skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Home-based childcare is reasonably common as sibling points out.

Multnomah County (Portland OR) is rolling out preschool for all with an emphasis on home-based providers.

One of the major questions about that approach is how well it scales compared to expanding something like head start or funding the schools to add preschool services.

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/05/02/multnomah-county-pres...
Read the article by atul gawande linke in thee. As a programmer i do wonder what has caused my performance in terms of learning longer, massive subjects to peak. I think as a kid I used to just storm and power through learning things, even though my technique was still flawed. I just applied shear will power to get through hard subjects I had no fucking clue about.

I picked and learnt pre modern C++ to build NNets as my first CS project in 2002 and I had never coded in my life. It took me 3 months to just learn the damn MS Visual Studio c++ toolchain. But I did it anyway. I taught myself full stack development and found JS functional programming refreshing in 2006 when modern js frameworks were still young and no one around me took JS seriously(everyone was learning Enterprise java for web).

Then I became more picky about what to take up because of constraints. Somewhere along the way programming became about making a living. Things changed, I found learning had slowed to a crawl.

I don't think I have peaked in my ability to learn as much as peaked in making learning sustainable. But lately that is changing.

I felt renewed reading the words from Atul Gawande. Music and surgery have, it seems many similarities to software development. I have to keep upping my skill, develop patience, manage my mental health to pull off modest feats. I think coaches are important(though I could do better with seeking better career advice on choosing good problems to solve )

Completely coincidentally and serendipitously I have hired or used life coaches and therapists to help me and they have no experience on programming. they have made me look at aspects of my learning process, my beliefs and what I value and that is helping me make my learning sustainable; even though they are not programmers.

I think focusing on getting a good learning rhythm first was important for me to attain first in what I hope is my second wind in my programming career.
The latter. What do you think it means?
Look up the relationship between mass adoption of SSRIs and mass shootings. It seems to me like there is clearly some relationship there.
Fair enough! I'll try out Go + HTMX this weekend if I get the time
i create new notes, put interesting and shiny texts in them, and weave from them for fun and intellectual or aesthetic inspiration
Oh, there's a market for lightweight backpacking gear, all right! Check out Backpacking Light for in-depth reviews.

Garage Grown Gear has some of the trendy light and ultralight stuff.

1. https://backpackinglight.com/

2. https://www.garagegrowngear.com/
Yes a leech. They give you the option of paying with money or attention. If you choose neither but still use their service you are a leech.

It's not free, they've made that clear, just because you are able to take something without paying doesnt make it free. You can justify being a leech all you want it doesn't impact me because i neither work for YouTube nor produce content for it but it also doesn't change what you are.
Cool. Glorified autocomplete is going to take over the world.
You seem like you'd know the answer to this question: why do so many aluminum bicycles have carbon-fiber forks?
I think this depends on setting ci/cd and good data pipelines are like game changers in research ML projects and generalists definitely can do those it is not that flashy stuff.
TTT IRC?
Cruel is being hanged, drawn and quartered or skinned alive or sent to Guantanamo Bay.
Literally just cancelled mine today a couple of hours before reading this. It's great for music discovery but when already paying for YouTube premium which includes YouTube Music, which although has a much worse UX ultimately has the same content. Even if I wasn't getting music with the YouTube subscription when I added up the 50 odd tracks I regularly listen to on playlists and divided that by the cost of a yearly subscription, the economics make no sense.
Sorry that’s right. O_TMPFILE is indeed what I meant
That applies to the sole-trader/startup case, but not the established-business-with-dev-team case, which counts for more people.
Your experience is very different from mine! I pay for YT, and I really love it. So does my family. The sponsored messages are annoying... but the creators choose that. The good news is that I can fast forward? I'm free to unsubscribe from creators where annoying > value.

Honestly, Youtube is probably the service I'm most happy to pay for. Could it be run better? Probably! But it's still great.
Or you can just have more self-control? Or are you having ADHD?
The big claim to fame for the IBM Z series is supporting hot failover so the workload will never go offline. For web tier or app tier, where you want to scale horizontally anyway, it's pointless overkill, but for relational databases that have a maximum of one write master, you could make the argument that it's valuable.

I'd be interested in reading the perspective of someone actually deploying it though.
“Ansel is what Darktable 4.0 could have been if its developers were not so busy turning it into an usability nightmare. Ansel is a Darktable 4.0 variant where 30.000 lines of poorly-written code and half-broken features have been removed, and 11.000 lines rewritten : it runs faster, smoother, uses less power and requires less configuration. Enjoy an app focusing on getting work done and stability.”
It does feel like if the "fact" being shown is that our basic cognition is "like" a computing system, the burden of proof is a lot higher. When we make statements about how people are "just" doing compression in their brains, that's incredibly dehumanizing. Be careful with this line of thinking, it doesn't lead to nice places.
I absolutely hate this post. It's reasonably well structured because the author really cared & clearly spent time structuring it. But having a bunch of smaller posts comprising a thread would be much better blocking for me.

I don't log in, so I can't read the comments, but it also is sorely missed that I can't see people reply to specific ideas or comments. It's all just a soupy unstructured mess.

We already had blogs. Why we'd take a medium built for interaction & turn it into a place for long winded things that should be articles or blogs doesn't make sense to me.
And nuclear weapons had a chance of setting the atmosphere on fire, it was still worth it to try! /s
I'm a mobile dev and I do ASO, I'm open to chat and show you on what metrics you need to look at in the app store connect. Let me know if you're up for it. I tried to DM on Twitter but your DMs are off
Bird wings are actually quite a bit more sophisticated than aircraft wings. Don't let that distract you from your point about belittling human cognition though.
Yeah, letting closed source """AI""" read your private code seemed like a good idea. Idiot.
Does Apple Music have podcasts genre ?

I'm not talking about Apple podcasts
De beers, LVHM, Luxottica to name a few.
Podcasts have always had ads on Spotify (used to be baked into the mp3) but now they change tracks / insert the latest ad when they play — it's more intrusive as it's a noticeable skip, and you're not allowed to fast forward anymore (ugh I don't need to hear the same ad every single time)
Compression and prediction are equivalent, and both measure some function of intelligence and knowledge. Current LLMs are heavy on the knowledge side, being trained on ~all the text.
They aren't. Pirates aren't cavemen equipped with stone knives and bear skins.
Spotify Premium has always had ads in podcasts. This isn't new or news. It's because podcasts have always had ads in them, very often baked right into the audio. That's just how podcasts are.

Not really defending it, but with Spotify you're paying for the music. Podcasts are just there as an extra, unaffected by whether you're paying or not.

The good thing is that when they're actual Spotify platform ads instead of baked in, they're much easier to fast forward without accidentally skipping podcast content as well. So they're kind of an improvement.
oh come on thats just lazy im literally commenting on the sources haha
It’s very cool, but not novel. I’ve been using Rhino / Grasshopper to design toolpaths rather than objects for years, and the technique far predates me.

I think integrating toolpath design into cad makes more sense than using Excel as an intermediate layer.
This comment resonates with me
I don’t think it’s as useful as somafm but In a similar vein, JetBrains fired out an email a few weeks ago with links to some Spotify and YouTube playlists they curated for coding.

You’d need to be using paid subscriptions or something like SponsorBlock in your browser so you didn’t constantly get jarred out of flow by adverts.

It’s still in my inbox I just haven’t got around to checking it out yet so not sure if it’s any good.

A Quick Look just now e.g. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ176FUIyIUa1dA8101... - suggests it might not be for me. The only genre that seems to work for me is video game music (elevated energy but with no vocals and limited beats).
It might be similar to the way there are unclimbed peaks in the Himalaya because the summits are considered holy. For example Kailash is considered holy by several religious groups, and there are pilgrimages to the base of it but there is no record on anyone climbing it. People in Hawaii may have considered the summit holy without building anything up there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kailash
Open Source Chart Image API
A Scanner Darkly builds on his personal experience with addiction and addicts in recovery.
I dont disagree with WHATWG is more dangerous but it is the result of W3C's (lack of) actions.
The fundamental delusion of capitalism
I'm more offended at the people that support said corporations -- I can understand the profit motive for the corporation, but not prostrating yourself to them. To think that it should be okay to be forced to pay a month sub to a megacorp to control what I do with my computer, my hardware...is unappealing.
The reality of capitalism
Burn – comprehensive dynamic Deep Learning Framework built using Rust
SE is not getting the Action button before the regular model.
Yeah. If the abscess had drained, I would have recovered much quicker. It was hidden pretty deep and didn't quite make it to the surface though. They had to bring in a interventional radiologist to perform an ultrasound guided procedure with a ridiculously long probe meant for liver biopsies just to get at the thing.
A historic Falcon 9 made a little more history
Chart of percentage of 'failed' startups incubated Y Combinator, 2005-2019
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This.

More often than not long-haul fiber within a single metro area is owned by the electrical providers, and the telcos lease strands from them. Telcos will lease fiber from power companies but rarely the other way around.

The intercity stuff often belongs to power companies too, if it's within their service footprint. The Bonneville Power Administration owns most of the long-haul fiber in Washington, Oregon, and western Idaho.
Hey guys.

I’m working on a platform where you can launch your SaaS in minutes. Developers have started using tons of different services like Vercel, Xano, Supabase, Mailgun etc. so why not replace them with a single service? You can now launch equivalent services on your private AWS account, without knowing how to use AWS in the first place.

What do you gain by doing this?

- one click app deployment
- no lock in, cancel subscription and keep using your apps and data
- no limits or additional charges for build times or data usage

Started charging in August, reached $1.7K in revenue today.

Let me know what you guys think and which features you want to see next.
Notepad++ v8.6: 20th-Year Anniversary
I believe they dabbled in audiobooks recently... just wonder if those have ads as well?
If I buy a lawn mower from John Deer, I should have a right to unscrew the top, look inside, and make repairs. I own the lawn mower. It's being used on my lawn.

If I buy a printer from Canon, I should have the right to refill the ink cartridge with ink from anywhere.

If I download or buy a piece of software from you and run it on my hardware, I should have the right to look at the source code, make changes and repairs, and run the modified copy. I purchased the program from you or you gave it to me, it's being run on my hardware.

That is the essence of the argument for user freedom - a right to be able to understand and change the code you're running on your hardware. The parallels to the "right to repair" movement should be clear.

If you buy that logic, then yes, it is a "bad guy" (or really a "bad company") which deprives users of their right to know what is happening on their own hardware, deprives users of the ability to make simple repairs to software they "own".
> Can you pay for this?

Yes - https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9934637?hl=en
> and you're not allowed to fast forward anymore

I always fast forward. It still works fine. (On the Spotify platform ads that are like a separate track, not just ads that are baked into the audio.)

Maybe that's a Premium thing?
I added the date clarification to the original title.

The article discusses SpaceX launching the same Falcon 9 rocket, serial number B1058, for the 18th time. Its first use was to send Crew Dragon Demo-2 to the ISS in May 2020; it was the first manned launch from US soil since the shuttle's retirement in 2011.

The 18th launch broke a tie with another SpaceX booster with 17 launches. SpaceX currently limits itself to 20 uses per booster for Starlink launches but may raise the limit. Its customers, according to the article, always get boosters with fewer uses than that.
you spend so much time on YouTube that you feel the need to hack together an ad skipping solution by plugging stuff into your TV and installing dubious sounding software. Just do a simple math of watch time in hours / per month (youtube provides these metrics), take around 10-15% of that time as ad time, multiply by your calculated income / hour and you'll be surprised by how much value there is in premium.
Chromophore-Targeting Precision Antimicrobial Phototherapy
The ones you pay for don't have ads
As a developer for German government this was and is my IDE for a long time. You have it almost everywhere as a standard tool.
Your argument assumes that p-zombies can exist, which is unproven and I consider highly specious.
The Netherlands is definitely a special case when it comes to history of physical internet infrastructure; I wouldn't extrapolate from that.

https://nlnet.nl/foundation/history/
I'd like to point out that the article is referring to a CDMA network used for distribution metering, not the backbone network of site interconnects, which is kinda what we're talking about, given that the subject is the Optus network outage where the outage was of their backbone network.

I's secondarily like to point out that 'supported by' can mean many things, including merely having the telco as a depot for replacement equipment and repair services, etc.
Amtrak already has a lot of bus routes.
Happy holiday to you, too :)
This is not a question that is being avoided. It is a question that has already been answered because AI already solves or helps to solve miriad problems in the real world. You could search "applications of AI" and enlighten yourself, but here are a tiny sample off the top of my head:

Fraud detection and prevention

Personalization and recommendation systems

Autonomous vehicles

Spam filters

Smart navigation systems

Inventory management

System control in industrial processes

Increasing crop yields in agriculture

All sorts of use cases in finance

Diagnosis in healthcare

Image and sound intelligent upscaling

etc etc etc

These are all real use cases of AI which are in place already.
Mysterious cosmic ray observed in Utah came from beyond our galaxy
Wish they would accept bitcoin donations...
My mom did this for a few years when I and my sister were young. Had a couple more kids around, but it wasn’t a ton more work than the two of us, and she got paid.
> Git makes version control roughly 10x more complicated than it needs to be.

A significant part of this is that git explicitly supports more workflows than centralised VCS like subversion, perforce, or clearcase. Other than a few fairly small differences, mercurial and fossil (two other distributed VCS projects) have the same UX issues. You can't really reduce the complexity without just lopping off support. You can make that complexity more approachable/digestible (which the git devs are trying to do) but this fundamentally requires a certain willingness from the user to learn the tool.

For a lot of people git ends up being a sort of cargo cult where they get through the day with a set of magical incantations that make it work and solve their problems but without any real ability to troubleshoot when they do something wrong. Which is exactly the thing that prevents them from "gitting it".

And worth noting: I don't think I've ever worked with someone who has really gotten irreparably stuck with git after reading through the important parts of the user manual (not the references/man pages but the dedicated user manual [1]) and/or the git book [2]. There are some overly technical parts but they are towards the end of each. But if someone actually reads the entry-level user oriented parts of each/either document, odds are they'll understand enough to be able to actually solve their problems.

1. https://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual

2. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
adding configurability means maintaining lots of different possible states, which may interact with each other and have unexpected emergent effects. This slows down future development and attracts users who lose their minds when you break their pet feature.

Some software has succeeded going down the path of high-configurability (mostly FOSS like vim/emacs/sublime/vscode, Calibre, rainmeter), but the prevailing school of thought nowadays is more Apple-esque: you should design software that has one "right" way to do things and adjust that one happy path based on user telemetry. Everyone who doesn't like your One True UX will come around if your software's value proposition is good enough (or at least grit their teeth and keep using it), so it's not worth the effort to create and maintain a bunch of configuration.
People just like to tell themselves it doesn't work on them because it makes them sound more intelligent. I've yet to actually meet a single person in my life that advertising didn't work on. You just have to talk them through how they decided on the things they own and before long they start to realise the truth.
Sounds like it might be illegal too...
The distinction is that these frameworks don't create what the app sees. They create html, that the browser renders.

They take data in & transform it into structured hypermedia (html). Because the output is html not structure, users have the agency to run scripts & extensions, doing things like form auto saving or dark mode or modifying the behaviors of sites generally.

Part of what's so elegant amazing & compelling about Custom Elements & Web Components is that it helps improve the situation, gets us closer to good with our users. We have lots of promising things we can do to expose the computing on the page, but many popular framework's have steamrolled over a lot of these possibilities to pursue esoteric non-webful industrial fast paths.

I'd love it so much if, for example, React Router really rendered & users could live modify the router & that would take effect. But React fundamentally is about using JavaScript state as a model to output html views; it doesnt care about the page. It's a violator of the primacy of the page as declarative source of truth. Ideally all these data objects wouldn't be stored in js stores, but would themselves also be html data islands.
The last two times I've tried selling something on ebay, I was scammed. So I'm not really that motivated to bother with doing that.
In this analogy, the language model IS a man-made compression algo, so definitely not
Can someone explain why this is interesting? It looks like a directionally interesting anti-aging study, but without any major breakthroughs. I'm curious what folks upvoting see in the study that I'm missing.
Moronic comment. Have you ever considered that some people have multiple children?
At the risk of generalizing... These effective altruists seem inconsistent.

Why focus on threats which have upsides. Doesn't it make more sense to focus on things like disease, famine, war ect. Not really any first order upsides to these... (assuming unjust war)

Instead they go after the sexy stuff.

I could make the argument that they should all be librarians, teachers and nurses. We have massive shortages of 2/3 of these.

I'll wager one exceptional teacher has more magnitude of positive effects on the long term trajectory for mankind than any of these sexy non-profit roles.
Interesting use case

I am tryng to imagine what would be similar/equivalent use case for a regular business -- where do businesses today spend a ton of manual effort poring through text and applying relatively simple logic/analysis/creativity/pattern matching to do tasks?

Legal analysts?

Tax Auditors?

Advisors to companies on regulatory codes, compliance, etc.?

Professional Resume makers?
You can force AV1 through YT settings. https://www.youtube.com/account_playback
> Do you suspect if taxes were set to 99% that people would honestly pay them?

Truly rich have most of their money in assets like real estate and companies. And goverment through laws is in control of what it even means to own those things. Government could make a law that when any company goes public 20% of shares are a tax.
One thing OpenAI has now that it didn't have 4 years ago is a lot more compute power at its disposal. Sam Altman has already said "I think we're at the end of the era where it's going to be these, like, giant, giant models." If that's actually true, then the GPTX tech has largely hit a wall in which throwing more compute at it won't get the same increase in capability. Bill Gates predicted that GTP5 won't be much better than GPT4. So, any "breakthrough" really could be incremental rather than game changing.
Your URL is wrong. The right one is https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cmdexe...
India now has more population than China
If you go to google podcasts (also on the chopping block) and has adblock you only get the baked-in ads
Rockland County recently had an unvaccinated man paralyzed by polio, despite the disease supposedly being eliminated from the US in 1979.
https://www.chop.edu/news/2022-ny-polio-case-why-and-what-do...

There's a large concentration of ultra-orthodox Jews living there that don't vaccinate for anything on religious grounds. As a result the county is notorious for essentially being a living archive of otherwise eliminated diseases, in particular they have outsized issues with any disease that could be dealt with through vaccination.

All of this is on the first page of google search results for "Rockland County polio", but thanks for not doing even that much and jumping straight to "hmm, lots of jews live there, this guy must be a neonazi!".
Not true, I have a severe allergic reaction to bullshit meetings and annoying coworkers. When I come home from days like that, I tend to have a headache and not feel well