skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, the average wedding speech of any type is of course _quite bad_ (most people not being accomplished public speakers), but they're at least generally bad in a fairly varied, human way. The mind-numbing same-y badness of all ChatGPT prose would not be an improvement.
And IBM paid $34 Billion for Red Hat
Yes. This. People are insane around their kids and the de-risking etc. We've gone with a childminer (in-home childcare, but is govt. registered here in the UK) and local school-attached daycare for two days a week each. Saving us hundreds of £'s over the coprorate daycare we were with otherwise and giving him more! The childminder is a husband and wife duo, they love all their kids so much. It's like dropping him with grandparents and cousins/friends for a couple of days a week. He reaches out to be picked up by them when I drop him in off in the morning (traitor, but I digress...)!

Follow and optimise for love.
Code is a craft, woodwork is a craft. Woodwork is more logical than other crafts, and practical. You can easily spend all your time just futzing with tools without ever getting anything done, or you can churn out easy stuff that isn't interesting. Woodwork is actually a large variety of subcrafts and specialties, so many different people can find something they like about it.
Landlords are running a business and get taxed on the rental income of their property. Deducting costs, including interest, same as any other business, is pretty standard and most wouldn't say it's "unfair".

Giving an interest deduction to owner-occupiers is a common policy to promote home ownership. But it's not a "level playing field" with landlords unless you also assess income tax on the imputed amount of rent they are saving by owning.
I working in restaurants for years. They purposely go for high school kids because they know they don't know the law, and know that they will think walking out with $50 is awesome, even if they worked 6 hours.
It's still on gog.com
Married people tend to be far happier than those who are not, per new data
How come apple doesn't just 'jump' over the notch and keep displaying icons on the left side like android does?
One of the clearest illustrations of the deeply injust structural power imbalance at the heart of our economic system is wage theft.

If your employer withholds $20 from your paycheck it's a civil violation of contract law. You have to go through an extremely onerous and convoluted process that very likely won't go anywhere.

If, in response, you decide to pay yourself by taking $20 from the till, that's criminal theft. You will be arrested by the police, sent to jail, and charged in the criminal justice system.
Like the phrase “Nothing in our evolution could have prepared us for this”. I first saw it at XKCD.
And that ignores the five centuries of the Roman Republic, before the empire.
I find carving is a very nice escape. It’s a simple process, I mostly use one or two knives to do all the work, and then you’re done whenever you feel like you’re done.

You can’t over plan it, and as you work progress is very clear.
"You'll need expedited courts and a speedier process to dissuade this kind of thing. It needs to be as straightforward as child support law."

All courts are backlogged, many for years. Even "simple" issues can easily take 6+ months.

Child support law isn't that straightforward. It generally isn't even tied to the actual costs to raise the child. It's also rife with abuse for things like unreported income, misusing the money, etc.
He should get some wrist action. Nothing else happening.
Most of those other laptops have asymmetric bezels, which Apple was probably trying to avoid. They wanted thin bezels on all edges.

The extra room in the notch is likely there in case they want to change webcam parts to something larger, add Face ID, etc so they don’t also have to change the display panel and can continue to use existing stock.

Apple seems to like to try to avoid changing parts/tooling wherever possible and will go as far as to awkwardly keep using a chassis until stock of that part has been exhausted if necessary (see the 13” M1 Touch Bar MBP).
There's also the jobs where folks thing they're an employee but are being reported by the business as a contractor, to effectively pay less and also save on required tax and benefit compensation.
The most interesting work on multimodal LLMs I have seen is from a team working on digesting CAD schematics from maritime operators for semantic search integration and it is very impressive the results let you ask for directions between engine room 123 and the exit and how many fire hoses are on the way etc. The latest thing they are playing with is benchmarking against IKIA flatpack instructions which I think is genius.

Check the feed here:
https://twitter.com/hrishioa/status/1755626405239636450?t=5O...
It's not that uncommon for women to have kids in their early 40s, though it certainly does start getting more difficult/sometimes impossible at that point.
Sometimes called “Mystery meat navigation”.
Nothing. HiddenBar will declutter your menu bar by hiding things but it doesn’t help with having so many menu bar items that they’re obscured by the notch like Bartender does.
Interesting I thought they were doing quite well, and they had orders from UBS last time I checked on them. And all of a sudden they are now going into bankruptcy?

Anyone has any insight to share?
The problem is just that we don't live in ONE society having 8 billion members, but in about two hundred different ones. And being in one of those that are in decline is not exactly a good feeling.
Absolutely! We credit Georgi Gerganov and llama.cpp for the amazing advancement in quite a few of our YT videos. He is truly a hero.
It is, it's a state-level thing, and that serves as a check on companies that scale to be national or international.

Makes lobbying over 50x more complicated.

The fact that a UK publication is on about it should be a clear signal that the authors are being influenced by an international interest would like to simplify the process.

Probably chipotle

Here's a page that lists like, a third of the state agencies, I guess, hope this helps! : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Labour
At a previous employer, the employee handbook defined “wage theft” as failure to work the required number of hours as agreed defined in the employee’s contract.

I distinctly remember that the handbook used the term “wage theft” and not “time card theft” or “fraud”.
Production of the kites is partly in the UK and there are projects in the works to put them to use there: https://minesto.com/holyhead-deep/
I'm sure they exist, which is great, but I have never had a non-STEM shot on my dev team at any job.

I'm sure you met a few flawed people like you describe. But they are not a large fraction.
Thinking is the real work that engineers do.
If you have a lot of it it's an ever ongoing war with empty batteries and lost pairing though. Every week I have to fix some switch, temperature or door sensor...
Yeah, not a stretch to imagine someone could make a Star Wars Landspeeder version.
Thank you so much for the awesome feedback!
I try. My depression is definitely at it's all time worst. I've accomplished some crazy shit at times, but at this point it is very very difficult to see any light at the end of the tunnel or any of that which in turn kind of lays this dark, weighted blanket over my world and makes everything feel so very difficult, exhausting, pointless... If that makes sense. I am trying hard to throw that blanket back off me but it is heavy as hell haha
Writing an Apple2e emulator, I wouldn't say it's trivial :-/ Proper video decoding is not exactly easy and neither is speaker emulation and neither is floppy disk emulation.

It's easy if you're looking at 99% accuracy. But if you aim at 99.9% it's a different story.

Plain and simple, there's no fully accurate Apple2e emulator so far and it's not like nobody has given a try in the last 20 years...
Reading the Wikipedia article I wondered why there was no (proposed) mission to Cruithne. The Space Exploration Stack Exchange has the answer: It's difficult to reach. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/41500/why-not-expl...
> after the CUDA back-end was around for years and after dropping OpenCL, Blender did add a Radeon HIP back-end... But the real kicker here is that using ZLUDA + CUDA back-end was slightly faster than the native Radeon HIP backend.

This is absolutely crazy.
Simply put, it is an "online" model that which means that it learns on the fly. Specifically, it is the optimal online learning algorithm for linear systems with Gaussian noise.

In a way it is like a primitive RNN, it has internal state, inputs and outputs.
This was 90% of my problem with math.

Same when something is named descriptively: shield volcano, star dunes, vs. some person’s name like Rayleigh scattering.

It’s just an extra layer to memorize and parse.
Thanks! Glad to hear it's useful :)
In the UK, it is often misrepresented to the benefit of the tax office.
This is such an impressive engineering achievement. As someone who designs electronics and builds mechanical devices, I find this project spectacularly impressive!
Github was a 80 person bootstrapped company.
Why Not Explore Cruithne?
Cannot understand why AMD would stop funding this. It seems like this should have a whole team allocated to it.
This sums up much of american rural small business... I started working at 12 and had many random jobs between 12-18 that were run by awful people.

Our family has a small farm, my parents didn't think we did enough of that and put me in a white van full of migrant workers at 12 years old (hey the 80s!) to go pick produce in a field all day... It was grueling work but I got a first hand account of migrant farm workers and the way they are treated.
I don't really follow this, but isn't it a bad sign for ROCm that, for example, ZLUDA + Blender 4's CUDA back-end delivers better performance than the native Radeon HIP back-end?
I think the problem the author describes is a result of short-term factors that are unlikely to affect humanity forever. Right now, technology and culture are progressing extremely quickly, relatively to any other point in human history. As a result, our understanding and our capabilities are radically different from generation to generation. Also, many problems remain unsolved and present serious, short-term challenges to our survival. Understandably therefore, our priorities frequently change, reacting both to changes in our capabilities and the most immediate threats.

However, this situation will not continue indefinitely. An advanced, post-scarcity human civilisation will (hopefully) not face constant danger of war, disease and famine, Technology will still advance, but at a slower pace, and not in ways that significantly transform day-to-day lives. Human lifespan will probably also be significantly increased. The result will be a more homogenous, stable and static society. There will still be differences, bug huge disparities of economic and societal status will no longer exist.

In this environment, having no longer to deal with a constant background of threats to their survival, it's likely that humanity will have the time and space to turn to far longer term projects. Indeed, such projects will probably be the only way for a person to imbue their life with a greater meaning in such a future society.
Absolutely.

This however is empathically and clearly not about people who enjoy perks of independent contracting. I'm aware of no union or "tax people" in my circle who deny that reality.

This is about people who have NO perks of independent contracting and NO perks of being an employee.

I've had several friends in such situations - from sleezy sketchy places, to standard practice at bug research institutions.

(The down votes, fwiw, are probably not because people disagree with your political stance, lest you feel like a martyr, but from possibly intentional obtuse misrepresentation of article and issue).
What do you mean by "contribute to society without permission"?
Honestly, no real productive thing to say here I just think you're a judgemental asshole and I hope your underwear itches forever.
My biggest gripe at FOSDEM is the folks who strike up a conversation while seated in the room, during a talk.

To be fair this happens at KubeCon too.
Fortunately they are smart. They will learn fast. This isn't a new problem. Ships do get whales caught in the propellers from time to time. I was in a ship that had exactly this experience in 2001. Whole ship stopped and wouldn't start again until the third attempt to start it. A crew member reported he saw blood and guts at the stern.
> Businesses are also becoming increasingly confident in cracking down on home-working as the power shifts from employee back to employer.

"Cracking down"? Huh?? Why the police state-ish kinda language? Or at least it's baby sitter-y? We're talking about grown adults here. Adults creative and crafty enough to "get even" if they believe their being taken advantage of.

The tone here just reeks of the 20th Century. Mind you, I'm not naive. I know dated and heavy-handed companies exist. But there are still companies offering and promoting WFH. They will have openings and the better employees from the force-fed companies will update their CV and leave the 20th Century behind.
I do not know you personally, but I reply to what you say because it is not only you who says it, but seems to exemplify what at least I see as a problem in society. I recognise thought patterns that I've heard before.
My father was cremated last year. He had no friends at the time of his death. The undertakers had extra staff on hand to watch the service and fill the empty chairs. Professional mourners are still active in the west, at least in the north of Ireland.
I think some managers use petty potential conflicts to filter out people that are not naive, have a backbone or are not desperate enough to succumb.

A worker that does not put up with petty BS is surely less likely to put up with major BS (like wrongful termination when getting pregnant or whatever).
its open source; I think you could. In fact I encourage you to do so
PLplot
I think the Vatican's perspective would be that it's a theologically meaningless and mostly ill-formed question.
Latest commit message: "Nobody expects the Red Team"
To buy a Windows laptop with a half dozen worse problems instead? Hard pass, I’ll take an even bigger notch instead please.
This drives me nuts. I resort to quitting applications until I've removed enough that the app I'm looking for is visible again. I did use bartender for a while. I can't remember why I stopped using it.
> There is no "ecosystem" that depends on the rate of slowdown of Earth's rotation

I mean, raise acidic/temperature levels only so slightly and it kills off coral reef, which in turn destroys fauna that depends on it, leaving huge areas barren.

What I'm getting at is that small changes can have dramatic domino effects. Mass-scale tide dampening could have unforeseen effects.

Not saying any of the solutions are going to be a problem, merely that it's better to ask crazy questions about what happens when they ramp up at scale than handwave things away with uniform spherical cows.
"I don't want to be attacked by wolves" is a valid desire, neither unrealistic nor emotional.
100 TB, not 100 GB:

"all school tenants will receive 100TB of free pooled storage across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, with additional pooled storage per paid user, depending on your subscription. Today, most schools (99.96%) are well below their storage allotment. With new tools, all schools can better manage their information and set thoughtful policies for data governance."
Honestly, I appreciated "you" at my last job - I don't have kids, but work is not my life either, especially if I have to be in the office. I worked at a place where it was awkward to leave before 6:30pm, and the one person who always left around then was the guy with kids.
Incidentally, I am building my own lighting controllers, largely because everything that is out there on the market sucks. Most importantly, I didn't want any "online accounts" for managing my devices, I didn't want to "agree to our privacy policy, your privacy is important" and then share all of my data with a company, and I didn't want anything that is Wi-Fi based.

I decided to go with Bluetooth Mesh and so far I'm really happy with how it is designed and how it works. It hasn't seen much adoption in the consumer space, being mostly used in industrial settings — indeed, its apparent complexity may seem baffling at first. But if you start with a good implementation (Zephyr OS on Nordic devices), it works very well.
That there is any discussion on "what" instance to join. I understand this is the whole point of being a decentralized system, but your average person doesn't care about that for social media. Maybe I'm wrong and mastodon.social is perceived in that way similarly to how bsky.app is for Bluesky.

I haven't followed mastodon in some time but the account migration thing was a pain as well, which I feel that the AT Protocol addresses much better.
And car seats! Three kids are dramatically more expensive than two because you need a bigger car, and many family activities are priced for a family of four.

Perhaps not as big a deal in the US, but in the EU where some form of car seat is required for the first 8-10 years of a child's life it's a big thing.
It really shows how neglected their software stack is, or at least how neglected this implementation is.
Haha. I think it's the other way round. City Dwellers who will never set foot in the countryside vote based on emotional attachment to animals.

The rural folks will have far more understanding of wolves than the city folks.
Bay Area is usually just 10-15 years ahead of the rest of the country, because it's a region that culturally tends to embrace the future (good and bad) and run toward it.

Bay Area in 2000 was complaining about illegal immigration, bilingual education, and the lights not staying on, all of which are contemporary issues facing the rest of America from 2015 onward. Bay Area in 2010 was in relative boom times from the tech industry, which again is spreading nationwide as tech jobs start getting more dispersed (though it may reverse thanks to RTO). Starting in 2012, housing prices became utterly unaffordable, which again started spreading nationwide around 2022.

Give it another 5-10 years and yes, people will probably be walking through a Walgreens in western Minnesota shoving everything they can into their bags.
One parent staying home for about two years, who had a low salary, factoring in lost retirement contributions, is about half of that, we could have cut that part to $30,000 or so if not for that, true. That’d drop my (conservative!) napkin math to more like $130,000.

About $15,000 for the pregnancy and birth (we split it over two deductible years—whoops, didn’t make that mistake again). Daycare costs for the rest of that time, tens of thousands more. Probably $3,000ish a year (maybe a bit more) in extra medical spending on average (copays on check-up visits, added insurance costs, medicine occasionally, a couple visits that involved stitches or an x-ray over that time span)

That’s before food, clothing, furniture (you do kinda need a bed at some point—we go pretty cheap on furniture and clothes, but it’s still probably $3-4k over that five years, mostly clothes). Diapers (or a lot of extra power use, though sure, cloth diapers would have been net-cheaper anyway). Adds up.

So yeah, it was certainly over $200k for us (conservative estimate). Could have gotten it down to merely over-$130k by putting a weeks-old to 2-year-old kid in daycare, but we didn’t, maybe we should have.

[edit] I should add that it does get better after the first one; there are efficiencies and shared costs (daycare may give you a discount, even!). Getting all three to age 5 wasn’t $600k, probably closer to $400k. You also can do it cheaper, yes, but our choices were ones that nearly anyone who can at-all afford it is gonna make, like having one parent stay home the first year or two, going to all the medical check-ups, moving to an area with good schools (if you don’t already live in one), et c.
Sounds like you're just a wee sensitive. No axe, just telling like it is.
I use Arch btw – A Turing-complete programming language
I think your math is wildly off...

We did this before, so it's not that it can't be done efficiently. A lot of the cost savings comes from the millions of people taking the trains in the cities, and the fact that you were going to build the rail anyways. So the costs are not as exaggerated as you seem to think...which is the point. They effectively amortize costs in a way no other transportation can even dream of.
Why would this not be AMD’s top priority among priorities? Someone recently likened the situation to an Iron Age where NVIDIA owns all the iron. And this sounds like AMD knowing about a new source of ore and not even being willing to sink a single engineer’s salary into exploration.

My only guess is they have a parallel skunkworks working on the same thing, but in a way that they can keep it closed-source - that this was a hedge they think they no longer need, and they are missing the forest for the trees on the benefits of cross-pollination and open source ethos to their business.
GPU are for data data parallel operations, which does not help for emulators which are (for the most part) running much slower traditional CPUs and a handful of support chips all at the same time, which is not data parallel.
I like how it automatically unloads the momentum wheels.
If you don't have money you're more likely to have kids. Tons of poor people have tons of kids and they manage.
If you really believe that most of society prefers "pregnant person" to mothers, I encourage you to step outside your social bubble.
The crazy designs from 100+ years ago though were more impressive though because of the limitations imposed from not yet having electronics, computers, software.... They had to be incredibly clever mechanically. I too was impressed from the video the way the guy iterated in clever ways to address issues that came up. And, as I say, iterated within a relatively narrow realm of options.

Ads a counter-example, I watch hobbyists on YouTube these days that build and fly various R/C contraptions that would not have been do-able in the days of small gasoline engines and huge, heavy radio receivers. It's like today you can take a sheet of foam from Lowes, strap on some high efficiency brushless DC motors, double-sticky-tape on an ESC, receiver and be flying that sheet of foam by the afternoon. Too easy.
If you don’t understand a problem well enough to write it down, you don’t understand it well enough to solve it.

If you don’t understand a solution well enough to write it down, you don’t understand it well enough to implement it. (Much less get someone else to implement it.)

An overwhelming number of engineers I have worked with seem to think any kind of written design document is busy work, and not actually a part of the process of making something worth using. My experience shows it is not that at all: design docs are a tool to externalize your own thinking, and reflect on its quality without the overhead of keeping it in your mind. That’s their first and foremost purpose. To explain your rationale to others is a secondary objective.

I’m not talking about lengthy requirements documents or specifications, either. I mean a two or three page white paper outlining a problem or a proposed solution in plain English. This is something you can bang out in a half hour or hour if you’re diligent.

Many of the folks I work with never even seem to bother.
If there's enough space, a toggle emulation with two labels works well.

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