skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently in some trades it's common for employees to provide their own tools. It's usually more basic stuff like hammers and screwdrivers. A mechanic is not going to provide their own tire balancing machine.

For example, here's a tool list from an electrical workers' union: https://ibew234.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Tool_List_fro...

There are labor laws related to this. According to one lawyer's site[1], in California employers can require employees to provide their own tools if they pay them double the minimum wage. Otherwise the employer has to provide everything.

You could debate whether this is the best system, but the point is it's customary.

A computer is a tool, but is it comparable to the kind of tool employees are expected to provide in other industries? I think it's borderline. A computer costs more than a hammer or a screwdrivers. However, a computer could easily be the only tool you need, so arguably the comparison could be to a worker's entire set of tools. The cost of a low-end computer might be in the same ballpark as that[2].

So I don't think you can conclude that it's definitely the employer's fault on the basis that they can't require you to provide a computer, because although it's borderline, maybe they can.

Having said that, the practical solution might be to just decide whether the job is worth it to you, and if this job is your best overall option, buy a second computer. You can get a brand new Windows laptop for $300. It sucks, but letting them screw up your computer and losing the job might not be the only two options.

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[1] https://pridelegal.com/tools-on-the-job-in-california-who-pr...

[2] As a reference point, the electrical worker document says an employer must reimburse up to $890 if an employee's tools are lost.
Universal Childcare at the margin means some people who would rather take care of their own children are pushed to take a job and have someone else watch their child.

I fail to see why that's superior to a universal childcare subsidy, which can be used for childcare or retained if someone wishes to care for their child themself. Or better yet, a universal child allowance that parents can use to defray whatever child raising costs they see fit.

And I say that as someone whose current plan is to be a stay-at-home dad while my (female) partner continues to work.
I happened to have a folder containing DOS 6.22 on my desktop and indeed, all the files in the DOS directory are dated 1994-05-31 06:22. Thanks for the interesting knowledge, I never noticed that! Maybe it was touch-like command run as a part of the release process.
Your analogy really hits. I don't mind doing construction in general (I quite like doing it once in a while), but roofing absolutely sucks no matter how you cut it
> Everything is in the same order as you write it, except SELECT is fifth.

been using SQL for years and didn't stop to think about that...
This isn't as bad as it sounds. Not sure what the rules in TX are, but in CA child care is a business, meaning you have to run it like one. Homeschooling one own's children isn't going to meet this definition, so only bonafide businesses should qualify for this.
That would be 2000 or NT (I always confuse those two for some reason...).
When would that not have been a radical ideal?
Yeah I mean the fact that David Cutler and ~20 other VMS engineers were poached directly from DEC to work on Windows NT basically says it all.
I think you forgot an 8 there.
From some experience I've had with this:

* Is that the right chunk size? How much of a chunk might contain the relevant information? Is it better for your use case to chunk by sentence? I've done RAG with document chunks, sentences, and triplets (source -> relation -> target). How you chunk can have a big impact.

* One approach that I've seen work very well is (1) first, use keyword or entity search to limit results, then (2) use semantic similarity to the query to rank those results. This is how, for example, they do it at LitSense for sentences from scientific papers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/litsense/. Paper here: https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/47/W1/W594/5479473.

* You still need metadata. For example, if a user asks for something like "show me new information about X," the concept of "new" won't get embedded in the text. You'll need to convert that to some kind of date search. This is where doing RAG with something like OpenAI function calls can be great. It can see "new" and use that to pass a date to a date filter.

* I've found some embeddings can be frustrating because they conflate things that can even be opposites. For example, "increase" and "decrease" might show up as similar because they both get mapped into the space for "direction." This probably isn't an issue with better (I assume higher dimensional) embeddings, but it can be problematic with some embeddings.

* You might need specialized domain embeddings for a very specific domain. For example, law, finance, biology, and so forth. Certain words or concepts that are very specific to a domain might not be properly captured in a general embedding space. A "knockout" means something very different in sports, when talking about an attractive person, or in biology when it refers to genetic manipulation.
Huawei’s New Smartphone and the Future of Semiconductor Export Controls
Ignoring the fact that there are no self-driving cars in the sense the phrase implies...

Personally, I'm neutral on self-driving cars. I mean, I don't find the prospect of owning one either compelling or repelling.

But self-driving cars seem to come hand-in-hand with being connected to a server somewhere. I find that repellent and would never buy such a car.
Are there drawbacks from using mount –bind as a substitute for symbolic links?
Eclipse 2024
Childcare is always going to be pushing up or near pushing up against Baumol's cost disease constraints.

The only way to make it at all "productive" is cheap dense housing, something that America currently sucks terribly at.

Additionally, the fact that it is a gazillion private providers rather than a simple public service like schools makes it messier.

My prediction is that eventually the housing stuff will be figured out, and also this stuff will be increasingly rolled into the public school system, and both of those will relieve the pressure.
I understand where you are coming from. I am curious though if you feel differently after watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBudghsdByQ
(I did)
Given that Satoshi was moving in cypherpunk circles making bitcoin uncensorable (unlike Liberty Reserve) was probably part of the design. Also, the article is written by Gavin Andresen who join Bitcoin before bitcoin.org really took off.
Is this sarcasm, or just generally true in the java community?
Fair point. I grew up in a home day care, and my mother ran her own home day care for most of my youth so I tend to think of it from that perspective. I was public schooled as were all the children in their care, but things have shifted a bit.

Alongside some of the other proposed cuts you can certainly see it as catering to a particular base, but I think the choice to manage it at the county/city level sets it a little bit apart.

On second thought, daycare licensing is quite separate from homeschooling, and requires unrelated children. It can certainly be feasible to operate them together, but is that really targeting home schoolers for a tax break then?
No, when used as a bound, it doesn't really say how long data has to live. It just forbids use of all temporary references (types that are borrowing from something short-lived they don't own).

Lifetime requirements simply don't apply at all to types that own their data. Or another way to see it is that self-contained types like Vec and String automatically meet every lifetime requirement, regardless of how long or short they actually live.

Rust kinda screwed up with terminology here, because the general computing term of "object lifetime" applies to more things than the specific 'lifetime concept that Rust applies to references/loans.
In the end I guess it comes down to what the point of undergrad is. Imo we have completely left the "learn stuff" era and are in the "differentiate yourself to employers" era. That means that stack ranking is largely the point, even if it has many downsides.
Sure let’s do that.

But as part of the deal let’s make sure $0 off of the economic output of the offspring of “breeders” goes to your Medicare or social security.

Deal?
you didn't know that $12/hour was rich? (that rate is from the article)

Well now you do....

/sarcasm
Personally, I believe Len Sassaman is the likely candidate for Satoshi. I know the "evidence" is largely circumstantial and coincidental timing... but when you take it all in it's a bit much.
Honestly if you really want this fixed, just sniff the app usage traffic from a few celebrities and publish online. It will be fixed quickly.
It depends on the crowd. If you're just sampling the general population, yeah you're going to have problems. The best conversations on Twitter are done in more niche communities.
So, you never use bash?

That's not a very practical hill to die on. But well, you get to decide what fight you engage on.
It's not documented in a single authoritative place, but AWS has documented much of the S3 architecture you are curious about via white papers and presentations at Reinvent and other conferences.

This talk explains how S3 achieves such high performance:
https://youtu.be/sc3J4McebHE?si=-slHmjdQ4Z0EKQXs&t=1386
Grace Hopper women's tech conference overrun by men
I think the mere fact this is an engine license change happening so close to the Unity fiasco that yes, it is impossible to talk about this without automatically invoking thoughts of what Unity did. Some news and blogs will take advantage of this association and use it for clicks.
I would consider reaching out to commercial scanner companies and see if they have any interest in either: integrating your service into their software or negotiating some kind of referral program for folks that buy their scanners. Same goes for advertising on forums for folks that are using DIY solutions to do a lot of scanning. You might also consider reaching out to businesses that you know do a lot of scanning of texts like this like libraries and law firms.

Just spit balling here but if the product works as well as the demo then it should be easy to start finding a few "Library Access" level customers and start to build some revenue.
As children in grade school we are taught a series of rules about plagiarism that are designed to make us extremely sensitive about what we copy from. We're taught this because if you let a group of children do whatever they want, they'll copy stuff straight off Wikipedia or each other and thus they won't learn how to write properly. So we teach them that writing every word yourself is the most important goal to aspire to.

As an adult in a scientific field, what actually matters to me is having original scientific ideas conveyed to me in an efficient manner. I'm not really interested in applying arbitrary elementary-school rules on authors, as long as they aren't stealing ideas and text from other people (thus misallocating credit in ways that are harmful to progress.) I think as a community we should proceed from these principles, then work the details out from there.
The weight of my t-shirt upon my shoulders is also technically a burden. Who cares.

Quantitative distinctions matter, binary burden/non-burden thinking is not helpful.
Not to be that guy but Windows is the best OS out right now with all its faults. I don't have to dick around with Linux, and my USB ports don't crap the bed every two seconds and I can actually manage my windows unlike with MacOS.

That it plays games is just a bonus.
And that is happening right now.

RISC-V is coming, it just takes a long time.
Seems if the state is going to mandate 10-year-old rape victims have children, then they should provide some sort of childcare system too.
What's the motivation for the secrecy though?
It's amazing to me how much effort is being put into saving these animals. There's no (immediate) benefit to us. They aren't raised for meat, fur or other products. They aren't working animals. They aren't pets.

Sure, it's possible that this research may one day assist humans with cancer, but that is a speculation and not known in advance - it could be useless for that cause.

People are just doing it because they care.

It's also wild to me that cancer can be spread at all. They mentioned biting, but is there any other way they can transfer it between individuals? I can't imagine it's airborne or waterborne.
This is such a reddit level comment, a knee jerk reaction to a media article that is biased in its own way. Kentucky is voting 80% republican, so you can be sure that the measure was passed by republicans. The article doesn't mention "republican" once, but if it was an article about a good thing done by democrats, you would have seen "democrat led house".

for example this has a picture of Biden https://www.npr.org/2023/10/06/1204077790/buying-electric-ve...

this is putting the mayor front and center in there, even though she had little merit https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/05/25/edgewater-food-forest-m...
This was posted to HN a few days ago, I thought it was interesting and might be useful to you?

https://posthog.com/blog/dev-marketing-paid-ads
The US tax provided school system doesn't seem to do a great job at educating. Why should we support a broken system?
Why not? AFAIK, the wallets that are supposed to belong to him have not been touched in a long time. Based on the industry he created, he likely would be a candidate for the Nobel prize in economics.

I think it can safely be assumed that he is dead. Or that he is a person with very little interest in money and fame, which is possible but unlikely. Persons like Grigory Perelman are rare.
Isn't that WSL though ?
The thing I hate on the desktop app is the search bar going away on the home display. Now have to click the search icon on the left nav, which shows the search input field at top: in the blank space (right of < > back/forward buttons) where it could have been all along!

I really get fed up with too much misapplied UX research.
If I were at Princeton, I would take every one of Kernighan's classes that I could! I wonder if that's a problem there.
A REST api without a hint of hypertext.
I wouldn't mind this but it's completely politically unfeasible. There is absolutely no chance of political support for banning people from driving for anything other than a DUI. Even "accidentally" killing people or being so old that you can't see enjoys wide support of still being allowed to drive. As long as that is true self driving cars need to be able to handle bad drivers.
Russian journalist who protested Ukraine invasion sentenced to 8 years in prison
> considering the amount of furries we have here

The idea that someone would look at furries and think, "they're so depraved that they like feet" as if that's the weirdest stuff that furries draw or talk about is just really funny to me.

It's like saying that the the scariest thing about Dracula is that he wears a cape.
This video [1] explaining Clojure transducers is excellent. No terminology, no analogies with category theory - just code getting built up in a repl.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaazvSJvBaw
I'm all for this kind of exploratory hacking around before booting up python/R/Excel/duckdb, especially in constrained environments. A classic pain point is having to deal with column numbers, so I'll share my favorite trick:

`head -n1 /path/to/file.csv | tr ',' '\n' | nl | grep desired_column`

gives you the column number of desired_column
> High concentrations of the stock market has been around since forever

That's useful and interesting, but the importance of the topic today lays in rate of growth, rather than the % market cap against the greater stock market.

Removing FAANG drops the rate of growth to roughly half. This indicates that tech companies are pulling up the average rate well above the historical average. The fact that many of them also possess very large market caps underlines the point that these businesses are unfathomably large in comparison to other business sectors.

It's also worth noting that the historical averages includes the effects of AT&T, GM, IBM, et. al.
LG has 4k 24 inch monitors. The DPI is amazing (not so much for color fidelity).
Is anyone making an actual AI PC? Not marketing hype using words for their existing efforts.
It's unlikely a large dev team would be able to keep this secret. The code was also very consistent and not that large of a code base. It reads to me very much like a single person wrote it.
It is a pretty fun game! It is also encouraging to read your sharing.
Have been a game player since my childhood. Thinking about create my own games but haven't completed one yet, sinceI found it a bit overwhelming to architect all resources into a game.
Creating the first game with constrains would help a lot to start. BTW really love pixel games!
A youtuber I follow took a week off recently after several years and apologized a lot for it, even though his followers encouraged him to do it. He was frightened about loosing his user base
Getty Images built a “socially responsible” AI tool that rewards artists
In case someone asked, fun fact: LlamaIndex was named one week ahead before Llama was announced.

Great episode!
I don't mind paying for "public school" because its pretty much a "prison lite" system for "youths" which keeps them under close eye instead of running around in society untethered.

But for the people that actually want their kids to exist in a learning environment, they should have an option instead of being forced to send their kids to their locally assigned public school.
"obviously" : I guess that has a secret meaning not available to normal humans.

Say what you actually mean, not some wild misstatement.

Edit: this is no different from clickbait. I could say "80% of women get raped in college" and get attention; then when it's called out say, "but it's still a big problem!"

Clickbait.
No, I'm a totally normal human. I love to walk and have individual thoughts and speak with other humans. Just regular human things, you know.
The kernel team still call it Windows 10.

From their perspective, the latest Windows 11 update is just Windows 10.0.22621.2361!
does this look like dug in tanks https://nitter.net/bayraktar_1love/status/171025109223830368... ?
Honestly, parents are doing (or should be doing) the majority of the work in training up the next generation.

Not to be harsh here, but non-parents (which I was for a very long time) are the ones kind of freeloading here.
Use '-m package -a state=latest' and it should upgrade most distributions without needing to care about the underlying managers... I think. I could see some oddities with package name resolutions!

Access - don't share your private keys!
Ecologist Eugene Odum remarked that you'd get the wrong idea about rivers in the tropics by seeing a tank full of tropical fish, but this is exactly what you get growing up in the city.

My impression is if you grew up lower class in New York City you'd see these skyscrapers rising up without visible support and come to assume the economy is all one big scam and that it is fundamentally about power and exploitation as opposed to producing anything. No wonder some people like How to be an anti-racist. (Though I do find it strange that I see so many black people at street level and hardly any when I go up the elevator in one of those skyscrapers)

If you grow up in a rural area you do see a seed planted and watch it grow and could get a little bit into insight where there is something rather than nothing.

Cold war strategist Herman Kahn pointed out you could divide a country into A (capital cities) and B (the rest) and that if A got blown up in a thermonuclear war the resources of B could regenerate A in a human lifetime but the converse would be impossible.

Thus the "rural idiocy" that Lenin wrote about has been replaced by an "urban idiocy" where people's real life has been replaced by fragments of TV episodes of Friends. The reason they have 1 day Prime shipping around NYC, WDC and LA is because stock market analysts, politicians, and sitcom writers live there and those people colonize the rest of our minds.
Tool to find anyone's email address
Including a former member of the Waffen-SS.

https://www.dw.com/en/nobel-prize-winner-grass-under-fire-fo...
> I don't see how that misleads anyone unless you thought the engine was completely free.

That's how i understood it, was surprised, clicked the thread to find out more.

Sample size of 1, but I was (maybe accidentally) misled.
Not only was the early code consistent with itself, it was messy as hell and full of "Windows-isms" which reaked of academia/not-a-fulltime-engineer.
It certainly wasn't clear if what they did would be considered legal or not by all locales. And if the project was successful you wouldn't want to make yourself a potential target. There isn't really much advantage to being famous.
The best for children and parents would probably be that none of the parents have to work at all until the child is some age when they should go to school. But if we implemented that system, there would be a labor shortage, which would reduce the number of teachers, plumbers, mechanics, accountants, software engineers, etc, so the rest of society would suffer. There is no magic wand we can wave to solve all our problems without any tradeoffs. Money distributes resources in a capitalist system, and there are many problems and distortions. If you built a command economy with no money you would still have to make choices about these tradeoffs.
Law firms might be interested in this. I used to do IT support for a bunch and they always were scanning stuff into their computers for document discovery.
I truly love this browser, it's like Firefox+Edge/Opera but still remains fast:

- Most of Floorp's features are native, so unlike addons they won't slow down Floorp by much

- Vertical Tab being native makes it faster than anything else

- Sidebar is useful for multi-tasking

- Sleeping Tab saves system resource, and it's light for an tab unloader

- Workspace is like Panorama, very useful to create multiple work environments, and plus you can wrap them in containers to get the most out of Firefox's container feature

- Customizable hotkey is useful to rebind your hotkey, improve keyboard browsing experience, one of the rare browser that support hotkey rebinding.
I guess that’s better than relying on official government sources without verifying and presenting it as fact. Think New York Times, and the Iraq wmd bullshit. Or basically anything that quotes official Ukrainian government sources as fact instead of putting strong caveats that the information is released in a controlled manner as of the war effort and may not reflect actual facts.
If you want to see what a 5150 looks like:

https://history-computer.com/ibm-pc-5150-guide/