skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That'd be pretty bad. E.g. government program for disabled people giving out wheelchairs. A good wheelchair is fucking expensive. No sane UBI would cover that. Yet not giving out wheelchairs would fuck over some people to say the least.
There is a bit of nuance. "Utilize" is more like "make use of" (as in employing something that was otherwise sitting idle) rather than the more straightforward "use".

It isn't much of a difference, but it is there.
The article and video trumpet the curiosity-based approach: you tell the robot to be "curious" about the door handle, and give a reward when the task of passing through the door is complete, and magic happens. I'm comfortable with my lack of understanding of the magic. I'm embarrassed by my lack of understanding of this "curiosity" concept.

Does anyone have different words than those used in the article which might unlock my comprehension?
Agreed, but it would be helpful to mention the alternative: MoCa. It’s far more reliable, doesn’t have the interference problems, and works in most of the same scenarios where people are looking at powerline (e.g. home networks).
You should change the title to match tbh
Yeah. It also says that the US showed mercy after hitting the other frigate with a 500lb bomb and allowed it to limp away. They've edited their post- they originally claimed Iran had two ships in their navy.
A non-downvoted and non-flagged comment that directly parrots russian propaganda with no sources whatsoever. How wonderful!
"With a rasp of frustration, Mr. Page insisted his utopia should be pursued. Finally he called Mr. Musk a “specieist,” a person who favors humans over the digital life-forms of the future."

This, and Marc Andreessen recently generating this drivel:

"Effective accelerationism aims to follow the 'will of the universe': leaning into the thermodynamic bias towards futures with greater and smarter civilizations that are more effective at finding/extracting free energy from the universe," and "E/acc has no particular allegiance to the biological substrate for intelligence and life, in contrast to transhumanism."

Maybe I should be taking some of their micro-doses in order to understand all of this and, correct me if I am wrong, but they are basically saying "robots can make a better civilization, so if they come up with efficient ways of disposing of the human biomass in the name of progress, let them build a better world."

Hitler much?

These people are nuts.
Mialin, not muslin obviously.
That assumes the 10 doctors and 20 scientists and support staff are fungible resources. Which they are not. Those 10 doctors have 10 different specialties and those scientists aren't going to suddenly become nurses that can administer the simple patient's therapies. Advances made in creating customized gene therapies will be used to help others, later.
I don't think it's any different from, say, speaking other languages or switching back and forth from countries that drive on different sides. These things just become automatic.
Reply from OpenAI on Discord:

https://community.openai.com/t/high-cpu-web-workers-usage-of...

Edit: the problem persists on my machine at least.
That’s your choice!
Interesting hyperbole.
It also takes a lot less time to fix the tests locally too - rather than tweak it... push the change... oops it failed again... repeat...
Hi, I am not familiar that much with page ranking, and terminology. I think that my oryginal questions could have been misunderstood.

I am writing my own web scraper. That is why I am in fact interested in this topic at all.

To distinguish poor pages from better I check HTML pages. I think all scrapers need to do that. I rank pages higher if they contain valid titles, og: fields, etc. Etc.

There is nothing wrong with checking it and asking for what can I do to make my site more scrap friendly.

Thanks,
That'll be because it hasn't become a free pass for that. Happy to help.
Switching packets in hardware is trivial (assuming you have a chip). If you want to process them in software you need something more beefy.
You’re looking at salaries for COBOL programmers in the UK which is a small subset of an already small market.
It's not a free market. The government funds it.
My experience in remote teams was that people have smaller awareness of other team members. There's less communication, which means you have less direct one-to-one communication, but you also learn less information indirectly about others from such conversations.

> everyone has a pretty good gut feeling on who's slacking off and pretending to work

I remember one such case where I had a gut feeling, but I didn't undertake any action. Writing to a manager felt like snitching, and I could have been completely wrong (maybe they had valid reasons, unknown to me, to have low productivity), which would cause me embarrassment. I think it often takes a team consensus, sort of validation with somebody else. But such sensitive topics are often communicated subtly, indirectly, with body language or voice intonation. But I won't be writing my colleague on Slack if they share my suspicion...
To answer each of these:

1. I do support parameters now, syntax parameters not yet. I would like to! But Racket has a pretty hefty head start on me so it'll take some time.

2. Right now I have syntax-rules macros, I also have defmacro style macros that get used internally in the kernel during expansion, but haven't yet opened them up for user space yet. Syntax case will be coming soon hopefully.

3. The odds of me being able to come up with an implementation to match typed racket pound for pound is pretty low. I have toyed with using contracts as types (where possible), with medium/promising success in certain situations. I have a soft spot for racket and have been modeling behavior after it, however it will take time to be able to create a macro system powerful enough to match it. It wouldn't be impossible to create an alternative syntax to just lower to steel after type checking, but I haven't put time into that.

On the list type - the list in use currently is an unrolled linked list https://github.com/mattwparas/im-lists, which I've found to yield much better performance for iteration than the naive linked lists. When possible, the vm does some in place mutation on the lists as well when consing, which helps performance as well. I also can hot swap for a vlist, but at the moment have stuck with unrolled linked lists.
I'm not a fan of the parenthesis either, but when I learned about s-expressions and how lisp programs are also a data structures that piqued my interest and helped me look past them.

I question people's judgement who can't look past the syntax when there is a very good, and interesting technical reason behind them.
This seems like one of those Chesterton’s fence things where you say “how could it be bad for America to force a bunch of people with no aptitude for STEM to major in STEM or else have a limited education” and then you find out.
The other side of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735833
I think this used to happen when files were transferred as plain text rather than binary, but I forget which transfer protocol was affected - maybe FTP?
Most hotels I go to demand to make a copy of my passport. I am sure they have zero security. Why not give it to Wise? What is the concern?
For compliance you need ability to prove you did actually validate the ID and not just ticked a checkbox.
Apparently absent from Gee's approach: reductions to administration and management.

When a university cuts $800k from its library and keeps chartering jets for executives you know this is not going to be about what is best for society or students, no matter how folksy the president wishes to appear.
True about the definition, but portrait consumption remains a problem, the horizontal space on the header is much smaller, and many old school logos that worked on stores and websites would end up on two lines on mobiles.
>So I still think there is no law that mandates forcing users to send copies of their ID over the wire.

In this particular circumstance though, that's a distinction without a difference. If you're a customer of wise (or any other financial institution that doesn't have a retail presence), KYC laws basically mandate that you upload your documents, because there's no alternative.
Large Text Compression Benchmark (2023)
Musk claimed that we need to copulate more because the Earth needs more children: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/07/elon-musk-civilization-will-...

Aside from the obvious contradiction, this only makes sense if you have people of certain persuasion in mind. This guy ran out of chances to prove he is not a racist.
Senators urge Biden to restrict travel to China amid child pneumonia outbreak [pdf]
The graph editor is really, really well done, congrats.
The decreased purchasing power at the high end 1) is a consequence of taxes, not UBI itself, and 2) wouldn’t push prices down for lower income housing writ large. At the absolute margins, a high-income earner who is being taxed into lower-income housing is increasing competition among tenants for the same low-income housing, which will increase those prices.

If you want to tax high-income people into lower-income housing then just increase their taxes. What does UBI have to do with any of that?

It’s not possible to “isolate the variable” in any economic study ever, so I suppose both of us will have to argue from conjecture. My conjecture, as a landlord, is that if incomes go up in my market, that is unambiguous signal that I can increase my prices. Your conjecture is “you won’t be able to,” but I already know I’m able to. That is how I’ve already set the price I charge.

The best possible news for me, an absentee landlord, is a big company with high salaries opening an office nearby. Same as every other landlord.
I still love that people were attending “live” Hatsune Miku concerts at least as early as 2009 https://youtu.be/jhl5afLEKdo?si=EliZ_rCRooqNP0Jp

As was foretold by the anime Macross Plus in 1995.
Subheading:

> Do West Virginia kids of modest means deserve the humanities?

Larger question: what is the point of (higher?) education?

If all you have access to is a subsidized state school, do you get to learn a different language, examine history, ponder philosophy, experience and make art? Or is that only reserved for folks that can afford to go to fancy schools?
I believe Kiss was only 'popular' due to their proximity to NYC, their merchandising and stage gimmicks.
The rise in healthcare costs started in 1968, when the government instituted programs to reduce costs.

The highest cost industries in the US are the ones that had reasonable costs until the government stepped in to reduce those costs:

1. education

2. health care

3. housing
> I always felt like the Lobsters crowd is the kinds of people who'll tell you what they really think
I genuinely would not have guessed that this would ever be a problem on the internet.
RisingTone: A better way to learn Chinese tones
I really don't know much about Medicare so I decided to visit the wikipedia page on this. Here is how it describes Medicare Advantage:

> Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C, MA) is a capitated program for providing Medicare benefits in the United States. Under Part C, Medicare pays a sponsor a fixed payment. The sponsor then pays for the health care expenses of enrollees. Sponsors are allowed to vary the benefits from those provided by Medicare's Parts A and B as long as they provide the actuarial equivalent of those programs.

> Plans must be approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). If a MA plan changes some benefits, the savings must be passed along to consumers by lowering co-payments for doctor visits (or any other plus or minus aggregation approved by CMS).[2] Coverage must include inpatient hospital (Part A) and outpatient (Part B) services.

> Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage pay healthcare providers differently. Original Medicare typically reimburses healthcare providers with a fee for each service.[5] This fee is often calculated with a standard formula (for example, the prospective payment system for hospital services). Providers either accept Medicare's reimbursement rates or opt out of the program.[5] Public Medicare Advantage plans negotiate payment rates and form networks with healthcare providers, similar to private health insurance plans that almost all Americans not of Medicare age use.

Is it that last part that turns this into the "free market"? My lay reading of just the wikipedia page doesn't give me the impression that any part of this is subject to free market forces. What am I missing?
For sure, if you like to be a detective and expose the slacker, it is possible to do it. But more often I see people rather giving the benefit of the doubt.
I just upgraded my networking and wifi and had the intention of going with unifi equipment rather than the consumer grade stuff. I was shocked to see that they don't have 2.5GbE or Wifi 6E options for their equipment.
Typically means Vendor lock-in. Certainly every company I talk to, from arista to unifi, are keen on it, for obvious reasons.
What if your business is education and you use it in your educational output? (Serious question)
That's certainly possible but we have other tools for that such as NewRelic that served us well.
Sure there are some essential production and distribution costs, but let's remember that cocaine is a minimally processed leaf extract.

You can industrialize its production and get close to sugar level production pricing and distribution. Sugar sourced from Brazil hits my Toronto supermarket shelf bagged at CAD$1.50/kg at 99.9% purity, including retailer markup. Which is like 1/50000th the retail price of cocaine.

Even if it costs 10x as much due to lower volume/weaker extracts/slower growth/additional processing, you're talking a 99.9something% reduction in resource expenditure per dose.

Price of something is a good representation of the resources destroyed ("costs") in its production.
How do you know the battery's dead? Just because it won't power the gadget in question, doesn't mean it's completely drained. Moreover, dead batteries look exactly like fresh batteries, so it's easy to get them mixed up due to inattention/confusion.
Are we mixing up fusion and fission here? Fission has cost problems. Fusion doesn't have cost problems, it has viability problems. We still haven't even produced net positive energy. Then, if that milestone is reached, continuous production is going to be an engineering challenge. I'm optimistic that humanity will be able to get it working given enough time, but it's not a solution to any energy problem right now or the near or even middle future.
Maybe the electricity meter can theoretically interfere? Idk it's just what most resources say.
Can't wait until we can make rats talk to dolphins.
For desktop apps maybe. Not for websites though. Jenkins has an absolutely objectively terrible UI. Super ugly, inconsistent and incomprehensible.

I've used Buildbot, Travis, Gitlab, GitHub and Teamcity. None of them are anywhere near as bad as Jenkins. Even Buildbot has a much much saner UI and that's a weird Python CI system that practically nobody uses.

Jenkins is just an objectively terrible choice.
It means a whole bunch of people are going to see this title, not read the article, and go "looks like Uber is doing great" when reality it's incredibly far from doing great. The only thing "doing well on the stock market" signals is that a company's stock trades well on the stock market. It literally tells you nothing about the company itself.
Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?
I dunno... to me, the old MFA Boston logo screams 1990's or maybe late 1980's, when Helvetica Condensed was everywhere. It's the bland, boring, generic of its time. It makes me thing of a boring field trip I'm being forced to go on.

While the new logo feels very 2020's. Like they're trying to be contemporary, and actually make an effort to connect the art they show to people today, not to those people's parents. It looks like a place with a thought-provoking exhibition I might want to take a date to.

So I'm definitely going with the new logo.
> A few years ago, the robot learned how to stand up, which is an efficient way of moving and made the robot much more pleasant to hug

Imagine that thing barrelling down a corridor at you to give you a hug, it's simultaneously adorable and terrifying.
Thank you for the long answer! You've made some really great points, and regarding markdown and org-mode I've been thinking about switching to something like djot instead (from the author of pandoc) but I can't deny the power of emacs and org-mode when combined.

Also your "interstitial journaling" paradigm seems great, I'll try to apply it because I enjoy grounding what I do into some loose chronology kinda.

Thanks again for taking the time to expound on your approach!
So, since I may not be familiar with everything out there right now, what pieces do you have in mind that could possibly cover what is needed? About to retire and this sounds like a project worth putting some time into :-)
Sadly, John Scholes passed away in 2019. https://aplwiki.com/wiki/John_Scholes
Looking forward to the debate about real-time translators censoring or altering people's speech.

Also the debate about whether all human speech need be piped through such a preemptive filter. (actually not looking forward to this one). Suddenly everything that anyone says will be couched with "it is important to consult a professional to ensure safety and compliance with local regulations".
I don't actually know if it's clickbait. A huge portion of the video is actually just laying the groundwork for the importance of feedback and being afraid to speak up because of political and management concerns is actually a central point of the talk. Thematically the title is a great fit and if it gets clicks, good for him
A universal basic income, that is an income which is _universal_ and _fixed_ in its amount, will only create inflation: everyone gets equal additional money, everyone gets additional purchasing power, everyone creates more demand, prices go up.

A stronger economy is always better, but politicians usually manage to screw that one up, also.

But I don't think all of that is a major issue here. Microsoft and IBM are taking open-source projects and closing them up. Google is offering FLOSS projects to get users, then poisoning the well. I don't know what's happened to Mozilla, but it's destroying itself.

Lots of individuals are still writing FLOSS projects, but hobbies get picked up and dropped often -- for something to last, you usually need an organization (even if it's just 3 people) and it can easily become a _job_, even if it's a non-paying job. Even if their finances are fine and they still have spare time, most folks don't want a second job with a second source of deadlines and stress etc. And if a for-profit giant sees their project and offers them a LOT of money to stop working on it, most folks will say yes -- even if they were making decent money already.
I don’t know, but it happened relatively quickly (within a few days) of initial installation. I suspect either settling soil or animal activity.
Pretty much everyone recognizes the exploitation, immorality and injustice in the brick kilns in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh [1]. This is called debt bondage. This is a harsher form of indentured servitude [2]. Interestingly, such practices were made explicitly illegal (along with slavery) with the Thirteenth Amendment.

Yet many of the same people can't reognize that the systems we live under aren't that different. As long as someone has a smartphone and a PS5, they seem to become oblivious to their chains.

Every aspect of your life is designed to extract wealth from you, primarily through debt. Student loan debt, medical debt, end-of-life care, housing debt. Many of these things used to be free or very cheap.

The US health care system is just wealth extraction and rent-seeking.

[1]: https://www.antislavery.org/what-we-do/past-projects/india-d...
How does Steel handle garbage collection? Would it be possible to manually control the garbage collector? For example, a game that runs the GC at the end of every frame.
I never got an invite there, and hence stopped trying.

Don't know anyone IRL who is already there I guess.
Thanks for that, we use it all day every day!

It's too bad it's been declared "end of life", without any replacement in sight, and nobody these days is fixing some bugs that are really bothering us sometimes...
Homebrew Project leader here.

Homebrew tries fairly hard already to make builds reproducible. Unfortunately, no one has been dedicated enough build infrastructure to make sure this does regress so we end up with issues like https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/16012

To be clear, though, some Homebrew packages are already fully reproducible across OSs, some on the same OS and we welcome any help in improving this further. Thanks for raising the issue.
> If taxes are paying for the school we should subsidize things that are good for America not individuals.

I enjoy living in a society with music, literature, dance, plays, sculpture, painting, architecture, and not-strictly-necessary decoration. Those are all good for Americans, individually and collectively.
He yammers on for pages about the poor quality of sources that make the claim, and then utterly fails to provide any sources that dispute it. He also says that it would make so much sense as to be "mundane and unremarkable".

> Among the many depressing things about this credulous transmission
and elaboration of a false claim is that even if there were a large
number of roots for different snow types in some Arctic language, this
would not, objectively, be intellectually interesting; it would be a most
mundane and unremarkable fact.

If so, the burden of proof falls on him to prove it's not the case. The whole thing comes off as a fun rant about how it's not such a big deal even if true, while never actually addressing its truthfulness.

How's this for sources?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow

> Krupnik and others charted the vocabulary of about 10 Inuit and Yupik dialects and concluded that they indeed have many more words for snow than English does. Central Siberian Yupik has 40 terms. Inuit dialect spoken in Canada's Nunavik region has at least 53, including matsaaruti, for wet snow that can be used to ice a sleigh's runners, and pukak, for crystalline powder snow that looks like salt. Within these dialects, the vocabulary associated with sea ice is even richer. In the Inupiaq dialect of Wales, Alaska, Krupnik documented 70 terms for ice including: utuqaq, ice that lasts year after year; siguliaksraq, a patchwork layer of crystals that form as the sea begins to freeze; and auniq, ice that is filled with holes. Similarly, the Sami people, who live in the northern tips of Scandinavia and Russia, use at least 180 words related to snow and ice, according to Ole Henrik Magga, a linguist in Norway.

I find it annoying that anyone would imply it's unintellectual to consider this possibility based on such an intellectually vacuous article as the one you shared.
Disregarding for a moment the usefulness of ring times these days, I'd expect that if the plaid is actually faster, it has everything to do with horsepower. The ring is a very fast track.

0-60 and quarter mile times are great, for some people they're everything. But while I find acceleration to be entertaining, the feel of a well balanced car in the twisties is worth the price of admission.

Essentially, plaid is the EV version of a GT-R. Super competent, great numbers, and about as much fun as racing an toaster. Proof that you can do amazing things with enough hardware.