably because most new grads suck and have very low skill ceilings.
On the other hand, they could have sued you over trademark infringement and didn't, couldn't they?
Tesla's dirty little secret on California's I-5
Isn't that study financed by P&G aka maker of Febreeze?
What do you mean? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but Wicket itself says it uses Ajax components for client updates.

As far as I know, it's not possible to do client-side rerendering without Javascript.

Many frameworks these days do a hybrid approach of server and client-side rendering, sometimes with rehydration, sometimes not. But my understanding is that they all require some level of Javascript to redraw UIs on the client.

If I'm misunderstanding (or just plain wrong?), could you please elaborate?
> it's not yet understood how copyright works with a generative asset.

Except if you have the rights to all the works used to train your AI model. In that case, there is no risk that you are infringing.
Design of stimulus-responsive two-state hinge proteins
I think the quantity to look for is the fraction of time you spend working on your own projects.

You want it to be about 40 hours a week.

Too little means you’re probably spending too much time on client or admin work.

Too much could mean you’re in a hyper competitive field and you’re struggling to keep up, eg academics.
Don't make up your title.
Clojure is really nice here:

(let [add-five (partial + 5)]
(add-five 3))

The add-five function can take any number of arguments, including 0.
Good luck :) I just hope I brought enough books or a musical instrument with me. I'll be fine. And if not, oh well, there are much worse places to be than a desert island, with or without a watch. The thing you don't want to find out is that what you thought was a desert island is in fact inhabited by some tribe that thinks you might be tasty.
This is an interesting way of describing it! Can you explain why the amount of methane follows the first derivative of the amount of emissions? I understand the math, but I guess I don't know how chemistry leads to that.
It's been decades since I looked at any representation theory... but I found a nice* description of the tautological action at https://math.berkeley.edu/~teleman/math/RepThry.pdf

* if you grok mathematical notation
To me, a lot of the better International (Bauhaus) style architecture seems to evoke that timelessness.
>In the before-times, when you bought something, the seller relinquished all claims to it

and also, all responsibility for it. in the more recent "before times" that you're probably talking about, most things you bought came with a warranty, and if you did unapproved things with that product you would void your warranty. that's what the "warranty void if removed" stickers mean. and yes, when you buy consumer PC hardware there's all kinds of stuff that you can't do with it if you want to keep your warranty.

This hasn't really changed, we just expect more continuing service from our products now, so the list of conditions to recieve those ongoing services from the seller has increased. if you want to buy something and receive no warranty, no software updates, no bugfixes, no cloud sync, no remote access, or all the other modern conveniences, then yeah, you get to do whatever the fuck you want with it.
Why choose this username for HN?
It depends on the context. In the context of paying for your dinner, it means bills/notes. In the context of personal or corporate finances, it means liquid, low-risk investments.

>Also wow, didn't know you can't buy a car or a house with cash in US anymore, interesting times. Which year did it become illegal?

It's not illegal but I'd guess in a lot of situations involving (legal) high dollar transactions, the seller is probably going to tell you to take your briefcase of $100 bills to the bank and get a cashier's check--which will also kick off some raised eyebrows and financial reporting obligations.
Overnight olfactory enrichment using odorant improves memory in older adults
I may be in a minority, but could not care less of the strife of the Hollywood writers, but that's hypocritical of me because saying that all their current crops of movies are microplastics garbage, while also not caring about their strikes, detracts from the core of the problem, which is the metastasized cancer of American DNA ; greed.

Keep Hollywood writers away from games.

I have not been negatively impacted by this strike in any meaningful sense.

But it is striking to see just how puppet-like every talking head on TV is, to the point they have nothing themselves to say unless they have a gaggle of writers pumping all the lines you hear.

For a really good insight on just who becomes these writers, the documentary about the creation of national lampoon out of Harvard shows you all the smart nerds that truly write your content
Jupiter has a lot of magnetism and the baroque clockwork ballet of its moons in the solar wind and on its stormy poles never fail to sing their eternal opera. My grandfather, Hein Hvatum, thought this might be the case and happened to be the first to point a radio telescope at Jupiter and write a paper about it.
In Emacs the editor is the operating system. To type "blimpy" you download a software package and install it.

In Vim the editor is one part of a larger operating system, called Unix. To type blimpy in Vim, combine several Unix tools and read the output. Type this:

:read ! cat /dev/urandom | LC_CTYPE=C tr -cd 'blimpy' | head -c 1000000 | fold -w 1 | sort | uniq | tr -d '\n'<RET>

(<RET> means "hit the RETURN key". don't type it!)

That gives us something just a little bit off but we can fix that with only three keystrokes. Just type:

lxp

Now you have blimpy!
Excellent work. Now ask yourself this question. If it's that easy to solve why hasn't it been solved?

I'll get you started, it's either not that easy to solve or it's not an easy change to implement.

Just because your can imagine what a code patch might look like doesn't mean it's an easy fix. For a start, the release process for a public body can be a little clunky.
Well yes of course, your first paragraph was exactly my subpoint - declaring otherwise would be impossible.

From there it follows that it is indeed a proper freedom to be able to communicate while limiting the scope of who is privy to that communication, including limiting what can be attributed to some singular inescapable "identity". Saying that preventing this is "a good thing 99% of the time" is a baseless assertion. While this may appear similar to how social strictures have been managed for thousands of years - that's thousands of years of oppression of individuality and persecution for deviating from the herd. The West has overtly bucked that vein of collectivism, which I'd call progress.

Furthermore what you're invoking as some open-and-shut traditional state of affairs was anything but. Witness the concept of hearsay - where party B claims that party A has said something, ostensibly so that others will judge party A for it, but modulo B's reputation. Digital communications render hearsay moot - the default result of party B being able to prove to themselves that party A said something, is that party B can also prove to anyone that party A said that thing. Hence the need for the cryptographic property of repudiation, as the physics of digital information leaves no ambiguous middle ground.
No idea on the specifics, but the theory goes like this : clients have been burned many times over cheap solutions. Cheaper is usually more expensive on the long run. For this to break the circle you need reputation of reliability.
Like commercials, a lot of VA work is non-union, so the impact of this would most likely be felt by the absence of "stars" from the big AAA titles.
Weirdly one of few uses cases of consent they actually care about