skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It being November is especially hard on US people with any kids or large active families, dealing with big Thanksgiving plans.

No matter how well you plan, you really only get two meaningful weeks before the wall hits you. "Just set a reasonable word count to hit every day!" Then each day you miss days because your side dish plans went sideways or your flights get rescheduled, making the goal steeper every other day.

"Use your travel time to write more!" Almost impossible with young kids without sticking a spouse or relative with watching them, and the resentment of even asking if you can ignore kids to write lasts a hell of a lot longer than November.

"You can catch up after Thanksgiving!" Not after anti-vax Aunt J gives your family the gift of some great new viral disease that hits in the last week.

There are writing sprints in other months that never seem to have the community of NaNo, and all your single or childless writer friends burn it all out during NaNo. The community is a big part of what makes it fun, otherwise it's just an arbitrary chore goal.
Not really, because to actually be online the Wi-Fi driver should be compiled with a Kernel newer than 4.19 - so they can't really reach me to ask questions. /s
Modern heat pumps can work down to 0F https://homeinspectioninsider.com/heat-pump-work-subzero-tem...

Denver pretty much never gets that cold. Most of the continental US doesnt ever get that cold.
> Yet just after several years since chatGPT

Actually it was just one year ago.
It's sad for me to admit this but I find online ordering especially for fast food in my area is a much better experience because it standardizes the presentation of the order details for the cashier. When I speak to a human being however I often run into language barriers immediately, and as a result my orders get screwed up more often.
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Already here. I work in that industry.
This is well known in education, that level of instruction is inversely correlated with time spent on pedagogy, and positively correlated with time spent on content. In other words, kindergarten teachers think a lot about how to teach, while professors think about what to teach. The quality of instruction would probably be worse at a research university than at a college focused mainly on undergraduate education.
I finished my masters quite recently and this has not been my experience, although I'm german. I wonder if you have real experience or if it's just what you've read/heard?

Because if you've ever taken any social science/philosophy seminars, they don't do anything else then arguing. Arguing about texts, arguing about each others opinions etc. Also arguing against the professors opinion.

I don't agree at all about the indoctrination part.

The idea to keep politics and higher education separate is laughable. You either create engineers without ANY exposure to social issues or you have politics in higher ed. Having political opinions is not doing science but trying to find scientific evidence is.
> However, what has also occurred is a campaign of political and social indoctrination, and censorship of contrarian views.

There is a world of difference between a "campaign of political and social indoctrination" and "worldview that doesn't hold up to the barest of scrutiny."

Unless you're referencing the clear bias in universities in the US founded by GOP folks upset their particular indoctrination (religious or political)doesn't stand up to scrutiny, then not that were there were an organized campaign of political and social indoctrination for leftists that academics would lead the charge to attack it and get funding to both study it and find alternatives to it.

Turns out when you encourage people to think for themselves they do.
I do somewhat doubt that the economics would work out. Silicon wafers are expensive, but I'm not sure if the price is currently higher than that of launching a bunch of sand to low earth orbit.
What does restore mean this context? I’ve downloaded files from their online portal without providing a key. Perhaps restoring in this context means having them mail you a hard drive.
Slightly unrelated, but is there anything that can be scripted using code for making animation ?
Define “worse” - in the eu they work less, have more vacation, better social safety net, great food transit, less crime less rape less murder, better healrhcare outcomes, and I think rank higher on happiness

In the us they might have more money (to then spend on healrhcare etc)

Which is “better”?
Same question here. I can't find the reference either. The author is also not labeled as a third party or anything, the word frack doesn't occur on the page, and the word sponsored doesn't appear in the article.

I guess people upvote the top-level comment because it sounds so plausible? But in reality it was meant as a joke and people (like me) were taking it literally?
Federal loans aren’t unrestricted. The problem is that private banks are willing to loan large amounts because you can’t bankrupt out of student loans (in most cases).
I have existed since long before self-checkout or digital ordering and have not ever connected with someone working at a cash register or serving food.
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I got you joke and it is a good one.
It's right there on my bill. This has been the typical price ratio in the UK for a while now.
New Mitsubishi Heatpumps that have been hyped up to hell and back here. Past -14c they flat out stopped working for him.

I'm sure there'll be a lot of "oh it's the type of heatpump" "oh it's the installation" thing, but he isn't the only aquaintance I have who has seen absolutely diddly-squat for heating efficiency when using heatpumps. Around these parts, if it isn't setting something on fire, then you're probably doing heating wrong.

>Nordics

The average low winter temps in Stockholm are what, -5c? Oslo doesn't really get below -10-ish? Non-northern nordics are an indicator of approximately nothing in this discussion. :) Finland loves their steam/hydronic heat, which I will guarantee isn't being run off of heat pumps.

Anything that's closer to the ocean is going to have a significantly milder winter than going proper north.
Would be nice to make not just a decimal direction picture, but one for other bases as well. Binary won't work as you just move back and forth along a single line, but ternary should work, and as the minimal base for 2D directions, is less arbitrary than decimal. Then I'd look at bases 4,5,6,7, and octal as well to see whether the picture depends more on the number or on the base.

Another choice is whether to use absolute directions, or relative to the current direction, as in Logo.
Education is indoctrination. [0][1] It is what you sign up for when you take a course. It is trivial to reject the principles of any college course on legitimate grounds; for one thing, you can just reject the axioms. Some degree of belief is required to accept any form of human knowledge.

Maybe the problem is that indoctrination often goes beyond the scope of the course. If that is indeed happening, many would agree that it should stop.

[0] Merriam-Webster:

Indoctrinate:
1
: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle
2
: to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments : TEACH

[1] Wikipedia:

Indoctrination is the process of inculcating a person with ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or professional methodologies (see doctrine).
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He installed the (brand new) heatpumps last year, which made the sting of it even worse. Also per that report "can operate" which is very different from "operate without issue" or "operate efficiently".
The last paragraph isn't about cost, and I think is quite important:

> “I think the United States is heading for a very catastrophic situation in terms of reliability,” said Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Mark Christie during a May 4 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. “The core of the problem is actually very simple. We are retiring dispatchable generating resources at a pace and in an amount that is far too fast and far too great and is threatening our ability to keep the lights on.”

In California, we're on track to move to a new electricity pricing scheme, one major goal of which is to make the marginal cost of electricity cheaper (by moving a lot of costs to a fixed-rate fee to be connected to the grid), with the idea that lower marginal costs will encourage everyone to use more electricity, convert appliances to electric, switch to EVs etc. But we _already_ get warnings to not use our AC too much during peak hours in heat waves. It's not obvious that the grid will handle everyone trying to electrify everything. The pace at which we add capacity and demand need to be at least somewhat in sync. Combine this with intentional power shutoffs to reduce wildfire risks, and just accidental outages (tree branches etc), and I think it's fair to ask whether "basic" services will be less reliable.
Indeed, navigating keyboard internationalization is a rabbit hole within a time-sink. Luckily, in most cases, you can just plop in a library, and it works, but it's probably not that simple here. All the wtf edge cases, plus the quirks of different operating systems and hardware manufacturers—it's the stuff of nightmares.
I'm more amazed that someone can live with that atrocious Lenovo screen for that long. I can live with the thickness, the not so great battery life (unless you go with that monster 'slice' battery), and the heat. But the screen...

I went from a ThinkPad to a MacBook Pro in 2010. The screen was amazing. It was bright, it had viewing angles, it wasn't fuzzy... The trackpad, slimness, instant-on, speakers, and everything else was just icing on the cake.

Later on, I picked up a 2560x1440 ThinkPad X1 and the screen was great, Lenovo had finally leveled the playing field. But there was a pretty big gap in my life where I went without a ThinkPad.
I think perhaps the grandparent commentator MUST be referencing the right-wing founding of alternative universities due to their anger that their worldview doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Surely they aren't supporting the notion that universities are commie monocultures.
My simple rule still stands even after 20 years: Avoid Seagate.
> However, just a couple of nukes could have avoided this whole fiasco.

Yes. Or it could have resulted in Ukraine using the same weapons to blackmail its neighbors in the same way Russia is doing now. The point to the decision was risk management. There were zero "good" options for what to do with the USSR nuclear arsenal. But leaving it all under the unitary control of a giant established military bureaucracy that had managed not to blow up the world for 50 years seemed "less bad" than just handing them out like candy to all the follow-on bootstrapped governments.
Give an example of an American fossil fuel subsidy.
You don't need SLI to render with dual GPUs in cycles.
>It's basically the same as with stocks.

In many countries, since crypto is not regulated, you can't write off the losses, but you still have to pay taxes on the gains.
I mean you joke but there's no reason you couldn't.
It's been said countless times that starlink will not cause Kepler syndrome. They are in too low an orbit and atmospheric drag would bring down any debris relatively quickly.
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> And finally, Verne Lundquist making one of the greatest and most memorable calls of all time, just naturally off the cuff, amazing.

I had to go back and watch it again (not memorable enough to me after just the length of time to read your reply, apparently!) - are you talking about 'Oh my goodness. Oh wow! In your life did you seen [sic] anything like that?!'? I don't follow golf, or know the name (Lundquist I mean, obviously Woods) but what's.. what am I missing, why's that 'amazing' 'just naturally off the cuff'?
For me, it was not because I "should" but because I wanted to see if I could.

Was it actually possible for me to write ~1,600 words every day and have them form a coherent story?

I wasn't aiming for great art. I was following the start-up credo of "If you’re not embarrassed by the first version, you’ve launched too late."
Potentially, if electricity wasn't also often generated with gas.

Also, why would I pay more to have less comfortable heating? Individual action like that does nothing. The solution is collective.
> If we are allowed whataboutism why is there no write up piece on board members seat collectors and C-level execs?

Because "There's some sleight of hand at play[...] in the employer/employee relationship (favoring the employer)."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37472726>
The us healthcare system is also insanely expensive, highest spend per person on the planet by a large margin
It's interesting that administration and spending has gone up at the same time funding has gone down.

My argument is that defunding isn't doing anything to combat the higher ed corruption. It's hurting students and leading to folks (rightfully) questioning the value of college. This leads to a society that isn't educated and makes it difficult to compete globally.

Would love if we could have public pressure to both fix higher ed corruption and also fund public schools as an investment in America's future (and maybe even self defense).
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>Even though the 2003 Blender didn't have the optimal UI, what the commercial investment did for Blender was put enough value into software such that it had a headstart and momentum for subsequent investment from corporate donors/sponsors and volunteers to create the later UI overhauls. The substantial €4.5M business investment set the stage for the later developments.

It did not, because Blender went 7+ years without substantial improvements to its modeling and rendering tools and interface. It was a zombie, with a lot of resources wasted on the now-defunct game engine. The pivot away from what it had been is what made Blender what it is today.
My kids are not in school yet. But, A friend of mine has a daughter that is very smart and does well academically.

She would go ahead of the class in math on her own and the teacher took her aside and told her to 'limit herself' to only a certain amount of math/week, so she doesn't get that far ahead.
> But now it's impossible to separate that work

Why? Is it just negative associations and emotions preventing you from enjoying it?

> bonkers conspiracy theory mongering and anti-trans, anti-democracy, and white supremacist views

That's a supremely uncharitable description.

Particularly the "white supremacist" bit. Just because I am friends with a communist and support/defend them and agree with some of their views (that aren't "communism is the best socioeconomic system") does not mean I am a communist.
Yes I also only find people to be credible if they have a solid track record of magically predicting events 2 to 5 years in the future.
I'm intrigued as to the actual mechanisms of this, especially currently. How does a person (or organisation) in Gaza turn crypto into cash or goods - given the controls that exist in everything that comes into or out of Gaza.
Stored gas is usually propane, not natural gas. Nobody would choose propane over natural gas given the option, as it is much more expensive.

I'm living in an area where propane is actually pretty cheap compared to other parts of the US, and it would still be cheaper to switch to natural gas if the utilities ever ran lines out to me.
They are and they tend to be small because of the type of plate boundary they’re associated with. But when they’re coming in large swarms near a volcano which is the case here, it’s a pretty strong signal of an impending eruption.
> For regular buildings, the differences between 99.5%, 99.6%, etc.

It's going to be <80% after a week in real life due to dust &co anyways
That's how leasehold and property management works in the UK.

I paid off the mortgage completely: bought the flat. Yet I'm not allowed to eg. better insulate walls, the attic belongs to me, the roof doesn't. If I wanted to replace windows, I would need to pay £100 application fee and justify it. Then the property management company sends their guy "who knows the job" who I pay THEIR AGREED price to replace the windows. Whole process take about 5 months and 3 weeks. Apparently, this is normal with FirstPort. If you want to buy a flat, you either agree to their rules or don't buy a flat. Changing the property management company is close to impossible. I fought many battles with them, all lost.
I've heard O(n²) described as the most dangerous asymptotic complexity, because it seems fine for small testing inputs but falls down when you throw real-world -sized data at it.
ChatGTP cannot provide an actual solution to a multi-tenant application framework for a SaaS product...because I haven't found that in the stack I work in. So I created it but it is closed source. If LLMs rely on open source, it will never provide the value that exists from experienced closed source engineers. I suppose LLM/AI providers can snaekily suck in closed source code for long enough time that once they're caught the cat is out of the bag and the "industry" collapses. But so far, LLMs are cool, but not AGI, nor are they likely to mature into AGI alone.

As far as generalization goes, I'm still waiting for an answer from Tolman-Eichenbaum machines. Or, an integration of LLMs and cognitive maps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qOaII_PzGY

http://brilliant.org/ArtemKirsanov/

And his references from the YouTube video:

REFERENCES (in no particular order):
1. Behrens, T. E. J. et al. What Is a Cognitive Map? Organizing Knowledge for Flexible Behavior. Neuron 100, 490–509 (2018).
2. Constantinescu, A. O., O’Reilly, J. X. & Behrens, T. E. J. Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science 352, 1464–1468 (2016).
3. Aronov, D., Nevers, R. & Tank, D. W. Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit. Nature 543, 719–722 (2017).
4. Whittington, J. C. R., McCaffary, D., Bakermans, J. J. W. & Behrens, T. E. J. How to build a cognitive map. Nat Neurosci 25, 1257–1272 (2022).
5. Whittington, J., Muller, T., Mark, S., Barry, C. & Behrens, T. Generalisation of structural knowledge in the hippocampal-entorhinal system.

CREDITS:
Icons by biorender.com and freepik.com
Brain 3D models were created with Blender software using publicly available BrainGlobe atlases (https://brainglobe.info/atlas-api)

This video was sponsored by Brilliant
In addition to the reasons others have mentioned (high tuition costs and political and social indoctrination) a separate reason is universities are failing at providing useful, practical skill sets. A course on how to use a spreadsheet and other business software has much value, especially to those from disadvantaged backgrounds. A basic statistics course that includes, say, Darrel Huff’s “How to Lie with Statistics” has value to both the individual and society.

It would interesting to see if the reputation of community colleges have held up, as they have a bigger focus on offering practical courses and at a lower price point.
They do not invest much in complex UI, everything they ship is based on the chat methaphor and the inteligence of their LLMs. Clever. But sooner or later the AI should go to the level if operating systems or at least should replace all kinds of applications and interfere with complex workflows. The details and difficulty to decide what is opinion and what is obhective fact will slowdown everything as for everybody else.
Not in the least. With baseboard heating, the cost to heat my 1 bedroom apartment was on par with heating a 4 bedroom house (with gas). With a heat pump, at best it will be comparable.
> how much of that is based on sensational news reporting? (The same news reporting that has half of America convinced that you’ll be cut down by gunfire five minutes after arriving in any American city.)

You’re even less likely to die in a mass shooting event than a random criminal act. Do you think that people who make a big deal about mass shootings and say that it’s extremely important that we address the issue are also being driven by “sensational news reporting”?
By the same logic, why shouldn't lawyers and other high-skill hourly workers add a 3x multiplier to their reported hours? After all, as long as they do the work, their clients won't know the difference.

Unless you're actively informing your employer that you're blocked or not being assigned enough work, there's an implication that your output is the product of full-time hours.

You could probably get away with it for a time, since it's hard to validate that and there's a default expectation of good faith. Either way, it's essentially (if not actually) fraud. You can't negotiate a certain price for a certain expected value based on your resume and interview performance, and then intentionally deliver a fraction of that value. If you think an employer would be happy with that, then why not try and negotiate the same compensation for a part-time role? Or work as a contractor with a fixed price for each task, and then beat every time estimate to earn a higher effective hourly rate? Or simply provide notice partway into the engagement that you feel you've been delivering more value than your current level of compensation would justify, and therefore will be reducing your time commitment?

You're free to sell your services in whatever way you'd like on the free market. The problem is when you enter into an agreement to sell them in a particular way, and then fail to deliver on that while deceiving the other party into believing otherwise.
Yes, agreed. The best way of putting this is "using google when google was actually good."
SSR is the traditional way to write frontends. PHP, Rails, JSP, most technologies that revolutionized the web were rendering HTML on the server.
SSR, in one form or another, will exist for as long as HTML will.

Additionally, SSR doesn't replace web components, it's a different technology with an intersecting feature. There is no problem to use them together.
Can you say more about what you've observed around "can't challenge your professors"? My professor friends would all be delighted to be challenged more in class. (The problem they're having now, especially post-Covid, is more often lack of engagement from their students.)

And my memory of college from 30 years ago is that the debate about what we now call "cancel culture" was just as fraught; it's just that it was called something different by US conservatives back then: "political correctness".
A sensible legal reform would be to establish that property managers and other private busybodies can't ban any reasonable energy-saving upgrades.
My lay understanding is that gas is generally produced as a byproduct of pumping oil.

Consequently, as long as it's profitable to pump oil... more gas will be supplied to the market.

Which means that gas prices will generally be "low" (relative to energy content?) close to oil producers, as it's still profitable to "produce" gas even at low market prices (because you're mainly producing/selling more oil).
> concerned that their kids will develop bad thought patterns.

lol. Is this for real? This is an adult in a democracy who needs to develop their own opinions about politics. This is so weird...

The idea that belonging to another mainstream political group is bad and prohibited for your child is just not ok at all.